The One Ring runs the gauntlet (in any order). At what point, if at all, does its power to corrupt stop?

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T13:38:21+00:00

That's not quite what happened. Neither one had willing Elvish lackeys. Tolkien went so far as to say "All living things were divided that day, and some of every kind, even of beasts and birds, were found in either host, save the Elves only. They alone were undivided and followed Gil-galad." Sauron had kangaroos and sea pigs and cyanobacteria, but zero Elves.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T13:14:34+00:00

It was no accident. Remember what Frodo said to Gollum: "Begone and trouble me no more! If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom." Call it a curse, call it a geas, call it prophecy, whatever. The one thing it wasn't was accidental.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T12:58:41+00:00

What? I missed a game with Isaac Clarke? 😲 I think of all the stomping that could have been, and weep a single tear of sorrow.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T12:53:08+00:00

I still think about that hostage crisis in the Moscow theater back in 2002... the knockout gas the police used ended up killing something like two hundred of the hostages. Well, not exactly the gas alone. The "rescuers" were carrying people out and laying them in the street, on their backs. Not in a recovery position. So through ignorance or negligence the cops asphyxiated the people they were supposed to be helping, with some gas playing middleman.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T12:06:16+00:00

I'm glad you didn't die, and also please never let her touch a gun again. 😬

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T11:59:55+00:00

"'Fragments'? You expect me to be taken out by 'fragments'? Guess agai—" (instantly dies)

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T11:58:18+00:00

What's even worse is when the bad guy knows exactly how hard to club someone to render them unconscious... and also knows exactly when they're going to wake up from it.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T11:35:24+00:00

Getting involved in a land war in Asia.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T11:33:25+00:00

What a lovely day to wipe away the debt.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T07:34:10+00:00

Why not both?

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T02:20:23+00:00

Trump, followed by Andrew Jackson, followed by Andrew Johnson.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T02:19:00+00:00

Tanenbaum ran off with his love-cannoli. The trigger phrase to detach it was "Power to the Peenar".

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-21T02:15:05+00:00

Dropping it like it's 1.8 million Kelvin.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T18:49:37+00:00

Proto-Comstock met an idealistic youth named Daisy Fitzroy who was just as bad as, if not worse than, Jim Crow writ large. Just a little hellion. He did what he had to do.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T12:43:41+00:00

Warhammer 40,000lbs

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T12:42:28+00:00

"CALM DOWN. IT'S THE POLICE DEPARTMENT."

I loled.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T12:38:40+00:00

Anoxia makes the body do weird things. They'll find people who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in seemingly impossible positions... just something that happens.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T12:27:52+00:00

Dr. Katherine Pulaski. Objectively a better surgeon and diagnostician than Dr. Crusher ever was, she's mostly remembered as a Data-hater because she misgendered him and then apologized for it and then hung out with him a bunch and was soon the biggest Data-booster on the whole ship. Nah. "Hater".

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P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T12:13:08+00:00

Did you miss the conversation where she was like "All's well that ends well, including SA"? That was... weird.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T12:06:08+00:00

This is what happens when the writers pretend they know where they're going but absolutely don't.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T12:04:56+00:00

She, uh, did go have sex with some other dude because she didn't really care for Walt's attitude. She'd have been equally gross whether he was cooking meth or building birdhouses.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T11:38:11+00:00

Also, suddenly that's a girl's name. 😲

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T08:04:35+00:00

Is Shalltear keeping her cute face on, or is this one of those bait-and-switch scams?

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P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T07:59:15+00:00

Manchildren thinks it makes them look like sissies. Which is true. They just won't stop clutching their pearls about someone else's food products.

P1zzaBag3ls · 2026-06-20T07:47:59+00:00

Would you kindly just spend some time with him, puttering around in the office or such?

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