I was today years old when I learned that that is a feature in my phone keyboard (⁠✷⁠‿⁠✷⁠)

Thanks, kind stranger

But she’s so hot high-energy!

That’s one hell of a forbidden snack.

Do we have a forbidden snacks community anywhere on lemmy?

Fair. Iron Maiden was low-hanging fruit that I had ready in my mind. Some bands can go quite a lot more gruesome, from even more deathly scenes to… Well… THAT Black Metal album cover.

The first example that popped to my mind:

My mind immediately goes to gruesome metal album covers. Iron Maiden has some stuff with decaying flesh, exposed bones, and a ton of other stuff that makes the faint of heart go:

But those on the inside to go “heck yeah 🤘”

… Isn’t A^T, where A is:

[a b]
[c d]

just

[a c]
[b d]

I suspect that any modern force ambushed in a jungle, or any type of complex, unfamiliar terrain, by primitive fighters who know the place like the back of their hands will suffer.

There are stories of UK soldiers in the sixties being ambushed by a man with a scimitar, and it took them a while and several fairly serious injuries before they could line up a shot with their FALs.
Not to forget the Vietnam war which, despite the advanced force being a coalition led by the US, and said coalition resorting to torching the jungle and other war crimes, still ended being up a North Vietnamese victory.

The Endor force, while not outgunned, was maybe outnumbered and definitely outwitted.

The explanation for Stormtroopers’ shoddy marksmanship on screen in A New Hope is because Vader wanted Leia & company to escape, but by the skin of their teeth, so that they would basically drop their guard the instant The Falcon took off from the Death Star and not realise there was a tracker bug installed. If Vader just let them fly off unopposed, that would probably be hella sus, and they’d probably pull over at the first asteroid to find and chuck said tracker bug. So the Stormtroopers were specifically instructed to shoot to thrill, not to kill.

When faced with opposition without plot armour and reasons to keep them alive, Stormtroopers are fucking brutal, as seen in The Empire Strikes Back - Hoth was somewhere between a decisive Imperial victory and an Imperial Curb Stomp

Y’know, this is in this weird spot where it’s right between canon and as seen (which, by the way, can be explained even with canonical things). If it was truly as seen, the shots would have gone way wide. If it was truly canon, the Reps would be scrambling for a new candidate now.

Let’s also face it, if there’s a candidate that’s so divisive that someone looks at the massive security apparatus for people like him and still think it’s worth trying to assassinate him, that would be grounds - at least for me - to re-evaluate whether the candidate is the right guy.

We’ve missed the exit for the third-best timeline that still involves That Guy: the one where Donnie bites the dust before the elections. Unless someone fills the guy’s plane with Anthrax or something like that, we’re still on track for locking in the USA as a failed state.

(the second best timeline with That Guy would be the one where he simply loses the election. The very best would be where the DOJ makes something stick against him & he’s disqualified before the elections.)

That is so black, in order to pet it you must prove that you are not Anish Kapoor and that you are in no way affiliated with Anish Kapoor.

Inb4 AI suggesting to put glue on pizza

“Sure thing, boss!” The Lego minifigs said as they stuck OP into a furnace.

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO TOAD CYBER FISH

Why am I hearing this in the voices of Kirito and Asuna from SAO Abridged?

There’s a simple reason why you have to make up water mountains to picture the horizon:

Scale issue.

*Groans* Noon?

That’s so early!

Ours.

Turns out the only fire damage we had in our stash was an enchanted dagger.

In retrospect, I should have asked for incendiary ammunition. Among the five of us, we had at least three with guns. Or taken a bit of gas for our car to turn into Molotov cocktails. Ah well, it was a oneshot that happened more than a year ago.