I liked that song, it was one of my favourite songs of theirs to sing… Now every damn time that chorus comes on, this is how I’m gonna see the lyrics in my head… Cheers mate.
One of the best parts of Metal Gear is when they explain why the vampiric looking character that drinks blood is called “Vamp”. It’s because he’s bisexual.
God, MGS2 was a ride. "Also Vamp was having an affair with the buff blonde black US Marine colonel at the start of the game and now he's with that guy's daughter"
That was when Kojima truly realized that he could do anything he wanted
Or was that when he put an overweight explosives expert on rollerskates and called him 'Fat Man'?
I always figured Fat Man’s name was a double entendre for his appearance and a reference to the nuke dropped on Nagasaki. Fitting given he’s an overweight explosives guy.
I mean, Kojima can’t everything he wants, because he wanted to kill Snake and Otacon during his original plans for MGS2, but his staff pushed back and threatened to stop working if he went through with the plan.
Now, I may be biased as a long time fan, but I still play MGS1 every few years and I still love it. The first two (or four, depending if you want to count the NES games) Metal Gear games, those are far more outdated and are more a curiosity and are not really required to understand the story, especially with the interview / interrogation of Snake extras on the MGS1 discs.
And the later games are even less outdated than MGS1. I would recommend starting with MGS1 on the PS1 rather than it’s remake since while Twin Snakes was made under Kojima’s supervision, the more Hollywood action movie style of it and especially it’s cutscenes don’t IMO really fit MGS1. It’s a good game in it’s own right for sure, but as an adaptation/remake of MGS1 it’s kinda hit or miss at times.
Most of the other countries with problems don’t have their citizens walking around loudly declaring as a matter of average discourse that they are the “greatest country in the world”.
Ever seen Europeans on the Internet act like the way their country or continent does things is the only correct way, and North America is too stupid to realize it?
Sounds like you met Americans with money and time to travel internationally. That’s… not very many of us. I’d posit they’re some of the worst… most financially successful… but the worst.
Oh then you have met every American my bad. I should have known your personal experience equals everyone else’s and shows what every American is like rather than a shitty group that can be found in any country.
so you claim that portuguese run around, claiming theirs is the best country?
How about the austrians? Irish? Scotts? Danish? Polish? Czech? Croats?
Note: I wouldn’t ask about Netherlands or nordic countries (because imho IF they’d claim that, then they just might kinda have a good point) or the swiss (they can claim similar, I just wouldn’t follow their reasoning in the slightest).
Well, and there’s the English too…
But still: what is a good example in your opinion?
It is remotely true. Waving German flags at soccer games was essentially non-existent. Germans are more likely to identify as European rather than German, compared to other EU nations. If you ask Europeans “is your culture superior” people like Greeks say yes but people like Germans say no.
A good example would be the UK or France .They believe they are top dogs but, by US standards, they are impoverished.
Soccer games are like the only* socially accepted events where you can proudly bring out a german flag without looking like a nationalist. At world championship the whole city is a sea of black-red-gold.
I’m quite surprised.
Tho I’m not a soccer fan and therefore don’t know how that looks abroad.
*(hyperbolic; guess if we think more than a few seconds we could find more, nut that’s not that important of a point here)
When English civil Engineer Sir William Cubitt invented the “treadwheel,” he didn’t have fitness on his mind.
His device was used to reform convicts.
Prisoners were forced to climb the spokes of a large paddle wheel known as the “eternal staircase.” The resulting energy was used to pump water or crush grain (hence, the eventual transition from “treadwheel” to “treadmill”).
One prison guard claimed that it was the treadmill’s “monotonous steadiness, and not its severity, which constitutes its terror.”
The use of treadwheels was abolished in Britain by the Prisons Act of 1898. Years later, when aerobic exercise became popular in the 1960’s, the treadmill resurfaced.
Probably just outlawed it as a form of punishment or torture.
Using a tread wheel in a mill, crane or for dewatering is ancient, think Ancient Greece. Up until the Industrial Revolution, it was a major source of power where you couldn’t get flowing water on a consistent basis. Use for fitness doesn’t constitute torture by the state.
Most treadmills run on DC motors with magnets in them, so they could generate all the power you like if you pushed the treadmill and had the right controller.
I used to have a cheap one with no motor at all. It was slightly inclined. You just pushed backwards to get it started and it used your own momentum/gravity to turn.
I’m annoyed that the nice bike trainers don’t generate power, or at least have the option to. My Wahoo shouldn’t be drawing power from the grid, it should be supplying it!
It started out as a face but people started making the sound to make fun of the face but the people that make the face adopted the sound and now the entire area is quarantined due to excessive cringe levels.
We need to get like a daily award that we can give to strangers kind of like the free reddit awards you used to be able to get. It would nice edition. Don’t how you stop people from bot farming them though.
Not a calendarologist, but I’m pretty sure lunar calendars were tried and rejected for a reason. Other than the places that still use them for traditional reasons.
Of course, maybe they just didn’t have the concept of leap days?
It only comes out to 364 days so you’ll still need to handle that 1.25 extra days in a year otherwise it’ll drift. You could just add December 29th as a special day past Saturday, but then you lose sync with the moon, eg.if New moon was on Sunday the first in the previous year, New moon would be on December 29th instead of on Jan 1st the next year and all new moons would be on the 28th.
You can keep your calendar in sync with the moon or the sun but not both.
As someone who has proposed this system myself, I feel the need to point out that the meme is glossing over a couple key points:
First and foremost, 13*28 is 364 days, so to avoid slippage you’d need an extra day appended to every year, either as part of a month, which breaks symmetry, or on it’s own. You’d also still need leap years.
And in order for the days of the week to be immutably aligned with dates, these extra days would also have to not be part of any week. Which is a big problem if you want to get anyone who practices an Abrahamic faith on board with the plan.
What exactly would be so troublesome with having a “special day” outside of the usual week/month cycle? You can still go worship on whatever day of the week applicable to your faith. Just make the last day of the year its own thing. We can call it “New Years Eve” and party together.
It makes the calendar less than compatible with the commandment to keep the Sabbath by not working on every seventh day.
Which is not insurmountable in practice (e.g. by keeping a separate ecumenical calendar) but you can bet it would be a significant source of opposition.
But you’d be resting on the extra day, too (if you want, I for one will be partying). So you’d never go more than seven days without rest.
If that still doesn’t fly, I suggest we combine the extra day and the previous day into a mega-day that is 48 hrs long. Then everyone except programmers will be happy (we’re never happy with datetime conventions anyway, so what’s one more if-else statement between friends).
This is why I buy my grandmother her electronics. I can set it up so she has it ready when she gets it and doesn’t need to do anything.
Of course it’s also super easy to get her phone. Just tell her I need to do updates and then take it to another room to transfer everything.
My mom bought her an iPad 2 years ago. “I got a good deal. It was only $200” made me gag. Ya, my grandma uses apple cause it’s easiest but buying the cheapest apple product will not be a good time. She likes the iPad but it’s a 16g base iPad and the keyboard case she bought her is not a good fit. It requires a key combination to pair EVERY time since it doesn’t maintain a list of paired devices. And my grandma can only have 3 apps on her tablet before it’s full. So this year I’m getting her a new iPad with a decent chunk of storage which should last her a decade since she only emails and plays card games.
And you shouldn’t buy elderly people dumb phones, if they can read, they can use a smartphone and just getting them a feature phone, so they won’t break anything will just make them more digitally excluded.
My grandma has me buy, set up, and show her how to use her electronics. She tells me what she wants to do, I find a product, and she gives me the money to buy it for her. After everything is set up for her and I show her how stuff works, she doesn’t touch the device again. She hasn’t ONCE used the laptop she had me buy and set up for her. It made her happy, though, so that’s all that matters to me lol
I think the big takeaway is that there are no sides to the matter, even if it’s easier to empathize with one over the other, so the meme still stands on the empathy part.
The “antagonist” of the whole thing is that they both failed to communicate with each other. Which isn’t weird, Max is a teenager experiencing a lot of stuff for the first time, and Goofy is scared for his relationship with his son, having to be a single dad, and never raising a teenager before.
The major issue at hand is that Goofy might as well be a minor deity of extreme luck (good and bad), so normal child/parent friction turns into being attacked by Bigfoot while later becoming an integral part of a huge concert.
The major issue at hand is that Goofy might as well be a minor deity of extreme luck (good and bad), so normal child/parent friction turns into being attacked by Bigfoot while later becoming an integral part of a huge concert.
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