• PDFuego@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Pretty sure everyone my age who saw the episode of Dragon Ball Z where Gohan teaches Videl how to fly all sat there that day and fuckin tried our hardest.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      One of the consequences of getting older is that you forget what its like to simply not know things.

      My two year old son is constantly climbing up stuff and tumbling off it without any regard to the possibility that gravity might be holding him back. Every time he lands hard, he looks at me with tears in his eyes, as though the whole world has betrayed him. If you could just fly by not understand gravity, everyone under the age of six would be levitating constantly.

      Although, in Andrew’s case, it might be less “getting older” and more “getting repeatedly concussed”.

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      4 months ago

      I do remember thinking something along the lines of: “… that… sounds weirdly do-able…?? … Shut up, brain… Unless…”

  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I remember when New Age sold me on Idealism.

    Here’s the thing. It’s bullshit.

    History has many examples of men who fell to their deaths believing God would stop the fall.

    One of them was actually a guy who claimed to be the second coming of Jesus. Claimed he’d miraculously fly on a donkey.

    Fell right off the cliff and debunked his whole religion he did.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    But I get a stupid-looking sweet hat off that body, plus scrolls containing a new and hilarious way to commit suicide!

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        4 months ago

        Playing Morrowind really spoiled me for the rest of the Elder Scrolls series. Many gameplay elements of it were trash, but the ability to circumvent so many of them with magic/alchemy more than made up for it. Oblivion and Skyrim somewhat improved the gameplay, but they removed the option to become a god through exploiting magic.