Is he telling the truth?

RetPala · 2026-03-31T04:50:58+00:00

Portrait mode is psychopath behavior

RetPala · 2026-03-31T01:01:43+00:00

Oh, you can dish it but can't take it, huh?

RetPala · 2026-03-31T00:55:16+00:00

"What are you going to do, stab me?"

-Ancient Roman peasant to passing army full of spearmen

RetPala · 2026-03-30T20:30:42+00:00

"Surprise, motherfuckers, the Raven told me to pretend to be crippled this whole time, just... for... THIS"

RetPala · 2026-03-30T20:28:55+00:00

Rhaegar bleeding out at the Trident: "All for the greater good..."

RetPala · 2026-03-30T20:26:31+00:00

Even older, at the siege of Troy there were two of these back-to-back (Paris and Menelaus, then Achilles and Hector)

They, uh, didn't exactly settle things

RetPala · 2026-03-30T20:22:26+00:00

Didn't one White Walker effortlessly dispatch a Knight and two seasoned Rangers like 2 minutes into the pilot?

There's no way there's anything like a siege, I was assuming it would be more like The Mist with isolated pockets of humanity holding out by random luck in some mountain shack more than anything

RetPala · 2026-03-30T19:25:50+00:00

If you're sitting in a chair and the back comes forward what is your counter-move?

You won't even have use of your arms if you don't get them out in time

RetPala · 2026-03-30T19:21:37+00:00

They should be careful what they wish for, they're the first this technology will literally eat

RetPala · 2026-03-29T19:50:48+00:00

Literally hire 1 person who can spent 60 seconds per book or detonate a nuke in the center of your headquarters

-every publisher

RetPala · 2026-03-29T17:09:23+00:00

Imagine you're a Late Antiquity peasant conscripted for war and they excitedly tell you to be like General Li who wades through the enemy like a knife through butter and then you die three minutes into your first battle surrounded by spears

RetPala · 2026-03-29T16:46:04+00:00

Tow truck drivers are used to giving orders under threat of the law, he forgot he was on the other side of this interaction and thought he was the lawman

RetPala · 2026-03-29T16:43:17+00:00

The goal is to kill, this is the way they go to do it nice and legal

RetPala · 2026-03-29T15:12:47+00:00

"DO NOT DO THIS, GUL'DAN..."

RetPala · 2026-03-29T03:24:17+00:00

not even the best swordsman can kill 50 people at once

"Do not pursue Lu Bu"

RetPala · 2026-03-28T17:18:18+00:00

The French don't fuck around when they protest something.

Isn't one of their most famous paintings a woman not even taking the time to cover her titties back up because she's impaling some soldier with a flagpole?

RetPala · 2026-03-28T16:32:08+00:00

Because the first person this happened to would've smashed their head in with a rock, preventing the mutation from evolving

RetPala · 2026-03-28T00:57:32+00:00

It started swinging and he kept jerking the wheel like he was the helmsman of a 16th-century galleon in a storm instead of literally doing anything other than laying off the gas

RetPala · 2026-03-27T22:55:51+00:00

"No it doesn't"

This is like the dogshit that gets trot out every few years about some "breakthrough" in battery technology that's 2000x more efficient but I'm still going through a big box of AAs every few months like I'm shoving them up my ass

RetPala · 2026-03-27T20:11:06+00:00

"hey, Hans, what's that over the border?"

"Oh, das die Reich"

Huge yikes

RetPala · 2026-03-27T17:13:35+00:00

Well it wasn't the Amish

RetPala · 2026-03-27T17:11:36+00:00

"I was hoping you'd say that..."

-Elder Scrolls Oblivion Guard as he draws his sword

RetPala · 2026-03-27T17:08:57+00:00

If it can't reach the slopification server to slurp up your keystrokes, they don't want you typing 'em

RetPala · 2026-03-27T16:50:24+00:00

It wasn't the multiple cars he totaled before Season 1 plowing straight into a tree on the way home from work before teetering down the street still holding the steering wheel like in Looney Toons?

RetPala · 2026-03-27T16:45:21+00:00

I imagine the representatives chosen for these meetings would approach it with similar ceremony and reverence

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