“Gee that big floodplain at the foot of those hills sure looks nice. Better rebuild my formerly flooded home on this precise exact spot again instead of moving 500 feet to the left and building on that nice hill. That would just be stupid.”

All you dumb flatlanders had to do was build on the hills. They’re right fuckin there and none of you ever think to do it.

That Mariah Carey Christmas song every single retail worker hates

Do the Justice Friends from Dexter’s Lab count?

See, that’s cocaine fuelled Hollywood done right.

What the question is asking is “what’s the most 90s movie of all time” and the answer can only be Kazaam, starring Shaquille O’Neil himself, and the Mars corporation products.

It’s exactly as peak 90s as Space Jam without any of the charm or personality, which makes Kazaam precisely as soulless as that entire decade. It’s perfect

Fusion makes a bomb like the sun.

Fission makes a bomb like chernobyl.

Seems similar, actually different. We’re actually pretty good at fission, but fusion is way harder. The problem with fusion is that you need a huge amount of power to generate a slightly huger amount of power in return, and we are pretty crap at generating a big enough spike of energy to start the reaction and marginally worse at capturing said power after. All in all, pretty far away from practical fusion power.

Fission, by comparison, can happen when you have too many special minerals in a wrong shaped pile. We abuse this effect to boil water, and use that boiling water to make power.

Nah we definitely have fusion, just not for anything other than bombs.

Fun fact: to set off a fusion reaction, hydrogen bombs actually have a smaller fission bomb inside it. Sometimes multiples of fission-fusion reactions all stacked inside of eachother like nesting dolls.

Packing done right is extremely painful. You’re not just shoving gauze in the opening and calling it a day. You’re panty stuffing that hole.

Miss my old HTC One M9. That little bastard was a tank

There’s not much else to see. Honestly the best ending is the little citadel get together you play sometime in 3. Most of the characters you’ve come to know and love all gathered for a small, low key house party. Everything about the battle for earth and the citadel ghost can eat my shorts.

How dare you disrespect the enigma that is Marauder Shields

Gonna go with 1994 Road Rash on PC. Nothing like chain whipping a bitch as you fly by those CA highways on your Ducati whatever blasting sound garden

OG DiRT felt good in a way that modern games just can’t match. I don’t dare go back and play it again because I did that with OG need for speed underground and absolutely hated it. Picked up some DiRT sequel a while back on the ps store and it didn’t feel great either.

Idiocracy packaged as an accurate history of the most powerful species on the planet.

*gaslit

I enjoyed gwent in Witcher 3 more than the story tbh. Did not enjoy the standalone gwent spinoff they eventually made.

I kind of have the same gripe about Minecraft as you do about Stardew. Not only is it stupid, but it looks like utter shit. The only redeeming quality is being able to do stupid shit in a virtual space with friends. Gmod does all that and more, except better in every way that matters.

Kid I knew 25 years ago had one. Actually kinda worked on an indoor pool, which was neat, but definitely didn’t work for shit on the sidewalk. Basically, it didn’t work at all in any sort of wind and barely worked on anything rougher than linoleum

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds is one of my favorite scifi books and it deals with this question in an interesting way. It proposes that Time is the great filter. Life exists in this galaxy, but intelligent life is so fleeting when considering galactic distances that the probability of one sentient lifeform finding another during their “peaks” is vanishingly small. Extinction, societal collapse, evolution to a higher form, whatever you want to imagine, it all gets in the way of the fantasy of meeting a thinking being from another planet.

Time itself is the filter. I don’t think we are the first, but I don’t think we will every find any other intelligent life. The universe is too big and our lives are far too short to make any sort of attempt to travel or communicate across those distances ourselves. I’m also not entirely confident our idea of what a society is will last in any meaningful way over the timespans required. Our longest lasting dynasties rarely make it more than a couple hundred years. Space is just too big for us to work with using our current understanding of physics.

Oh shit I straight up did not scroll far enough lmao I saw many words and skimmed for a link for like 3 swipes and felt bamboozled.