Yeah I love em. But then again I love anything with wing sauce in it.

I feel like, because you can see the moon moving towards the sun for the hours leading up to the eclipse, and see it moving away from the sun in the hours afterward, you’d be able to put two and two together even if your sense of scale is way off.

Plus there’s gonna be institutional knowledge whether you’re agricultural or not - eventually you’re going to see multiple eclipses, and eventually your tribe will have elders telling kids about them, and eventually someone will think to record when they happen and start being able to predict them.

Mar-a-Lager

Damn that’s a good one Trump could become a billionaire again if he sold this.

I don’t know why I felt compelled to look it up, it’s exactly as awful looking as it sounds.

And then setting the car they’re sitting in on fire.

I guess it’s a very specific fetish? But if so it’s extra gross because the character is like fourteen.

Your characters walk into a magic shop, but instead of buying magic items the shopkeeper offers to sell them scrolls of ownership. “There are infinite number of these scrolls,” he explains, “but they all use a decentralized mechanism to determine ownership!”

“Okay, I’ll buy one. Now where’s my +1 sword?” The fighter asks.

“The scrolls say that you own it” the shopkeeper unhelpfully reiterates. “And every other scroll will be updated to agree that you own it.”

I like this because then you can say that a non-worthy person can wield the hammer, if they’re stronger than Odin and can beat the enchantment. Magneto is probably on that level.

The trope probably goes back further than that, but yes.

I remember getting a trophy from being on a soccer team that lost every single match we played except one - and the one match we won was against another team that lost every single match they played except one of the two games that they played against us.

My mom displayed that shit. I took it down and threw it away in the night, don’t remember if she ever said anything about it.

I wasn’t even salty about being on the team. I was on a lot of sports teams, some that I hated and some that I had fun on, and that was one of the fun ones. I’d just rather remember hanging out with friends than losing almost every single saturday for three months.

AMERICANS BUY OPTIC AND FOREGRIP OF CHEAP DEPARTMENT STORE INSTEAD OF MANY CARTRIDGES OF PRACTICE. SOME BUY TWO HUNDRED RUBLE LASER AND TWO THOUSAND RUBLE NIGHT VISION GOGGLES SO THEY CAN PRETEND TO BE FASCIST MURDERER SPECIAL FORCES KILLING CIVILIANS OF DARK SKIN COLOR WHILE NOT ABLE TO HIT BROADEST SIDE OF BARN. AMERICAN MARKSMANSHIP HAS FALLEN FAR SINCE DAY OF MARINE CORPS TRAINED MARXIST PRESIDENTIAL ASSASSIN LEE HARVEY OSWALD.

I mean it’s a pretty typical wish fulfillment “the girl who is so pretty she intimidates everyone is actually extremely shy but she opens up to ME” so I can’t get too chuffed about it. I only sat down to read it once for about an hour and never went back.

The one that made me feel the way you describe is Nagatoro. Like my god man grow a fucking spine.

If ironic internet fans could get Morbius a second theater run, they could make this happen.

YIMBY logic is that the new apartments will depress prices in the older apartments, so even if it works the way they think it does (it doesn’t) it still has the baked-in assumption that poor people should live in lower-quality housing because they’re poor.

The one I remember is the one where the kid gets chiffed that his manager at the general store told off some girls for wearing swimwear in the store and quits his job.

Those are the rules when you’re occupied by a foreign military. Imagine if Russia had control over all of Ukraine - people in occupied Kyiv would be justified in attacking Russia, but Russia would not be justified in retaliating against the Ukrainians.

If Israel wants to make it so that the Palestinians don’t have every right to retaliate against them, they would have to end the occupation, the blockade, the settlements, etc.

I think they assumed that Israel wouldn’t be so bloodthirsty as to put the hostages at risk, which would give them a bargaining position so that once they weathered the initial retaliation they would be able to get concessions such as allowing Palestinians to leave Gaza, ending the blockade of Gaza’s ports, ending Israeli control of Gazan water sources, etc.

But as we’ve all learned since then the IDF has an explicit policy to kill Israeli civilians if it looks like they’re about to be captured, and Israel’s political leadership simply aren’t put off by the possibility of killing every single remaining hostage in their campaign to flatten Gaza.

Like all things it’s a spectrum. This conflict has been about 1% a war between Hamas and the IDF, and 99% the IDF indiscriminately killing civilians.

Israel is an occupying/besieging force and Hamas’ attack against them was justified morally, ethically, and under international law. Israel’s retaliation against the entire population of Gaza is completely unjustified, and completely illegal.