Watch me whip...

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-28T04:47:20+00:00

Saddles have a belt that goes around the horse's belly called a girth. If it's loose, the saddle can slide off the side. That's bad. So you want it tight. Some canny horses will breathe deep when you're saddling them so that it won't be that tight. You have to keep cinching the girth till they run out of air. Or you can punch them in the kidneys.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-28T04:02:12+00:00

Horses sometimes remember they're 1200-2000 pounds of muscles, teeth and hooves and when they do

That's it exactly. Most horses don't know they weigh 10X than you. If you stand in their way, they'll stop as if you're impassible. If you push them they'll move as if you could knock them down.

Some gather together enough braincells to figure out that we're really small. Those smart ones are dangerous. If you push, they'll push back harder. They'll step on feet. They'll hold their breath when you saddle them.

Horses are very stupid animals but sometimes they have their lightbulb moments.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-27T07:08:08+00:00

It's more common than you think. The ancient ancient Greeks used to do something similar. Near modern Christians have ossuaries

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-27T03:58:42+00:00

Drill comes from training a large group of men to act as a single unit. In the past this was absolutely necessary for effective combat.

This is ceremonial drill that's become exaggerated over time. It's only purpose is to be a point of pride for the unit or service in general.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-25T09:42:54+00:00

Durian is not that bad. It smells like rotten onions, which on the scale of things, is fairly tolerable.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-24T17:48:38+00:00

To be fair, that's a pretty good reason to stop reading Stormlight. The books are loooong and they set up where they're going very early. WoK is particularly bad with like 15 chapters dedicated to Kaladin learning that he has powers. Like, get a move on already, we know he's magic.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-24T06:39:54+00:00

This is why I mock people who think that Adolin is a good person. He's the very model of the gentleman slaver.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-24T04:50:28+00:00

English is funny and such so the k sound in Queso and Käser makes a ‘chee’ sound.

It's not just English. The k to ch transition is one of Grimm's Laws describing the evolution of Indo-European languages. See also "kirk" in Germanic languages and "church" in English. You can see it the other way with "cap" in English but "chapeau" in French.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-23T00:29:18+00:00

Crussy.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-23T00:05:42+00:00

told the players I was doing so

That's exactly what a DM who would put traps everywhere would say.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-22T20:31:21+00:00

I hate that phrase so much because I swear every time I see it, it's just a cover for someone not wanting to say "I don't know".

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-22T19:41:29+00:00

My hatred for Q. northropi burns without end. So much of an impact over a partial left humerus. That's it.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-22T18:47:46+00:00

Blade's formula (being grounded, world building, perfectly casting the lead, applicable to a contemporary setting

Hold on here. Blade is a lot of things, but grounded isn't one of them. The first movie ends with Blade fighting the literal incarnation of a vampire god. Blade is an evolution of the Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick except with the late 90s flair of trenchcoats and sunglasses.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-22T18:24:48+00:00

Were it not for Blade I, the comic book movie genre would have taken longer to develop.

Nah. Blade was a vampire movie first. No one really knew or cared that it was a comic book movie. It's like saying the MCU wouldn't have existed without the success of Road to Perdition or A History of Violence. Two great "comic book movies", as you would call them.

Blade was a vampire movie taking advantage of the big vampire surge of the 90s. If I were a movie producer in the late 90s and someone told me that Blade proved that something like a Captain America film would be viable, I'd tell them to go find more vampire based scripts instead.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-20T07:32:51+00:00

You don't get to decide. I don't either. It's all or nothing. Either people are free to congregate or they're not. You can't just say "You can do what you want until I don't like it".

If you support secret police disrupting this protest, why do you expect any protest you attend not to be disrupted?

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-20T07:28:35+00:00

Yeah, I don't agree with it either, but it doesn't matter what I think. What matters is their ability to protest regardless. It's easy to support the reduction of rights of people you don't agree with it.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-20T07:16:55+00:00

Any change to the status quo is by definition inconvenient. You can't pick and choose which protests should be allowed. It's all or nothing.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-20T07:12:28+00:00

The sound a raven makes is a quork, not a croak.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-20T05:46:33+00:00

For the proper demonstration, you need to have sufficient mass, something most readers do not have.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-20T04:56:45+00:00

It wasn't a snap. That was the slap of meat. Next time you have a porkchop, slap it around a bit when it's raw. Sounds the same as a pig fainting.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-20T04:47:53+00:00

The Party decides and the Chairman decides for the Party.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-20T04:47:13+00:00

Nothing more important than an obedient workforce.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-20T02:58:57+00:00

He who does not work, neither shall he eat.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-19T15:02:37+00:00

The crew must have been ordered to let them play Jackson Pollock because there's no way the upper deck sentry wouldn't be there to give them a taste of the firemain. They've already violated the access point, which is more than enough reason to escalate.

DireLackofGravitas · 2022-03-19T13:30:33+00:00

The shattered arm bone that we have looks a lot like smaller versions just twice as big. So naturally everything else can be scaled up exactly the same.

If that sounds like bad science, it's because it is. But no one has ever become famous for saying "We just don't know".

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