Miles O'Brien

Ever notice the nickelodeon logo once looked like a normal splat of goo, then it became a foot?

Ever notice that some of the shoes had some odd camera angles that highlited the literal children’s feet?

Dan Schneider:

I have told managers, to their faces, I do not have a smart phone… While holding my smart phone.

So far, while most have quite noticeably glanced at my phone, none have actually called me out on it.

If any of them ever do, I will just get a prepaid flip phone and use that for work.

I’m always a fan of “best possible outcome” for 20, and “worst possible outcome that doesn’t immediately kill anyone” for nat1.

If you’re 2ft tall and trying to destroy an iron wall and roll a 20, you successfully scrape some iron off the wall. It doesn’t just collapse spontaneously. If you roll a 0 1🙄, your attack bounces off and your weapon breaks. Luckily it didn’t rebound and hit you.

It makes things more believable, however rule of cool is obviously above that. So if you can do a flip off a cliff onto the back of a dragon and convince it to attack the tarrasque for you before it eats you, and roll a 20 for all that, you better believe that dragon now considers you it’s deity, and will die in a ball of flames, acid, ice, etc, in your name while flying headfirst down the tarrasque’s throat. The tarrasque obviously dies from this, since it’s so epic.

I guess it really depends on the stakes.

And nothing of value was lost.

A former friend cut contact after we had an argument about this.

Paraphrased:

Me: “if your uncle arrests someone for assault, and his friend waited for him outside the target’s house and drove him away, would the friend not also get arrested for being an accomplice?”

Her: “yeah, the guy knew the crime was going on so he definitely is part of it”

Me: “So if your uncle is standing in line at a protest to ‘keep things peaceful’ and then he just stands there while the cop next to him drags a peaceful protester to the ground and starts beating them, and two others begin pepper spraying and shooting bean bags at people’s heads in clear violation of many laws from local to federal, and your uncle doesn’t even speak up? What is he? Come on, laws were broken by his buddies and he’s not confessing, and is in fact helping cover up the crimes, so if he’s helping with crime, and knows about more crime, but doesn’t come forward like a good law abiding citizen, what is he.”

I was way more petty about it than I needed to be, but all cops means all cops and don’t fucking try to lecture me on how your preferred cop is somehow special. A bad apple spoils the bunch, use the whole fucking proverb or don’t bring up apples again, bitch.

Personally I choose to believe violet08 is a robotic cat, and simply pretending to be a woman in hornyposting mode because they enjoy trolling.

Because the kind of brain that thinks “I deserve all this money” is broken, and not even close to resembling the brain that thinks “I should use the extra money I have to help others”

The two things are incompatible. Shit, I wouldn’t even feel comfortable showing my face to employees who don’t earn close to what I take. I’d be too ashamed that I’m essentially stealing from them since I’m not doing to work of 20 people (let alone 150,000) by myself.

The brain that doesn’t have that shame doesn’t even think about others, unless it’s in the context of “how can I exploit this”

I once ran a campaign of a game similar to D&D where one of the players had geared a character to be super charismatic and had an end goal of being able to persuade anyone to do anything.

She kept persuading the random side characters that helped them into joining, until they had a small army of Merry Men.

Yeah, the campaign took a back seat while they played Robin hood for awhile.

She started specifically targeting side npcs because I wanted to drop a character that was making my vocal chords hurt. They liked the npc because he was basically a child’s vision of a stereotypical pirate.

The prosecution used the presence of the first aid kit they carried

Insane bullshit.

I have a kit with me every day of my life, and I’ve had to refill it many times due to using it on others.

It would be pure coincidence that I happen to be carrying a first aid kit on any given day, and if I’m going to a peaceful protest I’m bringing my trauma kit because the entire fucking world knows how cops treat protesters.

Having built a few medieval contraptions over the years, it’s going to be at least $100 for the wood alone (and that’s if you use 2x4s), and the blade will probably be around $50 for just the steel.

Guillotines can be a little finicky if you’re not careful during the building. It’s a decent bit of weight slamming down, it needs to be on-track and aligned with itself or you might end up lodging the blade into the frame.

Why, have you not played any other Kojima games?

It’s just racism someone dressed up real pretty so they can pat themselves on the back for how enlightened they are.

This is incredibly dismissive of not only native cultures that wiped themselves out (or at least wiped out large animal species) but also of the other European and Asian cultures that had their own imperialist expansion, some nearly to the same degree as the English.

I mean, you’re the weirdo accepting random liquids from someone.

Calm down there, Shiro Ishii.

This is my only issue with having three dogs.

I only have two hands.

So if I come home and they all want attention, I have to split pets between all of them in short intervals or they start pushing each other (and me) around trying to get attention. Or rather, the biggest one pushes in and the smaller two have to climb over themselves to get to my other hand.

Honestly I just want to see the first two in imax since I missed the opportunity when they had their original runs.

A theater about an hour away had a special showing of part 1 running with the first week of part 2’s debut. So you could go see part 1 and go to the next hall to see part 2 immediately after. I’m hoping they do something similar so I can watch all 3 in a couple weekends, but I’m not holding my breath.

Socialism is not fundamentally altruistic.

Yeah, if I’m completely honest, yes I DO want everyone to be housed and fed without the stress of maybe you’ll be dead if you don’t sell your body hard enough, but the biggest reason I want socialism is because I myself want to be able to slow down and not have to work so hard to stay floating.

That might make me a bad person, but I justify it to myself because everyone else will benefit far more from that than I will, and long after I’m dead things will (hopefully) be even better.

“THE FUTURE THE LEFT WANTS UNDER UNDER SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM!”

literally a photo of current day capitalism hilighting wealth inequality

This hand-crafted, gold necklace with diamond, ruby sapphire, and emeralds adorning the intricately carved centerpiece?

5 gold pieces.

That moldy slice of bread you picked up accidentally from a barrel in the bottom of a 1500 year old shipwreck?

… I’ll give you 3 gold.