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.
Dice?
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.
Good to know I’m the problem. How’s that strategy working out for you? Driving up toxic masculinity numbers this month?
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.
Stumbled into a little water moccasin hissing at me like this the other day.
“Bro. You’re twitching your tail and hissing. Not buying the upside-down head thing.”
Yeah, I know nothing about Romanian politics, but:
It noted that the country’s constitutional court had already banned her from standing last November for making declarations “contrary to democratic values”.
Seems like it could be used against anyone, for any reason, in the future. Sure, I think I agree with today’s results, but tomorrow?
I’m laughing at all these posts bagging on online education. Likely from the same people who think WFH is obviously superior to RTO. Some of the same issues apply here people.
no socialisation
Between missing in-person schooling and social media, we have an entire generation that are, socially speaking, idiots. I see posts on here everyday that remind me of that.
Right here! Best I can do is shoot them through the door when they come for me. Exactly what else can I do?
And be damned glad so many of us are armed or the fascists would be cutting through us like butter. Their next steps will soon be limiting or taking guns from the left and minorities. This proposal is part of that.
More pizza delivery drivers get shot than cops.
Pretty certain that stat is from America. Also, pretty certain my post was the opening to one of the most famous cyberpunk novels of all time.
Heinlein experimented with loads of governmental and social structures, Starship Troopers was one such experiment.
Sorry, but I agree with this one. Not the “great” violence part, but yeah. If you are not capable of inflicting violence, you are not making a choice. You have no choice but to be harmless.
We used to say this a good bit in r/liberalgunowners, along the lines of, “I am a peaceful man, but that does not make me harmless.” You would have a hella time pushing me hard enough to draw, but I have the choice if it comes to that.
This notion is exactly why conservatives think they can run roughshod over us. They see us as harmless little twerps that couldn’t fight back if our life depended on it.
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.”