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Athenor
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And of course I get picked because I use the desktop.
What more do you want from me, Geth? How do I avoid your wrath?!
What's your favorite evil robot?
On the last page.
And of course I get picked because I use the desktop.
What more do you want from me, Geth? How do I avoid your wrath?!
What's your favorite evil robot?
He/Him | "We who believe in freedom cannot rest." - Dr. Johnetta Cole, 7/22/2024
Geth Hates Me, [chat] 60 votes
Geth
6%
4 votes
GladDOS
40%
24 votes
Megatron
8%
5 votes
Megabyte
11%
7 votes
Master Control Program
6%
4 votes
CLU
1%
1 vote
T-800
0%
T-1000
15%
9 votes
T-X
0%
Iron Giant
10%
6 votes
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Man is the real evil robot
N’est çe pas une fucking pomme
T X stands for Titty eXpansion
Defending the alien super weapon?
smdh
¿Es una patata, sí?
Macbook
They weren't evil, they were dark-side (and thus either proof that the force exists separate from sentience or that Lucas considered robots acceptable slaves)
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
also obligatory
i miss Vine
the six second restraint was a boon to comedy i think
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30658/rise-empires
Played this at game night a couple times right when it came out and recall really liking it.
It's a combination dudes-on-a-map and worker placement game. What I really dig about the theme is that over the course of the game your civilization builds up, goes into decline then collapses 3 times. Despite their often excellent gameplay, Civilization and all its imitators always have that feeling of constant growth. When actual history has all kinds of ups and downs. EG: There were way more people, more land under cultivation, larger cities etc... in 3000 BCE in Mesopotamia than 2000 BCE.
There are 3 ages to the game and in each age you have a period of growth where you are placing workers to take actions like mustering armies and attacking. Then a period of decline where you can only take actions which you did during the first phase. Then a total collapse after which all armies are swept off the board and everyone is forced back to their starting territory. So there is a lot of incentive to just go all out offense and mix it up fast (like in the excellent Kemet).
i know it isn't Bumble
if it were you would send me a "you have a match!" notification
So there's a few youtube groups keeping the spirit alive. If you search "tik toks that make me miss vine" or "unusual memes" (oddly enough) you get a lot of short comedy with a vine flavor, and a lot of repeat performers too.
Then there's the vine compilations themselves, and lately wife and I have been deep diving into the individual vine stars and they have master compilations out of all their stuff. It's weird seeing new (to me) vines where they're all hanging out at a convention, or the fact vine died in 2016 so there were vines about how Trump sucks.
“She made a floral clerk quit.”
“Oh, what happened?”
“She insisted on dead naming the clerk, saying she ‘doesn’t believe in all that’”
Oh
Oh
the Bartlett pear is basically a sweeter Granny Smith
It may be that I saw terminator 2 in the theaters when I was young. But none of the other robots actually scared me. T-1000 gave me bad dreams.
I’ve recently been doing some deep dives on linguistic anthropology to find out why French is so different from other Romance languages and buddy, if you think modern English is three languages in a trenchcoat, modern French looked at that and said, “Hold my Beaujolais, mon duder.”
English = Old Norse -> Saxon -> Old English + Old Bretonic French -> Archaic Modern English + drift -> Modern English
With the exception of the Breton French influences, English’s evolution has been very linear. French, on the other hand, is more like the dinner you made with six different piles of leftovers. “It’s a Greco-Roman root heavily modified by Gaullish vowel rules and grammar traditions, with multifocal intrusions from Nordic root languages, various Germanic tribes, Celtiberian Alpine tribes, a prolonged period of linguistic competition between two main dialects, several hundred years of absorbing modern English due to economic prominence . . . and drift.”
Cameron got it wrong, because the robot was born that way
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
named in honor of President Josiah Bartlett
Because he was pear-shaped