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This man’s wife told him he had to get rid of his dog — what happened next will shock you!! (not clickbait)

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but there are reasons for someone disagreeing with your view of something - yes, even if your view is based on compassion, justice, and liberation - that do not automatically mean they're evil and/or sociopathic.

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Miles in Brothers in Arms:

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Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong so let’s fix it

If you weren’t here for part one, lemme sum it up real fast:

Okay, all up to speed? We’re being served 80s throwback stuff with the serial numbers scratched off, re-labeled as yo totally 90s. What we’ve got now isn’t completely wrong, but I’m telling you, there’s so much gold left unmined.

As we saw in part one with Memphis Milano, these things get messy. Trends don’t start and end neatly every ten years. The first wave of 90s throwback attempts focused on the early part of the decade, and nobody since really pushed to represent the other seven years. Well, if you really wanna do something, I guess you gotta do it yourself.

I have suggestions. Get your flannel ready, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover.

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BLACKTHORNE: Tell Toranaga-sama that the theme of the entire bloody series, even from the first game, was that hard decisions, costly decisions, must be made for a grater good! Even though this was mostly glossed over and elided in the second game, there is a direct thematic line that can be drawn between sacrificing your squadmate on Virmire and sacrificing EDI and the Geth in the series finale. The whole bloody point of the Destroy ending is that you are once again sacrificing someone you care about - perhaps even sacrificing yourself! - for a greater purpose, perhaps the only worthy purpose! Also, it has been long established in canon that the Reapers cannot be controlled, so the Control ending is a direct contradiction of literally everything we've seen in the cursed series! And the Synthesis ending was a ham-fisted attempt for Bioware to have its thematic cake and eat it too, in a futile attempt to head off the rage of series fanboys!

MARIKO: The Anjin wonders if you would be willing to reconsider your opinion on the ending of Mass Effect 3.

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Tired: The Fallout games & show look like an idealized American 1950s because integrated circuits were never invented in their world.

Wired: The Fallout games & show look like an idealized American 1950s because their world is Gor with 50s tradwife kink.

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sorry if this is a dumb question but uhmm is anyone else's boop-o-meter doing this???

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It's fine that young people tell each other to "question authority." But what's not often talked about is that sometimes, authority turns out to have the right answers.

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I'm not saying that TikTok has a problem with gullible users. I'm just saying that I could very easily see Harold Hill making a video go viral that says "They'll never teach you this in school, but the pool-industrial complex is stealing millions from the young generation - donate to my patreon so I can fund a matching band to counter it!"

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Discussing World War Two online is just an endless cycle of:

"We should oppose these genocidal world-conquering tyrants somewhat."

"And yet, your own country committed genocide and conquest in its past. Curious! I am very smart."

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself lying in a familiar ballpit

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Y'ALL

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There's a particular style of political calculus online that says Canada is the most bloodthirsty evil genocidal country in all of human history, but that Imperial Japan was a small harmless little guy that never did anything wrong.

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HMS Surprise midshipmen! grown up!

Top tier Aubreyad experience earlier this week - at the (sold out!) Animus screening of Master and Commander at the Prince Charles Cinema: 5 of the actors randomly showed up, apparently having bought tickets?? and were brought onstage and pressed for an anecdote

A foremast jack and four midshipmen!

Alex Palmer who played ‘never met a dead man who bought me a drink’ Nehemiah Slade, Jack Randall who played Boyle the midshipman, Lee Ingleby who played the unfortunate Mr Hollom, and, of course, Max Pirkis and Max Benitz, who played the tiny Mr Blakeney and Mr Calamy respectively. Delightful anecdotes of how they’re all still friends, and had arranged a dinner with the lads and figured they come and see it. They seemed genuinely amazed and delighted that the screening sold out, and told some tales of life during the shoot: music Peter Weir would play on set, and birthday parties they had during filming.