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Warning: contains spoilers for various Disney projects.
SpoilerPolice chief chooses to ignore a report of murder, so his deputy goes rogue, fancies himself a detective, and gets several cops killed and himself demoted while trying to investigate. Former deputy then fancies himself a hero and goes rogue again, stopping a government agent from getting killed, and gets himself promoted. Then, fancying himself a lover, he goes rogue by falling in love with someone way out of his league. Then, fancying himself a spy, he accepts a (non-rogue) assignment to get thousands of people killed, but quits when he realizes he's getting people killed. Then, fancying himself a rogue, he goes rogue and attacks the government agent that he saved earlier, then goes rogue on his rogueness by saving the government agent from the rogue who committed the murder at the beginning, but gets himself killed because the rogue was secretly wearing plot armor under his clothes. What a rogue move! Turns out the murderer-rogue was the protagonist the whole time, and in one final act of rogueness, he goes on to star in a rogue movie that's already been made, in which he gets himself and many others killed.
Hopefully by this point you know what I'm talking about. Also, "various" in this case means "two".
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On 6/21/2024 at 11:31 AM, king of nowhere said:
A girl kills her mother and her best friend (her refers to the girl, not to the mother; though forget about it, she actually also kills her mother's best friend); she let everyone believe her father did it, then she kills her father too. then she leaves on an adventure where she steals from her first mentor, she sinks a ship full of people that had been nice to her, and she befriends the woman who killed her first mentor. That woman becomes her second mentor, before the protagonist kills her too, too during a hectic trip in which she intimidates an honest merchant into giving away his wares for free, she acquires slaves, and she leads a gang of deserters and murderers - whom she'll help escape justice. all so she can reach a place where she meets a nice boyfriend, a third mentor, and a nice old dude who takes her in; needless to say, she'll swindle and manipulate all three - pointing them towards attempting genocide.
she spends four books learning to stop to feel bad about all the crap she does in those same books.
On 7/15/2024 at 7:02 PM, king of nowhere said:explotied laborer works for 1500 years straight without getting a single free day, not even weekends.
after 1500 years, she finally gathers the courage to actually ask for a free day, and she discovers she could have as many as she wanted.
in the end it's revealed her job was no longer necessary, but nobody in the department ever got the memo, and so she loses her job. And she causes her boyfriend and all her newfound friends to lose their jobs too.
Wait, even better: explotied laborer works for 1500 years straight at moving stones, without getting a single free day, not even weekends.
when she finally gathers the courage to ask for a free day, she and all her friends lose their job.
What are they?
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"Westley, what about the G.O.U.S.'s?"
"I don't think they exist."
RAWR!
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On 3/27/2024 at 7:35 AM, Lord Spirit said:Spoiler
Also fights a giant crab, fights giant frogs, sends his friend to run across a boiling lake, eats cheese with syrup, and meets a guy who's immortal because "tree powers, activate!"
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If you Give a Pig a Pancake:
SpoilerIf you give a pig a pancake, you'll want some bacon to go with it.
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18 hours ago, Spencer Nightshade said:
Also, "When some people need to get together and make their own country, they should say why they're doing that."
Any guesses on this one?
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1 hour ago, The Bookwyrm said:
Oh! I got it!
"Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do." - Kaladin, Words of Radiance, right before leaping into the unfair duel to help Adolin.
I can't believe I remember that. (EDIT: I really hope I got this right or it sounds weird.)
Here's mine.
"Being scared makes brain cells die."
I hope I'm doing this right.
"Fear makes you stupid"? I don't know if that's a real quote, but it sounds like it could be right.
Also, "When some people need to get together and make their own country, they should say why they're doing that."
Also, you're right on the first one. @S. Stormy is my sister, and she says so.
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4 hours ago, WindjoggerTriggerhappy said:
"Shallan and Nalan talking about Helaran" was just a random idea like "Truthless on the Toothless",but without the image.
Ah, gotcha.
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On 6/29/2022 at 10:24 AM, WindjoggerTriggerhappy said:
Shallan and Nalan talking about Helaran?
Truthless on the Toothless.
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No, there's no way... You didn't actually... Did you actually replace the Empire State Building with a giant inflatable replica?
1973, of course.
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49 minutes ago, ookla the quantificational said:
making an entire topic for a single meme
the audacity
the confidence
the sheer amount of mad lad energy
i am astounded and impressed
Haha, actually it's more just because I don't know how this site works
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Enjoy this meme.
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The Chosen (show):
A guy undertakes to start a revolution by teaming up with...-
His cousin who eats bugs and yells at preachers, along with two of his cronies
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A toilet maker
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A wine connoisseur
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A choir boy
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An assassin whom he instructs not to commit any violence
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A guy with a knack for building buildings that collapse
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Two belligerent hotheads
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A compulsive gambler
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A guy who works for the evil empire
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A con man who he knows is going to betray him
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And a possessed woman
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Alright, presenting... the 3rd (and final?) iteration of Starsight: the game. Again, not terribly high quality video, but hopefully it'll work.
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Alright, presenting... the 3rd (and final?) iteration of Starsight: the game. Again, not terribly high quality video, but hopefully it'll work.
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On 8/14/2019 at 11:51 AM, Ixthos said:
So, what is your favourite nerd jokes, science jokes, or humour obscurus?
How does Spider-man travel arround the city so quickly?
Three logicians walk into a bar. The barman says: "So, do you all want a drink?"
The first logician says: "I don't know."
The second logician says: "I don't know."
The third logician says: "Yes."
@Ripheus23 you might like this one:
What is an anagram of Banach-Tarski?
Love those last two! Mostly because I'm proud of myself for understanding them. Did you, by chance, get the last one from Vsauce?
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Way of Kings: Dalinar's plotline:
SpoilerGuy gets his army destroyed because what he thought was a live chat was just a pre-recorded message.
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Thank you!
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On 5/16/2017 at 1:31 PM, Nashan’Elin said:
How about this for Kaladin:
SpoilerA depressed man with an imaginary friend teaches his co-workers to fight, and then has them commit treason.
Makes it sound a little more weird, I think.
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Are there any drawings in Starsight like in Skyward? I listened to the audiobook. If there are drawings or diagrams in the physical copy, can someone send me pictures of them, please and thank you.
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On 9/15/2019 at 8:00 PM, Use the Falchion said:
Dead moms in the Cosmere, dead dads in the YA stuff.
This also works for Spensa, given her outsider status and rat-hunting.
For the YA books...all three start with the main character obsessed with a group that they've spent their whole lives around yet aren't allowed to join (Rithamitsts for Joel, pilots for Spensa, both Epics and Reckoners for David). They end up joining the group - or at least a fringe aspect of that group - and by the end of the book are the best in their skill group. Their social status has also changed by the end of the book (Spensa and David more dramatically than Joel).
Alcatraz is just weird. Awesome, but weird.
Right on the money. Wish I could give you another point for that.
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On 9/10/2019 at 5:34 PM, Lunamor said:
Arranged marriages that work out really well in the end seem to happen a lot, like with Siri and Susebron and Shallan and Adolin.
And Sarene and Raoden.
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Something my siblings and I came up with. Just imagine...
Cobb as a yoga instructor.
"Alright, today you cadets are gonna practice warrior poses 'til your scudding legs fall off."
"Kimmalyn, you call that a downward dog?"
"The krell are gonna eat you alive if you go into battle with this much tension!"
There. 10 seconds of your life that you'll never get back.
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Explain a Plot Badly
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Posted · Edited by Spencer Nightshade
Here's a REALLY long one which might intrigue the history buffs out there (or horrify them with all the historical distortions and anachronisms). Hopefully it'll be obvious what story I'm representing with these historical figures, but we'll see! Most people will probably already know this story, so the spoiler risk is low, but not zero.
Albert Speer kidnaps J. Robert Oppenheimer and forces him to help build a nuclear arsenal for the Nazis. As the nukes near completion, Oppenheimer convinces a guy named Itnom Semaj Nitram to deliver a message--addressed to Oppenheimer's daughter--to John Paul Jones, who he knows took in his daughter when he was kidnapped (but who, unbeknownst to Oppy, has since abandoned his daughter to fend for herself). Meanwhile, the Allies, hearing that Nitram plans to leak secrets over to them from their enemies, send an iron golem to go rescue Oppenheimer's daughter so they can try to contact John Paul Jones, who has been hiding out in Jerusalem.
A well-respected captain (who was trained by Francis Marion the Swamp Fox) takes Oppy's daughter (we'll call her Ginny) to Jerusalem, where they meet a couple of Knights Templar: David son of Jesse and Richard Gatling. But Jerusalem being the hotly contested territory that it is, all of them end up swept up in a skirmish against German Stoßtruppen as John Paul Jones's crew initiates a raid on the Nazis in Jerusalem. Ginny and the captain who was the Swamp Fox's mentee (let's call him Diego) are captured by John Paul Jones's pirates and taken directly to Jones himself, who has since concluded that Nitram's message is authentic after Nitram didn't crack under torture. Jones, knowing he can trust Ginny, gives her Oppenheimer's message, which states that if the Allies bomb a specific part of a certain building in the Manhattan Project complex (which is, of course, controlled by the Nazis; don't you know your history?), it will cause all the nukes to suddenly detonate at once, destroying Los Alamos, Germany. To find that spot, however, would require them to steal top-secret intel right from under the Germans' noses.
Meanwhile, Albert Speer decides to nuke Jerusalem. Ginny and Diego manage to get to their plane and escape just in time with David, Nitram, and Richard Gatling, but John Paul Jones is killed by the nuclear blast, and the entire city is destroyed. Heinrich Himmler then takes over the Manhattan project, and Speer is sent to the Bermuda Triangle to confront Oppenheimer about the leak.
Diego, Ginny, David, Gatling, and Nitram also head to the Bermuda Triangle, disagreeing about whether to rescue Oppenheimer or kill him, but they get caught in a storm and their plane crash-lands, so the US Air Force makes the decision for them. They swoop in and bomb the Nazi base where Oppenheimer lives, killing him, and Speer unfortunately escapes. Bad day for Ginny. Her team then hijacks a German aircraft and escapes.
They return from the Bermuda Triangle, and an urgent meeting of all Allied leaders is assembled, but to Ginny and Diego's chagrin, the only evidence they have to convince the Allies that there's hope to fight against an enemy with nuclear capabilities, is Ginny's word. The Allies are unwilling to undertake the insanely risky reconnaissance mission that it would take to gain a detailed knowledge of the Los Alamos complex and destroy it (that is, assuming that Ginny is even telling the truth and it CAN be destroyed in one fell swoop). The answer to Ginny's proposed mission is a hard no.
Ginny and Diego, unwilling to take "no" for an answer, carry on the roguish legacies of their American Revolution war hero mentors by leading a mutiny. The mutineers access the plane that Ginny and Diego's team hijacked earlier, and proceed to hijack it again, this time out of the hands of the Allies. They then use it to gain access to a remote Nazi island fort with a huge library of top-secret science and engineering data.
The mutineer team attacks the fort from the inside to draw the German troops away from the library while Ginny and Diego sneak in. Meanwhile, the Allied generals, seeing the mutineers' courage to attack the Nazi fortress on their own, and realizing this will be their one shot at getting the intel while the Nazis are caught off-guard, dispatch several battleships to attack the island. Ginny and Diego find the necessary information while the iron golem sacrifices itself to keep the German troops away from them. They have to resort to climbing the bookshelves to get to the book they need because the ladders are faulty, all while exchanging fire with Albert Speer himself and his personal guard. Diego is wounded in the firefight, but he manages to buy Ginny enough time to get to a fax machine to fax the detailed map of Los Alamos to the Allies. However, the intricate radio signal is blocked by the thick concrete walls of the fortress. Nitram, David, and Gatling are killed while hijacking enemy comms to inform the naval forces of Ginny's predicament. They just manage to get the message out before they die. The Allied naval forces receive the message and act quickly: because the walls of the fortress extend out into the ocean itself near the main gate, they manage to make an enemy battleship crash into said wall, causing a big section of it to collapse, opening a gap for the signal to get through. Ginny--joined by a battered Diego as he wards off Albert Speer's last attack--faxes the crucial map to the Allies. A German bomber plane then arrives, and on Himmler's orders destroys the Nazi base with a nuke, killing Ginny, Diego, and Speer.
As the overwhelmed Allied navy attempts to retreat, some soldiers aboard a doomed Allied aircraft carrier hastily print out the fax just as Wilhelm Keitel himself arrives, wielding a sword like a madman, chopping up soldiers left and right aboard the Allied ship. The beleaguered soldiers flee toward the nearest plane, narrowly managing to take off and escape with the map facsimile, bringing the world hope of being spared from a nuclear fate.