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spikethedevil posted...

One of them was/is a racist way of describing Native Americans the other is what they where actually called.

Native Americans actually were called "Redskins" too.

Guide posted...

Did we fuck the Vikings over, too?

The Vikings fucked other people over.

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how is calling a team the "Vikings" not offensive to Nordic people?

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Cheesy Poofs from South Park >_>

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DoomsSD posted...

1984

Haha

Also, Gwent CCG, which started off as a fictional CCG in the Witcher games, but got made into a real digital CCG.

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Vote For Pedro T-shirts

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Oh and Scooby Snacks too. Forgot to mention those.

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16-BITTER posted...

ESPN 8 "The Ocho"

This is pretty dumb

But it's 100% true. The cruise ship in the book is identical to the Titanic and is called "The Titan." It also sinks after hitting an iceberg killing many passengers due to not enough lifeboats. Did I mention that the book was written 14 years before the real Titanic which was built specifically because of the book? If that's not defictionalization I don't know what is. Also...

amandaplease.com

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DuranOfForcena posted...

the Dethalbum becoming the actual highest charting death metal album in reality was pretty awesome. considering in the show Dethklok is supposed to be the most popular death metal band ever.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Dethklok.

Also, the Harry Potter Bertie Bott's jelly beans, and the book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" which was one of Harry's textbooks.

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Xethuminra posted...

Communicators / Mobile Phones

Yeah, computers and space travel count too.

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@Crazyman93

Mike_Stanton posted...

A book called "Wreck of the Titan" inspired the creation and sinking of a real titanic cruise ship with wealthy people on board.

Not only that, but I (Butters) just realized that the creation and sinking of the Titanic should be considered 2 separate examples of defictionalization lol

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Crazyman93 posted...

Uhhhh, no it's not.

Yes it is. A book called "Wreck of the Titan" inspired the creation and sinking of a real titanic cruise ship with wealthy people on board.

Crazyman93 posted...

Were you raised in an Amish community? How have you never heard of Halo...

I'm well aware of Halo lol, and I've played it before but I've never been an avid Halo player.

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Xethuminra posted...

Halo

Its over 9000

Oh wow I (Butters) had no idea.

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Xethuminra posted...

Cortana

From what fiction is Cortana based off of?

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i.e. When a fictional product gets made into a real product.

-Toy Story toys such as Woody and Buzz who were fictional toys that didn't exist at the time Toy Story was made, but became adapted to real life as tie-ins to the movie.

-Wonka candy company

-Mighty Ducks NHL team

-Jumanji board game

-Yu-Gi-Oh! cards

EDIT: The Titanic is another one

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Imagine thinking that you're real and then having to come to terms with the fact that you're merely a toy. Srsly think about how goddamn freaked out that would make you if it happened to you.

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RedJackson posted...

It IS alive and conscious lol

How can anyone think its not?

Can the universe reproduce? Also, where does consciousness come from and how does "the universe" as a whole attain consciousness?

Lastly, isn't believing that the universe is alive and conscious the same thing as believing in God kinda?

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TheVipaGTS posted...

Precisely why i'm agnostic. This notion that we know who the true Deity is and we must perform rituals that the particular Deity wants (and we somehow know all those rituals) to keep them happy, but if we fuck up a ritual even a little bit they'll be mad....

...Yea that's not what i want to live my life like.

Yeah, and if God really were so fucked up then I wouldn't want to worship Him anyway, because that type of God sounds like a psychopath.

PIG_B0SS posted...

god is an alien tho

Exactly. Define "God" in a way that doesn't make him sound like an extraterrestrial.

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CyricZ posted...

The Death Star doesn't have infinite power. Gas giants have much more mass than a moon. If they fired through Yavin itself, the superlaser would have lost power before hitting Yavin 4.

Also hubris. The Empire, Tarkin specifically, were big on the inevitability of the Rebellion's failure, so just dropping into orbit for fifteen minutes wasn't seen as a big deal if it meant they could get a clear shot.

Okay, that explanation makes sense. Thank you, Cyric. *huggles*

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SevenTenths posted...

Nope. If the only answer is plot, it's a piece of fiction with a plot hole.

ftfy

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SevenTenths posted...

Except it isn't. You being insufferable isn't a plot hole.

If the only possible answer to a question is "Plot" then it is indeed a hole in the plot.

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SevenTenths posted...

You didnt fix anything butters

I added the word "hole" after "plot" to your sentence, as the question in the topic title is indeed a plot hole.

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It's funny how people don't see that believing in God is equivalent to believing that we were seeded here by aliens.

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SevenTenths posted...

Same reason everything happens in fictional movies. Plot hole.

ftfy

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During the Battle of Yavin 4, the Empire was waiting for the Rebel base on the 4th moon of Yavin to finish orbiting the planet to a point where the Death Star would have a direct shot at the moon. But why not just blow up the planet that the moon was orbiting? Like, isn't it kind of dumb for the Death Star crew to say "We would use the Death Star to blow up the rebel base on that moon there, but there's a planet in the way"? Isn't the whole purpose of the Death Star to blow up planets?

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The first episode of season 4, "Boxcutter" is great. Love that fateful moment when Victor starts mimicking Walter's cook, boasting about how he's been watching him weeks and has every step memorized, only to have Gus slit his throat. Gus was like "Hey Walter, if I could do this to my most loyal henchmen just imagine what I could do to you if you ever cross me again."

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DaveTheUseless posted...

Is that CEman who used to talk endlessly about his elderly turbovirginity still active

Apocalypse Edge?

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PatrickMahomes posted...

Ethics aside, it did make sense. Leave no witnesses.

But it was totally unnecessary. Kid probably thought they were construction workers or something. No way in hell a kid out on a dirtbike fucking around in the wild would tell a soul "hey I saw three construction workers under the train tracks!"

True, I bet if the kid had said something about it to somebody, they would think he's making up some crazy story or having hallucinations in the desert.

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...kill that kid on the dirt bike? On one hand you could argue that the kid didn't even know what he saw, as Jesse argued, but on the other hand, even if he didn't know what he saw he could still describe what he physically saw to someone older than him who could know how unusual what he saw would be. But even then, killing the kid near the train tracks around the same time that you just robbed a train there could also create further suspicion if investigators put two and two together that the kid was shot to death by the train tracks shortly after the train would have passed by there. Plus, if methylamine is being delivered by train then someone is gonna be on the receiving end expecting that huge shipment of methylamine, and I'm pretty sure they'll notice that it's gone.

Now, when we consider ethics it obviously doesn't make sense to kill that innocent kid whose only crime was captivating a tarantula against its will, but Todd Alquist obviously doesn't take ethics into account. Ethics aside, does it even make sense from the warped criminal perspective of Todd to kill the kid under the justification that he's a witness to a crime they just committed?

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008Zulu posted...

Most of the rules introduced by the prequels are dumb.

Star Wars killed Highlander...

ftfy

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Solid Snake07 posted...

Think you're missing the point of his character arc. Money was clearly not his motivation at that point

True. It made him feel alive. He liked it.

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JBaLLEN66 posted...

I stopped watching after he let Skyler work with him

You mean when Skyler started helping him launder his money? Well, as evidenced by her also helping out Ted Beneke with his money laundering, Sky just seems to have a thing for helping men launder money. Particularly those that she's slept with. Skyler is really kind of a whore and a slut if you think about it...

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Lokison posted...

In think him turning against Gale was because he realized if he continued he was going to be killed and replaced by Gale.

Yeah, and that's what made Walt kind of delusional at that moment. He himself knew that he was going to die from cancer soon, as did Gus, and there was no reason not to assume that Gus wouldn't just wait for Walter's cancer to kill him before replacing him with Gale. At least none that I can recall off hand. But anyway, if it wasn't for Hank getting a hold of those lab notes, Walter could have still kept the book where he did and it wouldn't have mattered.

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Yeah, leaving Grey Matter, the company he co-founded and named FFS is definitely up there. I feel like the main reason he ultimately decided to raise millions of dollars cooking meth for his family was to make up for the millions he lost by not staying with Grey Matter.

Poisoning Brock was also a highly questionable move that made very little sense even from Walt's own warped perspective.

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GallisOTK posted...

Fuck pitchers getting injured doing something they have no business being forced to do in the first place.

They're not forced to do it. The manager can send up a pinch hitter if he decides he values a better bat in the moment over keeping his pitcher's arm in the game.

Cornmuffins posted...

Why not get a pinch hitter, hope for the best, and put a new guy in next inning if necessary

idk seems a lot more interesting

Exactly.

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Rhylos posted...

If Walt just shut up and worked with Gale to begin with, he would've only had to work for a while and walk away a millionaire.

Instead, he can't. Then he's gotta fuck with the system to the point where Gus has to drag him out to the desert and threaten Walt.

Then, instead of just being a good boy, he's gotta kill Gus.

There's probably more times where Walt would've been able to walk away with more than enough money if he just shut up and did his job.

Solo_Wing posted...

He could've put the book, I dunno. Somewhere not in the open. Like under his side of the bed perhaps

True and true.

Kisai posted...

After killing Gus, the series final boss should've been Hank, not some random no-names. I wanted to see the culmination of Hank VS Walt forever, and then they end it a few episodes in.

Meh, I liked Jack Welker, Todd Alquist, and the neo-Nazi gang as villains.

"Now does this look like a partner to you?!?"

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joe40001 posted...

Mike was ready to kill Walt, if Walt hadn't called Jesse he was dead.

Right, but IIRC the only reason they were going to kill him right then and there was because they knew of the plot to have Gale murdered?

joe40001 posted...

Keeping the book, yeah that cost him big and had no real upside. But it was in keeping with his character.

Not just keeping the book, but also the moment when Walt was drunk and saying that he could tell that Gale was one big copycat. Not only did that cause Hank to keep further looking into the case, which made him question why a vegetarian like Gale had a napkin from Pollos Hermanos, but it made it that much easier for Hank to suspect that Walt's relationship with Gale was as a lab partner.

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Out of all his questionable decisions, I (Butters) would have to say his worst decision was having Gale Boetticher murdered. If it weren't for that, the lab notes never would have been found and Hank never would have made the connection between the W.W. (Walt Whitman) in the lab notes to GB's other favorite W.W. (Walter White) on the Walt Whitman book signed from GB to W.W. It also didn't help that after Hank found the notes Walter said that after he looked through those lab notes he thinks Gale Boetticher is one big copycat and that Hank's guy might still be out there.

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just one bump srs

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I (Butters) agree with the former obviously.

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pastaman44 posted...

If the pitcher has to bat everyone should have to pitch.

The pitcher doesn't have to bat. You're allowed to use a pinch hitter.

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Absolutely not. The DH takes away all the strategy involved in deciding whether to send up a pinch hitter, and hand the ball to your bullpen or keep the pitcher in the game at the cost of having him bat. There's further strategy when it comes to making a pitching change in the middle of an inning because the manager has to be mindful of whether the pitcher is due up to bat in the next half inning. Wouldn't want to put in a reliever only to have to pinch hit for him immediately afterwards, so instead the manager has to execute a double switch. In other words, swap the new pitcher for a position player who is not due to bat soon, then swap his position with the previous pitcher, before finally subbing the previous pitcher for a new position player to bat in the upcoming number 9 hole. It's a technical substitution move that's completely absent from the AL game.

Questions for proponents of the DH...

1) Why not have a Designated Runner for catchers? Catchers can't run for shit and we also can't have them being stranded on base at the end of the inning when they should be in the dugout getting suited up for the next inning.

2) Why not just bat an 8 man lineup? If the issue is the fact that pitchers simply can't hit then why even bat a lineup of 9 hitters anyway? No reason to give more at-bats to those number 9 hitters when we can give more at-bats to those 1-2-3-4-5 hitters.

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Scotty_Rogers posted...

I'm tryna become asexual like Jesus.

But he courted that Mary Magdalene chick, did he not?

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Lies. Your fetish is little boys.

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ButteryMales posted...

We need to start paying off debt.

That we do, but the debt was caused by too much government spending in the first place.

The-Apostle posted...

I'd rather know why they think wealthy people would pay it. >_>

Yeah, that I'd like to know too.

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Drpooplol posted...

Seems real good tbh

Why do you think more government revenue is automatically a good thing?

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