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I can’t believe people just go around making up games on the fly. Like who thought this was a good idea?! There’s no way you’ve possibly playtested the rules to ensure everything is balanced. Without corporate oversight and a solid profit motive there is no way some “friends” in a “car” could make a successful game. The premise is just absurd.
And then to think you could go around sharing your dumb “game” freely on the internet in forums and such?
Don’t even get me started…
All games are made up
And the points don't matter 🥰
Made up? Sure. Made up on the fly? Absolutely not, learn some basic goddamn planning skills and actually figure your game out properly. People just going with the first idea that slobbers out of their malfunctioning brains and giving it no further thought is how we end up with money for landing on Free Parking in Monopoly and the very same people complaining that Monopoly takes too long. You put in a house rule that makes the game take longer. "Oh this food is too spicy for me. I don't like it. Can you pass me the hot sauce so I can add some more please?"
@LadyButterfly This is basically just me every day with my students but they don't seem to enjoy it nearly as much as I do. Weird.
Han solo didn't "shoot first", he was the only one who shot, period.
Greedo didn't shoot the wall (and miss a 6ft target sitting 2ft away), that was added (poorly) many years later for a special edition.
They changed the movie because in the interim years, George Lucas was feeling like it made Han Solo look less "noble" and more scoundrel-like.
Han Solo is supposed to be a scoundrel, he's a damn smuggler. The bar they meet him in is described as "a wretched hive of scum and villainy".
George Lucas has an incredible talent for fucking up the intent of the author in a story that HE'S THE AUTHOR OF, it would be very funny if it weren't so annoying.
And even taken all that aside, he shot someone that pointed a gun at him and basically said "I am going to shoot you now". Clearly Han is in the right here for defending himself.
And the guy he worked for previously was described as a "vile gangster" two movies later.
If anything, Han shooting and being a “scoundrel” adds even gravitas to his change of heart near the end.
The aliens in Signs are idiots for invading a planet that’s 70% water. And if they landed in a cornfield in rural PA in the middle of summer the humidity would have killed them instantly.
And what’s worse is Shyamalan lives in PA and should know this.
Lol I actually grew up near where the movie took place and now I feel stupid for never thinking about the humidity factor. Summer in PA is underestimated by those who think "it's the northeastern US, how bad can it get?". For those of you who don't know, most summer days you can see the humidity and you're drenched in sweat about 2 minutes after you exit a cool shower.
It wouldn't be so bad if they weren't also naked.
Also, they have interstellar travel but need to use crop circles to communicate. I know that's just part of the premise but it's still stupid.
But not nearly as stupid as flying all the way here and trying win a land war completely unarmed. If your battle plan can be beaten by a baseball bat and asthma, you should maybe rethink your invasion.
I think the movie would work better if the aliens were just messing with this one family on a farm, like they’re a scout force.
But it’s like humans trying to invade Mars in their birthday suits, just assuming the planet isn’t toxic and uninhabitable.
Like, what did the invasion look like in the tropics, where it rains just about every day? Did they get out of their ships and just start sizzling?
I disagree. If water is essential for their spaceflight, IE fuel, reaction mass, ect then it's fine that they would invade.
Humans have invaded the Sahara desert, which is hot enough to kill, the arctic and Antarctic which is cold enough to kill, the submarine realm which can crush, freeze and drown us, and even the moon, which is hollow and full of dangerous reptillians.
We go to extremely dangerous places to fulfill our need for resources and territorial ambition
Yes but they wouldn’t show up bare-ass nekkid on a planet full of water if they knew it dissolved ‘em!
I almost wonder if it's like Mt Everest climbers who climb without oxygen tanks, they do it more to prove that they can than for any rational reason
Alien invasion is always stupid. Interstellar travel uses so much energy, it can power a civilisation for a year, and that's for just below light speed from our nearest star. Their tech level would be high enough to just scoop up whatever resource they want from astroids, if not ourright skimming from gas giants or stars. Oh, you need genetic material? Musquito drones would do the job. I mean, only the Predator movie makes sense as they just come here for hunting.
The only alien invasion scenario that makes sense is one where the aliens are so advanced they don’t even notice us.
I mean, it's not completely unrealistic that some alien race builds a generation ship, points it at Sol 3 because it has a strong magnetosphere, conditions for liquid water and a fairly oxygen rich atmosphere then after their 10,000 year journey they discover a race that's just beginning to figure out space flight on the planet previously observed to lack any industrial capabilities. Honestly that would make for a good film, and I'm sure there's science fiction books based on that idea already (Douglas Adams wasn't far off from that with the Galgafrinchians too, only they arrived about 20,000 years before our present day and supplanted neanderthals as the dominant hominid race on Earth)
I like the holy water fan theory. They were not aliens but demons and all of the glasses of water were blessed when Mel Gibson regained his faith
Reminds me of Soup is for Women which I think was basically prompted in the same way, asking her to go off on a weird rant about something being not "manly".
So, Autism: The Game. I live this reality.
OK, do "the fediverse"
Useless, it'll never take off. Normies don't want to have to pick an instance to get started. They'll just go to reddit or Bluesky. Then there's the tankie problem. Hexbear and ml are going to scare away those who can figure out how to pick an instance and register.
Oh and since everything is duplicated on hundreds of servers, it's wasteful of resources to. Worried about SSD prices going up? Well the fediverse ain't gonna help either.
There's only like 5 people who post things and the mods can be just as bad as reddit mods. Post something and get banned from 25 communities.
Need me to keep going?
There’s only like 5 people who post things
I suspect Reddit would be about the same without all the repost bots.
Probably. Used to be a lot more organic content. In all honesty, the fediverse is a bit better than modern reddit in that regard.
Actually I've discovered at least 3 people who post their own comics here. So that's pretty cool. Custardfist, bad and noerdman. Never would've discovered them otherwise.
It's the same problem with Linux.
Most people don't even know what a distro is.
Master class!
Well, at least no one owns and controls Lemmy unlike Reddit 🥹
There’s a variation of this on Dropout’s “Make Some Noise” with 3 people where one player starts a rant, then is told to stop mid-rant, and the next person picks up where it stopped and takes it in their own direction.
Brennan Lee Mulligan was engineered in a lab for that specific purpose.
He's fantastically contagious. ❤️🔥 Hell, most of Dropout are, for that matter. 🤘🏼
Sounds like a good way to enhance your critical thinking skills. Something we humans direly need today.
