• WasteTime [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      Literally LotR at the end of the third movie with the orcs running around when Sauron is destroyed.

      I resist to think that those in charge of these operations are really smoking what they sell, though. They hope to destabilize the region, mess with Asian countries’ projects of economic development and have another opportunity to sell weapons so stocks go up.

      • Trade Federation battleship

        There’s no way we could be the baddies — we have freedom and democracy and all that is good and they have illiberalism and authoritarianism and all that is evil! That leaves two options: either the country is being hypnotized by the evil authoritarian dictator, or everyone down to the last baby is ontologically evil! hitler-detector

        They hope to destabilize the region, mess with Asian countries’ projects of economic development and have another opportunity to sell weapons so stocks go up.

        Imperial necromancy causes these ghouls to live unnaturally longer for every martyr they kill to make line go up

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      It’s like all the people on Fallout: New Vegas boards who are like “How come nothing happens aside from dialogue changes when you kill Caesar?”