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An-cap is literally just feudalism with extra steps. It's the default state of every oppressive cyberpunk dystopia for a reason.

The tiny void beans!

@Konsi -- How do you take your coffee?

I think my grandmother would slap me in the head from beyond the grave if I said that, but that is a good one. XD

Heck yes book turret buddies.

Mine is utterly mundane: I want one of those little tower nook things like on Victorian houses. I think it's just called a turret?

Don't all laws, by definition, infringe on liberty?

Innocent feline falls victim to an unknown assassin.

I only go back sometimes because I find more cute anime content there than here.

Despite being half Cypriot, I don't speak much Greek. Apologies to actual Greeks who realize how badly I'm butchering my transliterations here; my ancestors would be ashamed. (Most of them would probably just laugh at me though.)

That said, one of the funnier ones that used to go around in my family works like this: You yell for me from across the house. I respond "Di?" ("What?") And you yell again, usually meaning I should come over to wherever you are. Again, I say, "Di?" ("What?") And in exasperation, you respond, "Si kephali su tribidi!" (Your head is full of holes!) with emphasis on the last, matching, syllable as if to say "that's what!"

It sounds like something they would say in Arabic. Arabs have the best insults.

That's amazing.

I'm really torn on whether or not I think The Inner Light should've had more of an effect on him.

The crux of the issue is that in his actual life he was a career guy who never made time for a family.

So, on the one hand, living that life could've fulfilled his dream and made it so he could dedicate himself to being Starfleet with no regrets. In a real way, he got to have both.

But on the other hand, if he dismisses that entire life as a hallucination and doesn't embrace how it felt, it could make his longing-for-a-life-he-never-had that much worse.

Seeing as we never saw him have a complete breakdown over it, and only mentioned it later on in First Contact that he had any regrets about being the last Picard, I can only assume the former was true. (Leaving aside Generations. Why are the odd-numbered Trek films always so goddamn weird?)

Yeah. I feel like Avatar: the Last Airbender did a better job of explaining how that is supposed to work than the Jedi Order ever did.

"What? Two Chakras ago love was a good thing!"

Here's my take on it: love is a good thing. Attachments that you can't accept life without are a bad thing.

Anakin suffers not because he loves Padme, but because he can't accept that she is mortal, or even that she could divorce his arrogant ass at any time. It's not the fact that he has attachments that leads him to the Dark Side. It's the fact that he would be destroyed by the loss of his attachments that does.

If he could have balanced his love for Padme with the acceptance that she was, ultimately, temporary, then he would have been able to have both, safely. We know this because Jedi families -- even whole-ass Jedi dynasties -- were a thing in the Old Republic. Notice how Nomi Sunrider has descendants kicking around well into the New Republic era, and she never fell.

Too much love, not enough acceptance, and you get Darth Vader. Too much acceptance, not enough love, and you get Ki Adi Mundi (see above re: why he is a terrible person).

Graaats!!!

Fun fact: Tom Paris was originally intended to be Nick Locarno, until they realized they would have to pay the writers of that episode royalties every single episode... At which point they just filed the serial numbers off and we got "this guy who totally isn't Nick Locarno."

No one could fake being that cute.

The US Postal Service in New Jersey was beyond useless. In person and on the phone. Whether I was trying to buy a money order or address a case of package theft, the amount of "because fuck you, that's why" I got out of them was absolutely ludicrous. And the attitude that went with it! Holy hell, why would you put someone in a customer service role who sounds like they hate all living things that much?

Switch to Geico. I got rear ended a couple years ago and they took care of everything. They even offered to book a rental for me. I thankfully didn't need it at the time, but my every interaction with them has been utterly painless. One of the few businesses I will unapologetically shill for because they legit took care of me when I needed it.

"I didn't ask how much damage it dealt, I said 'Contingent Wings of Cover.'"