BearGun

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Agreed, "to vague" just opens the door for abuse. Either for a zealous court to apply the law outside of what was intended or for a lenient court to let those who should be convicted slip through the cracks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

He's literally the king of the gods, don't think how things are for humans has any impact on his behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Intelligence is not a binary thing. There's loads of people in academia that are very good at the specific thing they study but are absolute morons about near everything else. Just because someone has a degree in business or whatever that does not mean they know jack shit about geography.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cave Johnson is that you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

And 12 and 16 years ago. Unfortunately they might break it for real this time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

He's offering to take part in the bread and circuses, as a friend, implying that he's suffering with bilbo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I mean no, they arose from their hiding in the depths of Angmar is definitely how I'd interpret that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I will not stand for this Pippin slander!

He resisted the will of Sauron himself for a bit, and even when hurt by him he told him a little as possible. Pippin very intentionally told Sauron nothing of their quest or of Frodo and Sam.

He's a fool, but a fairly intelligent, strong-willed and kind fool.

Good meme though.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

The cry of Morgoth in that hour was the greatest and most dreadful that was ever heard in the northern world; the mountains shook, and the earth trembled, and rocks were riven asunder. Deep in the forgotten places that cry was heard. Far beneath the ruined halls of Angband, in vaults to which the Valar in the haste of their assault had not descended, Balrogs lurked still, awaiting ever the return of their Lord; and now swiftly they arose, and passing over Hithlum they came to Lammoth as a tempest of fire. With their whips of flame they smote asunder the webs of Ungoliant, and she quailed, and turned to flight, belching black vapours to cover her.

It doesn't actually say anything about how fast they got there. "In that hour" simply means "at that time" here. On the other hand, they travelled "as a tempest of fire", which certainly implies magic and speed. Either way, with such inherently magical creatures as the Balrogs, saying that they cannot travel very quickly without flying seems somewhat naive.

Good meme though, always appreciate something that makes me go back to the scriptures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't think so, at least not meaningfully. Obviously it has a different meaning: tel- is seemingly a prefix that means "finish, end, be last", and orn means tree (can also be seen in his other name, Celeborn). So the meaningful pieces would be tel and orn, which means that the p might be less pronounced than an English person would normally do it, but it doesn't make much of a difference.

Tl;dr: he's just named Teleporno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Plenty of others complained, the difference was just that they could swallow the pill and keep playing. Linux players were just fucked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

She looks uncannily similar to the professor who plays host to Voldemort in Harry Potter 1

view more: next ›