So then what’s the difference between “the gods” and something purely fictional, in your view? Because if there is none than this whole thing seems like just an exercise in surface-level semantics.

Personally I think George Lucas’ idea of what the Jedi were changed some time between '83 and '97. From Obi Wan’s description it sounds like Anakin was recruited as a young adult starfighter pilot by Obi Wan personally, and that Obi Wan had been recruited and trained by Yoda personally, and that the whole Jedi order was a secret society of space wizards discretely passing their skills down to each generation along with their commitment to defending the Republic. Maybe you’d hear about them or see a video of one using the Force, but it would be easy to just think that they’re an urban legend and that the people who actually believe in that stuff are cranks.

But then the Prequels hit and it turns out the Jedi were a massive cult that was deeply embedded in the bureaucracy of the former government, so some things didn’t make sense anymore after that.

Both his and Vader’s boss, Tarkin, was in the room, so I think the main reason he did it was office politics. The Death Star represents the new Imperial doctrine, while Darth Vader represents the old guard He was trying to push Tarkin into favoring him over Vader, and pushed a little too hard.

if she says “no” it’s r*pe

things that shouldn’t need to be said, but…

Mostly Japan and California, so no.

That whole generation of Adult Swim programming was incredible. I don’t think they had a single show in like ten years that I didn’t love, and I still return to them all the time as my “comfort” shows.

BREAKING: All of Europe is on alert as a guillotine is being erected outside of French Parliament.

Coward mods deleted my post saying the same thing.

Same here. I guess I really don’t know what it’s like not to know who one of my parents is, but I really feel like if I learned that I was related to five hundred other people my reaction would just be mild amusement.

Don’t prospective parents choose which person’s sperm they want? I’m guessing this guy is super hot, super rich, or both.

Imagine being so spineless you can’t even reinstate a 2015 Obama administration rule.

I can’t imagine working in a hot place and not having one person in charge constantly handing out bottles of water and reminding everyone to hydrate. I guess I’ve been lucky with my managers and supervisors over the years, never met one who didn’t take this stuff seriously.

It needs another category, “Attempted European Colonization”.

You’re technically correct.

I suppose Japan and South Korea get off on the technicality that they’re puppet governments of an anglo country rather than the colonies of a European one.

that we fought to protect you from the French

highly flexible use of the word “protect” there.

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It’s been a long time since I went down a water slide.

I don’t think Tarn has ever recoded to allow multi thread processing, so everything runs on a single CPU core (my info may be out of date)

Dwarf Fortress started adding multithreading last year along with an engine update. This is in large part to Tarn hiring outside help to work on the Steam release, and the game has never been better.

I also wanna say that the Steam version packages a full tutorial which will get you off the ground and also cleaned up a lot of the old game logic that was inconsistent and confusing (like how some rooms were “rooms” and others were “zones” and still others were “places”), and now I’d say that getting a base up and running is pretty intuitive since most things work just about the way you’d expect them to and it’s only “hard” if you intentionally make it that way by embarking on a dangerous biome or doing a challenge run.

You’ll still die a lot though, 'cuz that’s the fun part.