Transporter Room 3

Honestly, this right here is the main reason I don’t believe any real-world bending would end any way other than Earth Kingdom dominance. Peaceful dominance, hopefully.

You can’t wipe out their infrastructure as long as someone is alive who knows how it’s done.

Oh, fire nation bulldozed your house because they felt like it? Well boom. Stomp stomp punch. New identical house made of stone.

Bridge collapsed to cause chaos? Stomp stomp punch, it’s back.

Don’t feel safe living out in the open where fire nation scouts could murderhobo you harder than my last D&D group? Stomp stomp punch, now you have a vast mansion underground in which you can simply… Not go above ground until you need to.

Of course, underground living isn’t simple as “hole in ground, hide all day” but still… There is 0 reason the EK shouldn’t go full Vietnam War tactics.

Demo ranch. Started making comments about the George Floyd protests and I was out

AvE started praising the trucker convoys

Shadiversity got super homo/transphobic and also is just an arrogant douche since his book.

When I was in highschool I was home alone at an apartment complex, already riddled with anxiety, and would never answer the door.

Cops started banging on the door one day and it sounded like they switched to kicking at one point. Bellowing about how they’ll arrest anyone inside unless we open up.

They went around back and started banging on the glass sliding door when it didn’t slide open, which would of course have been claimed to be open the whole time I’m sure.

The management office across the street had left minutes beforehand, and one yelled about getting the keys, went over to bang on that door too.

After about half an hour of me frantically trying to get a response from my sister or parents, the former ignoring me because higshcool siblings, the latter were on a date night, they got really quiet and all hurried away. I assume someone finally realized they were in the wrong place. Were it any other situation I would have had things handled, but I was not prepared for cops.

Management got pissy about the boot scuffs all over the white door, and refused to believe it was cops since “police don’t make mistakes” (whitest boomer Karen you’ve never seen said this) and demanded we pay for the damage. My parents stuck by my story. Ultimately management just repainted everyone’s doors and trim a month later so it didn’t matter.

ACAB/ALLAB Combo right there.

As long as you rake in the cash quick enough, you can be rich before anyone realized that you’re the problem.

And now you’ve got money to pay people to beat them into submission when they complain.

Of course you have absolutely no way to know this, but comparing it to a murdered puppy is just about the worst thing to do today of all days, so that is just about as unappealing as it could possibly be to me. (family pet was put down and the person who took her to the vet didn’t tell anyone else it was happening today)

The only other episode, I think, that could top the emotional feels for me anyway, is the episode in S05E06, The Shrine.

Losing my memory and intellect is a huge fear of mine, and my grandfather was starting to show signs of alzheimers for years before he died. So not only is it stabbing at a fear of mine, it also pokes that “it’s someone YOU’VE SEEN BEFORE so it’s RELATABLE” feeling.

I like to think of myself as kind of like McKay. Even the arrogance, unfortunately, although I like to think I improved upon that since my 20s… Maybe nowhere near as smart, obviously, but the personality traits and such. And his difficulties he has getting close to people, the emotions he conveys when talking to/about Dr. Keller, it’s just all a big woefully well woven tapestry of perfectly crafted shit storm that doesn’t just on my heartstrings. It straight up snaps them.

“my name is MISTER Rodney McKay”

“come on, You’re DOCTOR Rodney McKay. Remember?”

“No, I’m not anymore… I’m not smart anymore and doctors are smart… I’m mister now.”

I can’t even make it to the opening theme.

I told my wife when we get to “a certain episode”, I’m gonna go do something else. She has to watch it because it’s an important episode, but I can’t watch it with her.

I can semi watch shows I have seen before while at work (can’t focus on a new show, but if I already know what’s going on it’s nice to have going) and when I got to this episode, I had to skip it.

I knew there was no way I could keep it together that day, not with that episode.

I can’t even imagine the guilt Rodney must have felt daily.

“I should’ve just gone fishing with him…”

I was about to say, “what do you mean ‘old days’, I’m still playing!”

This game will outlive DOOM being run on things.

Or more likely, someone will figure out a way to play one in the other.

JUST

DO IT

Hell, make it 100%.

All countries

100% import taxes on all ICE

Make people demand EVs

Motivate countries to produce in-country.

And if you take a hit to performance (you will) you might get fired! And then all that was for nothing.

Honestly I think if that happened to me I’d fire the building. From existence.

He was usually in 3, and in DS9 when Picard catches him before he disembarks the Enterprise, he leaves from 3 and Picard mentions it’s O’brien’s favorite transporter room.

There may or may not be a few patterns in storage…

“Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice”

What do you even do if your office gets burned and melted by a volcano? Do you take a week “off” and all meet up in a new space? Do you look for a new job? Like damn, if the warehouse I work in burned down I’d be completely out of a job unless I can move 1,000 miles away.

The Picard Maneuver, flying squid, Riker…

Basically anyone who posts to Chevron7 or Ten Forward who has a profile picture… I recognize the pictures more than the names for most.

Personally, I don’t want people to remember me, I just want someone to go “hey, I know what your profile is in reference to! Nerd-five!” and be on about our business.

Do… Do people care what the REAL scarlet Johansson, Jennifer Aniston or Elton John have to say about Ukraine defending itself and it’s people against a fascist invasion?

I mean, I find their stuff entertaining, sure, but like… Why would I listen to their tactical analysis in the first place?

It is whackamole, but every time you smash a mole, the next ones are much smaller and spread farther apart.

Good point.

So, sink into a subduction fault, or launch into the sun?

… Which was my original point…

Yes, and we can see how well not burning them to the ground is going.

That’s been working out so well so far.

The only way to keep them accountable while actually ensuring compliance is to burn them to the ground if they step out of line.

It changes based on who needs to be completely unconscious vs who needs to be able to move in short order for plot purposes.

I’m sure they could also hand-wave an explanation about how much energy you have to do things, so fresh from sleep and a good breakfast with coffee might make you feel like you liked a power line but you’ll be up in a minute, but if it’s 3am and you haven’t eaten since lunch, your ass is out.

I go with that as headcannon.

Like I totally get how offensive it is, and why seeing it would piss plenty of people off.

I also think the streaming services should just put a disclaimer with the whole “different time/part of their humor/not our views/blah blah blah” spiel.

Then show us the episodes.

The shows and movies should be viewed for all their flaws, as well as everything else.

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia comes to mind, specifically, when typing this.