That doesn’t answer anyone’s question.

What about being sexually abused by an older family member makes it a better punchline?

The ‘plap plap GET PREGNANT’ meme, but with a therapist shouting:

h’whut with h’whomb?

What??

What didn’t the dragon say?

Everyone still on Twitter

This does sound like a Marvel mutant? I think his name was “Furnace”? He had no jaw and his chest was flaming energy?

Edit: That was not his name:

Jono Starsmore, also known as Chamber, is a mutant who possesses mutant abilities including the generation and manipulation of concussive blasts of psionic energy from a furnace in his chest, telepathy for communication and mental manipulation.

Ah yeah, of course not. Who would live in a hellscape where having an apartment to yourself is a fantasy?

Ay, you live in Boston too?

You…

What’s your stance on tiny tomatoes?

Magic is cool. But don’t pick the one used primarily by evil if you don’t want to be judged.

Like, you can thunk the rugged military aesthetic of WW2 is a vibe but if you only collect Nazi uniforms, you’re gonna be that guy.

I’ve read the Lord of the rings at least 6 times (all of them)… still I don’t speak elfish nor am I a miner by height.

What?

Both grammatically, and also towards its content as a response.

I assume this is supposed to mirror the start of my message. But my comment said “I’m certain the text doesn’t say that because I’ve read it.” You’re saying “LotR (stories about a war) didn’t teach me a new language nor did it transform me into a dwarf/child/some third thing generically good at mining because of their height”. If we have to call that a mirror, it’s a funhouse mirror at best.

I’m glad you picked up on the wordplay I used when talking about ancient Israelites genociding their neighbors tho. I was lowkey proud of that /s

A risk lay in the fact that users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones: in The Lord of the Rings, a palantír has fallen into the Enemy’s hands, making the usefulness of all other existing stones questionable.

They aren’t just “unreliable”. They are consistently described as a tool that it is misguided to use or trust because of how suspectible it is to being manipulated and how readily it, in turn, poisons the user. If a user isn’t wary, their world-view – when informed through the palantír – will be malformed through projected half-truths and misdirections.

Even if the “concept” of a palantír is neutral (saying nothing about a magical device that enables imperceptible surveillance), it is an astounding failure of literary analysis to not get why Tolkien included them as they are – with their consistent, negative representation – in his books.

I’ve read the Bible, m8, multiple times. Except for the parts in the Old Testament where it might tell ancient Israelites to harden their hearts while they genocide a really incompatible neighbor, nothing bends toward “feeling empathy is bad”. In fact, the need to tell ancient Israelites to “harden their heart” shows the expected reaction was for them to be empathetic and feel pity for their enemies, and the exception had to be noted.

Keep it pushing, if you’re just going to trot out “14-yo atheist” talking points.

Idk how the people that didn’t vote for this regime deserve to have this happen to them.

I refuse to believe a person can actually reason themselves to the position that empathy is a sin based on the text of the Bible.

Which means he’s a bastard willfully misrepresenting something to directly preach hate. Unconscionable.

Ah, I didn’t put myself in the mindset of a rapist who follows mandates set by a building’s sign.

We should probably put up more signs that strictly disallow rape in places, to catch out whatever subset of rapists we can.

…is it? Rape is occuring either way?

This is a great advertisment for what real developers do. You shouldn’t just crank out the first idea that works. You should be doing something that is smarter and sensible.

This has to be a joke…right?