Star Trek always struck me as having too much arbitrary skepticism to be a good example for that. “What you’re describing is impossible by our understanding of the laws of physics! Yes, I know that seventeen impossible things have already happened to us this month, but surely you must be wrong about this eighteenth impossible thing.”
The better show to get Isakaid into would be Stargate, where General Hammond would accept literally anything that the SG teams reported to him. Actual Episode:
Character: “There’s an invisible monster crawling on the Stargate that only I can see!”
Hammond: “Lockdown the base! Initiate a search. Scan for this creature on all frequencies!”
Though, in Star Gate they literally do establish that they are metaphorically cranking the gain on the detector way the eff up, and accepting a massive false positive rate.
Until they get the iris, they have a nuclear bomb counting down all the time whenever they get an off world activation.
Very metal, and also the sort of setting detail that on first inspection sounds like it does not make any sense at all. Statistically, why haven’t the SGC killed themselves by accident already?
Well, we eventually find out is that almost everything is down to the canonical timeline being an extremely improbable happy path. Which is specifically caused by Tau’ri time traveling, and in particular a significant amount of it is SG1 being that resiliant, thorough, and diligent.
For an ordinary SFF who is also not already an SG1 fan, and who did not travel the slow boiling like a pith frog route, it is reasonable to find this a big ask.
Anyway, my head canon is that you can just cross SG1 over with Campione, and understand that SG1 in particular have the insanity and luck that the Light Novels describe for Campione, but simply have not noticed, and also have not noticed the magical hidden world of the Campione setting.
The absolute best opening premise for a teevee show evah: “That gate that allows instantaneous interstellar travel? Yeah, it only goes one place because Daniel Jackson only found one address that ever did anything, even though the concept of addresses instead of just a ‘go’ button does imply multiple destinations now that I think about it…anyway, Col. O’Neill told us he nuked the other end of that one address, even though he came back alive and not irradiated, so I wonder how he knows for sure… anyway, it’s just a big relic guarded by four air police troopies on a boring detail playing cards…wait, what’s that sound?”
Note if rewatching you MUST suspend any part of your brain that knows anything about military rank, structure, or forms and courtesies, as that pilot episode will make you tear out your hair if you do not. It got better pretty fast.
At some point they got help from the USAF to get uniforms, procedures, etc. as accurate as possible.
Though supposedly (at least according to a general who guest starred on an episode) there are Colonels in the USAF who are stranger than O’Neill. Or worse? Something like that.
The Reader can absolutely confirm that there are a great many colonels in the USAF that are stranger than O’Neill. Although most of the stories he could tell are still classified.
Stargate Universe appeared to me to be the result of the people in charge of the franchise deciding to be inspired by the Moore Battlestar Galactica.
The result was completely out of character with what had come before.
Bleh.
But what I’m talking about is a brand new Stargate series that would basically reintroduce the franchise, probably with a time skip of around 15-20 years (i.e. the length of time since Atlantis went off the air). Originally, some of the people originally involved with SG-1 were working on it. But a few months ago (and possibly due to the influence of an executive recently brought in from Netflix), Amazon (which owns MGM, and thus the rights) shut it down. On Friday, word went out that the woman responsible for the shows “Wandavision”, “Agatha All Along”, and the movie “Black Widow”, had been given the responsibility of creating the new series. I don’t know how well Wandavision did (I only watched about half of it before ending my D+ subscription over Gina Carano’s firing), but I haven’t heard a single good thing about “Agatha All Along” (which was a backstory for the villain of Wandavision). And “Black Widow” didn’t do very well, either.
The fans, who were already unhappy over the cancellation of the previous work, are getting even more upset. There is considerable fear that the intent is to “make it more agreeable to the modern audience”. And I trust I don’t have to explain what that means.
I like and approve of Stargate Infinity much more than I do of Universe. Infinity was a cartoon with a teenage cast that is non-canon.
I did understand that Junior was repeating hearsay that is news to me, but made perfect sense as following the recent effort to reestablish the franchise on a sane footing.
Caroline Furlong, who we know, has in the past successfully communicated to me that she really dislikes WandaVision, and dislikes most of the MCU stuff that reuses the X-Men “House of M” storyline.
So, yes, bad choice of source material, but also the people who made it are perhaps significantly sus in their own right as storytellers not to see the problems. They may be skilled (or not) masons at working to bad designs on unsound footing, but that they did so says something.
Always looking forward to a Saturday spot of sarcasm. Thank you very much.
I realized some people are recognizing the war on the true, good and beautiful but the war on science fiction (and most literary efforts of the last 50 years) really showcases two major unrecognized campaigns: The War on Joy and the War on hope (including Hope). Thank you for what you have done to oppose these
Not sure of all, but I do recall Homer Snodgrass and Mortimer Dalrymple. And the fellow narrating who seemed to never be much involved was referred to as ‘Charlie’ once, that I remember.
But such women do exist. Heck, some women had fantasies about me back in the day, and I’m decidedly in the too weird to exist camp. Plus, Marco’s married. I’d lay odds that she had eyes for him, and still does.
Completely unrelated to his appearance, but I do remember part of why Mrs. Rubio finds him to be a keeper– he contracted a law firm to automatically challenge every speeding ticket they got issued.
(Slightly less insane than it sounds, apparently this is a big enough issue that there are subscriptions offered. Which is insane in a completely different direction.)
There was an auto-camera in a school zone with, er, itchy ability. Came out of a campaign smear, and I remember it because the placement and defense of the auto-ticket thing was so bad that they automatically won when contested by competent legal council.
The problem I have is not so much the existence of October Seven apologists, though many or all october seven apologists should probably be killed.
The problem I have is October seven apologists on American campuses, saying globalize the jihad, and explicitly drawing the line to land acknowledgements and to mass murder here. Including both advocating for the imperialist and colonalist mass murder of Americans here by Muslim invaders and for the ‘anti-imperialist’ and ‘anti-colonialist’ mass murder of Americans here by groups that also do not have the shooters to finish the job, and who instead do not want to play that game.
(Some Muslims want to play that game, nobody really has the shooters to pull it off as an actual win.)
Not only does it remove incentives for the public to allow universities to import scholars from Mid-East heavily Muslim countries, it raises doubts about importing scholars from almost all countries.
I mean, if you are talking about Japan alone for relatively sane foreign scholars, the American research enterprise has f&cked itself.
The universities are effectively talking about both sides of their mouths. On the one side, they are part of and for western civilization. On the other they are against it, and alone have the magical power to overturn it.
Americans don’t want to rape and behead the critical theory faculty, or the other activist apologists.
People who disdain critical thinking skills imagine their preferred utopia will spring, sua sponte, from the ashes and wreckage of the civilization they willingly fail to understand,
In regards to that cat on the raft (which is photoshopped), I remember a time at which we were on the beach, saw a rogue wave coming, and warned a bunch of people out of the way of the wash, including a picnicking group…
whose pet rabbit was playing a little bit up the bank and was therefore safe.
Because of course they’d bring a pet rabbit to a beach picnic, dontchaknow.
There’s a similar picture that I saw a few days ago. The boys weren’t in it, but it had Amelia, Luce (I think), and Frieren (who angers the Left because she’s very unapologetic about demons not being people, and her attitude that they should be killed on sight), sitting together on a bench and being joined by Malfoid.
I keep seeing Frieren and mentally rewriting it as “Freierin,” which is a German title of nobility. [Technically, Freifrau, but Freierin is also used in some accounts.]
(something that gets alluded to in the story; they travel for a bit with a bard who likes older women, and Frieren keeps teasing him with the detail that she’s centuries old)
There are 4 or 5 swords around here but I think some of my rifles with bayonet mounted would be first choice if I had to go primitive. not those flimsy modern things either, Mosin, G98 or Trapdoor Springfield.
I have one bayonet, and just one rifle with a mount, a DD that kind of hides it.
But I have several short-ish swords good for close range, and some longer 1-handers for longer, and a couple 2-handers for yet longer distance. All suitable for my 9 foot ceilings, no montante or zweihander.
And I have a decent collection of longish knives, with a slight concentration in Cold Steel.
And I have a spear and a repro viking-era shield, though not trained in those.
A bit of “explain it like I’m five” style context for two of the memes that are D&D/RPG related:
The Death playing D&D for someone’s soul strip is a direct steal from XKCD comic published shortly after Gary Gygax’s death ( https://xkcd.com/393/ ). If the person making it had just acknowledged their source, it would have been cool as XKCD has always been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic license.
The Jeremy Crawford “Get out there and defeat your bosses today” x/twitter exchange is likely a reference to the news that came out last week that Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro) employees working on Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering were forming a union. (Jeremy Crawford worked at WotC from 2007 to 2025 and was a lead designer on D&D 5E.)
If the meme artist were merely using an idea that was ‘in the world’, he would have been most unlikely to match the dialogue of the XKCD comic word for word. The expression is clearly plagiarized, even if the idea is in the public domain.
Non-memetic aside from the real world (pedantically, from the real solar system):
SPACE WEATHER ALERT: The planetary K-index has reached a level of 7. A strong G3-class geomagnetic storm is in progress. Updates: Spaceweather.com
Where to look: During G3 storms, auroras may be visible as far south as Illinois and Oregon. In the southern hemisphere, watch from Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand. Get away from city lights and look toward the pole; give your eyes 15 minutes to adapt.
As much respect as I have for John Wayne, I kinda doubt that he was buying houses for Vietnam War vets the year that the Korean War started.
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Remember, you can’t spell “Douchebag” without “Che” . . .
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The Double Tap is only for people who can shoot. Otherwise, if you can’t shoot well, shoot a lot.
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The people screaming today that Trump is endangering LA by suggesting that Iran would nuke the place were screaming a few days ago that Iran doesn’t have nukes.
And they were sure quiet when Joe threatened to bomb American gun owners . . .
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They should make the Fort Hood fool watch them rolling the firing squad’s ammo in bacon grease, and show that video at the start of the livestream.
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Gavin is ashamed because he knows that a SUCCESSFUL Fascist makes the trains run on time.
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The gal in the bus is close, but THE ONE wouldn’t have an AK. She might have a K2, and if she’s got a FAL Para, we’re transferring to the bus that drops us off at the Justice of the Peace . . .
of course. Not disputing events, though apparently there isn’t a record of this online. (I didn’t check. Too good to check) I meant the meme might be slightly off. it’s a meme.
Since I don’t know how to post images in comments anymore, here’s A url link the best thing I’ve seen on the Gavin Newsome – Gul Dukat lookalike comparisons:
Yeah, there’s no way the Cardassians would have not finished a frelling 494 mile long rail line. The number of dead Bajorans would be large and irrelevant, but the railroad would be finished on schedule.
Note for Sarah (or Holly, either one) – I think you could start doing two memedays a week for an easier time of it. Dan hit it out of the park, into the lot, and broke somebody’s windshield with the new process!
On other note – I’m saving the cat on the ninth green meme. If I am given a choice for my reincarnation…
Huge batch here…I liked Star Trek Isekai alot but 45/47 describing death on a pale horse was also funny.
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Star Trek always struck me as having too much arbitrary skepticism to be a good example for that. “What you’re describing is impossible by our understanding of the laws of physics! Yes, I know that seventeen impossible things have already happened to us this month, but surely you must be wrong about this eighteenth impossible thing.”
The better show to get Isakaid into would be Stargate, where General Hammond would accept literally anything that the SG teams reported to him. Actual Episode:
Character: “There’s an invisible monster crawling on the Stargate that only I can see!”
Hammond: “Lockdown the base! Initiate a search. Scan for this creature on all frequencies!”
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Though, in Star Gate they literally do establish that they are metaphorically cranking the gain on the detector way the eff up, and accepting a massive false positive rate.
Until they get the iris, they have a nuclear bomb counting down all the time whenever they get an off world activation.
Very metal, and also the sort of setting detail that on first inspection sounds like it does not make any sense at all. Statistically, why haven’t the SGC killed themselves by accident already?
Well, we eventually find out is that almost everything is down to the canonical timeline being an extremely improbable happy path. Which is specifically caused by Tau’ri time traveling, and in particular a significant amount of it is SG1 being that resiliant, thorough, and diligent.
For an ordinary SFF who is also not already an SG1 fan, and who did not travel the slow boiling like a pith frog route, it is reasonable to find this a big ask.
Anyway, my head canon is that you can just cross SG1 over with Campione, and understand that SG1 in particular have the insanity and luck that the Light Novels describe for Campione, but simply have not noticed, and also have not noticed the magical hidden world of the Campione setting.
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“Until they get the iris…”
The absolute best opening premise for a teevee show evah: “That gate that allows instantaneous interstellar travel? Yeah, it only goes one place because Daniel Jackson only found one address that ever did anything, even though the concept of addresses instead of just a ‘go’ button does imply multiple destinations now that I think about it…anyway, Col. O’Neill told us he nuked the other end of that one address, even though he came back alive and not irradiated, so I wonder how he knows for sure… anyway, it’s just a big relic guarded by four air police troopies on a boring detail playing cards…wait, what’s that sound?”
Note if rewatching you MUST suspend any part of your brain that knows anything about military rank, structure, or forms and courtesies, as that pilot episode will make you tear out your hair if you do not. It got better pretty fast.
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At some point they got help from the USAF to get uniforms, procedures, etc. as accurate as possible.
Though supposedly (at least according to a general who guest starred on an episode) there are Colonels in the USAF who are stranger than O’Neill. Or worse? Something like that.
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The Reader can absolutely confirm that there are a great many colonels in the USAF that are stranger than O’Neill. Although most of the stories he could tell are still classified.
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And now we have news that a sequel series has been handed off to the same woman who made such “hits” as ‘Wandavision’, and ‘Agatha All Along’.
The Stargate fans are not pleased.
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Like Stargate Universe? Never got into that one.
Liked SG1, even with the weird detours with the replicators and Ori, and SG-Atlantis.
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I found Stargate Universe to be a slog, and decided not to suffer through the whole thing. Apparently most of the audience agreed.
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Stargate Universe appeared to me to be the result of the people in charge of the franchise deciding to be inspired by the Moore Battlestar Galactica.
The result was completely out of character with what had come before.
Bleh.
But what I’m talking about is a brand new Stargate series that would basically reintroduce the franchise, probably with a time skip of around 15-20 years (i.e. the length of time since Atlantis went off the air). Originally, some of the people originally involved with SG-1 were working on it. But a few months ago (and possibly due to the influence of an executive recently brought in from Netflix), Amazon (which owns MGM, and thus the rights) shut it down. On Friday, word went out that the woman responsible for the shows “Wandavision”, “Agatha All Along”, and the movie “Black Widow”, had been given the responsibility of creating the new series. I don’t know how well Wandavision did (I only watched about half of it before ending my D+ subscription over Gina Carano’s firing), but I haven’t heard a single good thing about “Agatha All Along” (which was a backstory for the villain of Wandavision). And “Black Widow” didn’t do very well, either.
The fans, who were already unhappy over the cancellation of the previous work, are getting even more upset. There is considerable fear that the intent is to “make it more agreeable to the modern audience”. And I trust I don’t have to explain what that means.
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I like and approve of Stargate Infinity much more than I do of Universe. Infinity was a cartoon with a teenage cast that is non-canon.
I did understand that Junior was repeating hearsay that is news to me, but made perfect sense as following the recent effort to reestablish the franchise on a sane footing.
Caroline Furlong, who we know, has in the past successfully communicated to me that she really dislikes WandaVision, and dislikes most of the MCU stuff that reuses the X-Men “House of M” storyline.
So, yes, bad choice of source material, but also the people who made it are perhaps significantly sus in their own right as storytellers not to see the problems. They may be skilled (or not) masons at working to bad designs on unsound footing, but that they did so says something.
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Oh, Wonderful! Call it
“Stargate: Found the codes for Hell”
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Another Campione fan!
And yes, that makes sense. Especially given SG-1 have killed “gods”….
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“The things I’ve seen from this chair…” -Hammond
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Stolen from Ace. Too good not to steal.
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“Needs salt.” 😛
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Always looking forward to a Saturday spot of sarcasm. Thank you very much.
I realized some people are recognizing the war on the true, good and beautiful but the war on science fiction (and most literary efforts of the last 50 years) really showcases two major unrecognized campaigns: The War on Joy and the War on hope (including Hope). Thank you for what you have done to oppose these
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The giant duck in the lake is giving me vibes of a Mad Scientist Club short story: “The Loch Ness Monster of Strawberry Lake” or something like that.
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The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake (1960)
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Thanks!
(ooo! WordPress upgrade improved cookie storage or something!)
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Now I’m trying to remember the names of the characters, but the only ones I could recall were Dinky Poore and Harmon Muldoon.
(My favorite story was the one where they built the helium-filled flying saucer!)
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Not sure of all, but I do recall Homer Snodgrass and Mortimer Dalrymple. And the fellow narrating who seemed to never be much involved was referred to as ‘Charlie’ once, that I remember.
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ROFLMAO! Are women having fantasies about Marco Rubio?
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Not me. He looks like Older Son’s older brother. it would be WEIRD.
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But such women do exist. Heck, some women had fantasies about me back in the day, and I’m decidedly in the too weird to exist camp. Plus, Marco’s married. I’d lay odds that she had eyes for him, and still does.
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Completely unrelated to his appearance, but I do remember part of why Mrs. Rubio finds him to be a keeper– he contracted a law firm to automatically challenge every speeding ticket they got issued.
(Slightly less insane than it sounds, apparently this is a big enough issue that there are subscriptions offered. Which is insane in a completely different direction.)
There was an auto-camera in a school zone with, er, itchy ability. Came out of a campaign smear, and I remember it because the placement and defense of the auto-ticket thing was so bad that they automatically won when contested by competent legal council.
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Word Press Must Die!
I can’t find the box to click (ie Word Press doesn’t want me to see the comments via email).
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SFBS!
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I laughed out loud at the Maria Carey/Sabaton mashup. “The Christmas Truce” is one of my (many) favorite Sabaton songs.
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The problem I have is not so much the existence of October Seven apologists, though many or all october seven apologists should probably be killed.
The problem I have is October seven apologists on American campuses, saying globalize the jihad, and explicitly drawing the line to land acknowledgements and to mass murder here. Including both advocating for the imperialist and colonalist mass murder of Americans here by Muslim invaders and for the ‘anti-imperialist’ and ‘anti-colonialist’ mass murder of Americans here by groups that also do not have the shooters to finish the job, and who instead do not want to play that game.
(Some Muslims want to play that game, nobody really has the shooters to pull it off as an actual win.)
Not only does it remove incentives for the public to allow universities to import scholars from Mid-East heavily Muslim countries, it raises doubts about importing scholars from almost all countries.
I mean, if you are talking about Japan alone for relatively sane foreign scholars, the American research enterprise has f&cked itself.
The universities are effectively talking about both sides of their mouths. On the one side, they are part of and for western civilization. On the other they are against it, and alone have the magical power to overturn it.
Americans don’t want to rape and behead the critical theory faculty, or the other activist apologists.
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I can’t imagine wanting to have intimate relations with the critical theory faculty, consensual or otherwise. Beheading them, on the other hand… 😛
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I’m maybe projecting, but I think most Americans would rather just livestream a firing squad.
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Strange:
People who disdain critical thinking skills imagine their preferred utopia will spring, sua sponte, from the ashes and wreckage of the civilization they willingly fail to understand,
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The worse, the better has been their slogan for a long time.
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https://i.imgflip.com/b35vvt.jpg
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In regards to that cat on the raft (which is photoshopped), I remember a time at which we were on the beach, saw a rogue wave coming, and warned a bunch of people out of the way of the wash, including a picnicking group…
whose pet rabbit was playing a little bit up the bank and was therefore safe.
Because of course they’d bring a pet rabbit to a beach picnic, dontchaknow.
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Could be worse. They could bring their rabbit to a barbecue… 😜
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Who’s the audience for that fish/eagle meme? They felt the need to explain the person in the fish costume was a person? Oy vey….
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The same folks who drive the view counts for all those ‘explain the ending of random show/movie/book’ videos.
You know. Morons.
https://images.ctfassets.net/m3qyzuwrf176/3zStX82Z8g5pTqmijzrwfD/58812dfd99333a57a2337ddf83111394/Mar26_BLAZING_SADDLES_OscarSundays2-banner.jpg
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Aaaaand the new comment box does not like jpg urls anymore. WPDE.
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RE: Picture of Malfoid and Amelia –
There’s a similar picture that I saw a few days ago. The boys weren’t in it, but it had Amelia, Luce (I think), and Frieren (who angers the Left because she’s very unapologetic about demons not being people, and her attitude that they should be killed on sight), sitting together on a bench and being joined by Malfoid.
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I keep seeing Frieren and mentally rewriting it as “Freierin,” which is a German title of nobility. [Technically, Freifrau, but Freierin is also used in some accounts.]
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Well, both are pretty old…
^^;;
(something that gets alluded to in the story; they travel for a bit with a bard who likes older women, and Frieren keeps teasing him with the detail that she’s centuries old)
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Vlad had the right idea.
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Funny how quickly they give up on Jihad when you start impaling them.
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Bad neighbors make good fences.
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Modded for the text of a meme. Life is good.
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I have the “pale horse” kitty tee-shirt. Since it is a Scripture reference, the admins at Day Job just sigh when I wear it on dressy-casual days.
The eyebrows are rather scary. They also show how little self-awareness some people have of how they look to others.
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It’s the Botox dead zone in the middle that reinforces their uncannyvalleyness.
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“Uncannyvalleyality”?
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I told her that her eyebrows were too high.
She looked surprised.
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The one about the wrong ‘Tism is gold!
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“Buy **A** sword” ? I think I’m at 25, most with co-ordinated daggers.
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I went to LibertyCon this year and brought back a tee-shirt, some books, and a practice saber. Because why not?
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I’m more of an ax guy, myself, but I could compromise on some polearms and/or maces and hammers.
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There are 4 or 5 swords around here but I think some of my rifles with bayonet mounted would be first choice if I had to go primitive. not those flimsy modern things either, Mosin, G98 or Trapdoor Springfield.
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I have one bayonet, and just one rifle with a mount, a DD that kind of hides it.
But I have several short-ish swords good for close range, and some longer 1-handers for longer, and a couple 2-handers for yet longer distance. All suitable for my 9 foot ceilings, no montante or zweihander.
And I have a decent collection of longish knives, with a slight concentration in Cold Steel.
And I have a spear and a repro viking-era shield, though not trained in those.
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Let’s all discuss this at Buc-ee’s.LOL
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I actually dated a girl in this week’s meme roundup…
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I’m sorry!
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Nah, not a meme girl. An actual girls quoted in this thread…
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Also, XKCD originally did the Death D&D joke:
<img src=”https://www.explainxkcd.com/w/images/c/c9/ultimate_game.png“>
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A bit of “explain it like I’m five” style context for two of the memes that are D&D/RPG related:
The Death playing D&D for someone’s soul strip is a direct steal from XKCD comic published shortly after Gary Gygax’s death ( https://xkcd.com/393/ ). If the person making it had just acknowledged their source, it would have been cool as XKCD has always been released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic license.
The Jeremy Crawford “Get out there and defeat your bosses today” x/twitter exchange is likely a reference to the news that came out last week that Wizards of the Coast (Hasbro) employees working on Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering were forming a union. (Jeremy Crawford worked at WotC from 2007 to 2025 and was a lead designer on D&D 5E.)
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1) Or, hear me out, the idea might have been in the world, and xkcd made it from that. (Many such cases.)
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If the meme artist were merely using an idea that was ‘in the world’, he would have been most unlikely to match the dialogue of the XKCD comic word for word. The expression is clearly plagiarized, even if the idea is in the public domain.
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Okay. Sorry. I don’t memorize XKCD. Obviously neither did the person who sent it to me.
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And some of us are so out of touch that we don’t even know what XKCD refers to…………… Why yes, I am a dinosaur.
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Non-memetic aside from the real world (pedantically, from the real solar system):
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As much respect as I have for John Wayne, I kinda doubt that he was buying houses for Vietnam War vets the year that the Korean War started.
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Remember, you can’t spell “Douchebag” without “Che” . . .
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The Double Tap is only for people who can shoot. Otherwise, if you can’t shoot well, shoot a lot.
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The people screaming today that Trump is endangering LA by suggesting that Iran would nuke the place were screaming a few days ago that Iran doesn’t have nukes.
And they were sure quiet when Joe threatened to bomb American gun owners . . .
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They should make the Fort Hood fool watch them rolling the firing squad’s ammo in bacon grease, and show that video at the start of the livestream.
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Gavin is ashamed because he knows that a SUCCESSFUL Fascist makes the trains run on time.
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The gal in the bus is close, but THE ONE wouldn’t have an AK. She might have a K2, and if she’s got a FAL Para, we’re transferring to the bus that drops us off at the Justice of the Peace . . .
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He might have been buying houses for veterans, including Vietnam ones….
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Unfortunately, a quick search online indicates that there’s no evidence supporting it, suggesting that it probably didn’t happen.
Ah, well.
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AW!
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The meme says that he did it from 1950 – 1979.
I have no doubt that he did this, just that he started doing so before US involvement in Viet Nam.
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of course. Not disputing events, though apparently there isn’t a record of this online. (I didn’t check. Too good to check) I meant the meme might be slightly off. it’s a meme.
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Since I don’t know how to post images in comments anymore, here’s A url link the best thing I’ve seen on the Gavin Newsome – Gul Dukat lookalike comparisons:
https://x.com/MW45142973/status/2105336418788642833?s=20
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You can call Gul Dukat evil, but he’s not stupid, incompetent and oblivious.
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Yeah, there’s no way the Cardassians would have not finished a frelling 494 mile long rail line. The number of dead Bajorans would be large and irrelevant, but the railroad would be finished on schedule.
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Maybe one twin didn’t get enough air during birth . . .
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Not to mention when Bang-Bang Fang-Fang Swalwell bragged about how the government has nukes and all you 2nd Amendment clingers don’t.
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Great crop this week. I laughed out loud at the first day of school as a student and teacher meme.
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Reference the Three Little Pigs’ front door — does anyone remember this PSA?
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She may well be “The One.” and you may “Just Know.” but if she doesn’t adjut her rear sight correctly she’s never going to hit a damn thing.
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LOL
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Knew there was a trick
https://ace.mu.nu/picture%20of%20dog%20sal.jpg
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Note for Sarah (or Holly, either one) – I think you could start doing two memedays a week for an easier time of it. Dan hit it out of the park, into the lot, and broke somebody’s windshield with the new process!
On other note – I’m saving the cat on the ninth green meme. If I am given a choice for my reincarnation…
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That void, yeah.
Cat vs. Halloween blimp. No contest!
Who did that with straw? That’s awesome!
This is why we don’t stop trolleys….
Hellfire achieved!
Non-hugger speaking: Accurate.
Bet that eagle was so disappointed….
I want that future with “not yet to Alpha Centauri”.
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You have power!
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Got it back just a few hours ago, yes. Hot meal… hot shower to come….
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Going to collage OK for a visual artist.
Minimalist street art +1.
Sometimes that potato takes the form of Vodka.
Who walks stairs that way? Cue the Ministry of Silly Walks.
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