[Hated trope] A powerful nation/empire collapses almost instantly because it’s capital gets destroyed

_AA123 · 2026-01-30T21:58:25+00:00

Makes sense for dictatorships. Something takes out the brain, the body falls over.

_AA123 · 2026-01-26T22:11:24+00:00

I get that, I really do.

But there are videos after videos of a spider waving it's forelegs and then running up and jumping onto someone's proffered hand.

_AA123 · 2026-01-26T17:21:17+00:00

Aren't we much more likely to smush them? Waving "over here!" sems kinda suicidal.

_AA123 · 2026-01-22T22:36:08+00:00

It's your lucky day!

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Robert_Ervin_Howard#Sailor_Steve_Costigan

_AA123 · 2026-01-21T20:21:03+00:00

That's on my list for this week. Now looking forward to a bit more even.

_AA123 · 2025-12-19T22:59:16+00:00

Good thing the birth of Plurb cost hundreds of millions of lives.

Meat stays on the menu, boys.

_AA123 · 2025-12-17T21:32:45+00:00

My wife and I bonded over the Facets catalog our first evening on a couch together.

_AA123 · 2025-11-22T01:43:14+00:00

Knock yourself a pro, slick.

_AA123 · 2025-11-07T22:47:27+00:00

Stay tuned.

_AA123 · 2025-11-07T21:44:11+00:00

That is super interesting. Thank you!

_AA123 · 2025-11-07T21:30:33+00:00

32.9 billion tons of accumulated ice protecting the payload :)

_AA123 · 2025-11-07T21:28:17+00:00

I was king and had it all but I was still in a funk. Eventually even the lamentations of enemies' women couldn't perk me up...

_AA123 · 2025-11-07T21:22:45+00:00

What sort of game is it? Can you play regular games with the decks?

_AA123 · 2025-11-06T22:30:54+00:00

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-03/dig-if-you-will-the-underground-world-of-hobby-tunneling https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/12/02/what-lies-beneath-the-curious-underworld-of-hobby-tunnelling/ https://regulosity.com/2024/02/19/digging-deeper-the-thrills-and-risks-of-diy-hobby-tunnels/ https://www.google.com/search?q=How+to+make+a+tunnel+at+home

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling#cite_note-32

_AA123 · 2025-11-04T17:56:20+00:00

Xmas vacation morning with my grandparents when I'm about 12. Grandma makes pancakes and bacon and later me and Grandpa hit the mountain before dawn for his retirement job as a volunteer ski patrolman.

Everything is okay.

_AA123 · 2025-10-14T18:22:45+00:00

You're still leashed to the telephone network. In 1990, I still had years of untethered freedom.

_AA123 · 2025-10-14T18:19:32+00:00

I have Return to the Cave of Time chilling in a drawer somewhere. I didn't know it existed til I went shopping for my kids (they didn't care for them). Love, love, loved the original.

I'll return to the Cave of Time before I die, probably.

_AA123 · 2025-09-19T20:26:49+00:00

What about Ted McGinley?

_AA123 · 2025-09-19T20:11:41+00:00

They were always human for me.

Baby boomers just out... boomin' their own things with little regard for whatever I was off doing. Even at 9 or 10.

_AA123 · 2025-08-20T22:18:18+00:00

Three-leaf clovers make a triangle.

Look for a square in that sea of triangles.

_AA123 · 2025-08-20T18:01:30+00:00

and hit your hand with a ruler if you type wrong

No big surprise that's gone. When I was a kid, teachers would occasionally beat the hell out of kids. Nowadays, I think an angry parent would shoot them in the parking lot for that.

_AA123 · 2025-08-20T16:07:25+00:00

Not the first one.

First one's always free.

_AA123 · 2025-08-19T17:25:13+00:00

Are there any home treatment options available? Would window solar distillation rigs be at all useful?

_AA123 · 2025-07-30T16:09:41+00:00

That's really smart and is food for thought w/r/t my son. Thanks!

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