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  • I was under the impression that Slytherin was about ambition, not just cunning. You have to not only be cunning, but also be ambitious enough to want to use that cunning to get one over on everyone else. Even Horace Slughorn used his cunning to further his own position, and he was considered the ‘best’ Slytherin in the book, so that’s their best foot forward!

    Oh well, could be worse, you could be in Hufflepuff, which consists almost entirely of the ‘boring’ students. The rejects, the terminally useless, the basic bitches.




  • Yahtzee’s book Will Save the Galaxy for Food actually covers this, in a sci-fi way. In the future, all transportation is done via Quantum Tunnelling, so guess what job suddenly became obsolete? Space pilots. Space pilots now only exist because people have nostalgia for the old days, reducing pilots to little more than tour guides and adventure holidays.

    It’s like in those MMOs where you can teleport basically anywhere, but you still have mounts and yes you can travel from one end of the map to the other on your horse, admiring the scenery, or you could just click the coordinates someone pasted into the chat to get to the world boss you’re supposed to kill for the most optimum play… Lookin’ at you, Guild Wars 2!




  • The thing is, back in the day, you couldn’t just look up ferns on the internet, you actually had to go looking for information on ferns specifically, and it’s very likely that after a lot of really annoying visits to various libraries looking through botany textbooks, an author (or a group of authors) decided they were going to collate everything they found about ferns and stick it in one collection.

    So when someone else comes along and goes “I need to know something about a very specific fern”, the librarian can go “You want that 8 volume encyclopedia on ferns over there” because they know that it has every single fern on the planet in there, and you don’t need to spend 8 hours looking through every botany textbook and making the room smell like cheap coffee.

    What I’m saying is it was probably done out of spite, not genuine interest.



  • You know why the drones in Ukraine are on super long fibre optic cables? Because it turns out it’s really easy to jam them and the only way you’re actually able to get a clean signal is through a cable. Either these robots are gonna be easy to jam, or you can cut the wires leading back to their handler and they’d just stop working.








  • To be fair, it’s both. It basically just says “Don’t invoke God’s name unless it’s important”. Don’t swear by God unless you actually mean it, don’t call out his name in thanks unless you genuinely believe it, and so on and so on.

    Tbh it could have just been God going “You know how you get a ping when someone does an @everyone on Discord and it really annoys you? Yeah well I get that whenever someone uses my name, so knock it off unless it’s important!”