Did a long walk around Cremorne, which is not by any measure in the bush, but it was an adventure:
We walked 26km starting from the Opera House all around those headlands to the left and stopped at the Spit Bridge. Someone left their computer in a tree there:
HC that the average life expectancy in Gotham is actually four years higher than the national average because they collectively just keep refusing to die
the general concensus being “if we die the clown wins”
Gotham really is the perfect scientist trap, like every scientist in the world is either at “I could fix it” or “I could make it worse” with a few that are like “I could study so so SO good it and win a Nobel”
It’s basically the most frantic game of whack-a-mole/herding cats. All STEM majors have a 100-level required class on why you can’t go to Gotham.
I bets that’s really hard/confusing for the kid from Gotham who whent to school out of state and took Gotham 101 as an easy A.
And ends up fistfighting a TA because they used a Google image of her grandma’s house in a slide show.
And in all fairness the TA for Gotham 101 is easily and already a C-tier supervillain by default.
Career track for supervillains and scientists that couldn’t hack it in Gotham:
Fly to the west coast
Get a cushy tenured position teaching Gotham courses at the local university or college
I think an underappreciated element of Leia’s character is that even after days or weeks of ruthless interrogation interspersed with torture, she still had the presence of mind to identify a feature of the Stormtrooper who barged into her cell that she could mock.
Titanium not only is crazy durable, but it noo magnet! Thas wy Dock chok jjiun spi; surgyr ad pater noster, qui es in cœlis; sanctificetur nomen tuum: Adveniat regnum tuum; fiat voluntas tua, sicut in cœlo, et in terra. Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie: Et dimitte nobis debita nostra, sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris: et ne nos inducas in tentationem: sed libera nos a malo.
this is about villains/antagonists/general horrible people who finally face up to what they’ve done. especially if they try to pull the good ole “Dramatically Does One Good Thing To Redeem Themselves And Dies,” but despite their best efforts they DON’T die. like yes motherfucker there’s no easy way out for you, there’s only the slow, awkward and painful process of learning to live with yourself. of learning to live with the weight of your mistakes. you get a second chance regardless of if you think you deserve it. you get to try to make amends and do good. you get to live.
this is also about every self-sacrificial bastard of a protagonist who puts themselves in harm’s way again and again and again to a wildly unhealthy and unnecessary degree. see, there’s something so compelling to me in the unspoken suicidality of repeated heroic self-sacrifice, and the thing about implicitly suicidal characters is that i want them to live. and that can be used to make a death so much more tragic and impactful - noble sacrifices and last stands certainly can and have been done beautifully - but there’s also something special to me in seeing such a character make it. because you’d die for the people you love, yes, but would you live for them?
people who don’t follow chess I promise this post is really funny
Karpov had cemented his position as the world’s best player and world champion by the time Garry Kasparov arrived on the scene. In their first match, the World Chess Championship 1984 in Moscow, the first player to win six games would win the match. Karpov built a 4–0 lead after nine games. The next 17 games were drawn, setting a record for world title matches, and it took Karpov until game 27 to gain his fifth win. In game 31, Karpov had a winning position but failed to take advantage and settled for a draw. He lost the next game, after which 14 more draws ensued. Karpov held a solidly winning position in Game 41, but again blundered and had to settle for a draw. After Kasparov won games 47 and 48, FIDE President Florencio Campomanes unilaterally terminated the match, citing the players’ health. Karpov is said to have lost 10 kg over the course of the match. The match had lasted an unprecedented five months, with five wins for Karpov, three for Kasparov, and 40 draws.
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