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  1. So I've just suffered the epiphany that, in "The Prisoner," Number Six drives a Lotus Seven :-/

    about 2 months ago from web
  2. I have some gherkin plants but they grow too few fruits to make it viable to pickle them. Some are giant while other fruits are barely grown. I'd need thrice as many as I have now to have a good selection of mid-sized gherkins at a time and enough to make it worth the process to put them into the pickle jars. So far I have given them away or ate some myself. I'm not a fan of fresh gherkins but at least they are better in taste than store-bought.

    about a year ago from web
  3. Circus set up tent in the mall parking lot. Nothing ominous here. Disregard the cold breeze out of the west and gathering clouds.

    about a year ago from web
  4. Well I'm trying to do a House-aligned playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas, but I very really truly hate him and the terrible asshole things he says :-/

    Sunday, 23-Feb-25 20:07:17 UTC from web
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    • @scribus Interesting, he's my favourite faction to side with on the grounds of pragmatism, he's the only one with a plan (and the actual capability to make it happen) to make humanity go anywhere other than "we'll just be hobos in perpetuity"

      He might not be incredibly likable, but in a survival scenario that's irrelevant.

      Friday, 07-Mar-25 12:26:54 UTC in context
    • @nerthos Yeah, I want to not hate him - I mean, a retro-future spaceVegas? Hell, yeah!! He's not even that unlikable, there's a wry sort of amusement to his bearing. But he's too egocentric; he's not preserving humanity, he's feeding his ego and seeking to create a thrallhood underclass to prop HIM up. Ultimately, I don't consider him sufficiently distinct from Caesar. Both cling to old-world ideals and play up some fantasy of the "inevitability" of "their" power. So, I kill him, take his city, and in my mind carry on with developing the space plans in a little more cooperative, ground-up fashion. (Though in all honesty a spacefaring future would be just as hellish as the vaults so iunno w/e i guess lol) Also I make The King governor or something :p

      Saturday, 08-Mar-25 18:45:02 UTC in context
    • @scribus That all sounds good until you factor in the kind of human resource you're dealing with in Fallout. Ironically the tv show is the best illustration of this, with the main character trying to behave like a civilized person and consistently getting banana'd by everyone.

      House's narcissistic approach is a necessity in the world he's operating, without the army of robots forcing the wastelanders to work at gunpoint nothing will get done (example: they're still living in shacks near 200 years after the war)
      Plus, he has civilized some factions already, so it's not like he won't uplift the competent and decent wastelanders into better positions. He has to do that for any space settling plan to work, since good people are needed to populate those colonies.

      Sometimes, a competent megalomaniac is the only option that can get the job done.

      Sunday, 09-Mar-25 08:12:01 UTC in context
  5. Did anybody get to see the recent aurorae?

    Monday, 14-Oct-24 21:16:19 UTC from web
  6. Listen okay, it's been a minute since I've used this site.

    Tuesday, 01-Oct-24 06:36:50 UTC from web
  7. So I guess Biden declared today to be the day that all trans people rise from their graves or something?

    Sunday, 31-Mar-24 17:26:51 UTC from web
  8. I thought this site was dead for the last 6 months cause I kept getting this error. I tried different browsers and devices and same thing but today it finally worked. Anyone else have this issue? http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876377

    Thursday, 22-Jun-23 02:11:30 UTC from web
  9. how was everyone’s weekend????? anyone do anything fun?

    Monday, 12-Jun-23 01:58:50 UTC from web
  10. In the spirit of jokes that literally only I am probably even capable of finding funny, I present to you Weird Alice Cooper's "Dare to be Stoopid" -____-

    Sunday, 14-May-23 20:59:20 UTC from web
  11. OK.... Tears of the Kingdom... What does "tears" refer to? Is it the liquid coming out of the eyes (for example while crying) or is it the edge of two pieces of a material/object that has been ripped apart (for example tearing a piece of paper in two pieces)?

    Friday, 12-May-23 13:18:20 UTC from web