luciferofastora

Ending your sentence on a comma should be a crime. It leaves that unfinished feeling

I intentionally make up horrors and monsters to lurk in the shadows or under my bed. Sometimes when I can't fall asleep, I stare at a corner of the room, imagining some unsettling creature that could be lurking there, staring back at me (if it has eyes at all). I imagine something reaching up to grab the leg I'm stick out over the edge.

But they can't actually get me. They're created, sustained and dispelled by my will. They may stare at me, reach for me, but they're powerless. When I'm done with them, I send them back to the half-existence in the collection of ideas I built them from.

It's a cruel power fantasy, to make up monsters incapable of understanding that they're the lesser horror between us, but it's fun.

It also seems to help me sleep, but that might just be the fact that focusing my brain on one thing quiets all the background noise.

I get why it's done from a narrative point of view, but some obnoxious pedantic voice in my head never stops wondering why people would write down obscure lore notes in the middle of a disaster or when they're about to die. It makes sense for some organisation's agents to document their discoveries and leave (incremental) reports on-site in case they don't make it back for a full report, but some random raider in FO4 noting down how pissed he is with his boss?

Of course, I'm a sucker for lore, so I'll take it, particularly when it's in audio log form during exploration sections so I can keep exploring and listen instead of stopping to read.

Headcanon: He definitely was brave enough and engaged in it too, by necessity of Jedi being called on for mediation and diplomacy as well as the need of a general to coordinate with the civil leadership of planets he's fighting on or for.

Downplaying his interest in politics would be both a sign of humility ("I don't need to rub elbows with important people, I',m just a humble guy") and sensible politics in itself by signalling that he's not out for power plays, just doing his duty.

That also kinda tracks with Marcus Aurelius, who allegedly didn't like being named Emperor by the senate as he preferred philosophy over power. He did accept the office out of a sense of duty, on the condition that his adoptive brother be made Co-Emperor.

The parallel I'm getting at here is that both might not have been passionate politicians, but will have competently and dutifully risen to the task when called on. They were also both militarily successful in the later years of their respective careers as Emperor and as Jedi Master.

Hence: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus an Obi-Wan Kenobi are the same person. QED

I'm not saying you're wrong, but personally, I've run out of fucks to give about the whole debate. I have an opinion, sure, but I don't want to throw it into the sewage pool that is the discussion in this comment section.

Yeah, I know, but this one seems more vicious to me somehow.

My mistake is that I keep thinking the best of people, but after having been a cynic misanthropist for long enough, I'd prefer the regular disappointment over permanent bitterness.

What the fuck is this comment section even? Is vape vs cig the new Star Trek vs Star Wars, where fans of either side congregate to tear into each other with enough vitriol to make both vape and cig look healthy in comparison?

WarThunder is ripe with military nerds that love being right about their favourite tank/plane/whatever. Sometimes, these nerds have access to official documents proving that they're right. And sometimes these nerds go on to post classified military intel for the sake of being right.

I hope the government put services in place to help rehabilitate and provide those children with the mental heath and support they’ll need.

Why would it? Wait for them to turn criminal out of desperation and you've got a reason to ~~enslave them~~ throw them into prison where you can legally force them to work

Technically, I'm not new, just recently moved instance, but maybe mine delights you anyway? Assuming it's still there, idk how long it lasts.

pound the pavement

Gonna be hard around here. They recently fixed all the cracks.

With this single "conversation" they undermined every security deal they had anywhere in the world.

I disagree. If it was a single conversation the world would be shocked but they could still cover it up. Politicians say dumb shit and walk it back all the time.

It's the fact that his first term was already such a blundering mess in terms of diplomacy, combined with the fact that he somehow got re-elected, the accelerating bullshit ever since and now finally this mess. If they hadn't been chipping away at any international goodwill so thoroughly, the response would be closer to "I can't believe a US president would say that" rather than "the US as a whole is no longer reliable".