GraniteM @ GraniteM @lemmy.world

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Sing, sing, that thing can sing!

Reapportionment Act of 1929

No person ought, or of right can be compelled, to attend any religious worship, or erect, or support any place of worship, or maintain any minister, contrary to the dictates of his conscience.

--Vermont Constitution, Article 3

Wish we could have got that one in the national Constitution.

"______ Resigns Under Pressure From Trump"

Fuck you, make him work for it! Make him fire you, then sue for wrongful termination! Don't just politely get out of the way so you can be replaced by some goon who will happily do the horrible thing you're resigning in protest of!

Yeah, but D&D also has spells and potions of shrink / enlarge that don't make players start drowning in atmosphere their lungs are too small to breathe or collapse under their own weight due to square cube law restrictions, so there's definitely some magical physics at work in there.

Use every procedural tool in the box to gum up the works. Demand full debate on every motion. Demand full roll call votes on every vote. Democrats respecting norms and Republicans exploiting them is what got us here, so it's time to turn that around on them. There should be no weird, underhanded, but technically permitted delay tactic that Democrats aren't using until they get enough popular support behind them to actually do something meaningful.

In for a penny, in for a pound.

If you go through years of education, learn nothing, and all you get is a piece of paper, then you've just wasted thousands of hours and tens of thousands of dollars on a worthless document. You can go down to FedEx and print yourself a diploma on nice paper for a couple of bucks.

If you don't actually learn anything at college, you're quite literally robbing yourself.

My version of this would be to run a campaign on the basis of "You know Joe Manchin, and how he's an absolute thorn in the side of the Democratic Party? Well, how about we elect a Republican version of him, who is technically a Republican but who is a goddamn pain in the ass for the Republican party! Vote for me, and I'll live rent free in every Republican's head and drive them absolutely fucking crazy!"

For those confused and thinking that the Wicked Witch of the West was somehow aging backwards after faking her death and escaping from Oz:

Alexander Siddig, Doctor Julian Bashir is the great-grandson of...

Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Fahal (Arabic: محمد أحمد بن عبد الله بن فحل; 12 August 1843 – 21 June 1885) was a Sudanese religious and political leader. In 1881, he claimed to be the Mahdi and led a war against Egyptian rule in Sudan, which culminated in a remarkable victory over them in the Siege of Khartoum. He created a vast Islamic state extending from the Red Sea to Central Africa and founded a movement that remained influential in Sudan a century later.

"My great-great-grandfather fought in World War I."

"Cool, mine was a messianic figure who freaked out the British so much that they destroyed his tomb and threw his bones into the Nile."

Step 1: Ban porn.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit

Which will work fine until they are no longer needed. Once they've given all their power to the fascists, they'll suddenly find themselves very much redundant.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Broke: Nothing matters.

Woke: Nothing matters!

Bespoke: 🎼🎶🎵 Nooothing! 🎶🎵 MAAAaaatters!! 🎶🎵

Should have signed up for the Floating Island of Mandango.

Fascists: [Shouting in Fascist]

Advertisers: Eeuggh, I don't want to give them any money!

F: You have to give me money!

A: We really don't.

F: Yes you do, because I only want you to give me some money! In fact, I'm asking for less money than other companies!

A: Yes, but it's not a matter of how much, it's a matter of I don't want to give you any money at all.

F: Bleeeh! I'm going to call my lawyer!!!

If 800,000 government workers go on strike just for starters, with who knows how many more in other fields striking in solidarity, there won't be enough cops in the world to make them all to back to work.

You know what I miss? The Ultimate Alliance games from the PS2 era. Isometric view. Build a four-person team of Marvel characters. Some team combinations grant group buffs, like having all four members of the Fantastic Four will increase your XP gain. Equip your characters. Pick from an array of comic canon costumes, each with their own abilities. Some combinations of equipment or costumes will also grant bonuses like having everyone wear their Age of Apocalypse costume.

The whole thing is an action RPG where you play through some big comic book crisis. Lots of opportunity for villain and hero interaction. Cool cinematics.

It's a rock-solid platform, but I don't feel like I see it used nearly enough. I remember playing an Ultimate Alliance on 360 and it just wasn't as good; smaller roster, fewer costumes, less interesting in general, despite the better graphics.

I vaguely recall hearing something about one on the Switch and that Midnight Sons was a bit similar... but then again I don't recall hearing much else about those games except for their existence, so they can't have done very well.