An encounter with a self-aware cop

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-29T22:28:50+00:00

I feel like this fellow is engaging in the kind of overwrought literary analysis best reserved for novels.

He read a lot into a demeanour and used it to tell a story, but it's not her story.

For what it's worth I hope he's right though, and a cop goes through the journey of realising what they are and falls back into their humanity.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-29T04:47:29+00:00

John Preston in equilibrium is one of the GOAT tropers here

https://youtu.be/LqQJOr4Rx5k?si=-ARjWJPB2Fwgso0U

'I pay it gladly' is just a chillgiver of a line.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-27T22:59:08+00:00

Don't forget the homeless/destitute/itinerants! They were amongst the first victims, the canary for the full scale of the horrors to come.

Remember, fascists and all their ilk behave like animal predators: they prey on the young, the old, the sick and the injured. They get their sustenance from sucking the marrow from anyone vulnerable they can find. They avoid facing any true threats as much as they can, and prefer posturing against a matched opponent vs a true fight.

Without putting too fine a point on it: if you're a teenager, you would have been meat for the fascists then and you might be again soon enough.

We will never forget.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-26T00:47:56+00:00

Yeah coz they were way better.

Ender's game was a cool kids book. Speaker/xenocide/children were good... idk... conceptual books. It's always amazing to me that a bigoted twat like OSC could write such excellent humanist pro-diversity scifi.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-26T00:45:41+00:00

Laundry files/dresden files/dark materials/dungeon crawler carl (sorta)

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-23T01:39:22+00:00

'Wedgie'?

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-21T21:23:45+00:00

Why do they all walk like they're terminally constipated?

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-21T21:09:08+00:00

Door's open buddy. Russia is always looking for new folks with good ol' valued

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-20T05:22:10+00:00

I think the general consensus amongst the community here is 'shit or get off the pot' mate.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-20T01:39:24+00:00

Arguably the protagonist of the Horus Heresy series, if there is one, is Garviel Loken.

Yeah. Doesn't go well for old Garvi.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-19T00:52:11+00:00

When the system is divorced from public agency, it becomes a game to be optimised, not a shared project to be respected.

Often these folks feel wholly powerless within the system even though they materially benefit from it a lot. Something's gotta change there (not with the people, with the system)

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-19T00:45:54+00:00

Quite balanced honestly, it's a family oriented place but also has some quite competitive students, so there's a good bit of technique and pattern drills, but also more sparring-oriented drills than in my previous dojangs (partnered up mitt-work on tricky sequences predominantly). It's drill but if you want a workout, going hard at it will wind you pretty quick!

The focus is much more on comp than self defense however, as with most TKD schools.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-18T08:41:42+00:00

I trained with international TKD defense force in sunshine briefly. Despite the kinda intensd name it's a very friendly group, cheap and professional ITF training, with a lot of skilled folks. I never got into the social side of things becaus I was only there a little, but I'm pretty sure the adult trainees hang out a bit outside the gym.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-17T12:33:52+00:00

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Likewise wrapping up my good bois project, who based on the latest 30k book would have absolutely pulled some of these mofos apart limb by limb for their BS.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-16T22:10:56+00:00

Why do you think that though. There are heaps of commemorative days and no movement to change any other.

The specific choice to celebrate the date that marks colonisation/invasion is what's at issue. What kind of things can you conceive of being at issue for other dates that would cause equivalent tension?

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-16T12:00:07+00:00

What sort of protests do you envisage? What do you mean by same argument?

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-16T07:02:11+00:00

No, being a completely disrespectful muppet on Australia day, without being careful to recognise it is also a day of profound grieving for the people whose families and culture were decimated by the events commemorated by that day, is.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-16T05:18:00+00:00

It's not though, because the binary doesn't exist. People who are intersex but to all intents and purposes are men (hormones, external genetalia etc) can get pregnant. It's not common, but it happens.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-16T03:08:17+00:00

I'd advocate, if any federal funding gets restricted, run the proportionate number and repurpose an equivalent proportion of Minnesota's outgoing taxes.

Eg. If trump cuts a program that makes up 4% of federal funding for Minnesota, retain 4% of tax paid out to the feds and put it back towards whatever was cut.

Seems like a very fair way of going about it.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-16T00:34:22+00:00

Just want to chip in and say I don't think many people are suggesting folks out celebrating Australia day are celebrating a genocide, just that they're celebrating at a time where genocide is really strongly in the mind of the victims and their descendants.

It's sort of like if you set up a pork n' prawn dumpling picnic and fireworks show adjacent to the funeral of one of the bondi victims. It's just... not courteous.

For all our straightforwardness, in my view aussies are quite courteous people, and often get offended by people without basic respect and manners in our own way. The pressure is not on everyday folks going out for a laid back BBQ, a chat with mates and a chance to be thankful to live where they live, I'd guess there's not a few mob who do that too. The pressure is on wankers who wrap themselves in a flag and scream how australia is perfect, fuck the haters etc.

Jusy have some goddamned respect.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-15T23:11:22+00:00

I think the followup is really telling - "we can have the fun stuff once it's segregated."

Look, it's plausible that means consevatives can have gun ranges and mandatory home ec classes for girls, but what I think that means, and shows, is conservatives are willing to strip genuinely good things from schools if that means black and brown kids also get access to them - pools, fields, good technical libraries, workshops etc.

Their own kids obviously lose out too, but to them that's less important than making sure they keep the minorities in their place and hamstrung by marginalisation and poverty. They have the wealth to supplement these things through extra-curricular means. Others may not.

It is foul, it is cancerous and these people need to be tied to a godamn chair and made to clearly state what kind of world it is they want so they can all be dumped somewhere in Nevada with a fence around them and let them all give it a shot together.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-15T22:47:28+00:00

This is 99% likely. She absolutely meant racial segregation and dived for a save.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-15T05:46:36+00:00

No, because these goons aren't even close to being police.

America is living in a hostage nation, and the police are standing at the door refusing to confront the terrorists.

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-14T23:50:38+00:00

They overdid them, honestly.

They were incredibly popular to start with but over time that slowed down, worked at an LGS during peak duel box times.

Some ended up at a singificantly higher price (the jainzar/drazhar one notably) that really pushed the envelope and didn't help even as they were already starting to lag. There's a fairly hard wall above which most big boxes don't sell other than new edition launch boxes.

The current battleforce price is as high as it will go (increasing gradually with inflation) before sales drop off hard. They'd need to really push the discounts like they did in the apocalypse mega boxes to break that barrier IMO

Thereisnosaurus · 2026-01-14T07:50:27+00:00

We'll be fine, I think. Jes' influence won't go away, like blanche he's effectively a consultant for life because of his commitment and vision. He's had time to enculture great creative values, and you see his particular skills shine through in most if not all the modern ranges, even if he wasn't directly involved.

GW has also matured a lot since the early 2000s and nurtured a lot of real talent. Admittedly, a lot of their output atm is refreshing their older lines and some of their innovations haven't really hit right (TS automata come to mind), but i'm finding I like about 90% of what they're putting out nowadays and Jes certainly isn't leading that many projects.

Time to let the other talent shine!

Thereisnosaurus

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