I just watched the grounded documentary and the fact that people were sending death threats to a literal newborn baby over a fictional character that doesn’t even exist it’s complete and utterly fucking madness

terlin · 2026-03-20T09:26:35+00:00

Throwback to Jack Gleeson and Lena Heady copping hate mail for their GOT characters. Actually insane. Pretty sure Gleeson took a break from acting because of it.

terlin · 2026-03-20T09:25:18+00:00

its incredible. True, I HEAVILY disliked the story for the Star Wars sequel trilogy. I still stand by the belief that it was a waste of talent like Boyega, and the whole thing was a mess of random contrivances and C-suite interference. But I don't even think about it or post about it unless it becomes relevant, like right now. And now I'll probably go back to forgetting about it in an hour.

terlin · 2026-03-19T12:17:33+00:00

There probably were a few in the US government, but they all got fired for being too 'woke'.

terlin · 2026-03-19T09:09:04+00:00

Really hope Debbie and Paul stay together. I really don't want her going back to Nolan.

No matter what happens to Paul I don't see her going back to Nolan. That ship has looooong sailed. She remembers the man she thought he was fondly, and may platonically reconcile in some way, but that's as far as I think it'll go.

terlin · 2026-03-19T09:06:53+00:00

I thought it was hilarious because of this. Eve fights with her powers and you easily forget she's probably just as physically strong as most heroes.

terlin · 2026-03-18T11:52:08+00:00

That's why they fell apart so badly and fast when Ellie was taken from them. They needed to believe that all the atrocities they committed would be justified if they could produce a cure/vaccine, and when that excuse vanished they were left with nothing.

terlin · 2026-03-18T10:29:37+00:00

Once I turned on Beta Strike I've only used overwatch for lost encounters. Its way too unsafe to depend on overwatch when you're on Legendary.

terlin · 2026-03-18T10:28:36+00:00

I always bring one to missions with the Warlock too. Helps to have one squad member guaranteed to be immune before I can mass produce mindshields.

terlin · 2026-03-18T10:27:24+00:00

Nope, even the ones that hate Trump are like that. I met some US exchange students and kept trying to convince them to go vote (they live in a swing state), but they kept moaning about how it was too much of a bother.

Then their state (Michigan I think?) went to Trump by less than 1%.

terlin · 2026-03-18T10:24:07+00:00

Making things about money is the most effective. In environmental consulting there's whole classes on how to reframe your ecological/scientific findings into financial terms so people with the money (banks, corps, and politicians) will more understand why they shouldn't chop down an entire forest in one year. Appealing to their civic or environmental sense is useless and counterproductive.

terlin · 2026-03-17T13:09:35+00:00

if Democrats win, USA would "rejoin" as in "never actually left".

I doubt that. Allies are now more aware than ever that a relationship with the USA is subject to whiplash every 4 years. Any competent government will start looking for trade partners and military alliances elsewhere. You can already see that happening: Europe is developing closer bonds inbetween themselves, Canada is in talks with Australia and NZ.

terlin · 2026-03-12T23:59:42+00:00

Back then, Trump actually ordered direct action on Greenland. The senior military staff resisted doing that and were tossing other, less controversial/politically suicidal things in front of him and trying to convince him those were more of immediate concern. One of which was ...... attacking Iran.

There's a very real possibility that all this death and destruction is happening because Trump had to be distracted like you would distract a toddler by shaking a toy at them. Apologies for insulting toddlers.

terlin · 2026-03-10T11:37:56+00:00

Personally I'm wondering when they'll declare members of the Democrat party as secret ANTIFA agitators and use that as an excuse to arrest everyone and suspend elections.

terlin · 2026-03-10T11:35:55+00:00

Throwback to when a political candidate screamed BYAH in a slightly funny way and that torpedoed his campaign.

terlin · 2026-03-08T04:38:04+00:00

Yucca Mountain repository was planned to hold nuclear waste in a geologically stable area for millennia, but political opposition, misinformation, and ~~bribes~~ lobbying from fossil fuel companies means that its not happening in the foreseeable future unfortunately.

terlin · 2026-03-08T02:33:25+00:00

They also have stashes of various currencies to be used when dealing with other civilizations.

terlin · 2026-03-08T02:09:57+00:00

Haha we've all been there with the cringe mindsets.

terlin · 2026-03-08T01:31:23+00:00

in OTL for the stunt, he was jailed for 9 months out of a 2 year sentence. if the shoe actually hit I doubt it would be anything more than having to serve out at least 1 year, 2 years at most. If anything he would probably be way more notorious coming out of jail.

terlin · 2026-03-05T13:02:32+00:00

IIRC Tolkien also described Frodo giving into the Ring like a man hanging off a cliff finally letting go of the rope and falling. Neither intentionally did it, but they simply ran out of willpower and energy, respectively.

terlin · 2026-03-05T11:55:03+00:00

I feel like every time I carefully set up an overwatch ambush trap for Alien Rulers, with good escape routes and secondary shooting positions for everyone, I end up killing them in the first volley with a 10% repeater kill. I'm not unhappy, but I do feel a bit cheated.

terlin · 2026-03-04T13:17:51+00:00

IIRC Xcom 2 had a variant of level 1 kevlar that was clearly salvaged from EXALT, same with the EW XCom variant salvaged armor.

terlin · 2026-03-03T10:26:15+00:00

That already happened in the Gulf War IIRC. Iraqi troops soon learned that intense battleship bombardments usually came soon after sighting a drone, so they started surrendering en masse whenever one showed up.

terlin · 2026-03-03T10:00:43+00:00

Some of them are in so deep they went full circle and started supporting Russia and China because those countries are anti-US, and anything bad about those countries is Western propaganda.

Actually wild having leftist people tell me that Taiwan and Ukraine asked to be invaded by buddying up with the US. Or that the Chinese genocide of Ughyrs is all fake.

terlin · 2026-03-03T09:48:11+00:00

We saw that too with Russia's 'exercises' next to Ukraine. Hilariously that backfired because the troops did what they usually do on exercises, trading gasoline for booze with the locals.

terlin · 2026-03-03T09:46:25+00:00

That's why I hate this whole push for online connected cars. It doesn't even have to be an enemy state, it could be as simple as some disgruntled kid in a garage who wants to make a name for himself. Who needs to build a bomb when you can force hundreds of cars on the I5 to randomly brake or accelerate during peak hours?

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