Looks inspired by it, but the emperor only has 1 mechanical eye lighting up.

A few days ago it was a refreshing 8° in Trondheim/Norway, now it’s 22°.

Never would have guessed I would ever see Devon Larratt on Lemmy

It’s not leak when it’s an intended and documented feature…

I got a table and some chairs from Torbjørn Afdal, Darby series that’s designed in the 1960s with Brazilian Rosewood. It’s not too expensive at ~2000€ and it’s a nice, well built table, and extendable for when you host an event, but having to worry about damaging the table vs some IKEA table you don’t really care about makes me prefer cheap furniture just for the ease of mind.

My father has reached an age where money means very little to him and his interest in “proper” furniture has skyrocketed. He will go out and buy a simple table for $3k-5k and tell me how the same model was bought for the American embassy in year x, or send me links to matching chairs by designer y.

I’ve yet to see a piece of furniture that’s worth twice the price of what you can find on IKEA. A table needs to be water/stain resistant and that’s about that. /rant

Imagine being the leader and hero of your people, groomed from the day you were born to lead and protect. You’re fighting a losing war against an enemy that will brutally slaughter every Man and child they come across. You are about to lose the last line of defense in Osgiliath and your once great father is quickly losing hope, and his mind.

In a final desperate attempt you ride West to seek aid from an old ally that has set its sight on leaving you behind to an inevitable doom.

Once there, you stumble upon your one and only chance to save your people, but to your dismay the secluded people that you have protected with your people’s blood for centuries refuses to give this weapon. Instead they are sending the weapon with some “children” who have never seen war on a suicide mission that everyone believes will fail.

For weeks on end as you trek through hostile land while an impossibly powerful corrupting force is slowly tearing down your mind, reminding you of your people’s struggles and telling you how it alone can give you the power to save them, and the world.

And then disaster happens and the leader of the suicide mission and the only one who could lead the way dies and you’re left directionless. Finally you break and try to take the weapon needed to save your people.

How are you a bad person in this scenario?

The wisest angel in the world didn’t even dare to touch the object in fear of its corrupting power. The most powerful elf on Middle-Earth earned back her spot in heaven by resisting its influence once. Boromir was the only human in the group, and the one most weary and desperate by the war, the perfect target for the ring.

Boromir was a great man, but unlike the rest of the fellowship he was also human, and with that come flaws. Your characterisation of Boromir is of him under the influence of the one ring, which is unfair. Free of the ring’s influence we see him as a selfless hero willing to give his life to protect the hobbits from harm.

It’s a shame this scene never made it to short edition of the films.

You can pry my fishing rights from my cold dead hands!

Norway just like Switzerland are too rich cool to join the club, we are still a part of the European Economic Area and Schengen though.

Can’t read the tweet as Twitter is blocked on Firefox, but my guess would be closer ties with NSA, i.e. NSA can exert more control and monitoring of the data openai collects.