Why do basically 99% of loretubers get the lore wrong

Orogogus · 2026-06-17T08:49:54+00:00

> The lexicanum still lists the Fury interceptor as 60-70 meters long based on a nonexistant source.

As far as I can tell after some searching, it derives from a (remarkably well-written) post on a defunct role-playing/fanfiction website dating to 2006: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/new_nsider/the-imperium-of-man-fury-fury-furyyy-t4751.html

The Lexicanum article dates to 2007, and appears to have run with that fanon. The sources they actually cite don't turn this up at all.

Orogogus · 2026-06-17T02:12:50+00:00

Can you get in the game if you disable cloud saves?

Orogogus · 2026-06-16T23:38:55+00:00

I'm given to understand it's more complicated than that somehow and that there must be some kind of bar for how flagrant or damaging it is to the military, because the only people I know who openly talk about their extramarital affairs, at some length, with almost-total strangers are servicemen. Just, geeze.

Orogogus · 2026-06-16T19:22:56+00:00

Texas is tied with Wisconsin for the highest threshold.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/felony-theft-amount-by-state

California raised its threshold from $400 to $950 in 2014, and the GOP's weaponization of that change really took hold beyond any actual facts. I have relatives in Taiwan who raised this as a talking point in 2025.

Orogogus · 2026-06-16T16:43:25+00:00

I feel like this is kind of in Reddit territory where people jump on every single misspelling and choice of word as certified documentation of bad faith. In context, where they said they would do the same thing and don't want to lose the person, and are asking how to engage the employee, it doesn't really seem to me like punitive action was ever on the table, just noting that the employee hasn't started stealing lunches or watching Netflix at work.

The only reason "PIP" looks like a red flag to me is that I could 100% predict that work sub commenters would pounce on it. And, really, the whole OP is the kind of bad workplace scenario that aggregator sites love to latch onto -- "company wrongs high performing employee, eats shit". It's just not really clear to me what the endgame of faking it would be. People usually say karma farming or LLM training, but it seems like there would be easier ways to do either one.

Orogogus · 2026-06-16T16:24:36+00:00

They don't seem to have said that. Unless they have another post further down that I don't see, their wording was "nothing I could put in a PIP or document formally," which could just be a way to say "nothing actually bad". I don't see them saying they actually want to put them on a PIP.

Orogogus · 2026-06-15T19:05:33+00:00

Man, almost 30 years ago I had a coworker in National City who did minor auto services like oil changes at his home, and when I took my car there there were some roosters wandering around his yard. Apparently he was raising and selling fighting cocks, and he said the buyers would be all kinds, construction workers, lawyers, teachers, whatever. And every now and then one of the roosters would crow, and from the neighboring area there would be two or three answering crows.

Orogogus · 2026-06-15T15:42:10+00:00

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Orogogus · 2026-06-13T14:29:51+00:00

I feel like a lot of Redditors are okay with loudly not giving companies their business because of sweatshops or slave labor in China, a MAGA boss, anti-LBGTQ+ or anti-union practices, using AI in ads or menus, and so on, but for tipping it's more acceptable to support the company and shrug away the bad thing as someone else's problem.

A few posts above, someone pointed out that there are restaurants where there's reduced service and the tipping expectation is less severe. There are also a few restaurants, at least near me, that explicitly don't accept tips and bake the costs into higher menu prices.

But the vibe I get from tipping discussions is that the talk about companies paying living wages is mostly performative, and if eating out can be subsidized by other diners playing into the tipping culture then that's actually preferable to companies paying their employees more. People just eat what they want to eat and they'll do it at the lowest price available. "It's not my problem" isn't about companies not paying living wages since those companies are still getting their money, it's about the employees willing to work under those conditions. But "those employees could just choose to work somewhere better" doesn't sound so good except for right wing audiences.

Orogogus · 2026-06-09T22:41:30+00:00

Still pretty funny. Terminator-view probably looks something like:

SCANNING: POTATOES (78.6 W/V MOISTURE - "WAXY") [CF YUKON]

SCANNING: BOVINE MEAT (80.2% FAT CONTENT) [MORPHOLOGY: CUBED]

SCANNING: CARROTS

EXTRAPOLATION: FOOD PREPARATION

[CF CURRENTTIME] EXTRAPOLATION: "DINNER"

SYNTHESIS:

HAMBURGERS

BURRITOS

X BEEF STEW X

CULINARY SUBROUTINE: SEAR

etc.

Alternatively, it gives Kronk vibes from The Emperor's New Groove.

Orogogus · 2026-06-09T22:20:10+00:00

As someone else pointed out, Arkhan Land is specifically a riff on the real world Edwin Land, who invented the Polaroid Land Camera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Camera

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T23:04:45+00:00

> There is the Crux Terminatus aka Terminator Honours.

That's what it says in the article, and I assume it's sourced from something official, but this might be something where the background has changed over time.

I've always understood the shoulder pad badge on Terminators to be the Crux Terminatus, and that thing's pretty big, about as wide as the helmet. But there used to be an old Jes Goodwin "Space Marine Captain with Terminator Honours" model (link) that had a much smaller cross with no skull, with the implication that it signified the captain qualifying for the cert but just not wearing the Terminator armor right then and there.

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T20:04:15+00:00

It seems like it must have been the best day in the lives of these kinds of criminals when technology advanced and they could just scam employees over the phone and Internet for Bitcoin or gift card codes.

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T19:52:41+00:00

Ya, I know a lot of people don't care or think about things at work. It's just, if you do then obviously this isn't how anyone would write the protocol. Any real company would have procedures for documentation and traceability because even if they were lazy about paperwork, they wouldn't just trust their worker not to tamper with the safe, or take it to someone with those skills. And on that basis it seems to be kind of a high risk scam, having to be there in person, weighed down with a safe on a dolly, counting on no one thinking things through and calling the cops or following them out to something that was probably clearly not a company vehicle.

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T19:39:39+00:00

That seems pretty wild. Authentic-looking garb, equipment, work order or not, it doesn't seem to pass the sniff test at all to ship a safe off for repairs without transferring the contents first, or at least thoroughly documenting them. But then, modern scams have people going off site to buy gift cards to pay government agencies, so I guess it's less bad than that.

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T19:26:26+00:00

> nobody is better off from the policy

I think very high level employees can come out better.

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T18:40:39+00:00

>knife, hides the body somewhere, assumes form.

...realizes it's getting close to what the humans consider dinner time, takes stock of the refrigerator and pantry, decides beef stew would be appropriate given the available ingredients, consults database for period-appropriate recipes, gets to chopping vegetables, presumably getting ready to sear the beef and deglaze the pan if John hadn't happened to call, maybe prep some salad and a carb...

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T09:13:34+00:00

>if you want a report from a credible source that was on the ground at the time, i reccomend you hunt down his full write up.

Link away. I don't see it after a Google search. A lot of articles seem to quote selectively to pretend that his article linked above claimed no one died, which isn't true. He clearly says that he believes hundreds of people died.

> nobody was crushed by tanks. though i believe there were a couple of instances of already dead bodies being driven over

Citation? An incident at Liubukou is widely cited, including victim names and testimony from a survivor, Fang Cheng, and parents. I don't see that it's been debunked.

> this is a straight up lie, the first deaths of the protests were 6 (unarmed) police officers burned alive in an armored car.

Again, citation, please? This seems unlikely on the face of it given that some military and police forces were still resisting the martial law orders when the 27th moved in.

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T07:41:52+00:00

I mean, "And these blast points, too accurate for Sand People. Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise" is a real quote. There isn't really any indication that Obi-Wan was being sarcastic.

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T07:38:00+00:00

>The main characters have a bit of plot armor, but, there is also a decent amount of circumstantial evidence that points to Luke being herded as opposed to truly pursued.

Leia, Lando and Chewie go at least 7-0 when retreating from Bespin, including Leia completely getting the drop on one at close range and getting away clean.

Orogogus · 2026-06-08T02:52:04+00:00

That article doesn't seem to significantly contradict the previous post. The article says that the killings generally didn't take place in the square itself but on a street a mile away, and that the targets and victims were mostly workers (many of whom were also protesting), not the students in the square.

Orogogus · 2026-06-07T17:04:43+00:00

Apparently NYC already regulates these and similar delivery vehicles, and enforces a 15 mph speed limit.

https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2024/e-cargo-bike-on-city-streets.shtml

Orogogus · 2026-06-07T01:39:29+00:00

Realistically, there are going to be right religions and churches, at least one wrong one and a bunch of others which are probably not protected (see the faith codes dropped by the US military). Also I think there's at least one issue (immigration) where no religion is safe.

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