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"... It's always made me laugh when people talk about being fans of "the Fallout franchise" which is nine games in six genres made by seven studios. At that point what you're a fan of is the logo... "

#out of context quotes #fallout

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"... The biggest tragedy of the civil war is that people remember the confederacy, because Sherman didn't burn enough of it to the ground..."

#out of context quotes

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This is such a fantastic power move in the episode!

Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989)

#star trek #tng

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All ccops are bastards. That includes moderators.

hilarious drama going on on reddit, the least respectable social media site i use. someone goes to r/legaladvice with a question about a shitty interaction with a cop. pretty normal post.

some users replied with regular advice, but one r/legaladvice moderator came in saying it was OP's fault, defending the cop. when OP requested they "please read the post", they equipped their next reply with their little mod hat and told them that showing attitude would result in a ban.

after receiving hundreds of downvotes (and many replies, all of which were removed and banned), the r/legaladvice mod nuked the thread in a fit of anger.

so you'd think it'd stop there, right? well, that's where you're wrong.

there's another subreddit called r/bestoflegaladvice, where the more interesting r/legaladvice threads are reposted for audiences to take the piss out of. and of course, a mod throwing a tantrum and nuking a thread because they were asked to read would make that cut. so it was reposted! and of course, everyone started rightfully calling the mod a bootlicker.

people then started pointing out that the r/legaladvice mod team has cops on it, at which point, part two of the drama starts: some people are mods of both r/legaladvice AND r/bestoflegaladvice, and they get really mad when you call them cops (derogatory).

so of course, they take the best course of action, which is to angrily reply to comments calling them cops and then use mod powers to delete the comments they don't like, insisting that only ONE r/legaladvice mod is a cop, so it's totally fine!

the r/bestoflegaladvice thread was then deleted and locked by mods, presumably for "republicizing deleted comments".

the same thread was then reposted to r/bestoflegaladvice. again, the thread fills with people calling the r/legaladvice mods cops.

this thread was also deleted and locked by r/bestoflegaladvice mods.

but it doesn't end there! because there's ANOTHER subreddit called r/subredditdrama, where the juiciest drama from all manner of subreddits gets reposted. and you'll never believe what's gone on long enough to count as drama.

here, free from the shackles of reddit's legaladvice world, users were free to dunk on the mods as much as they want.

the r/subredditdrama thread was eventually deleted as well (but not locked) just because they don't accept links to nuked threads since the original can't be read, but thankfully, everything had been archived by that point.

and just because the streisand effect should never go unrealized, i'm reposting it here, to tumblr. who knows, maybe someone will bother to screencap this and put it on r/curatedtumblr, and it will eventually live on in reddit again.

as for OP, they reposted their situation to r/nostupidquestions and later posted this update:

moral of the story: never go to reddit for legal advice, because the legal advice subreddit is run by ONE cop.

#Acab #Reddit #all cops are bastards

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#scifi art #fantasy art

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"... Is Todd ever going to address the problem where this show contradicts my fanfiction, which I consider to be canon?"

This is basically what all of the complaints about the new Fallout series sound like. All of your posts are almost interchangeable with the shit from the old No Mutants Allowed forum.

#fallout #fallout tv series

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"... just like how people from New York City are convinced that bodegas are so special that nobody in the rest of the country has ever seen a convenience store and cannot conceive of 'em, people from the UK are convinced that they're the only people in the world where the roads are rural and annoying to drive on... "

#out of context quotes #driving #road travel

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I love this.

My oil painting of a Happy Meal

#painting #noah verrier #still life #still life painting #oil painting #mcdonalds #happy meal

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Road Trip 2k24: Part 12 - Arches National Park

The fourth and final national park on the trip.

I think I burned myself out on the natural beauty of the American Southwest because I didn't even spend a full three hours at this one.

Don't get me wrong, it is a gorgeous area, the day was perfect, etc, I just... Didn't feel like doing anything here. I didn't go on any hikes. I stopped at a few of the outlook points, took some pictures, and then headed back to Moab for lunch (shout out to Pasta Jay's! Great pizza.)

Moab is a tourist trap and it needs to add left turn signals to the traffic lights.

#road travel #road trip #Road Trip 2k24 #arches national park #moab #utau #nature

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Road Trip 2k24: Part 11 - The Liminal Space between States

So I'm driving towards my next destination and I need to make a pit stop. The last services were about 80 miles behind me, when appearing like magic out of the desert was the above sign.

The place had a weird vibe. Maybe it was because the intentionally built the Inn on the state line so that the Utah side could have cheaper gas and the Nevada side could have the last possible casino on the highway. Maybe it was because the lady behind the counter looked shocked that someone walked through the door and bought some powerade.

Maybe it was the glitched out prices for gas. Hell, maybe it was the actual fucking phone booth!

I bought my powerade, checked my phone (which, for a place that was 80 miles from anything else in either direction had full 5g coverage), and moved on to my next stop.

Hell of a view though.

#road trip #road travel #Road Trip 2k24 #nevada #utau #liminal #liminal spaces #Highway 50 #The loanliest road

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Road Trip 2k24: Part 10 - Tonopah

So I needed a place to stay after visiting Rachel and my next stop would have been way more driving than I was comfortable with so I found a interesting place to stay in the middle of nowhere Nevada.

You can probably guess where I stayed since it's the only reason anyone outside of Tonopah even knows the name of the town. (Almost as weird as this motel is the fact that there are like three other hotels in the town.)

I'm sad to say that I can't recommend staying here. It's a 2-star motel that charges 4-star prices due to the novelty of the theme. There's also nothing else to do in the town other than go on the motel's own ghost hunt.

The guide, Chris, was a really nice guy but honestly the ghost hunt was really a lot of nothing. It seems the only things haunting the clown motel are the ghosts of deferred maintenance and the gaseous remains of something I ate near Zion.

This was the door to my room (supposedly the most haunted room in the motel) and the rest of what I saw was in similar condition. This place still uses physical keys for the locks.

Unless you are a huge fan of paranormal or the motel's theme I'd then it's not really worth the stay.

#Road Trip #road travel #Road Trip 2k24 #nevada #middle of nowhere

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Space Balls, never far from parody land

#space balls #mel brooks #the schwartz awakens #may the schwartz be with you

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Road Trip 2k24: Part 9 - Little A'Le'Inn

So there's this motel/bar in the dead center of the middle of goddamn nowhere called The Little A'Le'Inn.

The only reason it's not an abandoned building in the middle of the desert is because it's physically the closest business to the conspiracy theory hot spot Area 51.

That it. It's not a good motel, it's not a good restaurant, it's not a good bar. Fuck, it doesn't even have a decent gift shop. Unless you are super into UFO stuff there is no reason to drive all the way here from Vegas.

On the trip here (a stop on the way to a different town in Nevada) I did learn that Tikaboo Valley is where the two different species of Joshua Tree meet.

Which is neat. I'd have taken more pictures of the valley but I was attacked by a horse fly almost as soon as I got out of the car.

#road trip #road travel #Road Trip 2k24 #aliens #ufos #nevada #middle of nowhere #area 51 #joshua tree

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Road Trip 2k24: Part 8 - Zion National Park

The third national park on my whirlwind tour of the southwest is truly awe inspiring! I think I already called the grand canyon that but I mean it for both parks.

I don't think I'd be able to tell you which park was my favorite. They're both physical manifestations of the beauty of time, nature, and geology.

I managed to hike about as much of the trail here as I did at the Grand Canyon, but this was a more pleasant hike because it was about 15 degrees cooler.

I loved it and I'm definitely coming back again someday.

#road trip #road travel #Road Trip 2k24 #zion national park #American southwest #national parks #Nature

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Road Trip 2k24: Part 7 - Arizona highway 89A

Someone recommend that since I was traveling between the Grand Canyon and Zion to take 89A instead of 89 and goddamn is this a beautiful stretch of the Earth.

It's a breazy drive through an incredible valley.

And then you get to these glorious windy hills that overlook everything!

It only added five or so minutes to the drive so I'm recommending it as well.

#road trip #road travel #Road Trip 2k24 #arizona

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Road Trip 2k24: Part 6 - The Grand Canyon

Go in April, go first thing in the morning to Hermit's Rest. You'll practically have the trail to yourself.

I have to admit both a success and a failure. A success in that I did hike multiple miles of the rim trail. A failure in that I didn't manage nearly as much of the trail as I hoped I could before I was sucking wind and my legs and feet started seriously hurting.

I have poor physical fitness. I had been walking a mile and a half trail at a local park multiple times a week for months and I thought I was ready. I was not.

The combination of poor fitness and high altitude (there's seriously not enough air in this air) kicked my ass.

But it's also motivated me. I'm going to come back to the Grand Canyon and I'm going to complete the rim trail. It might take me a year, it might take two, but I'm going to get myself into good enough condition to do walk the entire thing in one day.

That's the goal and the promise. I will be back here someday.

#road trip #road travel #Road Trip 2k24 #grand canyon #hiking #nature

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"... Discovery and Picard are just about telling very vapid stories about the fate of the universe that carry less weight than an episode about Quark becoming an arms dealer..."

#out of context quotes #star trek #picard #discovery