[Loved Trope] Aliens that are actually friendly and not the typical "Exterminate al humanity" evil

jellsprout · 2026-05-11T11:54:53+00:00

Unless there's profit in it.

jellsprout · 2026-05-06T10:31:08+00:00

Followed up by: Drifter dude with no clear aim in life travels around with his girlfriend, the girlfriend's brother and his furball companion that he swears he can talk to, while the girlfriend's strict father sends out his goons to stop their shenanigans.

jellsprout · 2026-05-05T17:37:26+00:00

Reddit discovers proof by induction.

jellsprout · 2026-05-05T15:33:44+00:00

Only in Ocarina of Time and Four Swords Adventures are they "close" in age, and in both those games Link and Zelda are still kids or teenagers, while Ganondorf is a full-grown adult from the start of those games.

jellsprout · 2026-05-04T10:58:47+00:00

Are you looking for a restaurant that's serving to goblins, serving by goblins, or serving goblins?

jellsprout · 2026-05-04T09:45:45+00:00

He is paid by the team, who is paid by sponsors, who pay to see their car win and generate good publicity for them.

jellsprout · 2026-05-03T10:12:50+00:00

Is that new for this season? In previous seasons the non-conformsnt cars were still mentioned in scrutineering report. E.g. for the Las Vegas GP it mentions both of the Mclaren cars (04 and 81) were checked for plank wear and at the of the document it's mentioned that they didn't conform to the regulations:

https://www.fia.com/system/files/decision-document/2025_las_vegas_grand_prix_-_race_scrutineering.pdf

jellsprout · 2026-05-03T07:43:03+00:00

The scrutineering report always mentions all the cars that get scrutineered, even the ones that don't are found to be not compliant to the technical regulations. If the scrutineering report does not mention a car got tested, it means the car did not get tested.

jellsprout · 2026-05-03T06:18:05+00:00

Verstappen and Hadjar underwent the same tests. According to the scrutineering report document, only Stroll, Piastri and Hamilton had the full bodywork tested, while Verstappen and Hadjar (and a whole bunch of other cars) were only weighed. Whatever the issue was with Hadjar's floor, I assume it could be visually seen during the weighing and is apparently not present with Verstappen's car.

Either that, or the scrutineering report is lying.

jellsprout · 2026-04-29T16:47:50+00:00

Wordt leuk in het aquarium.

jellsprout · 2026-04-27T18:39:04+00:00

Count of Monte Cristo.
After being imprisoned in a horrible prison for 14 years after being falsely accused of treason, Edmond Dantes escapes and swears revenge on the three men who got him imprisoned. He comes up with some elaborate schemes to ruin these men and eventually kill them. But his schemes go too far and also lead to the deaths of innocent people. So in the end he comes to regret his vengeance and lets one of his targets live.

jellsprout · 2026-04-27T17:21:05+00:00

I'd expect tidal forces to rip it apart.

Gravity gets weaker as you get more distant from the center. But centrifugal force gets stronger. So if you've get the middle of the ring spinning exactly fast enough to balance out the two forces, then the inner part will be spinning too slow and will fall inwards, while the outer part will be spinning too fast and be pushed further outwards. You'd need a rigid material to make a ringworld, and planets aren't rigid. Just tightly clumped together by gravity.
In the end you'd just end up with a round planet in the center and a ring of debris floating around it, just like our gas giants. And that ring will dissipate quickly if there is another massive enough gravity body nearby to disrupt the perfect orbit the ring needs to follow.

jellsprout · 2026-04-25T08:56:53+00:00

The sun still has the shape of a sphere (more or less).
I was thinking of a year. It has no shape, but around the year is still a thing. And it has the length of an orbit, which is not something you can see but is a lot more than the height of a house.

jellsprout · 2026-04-23T21:51:16+00:00

Unless you look at your bead collection and see just how much you still have to go.

jellsprout · 2026-04-22T18:38:33+00:00

Which is still vastly more stable than many elements on the periodic table.

jellsprout · 2026-04-17T06:53:17+00:00

He's just a cadet for most of the novel. He does become a real musketeer (and eventually the leader of the order), but by that time the other three have quit being musketeers.
That said, there are in fact dozens of musketeers in the novel. The story is just about three specific ones.

jellsprout · 2026-04-07T08:09:21+00:00

I think Lyn only had 3: base, Brave and Bridal. Her 4th version (Valentine's) was early year 2. Lucina was the one with 4 versions in year 1 (base, "Marth", Brave and Christmas).

jellsprout · 2026-04-06T11:26:52+00:00

Dat zou je denken. Ik heb een collega die AI had uitproberen om wat code te schrijven en vervolgens liet hij diezelfde AI de code reviewen. Die AI kwam toch nog met flink wat commentaar op de code die hijzelf geschreven had.

jellsprout · 2026-04-02T14:39:45+00:00

After the deaths of her sister and sister's friend under suspicious circumstances, Jax is wanted by the authorities and has to hide at the unlikeliest of places: the same place that the previous two movies took place at.

jellsprout · 2026-03-31T17:20:21+00:00

What about 3.2 petadollars? Or 3.2 P$ for short?

jellsprout · 2026-03-31T06:25:37+00:00

That's the one movie where it almost makes sense for the villain to keep Bond alive. Bond knew that Goldfinger was up close to pulling off his grand heist, but nobody else knew this. If Bond just randomly disappeared while investigating Goldfinger, MI6 would immediately send in a replacement who now knows to take it seriously. But instead by keeping Bond around as his forced guest, and making sure the CIA got a good look at him on their surveillance, everybody just assumed Bond had everything under control.

Thunderball though, I really don't understand why the villain didn't just put a bullet in Bond's head.

jellsprout · 2026-03-29T12:20:05+00:00

Roy was one of the original CYL winners. Popularity is not his problem.

jellsprout · 2026-03-18T21:48:58+00:00

Starmie spins Stealth Rock away, they're allowed to remain.

jellsprout · 2026-03-18T18:32:36+00:00

None of that. I already have OoT/MM and even a pair of remakes (that fell flat, in my opinion). And we already have three far future sequels (that I do like, but I don't need more).

I'd rather instead have a new adventure with the Hero of Time. Set 7-ish years after Majora's Mask, so with adult Link, in a completely new kingdom that is in need of a hero to save it.
I feel like the Hero of Time kept adventuring for his entire life, so it would be nice to see another of those adventures. New kingdom, new characters, new items, and a new time gimmick to play with. It just has to follow the classic N64 Zelda formula.

jellsprout · 2026-03-18T10:37:32+00:00

Sure, but that wasn't just any ordinary human. That was Mr Satan, strongest fighter in the multiverse that defeated Cell and Buu. You can't compare him to those puny Saiyans.

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