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But 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything."
] |
>
Are you afraid of decimals, or something?
|
[
"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!"
] |
>
This guy decimally gets it
|
[
"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?"
] |
>
I'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.
|
[
"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it"
] |
>
I find the "... out 5" stupid just say 10
10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass
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[
"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality."
] |
>
Bro. Whachoo tryna say
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass"
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>
Sadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator.
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say"
] |
>
This is also the problem ^^
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say",
">\n\nSadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator."
] |
>
I completely agree with the idea that a denominator in a rating system should indicate its level of specificity. I think using integers instead of decimals makes more sense and is easier to understand. It's important to have a clear and simple rating system so everyone can understand it.
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say",
">\n\nSadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator.",
">\n\nThis is also the problem ^^"
] |
>
Bad bot
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say",
">\n\nSadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator.",
">\n\nThis is also the problem ^^",
">\n\nI completely agree with the idea that a denominator in a rating system should indicate its level of specificity. I think using integers instead of decimals makes more sense and is easier to understand. It's important to have a clear and simple rating system so everyone can understand it."
] |
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There is the programmer that hates working with doubles lol
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say",
">\n\nSadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator.",
">\n\nThis is also the problem ^^",
">\n\nI completely agree with the idea that a denominator in a rating system should indicate its level of specificity. I think using integers instead of decimals makes more sense and is easier to understand. It's important to have a clear and simple rating system so everyone can understand it.",
">\n\nBad bot"
] |
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3.5 out of 5 is reasonably intuitive: it's like 35 out of 50. Same goes for 6.8/10.
Actually it sounds better when you say 3.5/5 because you are dealing with small numbers. Three-and-a-half-out-of-five hurts less my brain and ears than thirty-five-out-of-one-hundred.
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say",
">\n\nSadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator.",
">\n\nThis is also the problem ^^",
">\n\nI completely agree with the idea that a denominator in a rating system should indicate its level of specificity. I think using integers instead of decimals makes more sense and is easier to understand. It's important to have a clear and simple rating system so everyone can understand it.",
">\n\nBad bot",
">\n\nThere is the programmer that hates working with doubles lol"
] |
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7 out of 10 works just fine though
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say",
">\n\nSadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator.",
">\n\nThis is also the problem ^^",
">\n\nI completely agree with the idea that a denominator in a rating system should indicate its level of specificity. I think using integers instead of decimals makes more sense and is easier to understand. It's important to have a clear and simple rating system so everyone can understand it.",
">\n\nBad bot",
">\n\nThere is the programmer that hates working with doubles lol",
">\n\n3.5 out of 5 is reasonably intuitive: it's like 35 out of 50. Same goes for 6.8/10.\nActually it sounds better when you say 3.5/5 because you are dealing with small numbers. Three-and-a-half-out-of-five hurts less my brain and ears than thirty-five-out-of-one-hundred."
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I don't always need nuance; I think the accuracy of a rating depends strongly on the situation, and the accreditation/alignment of the observer. Sometimes all I need to know is if someone is very satisfied, satisfied, neutral, dissatisfied, and very dissatisfied- as it depends on what is being rated and by what criteria. I see no problem with giving one aspect of a restaurant a 1/2 star when I'm judging it based on 5 categories such as location, value, service, appearance, quality.
If adjudication is contingent on detailed hard definitions, I'd find a /10 or /100 appropriate. If it's a subjective opinion, /5 is fine.
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say",
">\n\nSadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator.",
">\n\nThis is also the problem ^^",
">\n\nI completely agree with the idea that a denominator in a rating system should indicate its level of specificity. I think using integers instead of decimals makes more sense and is easier to understand. It's important to have a clear and simple rating system so everyone can understand it.",
">\n\nBad bot",
">\n\nThere is the programmer that hates working with doubles lol",
">\n\n3.5 out of 5 is reasonably intuitive: it's like 35 out of 50. Same goes for 6.8/10.\nActually it sounds better when you say 3.5/5 because you are dealing with small numbers. Three-and-a-half-out-of-five hurts less my brain and ears than thirty-five-out-of-one-hundred.",
">\n\n7 out of 10 works just fine though"
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This is truly a 5/7 post. Also I never thought of it before but I agree
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say",
">\n\nSadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator.",
">\n\nThis is also the problem ^^",
">\n\nI completely agree with the idea that a denominator in a rating system should indicate its level of specificity. I think using integers instead of decimals makes more sense and is easier to understand. It's important to have a clear and simple rating system so everyone can understand it.",
">\n\nBad bot",
">\n\nThere is the programmer that hates working with doubles lol",
">\n\n3.5 out of 5 is reasonably intuitive: it's like 35 out of 50. Same goes for 6.8/10.\nActually it sounds better when you say 3.5/5 because you are dealing with small numbers. Three-and-a-half-out-of-five hurts less my brain and ears than thirty-five-out-of-one-hundred.",
">\n\n7 out of 10 works just fine though",
">\n\nI don't always need nuance; I think the accuracy of a rating depends strongly on the situation, and the accreditation/alignment of the observer. Sometimes all I need to know is if someone is very satisfied, satisfied, neutral, dissatisfied, and very dissatisfied- as it depends on what is being rated and by what criteria. I see no problem with giving one aspect of a restaurant a 1/2 star when I'm judging it based on 5 categories such as location, value, service, appearance, quality. \nIf adjudication is contingent on detailed hard definitions, I'd find a /10 or /100 appropriate. If it's a subjective opinion, /5 is fine."
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"Everything should be rated on a scale of 0 to 1, and you can use as many decimal places as you want.",
">\n\nthis guy computers",
">\n\nI rate this post a: 1.357 out of 42.645",
">\n\nToo generous",
">\n\nI rate this post e out of pi stars.",
">\n\nDon't be so irrational",
">\n\nI'm just trying to be normal.",
">\n\nOk, I get your point, but there are a lot of big critics that have a set \"out of X\" rating system. Changing that daily/weekly would definitly confuse their readers.\n(In case you soley speak of private conversations, I agree with you)",
">\n\nTotally, for fixed rating systems where you're comparing lots of different things on the same scale, you should absolutely be using the same base denominator. However, if your system requires that level of specificity, the whole thing should use the larger denominator.\nIn your hypothetical, I agree that the critic should use the same base scale for all reviews, but if you want the nuance to differentiate a 7.0/10 and a 7.1/10, you should just use an X/100 scale for everything.",
">\n\nBut 6.8/10 is the same difference as 68/100, what's ur problem man? I like the integers and decimals. All numbers can get along in harmony. I rate stuff like 8/10 and potato/10. Yes, words work in harmony too!",
">\n\nAre you afraid of decimals, or something?",
">\n\nThis guy decimally gets it",
">\n\nI'm gonna give this thread a .468 out of .5. Very high quality.",
">\n\nI find the \"... out 5\" stupid just say 10\n10 is 100% ÷ 10 =10 so if u said sommat was 6 outta 10 then to me 60 % of it was gd to 40%not so gd where as out of 5 its just wxtra time consuming nd more of pain in ass",
">\n\nBro. Whachoo tryna say",
">\n\nSadly, a lot of people aren’t smart enough to know that 4/5 is more than 7/10 so they keep the denominator consistent. That way they only have to compare the numerator.",
">\n\nThis is also the problem ^^",
">\n\nI completely agree with the idea that a denominator in a rating system should indicate its level of specificity. I think using integers instead of decimals makes more sense and is easier to understand. It's important to have a clear and simple rating system so everyone can understand it.",
">\n\nBad bot",
">\n\nThere is the programmer that hates working with doubles lol",
">\n\n3.5 out of 5 is reasonably intuitive: it's like 35 out of 50. Same goes for 6.8/10.\nActually it sounds better when you say 3.5/5 because you are dealing with small numbers. Three-and-a-half-out-of-five hurts less my brain and ears than thirty-five-out-of-one-hundred.",
">\n\n7 out of 10 works just fine though",
">\n\nI don't always need nuance; I think the accuracy of a rating depends strongly on the situation, and the accreditation/alignment of the observer. Sometimes all I need to know is if someone is very satisfied, satisfied, neutral, dissatisfied, and very dissatisfied- as it depends on what is being rated and by what criteria. I see no problem with giving one aspect of a restaurant a 1/2 star when I'm judging it based on 5 categories such as location, value, service, appearance, quality. \nIf adjudication is contingent on detailed hard definitions, I'd find a /10 or /100 appropriate. If it's a subjective opinion, /5 is fine.",
">\n\nThis is truly a 5/7 post. Also I never thought of it before but I agree"
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Stand strong! It's ridiculous what Bibi is trying to do with the "reforms." I think he's just jealous their court isn't quite as corrupt as the US's
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It took Israelis long enough to finally figure out what Netanyahu was really up to. Stand together against tyranny and make your ancestors proud. Good people of the world stand with you in solidarity.
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"Stand strong! It's ridiculous what Bibi is trying to do with the \"reforms.\" I think he's just jealous their court isn't quite as corrupt as the US's"
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"Stand strong! It's ridiculous what Bibi is trying to do with the \"reforms.\" I think he's just jealous their court isn't quite as corrupt as the US's",
">\n\nIt took Israelis long enough to finally figure out what Netanyahu was really up to. Stand together against tyranny and make your ancestors proud. Good people of the world stand with you in solidarity."
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lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate
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These caps look like they feel so nice
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Mt3 profile is great
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice"
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Enjoy! Looks sick.
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice",
">\n\nMt3 profile is great"
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Thank you, what a feeling to return to it after work =)
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice",
">\n\nMt3 profile is great",
">\n\nEnjoy! Looks sick."
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Lol get a case and bring it to work if you work at an office. Sounds lame but that’s what I do lol
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice",
">\n\nMt3 profile is great",
">\n\nEnjoy! Looks sick.",
">\n\nThank you, what a feeling to return to it after work =)"
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Geekboards squad ✌
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice",
">\n\nMt3 profile is great",
">\n\nEnjoy! Looks sick.",
">\n\nThank you, what a feeling to return to it after work =)",
">\n\nLol get a case and bring it to work if you work at an office. Sounds lame but that’s what I do lol"
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Yup)
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice",
">\n\nMt3 profile is great",
">\n\nEnjoy! Looks sick.",
">\n\nThank you, what a feeling to return to it after work =)",
">\n\nLol get a case and bring it to work if you work at an office. Sounds lame but that’s what I do lol",
">\n\nGeekboards squad ✌"
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Love the color scheme!! Real Neat 🔥
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice",
">\n\nMt3 profile is great",
">\n\nEnjoy! Looks sick.",
">\n\nThank you, what a feeling to return to it after work =)",
">\n\nLol get a case and bring it to work if you work at an office. Sounds lame but that’s what I do lol",
">\n\nGeekboards squad ✌",
">\n\nYup)"
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Very clean :)
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice",
">\n\nMt3 profile is great",
">\n\nEnjoy! Looks sick.",
">\n\nThank you, what a feeling to return to it after work =)",
">\n\nLol get a case and bring it to work if you work at an office. Sounds lame but that’s what I do lol",
">\n\nGeekboards squad ✌",
">\n\nYup)",
">\n\nLove the color scheme!! Real Neat 🔥"
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looks real nice and spacey. what's the deskmat?
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice",
">\n\nMt3 profile is great",
">\n\nEnjoy! Looks sick.",
">\n\nThank you, what a feeling to return to it after work =)",
">\n\nLol get a case and bring it to work if you work at an office. Sounds lame but that’s what I do lol",
">\n\nGeekboards squad ✌",
">\n\nYup)",
">\n\nLove the color scheme!! Real Neat 🔥",
">\n\nVery clean :)"
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"lubed invyr holy panda switches, MT3 MATT30 keycaps, DZ65 RGB V3 HOT-SWAP plate",
">\n\nThese caps look like they feel so nice",
">\n\nMt3 profile is great",
">\n\nEnjoy! Looks sick.",
">\n\nThank you, what a feeling to return to it after work =)",
">\n\nLol get a case and bring it to work if you work at an office. Sounds lame but that’s what I do lol",
">\n\nGeekboards squad ✌",
">\n\nYup)",
">\n\nLove the color scheme!! Real Neat 🔥",
">\n\nVery clean :)",
">\n\nlooks real nice and spacey. what's the deskmat?"
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What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.
So... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.
Part of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.
We'll see what happens this time.
If we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.
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So the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?
Dems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?
Edit: maths before coffee
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games."
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The idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.
I bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee"
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It's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts."
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Well, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country."
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Do it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up."
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You had me in the first half.
But that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore"
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Yeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with."
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If the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters."
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This is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality."
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>
There should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit.
We all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.
|
[
"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over."
] |
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Oh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE
|
[
"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago."
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>
They have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.
|
[
"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE"
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They have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking.
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[
"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want."
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You said that last time…
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[
"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.",
">\n\nThey have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking."
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Don’t give them shit call their bluff I thought America didn’t negotiate with terrorist
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[
"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.",
">\n\nThey have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking.",
">\n\nYou said that last time…"
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Let them do it. Let it all come down
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[
"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.",
">\n\nThey have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking.",
">\n\nYou said that last time…",
">\n\nDon’t give them shit call their bluff I thought America didn’t negotiate with terrorist"
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It might end differently because both Putin and Charles Koch are backing crashing the economy.
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[
"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.",
">\n\nThey have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking.",
">\n\nYou said that last time…",
">\n\nDon’t give them shit call their bluff I thought America didn’t negotiate with terrorist",
">\n\nLet them do it. Let it all come down"
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When do we stop raising the debt limit and deal with the debt?
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[
"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.",
">\n\nThey have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking.",
">\n\nYou said that last time…",
">\n\nDon’t give them shit call their bluff I thought America didn’t negotiate with terrorist",
">\n\nLet them do it. Let it all come down",
">\n\nIt might end differently because both Putin and Charles Koch are backing crashing the economy."
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The debt ceiling has nothing to do with deficit spending. That ship has sailed as it's money already authorized. Not increasing the debt ceiling tells Treasury not to pay for our obligations, kinda like you telling a bank "Ima gonna pay less on my mortgage, I need to cut back expenses."
Oh and have fun cutting 'out of control' spending when 63% is mandatory spending required by law, 30% is discretionary spending and the rest to service existing debt; for a bonus, guess what percentage of the discretionary budget is spent on the military.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.",
">\n\nThey have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking.",
">\n\nYou said that last time…",
">\n\nDon’t give them shit call their bluff I thought America didn’t negotiate with terrorist",
">\n\nLet them do it. Let it all come down",
">\n\nIt might end differently because both Putin and Charles Koch are backing crashing the economy.",
">\n\nWhen do we stop raising the debt limit and deal with the debt?"
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That’s kind of a fools errand though. Because something is authorized doesn’t mean it should be or is prudent, check out Yucca Mountain. Fully authorized the cost was around $93 billion for a project that won’t likely ever be used and the government is paying $20 million per day in fines to utility companies for not honoring the off take agreements. That’s my point while what you say is accurate it’s still foolish and nonsensical.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.",
">\n\nThey have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking.",
">\n\nYou said that last time…",
">\n\nDon’t give them shit call their bluff I thought America didn’t negotiate with terrorist",
">\n\nLet them do it. Let it all come down",
">\n\nIt might end differently because both Putin and Charles Koch are backing crashing the economy.",
">\n\nWhen do we stop raising the debt limit and deal with the debt?",
">\n\nThe debt ceiling has nothing to do with deficit spending. That ship has sailed as it's money already authorized. Not increasing the debt ceiling tells Treasury not to pay for our obligations, kinda like you telling a bank \"Ima gonna pay less on my mortgage, I need to cut back expenses.\"\nOh and have fun cutting 'out of control' spending when 63% is mandatory spending required by law, 30% is discretionary spending and the rest to service existing debt; for a bonus, guess what percentage of the discretionary budget is spent on the military."
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I get that but that still doesn’t address my point. They authorize a bunch of junk, doesn’t mean it does anything productive. Anything that we don’t have money coming in from tax receipts needs to be borrowed. My point is the fiscal mismanagement of our government. I tossed out one example that will clearly get to $100 billion. How many other examples are there like this? What percentage of a dollar spent by the federal government actually does something productive for the citizens and what percentage is pure waste. There seems no accountability for where the money is allocated to and the utility of it. I’m curious how much waste there is. The military industrial complex is clearly a money generating machine for so many but that’s just one component, but a big one. Medicare, while very important isn’t financially well run and we certainly can’t have Medicare for all under our current broken healthcare system. That would only exacerbate a problem. The underlying healthcare system need to be fixed, screw the insurance companies, get the prices to something fair then work on a healthcare fix. I guess my pint is that I think the entire thing is broken. The politicians are all in on the joke, they don’t work together, they don’t do anything productive. They waste money and time bickering and keeping score of gotcha’s with each other. I think the only chance we have is get money out of politics, term limits (money and power corrupt and it’s clear self governance isn’t feasible for these folks) and have systems in place to fire them immediately for corruption, fraud, lying and misleading, like any other job in the US. The Rest of the World wonders how the US has suddenly become a corruption-raddled third world kleptocracy. While there has always been corruption it’s out of hand and not even remotely being disguised anymore.
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.",
">\n\nThey have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking.",
">\n\nYou said that last time…",
">\n\nDon’t give them shit call their bluff I thought America didn’t negotiate with terrorist",
">\n\nLet them do it. Let it all come down",
">\n\nIt might end differently because both Putin and Charles Koch are backing crashing the economy.",
">\n\nWhen do we stop raising the debt limit and deal with the debt?",
">\n\nThe debt ceiling has nothing to do with deficit spending. That ship has sailed as it's money already authorized. Not increasing the debt ceiling tells Treasury not to pay for our obligations, kinda like you telling a bank \"Ima gonna pay less on my mortgage, I need to cut back expenses.\"\nOh and have fun cutting 'out of control' spending when 63% is mandatory spending required by law, 30% is discretionary spending and the rest to service existing debt; for a bonus, guess what percentage of the discretionary budget is spent on the military.",
">\n\nThat’s kind of a fools errand though. Because something is authorized doesn’t mean it should be or is prudent, check out Yucca Mountain. Fully authorized the cost was around $93 billion for a project that won’t likely ever be used and the government is paying $20 million per day in fines to utility companies for not honoring the off take agreements. That’s my point while what you say is accurate it’s still foolish and nonsensical."
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"What a strange article. I sort of get what appears to be what they're trying to say. Nonetheless, in my opinion they didn't discuss sufficiently that subtitle. Maybe it just seems that because this post is emphasizing the subtitle by pretending it is the title.\nSo... they seem to be saying this time things might be different because this time the GOP is a disorganized, chaotic, clueless mess with weak leadership and no true coherent goal.\nPart of what is weak in this reasoning is the pretense that these characteristics weren't present every other time this occurred.\nWe'll see what happens this time.\nIf we're lucky, the Biden administration will do something that simply nips this nonsense in the bud and prevents a next time. Platinum coin or simply an executive order to ignore the law. Whatever. The US is bound by the constitution to pay its debts. The constitution and this obligation rather clearly supersedes any law or right of Congress to continue to play these utterly stupid games.",
">\n\nSo the house needs 218 votes to pass legislation this session, right?\nDems have 212 so if 6 republicans have the sense to not let the country default and vote with Dems, the debt ceiling goes to the senate. The senate is majority dem (51) and the debt ceiling increase would pass, no? This is all posturing as usual?\nEdit: maths before coffee",
">\n\nThe idea of moderate Republicans is a myth. If - and that's a big IF - any existed, they were voted out or left after the GOP defended Trump during his impeachment.\nI bet no more than 1 Republican would vote right now to raise the ceiling and honor their debts.",
">\n\nIt's why that GOP purge was so scary; because inevitably this is what going to happen next where members are ruled by fear. And if they're willing to do that to their own members, there's no doubt they'd extend that to the country.",
">\n\nWell, if you elect domestic terrorists don’t be surprised when they start blowing shit up.",
">\n\nDo it, Republicans, fucking do it. See how your constituents love it not receiving their social security and Medicare. Oh sure they’ll blame Libs for awhile but when they’re down to eating Chinese dollar tree cat food in a freezing apartment wondering if they’ll have that diabetic coma today or tomorrow because they couldn’t afford insulin this month…again, i don’t think getting pissed off at drag queens, immigrants and LGBTQ is gonna do it for them anymore",
">\n\nYou had me in the first half.\nBut that last line… unfortunately, you have that completely backwards. They’re just gonna lean harder into blaming and vilifying — it’s kinda the fascist playbook. Making people desperate is how you really crank up the blatant lies they’ll be willing to go along with.",
">\n\nYeah if anything’s those are probably the conditions that will seal the violent radicalization of their starving and now feral voters.",
">\n\nIf the US dollar ever loses its status as the world's currency, prepare for holy hell. Stunts like this are a good way to make it a reality.",
">\n\nThis is like the trolley problem only you can stop the trolley at any time with no downside and Republicans are still mulling it over.",
">\n\nThere should be automatic tax raises on the rich to control the deficit. \nWe all know who created this problem, Republicans putting more money in their own pocket after Democrats balanced the budget years ago.",
">\n\nOh dear fellow, tax raises are OFF THE TABLE",
">\n\nThey have the hostage taking part down but have they even agreed on a list of demands? Shits gonna be hilarious when they can’t even agree on what they want.",
">\n\nThey have demanded that the democrats give them a new budget with tax cuts and they will tell them if it’s good enough… I wish I was joking.",
">\n\nYou said that last time…",
">\n\nDon’t give them shit call their bluff I thought America didn’t negotiate with terrorist",
">\n\nLet them do it. Let it all come down",
">\n\nIt might end differently because both Putin and Charles Koch are backing crashing the economy.",
">\n\nWhen do we stop raising the debt limit and deal with the debt?",
">\n\nThe debt ceiling has nothing to do with deficit spending. That ship has sailed as it's money already authorized. Not increasing the debt ceiling tells Treasury not to pay for our obligations, kinda like you telling a bank \"Ima gonna pay less on my mortgage, I need to cut back expenses.\"\nOh and have fun cutting 'out of control' spending when 63% is mandatory spending required by law, 30% is discretionary spending and the rest to service existing debt; for a bonus, guess what percentage of the discretionary budget is spent on the military.",
">\n\nThat’s kind of a fools errand though. Because something is authorized doesn’t mean it should be or is prudent, check out Yucca Mountain. Fully authorized the cost was around $93 billion for a project that won’t likely ever be used and the government is paying $20 million per day in fines to utility companies for not honoring the off take agreements. That’s my point while what you say is accurate it’s still foolish and nonsensical.",
">\n\nI get that but that still doesn’t address my point. They authorize a bunch of junk, doesn’t mean it does anything productive. Anything that we don’t have money coming in from tax receipts needs to be borrowed. My point is the fiscal mismanagement of our government. I tossed out one example that will clearly get to $100 billion. How many other examples are there like this? What percentage of a dollar spent by the federal government actually does something productive for the citizens and what percentage is pure waste. There seems no accountability for where the money is allocated to and the utility of it. I’m curious how much waste there is. The military industrial complex is clearly a money generating machine for so many but that’s just one component, but a big one. Medicare, while very important isn’t financially well run and we certainly can’t have Medicare for all under our current broken healthcare system. That would only exacerbate a problem. The underlying healthcare system need to be fixed, screw the insurance companies, get the prices to something fair then work on a healthcare fix. I guess my pint is that I think the entire thing is broken. The politicians are all in on the joke, they don’t work together, they don’t do anything productive. They waste money and time bickering and keeping score of gotcha’s with each other. I think the only chance we have is get money out of politics, term limits (money and power corrupt and it’s clear self governance isn’t feasible for these folks) and have systems in place to fire them immediately for corruption, fraud, lying and misleading, like any other job in the US. The Rest of the World wonders how the US has suddenly become a corruption-raddled third world kleptocracy. While there has always been corruption it’s out of hand and not even remotely being disguised anymore."
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Well i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag
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Me. That would be something new.
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True they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new."
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Or continue the story, focusing on other characters.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie"
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Yes and it becomes a saga
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters."
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Make a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga"
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Lol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol
Title: "The Culling"
Plot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.
Every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?
The randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff."
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Bro you need to start writing movies or sum
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film."
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That was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum"
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Yeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..
Joking...
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking"
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I'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking..."
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The Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule."
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That was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor"
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Shower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.
(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them."
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Shower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist
Is that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?
The scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.
edit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)"
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The ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…
(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion."
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Haha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)"
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Sometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it."
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I loved it when the Army had to explain to us
"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out."
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode"
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Those fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\""
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Hah, well said.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder."
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we need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like "fuck! didn't see that coming" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says "shut the fuck up," and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said."
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I swear there’s a Simpsons reference there
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain"
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Mendoza!
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there"
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Shitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!"
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This made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade"
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Also 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.
Also, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?"
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Look, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol."
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But how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on"
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He can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?"
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See if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab"
] |
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You are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius.
If we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have.
Good talk.
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[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk"
] |
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I saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him.
If it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk."
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Idk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real"
] |
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God plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?
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[
"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back."
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That's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?"
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Always remind me of Lance Henrikson’s character in Hard Target. Had a hand grenade pin pulled in front of him, dropped down into his trousers, head butted across the room, fished the grenade out from his pants, then unscrewed the fuse from the body.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?",
">\n\nThat's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules."
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Whenever I see a pin getting pulled I start counting. Real timers are about 3 seconds, you can regularly count past 10 seconds in movies.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?",
">\n\nThat's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules.",
">\n\nAlways remind me of Lance Henrikson’s character in Hard Target. Had a hand grenade pin pulled in front of him, dropped down into his trousers, head butted across the room, fished the grenade out from his pants, then unscrewed the fuse from the body."
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My favorite was Die Hard (3?) Where they throw grenades in the cockpit where John is sitting for like 10 minutes.
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?",
">\n\nThat's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules.",
">\n\nAlways remind me of Lance Henrikson’s character in Hard Target. Had a hand grenade pin pulled in front of him, dropped down into his trousers, head butted across the room, fished the grenade out from his pants, then unscrewed the fuse from the body.",
">\n\nWhenever I see a pin getting pulled I start counting. Real timers are about 3 seconds, you can regularly count past 10 seconds in movies."
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned it but in the movie “The Rock” with Nick cage and Sean Connery, there’s a scene where the mercenaries toss some grandes at Nick Cage’s character and he has a chance to give them a LOOONG look, pick them up and toss it back to the mercenaries 😂🫡
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">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?",
">\n\nThat's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules.",
">\n\nAlways remind me of Lance Henrikson’s character in Hard Target. Had a hand grenade pin pulled in front of him, dropped down into his trousers, head butted across the room, fished the grenade out from his pants, then unscrewed the fuse from the body.",
">\n\nWhenever I see a pin getting pulled I start counting. Real timers are about 3 seconds, you can regularly count past 10 seconds in movies.",
">\n\nMy favorite was Die Hard (3?) Where they throw grenades in the cockpit where John is sitting for like 10 minutes."
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Nope. The grande takes equal time. But time gets slow near the aura of the protagonist.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?",
">\n\nThat's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules.",
">\n\nAlways remind me of Lance Henrikson’s character in Hard Target. Had a hand grenade pin pulled in front of him, dropped down into his trousers, head butted across the room, fished the grenade out from his pants, then unscrewed the fuse from the body.",
">\n\nWhenever I see a pin getting pulled I start counting. Real timers are about 3 seconds, you can regularly count past 10 seconds in movies.",
">\n\nMy favorite was Die Hard (3?) Where they throw grenades in the cockpit where John is sitting for like 10 minutes.",
">\n\nNot sure if anyone has mentioned it but in the movie “The Rock” with Nick cage and Sean Connery, there’s a scene where the mercenaries toss some grandes at Nick Cage’s character and he has a chance to give them a LOOONG look, pick them up and toss it back to the mercenaries 😂🫡"
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!Because it’s in the script!<
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?",
">\n\nThat's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules.",
">\n\nAlways remind me of Lance Henrikson’s character in Hard Target. Had a hand grenade pin pulled in front of him, dropped down into his trousers, head butted across the room, fished the grenade out from his pants, then unscrewed the fuse from the body.",
">\n\nWhenever I see a pin getting pulled I start counting. Real timers are about 3 seconds, you can regularly count past 10 seconds in movies.",
">\n\nMy favorite was Die Hard (3?) Where they throw grenades in the cockpit where John is sitting for like 10 minutes.",
">\n\nNot sure if anyone has mentioned it but in the movie “The Rock” with Nick cage and Sean Connery, there’s a scene where the mercenaries toss some grandes at Nick Cage’s character and he has a chance to give them a LOOONG look, pick them up and toss it back to the mercenaries 😂🫡",
">\n\nNope. The grande takes equal time. But time gets slow near the aura of the protagonist."
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Bad guys are just a lot impatient and don't cook them long enough before throwing them at the good guys.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?",
">\n\nThat's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules.",
">\n\nAlways remind me of Lance Henrikson’s character in Hard Target. Had a hand grenade pin pulled in front of him, dropped down into his trousers, head butted across the room, fished the grenade out from his pants, then unscrewed the fuse from the body.",
">\n\nWhenever I see a pin getting pulled I start counting. Real timers are about 3 seconds, you can regularly count past 10 seconds in movies.",
">\n\nMy favorite was Die Hard (3?) Where they throw grenades in the cockpit where John is sitting for like 10 minutes.",
">\n\nNot sure if anyone has mentioned it but in the movie “The Rock” with Nick cage and Sean Connery, there’s a scene where the mercenaries toss some grandes at Nick Cage’s character and he has a chance to give them a LOOONG look, pick them up and toss it back to the mercenaries 😂🫡",
">\n\nNope. The grande takes equal time. But time gets slow near the aura of the protagonist.",
">\n\n\n!Because it’s in the script!<"
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That’s because bad guys only count to 2 before throwing them.
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?",
">\n\nThat's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules.",
">\n\nAlways remind me of Lance Henrikson’s character in Hard Target. Had a hand grenade pin pulled in front of him, dropped down into his trousers, head butted across the room, fished the grenade out from his pants, then unscrewed the fuse from the body.",
">\n\nWhenever I see a pin getting pulled I start counting. Real timers are about 3 seconds, you can regularly count past 10 seconds in movies.",
">\n\nMy favorite was Die Hard (3?) Where they throw grenades in the cockpit where John is sitting for like 10 minutes.",
">\n\nNot sure if anyone has mentioned it but in the movie “The Rock” with Nick cage and Sean Connery, there’s a scene where the mercenaries toss some grandes at Nick Cage’s character and he has a chance to give them a LOOONG look, pick them up and toss it back to the mercenaries 😂🫡",
">\n\nNope. The grande takes equal time. But time gets slow near the aura of the protagonist.",
">\n\n\n!Because it’s in the script!<",
">\n\nBad guys are just a lot impatient and don't cook them long enough before throwing them at the good guys."
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"This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.\nRemember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not \"thoughts had in the shower!\"\n(For an explanation of what a \"showerthought\" is, please read this page.)\nRule-breaking posts may result in bans.",
">\n\nWell i think it's called plot armor since well who wants to watch a movie where a good guy gets blown into pieces by a frag",
">\n\nMe. That would be something new.",
">\n\nTrue they should make something like that cause then you can make bunch of endings for a movie",
">\n\nOr continue the story, focusing on other characters.",
">\n\nYes and it becomes a saga",
">\n\nMake a movie or show where all characters are randomized, and every 1-30 minutes, 1-10 of the characters die no matter how important or unimportant they are. And the movie would be a fun challenge for the writers because they'd have to write and change the plot accordingly to the deaths and write the surviving characters stories about how they adjust and stuff.",
">\n\nLol inputed this idea into chatgpt and got this lol\nTitle: \"The Culling\"\nPlot: A mysterious virus has broken out, causing widespread panic and chaos. A small group of people from various backgrounds and professions find themselves holed up in a seemingly secure facility, seeking refuge from the outside world. However, they soon discover that the facility is not what it seems and that their lives are in more danger inside than out.\nEvery 1-30 minutes, 1-10 characters are randomly selected to be eliminated in a mysterious and brutal way. As the number of survivors dwindles, tensions rise and alliances are formed, but nobody knows who will be next. Will the group band together to find a way out, or will they turn on each other in a desperate bid to survive?\nThe randomization of the character's fate and the unpredictable nature of their removal creates a high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat suspenseful experience. The theme of survival against seemingly insurmountable odds taps into the audience's primal fear and adds to the overall excitement of the film.",
">\n\nBro you need to start writing movies or sum",
">\n\nThat was written by an AI... Not sure if you're joking",
">\n\nYeah totally joking because I totally didn't glance over the AI part and actually found it an interesting..\nJoking...",
">\n\nI'm pretty sure Die Hard 2 has the record for slowest exploding grenades. Bruce Willis sees the grenades land, then looks around frantically, sees an ejection seat, scrambles over to it, takes time to strap himself in, then figure out how to use it before finally ejecting himself just ahead of the first explosion that feels at least a minute behind schedule.",
">\n\nThe Rock comes in at a close second, the shootout at the end when Nic Cage jumps into the bath, takes a solid 20 seconds to roll down the corridor",
">\n\nThat was definitely the other one I thought of. Bad guy even verbally cooks them for three seconds before he throws them.",
">\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist (or other significant character) because the scene is from their point of view and your perception of time slows down when you're in danger.\n(Heck, sometimes these scenes are literally in slow motion)",
">\n\n\nShower thought 2: grenades take longer to explode when close to the protagonist\n\nIs that why Bruce Willis gets so much time to buckle himself into the ejector seat to escape in Die Hard 2?\nThe scene feels like they spend a good 2 minutes just hucking grenades into the cockpit.\nedit: 34 seconds from the first grenade leaving a hand to the first explosion.",
">\n\nThe ones they tossed in didn’t have their pins pulled. The final few did…\n(At least that’s how I’ll rationalize it!)",
">\n\nHaha, good try, you don't explicitly see the pin come out of the first one, but you definitely do the second, and the one that lands in front of his face 5 seconds later most definitely has no pin in it.",
">\n\nSometimes it's because the good guys are cooking their grenades. But in general grenades near protagonists just seem to take way too long to explode",
">\n\nI loved it when the Army had to explain to us \n\n\"Do NOT, under any circumstance, cook your grenade. You are not an action movie hero. The delay is somewhere between 3 to 5 seconds. Could be 5. Could be 3. Nobody knows. Use those precious seconds to take cover instead of volunteering to find out.\"",
">\n\nThose fuse lengths were set by the lowest bidder.",
">\n\nHah, well said.",
">\n\nwe need a movie where it actually explodes in the good guy's hand and he's like \"fuck! didn't see that coming\" then the bad guy walks up to him, stands over him and begins monologuing about how the heroic ones are so naive, so distracted by loyalty and compassion that it makes them think everything will go their way, and while he's gloating the hero just grabs a gun with his remaining hand and shoots him dead. the hero says \"shut the fuck up,\" and then dies of blood loss on top of the villain",
">\n\nI swear there’s a Simpsons reference there",
">\n\nMendoza!",
">\n\nShitty LPT: if you suspect that you're the baddie, pull the pin and release the handle and wait three-mississippi before throwing the grenade",
">\n\nThis made me wonder: are their video games where you play ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and level of plot armour (delivered in humorous narrative ways) is an actual adjustable setting?",
">\n\nAlso 100 Storm troopers can't seem to shoot that one Jedi running around in the open.\nAlso, 20 bad guys can't seem to shoot James Bond running around in the open. Armed with a small and discrete pistol.",
">\n\nLook, let's be honest, he gets captured in nearly every movie or is at gunpoint vulnerable, just shoot him and move on",
">\n\nBut how will the villain monologue? How will he tell his story and his motivation?",
">\n\nHe can do it in the pub afterwards with his henchmen, who will still be alive and able to go home to their families afterwards, after 5 pints and a kebab",
">\n\nSee if we can figure whose grenades take longer to blow up, we can objectively discern who the goodies and baddies are. \nThank you for coming to my ted talk",
">\n\nYou are an absolute genius. I did just smoke my first bowl of the day, but you're probably still a genius. \nIf we could find out how long our own take to blow up we could find out if each of us is a goodie or baddie. That'd be some great info to have. \nGood talk.",
">\n\nI saw a video recently of a guy race into his tank, the guy chasing him throws a grenade into the hatch, and the guy caught it, threw it out, killing the guy who was chasing him. \nIf it was in a movie i would have called bullshit lol but its real",
">\n\nIdk there was a video of a Russian soldier taking a nap that had a grenade thrown at him and the dude just threw it back.",
">\n\nGod plot armour is just wonderful, unless you want an actual good story but who seriously cares about that, right?",
">\n\nThat's because the bad guy is always further away, so less time before bang. Don't ask me why, them's the rules.",
">\n\nAlways remind me of Lance Henrikson’s character in Hard Target. Had a hand grenade pin pulled in front of him, dropped down into his trousers, head butted across the room, fished the grenade out from his pants, then unscrewed the fuse from the body.",
">\n\nWhenever I see a pin getting pulled I start counting. Real timers are about 3 seconds, you can regularly count past 10 seconds in movies.",
">\n\nMy favorite was Die Hard (3?) Where they throw grenades in the cockpit where John is sitting for like 10 minutes.",
">\n\nNot sure if anyone has mentioned it but in the movie “The Rock” with Nick cage and Sean Connery, there’s a scene where the mercenaries toss some grandes at Nick Cage’s character and he has a chance to give them a LOOONG look, pick them up and toss it back to the mercenaries 😂🫡",
">\n\nNope. The grande takes equal time. But time gets slow near the aura of the protagonist.",
">\n\n\n!Because it’s in the script!<",
">\n\nBad guys are just a lot impatient and don't cook them long enough before throwing them at the good guys.",
">\n\nThat’s because bad guys only count to 2 before throwing them."
] |
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