If you want to do web requests/ use API’s, use ‘requests’

graphs/reporting, I’ve used ‘bokeh’ before, it was nice.

I’ve never used PyDroid, so I’m not sure how you’d install things, but these are both available via pypi, python’s package repository.

Goku has died way more times than Jesus. That probably gives him an edge.

I think that’s canonically true for Goku and Hulk

ha! it’s even better the second time.

Awww I was going to make a “That’s just what Yar looks like now” joke but you fixed it

Removed by mod

Unless you’ve been DuckTypeCast, in which case you can be anything (this is what happened to Gary Oldman)

Exactly, yes! They were self-limited, and the valar trusted them to be so, which is why Saruman turning evil caught Gandalf super off guard!

LotR magic is interesting. Sauron bred all kinds of monsters essentially “hacking the system” to produce something in a world where no one but Illuvatar can create life, and Melkor got around the whole life/sentience thing by convincing lesser spirits to inhabit this creations. Balrogs, werewolves, etc.

Other creations Melkor imbued with his own vast power, essentially spreading his “divine fire” out amongst his thralls, and thereby diminishing himself. Sauron eventually does the same, in creating the One Ring.

So, when Gandalf became Gandalf, his power to affect things was explicitly limited. , The basic difference between The Istari and Sauron: they did not seek to usurp their position in ‘the song of Illuvatar’. In fact the five Istari (Gandalf, Saruman, Radagast and the other unnamed two) were maiar spirits that had until that point stayed out of Arda (Earth) and all its shenanigans on purpose!

So, the staff served as a badge of office mostly. And thought it never stated, it’s kind of implied that some of their power is imbued within it. This is why Gandalf looks totally different when he comes back as the White, he took Saruman’s job as the head of the order, and had some more of his power unlocked as a result. The main strength of the Istari was their wisdom, knowing how the world worked and to a point, how “the song” was supposed to go. They were trusted to do the job (of taking down Sauron) because they wouldn’t use their knowledge and power to ‘hack the system’.

IMHO, Gandalf needed his staff not as a conduit of power here, but as an emblem of his station: He had to show Grima that his boss had just been fired.

It houses the flame of Anor! Thirty rounds of it!

“For as massive as it was, even Marvin with his planet sized mind couldn’t pinpoint the exact moment the pain in the diodes down his left side turned to pleasure. The safe word remained well behind his moist lips”…

(う死ん)

I’ve literally had Jicama palletas. How long do I have doc?

That line ain’t thin

MY BODY IS READY

The entire east coast is the taint

Read “The Terror”, otherwise known as “Everything you never wanted to know about Scurvy”

We don’t know who the original was, but the last guy to travel back in time and save him was named Steve Irwin.

I don’t know where or why all these foghorn leghorn memes are coming from, but I’m loving it.

For any Canadians out there: As an American, I am so sorry this is a thing.