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And IIRC it was after they had made a bunch of practical effects, so it's not like it was saving them money or anything. The execs literally just said "re-do these parts but worse".

Maybe your body is digested over a thousand years because the Sarlaac doesn't catch very much prey so it has evolved a hyper-efficient digestive system and sits dormant most of the time, but also once you're in Luke's right and you'll actually die of crushing or acid burning or dehydration.

But they also call it "The Almighty Sarlaac", which to me implies that this is all folk knowledge. So maybe "be digested over a thousand years" is just what Tatooinians believe will happen to anyone who falls in.

Even if Luke's right, it's not like being held down by tentacles while stomach acid slowly burns every part of your body until you finally die of dehydration doesn't sound pretty painful.

My first thought was "this is a much easier way for a Vampire to eat than stealing from a blood bank."

They defeated the Nazis by throwing conscripts into a meat grinder regardless of whether they even had a weapon, and by threatening to shoot them if they tried to retreat.

Enemy at the Gates is not a documentary, it's a propaganda film. In true fact while the Soviets did have a large number of conscripts and did suffer supply issues early in the war, at no point were they sending under-equipped battalions into the front line to die for no reason, and the thing about shooting those who retreated only applied to officers who ordered a retreat without proper cause (you'll find that every other army in World War 2 had a similar protocol).

Gulag in Siberia

Except during the years of World War 2, the Gulags had a better quality of life and lower risk of mortality than contemporary prisons in many much wealthier and more developed countries. Despite the enduring cultural legacy of the fiction novel Gulag Archipelago, the truth of the matter is that after the revolution the Communists reformed the Tsarist work camps into what were at the time the most progressive rehabilitation regimes in the world.

It's such an apt metaphor. A horrifying tentacled mass called "capitalism" is puppeteering every society on the planet. Read a bit of leftist thought and you'll start seeing it everywhere - read a bit more and you'll perceive precisely how its tentacles are manipulating you. Try not to go mad as your perception broadens with every theory you imbibe.

A few societies are aware of the being. They know its tentacles are upon them, and they've declared their intentions to throw off the beast and finally slay it. But whether their plots and schemes for defeating the monster will bear fruit or not, for the time being they can only overcome its influence in fits and starts.

Blow a fat cloud on someone else's desk so their name pops up, bonus points if your teachers suck and blindly punish anyone whose name gets triggered.

we hope this will reduce vaping through social pressure

The social pressure of all of your friends knowing that you're cool and break the rules?

Women are hey you you’re finally awake you were trying to cross the border right walked right into that imperial ambush same as us and that thief over there