[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

That's all just snoke and mirrors.

Edit: I'm leaving that typo because it's funny, and would make for a great Star Wars character name, like Greedo.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It is fenced off on the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, but some good aim with a small catapult could still get the job done.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't think it's so much that people expect GRRM to die soon -- nevermind the fact that he's well into his 70s and rumors about his health are irrepressible -- as it is that the most recent book in the series was released thirteen years ago.

Between the first two books, there were two years, then another two years for book 3, then five years, then six. It's simply a matter of an unfavorable mathematical progression. Even if by some miracle he drops Winds of Winter tomorrow, the planned final book would seemingly take at least as long again to finish, and given the difficulty of endings, probably much longer than that. GRRM could live to 100 and we would be lucky to see him complete this series.

"Soon" doesn't even come into it.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago

They already own a second or third house in a mountain state so they can ski in the winter. They're already pre-migrated.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 10 points 1 month ago

It's a GOD, stupid. It can do whatever it wants.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 points 1 month ago

I don't understand why you don't just put the kids in the helicopter and fly them up to Grandpa's condo?

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Universal Pictures bought the rights to make Lego movies, but that didn't include the rights to any of the popular characters from The Lego Movie or its spin-offs. Those stayed with Warner Brothers (even though WB can no longer use Lego, so those characters are functionally dead).

Universal also didn't get the rights to any of the franchise characters typically associated with Lego, so they can't use Boba Fett, or Batman, or Gandalf, or Harry Potter, or even Jack Sparrow.

So they're sitting on this huge IP and have no way to actually use it. And so Pharrell comes along and says he wants to make a documentary about himself, and they say nah that's boring, nobody wants to see that. Then someone realizes they're going to lose the rights to Lego if they don't make a movie with them soon. And here we are.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 0 points 1 month ago

Bring back the stockade for shit like this.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 7 points 1 month ago

How thoughtful of them to ensure that the deceased would have something to put up their butt in the underworld.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 points 1 month ago

And there is some green coloration on it, indicating the dildo was once painted to look like a cucumber. Derek Smalls gets it.

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago

Now please turn to song 146 in your hymnals, The Cat Cameth Back.

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I don't know why I did this. I'm sorry.

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Sisko/Benny theory (lemmings.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world to c/startrek@startrek.website

So we learn at the end that Sisko's birth was engineered by the Prophets, right? That he was always destined to be the Emissary because that's how it had to be, from the nonlinear perspective of the Prophets.

So what if they based him on a man from Earth centuries before (perhaps one of his father's ancestors)? He does say at one point that maybe God is trying to tell him to quit writing and go into the restaurant business, betraying a love for cooking, which maybe he passed on to his children - and maybe he passed this on to his descendants, one of whom moved to New Orleans and opened a Creole kitchen, which would stay in the family for many generations...

They chose this man because by some quirk he had genuine future-sight and saw forward into the life of Sisko because of their connection established by the Prophets - creating a self-sustaining loop.

Now of course that doesn't explain why all of the people in Benny's life are so similar to Sisko's people (or is it the other way around?), but maybe there's something there about celestial-temporal archetypes, or Benny is projecting those faces and personalities onto his coworkers because of his strange and exceptional mind.

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