The initial image is a size comparison between the statue of liberty and a wind turbine. The wind turbine is over ninety feet (about 28 meters) taller.
A commenter pretended to misinterpret the image as one of a wind turbine attacking the statue of liberty. The next commenter answered with an image of Don Quixote, a literary character who once thought a windmill was a monster and announced his plans to fight it. They are joking that if a wind turbine attacked the statue of liberty, Don Quixote would be willing to fight the wind turbine.
Incidentally, that scene led to the English idiom “tilting at windmills,” meaning a person who has not only disproportionate reactions of anger, but disproportionate reactions of anger to nonexistent challenges.
So all those people who are fighting to preserve coal jobs and the fossil fuel economy are….
actually…
tilting at windmills.
I feel like this is one of the very few times where explaining the joke leads to another one that everyone can now understand and laugh at
Tabletop RPGs are kind of insidious from a stuff-accumulation perspective because the amount of equipment that’s absolutely necessary in order to fully participate is minimal, but there’s no real upper limit on the amount of equipment it’s possible to make productive use of. There’s almost always going to be some excruciatingly specialised widget or piece of reference material that would facilitate this or that part of the game, even if you don’t strictly need it, and many more that hypothetically could be of use if your game happens to go in a particular direction. I’m pretty sure this is why Dice Culture is a thing.
I think the accessory thing is specific to certain games, but if you are
the type of person who buys the type of games it doesn’t apply to you
are going to be buying countless numbers of those games instead
I find that there tends to be considerable overlap between the sort of people who favour games that are too lightweight to offer much room for accessorising, and the sort of people who will buy an entire game to serve as an accessory for a completely different game on the theory that they can mine the former for ideas and mechanics to use in the latter.
I was raised in New Jersey fam. This is basically our national anthem;
Eyyyy, Jersey fist bump! …which is basically just flipping someone off, I think: I’ve been gone a while, I may have forgotten some finer points of etiquette.
Optional: grow up in an extended family where everyone makes fun of each other and internalize your insecurities until your default mode of speech is self-deprecation.
…also have a good vocabulary so you can make stupid puns.
just saw bindi irwin got engaged and apparently her fiance is american. she’s 21 and they’ve been dating for 6 years. I wonder if his family lives in aus/works in conservation because imagine just being a random 15-year-old tourist at the zoo and having a meet cute with steve irwin’s daughter lol
apparently that’s exactly how they met. bindi just happened to be giving tours the day his family visited. love is unreal. how is this not a teen romcom yet