L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction writer. He made a bet with another science fiction writer that he could get rich quicker by starting a fake religion, and collecting tithes, than he could selling science fiction stories. Scientology is the resulting pyramid scheme/ cult.

Ahh, kk. Never seen it, but I guess the two characters seem similar in that respect at least.

Second Life.

Then you zoom further out to find that the Blokkats have moved into the star system next door, and are eyeing Sol hungrily.

Isn’t Homelander a villain though? I thought he was supposed to be a villain.

Edit: NM I didn’t realize Homelander was from The Boys. I honestly thought he was the guy in Guardians of The Galaxy 3

Edit 2: Apparently that character’s name is Adam Warlock.

Bailout was under Bush. Obama could have reversed course a few months later when he was sworn in, but I’m pretty sure that would have caused an even worse economic disaster.

Once you are moved out, and across the country, the song Cat’s in the Cradle, by Harry Chapin gives you the perfect believable excuse. I’d love to come visit, and I will once work isn’t riding me so much. We’ll get together then.

The ability to perfectly deliver the line, “clever girl.”

The viable metric is literally the volume of gold depicted multiplied by the weight of such a large pile of gold that seems to be damn near limitless in value. That’s what we used to calculate that Smaug only has 5 billion to 15 billion USD of gold, minus the Arkenstone.

The rest of the metric comes from the treasure tables of various dragons in various RPG systems that say that the absolute most value of any dragon’s hoard is only 500,000 oz worth of gold. That’s split between everything. Not just their gold. 500,000 oz of gold is 5,000,000 gold pieces of gold. That’s merely 1.2 billion USD, and that’s just the richest of the greediest and oldest evil dragons that are required by their goddess to hoard before they are dead of old age.

Even Conan gave up that bit after only a decade.

https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8

You watched The Terminal, didn’t you?

/s

https://youtu.be/PfsTk5i7mPw

There’s a mod for Factorio that adds these in for use in our circuit spaghetti

Tumbleweeds don’t fuck around. The gloves are for the scrub and brush in the deserts of the SW US. They didn’t have any synthetic materials at the time.

Each new planet is basically an overhaul mod. They did a great job incorporating the best parts of Space Exploration, Krastorio, Seablock, and a couple mods that either they made up entirely, or I didn’t know the names of.

Also the overhauls to the fluid handling and circuit networks make everything so much easier. I’m actually learning how to use circuits and trains, and I only have about 3000 hours of gameplay in vanilla.

My best advice is to rush bots, and leave even more space in-between your modular builds. Holy crap do I have some spaghetti because of squeezing things into my bus.

Factorio Space age is 4 expansions in one package. We definitely still buy proper expansions.

Your last description is essentially the idea behind the F-117a. That thing isn’t wasn’t flying, it’s it was achieving escape velocity.

Except Nichelle Nichols

Sometimes the black one meant they just wanted your hats.

Benjamin Hornigold. No I’m not making that up.

https://www.cracked.com/blog/how-90s-pop-band-secretly-sold-nazism-to-america

That was my first exposure to the theory, I’ve never been able to confirm nor deny it conclusively, especially since cracked.com back in those times was only mostly satire. Like 99% of the pieces were satire, and then they’d publish something that wasn’t satire, and this could be a good example of that. Either way, I bought their CD way back when.