[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 3 hours ago

It was a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 3 hours ago

Classic kitchen employee right there.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 hours ago

The Emperor probably should have talked to all his kids.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 6 hours ago

I always enjoyed the story of 2. Origins and 3 both fall for the same story beats aka "You are the Chosen One. Only you can save the World."

Origins, you are the last of the Grey Wardens in Felderen. Only you can reunite everyone to stop the Blight.

3, only you can close the rifts, reunite everyone, and stop the Big Bad guy.

In 2n Varic actively mocks that in the beginning. Hawke is portrayed as the Chosen One. When challenged, Varic admits that he made it up. Hawke is a nobody in beginning, only kicks start the mage and templar war because of the people that they associated started everything. Cough Anders Cough Hawke really just stumbles from adventure to adventure because of their companions.

It's a story about unintended consequences and how small events can lead into big events.

2's biggest failure was the over use of the same assets. The is cave/house/ruin is the same layout all the other cave/house/ruin. It was fine when it made narrative sense however that it is only for a minority of the time.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 points 6 hours ago

The audience is going to get a pack of smokes/some milk. Just like my Dad was going to do, 29 years ago.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 17 hours ago

Todd Akin, Missouri’s Republican Senate candidate, sparked controversy with a claim, made in a TV interview posted Sunday, that victims of “legitimate rape” very rarely get pregnant because their bodies prevent them from doing so.

Speaking to Charles Jaco on the Jaco Report on St. Louis’s Fox station, Akin was answering a question about allowing abortions in the case of rape. He said, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/akin-legitimate-rape-victims-dont-get-pregnant-079864

Todd Akin did apologize and then decided to make it worse.

In July 2014, WND Books published Akin's book, Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom. In it, he said that he regretted apologizing, because "by asking the public at large for forgiveness, I was validating the willful misinterpretation of what I had said." He also defended his original comments and attacked various Republicans for "wronging" him...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin#Aftermath

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 18 hours ago

Fuck. I lost it too.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 20 hours ago

All that we are is dust in the wind.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 21 points 20 hours ago

It's good to know where you have a bathroom.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 27 points 20 hours ago

All I remember is that piece of shit Rush Limbaugh is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA.

Very useful information to know.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 22 hours ago

Filibusting senators don't even do that anymore. All the senator has to do is send an email saying that they will filibust.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 34 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Elon is the prefect example of how little actual work a CEO does.

  • CEO of SpaceX - Elon Musk
  • Chairman and CTO of Twitter - Elon Musk
  • CEO of Telsa - Elon Musk
  • President of Musk Foundation - Elon Musk
  • CEO of xAI - Elon Musk

What does Elon do all day? Be a piece of a shit on Twitter. If CEO work was so demanding, there would be no way Elon would be the CEO of three different companies, chairman of the Board and CTO of one company, and a president of a "charitable" organization.

Reporting by The New York Times found that in 2022, the Musk Foundation gave away $230 million less than the minimum required by law to maintain tax-deductible status, and that in 2021 and 2022 over half the foundation's funds went to causes connected to Musk, his family, or his businesses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Musk_Foundation

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This week, the prime minister is in Italy breaking bread with Giorgia Meloni, a leader who came to power at the head of a party built in the aftermath of World War II to maintain the legacy of Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism. Starmer says he wants to learn from and cooperate with Meloni’s approach to migration.

It gets worse. Starmer and his foreign secretary, David Lammy, have also signaled that they will look to European arrangements with Libya and Syria for inspiration.

The promise of social democrats and liberals was that they would restore decency to politics, not take policy tips from far-right governments. Rather than repeating the previous government’s strategy of migrant-baiting and brutality — which was a factor in mobs attempting to burn down people seeking asylum only weeks ago — Starmer should use his majority to chart a different course: one that meets our obligations to protect, rather than harm, people seeking safety and does not attempt to divide us by where we were born.

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Photo of a couple with one of them wearing a black t-shirt that says "I'm very vulnerable right now if any goth girls would like to take advantage of me.

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A photograph of Ernie smiling quite happily. Ernie is holding a plant.

Text underneath says I like to use my victims as fertilizer to grow small plants, which I then send to the victim's family as a condolence present. Most people neglect potted plants they receive as gifts. So, in a way, it's like they're letting their children die all over again.

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Driving the news: The high court voted 8-1 in favor of Starbucks in a case the company filed against the National Labor Relations Board involving the so-called Memphis 7, a group of unionizing workers who said they were unlawfully fired after they appeared in a TV news segment.

  • Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's effectively become the court's lone labor supporter, wrote the dissent.

  • The decision will make it harder for the NLRB, the agency that administers the national labor law, to go after employers for violating its rules.

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Driving the news: The high court voted 8-1 in favor of Starbucks in a case the company filed against the National Labor Relations Board involving the so-called Memphis 7, a group of unionizing workers who said they were unlawfully fired after they appeared in a TV news segment.

  • Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's effectively become the court's lone labor supporter, wrote the dissent.

  • The decision will make it harder for the NLRB, the agency that administers the national labor law, to go after employers for violating its rules.

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Top image is Poochie on a bicycle slam dunking a basketball in a radical manner. The Sega logo is covering Poochie's face.

The writing on the bottom of the image says "Sega does what"

The bottom image is Ralph Wiggum sitting at a Coleco computer with an image of a cat and the letters C T. Ralph is trying to spell CAT.

The bottom text says "Super Nintendo Chalmers-Don't"

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