I feel like Scroll of Immolation could cause an exploding plague that would plausibly wipe out the entire population of anything more than a moderately large city where the population density was high enough.
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There was a Superman: The Animated Series episode where someone put a bomb in Clark Kent’s car (or something like that) and it went off and the episode dealt with him having to come up with a plausible explanation for how he survived.
10·3 days agoThe original study is from University of Arizona, linked in the article.
Well, shivering from cold is probably indistinguishable from shame and uncontrollable murderous telekinetic rage, so you were good!
[Monkey’s paw curls finger]
Wish granted! The ticket will be Hillary Clinton with John Fetterman as her VP!
The chain emails copied it out of Reader’s Digest.
6·12 days agoWe do one more layer, so it’s called 5-3-1.
Person A picks five options.
Person B eliminates two of them.
Person A selects one of the three remaining.
We alternate who gets to pick the five.
Cockroaches do a lot of litter cleanup out in nature. I worry about what might happen if they vanished. But those malaria mosquitoes can fuck right off to Hell as far as I’m concerned.
I think about this guy and also Admiral “There Are So Many Uncharted Settlements” Ozzelfrom Empire sometimes.
My pet theory is that, from their perspective, Vader is primarily a gigantic pain in the ass. He has no official rank; he’s just the Emperor’s buddy. But he’s constantly commandeering Imperial resources, up to and including entire fleets, diverting them away from carefully coordinated military planning, because he has “a feeling” that some survivor of Order 66 is hiding out on some backwater.
So then the entire damn fleet needs to go on a side quest, possibly destabilizing some other part of the galaxy where they’re supposed to be part of a blockade ordered by the Admiralty, and Vader goes down with a platoon of expensive troops and equipment, and maybe even a bunch of them get killed or lost, and Vader flies back up to the Star Destroyer and announces “mission accomplished,” because he managed to kill one guy that no one has even heard of.
So now the fleet is out of position, the Admiral is probably all pissed off because his orders got overridden, and you better believe that neither Vader nor the Emperor is going to hand out any medals for any of this. And God forbid Vader doesn’t find the guy he’s looking for! If that happens, he’s even more pissed off than usual, and liable to cause even more property and personnel damage when he gets back to the ship. You’re trying to run a fleet and subjugate a galaxy, and the Emperor and his Best Buddy with no discernible military experience whatsoever are constantly screwing it up with their weird personal vendettas.
So it’s no wonder that the serious-minded military types are totally fed up with them, and maybe this guy figured that now that they can blow up planets they won’t have to tolerate any more of Vader’s bullshit.
There’s an odd moment in Attack of the Clones. Anakin and his mother are “slaves.” But they live in a multi-room dwelling all by themselves and Anakin has enough free time and resources to work on both a pod racer and a DIY protocol Droid.
My theory is this: in Star Wars you are either self-employed (like Boba Fett or Max Rebo), part of a military or quasi military organization, a business owner (like Dexter Jettster), or… you are a “slave.”
Their definition of “slave” ranges anywhere from literal chattel slavery all the way up to anybody who is employed for wages, the alternative to which is dying in the street. Their language just reflects the raw reality that it’s only a matter of degree that separates chattel slavery from wage slavery.
Perhaps you could get AMD to pay you $35 billion for the hypothetical potential of amusement later on.
Confirmed: Thomas Midgley Jr. was trans.