Man I’d love a sequel to Firewatch, if only Valve didn’t basically kill that studio.

The Earth’s magnetic field is gone and we all die.

I didn’t even know that FBC Firebreak had anything to do with Control until reading this post.

If money was no issue, I’d choose to live close to where I live now, but in an actual house that I could call my own.

Fire that burns down the whole town

U and me

No survivors

Hell, I’m in.

Oh man, takes me back to the Magic Treehouse books.

I feel like the best approach would be to take any work of fiction which has some sort of no-consequence superpower and obtain it to bring back to the real world, though off the cuff I am struggling to think of which example to use (too many superhero origin stories involve traumatic experiences, couldn’t be done by people who weren’t already extraordinary, or have some undesirable consequence down the road, haha).

The other element is that you probably want to aim for something that gives you as much power as you can get, but not something that completely detaches you from humanity. For example, you could go to the episode of Star Trek: TNG where Riker is given Q powers (though I suppose good luck somehow intercepting that, since I feel like the powers would not be given to just some rando who isn’t part of the bridge crew), but then getting powers that make you nearly omnipotent serves to separate you from humanity, and it could become too tempting to develop a god complex.

Maybe I’d just go to something like Apple TV’s Foundation series and just steal some imperial nanomachines to keep me healthy and fast-healing for the duration of my natural life, and leave it at that.

And ramen is Japanese.

All commonly eaten in America, granted, but it’s weird to call it “American” food.

I’m envious of that, to be honest. Non-phonetic spelling is one of the greatest barriers to learning a language like English.

Part of the problem though is what this comic highlights, where English does not often try to adapt names and loanwords to its own phonetics. They are transliterated to the Latin alphabet in ways that make sense for the logic of the source language, and then just carried into English.

And then it just happens that the history of the English language is characterized by the number of times Britain was invaded by speakers of other languages that just merged into the lexicon, so English is riddled with loanwords that are each informed by the logic of their languages of origin.

Also the shareholders are robots, since it turns out they are much better at stock trading than people.

The good news is that kids will have plenty of employment opportunity when AI takes over, you need tiny hands to clean between those server racks.

Plus everyone knows Shavian is the best way to render English.

𐑞𐑦𐑕 𐑦𐑟 𐑕𐑴 𐑥𐑳𐑗 𐑥𐑹 𐑮𐑰𐑛𐑩𐑚𐑩𐑤 𐑞𐑨𐑯 𐑞 ·𐑤𐑨𐑑𐑦𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑. 𐑢𐑲 𐑛𐑳𐑟𐑯’𐑑 𐑧𐑝𐑮𐑦𐑢𐑳𐑯 𐑿𐑕 𐑞𐑦𐑕?

It’s always weird to me how the FOB Chinese community is so stigmatized by the ABC community. I guess the American way is taking every opportunity to punch downward to make people feel better about themselves.

Guessing the site is also affected by this Azure outage, lol.

PFAS air

Harmleb? I barely know Leb!

The 22nd amendment, which limits the president to two terms, also applies a restriction to a two-term president running as someone else’s vice president.

The next option would be to have Trump be appointed as speaker of the house, which does not have any eligibility guidelines at all (like you don’t even need to be an elected official first), and then have both the president and vice president abdicate.

But with all of the checks on power basically removed from the position, Trump would have to somehow find two sycophants who are both electable and would be willing to surrender absolute power just to give a sundowning octogenerian a third term.

Similar to how Virgil’s Aeneid is just “the story of Aeneas” and Homer’s Iliad is “the story of Ilion” (Ilion being the Greek name of Troy).

Make it third. I’m currently earning what I thought would be my life goal.

I can’t even afford to move out of my two-room apartment.

And they’re based in a blue state, so if they were to declare a recession, the Trump admin would just discredit them as fake news and “radical left” propaganda.

Yeah, call it cheesy or too on-the-nose, but I think I would have preferred just having an explicit glimpse of someone about to shoot Tony. Can still do the cut to black, but there’s a split second of someone drawing a gun before it happens.

The viewers are not Tony Soprano, so it just seems weird to limit it to his perspective and obscure events to only what he would be aware of in that moment. It’s just that you have an entire series where viewers can see all of the moving parts that most characters are oblivious to, except for the very last one apparently.