I can see where they’d get the idea, though they really ought to realize that rat tails do not necessarily mean rodent. Trans folks are obviously marsupials.

I figured, but I’m incapable of letting an opportunity to make a bad pun pass me by.

Tangentially related book recommendation for folks wandering through the thread who are disappointed that AOC isn’t announcing she’s taking over the role of Storm for the X-Men: The Power by Naomi Alderman. They turned it into a TV series, though I don’t know anything about the adaptation. The premise is that women across the world all of a sudden develop the ability to generate electric fields (like an electric eel) powerful enough to stun or kill. The book then details, through a variety of narrators, the social and political ramifications of this across a variety of cultures. I thought it was a fun yarn, at any rate.

A picture really is worth a thousand words. Nailed my exact impression haha

I feel like I just leveled up my descriptive abilities for RPG DMing purposes.

Did AOC get bit by a radioactive electrician recently?

Zack Snyder, not JJ Abrams.

Sometimes, the humor is found in how unsubtle the methodology is. A carpet bombing approach, one might say.

Caveat: I don’t play fighting games, but I come to EVO moment 37 every now and again for the frisson it provides me. From what I’ve gathered from folks who are in that community, this fest is even more impressive than you might realize, because he had to begin parrying that move before the screen effects begin. You can even see his character sort of twitching back and forth before the super pops, anticipating the directional inputs necessary to pull the parry off. So, not only is it practically frame-perfect reflexes and timing, but it’s also an incredible display of metagame knowledge to guess that is what is coming.

And it’s pretty good! I had fun with the time I put into it, though it did feel a little bloated in the same way their Pathfinder RPG did. I think it’s a consequence of their Kickstarter success for these games, which just kept talking on more stretch goals.

The good news is there is a LOT of game present for those that enjoy it.

They don’t make Ballnostrillian mask, I worked with what I had access to.

Idk about that, I heard a fair number of folks who were less enthused with Eternal vs 2016. The general sentiment among those folks was that Eternal skewed too far into “combat puzzle” territory, where encounters felt like they had prescribed “solutions” that you needed to perform to succeed reliably. This iteration being less about resource management and high speed encounter flow seems to be a reaction to those critiques.

You’re doing good work.

Pep and shrooms is such a good combo; I bet it was awesome!

Why do I feel like the music cue after that statement is this.

And if they’re very, very lucky, you’ll do it in that order.

Well-meaning idiots, in Wayne’s parlance, and I doubt very much that Eastwood’s philosophy differs that much. Unsurprisingly, the ideological bent of the film was a topic of some controversy, even during its release. The term “fascist” was thrown around with the frequency of a Lemmy politics thread, and not without good reason. For their part, the director claimed that he was a left leaning liberal who viewed Callahan as “as evil, in his own way, as [Scorpio]”, and Eastwood, while denying the movie was right wing, stated it was about “frustration with the judicial system”.

Suffice to say, the politics of these movies are complicated (at best), if you choose to engage with them on that level.

In addition to the above, which explains the actor’s thought process, I think it’s an intentional choice by the filmmakers to juxtapose the “peace and love” iconography of the hippy movement / era against the depravity of Scorpio.

Obviously, Dirty Harry was directly inspired by the Zodiac Killer, whose confirmed kills occurred in 68-69. Significantly, the Zodiac’s first and second letters were sent to newspapers on July 31st and August 4th, 1969. I say that this is significant because, not even a week later, on August 9th, the Tate-LaBianca murders occurred. Moreso even than the Zodiac murders, the Manson Family belies the viewpoint of Dirty Harry, i.e. that, for all the flower power aesthetic and grandiose ideas, the hippie movement was populated by anti-social, perverse, and dangerous criminals.

These people, if not representative of the hippies as a whole, were at least taking advantage the well-meaning idiots who would naively take their side. See this quote from John Wayne about the counter-culture: “I’d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. I’d like to know why they make excuses for cowards who spit in the faces of the police and then run behind the judicial sob sisters. I can’t understand these people who carry placards to save the life of some criminal, yet have no thought for the innocent victim.”

I believe this sentiment is, in essence, Dirty Harry’s thesis. Consider the scene in which Harry is reprimanded for obtaining evidence against Scorpio illegally, making it inadmissable and leading to his release from custody. Furthermore, in the final seconds of the film, after beating Scorpio in the quick draw contest, Harry spends a little bit of time ruefully gazing at his police badge before hurling it into the lake, presumably because of the number of obstacles that bleeding hearts put in between him and getting the bad guy.

Surveillance of the crew isn’t Worf’s typical MO, but the captain is worried about Lieutenant Yar. In her romantic life, it seems like she’s lost control.

Nothing to be done for it.