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I can’t believe people just go around making up games on the fly. Like who thought this was a good idea?! There’s no way you’ve possibly playtested the rules to ensure everything is balanced. Without corporate oversight and a solid profit motive there is no way some “friends” in a “car” could make a successful game. The premise is just absurd.
And then to think you could go around sharing your dumb “game” freely on the internet in forums and such?
Don’t even get me started…
Han solo didn’t “shoot first”, he was the only one who shot, period.
Greedo didn’t shoot the wall (and miss a 6ft target sitting 2ft away), that was added (poorly) many years later for a special edition.
They changed the movie because in the interim years, George Lucas was feeling like it made Han Solo look less “noble” and more scoundrel-like.
Han Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he’s a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as “a wretched hive of scum and villainy”.
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE’S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren’t so annoying.
And even taken all that aside, he shot someone that pointed a gun at him and basically said “I am going to shoot you now”. Clearly Han is in the right here for defending himself.
And the guy he worked for previously was described as a “vile gangster” two movies later.
TBF, Han was a smuggler around the time of ANH, but he got there by running drugs for Jabba’s auntie for years… Han Solo was a plug first, and don’t even get me started on the Chewie/Scooby thread.
If anything, Han shooting and being a “scoundrel” adds extra gravitas to his change of heart near the end.
When I posted this I had no idea we’d get anything THIS controversial. Yowzers
Rubberneck Han isn’t real. Rubberneck Han can’t hurt you.
The class in Galaxies based on him is literally called “Scoundrel”.
Greedo was pointing a gun at him and talking about claiming his bounty. How exactly was he going to go about that without shooting Han?
So yes, Han shot first, as in, shot before Greedo could, which he was certainly intending to do.
The aliens in Signs are idiots for invading a planet that’s 70% water. And if they landed in a cornfield in rural PA in the middle of summer the humidity would have killed them instantly.
And what’s worse is Shyamalan lives in PA and should know this.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they weren’t also naked.
Also, they have interstellar travel but need to use crop circles to communicate. I know that’s just part of the premise but it’s still stupid.
But not nearly as stupid as flying all the way here and trying win a land war completely unarmed. If your battle plan can be beaten by a baseball bat and asthma, you should maybe rethink your invasion.
I think the movie would work better if the aliens were just messing with this one family on a farm, like they’re a scout force.
But it’s like humans trying to invade Mars in their birthday suits, just assuming the planet isn’t toxic and uninhabitable.
Like, what did the invasion look like in the tropics, where it rains just about every day? Did they get out of their ships and just start sizzling?
I like the holy water fan theory. They were not aliens but demons and all of the glasses of water were blessed when Mel Gibson regained his faith
Which would work if the aliens were only attacking his farm and not the entire planet.
On the radio it mentioned that people had discovered an old technique to fight them, there are other priests on earth
And Toto has Africa pretty well covered.
I needed that chuckle.
Clearly Mel Gibson blessed all of that water, too. Is there anything that guy can’t do with his faith? (Besides make a watchable movie?)
You never see spaceships and you only see how a single creature is defeated. The radio says the war turned around in the holy lands, which aren’t overflowing with water everywhere.
It’s faith that defeats them, not water.
I thought that was the actual reason and not just a fan theory?
“The characters in that movie called them aliens, but it was never explicitly demonstrated what they were or why they were on earth. People are much more accepting of aliens these days, and the idea was that if demons appeared among us, they would be perceived as aliens.”
If it had been talking about demons at all during the movie this would eliminate my major problem with the movie.
There just weren’t enough rules about the universe demonstrated to the viewer to know what’s going on.
And I know Shyamalan is capable of this because he did such a good job with this in The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.
I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.
I disagree. If water is essential for their spaceflight, IE fuel, reaction mass, ect then it’s fine that they would invade.
Humans have invaded the Sahara desert, which is hot enough to kill, the arctic and Antarctic which is cold enough to kill, the submarine realm which can crush, freeze and drown us, and even the moon, which is hollow and full of dangerous reptillians.
We go to extremely dangerous places to fulfill our need for resources and territorial ambition
Yes but they wouldn’t show up bare-ass nekkid on a planet full of water if they knew it dissolved ‘em!
I almost wonder if it’s like Mt Everest climbers who climb without oxygen tanks, they do it more to prove that they can than for any rational reason
Lol I actually grew up near where the movie took place and now I feel stupid for never thinking about the humidity factor. Summer in PA is underestimated by those who think “it’s the northeastern US, how bad can it get?”. For those of you who don’t know, most summer days you can see the humidity and you’re drenched in sweat about 2 minutes after you exit a cool shower.
In the mountains it’s not too bad but Chester country might as well be Leesburg in July.
Captain Carter said the same thing
So, Autism: The Game. I live this reality.
I was going to say theatre kinds/improv troupe, but that too.
Facts
… is there a member of one who isn’t a member of the other? (This is joke)
There’s a variation of this on Dropout’s “Make Some Noise” with 3 people where one player starts a rant, then is told to stop mid-rant, and the next person picks up where it stopped and takes it in their own direction.
Brennan Lee Mulligan was engineered in a lab for that specific purpose.
He’s fantastically contagious. ❤️🔥 Hell, most of Dropout are, for that matter. 🤘🏼
You what really pisses me off, when certain people in the Linux community talk about “optimization” and “bloat”.
No you’re not gonna notice the twenty extra megabytes in ram usage by using another init system, no you’re gonna notice the 3% improvement for certain games that custom kernel might theoretically bring, no by using hyprland you’re not even saving that much resources, none of that really makes a difference.
Tbh you could probably gain more performance by setting the ram speeds higher in the bios, experimenting with overclocking (if theres enough thermal headroom), or upgrading some component (like an older ssd or ram). Or alternatively changing settings in the games you play. Or even a step further (this idea will shock some people), maybe don’t focus on numbers and just enjoy what you have. If its good enough than its good enough, if its not than tweaking it won’t make it good enough.
Oh really? Didn’t someone in the Linux community notice a backdoor in the code because it delayed the startup by something like 200ms?
It’s not surprising that when a tool that usually works immediately suddenly starts freezing for quarter of a second every time you use it, that you notice it.
There’s a big difference between caring about whether a given game runs at 130FPS or 140FPS and noticing a new quarter second delay in database queries on your test db ar work. That quarter second per queey delay is going to stack up very quickly across the thousands or even millions of queries made in a day in a production database
I tried using a pie zero as a PC for a little bit. Maybe it’ll be fun to try that again and really optimize it
I’ve only ever used my zero as a mail server, but the pi 3 did a bang up job of being my daily driver for a few years.
Afaik that can bearly run Linux (just a stripped down version of the kernel, forget about running a WM)
That’s the fun part
I wonder if it can run doom :3
(It probably can)
The Pi Zero has about the same specs as a Pi 1A+ did, just on a smaller circuit board. It…can run Raspberry Pi’s Pixel desktop, though it was a bit more usable back when they just shipped LMDE. Last time I tried it took about 20 minutes to boot to a desktop.
I had to use a Pi 1B as my main desktop for a few months because Dell can’t fix a laptop to save their lives. “Can this run LibreOffice” is an amazing question to be forced to ask.
I was gonna ask if it can run neovim with lazyvim, I don’t expect it to run a desktop especially a modern desktop. Theoretically I suppose it might be able to run i3 but that might be pushing it.
I wonder if someone like Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux could make it usable? I’ve seen both run usably on 1990s PC hardware.
You know what I notice? My journal app takes almost a gigabyte because it’s based on Electron.
Solution: use vim and save everything to a txt file
You know what I notice? How little hardware I can get something to run on.
Mucking about with your ram speed and overclocking can decrease both stability, stability under load, and longevity when people are keeping computers longer than ever. It’s poor advice. Insofar as using a different init, distro, window manager, kernel. Some of that is an aesthetic choice and some a function of workflow. To some degree people just enjoy fiddling with stuff and understanding it.
Every time someone refers to mobile data as “wifi” I die a little inside. I understand that the difference is unnoticeable for most people, but it pains me.
I’ve never heard someone say that and I hope I never will
Sounds like a good way to enhance your critical thinking skills. Something we humans direly need today.
The Socratic method is a sort of dialectic game too. Someone takes a position by providing an argument for it, and you provide your best counter arguments for the strongest form of the argument.
Y’all just re-invented debate club.
Mine is called “MacGyver Me This”.
You’re given 3 things. What can you do with them?
My favorite was the dozen chihuahua powered redwood raft. (Giant redwood, 12 chihuahuas, rope)
Any ambiguity is up to your discretion. For example, no mention on the amount of rope, so you’ve got a much as you want/need.
That’s 14 things at minimum though, I feel like that should disqualify it.
Don’t even get me started about this guy!
Reminds me of Soup is for Women which I think was basically prompted in the same way, asking her to go off on a weird rant about something being not “manly”.
oh yeah we play that constantly, but it isn’t fun to anyone.
Lemmy plays it every day. It’s about Windows or Trump, and that’s it.
I can only imagine playing that with David Mitchell.
And I’ll tell you another thing!
That’s easily half of the Unbelievable Truth anyways
Holy shit, he would be the Hendrix of this game.
Similar idea to the radio 4 show ‘just a minute’
Man this sounds therapeutic after today.
