Founder and lead developer at Overclocked Abacus Games
At least it’s still got its accessories.
The question is, as always, why not a buttplug?
How close did we come to being a footnote in the history of a future species that would happen upon our ruins ten thousand years from now? Would they indulge in the fiction of their own immortality until the Shivans came for them? And how long had this gone on? Did the Ancients stumble upon the monoliths and the tombs of their predecessors in this distant corner of space, dismissing the warnings carved into the walls of the sepulchre? And when the destroyers came at last, what did the Ancients think as they sifted the cremation of dust and bones, staring into the mute remains for a key; some solution to their plight?
What if there had been countless races stretching back into infinity? And like the nine cities of Troy each civilization had been built on the rubble of one that came before. Each annihilated by the Shivans.
The Ancients died eight thousand years ago, as humanity emerged from its neolithic infancy. They believed their voyage across the sea of stars awoke the dragon that slept beneath the waves. That the Shivans were birthed from the flux of subspace and their destruction was the revenge of an angry cosmos.
“But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that’s going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.”
There isn’t a Luke equivalent. That’s kind of a big change.
No Han or Chewbacca equivalents, either.
Herbert kept writing Dune novels until 1985.
Star Wars and The Hidden Fortress aren’t that similar. There’s some clear inspiration in some aspects, sure, particularly with the Droids, but the overall plot evolved into its own thing.
It provides much-needed roughage and essential inks.
Or this Rat King.
No, Colonel Sanders, you’re wrong. Mama’s right.
With a proprietary connector, unfortunately.
/usr/bin/stone
Good. While the number’s been generally trending upwards it’s been unsteady and there have been plenty of months where it went down. If it went back below 4% this month we would have had endless posts about how the earlier milestone was a fluke.
Hopefully when the next backslide does happen (and it will) it’ll stay above 4%.
The problem is that they’re still largely perceived as being the best ever. The American founding fathers are pretty much deified, and it’s still expected that important policy decisions will be made based on what these centuries-dead aristocrats thought rather than based on what’s needed in the here and now. Other countries don’t do this. I’ve never in my life heard a politician try to attack or defend a position based on what John A. Macdonald would have thought of it, but in the USA that sort of thing happens all the time.
There are times I’d go with Reddit (or at least pre-exodus Reddit; I haven’t been back there much since the APIpocalypse,) particularly when politics are discussed, but posts like this show where Lemmy shines.
Amiga.