The fact that there’s new construction still happening in Miami is fucking wild to me. Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

Edit: I want to change that actually. It’s rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic while there’s still space on the life boats. It’s not like that construction labor and materials aren’t useful. We need to be building things. They just need to be in places that aren’t Miami.

Genuinely, as someone who has lived in Florida most of my life, the only positive about climate change is hopefully one day I can take a boat out to see the flooded ruins of my hometown and smile knowing that’s how it should be

“It’s much more difficult to fight a country with actual weapons than prisoners making rockets out of plumbing supplies”

When we saw stormtroopers for the first time and it actually felt like a threat I was so excited

Tbf I always thought Dishonored was specifically thinking about this fucking guy

Who did in fact suck dick

Our intrepid hero just watched as a group of rebels executed some of the tyrannical leader’s soldiers. They’re shocked! How could they do this? Don’t they know that killing is what the tyrant does? The rebels laugh it off. It had to be done, they would’ve done the same to them

A More Civilized Age discussed this exact point recently; There’s a very valid reason for resistance fighters to not take prisoners. One, keeping prisoners requires resources you may not have. But more importantly, the goals of a resistance group and the goals of the occupier are not the same.

As a resistance group your goal is not total military victory and occupation, your goal is to make continuing the occupation as painful and expensive as possible, to convince the occupying force that continued occupation isn’t worth it. Taking prisoners directly goes against this goal, unless you plan on using those prisoners as some sort of bargaining chip. Especially in a sci-fi setting where wounds can be healed quite quickly and thoroughly and so the wounded can be back in action very quickly.

And YES! They would have done the same to you! Without hesitation! And they still might try if you don’t kill them!

I’m looking at you, Avatar The Last Airbender

Spend the finale rightfully knocking Fire Nation airships out of the sky, killing everyone onboard, only to let Ozai live.

And that’s after Aang went fishing around for anyone that would tell him it was okay to spare Ozai because literally everyone around him including his past lives were like “No man you really gotta kill this guy”

As mid as that movie was it left such a great setup for a third movie and instead of letting Rian or even a third director stick the landing they gave it back to JJ to have a childlike tantrum and spend the first 20 minutes undoing the bits he didn’t like

The tacit acceptance of monarchism and aristocracy as normal and legitimate things

Something that I thought dealt with this well was The Magicians.

cybernetics makes you evil

I love Star Wars but this is so core to it and I hate it. “He’s more machine now than man; twisted and evil.”

I love theme parks partially because rides but also I just love looking at a carefully designed environment. The theming details but also the logistics. How do staff get around? How do they design queues, do they try to make it hard to see how much line is left?

Disney is particularly fun for this because they try to hide stuff out of sight so there are hidden doors or doors that look fake but actually go behind the scenes. Since covid Disney’s prices have fucking skyrocketed though it’s absurd.

I don’t really see how this can be true outside of parent companies dissolving studios and looting them for parts if they have one flop.

Like Arkane, the studios that made Dishonored, Prey, and Deathloop, some incredibly successful games especially for their budgets, didn’t go bankrupt when Redfall flopped, they were dissolved by Bethesda. If Bethesda hadn’t done anything they probably would’ve recovered from their one flop, and likely they wouldn’t have pushed it in that state in the first place without Bethesda’s influence.

It’s not that something has changed in the gaming market, it’s just like every other industry right now; The capitalists are stripping the copper out of the walls

The longer the war in Ukraine has gone on the more pro-Putin I’ve become

Oh my god I looked up this image after they mentioned it on the new AMCA and what the fuck

I am in no way a Yoda fan but why is he sucking toes and panting like a dog??

on the hunt for violent criminals

Should’ve looked in a mirror Jesus fucking Christ

When WW2 ended the unification of Germany was still in living memory. It would’ve been so reasonable to split it up. Like not into West and East Germany but into multiple actual separate states.

I absolutely despise cars but I can’t help but go “Ooooh” every time I see a corvette

“yeah but that was supposed to mean they stop doing any banking not that they do it without us”

I saw one irl for the first time today. They’re baffling to look at.

It looked wrong. It looks like a rendering error, or like someone put a car in that’s animated in a different style than the rest of reality. When you look at it you question if you’re living in the matrix because it looks like it doesn’t exist in our universe. Credit where credit’s due, it’s impressive they were able to make something look that strange.

Oh hell yeah that rules