Pratchett’s Discworld deserves the Marvel treatment. If I had a few billion, I’d be all in.
Reading selected novels for the 3rd pass. I get that much wouldn’t translate to screen, but plenty enough would. We have an abundance of genius in Hollywood to pull this off. Take LOTR and Harry Potter for fantasy examples.
Wouldn’t lag be an issue, given electronic attenuation, even at speed-of-light? Maybe not since drone pilots manage? Damned interesting thought you have.
120°F?! Where you at? Hottest day I’ve experienced in America was 118°F in Oklahoma, early 90s. Jesus, get outside and under water.
Maybe not so bad if it’s dry, but that’s a killer temp in humidity. And this is from a guy who works outside in Florida.
Imma punch my bird now and see how it works out!
…wife wasn’t amused, turned black and blue…
(Jesus fuck me that was tacky. I’ve been at work since 5:30AM, forgive?)
This is what happens when you punch Spock in the eyeball. Green blooded bastard.
Dice?
Vance doesn’t have the cult of personality, no one has it. If Vance takes over, it suddenly becomes OK to criticize his actions, and everything/everyone attached to him.
MAGA should be frothing at the mouth over Musk, but he’s Trump’s golden boy. Take Trump away, out come the pitchforks.
My Filipino wife is 1.5 meters, checks out.
Nope, know-how don’t get it. Refurbed a sweet box knife for my wife today. She wants to carry it, “just in case”. If I were attacking her, I’d smack that thing across the room. She couldn’t possibly threaten anyone with it. (Not at 100lbs. she can’t.)
If you carry, knowing how your gun works is only step 1. To actually carry you have to be able to use it on reflex alone. Friends and neighbors, that takes shitloads of practice. I wouldn’t carry her gun, not familiar with the pistol itself, nor SA/DA pistols nor the safety. My Ruger 9mm and Colt .45 are less practical in ways, but I can operate them in my sleep and hit what I point at.
You do get it! It’s the “great” part that screams elementary-school badass.
A more succinct way to put it: “I am a peaceful man. I am not harmless.”
And you’ll notice that real badasses are kind and patient. They know they can wreck your shit with their bare hands, got nothing to prove. LOL, I’m tiny, need an equalizer under my arm. But I never, ever, for ever never, talk shit.
Another thought along these lines; Carrying, let alone merely owning, a gun does not make one a badass, or even a threat. It’s kind of the opposite, in a weird way.
For example; My conceal carry instructor, MAGA 2A kinda dude, told it like this, “If you draw, you shoot to kill, because you’ve determined that whatever you’re trying to stop is worth 20-to-life in a concrete and steel cage, because that might be the outcome.” I’m much more careful where I go and what I do while carrying. Ironic, ain’t it?
Got a rebuttal? “Boot licker” counts around here, always a solid vote winner. You don’t have to say anything smart, at all, just level the accusation.
Of course WFH is often the better option, by far, but I’m saying the practice suffers from many of the same issues we’re talking about here.
I would have hoped that went without saying, but I was dumb when I was young, quite jobs with nothing lined up.
But being employed is much like having a girlfriend. When you have the extra self-confidence, and they know you’re wanted, your stock goes up.
I see a screaming ghost blasting out of the forehead. I think I need help.
You’re posting in lemmy. These people don’t get sarcasm unless you whack them in the head and explain the joke. They, uh, lack basic social skills, like, all of the skills.
Good to know I’m the problem. How’s that strategy working out for you? Driving up toxic masculinity numbers this month?
They Live. Watch that and you’ll suddenly get a whole lot of memes you never understood.
We got lied to so hard on cover art, it took decades to believe anything.
This site shows some top lies, and shows that Activision, didn’t lie so much.
That’s what people see and exactly why they think they got kicked up a whole tax bracket.
That quote may not be true, but American’s were certainly desperate enough. Having heard how mom and dad grew up in the Depression, and young adulthood in WWII, I laugh at GenZ thinking they have it bad.
“No. You have it bad compared to your parents and grandparents. Whine to their parents and let’s see how that plays out.”