/r/onesentencehorror
/r/onesentencehorror
The RW obsession with the term “elites” in place of more concrete labels kind of says it all imo. They take for granted the idea that there’s a group of special, better people out there, but the world has granted that status to the wrong people.
I think both are true. Most people hold a contradictory mix of compassion and vindictiveness toward prisoners and haven’t thought enough about it to work out the cognitive dissonance so you can get them to go either way depending on context and priming
This is also my pitch for a potential Rogue Squadron movie but with old Wedge Antilles and Norra Wexley. We need to just keep swapping this sequence back and forth forever
You can cook corn on the cob but unless you hide every knife in a 1-mile radius there’s no way I’m eating it on the cob
FUPA researcher, reporting for duty! Wait, never mind
And the vast majority of us would get where we’re going faster on average with less traffic caused by speeders and weavers
Fellow Idiot backs them up, suggesting that someone, somewhere, might be spraying pesticides to protect these nigh-indestructible invasive weeds in public spaces
Wordle Bot shitting on your guesses and then revealing it got the answer slower
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Beautiful And Terrible As The Dawn. Stronger Than The Foundations Of The Earth. All Shall Love Me And Let It Go
Instead, please believe the word vomit of this AI trained on social media posts
Reeks of “I didn’t get laid in college and the stupid sexy professors must be why (it couldn’t be related to me being a repellent dweeb”
Not totally convinced that Sacha Baron Cohen morphing into a manosphere doofus is real and not part of his next undercover comedy project
Glad to see a healthy contingent of Shermanposters on BlueSky
Make the 2028 primary debates streaming-exclusive so they can all have unlimited f-bombs. Seriously.
As with media or activism, they assume that influence trickles down from a handful of elite figures/institutions at the “top,” because that’s how they operate and it’s their only mental model for systems of any kind
I hope Bluesky never figures out the shit that I’m actually into because having a third of my feed be wild card posts that I only half understand is just too entertaining
Shhhh Lin Manuel Miranda might hear you
If they’re making a sequel to The Social Network, the title should just be “Social Network”
Tweet #3 is basically that Spider-Man panel about turning people into dinosaurs. They could try to make the bill less terrible, but the problem is: they just don’t want to. Weird thing to admit
Now now, let’s say it was something that gave users a false sense of security while drastically increasing the lethality of any attempted self-harm. If such a device existed, surely conservatives would want to heavily regulate them, right?
Sounds like an opportunity to put facial recognition software to good use for once
Noooo why’s he lifting that boy like a toddler
F Murray Abraham, Marry Elizabeth Winstead, Kill Ian Murphy
At a gas station and the espresso stand is playing the Sunday Night Football theme song on their speaker. It is 9:27 am on a Friday.
It’s the Democratic Peace Theory flipped on its head. If liberal democracies are less likely to go to war with each other, that must also be true of dictatorships (it is not), so the best way to avoid war with dictators is to behave like one (it is not)
With a game remake they could lean into different genres with the route splits to reflect the different POV characters. Locke’s path becomes a stealth action game like MGS, Sabin’s path becomes a beat ‘em up, Terra’s is more classic RPG. Bonus: Moogle Tower Defense!
That’s what I had learned too. Goodwin takes it further and (without directly saying so) makes the case that McClellan was actually quite canny and his “cowardice” was deliberately calculated to damage his rivals and elevate his public reputation, with thousands of American lives as collateral
I think there’s a lot of names to put under that banner from the Obama/Biden eras. Way too much emphasis on the appearance of stability and loyalty at the cost of pursuing the agenda.
She had some smoke for Buchanan in those early chapters too. I went from thinking he was merely incompetent and cowardly to potentially traitorous
Reading Team of Rivals really made it feel like McClellan was the unsung villain of the Civil War. Pretty much the moment the Army of the Potomac was under command of a general who actually carried out the President’s orders, Lee got his ass folded like laundry.
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That’s been the core approach to modern GOP coalition building, creating a permission structure for that exact self-delusion. Hell of a lot easier and unfortunately more effective than actually reckoning with and resolving intra-party differences.
F Murray Abraham? Ok, who are the marry and kill options
I saw vampirism as more of the post-colonial neoliberal melting pot rather than colonialism itself. It offers a certain relief to the oppressed, but at the cost of the individuality and authenticity
Why aren’t there any superheroes that fly feet-first? Seems like an oversight
Brian, I think you just invented the circus tent
Its very obviously coordinated that they’re all suddenly now pretending like overseas manufacturing is frivolous plastic junk and not, like, all basic home appliances or lifesaving medical equipment
Best movie about 2 brothers driving around reconnecting with their musician buddies and jilted ex lovers until a climactic action sequence just kinda happens since
Pale ales that don’t punch you in the face
The inseam length on shorts isn’t usually categorized as a size option but as a separate style.
Or maybe because high level men’s sports are so much better funded that even youth sports are treated as feeder programs?
Even then I feel like the level playing field expectation gets disproportionately applied to girls’ and women’s sports out of paternalism. Boys get a bad beat from a better-resourced team? Learning moment, time to toughen up. Same thing happens to girls? Injustice
The role of the pie crust in a high quality pie to the face gag is badly underappreciated.
Meanwhile the list of teams that have gone to multiple Super Bowls with different QBs within a 5 year span is just as long
I just don’t think that’s a realistic way to think about building a franchise. How many QBs have actually led the team that drafted them to multiple Super Bowls more than 5 years apart? A handful, mostly last century.
Which seems insane. 4-5 years of top level play bookended by a few years of rise/decline is basically best-case scenario for any other position, but for the most important player on the field that’s not good enough?
And when the growth started leveling off publishers spent the last 10 years chasing MTX as the path to profitability. Too hopeful to think the upfront price increases are a sign that bubble has popped?
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And was $60 really a meaningful benchmark of value to you when you were a kid, when you didn’t have to think about spending that amount on groceries or car loan payments?
A $10 increase seems like a pittance compared to the order of magnitude more breadth and depth games can offer compared to 20-30 years ago. But do you have the time to dive in and fully experience it in long, uninterrupted sessions the way you did when you were 12?
I think holding the $60 price point for AAA games for the last 30 years allowed a lot of people to simply not think about the changing value proposition as they became adults with less free time and money.
Ok but if you’re willing to acknowledge that it most likely happened by accident, then you must ask yourself where an accident is more likely to occur: in a highly controlled environment or an uncontrolled one?
To be fair a lot of people manage to be racist about the market origin too. Plenty of “can you believe how they eat over there?” undertones
If you put a “+30 secs” button on a microwave I guarantee that’s the only button I will ever use
Let me guess, he grew up listening to the music of fellow Seattle natives Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic
Someone should tell that dentist what happens to a 1yo’s teeth
“We” is doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting here. Those are different jobs performed by different people who happen to share the same overly broad job title.
More action movies should have a 5 minute golf break where the caddies are racist caricatures
I think those movies were 100% just a product of Tom Cruise’s power struggle with Paramount over the Mission: Impossible franchise and probably belong in that Blu-Ray box set
Edge was quietly the best big name browser for a while until they started shoving Copilot into everything
That’s both insulting to the world power that 1980’s China was to suggest it could have been subverted by the CIA, and also boils down to a classic abusers’ “look what you made me do” defense.
It’s hard to cut spending because the reasonable cuts have already been made by reasonable people. When austerity becomes an end to itself you get increasingly unreasonable people making increasingly unreasonable cuts
Come on Kendrick do something memorable, preferably directed at that one guy in the stands
How to Train Your Dragon with live action humans and completely unchanged dragon designs seems like the worst of both worlds to me?
Should’ve been hands to the face, not OPI
I think it was the first FPS to achieve more or less perfect “feel” on console. Controls were responsive, precise, and satisfying. Campaign mode, on the other hand, felt like they turned in a rough draft of what could have been
When you hold a button and vacuum them all up after a fight
Change starts at home, my friend. Here’s a corgi in an igloo if that helps
It seems like you’re asking other people to change their behavior while framing it as though you’re the one being imposed upon. That just cuts against how social media works—other people’s views get injected into your feed, and it’s incumbent on you, not them, to deal with it.
Until then, stay tuned and we’ll be back after this commercial break, unless you change the channel or turn off the tv
Lexi: I can’t stand these bitches like Suzie Toot that just focus on themselves and can’t throw shade Suzie: Lexi, i just wanted to say how inspiring you are. Also, Kori, your drag is busted
lol at all the replies of people thinking they’re agreeing with your sentiment and then naming a Zelda title
Speed demon is going to be unplayable in 60 cards formats. Tapping out on turn 5 and pinging yourself while doing nothing to help the board but add a barely-on-rate creature is going to get you killed even in Standard
Yeah I have trouble with any discourse that treats fictional characters as whole beings, but especially for video games where it’s not even the author but the player who gets to decide the terms of their existence.
Ah ok so you personally want to feel better. That’s what’s important right now. Your feelings
Who will that help?
We’ve seen what happens when boring moderates try to transform themselves into progressive champions through empty virtue signaling. You want more of that?
Yes I said that in my first comment. If you don’t like what I’m saying then give a better reason or block me
We tried having everyone on the social media soapbox all the time last time, it led to the leadership crisis that played out in the primary where a dozen of the party’s most promising leaders and a few no-name schmucks all dragged each other into the abyss. Let someone take the backseat sometimes
She’s never really been a media figure and I don’t think every elected politician needs to be—legislating is her job. I’d rather keep the spotlight focused on our most effective messengers to help them differentiate themselves and build national profiles than a chorus all shouting in unison.
Big “Joe Exotic finding out an employee got their arm ripped off by a tiger” energy from that quote
Notoriously arid country, England
Constantly shifting commands lead to chaos and low morale in the real world, so why does the RTS genre reward the player for it?
I think the key to accessibility is finding ways to actually reward the player for setting automated loops in the macro to allow them to fully snap into micro for critical engagements. Right now all the incentives point toward “be everywhere doing everything all at once”
Indoor social spaces being even more critically important as climate change expands the regions of the country that are intolerably or even lethally hot or cold for half the year
The movie with the current best shot at breaking the Crowe curse? You guessed it: The Pope’s Exorcist II
The only way to get a sequel to a Russell Crowe movie is to kill off his character in the first movie (Gladiator II, Snyder Cut). If you even hint that he might return, your franchise is doomed (The Mummy, Thor: Blood and Thunder, Kraven).
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What if there was a secret third way a person could spend their time?
The surgeon:
Weirdly getting a kind of hopeful bounce from this. We’re a nation of conspiracy theorists who prefer the truth to feel rebellious. Media institutions trying to participate in the resistance was counterproductive. These shifts might get us back closer to 2005
Anyway, I was in your shoes earlier in my career and learned over time that the teaching is pointless. They’re testing waters to see who they can offload work to so if it’s in your job description just send them the pdf and if it’s not then just refuse.
I mean that just further demonstrates that it’s not an age thing. I guess I could’ve said “shitty institutions that encourage people at the top to remain ignorant because their underlings will be forced to pick up the slack” since that’s not unique to politics.
I don’t think age is really that much of a factor. A 75 year old today who worked a regular white collar job would have had a good 15 years with email in their workplace before they retired. Its a politics problem
“Just keep trying buddy you’ll figure it out” is not really a productive response to accessibility concerns