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JohnEtrav posted...

Yes, if you can answer me these questions three

Thats the comic book guys response to Lisa when she asks him if she can sit by him on the bus.

I dont know how popular that line is in the actual wild but its been a staple of ours forever.

That's a slightly amended line from the Bridge of Death scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (hence why the nerdy Comic Store Guy is saying it).

It could also predate Holy Grail in some way shape or form, but Simpsons didn't invent that one.

HighSeraph posted...

Bethesda tends to write their previous MC's out of any followups so they'll probably just stated to have left the Mojave for whatever reasons

I heard that the Courier left Morrowind on an expedition to Akavir, and hasn't been heard from since.

Bethesda: "Best I can do is have the chicken-fucking snake oil salesman drop the 'theoretical physics' line at some point."

I'm gonna kill that Moltisanti kid. They didn't have flattops in Ancient Rome!

Sandalorn posted...

Imagine being called a pessimist for not thinking Donald Fucking Trump will follow the law.

It's like being called a pessimist for leaving your house when a CAT-5 hurricane is about to hit your area.

"You pessimist...just stay...everything will be fine!!!"

Are these people saying "everything's fine, quit worrying!" in the room with us right now?

And boy howdy did you pick a prize-winning analogy, considering that I've personally had to deal with / evacuate from several major hurricanes in my lifetime, have on several occasions had to work my ass off trying (and not always succeeding) to talk stubborn family members into evacuating, and have stared down the barrel of 'what's the fucking point' hopelessness after our house got flooded twice in the span of two weeks last year. Under that analogy, the advice from the "realists" in this topic who balk at being labeled pessimists would go as follows:

"Should we put up the storm shutters?"
"Meh, don't bother, the hurricane'll probably blow them off."
"Should we get some sandbags?"
"Whatever, the storm surge'll probably get higher than that."
"Should we put our belongings up on shelves in case floodwater gets in the house?"
"That's a waste of time, the hurricane'll just knock the whole house down."
"Should we load up what we can in the cars and drive to the other side of the state?"
"I wouldn't, you'll probably have a breakdown or get stuck in traffic."
*hurricane hits*
"Should we try to clean up the house as best we can and get the ball rolling on replacing the drywall?"
"Nah, fuck it, hopefully insurance will fix it or everything will eventually get better somehow."

monkmith posted...

whats more real then the fact that we took a child hungry pedophile, an admitted rapist, a man who committed treason when he tried to overthrow the election, and showed him that there are no consequences for his actions and yeah he can become president again?

what i find weird is the people screaming about pessimists all the time. that insult gets thrown around a lot by people that just keep ignoring reality. after all it was pessimistic to believe trump could actually beat hillary. it was pessimistic to believe that he wouldn't be held accountable for his criminal actions. it was pessimistic to believe he'd win again.

honestly i think its insane for people to keep looking at these situations, seeing the outcome that shows again and again that trump will never be held accountable by the current system, and continue to argue that "this time" it'll happen.

I don't have the time nor the inclination to personally apologize for all the eternal optimists out there who didn't recognize the very real threat of a 2nd Trump term and his skirting of the law at every turn, so I'll simply suggest that a realist accepts a bad situation, attempts to do what they can to manage it, and doesn't turn their nose at successes, however small, towards styming this regime's march to the bottom. Whereas a pessimist would suggest something like "if everyone accepts how hopeless the situation is than maybe that will somehow motivate everyone to collective action."

621 posted...

they just seem to really love self-pwns. anti-vax, tariffs, cutting government services that they rely on themselves, etc.

In ye olden days we'd call that "cutting off your nose to spite your face," and yes, the Republican mindset has devolved almost completely into being against a thing simply because Democrats are for it, no matter the personal cost.

legendary_zell posted...

I find it very frustrating when people can't even celebrate wins and just reflexively crap on anything good that happens.

This, ffs. I'd love to to see the Venn diagram between the "why isn't anyone fighting back?" crowd and the "whatever, Trump'll just ignore it, none of this matters" crowd.

monkmith posted...

people do this because they understand reality, that anything decided by a lower court will just get reversed by the supreme court. all this ends up being is a speed bump, in the meantime the grand recipients will fail because the money will still be contested and in the end the supreme court will just go back to sucking off trump with their pro-dictatorship decisions.

the system is broken and more and more people are accepting that fact. maybe it'll lead to action.

Pessimism almost always tries to sell itself as realism. Because as we all know, nothing makes for a better motivator than crippling despair and hopelessness.

Even the most gung-ho Texas NG member is going to get a serious case of "I didn't sign up for this shit" if they get deployed halfway across the country to a place they've been repeatedly told is a shithole for longer than a weekend.

This verdict is written on a cocktail napkin! And it still says 'guilty'! And 'guilty' is spelled wrong!

Would you still love me if I was a stapler?

Definitely, but not at release. Switch is my platform of choice, and it'll probably need a few patches to be playable; the original had a nasty framerate drop that pretty much made the Broken Vessel fight unwinnable until it got patched.

"Look at him, he's wearing a belt! That's Hollywood for ya."

LearntoRead posted...

Oh, in that case add everyone from the institute in Fallout 4.

Speaking as someone who frequently defends Fallout 4 and ends up siding with the Institute more often than not...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f6484381.jpg

Untitled Goose Game waddled so that Napoleduck could fly.

Vaan

gigageek1500 posted...

We've got this orange yogurt in the fridge that's past its expiration date and I thought we were going to throw it out and then while my roommates fought over whether to get vanilla or plain next I could just get a different brand, but then we read online that yogurt is still kind of OK after its expiration date so I guess we're keeping it :(

Did there happen to be a vanilla yogurt standing behind the orange yogurt that technically has a much better expiration date but will actually make you even more sick if you try it?

I didn't get to post the Yub Nub song. Which was a major bummer because I haven't heard the Yub Nub song in like thirty fucking years.

Darth Vader and Wicked Witch of the West are the only shoo-ins, the other two spots are very highly debatable.

ai123 posted...

Too many people can't resist conspiracy thinking.

Conspiracy theorizing isn't an all-or-nothing game: they range from the plausible (Epstein didn't kill himself) to the wildly implausible (the Earth is flat and world governments are conspiring to cover it up). Trump having a medical episode that his regime is desperately trying to hide would fall comfortably in the former camp.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

Not like the British pronunciation is any better

I'll do the Brits one better in annoyance factor and start pronouncing it jay-guh-ooh-ar.

Great game. The chief things that prevent it from taking my personal metroidvania crown are the ball-busting difficulty and the tone of the worldspace being rather one-note. In fact Hollow Knight is my go-to line in the sand for how much abuse I can take from a game and still enjoy it overall.

It would actually make a lot of sense to learn he's been phoning it in for the past half-decade at least. It's mystified me for years as to how he could go from being the most electrifying man in sports entertainment to the most boring man in action-movie stardom.

Honestly the Taskmaster thing reeks of meta influence: either the studio concluded that no one liked this version of the character and decided to simply off her for some "wait did that really just happen" shock points, or there were some behind-the-scenes issues with Olga Kurlyenko.

At that point I still wasn't sure whether or not I was vibing with the movie, so I was pretty indifferent to it.

But how can that hope to compare to the millions of Personal Freedoms that raw milk and vaccine bans save on a daily basis?

Seems to me like the simplest outcome is that Trump recently suffered a stroke which has left him more incoherent / incapacitated than even baseline Trump, and his handlers are hoping they can bide enough time for when / if he improves.

I guess we'll just have to see how this press conference today goes.

dummy420 posted...

Yippee kiyay Mr. Falcon.

You haven't lived until you've heard Donald Duck shout this while delivering a flying punch to a character actually named Falcon Graves.

I'm looking for my plumber, middle-aged guy, have you seen him?

"People always say to me - they come up to me with tears in their eyes and tell me - what an amazing secret agent I am. Greatest in the history of America. No one can keep a secret like me, no one ever knows my secret identity as Agent 700."

I live in SW Florida, where a fair number of people are just wealthy and stupid enough to blow their money on a five-figure impulse buy, so I've seen a few of them. I laugh audibly every time.

I chuckled sensibly for 3.26 seconds.

Narrator: "JD was not, in fact, prepared to run the country."

teep_ posted...

this was the plan all along

Please Lord, let the GOP / Heritage Foundation be so drunk with power that they actually believe they'll be able to maintain their current momentum with Trump out of the picture and Vance as the frontman, because that would be so fucking hilarious.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Bubblegum and Taffy

Skip to the sweet shop with your sweetheart Sandy?

Humble_Novice posted...

but won't DSA supporters and progressives sour on him for doing that?

You yourself can only hope, right?

realultimatepower.net

Look, you simply cannot observe the past decade of American politics and one man's gradual, insidious takeover and consolidation of an entire political party and believe that nothing would change upon his death.

Will the might of the GOP Empire topple instantly and we'll all be singing 'Yub Nub' beneath the fireworks before the day is done? Of course not. Does anyone currently in power in the GOP have the authority, popularity, and perpetual get-out-of-jail-free mystique necessary for long-term maintenance / growth of the GOP's current chokehold on power? Let's see...you've got a charisma-free couch-fucker, a slimy hyperreligious dweeb with a generic surname, a gaggle of incompetent clout-chasers who are already in waaaay over their heads with their current cabinet appointments...and not a one of them could command a dog to sit without daddy Trump at their back.

Holy mighty morphin' metal mouthpiece, Batman!

So easy to replace every instance of "same-sex" with "interracial" in that article to illustrate how full of shit Snoop is here.

MK8 finally managed to dethrone Double Dash for me. MK64 would be 3rd.

Dunno how widely known this fun fact is, but if you were like me and wondered "wait, did she really..?" at the beginning of the movie, Florence Pugh did actually make that jump off the skyscraper irl. Apparently she hounded the director / production for months to let her do it before they finally relented.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

No. It has Ice Hockey but no Blades of Steel

NSO has basically every classic 1st party Nintendo game you could want but is pretty lacking when it comes to 3rd party games.

Ah I see, that makes sense.

McMarbles posted...

8 -bit sports games? I feel you. And theres still Volleyball and Golf on the way.

Is Blades of Steel on there? That game was my jam as a wee lad (and I don't particularly like sports games).

Only if they don't like movies about gladiators.

I really liked it at the time, but haven't seen it since release and don't really feel the itch to remedy that.

I remember David Wenham's speech at the end being my favorite part of the movie, oddly enough.

What is real? If 'real' is what you can feel, smell, taste, and see, then no that shit ain't real.

PoopPotato posted...

She looks AI or something. Like a Bratz doll

She may look AI but she's actually cake.

Bucky in Sam's movie: "I love you, buddy."
Sam in Bucky's movie: sues his ass, can't even be arsed to make a cameo

Ivynn posted...

Still pretty wild how everyone is okay with Hawkgirl executing a head of state. >_>

Picture Luigi with wings, armor, and a giant fuck-off mace and you can kinda see how things would play out.

"Your Emperor is pleased to give you...THE BARBARIAN HORDE!!"

I dunno, just the way that actor delivers that like is so perfect that it's been imbedded in my brain for 20+ plus years.