QHC

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[–] QHC@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Please stop trying to force Sanderson to write a series his style would be horrible at and that he would not enjoy finishing.

Joe Abercrombie and Robin Hobb are still alive, among plenty of other excellent grimdark fantasy authors, if you must insist on naming a successor.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even if it was a known murderer, there is zero practical reason to engage in a projected car chase.

Not to mention, why do we need armed militia to enforce traffic laws? you know, the thing that usually has a maximum penalty in the hundreds of dollars? These aren't even real crimes! Somehow we figured out that parking meters don't need guns or tasers, but why did we stop there?

[–] QHC@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are also worse than random chance at actually doing the one thing police claim technology can't match: drug and bomb sniffing. Dogs just want to go take a nap or get a treat, and their handlers are cops who just think everything is suspicious so of course they get lots of "hits".

It's essentially the same bullshit that hoodwinked the world with Coco the "signing" guerilla for a couple of decades.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 75 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The number of people in this post that don't understand the difference between a private company's HR/PR decisions and the actual legal system is shocking.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This has nothing to do with the "justice system". Private companies can make their own decisions.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Do you sit in the writer's room? What information do you have that contradicts what actual writers and actors on the show have said about Roiland's (lack of) involvement in later seasons?

[–] QHC@kbin.social 50 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Is it only possible to fire a toxic asshole because he committed crimes?

[–] QHC@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Another example to show the double-standard is the public education vs charter schools debate. The same people that are anti-choice regarding abortion are very pro-choice when it comes to how their tax dollars are spent on education, and in both cases the underlying motivation is wanting to use the mechanisms of the state to advance their religion.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

For what, appearing in a bunch of films as himself?

[–] QHC@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Game of Thrones took tons of ideas from real human cultures and it wasn't very subtle, but that world still seems much more alive and real to me than what I see in the WoT television series. (I have only read parts of the first book in this series and I know the fans adore the world building, so I assume this failure is on the show and not the source material.)

[–] QHC@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I agree, but if we can clean up some of the blatant corruption in Congress then maybe the corruption in the SC and elsewhere can also be addressed.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

And yet somehow your claim is that doing less would have been better?

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