Is your friend a Cold-War era Romanian dictator?

We should allow people who pull similar shit to die the same way as Crassus lol

Blazing Saddles would be called dated and “done before.”

It was originally made as a way to laugh at Westerns, which, up to that point, had dominated the market. A lot of the tropes and plot lines the movie rips on are explicitly there because they were usually in these “safe” Westerns.

The Spanish torched much of the cultural heritage of the Aztecs, sure, but the obvious implication of a thing being “discovered” is “when do we start having concrete evidence of this thing being known to our existence?”

So, when someone says “electric eels being discovered” they mean “electric eels becoming concretely documented by people in a way we can verify.”

Also, stuff in our past has been discovered and lost numerous times across the ages. We generally agree that finding the oldest instance of a thing is the “discovery” time of that thing.

Wha? They talked to Apollo’s dev at the end?

Or do you mean a breakdown of the numbers and such?

Never forget the way the human brain works, with the more common interpretation being: “it takes 7 instances of positive things to outweigh 1 negative.”

For my part I haven’t really noticed any difference, but I only infrequently comment!

Bless the Maker and His water

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Just a damned good show all around that showed younger me a lot of what makes compelling stories work.