Mirshe

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Mirshe,

Russia has already started to try to find new sources of conscripts - estimates peg that between 40 to as much as 75% of the originally eligible are dead or got the hell outta Dodge. This is potentially why they just criminalized homosexuality - “you’re gay, you either go to prison for life (where you will likely be killed) or you get conscripted. Your choice”. Shit, they asked North Korea of all places for soldiers.

Mirshe,

G’Kar and Kira sharing war stories.

Mirshe,

I had my manager try to call me in while I was on the other side of the country. He tried to tell me I hadn’t informed him of my vacation, so I sent him the picture and emails where I had listed my vacation in the scheduler. Then he told me I was lying, so I sent him a selfie of me in front of Fort Yellowstone.

Mirshe,

Basically this. Since the captaincy was decided democratically, you don’t want to get people hurt or killed - your own or the ship you’re boarding. So what do you do? Act terrifying as hell, and make literally everyone you interact with THINK you’re going to butcher them into tiny pieces. It helps when you’re at least six inches, and more likely a foot taller than most any other sailor (Blackbeard was over 6 feet, most seamen were under 5’8 because of a variety of factors).

Mirshe,

Part of that is because their mission statement isn’t literally regarded as radical anymore. When Sesame Street launched, and really up through the early 90s, it was radically progressive to have a kid’s show that tried to teach kids things, and more specifically targeted inner-city kids by using surroundings they would be familiar with. Most of us grew up with Sesame Street just being on the air normally, and most of us here didn’t live through the Senate hearings on public television. It’s a minor miracle shows like Sesame Street and Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood are regarded as mainstream and boring now.

Mirshe,

I want an entire show about Admiral Vance, because I’m in love with Oded Fehr’s voice.

Mirshe,

Technically none for the first season or two when they were using the P90. FN didn’t make blank 5.7mm stateside yet, so the armorers were buying regular ammo and converting it to blank ammo.

Mirshe,

I agree with both Patrick Stewart and Johnathan Frakes when they say that Galaxy Quest is the best Star Trek movie ever made.

Mirshe,

As far as I know, Wolverine would survive this. He might not be conscious until he reenters an atmosphere conducive to human life, but the Hulk has survived being thrown into space many times.

Mirshe,

Nah, we don’t need any of your pansy “safety factors”.

Mirshe,

“Time for It To Come Home for Christmas” sounds vaguely ominous.

Mirshe,

Or you have a golden parachute clause so you leave with $3.6mil as everything burns around you.

Mirshe,

“You’re welcome on my ship. God ain’t.”

Mirshe,

TBH, O’brien’s been on the Enterprise long enough to know that when weird, seemingly powerful creatures start talking to you, you should be very, very careful. Even if they present themselves as storybook characters.

Mirshe,

I thought it was the one like Babylon 5.

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Mirshe,

And like 40 other characters from every piece of media ever. He was Long Feng in Avatar (there is no war in Ba Sing Se), he was Rawhide in Buckaroo Banzai, Parallax, Taskmaster, Surtur (from Thor: Ragnarok), Sergeant Zim (the DI) in Starship Troopers…

Mirshe,

It reminds me of Groverhaus.

Mirshe,

First rule of fixing things that can kill you: power it off. Before you do anything, power it off. Then, check again to make sure it’s powered off. Maybe check a third time just to be ABSOLUTELY sure. Put a physical blockage on whatever you need to so it can’t be powered on while you’re working on it - zip tie the breaker open, throw the power cord over a pipe or under the machine, hit the knife-switch on the side of the machine in addition to throwing the breaker, whatever you need to.

Hell, if you need to, get your coworker to stand there and yell at anyone trying to turn the thing back on. That’s how we did it when anyone had to fix the cardboard baler at my old grocery store - power off at wall, power off at baler, and at least one, preferably two people watching to make sure nobody did anything stupid.

Mirshe,

Shit, entry-level cars still run you $20k or better in the US, and that’s without any options. I just had to price a new car last year and literally nothing new was on the market in my area for less than $25k. Your old Toyota Tercel that you bought for $6k in the 80s doesn’t exist anymore. That brand-new Camry that’ll run for 30 years and only costs $12k is now double that, at least.

Mirshe,

Sulu: I’ll protect you, fair maiden.

Uhura: Sorry, neither.

Mirshe,

Though especially in states with abortion bans, people are working to challenge this.

Mirshe,

It is, Marui actually markets it as LLENN’s gun.

Mirshe,

To quote my favorite podcaster, “mental illness is not your FAULT, but it is your RESPONSIBILITY.”

Mirshe,

Don’t forget the part where he had to watch most of his friends die in an alternate timeline because he accidentally touched a thing.

Mirshe,

You also don’t own the picture. You own the space on the blockchain that points to that picture, maybe.

Mirshe,

Unarmored, unarmed except for what you can reasonably hide. You all bought at least 1 dagger over the course of your campaign, right?

Mirshe,

Also if you seem too knowledgeable on pesky things like labor rights.

Mirshe,

That’s simply poor route planning, which could be solved by better bus funding, leading to more buses with more stops and more frequent trips.

Mirshe,

I mean, I get it from one angle - Gollum is one of the longest lived characters in LOTR. The issue is that even being 500 years old, he doesn’t really witness or interact with it all that much. Someone like Galadriel or Aragorn or Gandalf would be far more interesting.

Mirshe,

Poor goldfinches.

Mirshe,

Basically this. If they had slowed down releases, even added new songs as updates or micro DLC packs in between, I think they’d have had something that would’ve worked for years. It was incredibly popular because the variety of play was big and the controls for each position were pretty basic enough to the point that anyone could pick up any position and play.

However, everyone had to have their own version inside of a year. DJ hero, American Idol games, every major band of the last 50 years got their own branded version of Rock Band, etc. It burnt the market out like the Great Awakening.

Mirshe,

Don’t forget that he’s potentially permanently brain fried thanks to his cold-turkey medical coma detox.

Mirshe,

I imagine the easily recognized Borg were easier for networks to swallow than “the enemy is a bunch of parasites that are almost undetectable.”

Mirshe,

And after that, most of the “good” admirals we meet are commanding their own ships still.

Mirshe,

Goddamn I love that episode.

Mirshe,

twist tie collection

Are you a crow?

What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved?

I’ve been recently been thinking about Arkane Studio’s Prey which is a immersive sim, with a pretty good rogue like dlc, that probably has one of the strongest hooks of any game I’ve played. If you liked Halflife, System Shock, or Deus Ex it’s definitely worth a play....

Mirshe,

They were supposed to have a whole series IIRC, but the contract got cancelled because the initial offering didn’t sell very well. It didn’t help that the marketing didn’t really know how they wanted to talk about the game.

Mirshe,

Everyone had a plan for “what if a Jedi boards your ship”. Nobody had a plan for “what if a Jedi gets his semi mythical space whale friends to jack your entire fleet like they’re the repo man and you just missed a payment”.

Mirshe,

My 6-year-old niece was shocked to learn I knew all about My Little Pony.

Mirshe,

Nobody’s mentioned it yet, so I’ll suggest Well There’s Your Problem. It’s a podcast about engineering disasters, with slides.

Mirshe,

There’s a third party supplement I use for upgrading weapons called Ancestral Weapons. Basically, you get predetermined amounts of points to spend on upgrades that make the weapon better at certain things or entire certain abilities. As you level up the weapon by hitting predetermined milestones established by the player and DM (i.e. slay a high ranking follower of Asmodeus with Grandpa Paladin’s gun), you gain more points and the levels of upgrades you can unlock get higher. It’s fairly elegant overall and lets you shape the weapon as you go, rather than having to decide what everything can do up front.

Mirshe,

The school’s reasoning is “well if he ever took them down he’d be in violation, so he’s in violation regardless”.

Mirshe,

She claimed that she couldn’t see the tracks and didn’t know that they were there, despite walking across the rails something like 7-8 times in the dash video.

Mirshe,

I think my school taught about Custer and that was about the extent of “oh by the way we did horrible things to the native population”.

Mirshe,

I thought they were busy going after people for decade-old ROM hacks.

Mirshe,

The simple fact that Gates’ school even HAD a computer HE COULD RESERVE TIME ON for a personal project really highlights how much wealth he had access to. Gates was never super rich growing up, but he and the rest had access to privileges few had in those days because of the wealth they had access to.

Mirshe,

And back when your boss might actually also be the owner of the company - especially through the 50s and 60s, the person you worked for in the factory very likely could OWN that factory, and so having a decent relationship with them made it easier to approach them with modifications that might make a worker’s day easier, without the hostility of a strike.

Now, since every company is basically owned by some conglomerate, looking to sell to some conglomerate, or is about to get swallowed by some conglomerate, things like “labor relations” are dead. You can’t talk directly to your boss about maybe making sure the factory line has proper guards in place, because the guy who he has to talk to in order to make that decision is having brunch in Paris or meeting with some world leader today. Even if they could, the company bean counters already ran a cost-benefit analysis that showed that the loss of limbs and the payouts and fines they’d deal with for having no guards in place would only be 34% of the profit they’d make from increased production capability or whatever.

Mirshe,

Shit, if I missed my rent by a day, my old landlord would have an eviction notice on my door by 6AM the next morning.

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