Pronell @ Pronell @lemmy.world

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It was Heinlein taking the "only veterans should be able to vote" to a logical end. A society that's always at war because the ruling class are all military.

The opening pages tell you the reality - land on planets and nuke the bugs, even if there's intelligent life there. And use all those nukes, we don't want to bring those back to the ship. It's heavy and inefficient.

After that, we step into the eyes of a high school student being indoctrinated.

Heinlein wrote the book extremely well, but many fail to see the whole picture. He didn't approve nor disapprove. He just took a stance his father had always held and crafted a world where that was the reality.

I'm a fifty year old man with supportive parents and a good circle of friends... and I still struggle, every day, to like and be at peace with myself.

So not only am I proud of you, and many others in here, be proud of yourself. Give yourself the credit that you know what you didn't get and have persisted throughout your life knowing it should have been better.

I think a program like big brothers / big sisters would be really beneficial to you. You'll get the chance to be for someone else what you never had.

You know the importance of it. Be that light for others. It's a nice feeling.

I'm not a Dad because I always figured I'd be a terrible one. But my wife and I took someone in who needed a ton of help... and I'm not qualified. But now I'm kind of a Dad, and I chose to be. I'm still not a good one but it doesn't much matter because if you're trying, you're likely doing well enough to make a difference and make someone feel valued and worthwhile.

"Bunny! Ball ball!!"

Hudson Hawk.

Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello are cat burglars who synchronize their movements by singing, which does not seem at all subtle or stealthy.

It's batshit insane. But it's also very fun. I saw it in the theater.

True enough, but season one stands very well on its own, and I enjoyed seeing where the show went next after that, though at a greatly diminished rate.

Used to be Westworld, but they pulled it so I haven't rewatched in a while.

The hobo code and hobo nickels made it into the game too. It was fairly comprehensive.

John Hodgman wrote the book The Areas of My Expertise, which has a list of hobo names for some bizarre reason.

Kingdom of Loathing, in making a multi-player clan hobo dungeon, used that list of names as a random hobo name generator, and then named the boss of the whole place Hodgman, the Hoboverlord.

I went to a standup show where Hodgman was supposed to do a set and he had cancelled, replaced with Brian Posehn. Brian was also awesome but I really wanted to tell John Hodgman how he inadvertently saved my life.

Now the details of how you get that specific item are even weirder but I'm done phone typing.

I once helped someone get a Hodgman's Imaginary Hamster and in return he gifted me a few IRL pot plants (Super Lemon Haze, a damn good strain) that I used to pull myself and my Dad out of a pit.

Game inadvertently saved our lives, and I still haven't gotten to thank John Hodgman.

(Yes, the game is that insane and silly. Getting that damn hamster requires at least 10 people working together.)

Very good and very silly game.

To prove it's safe, he will have... Don Jr do a line in a live conference.

Games have been around the $50-$70 mark my entire life.

It's a sad reality, but I expect prices of major mainstream games to go up, regardless of tariffs.

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For me it was universal from the get go. My parents told me there's a whole lot of religions all around the world and I thought "Well then all of them must be wrong."

It's expressed as anti-Christianity because that's the one that affects my daily life.

Hey, when you remember these things, think of yourself fondly. You said yourself you learned from it and grew out of it. Don't be down on yourself about it - "What a cringey kid I was," but forgiving. "I was a weird kid. I mean I still am, but I got better."

Remembering stuff warps the memory, taints it with how you feel at the moment. so don't continue to beat yourself up. Be nicer to you. That self-forgivness and kindness will pay off.

They weren't trying to deliver it.

You were being taunted.

They will never tax the rich without taxing passive income.

But of course they're also going after the little guy first.

Unfortunately his behavior continued on set. Creepy dude.

But his character wasn't meant to be creepy, and I need to remember that from time to time.

My heart is with you.

This was never my fight, but I was always vaguely supportive.

But about a year ago my wife and I invited someone into our home and lives, and we had no idea how terrifying that would get for them.

So yes, I echo some of your fears. How do I protect them should people show up wanting to disappear them?

How do I deal with that fear without projecting it onto them, when they're dealing with enough?

I was never a parent and yet now I kinda am, and I have a tiny sense of what you're going through - from Minnesota.

Just don't watch the movie that followed the series. It's not worth it.