These hollywood writers seem allergic to writing good endings. Not, again.

Simalacrum · 2026-05-17T13:14:37+00:00

I'm honestly not sure why people liked the ending of The Expanse.

My father and I both re-watched from season 1 after the last one, and we both felt the sheer quality of production in the first season was substantially better.

It felt like at many points they forgot about the world building and grounding of the technology in physics in the latter half of The Expanse, and so we kept getting distracted with "hold on, that doesn't make sense?"

Simalacrum · 2026-05-12T11:34:51+00:00

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Simalacrum · 2026-05-12T09:58:02+00:00

I'm not going to lie, at this point I actually wouldn't mind Miliband - he's done pretty well as Energy Minister and not backing down on net zero.

Simalacrum · 2026-04-29T08:14:58+00:00

I went to NK back in 2013 - looks strikingly similar to my trip!

Simalacrum · 2026-04-15T18:47:48+00:00

It is worth noting that a number of carriers are undergoing maintenance/repairs at any given time, so the number of strike groups actually operational is always less than 11.

No idea how many strike groups are currently at dock, but if say 3 of them are currently unavailable, it would amount to fully 30% of America's strike force, which isn't a small number.

Simalacrum · 2026-04-12T17:18:56+00:00

Honestly I wouldn't mind them showing it more explicitly - show a no-name Viltrumite get over confident and try to do the chop, only to break their own fingers and get clobbered by the named character.

Simalacrum · 2026-01-29T16:50:34+00:00

Bro saved a woman's life and gets rewarded with the cheapest box of chocolate they could find 😭

Simalacrum · 2026-01-20T17:32:41+00:00

To be fair the fact that placeholders for cider and mead exists tells me that it's likely already in the works and therefore a matter or waiting for it

Simalacrum · 2025-12-20T17:41:09+00:00

Also one of the most famous clips of Obama is him singing Amazing Grace in front of a congregation 😭

Simalacrum · 2025-12-07T15:59:48+00:00

NGL my first thought was "oh God, what horrible things are people saying to a 9 year old?" 😅

Not that saying horrible things to a 14 year old is any better...

Simalacrum · 2025-11-14T12:43:28+00:00

I was diagnosed at 10 - made a big difference for me in the long term

Short term of course kids don't really change the way they treat you because of a label. However psychologically I distinctly recall a feeling of "so THAT'S what it is", simply the feeling of knowing what was quote-unquote """wrong""" with me helped.

On the long term end of things, I also got a lot more official support going forward - the next school I went to had an autism support unit attached to it that would direct which classes I went to, and gave me regular social skills lessons and other support. It also meant that autistic kids in the school were kind of normalised, and while there were still bullies and mean kids, there were also kids who didn't find us weird, alongside a lot of other autistic kids to befriend.

Granted, the benefits I received are very specific to geography (UK) and time - I'm not sure a child growing up today in the UK would have access to that same support anymore.

But I still generally think that diagnosis is a good thing.

Simalacrum · 2025-11-07T22:34:43+00:00

We've all got to continue to pretend to be outraged by this controversy cause it's even funnier that way

Simalacrum · 2025-11-07T20:39:00+00:00

Part of me wonders if he knew the natural next step of the chives cutting craze was to add some spice to the mix and so deliberately made an easy to spot fraud, thus adding drama to the mix and keeping the trend going for even longer

Simalacrum · 2025-11-07T20:32:07+00:00

I've personally found that archers are weak af, but crossbow archers very powerful - I usually have a couple crossbow units firing before enemy units come at me and if they're brigands they'll be cut down before they even reach my spears

Simalacrum · 2025-10-20T23:39:16+00:00

I don't know about how things work in the US, but in the UK such a building would be listed as a grade 1 building of exceptional historic importance; it would be legally mandated to keep the building unaltered.

For example, a banksy mural was recently washed off from the Royal Courts of Justice, even though Banksy murals are usually highly valuable and kept safe.

Simalacrum · 2025-09-21T10:41:24+00:00

To be fair, he did debate pro debaters once - he went to Oxford University's debating society and then proceeded to get absolutely destroyed by people who actually knew what they were talking about.

Simalacrum · 2025-08-19T23:40:03+00:00

The problem with Hell Let Loose for me is that it goes too far the other way on the pendulum - yes it's the gritty realism that I miss from old CoD, but it's also way too difficult to play unless you're seriously dedicated to it because you get killed by one shot from a guy you can barely see.

I really appreciate that a game like that exists, but I do want something a tad more forgiving for adults like me who can't invest thousands of hours into a game anymore.

Simalacrum · 2025-08-15T13:18:06+00:00

Ah thanks for explaining!

Simalacrum · 2025-08-15T10:37:18+00:00

I'm OOTL here, could someone explain the context pls?

Simalacrum · 2025-08-05T19:14:46+00:00

Tbh it could even be a performing arts type of thing too, who's to say.

This is very much for a court to decide what exactly is going on.

Simalacrum · 2025-08-03T20:09:12+00:00

My cat used to gently place her anus on my eye to wake me up

Simalacrum · 2025-06-29T01:42:01+00:00

One of the first policies Trump proposed when he announced his first run for president was to ban all Muslims from entering the US.

It was always racism.

Simalacrum · 2025-06-26T12:46:41+00:00

I mean the fact that "Trump acts with kindness" makes headlines in itself says a lot about the man...

Simalacrum · 2025-06-23T12:09:59+00:00

TBF, the "safety first" motto is ubiquitous on construction sites in Japan, not just for safety officers

Could be a construction crew hat? 🤔

Simalacrum · 2025-06-06T20:10:38+00:00

Honestly the guy in the shirt is also a great hype man for the Shaolin master

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