I can see trump believing something so stupid as that, and putin might saber rattle about it, but the majority of the world, and china/india especially in this situation, probably would not go along with it. Europe still has functioning nuclear capabilities. Putin does not want nukes hitting his country, full stop. China does not want a nuclear situation kicking off with their neighbor to the north, and knows that the US under trump would likely turn on them despite a war ruining both countries. India no more wants china controlling the waters to their east than the countries immediately around those waters do, and would likely cause issues, which china also doesn’t want. As we’ve seen in the modern times with ukraine and some of the middle east conflicts and the india/pakistan border, nuclear powers tiptoe around anything that resembles direct conflict. The recent dogfight over the border was a pretty good idea of how reserved even ‘open’ conflict is.

So putin is likely not going to do anything more than a symbolic grunt at his western border, and china will just slowly weather down taiwan if the u.s. is withdrawing its influence. The idea of reunification isn’t THAT taboo in taiwan, and the candidates for it gather a decent chunk of votes. If the u.s. starts acting like a bitch around the world (oh, gee, just look at what’s happening right now), the sentiment towards it and china could easily see a rapid shift.

I mean “get away with” as in they think they can do it in a half-assed manner. In a movie, as you mentioned the director is a wannabe film director, you don’t just throw in sad music and expect the audience to ‘buy into’ the quality of the scene. You have to craft the previous scene, and set up the flow into the current scene, and have decent dialogue, decent acting, decent lighting, decent sound, etc. etc. etc. If you just half-ass it and throw in sad music, the audience is going to either realize you’re just trying to jank with their emotions in a sloppy manner, or be completely pulled out of the experience.

The walking in furi may have been okay if it was just in one section, or had waaay better dialogue rather than eye-rolling pseudo-philosophical wanking that was actually interesting to pay attention to during the walking… but making it a repeated thing? It was annoying. It ruined verisimilitude. It made me angry that I couldn’t make the character decision to just stab the dude cosplaying as a rabbit right in his rabbity face.

I loved furi, but damn those walking sections just made me roll my eyes. Developers think they can just get away with forced slow walking to build atmosphere.

40? Don’t quote the old magic to me, not-wizard. I was there when it was written… and can probably dig out the year 2007 or so meme to prove it!

Only with your consent.

Because otherwise the cops get called when I get that good hit in.

As a kid, I always preferred the knex. Something about the blockiness of legos has always seems… I don’t know, just boring to me. I want the long spindly plastic not-tubes that barely resemble the stick figure drawing I made of crap!

F you.

if you write it how people would really act… just a guy killing other guys with a book

I mean, yeah,sure, but if you wrote it much like reality (ignoring that the supernatural killing bit isn’t like reality), then light’s plan wouldn’t have worked in the first place. To me, that was the biggest suspension of disbelief. The credible threat of prison, or execution, doesn’t stop crime now, why would it in light’s world?

The method of death can be specified, and it never says that you can’t summon a moderately sized bomb, or a virus that only kills under very specific circumstances. We’re dealing with the supernatural, let’s go a little wild.

…honestly, it never said you can’t make the deaths wicked cool, man, so why don’t we have a pile of gold fall from the sky onto our hated enemy that just by happenstance happened to be near me. Strange how the gold is mostly gone, officer, but I swear, it was like a dragon’s hoard or something.

The dog loves me, my blankets hug me, and my hair ties itself in knots. One day I’ll get to that picture’s level.

You shouldn’t ask questions that cast subtle shame like that. The poor trees are just doing their best to survive out there, and you’re trying to get them to compare themselves to the great elder trees like redwoods?

/for_shame_on_you

/whoosh

I think the tactical issue should have been the giant flashing neon sign.

It’s interesting to hear how people’s experiences differ so much. I couldn’t get endeavor to work on my laptop (absolutely nothing would launch after the install), but manjaro was the definition of ‘it just works’ for me. I’d love to stop having things break because manjaro holds back updates for a week.

That makes me sad. Bazzite just refused to install on my new laptop (as did several others, amusingly) so it was back to manjaro for me.

Less if you replace your tongue with a snail’s radula.

Fucking cream with berry liqueur flavors are always on top.

“Sounds like a problem for someone else to solve”

-coprophiliac enablers everywhere

I’m pretty sure many of the ‘upscale casual’ fast food restaurants sell them. I know I’ve seen them at several of the ‘bakery themed’ ones.

Why would I suck the ice cream? Ya’ll telling me you can’t like the ice cream fast enough to prevent it from melting?

You might be mashing it in your memories with the super crispy / sugar coated / super thin waffle cones you get at something like a creamery store in an outlet mall? Those would snap like a crisp chip with a book dropped on it if you dropped them.