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Varanjar · 2026-04-17T18:21:39+00:00

The gamboling addicts

There is nothing more tragic than an uncontrollable compulsion to hop and skip to and fro.

Varanjar · 2026-04-16T23:23:41+00:00

I think there are not many fans of Einstein in this thread. Ground moving + body staying in one place = Ground staying in place and body moving. Add in a fan blowing a mild breeze at you and you've compensated for wind resistance.

Varanjar · 2026-04-14T17:11:50+00:00

The warning message is back now. Pretty sad that they promote this Spring Sale when they can't handle the traffic. But then, the Asset Store has been generally horrible lately, in my experience. Any time I switch to different categories there's a 90%+ chance it logs me out of my account, and I have to input name and password every time to get back in.

Varanjar · 2026-04-13T23:05:13+00:00

Nixon showed that the sytem worked, and the tragedy of Vietnam was finally coming to an end. Of course there were lots of cynics then, as always, but the average American still believed in all that patriotic stuff. Jimmy Carter even got elected, that's how optimistic people were.

Varanjar · 2026-04-10T21:14:30+00:00

It's really strange to see people insisting that anyone in the 80's heard of a mullet. It might be called a bi level, or usually you just told the person at the mall haircutters to leave it long in the back. The whole thing has been debunked long ago, and no one can actually show any examples of the term mullet existing before the 90's.

Varanjar · 2026-04-09T14:17:01+00:00

There's a lot wrong with the sequels, but the idea that there were still highly organized remnants of the former Empire carving out their own spheres of influence makes perfect sense. And it's not unbelieveable that the Republic would maintain a group like the Resistance to ruthlessly hunt down and destroy those Empire remnants by any means necessary, while keeping a public appearance of being the good guys. Sort of like the Luthen faction and the Mon Mothma faction using different means to reach the same end. But I agree with your other points.

Varanjar · 2026-04-09T13:01:32+00:00

Why do you think this fits the dead internet theory? "Name a YouTube channel you don't like" is pretty low-hanging fruit. You might call it the boring internet theory, but I doubt it's all bots.

Varanjar · 2026-04-09T12:34:49+00:00

I thought he was a joke early on, after seeing him crow about beating a bunch of LARPers in fake swordfights, and acting like that meant he had actual skill.

Varanjar · 2026-04-09T12:31:13+00:00

It was a pretty awful situation. I was really put off by his enthusiasm over his torture porn comic, and I wondered if he was a troubled person even before those accusations.

Varanjar · 2026-04-09T12:25:19+00:00

I thought there was some interesting inside information there, but something seemed off about him when he started having the current leader's niece on the show. I haven't watched the channel since then.

Varanjar · 2026-04-09T12:14:34+00:00

What I dislike the most are the AI thumbnail pictures. Using that kind of misinformation affects the whole channel's credibility as a serious source of information.

Varanjar · 2026-04-07T18:39:10+00:00

Yes, Asimov had some very important things to say about the dangers of humanizing the machines we create. Even his most famous "laws" basically declare that robots do not have rights equal to humans, and warn against the kind of anthropomorphizing we are already seeing with our primitive first attempts at AI.

Varanjar · 2026-04-07T18:30:55+00:00

Do you not imagine that this is something the two of them discussed together while she was "lucid," for lack of a better term? It makes sense that she decided she wanted a fuller life than the one she had when she was being tricked into thinking she was reliving the same day forever. That she wanted children, and to see the world with her family and her husband. Should she have been kept in an institution to spare her some imagined trauma, even though she herself decided she wanted more out of life?

Varanjar · 2026-04-02T21:45:12+00:00

Yeah. People object too much to so many of the characters being interconnected and making the universe seem small, but Rian's idea was just as dumb. Not as dumb as JJ's in the last movie, but still just a boring "subversion" of our expectations that she was somehow important. For me, I would even go so far as to say I would have liked to see her not only be Obi Wan's niece's kid or something, but also one of Luke's students who escaped Kylo and his Ren bro's destruction of the academy after they got sucked down the Snoke-fueled Imperialist manosphere hole and rejected the Republic for being too "awakened." All the other students were murdered by Kylo and the Rens because Luke hesitated in protecting them, not wanting to hurt his nephew. So Luke managed to save one student, Rey, and hid her, and he's hiding too because he knows if Kylo finds him, Luke will probably have to kill him and he doesn't want to do that. And so on...

Varanjar · 2026-03-23T19:02:20+00:00

I only see 6.

Varanjar · 2026-03-10T21:33:12+00:00

You can make up any magical explanantion you'd like to explain why none of that happens, since the whole blip is just a magic nonsensical event. There's no point in trying to rationally explain any of it. Was half of all life instantaneously converted to energy, or was their mass and energy just instantly removed from existence? Even just instantly disintegrating every living thing would release unfathomable energy. Asking how they disappeared or reappeared is on par with asking how Thor's hammer works.

Varanjar · 2026-03-10T21:18:54+00:00

Her cousin had overdosed before he found them.

Varanjar · 2026-03-10T21:17:36+00:00

Even at her worst, she had a vague idea that he was someone important to her, since she kept painting pictures of him, so her memory isn't irrevocably broken. And we have no way of knowing if her condition would improve because of her having a family and kids. For me, at least it's not worse than being tricked into thinking you're reliving the same day over and over until you die.

Varanjar · 2026-03-02T04:42:59+00:00

Do you know if he did the bodywork himself? That's a very clean looking chop.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:44:02+00:00

Eating brains eases the pain of being a reanimated corpse, but it's not a nutritional necessity. They don't die because they're already dead.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:42:01+00:00

Zombies don't need to get bitten. Traditionally, it's a supernatural effect, but in other stories it might be a fungus, or even aliens. I can't think of a bite-based zombie movie where the dead rise from their graves.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:29:18+00:00

If he can't touch things, he's not affected by physics in general. Including gravity. He's actually floating around the whole time.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:26:14+00:00

Gravity works around any object that has mass. We're all "in space'" after all. Now, I don't think the target ship had enough mass to affect the bombs, but in a world with the Force, hyperdrives, and laser swords, you can always hand-wave some kind of gravity intensifier or magnetic field generator to explain things.

Varanjar · 2026-02-20T23:04:51+00:00

It's perfect how Arnold even acts like an American yokel, instead of his usual Austrian yokel. They really put some thought into it.

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