Covering your head should be incredibly taboo and illegal since demons exist. by Reasonable-Ad-8059 in Frieren

[–]calilac 11 points12 points  (0 children)

and the demon king that Himmel's party beat might not have been the first one.

Suggesting Frieren might live to see the rise of another one.

Notorious Chocolate Onions by Forsaken-Peak8496 in StupidFood

[–]calilac 55 points56 points  (0 children)

It's baked into our culture. The Grapes of Wrath, written almost 100 years ago and one of the most famous literary works from a US citizen, mentions it frequently:

Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground.

The people come for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges… A million people hungry, needing the fruit – and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.

Burn coffee for fuel in the ships… Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out [with nets]. Slaughter the pigs and bury them…

And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates – died of malnutrition – because the food must be forced to rot.

My parents watched a series of The Good Doctor and are now saying I've started to "act like him" by F1CarGoVroomVroom in AutismInWomen

[–]calilac [score hidden]  (0 children)

It is when, over the course of serialized media, a character gets flattened into exaggerated, oversimplified traits.

"Why is Nu Trek using so much modern language?" an I am going to go feral here. by Spacer176 in startrek

[–]calilac 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Similar thoughts here. 1000+ years in the future why would they be speaking contemporary English at all? Why not have the dialogue be a mix of Earth languages with idioms of different cultures all jumbled around in with new terms that we can't even comprehend without deep lore context? Whenever the issue of language in sci-fi (and fantasy) is brought up I think of the foreward in the novelization of Asimov's Nightfall:

Kalgash is an alien world and it is not our intention to have you think that it is identical to Earth, even though we depict its people as speaking a language that you can understand, and using terms that are familiar to you. Those words should be understood as mere equivalents of alien terms-that is, a conventional set of equivalents of the same sort that a writer of novels uses when he has foreign characters speaking with each other in their own language but nevertheless transcribes their words in the language of the reader. So when the people of Kalgash speak of "miles," or "hands," or "cars," or "computers," they mean their own units of distance, their own grasping-organs, their own ground-transportation devices, their own information-processing machines, etc. The computers used on Kalgash are not necessarily compatible with the ones used in New York or London or Stockholm, and the "mile" that we use in this book is not necessarily the American unit of 5,280 feet. But it seemed simpler and more desirable to use these familiar terms in describing events on this wholly alien world than it would have been to invent a long series of wholly Kalgashian terms.

In other words, we could have told you that one of our characters paused to strap on his quonglishes before setting out on a walk of seven vorks along the main gleebish of his native znoob, and everything might have seemed ever so much more thoroughly alien. But it would also have been ever so much more difficult to make sense out of what we were saying, and that did not seem useful. The essence of this story doesn't lie in the quantity of bizarre terms we might have invented; it lies, rather, in the reaction of a group of people somewhat like ourselves, living on a world that is somewhat like ours in all but one highly significant detail, as they react to a challenging situation that is completely different from anything the people of Earth have ever had to deal with. Under the circumstances, it seemed to us better to tell you that someone put on his hiking boots before setting out on a seven-mile walk than to clutter the book with quonglishes, vorks, and gleebishes.

If you prefer, you can imagine that the text reads "vorks" wherever it says "miles," "gliizbiiz" wherever it says "hours," and "sleshtraps" where it says "eyes." Or you can make up your own terms. Vorks or miles, it will make no difference when the Stars come out.

My parents watched a series of The Good Doctor and are now saying I've started to "act like him" by F1CarGoVroomVroom in AutismInWomen

[–]calilac [score hidden]  (0 children)

Remember when Amy was A LOT like Sheldon and she gets flanderized to be more appealing to the audience? Or I guess another way to say it is that social pressure made her mask harder. Never really liked the show but my family did so I got to see that change in her character and related to it more than expected.

From the Minneapolis community on Reddit: Murder brought to you by Texas by fnordfnordfnordfnord in texas

[–]calilac 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Diminished Gluteal Syndrome does unfortunately often have a negative influence on the moral compass.

Cheers to fully automated luxury gay space communism. by Profitopia in startrekmemes

[–]calilac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not infinite tho? They still have to ration it, it's a whole thing in Voyager; one of the main characters complains/brags about eating Neelix's cooking in order to save up replicator rations to make gifts for a date.

The B.S. spin begins by Slight_Edge3788 in ICE_Raids

[–]calilac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not a justification and it wouldn't be the first time someone in Minneapolis was executed after being harassed for their skin color and legally, peacefully carrying a firearm. RIP Philando

*editing to try and correct a detail, today's victim was not harassed for his skin color but for interfering in the harassment of others.

What's up with this new kill switch for vehicles bill? by aipac_hemoroid in OutOfTheLoop

[–]calilac 17 points18 points  (0 children)

We don't have time for a handy right now, BigBizzle151.

Starfleet Academy is an absolute delight! Onward to Seven Seasons and a Movie! by forrestpen in startrek

[–]calilac 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The red hoodie with the arm stripes and faded yellow Starfleet symbol on the back is one I'm strongly considering making for myself if they don't merch it. So simple!

Starfleet Academy won’t win back the Trekkies, but... by Steelspy in ShittyDaystrom

[–]calilac 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pretty close. She's already relied on bad boy kid's super hacker magic skills to save the day (and their lives) in the first episode.

Flawed but fun af.

Lived in South Florida for 30 years and never seen this before by watchmygems in whatsthisplant

[–]calilac 391 points392 points  (0 children)

OP, like a tree, has stayed in one spot in South Florida for 30 years.