The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Scribe]

Gah. I have a really good and topical joke to make on a thread that would almost certainly get me in trouble with the mods. SO TORN!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

@Dannyalcatraz View attachment 291462

Even most of us lawyers ONCE had a soul.

…and some of us have bargained well enough to have several.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Even most of us lawyers ONCE had a soul.

…and some of us have bargained well enough to have several.

Semi-relevant side comment:

I'm currently running a superhero game, and one of the well-known villains is a woman named Faustina. Faustina did something no one else had done, at least on her scale: she made a deal with demonic forces for power, but where her options were to act as a selling agent to get further souls (she had to get enough, of course, or forfeit her own). What she ended up doing was setting up a spiritual pyramid scam; she offers power to others, but they have to do the same thing she did (and don't get as much out of it) and so on down the chain.

She's been pretty successful.

 

[CleverNickName]

Part of an actual conversation on the construction site today. The contractor and I were talking about the congressional hearing, and the conversation drifted over to Space-X, and Elon Musk.

Guy: Elon's a bastard but he's right about this much: this planet is screwed. The climate is collapsing, and if we don't find somewhere else to live, we're all doomed.​

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Me: You honestly believe the best solution is to find a whole other planet?​

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Guy: Maybe not a planet, but like a space station or Mars colony or something. (Elon) is the only one trying. So yeah. I'm cheering for the guy that is at least trying to save us.​

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Me: Save "us"?! I don't know which is more farfetched: Elon Musk successfully building a space colony? or that we will get to live there with him if he does?​

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Semi-relevant side comment:

I'm currently running a superhero game, and one of the well-known villains is a woman named Faustina. Faustina did something no one else had done, at least on her scale: she made a deal with demonic forces for power, but where her options were to act as a selling agent to get further souls (she had to get enough, of course, or forfeit her own). What she ended up doing was setting up a spiritual pyramid scam; she offers power to others, but they have to do the same thing she did (and don't get as much out of it) and so on down the chain.

She's been pretty successful.

And her supervillain name: LuLaRoe.

 

[Ryujin]

Part of an actual conversation on the construction site today. The contractor and I were talking about the congressional hearing, and the conversation drifted over to Space-X, and Elon Musk.

Guy: Elon's a bastard but he's right about this much: this planet is screwed. The climate is collapsing, and if we don't find somewhere else to live, we're all doomed.​

​

Me: You honestly believe the best solution is to find a whole other planet?​

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Guy: Maybe not a planet, but like a space station or Mars colony or something. (Elon) is the only one trying. So yeah. I'm cheering for the guy that is at least trying to save us.​

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Me: Save "us"?! I don't know which is more farfetched: Elon Musk successfully building a space colony? or that we will get to live there with him if he does?​

Yeah, pretty sure we've already seen how that would turn out.

 

[Scribe]

Part of an actual conversation on the construction site today. The contractor and I were talking about the congressional hearing, and the conversation drifted over to Space-X, and Elon Musk.

Guy: Elon's a bastard but he's right about this much: this planet is screwed. The climate is collapsing, and if we don't find somewhere else to live, we're all doomed.​

​

Me: You honestly believe the best solution is to find a whole other planet?​

​

Guy: Maybe not a planet, but like a space station or Mars colony or something. (Elon) is the only one trying. So yeah. I'm cheering for the guy that is at least trying to save us.​

​

Me: Save "us"?! I don't know which is more farfetched: Elon Musk successfully building a space colony? or that we will get to live there with him if he does?​

This is part of the great grift that is going on right now. People have actually been convinced they are part of the future that is being planned, and not just another piece of the machine to be used and replaced.

 

[payn]

Part of an actual conversation on the construction site today. The contractor and I were talking about the congressional hearing, and the conversation drifted over to Space-X, and Elon Musk.

Guy: Elon's a bastard but he's right about this much: this planet is screwed. The climate is collapsing, and if we don't find somewhere else to live, we're all doomed.​

​

Me: You honestly believe the best solution is to find a whole other planet?​

​

Guy: Maybe not a planet, but like a space station or Mars colony or something. (Elon) is the only one trying. So yeah. I'm cheering for the guy that is at least trying to save us.​

​

Me: Save "us"?! I don't know which is more farfetched: Elon Musk successfully building a space colony? or that we will get to live there with him if he does?​

Somebody has to mine the rocks.

 

[CleverNickName]

Somebody has to mine the rocks.

Ain't that the truth.
Ten bucks says Elon Musk doesn't even know how to hold a pickaxe.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ten bucks says Elon Musk doesn't even know how to hold a pickaxe.

I know an emerald mine where he can go practice.