I was only off by 10,000 years!
I’ve noticed a lot of carried over themes in 40k, with the cautionary tale of rogue AI making computers untrusted and stuff like that. What I didn’t expect is how much the 1962 Lawrence of Arabia movie seemed to influence the first Dune book. That might be a stretch since the movie came out just a year before he started releasing Dune content, but a lot of that fit.
Yeah, that’s how people started to feel around ACIV: Black Flag.
But during AC1-3, we were all excited to learn more about the modern day mysteries and have more assassin stuff. We all wanted more!
Then Ubisoft decided to make it a yearly thing and kill off any characters with plot points that might hinder their multiplayer battle pass, yearly release dreams. Then it all fell apart and they had to scale back… But the damage was done.
Assassin’s Creed
Diablo
There’s more, but those two hurt the worst.
Yeah the Matrix isn’t right unless there’s some obscure comic that clarifies the “closer to 2199, no one knows for sure” line.
Dune is supposed to be like the year 10,000 or something?
They also left off Idiocracy’s date, which was 2505 according to the newspaper.
In T2: Judgement Day, when Miles Dyson has to turn two keys simultaneously to open the vault to get the Terminator prototypes, they go
3-2-1-turn and then AFTER that, they turn. How many times would people have messed that up, learning such a weird pattern? That’s totally unintuitive!
No, it’s one of those things everyone assumes or guesses. When it’s confirmed by someone by name that has insider knowledge, the theory carries a lot more weight. Enough to alter stock prices, if it’s damning enough. Or in this case further hurt public perception, which hurts revenue.
It’s interesting that when a company fires a bunch of employees just to increase quarterly profit, the employees no longer feel any duty to keep the company secrets. Which hurts company profits even more.
Good.
Oops, don’t want that. Could you take two more pictures, I’ve from the left and one from the right? Unless that red box someone drew got it.
Is that an oil cap in the right of the picture? Just in front of the duct taped intake. It’s a black cap with amber writing on it, so that’s what I suspect. If it goes directly to the engine, that’s it.
Alcatraz held people tried and convicted in a city of law. Auschwitz held political prisoners and enemies of the ruling party that never saw a trial, had no rights, were treated poorly, and died often.
It’s more accurate to go with the latter.
I’d rather vote for someone based on their policy. If they’re attractive but want to destroy our institutions further or sell out, it’s a worthless metric. Elections are too important for BS filler.
But it billionaires are our gods to worship! We can’t anger them!
Those do, too. I think the article should say that the gas prices are what pisses off the MAGA cultists, because it directly hurts them more than the groups they don’t like.
My MAGA neighbors are more pissed that he started a war after campaigning on not starting wars, more than any other reason listed like gas or fascists killing citizens. Which is a wild take, but I love in Oklahoma.
I’m trying to move to a blue state. There be no shelter here.
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I think the downvotes are proving you right 😉
So were Redditors 15-20 years ago, though. This place is exactly like the old Reddit ecosystem. Heavily focused on programming, Linux, and Star Trek. The smaller subs for politics, culture, news, etc take longer to build up.
I had a coworker that started to hate his job and feel trapped. We all did, but he was more vocal about it to his friends. He said:
“I think sometimes, what if I didn’t take that turn on the highway and just kept going?”.
Well one day he didn’t come in. Emailed the boss he quit later. I like to think he just kept driving on to a better future.
I remember this as a kid, too! My mom said she wore a metal bra in a music video. We didn’t have MTV so I didn’t know who Madonna was, even. So I still had a bunch of questions that could’ve been solved with a Google search, had it existed.
I don’t think I got this joke until maybe a decade later when the Internet was a thing and I saw a picture or a meme or something.
I expect it’ll be when one of the writing class gets chronic pain or a death sentence diagnosis that could’ve been prevented if healthcare didn’t suck.
Not unlike Luigi is accused, except he’s innocent.
Sorry, actually to the newspaper in the movie. And I guess it was actually a magazine.
Amazing how it got everything else so close, but kept archaic news mediums that aren’t even relevant today.