GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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Actors age out of roles, so you should be changing the world with each movie...

Counterpoint: James Bond has been chugging along for sixty years. Some are better than others, but the basic outline is the same for almost every Bond movie, and it's still a prestige franchise.

Well, the Globglogabgalab is 110% completely real, in defiance of all reason and decency.

A married couple who are landlords.

Okay, well, the last time I made this joke it came true, so I'm going to throw some salt over my shoulder after I say it, but how about instead of that, we just give Russia about 20,000 square miles of Alaska. We can start with the entirety of the Aleutian Island chain (about 6,800 sq. miles), and then work out some chunk of the mainland for the rest. That seems reasonable.

And if that does come true, then by God I'm going to go out and buy a lottery ticket.

Your uncle.

I'm not saying violence doesn't solve many issues and is sometimes called for. But literally most? I'd have to disagree.

Heinlein addresses this, too:

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him... but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing... but controlled and purposeful violence. But it’s not your business or mine to decide the purpose or the control. It’s never a soldier’s business to decide when or where or how — or why — he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people — ‘older and wiser heads,’ as they say — supply the control.

It's really quite a good book.

My five year old loves On The Town with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst.

--Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

How it feels when headlines celebrate that inflation is down:

/nominativedeterminism

Speak for yourself. I've got two brother cats and I refer to both of them as little kitty cat mans.

Is there an in-universe explanation for how the Discworld has an atmosphere?

Which means that every villain in that room fully believes that is the sort of thing that Croc would say.

Got it, bring back huffing gasoline and smoking asbestos cigarettes.

Holy shit, I thought I was joking.

Also:

I can't think of any games where you control a single thing in a turn based environment for the whole game that is fun.

Rogue?

America in general is so heavily armed, what point would there be in smuggling arms into America? Coals and Newcastle and all that.

If we decide to tear ourselves apart, we've already got plenty of the tools required right at hand.