VindictiveJudge

I beat Halo 2 on legendary. I also refuse to attempt that again and haven’t bothered playing legendary at all on any Halo in over a decade. Pretty sure my thumbs will not do that anymore.

Getting a gem was also the only way to save. Crash Bandicoot may be the only game series where each new game is easier than the one before it, and Crash 3 was still one of the most challenging games on the system.

Speaking of chess, you might be able to argue that some old RTS games are puzzle games when playing campaign, such as the first Command & Conquer. You often have very limited resources, the AI will do specific things at specific times or with specific triggers, and you’re often given specific constraints, like a time limit or keeping a specific thing alive. In this case, though, it’s mostly because the AI is so primitive that almost every action is scripted in advance for that specific map.

That’s about the extent of her French, though.

It helps to think of your hair as essentially being a mane. Remember, lion manes also expose their forehead.

The entire cyberpunk genre is about corporations destroying society and the planet for profit and is near-future sci-fi. Dune is about how human nature doesn’t change, the same revolutions occurring again and again over thousands of years, with humans always being on the verge of self extinction and the only escape being to destroy civilization so hard that any conflict will always leave survivors that have had no contact with anyone else in millennia. Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy presents a world where the entire universe is utter chaos, worlds can be destroyed by a clerical error, and cosmically powerful beings do random things for shits and giggles. Starship Troopers, Warhammer, and Starcraft depict humans becoming the bad guys at an interstellar scale.

So, no, sci-fi is not inherently hopeful.

Bert as Gus’s dead boyfriend.

The New Mexico whiptail is also an F1 hybrid. If they go extinct, you can make more by hybridizing a little striped whiptail and a western whiptail. In case anyone thought that ‘species’ was a solidly defined word.

I kind of wonder if time might be infinite in both directions, just because having a definitive beginning or end would seem to violate the conservation of matter and energy.

but they won’t really breed.

Which means no tomacco.

I still can’t tell if Sucker Punch is an ingenious retelling of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest or an excuse to film scantily clad women while pretending you have something serious to say, but it’s certainly fun to watch.

I have a coworker who I discovered a few weeks ago had no idea internal monologues were a thing. I had to explain that it’s a real documented phenomena and that it’s actually a minority of people that don’t have one. She’s pretty damn smart, too. I also play D&D with a guy who has aphantasia. He’s also pretty damn smart and you would have no idea he was incapable of visualizing things if he didn’t tell you. Him casually mentioning it in conversation surprised people who had known him for years. So, yeah, absolutely no correlation between intelligence and how your thoughts may or may not produce phantom sensory input.

The central point that Pluto and Charon orbit about is also outside of Pluto. All other planets have the center point located within the planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-Charon_system-new.gif

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#Child_sex_trafficking_and_satanic_sacrifice

Added to this is the belief that politicians and Hollywood elites engage in “adrenochrome harvesting”, in which adrenalin is extracted from children’s blood to produce the psychoactive drug adrenochrome.

One version of the QAnon theory posits that the child abusers use adrenochrome as an elixir to remain young.

That’s what they’re referencing when they mention drinking children’s blood.

They believe in the q-anon child blood theft thing. It’s not rhetoric or hyperbole, they literally want to murder people. The ‘eat the rich’ rhetoric isn’t just inflamatory, it encourages people to actually commit violence, whether that’s what you really want them to do or not.

That last paragraph dips into q-anon stuff, too, despite otherwise being extreme left.

Was he a monk? Because that sounds familiar.

And definitely not worth the $2500 a year they’re asking for the feature.

“… build a wall around Mordor and make Sauron pay for it…”

“Make Middle-earth Great Again”

“Thin Gondorian Line”

I suppose we could fix it by moving the start of the year to March 1st. Start of spring makes more sense for the new year anyway.