Will always hold a place in my top 10.

Deep cut lol

But why is it named after a type of computer virus? they didn't even have computers back then!

Annoying reddit shit

This makes me think about Trojan condoms. That's quite the name, because the Trojan horse was used to sneak men into Troy. So where and what sneaking is the Trojan condoms doing?

Agreed. I think it was a shame to leave that section out as it illustrates Odysseus' cleverness and hubris, the attributes that both help and hinder his journey. It also demonstrates the complicated nature of heroism investigated in the epic.

Odysseus shows great intelligence in introducing himself as Nobody and again in saving the surviving men. He also can't resist shouting back his name and taking credit once he's out of immediate danger. Had he not shouted his name back, Polyphemus would have been unable to call down a curse upon him, and by extension, all his men.

I coulda swore there was a legit Shadowrun rule set back in the day...

Common misunderstanding. The Trojan horse is named after the city it attacked, and the condoms are named after the Trojans - that's not the Greeks, but the guys who held the wall and got slaughtered. That's your dick if the wall falls, the other side is the Greeks.

Shhhhh, it's ok to let people have silly fun.

I just hate seeing people bring the same mindless call & response reddit bullshit here.

It's like some bizarre form of meme dogma.

"Happy cake day" makes me cringe too.

.... there's gonna be an adaptation of Neuromancer?! 😮‍💨

Time loops aside, they're not entirely wrong. LOTR is an upgraded version of The Hobbit that hit a lot harder.

Have you heard of Moonring? It's a modern reimagination of the series (particularly 4 and beyond) with a hint from roguelikes' combat and indie TTRPGs for the systems and the setting. I like the revamped talking interface and secrets scattered throughout its map.

Anyone who hasn't had to go fishing for a "lost" condom on occasion either lives in the mother's basement or seldom has sex that needs the use of condoms. Or perhaps both.

My wife still swears our 3rd daughter was the result of a lost trojan condom.

Interesting idea, but naming your personal protective product after the most famous failing team on a mythical story is some pretty bad marketing.

yeah the first real trailer dropped the other day

You really should listen to the Yes Minister explanation of this.

Hold on........

https://youtu.be/TDsSMi4zclo?t=113

I thought it was funny :)

Maybe they mean you should use it if you have a schlong the size of a horse?

As a former ESL professor, I both learnt and taught: learnt, dreamt, was, became, began, taught, blew, meant, brought, thought, caught, drew, felt, fought, lit, grew etc. as part of the (very long) list of irregular English verbs in the past and participle forms.

I'm assuming your insistence is born (not borned) out of embarrassment over your initial mistake. It's ok to not know something, admitting a mistake is a far better look.

What part of me posting the correct answer is insisting? I really don’t understand why everyone needs this to be a gotcha so please fuck off.

This reminds me of a road trip I took years ago with my best friend. Dude is an awesome guitarist but a little musically uncultured. He likes what he likes and other stuff might as well not exist. Well I have a much wider palate for music than he does and most of the time when we are hanging out, he discovers new music.

We were driving down route 66 and crossing into Texas on our road trip and the song "Free Fallin'" comes on. Immediately he pipes up and says "ah, man this is the worst cover of this song I've ever heard. The quality makes it sound like it was recorded in the 70's or 80's and you really just can't replace John's voice." I pulled over the car and began interrogating for clarity.

"John who?"

"Mayor? The original is so much better than this."

"You think John Mayor wrote Free Fallin'?"

"What do you mean?"

"I really really need you to think about why this song sounds 'older' than John Mayor's Free Fallin'."

"Oh..."

I haven't let him live it down. Every road trip we have been on since, I make sure the original is on the playlist somewhere. It was out of character for him to be so confidently incorrect.

Sounds like your friend handled being wrong with a lot more grace than you handled being right

I like this much better than what I suspect is the actual truth: "It makes you think of scantily clad muscular men in shiny outfits, and giant horse dicks."

You and your friends don't make fun of each other? It's all in good fun.

this phenomenon has a tvtropes page

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

There are certain works that you can safely assume most people have enjoyed. These shows were considered fantastic when they were released. Now, however, these have a Hype Backlash curse on them. Whenever we watch them, we'll cry, "That is so old" or "That is so overdone".

The sad irony? It wasn't old or overdone when they did it. In fact, it wasn't done at all: this work was the first one to do that. But the result was so brilliant and popular, it became woven into the fabric of the genre. Its innovations were endlessly repeated, until the audience began to expect that every work of that type would include them. And so a work which was once genuinely novel has become the new status quo. It's basically the inverse of a Grandfather Clause taken to a trope level: some works can get away with a dated element because of age and tradition, but these works are dismissed as dated because they've drowned in the sea of their own imitators. The work has retroactively become a Cliché Storm.

ok, Seinfeld is still unfunny though

That used to be my attitude about the Dragon Quest series, that they always felt so generic. Wasn't aware of how pioneering the series was.

That Socrates guy doing the Socratic method?? C'mon. Ancient Greek philosophy should learn to name their characters better.

;3

HUH. I will have to look. The word “roguelike” is an immediate turn off but my love for the series is enough to make me curious anyway

Does it mean the word mentee is wrong? (please say yes even though that's not how language works so I don't feel stupid for not having known it in high school)

I think The Hobbit was written for children while LOTR was written for adults.

My most controversial take

Well it doesn't have permadeath, it just incorporates grid-based combat mechanics from roguelikes like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Brogue, to spice things up.

So your edit is just "I'm wrong but going to pretend I'm not", neat

Sure bruv

Yes, but there's a lot to cover about them without touching any of the myths

That’s not what I said.

Sure thing, keep telling yourself

As someone who spent a full time jobs worth of hours playing Dragon Warrior (NA release) III on my Game Boy Color... you couldn't pay me to play that game again lol.

I once spent 2 weeks grinding in the final boss area because I didn't recognize some obscure graphic on the wall to be doors to the final boss. Needless to say the final battle was anti-climactic.

basically "why's pythagora using the pythagorean theorem??"

When you show your buddy The Matrix for the first time and they complain that it overuses bullet time effects.

In the pre-internet-as-weʻve-come-to-know-it days, there were actual YEARS of on/off debate between my best friend and I over who first sang "I Shot the Sheriff." He was convinced that Bob Marley was covering Clapton. I told him repeatedly that this was nonsense. I happened to be in a record store, looking at vinyl (this was in the days of CDs; I owned no turntable but I like flipping through the bins) and I came across the Clapton album that had his cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" on it. Sure enough, in plain English, underneath the song title were the words "written by R. Marley." So I bought the record for the sole purpose of laying it in front of him to prove to him that Clapton was covering Marley.

"Whatever bro, Iʻve seen the Cream album where it says Clapton wrote it."

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This. Also, my 12 y/o is getting into fantasy stuff and has us watching The Hobbit movies (Iʻd only ever seen the first one, when it was back in theaters). All the cringey stuff in that movie totally fits with the "younger" tone of the book. The problem is stretching a kids book into a twelve-hour trilogy of films imho. (Okay, that and the completely unnecessary romantic subplot that includes a version of Legolas that might as well be a completely different character than what we see in LOTR)

the seinfeld isnt funny trope

To be fair, I thought that the first time I saw it back in 1999.

(I've never been a fan)

The LOTR movies were good, but The Hobbit trilogy was an obvious attempt to just milk more money out of Tolkien fans.

Thank you for the sane take.

Studying Greek classics being used as an "America bad" is the biggest stretch, jfc. Not everything is a conspiracy. Take it down a notch.

Pretty sure that ain't right.