In the absence of a king, the stewards had the same power and authority as the kings and the position was hereditary. The stewards were effectively just a dynasty in the kingdom. Aragorn’s ascension to the throne didn’t really impact the way Gondor functioned.
The real republic is actually The Shire, which is consistently depicted as the best place on Middle-earth and the only place that regularly produces people capable of resisting the One Ring.
Totally on board, but you can’t have Yakko and Wakko without Dot.
The best bit about the mint and chocolate thing is that chocolate is also poison, so we spice up our poison with more poison.
They wanted to sell the multidimensional portal device as a shower curtain.
I’m hoping that advances in 3D printers will make this a reality in my lifetime.
Given that it was made by a different company, doing anything with it may actually be legally complicated.
but they won’t really breed.
Which means no tomacco.
Every update breaks F4SE. Same with SKSE. Just wait a few days and it’ll be fine.
Yep. Batman deals with immediate problems, like someone being mugged, and Bruce deals with long term problems, like governmental corruption. And Bruce actually is fairly consistently depicted as having made progress there. Supervillains and the Court of Owls continue to be problems, but he’s usually dismantled the local mafias and cut down on police corruption inside of a few years.
There was an early trend of giving tech stuff fantasy terms, too. Programs that do something for the user being wizards and programs that do things when triggered being daemons, for instance.
I mean, not really. They’re at the ‘lunatics running the asylum’ stage. They underestimated how much they had radicalized their base and completely lost control of them in 2016. Now, that radicalized base is starting to be elected into office and the old guard are too afraid to try to take control of the party back.
Hypothetically, how would one acquire one of those? Asking for a friend.
I once saw a guy with a bumper sticker featuring the US flag and the Confederate flag with the caption, “One nation under God.”
I used to have a CRT screen that was 1600x1200 @60hz, so high resolution ones do exist.
You see this with video games, too, where PC games are better optimized when they’re multiplatform releases that also are on one or more consoles near the end of their sales life, just because they had to make it run smoothly on hardware that was comparatively out of date.