JohnnyEnzyme

This is probably well known to many, but Steve Martin was a professional musician, magician and TV series writer before more commonly being known as a standup comic, actor, comedian, and later, film writer. Not to mention:

Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. Being at college changed his life.

It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up.

Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think:

What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation. --WP

It's definitely interesting with hard-headed Riley being in the equation, but so far my thoughts are pretty-much that this is yet another case of an aging, overpaid star attempting to save face and leverage as much money as possible.

Jimmy did great things for the Heat, but he & his agent surely know that he's not worth max money at any kind of extension. IMO the 'right' thing to do would be to stay with the org that wanted him, where he was part of a very good, overachieving team, and take a lesser salary.

I just have no sympathy for these aging big stars in these scenarios. It's little more than rich-people problems, and part of why the effective cost to the fans of seeing sports keeps going up.

I like the clip, but IMO they basically bailed out in the end by all the nonsense quoted from the ~3:25 mark on.

Jeff basically makes it sound like the US used to be incredibly self-aware, humble, kind, and well-administrated, but I think what most Americans don't choose to understand is that since the very settling of the continent, it's been a highly fraught, contentious situation, much of it characterised by greed, cruelty, violence, intolerance and self-righteousness.

Now yes, from what I understand of history, under FDR we more or less hit a peak of being a well-run, progressive country, on the level of many modern Euro countries more or less, but most of that was specifically in response to the utter disaster of the Great Depression and the need to adjust powerfully, swiftly and accurately. Meanwhile, IIRC during his presidency, there was in fact a right-wing movement intending to remove him by underhanded means.

So I like the hopefulness of the clip, but in the end I also find it pretty typical of Americans being largely unwilling to understand the hows and whys of the nation, going back to the early 1600's.

Eh, sorry for the dang essay. :S

Just make a community. Build it, they will come.

This is exactly what I've done, but I must say that in the particular community's case, it hasn't been easy. We're going on 1.5yrs now, 900+ subscribers, and I've personally contributed ~360 posts (most of them curated mini-articles) out of 466 total posts, yet the sub still essentially needs me to provide the content.

So IME, niche-type subs can take a hell of a lot of work to take off, and we're not even that much of a niche.

Yeah, I get you...

One thing that totally kills me is how the US just *screwed* with so many other nations over the years, mainly for profit, etc.

Now India and China are rising powers and you are going back to being a regular super-power.

NOT that I don't think you're mistaken, but at the same time, India & China are about as @(*&#-ed as it possibly comes when it comes to being considered 'super-powers.'

Thanks for sharing this one, as the duo is based in Germany IIRC.

Actually they visited r/BD about half a year ago, and I welcomed them to post here as well, but I don't think they ever did. Oh well, nobody's perfect. XD

Pretty sure it just means "rascal," as in the English translated panel.

Get a load of how he starts screaming when he pulls this move:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6E-PEScQ-k

It's kind of a miracle that this psycho hasn't ended someone's season at this point.

I'm similar, but morbidly can't help but keep reading the newer ones, hoping for lightning to strike, or something like that. It's rather a shame, since the art has been quite impressive IMO.

Back in the day, I had to pedal *quite* a few miles to get to a certain store that sold Asterix, and I think one of either Lucky Luke or Tintin albums. They weren't exactly cheap, and I also had to calculate how to split my funds between D&D hobby stuff, plus whatever music album I wanted.

Young, middle-class problems, I suppose. XD

Anyway yeah, how and where did you find it, Tyler? (all hail Fight Club, btw)