[–] 7 points 8 hours ago

TV's Harry Dresden from the 2007 SyFy show The Dresden Files based off the book series by Jim Butcher. The TV show had the main character Harry Dresden, use a hockey stick when it came to his wizard battles as it was more grounded and real. Harry didn't use a hockey stick in the book series but used a traditional wizards staff (to great effect).

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Ultimate Hide and Seek move there. Having holodeck just making you invisible but looking like it's off. That is until some cheating start scanning for life signs.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Please allow me to geek out for a short minute...

    The correct time frame is 3 ABY (After Battle of Yavin, the events in the original Star Wars). I am sure the meme was just using the original release date of the movie The Empire Strikes Back in which the battle on Hoth took place.

    You might have known all this, but I wanted something to do while I was waking up and drinking my coffee

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    "You must never feel badly about making mistakes … as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    This is actually a old episode of The Twilight Zone. It was called "To Serve Man". Aliens come, share their knowledge and technology. Prove themselves to be a close friend to humanity. Humans discover their alien book that is indecipherable with the exception of the title "To Serve Man". This makes sense as they are so very helpful!

    Aliens ask humans to come visit their planet of infinite miracles. Humans go and get reports back talking of endless wonders. No one ever returns, but that is expected, why would you want to come back to earth after seeing heaven?

    The book is finally fully translated. It is a cookbook of how to cook humans.


    The Simpsons also made an episode of this theme for the Treehouse of Terror S02E03 "Hungry are the Damned". The Simpson family are kidnapped by the usual space alien duo Kang and Kodos with promises of glorious meals and a life of luxury on their planet.

    Lisa finds a very dusty alien cookbook and after a reading the title (How to Cook Humans), assumes the aliens are only fattening them up to eat them. After some Simpson style hijinks the full title is revealed...

    Clearing some dust off the cover... "How to Cook for Humans"

    Blowing more dust off the cover... "How to Cook Forty Humans"

    After one last cleaning... "How to Cook for Forty Humans"

    The aliens take offense, their cook Serak the Preparer cries, and they ultimately kick the humans off their ship after a good scolding.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    There is no data suggesting that the Titanic (known for its first class service) did not issue formal hats to it's live lobsters. It is however known that the Titanic did not source it's lobster from Mexico (the bandito style hats seen in the gif) and probably had a mix of European and American lobster aboard.

    As it was a first class service it can be expected that the lobsters were given top hats to along with their tails.

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