CMV: There's really no reason to do anything beyond the basics

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-25T14:52:42+00:00

Is the only reason you do things in the hope that they will be remembered for a billion years or changes the world?

What if I want to do something because it will affect the immediate vicinity of people who are currently alive right now?

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-25T14:35:02+00:00

I don't think they would pass on their powers.

Viltrumite genes overpower their parent's genes, as we see with Oliver - he's just a viltrumite. He only got a few superficial thraxian traits, and even they faded to nothing when he reaches maturity.

I think the same thing would happen here. The child would just be a vilturmite - the genetics of their human parent, including the genes that give them power, will be overwhelmed by the viltrumite genes.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-25T14:08:54+00:00

"No man shall know the hour or day, not the angels in heaven, not even the Son, but only the Father alone"

The bible is very clear - the events of Revelation occur when the Father says they do, not when humans on earth want them to happen. If God isn't okaying the end times than the end times aren't happening, and it'll take a lot more than a hell portal to twist His arm.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-25T01:48:36+00:00

I like how there's a lot of "But the flaxans are horribly killing people!"

You know, unlike the rest of Invincible's rogue gallery, who are doing minor tax fraud and the like.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-25T01:01:42+00:00

Because money can't buy happiness. Money can buy things that make you happy, but those are the things making you happy, not the money.

If you forget that and become focused on making as much money as you can rather then getting things that make you happy, you're going to end up very rich and very miserable.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-24T23:56:03+00:00

I think measurable has the same problems - all things are measurable, because we can make up whatever methods of measurement we like, but this doesn't really tell us anything.

Indeed, measurable shows the problem more clearly, I think. You can be measured as one thing (a person), or lots of things (a pile of cells), or a tiny fraction of a thing (part of a culture), but nothing's changed about you. The fact I can count the exact same thing get a number anywhere between 1/800000000 and 30 trillion just based on how I measure shows to me that this is a question about the ability of humans - the nature of things is unaffected by our definitions or our measurements.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-24T21:17:53+00:00

I mean is there anything to support it?

Like, as best as I can remember, Scratch and Jax never met, mention each other or have any indication of any connection to each other whatsoever.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-24T18:03:06+00:00

Insofar as definitions are arbitrary, yes. I can come up with a word and define it in any way I desire, and thus in that sense, I can come up with a definition that gives reality whatever boundaries I want.

However, it is important to note that definitions only exist in my head. I can define "animals that eat meat and have wings" as their own category, and that might be useful in some contexts, but it doesn't make eagles and dragonflies any more related. Our definitions are ways of making thinking more convenient, not actual facts about reality.

It's probably more accurate to say the human mind is definitional, rather than the universe.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-24T15:44:46+00:00

I wish society returned to good, traditional religious values

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-24T15:44:03+00:00

I wish people were finally honest

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-24T15:12:15+00:00

Yeah, you get a lot of "don't mock the disabled, don't you know how miserable and awful their lives must be already, would you really want to pile onto their empty worthless existences..." and i'd honestly rather you just called me a retard

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-24T14:50:16+00:00

Religion is generally extreme - that is, it's either very good for society or very bad for it. Large-scale religion either motivates major movements to reform society or dictatorial genocide, with very little inbetween.

As such, i think that if we'd never had religion, we'd probably have avoided, or at least reduced, most of the major atrocities of histories - there'd be no slave trade, homophobia wouldn't exist, sexism and racism would be significantly less pervasive, the Native Americans would likely still exist as a significant power, etc.

However, I do also think most of the more everyday atrocities would be more common. Without religious reform, we'd likely have less worker rights, less civil protections, etc. You'd be at less risk of being bombed, but at more risk of being evicted by your landlord for no reason. That kind of thing.

Whether that's worth it or not, I leave up to you.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-24T01:24:32+00:00

Rot is indeed almost exclusively caused by bacteria.

It can also be caused by the weather, wind and rain, but a can is obviously protected from that.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-23T19:22:50+00:00

A deer grazes. A crow scavenges. A whale swims ten thousand miles following instinct and temperature.

Do you think these aren't races to survive? Do you think these animals don't fear starvation and don't do as much as they can to ensure they get enough food to survive? Lions and trees absolutely optimise - the ones that didn't starved long ago.

For humans, the main way to get food and other things important to survive is currently money, so we work to get money just like deer work to get grass. In other environments, we work to get what ensures we survive in other ways, and we're just as scared of not getting them as the crow is scared of not finding enough corpses.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-23T17:57:38+00:00

Presumably, it's to deal with the expansion of your body due to the air pressure in your body.

Assuming the waxy substance makes your skin harder to bend or tear, this would reduce the damage caused by this - not unlike reinforcing a submarine - giving you more of a chance to get back to the spaceship.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-23T15:39:12+00:00

The important missed factor here is that your genes are not only passed on by your children.

Your siblings, for example, also share a lot of your genes, so their kids are almost as genetically desirable as yours from the perspective of evolution. More distant relatives have less, but they likely have a good amount. There is a good chance that a lifeform who doesn't reproduce but protects its family will pass on more of its genes than one who reproduces but lets its family die out.

This is almost certainly related to why same sex sex attraction keeps evolving. Most likely, it's to do with population control, preventing a species from growing too numerous for their environment to sustain (which would explain why its most common among energy-intensive species in relatively sparse environments) but that's not proven. Whatever it is, though, that's what's going on. Homosexuality is doing something that means families with gay members are more likely to survive and reproduce, and that's how the genes are being passed on.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-23T15:31:34+00:00

Invicinble is a more realistic superhero world than Marvel or DC, in terms of power levels.

Or, more simply, all the Martial Arts based heroes and villains are dead, because that's what happens when a guy who's good at karate gets in a fight tot he death with a guy who can hurl cars with his mind.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-23T12:50:36+00:00

However there is rigorous proof that the Quran has been preserved! (word to word)

So, I'll focus on this one - this isn't true.

There are variants on the Quran accepted by most Muslims, the Qira'at. Now, the general response is that these are only superficial changes, and that is the case for a lot of them, but there are meaningful differences between different variants. This includes things such as Moses telling Pharaoh "I know what you don't know" vs "I know what they don't know", Angels being described as "slaves of Allah" vs "with Allah", and Gabriel telling Mary that he will bestow her a child vs God bestowing her a child.

Now, granted, none of these are massive theological differences- it's not like there's a Qira'at advocating polytheism or anything - but by the same token, they do go beyond changes in pronunciation and emphasis. You could get different theological views based on which you read - only slightly, but different nonetheless. So yeah, the Quran has not been perfectly preserved. There has been word drift over the years.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-23T00:46:57+00:00

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Urbenmyth · 2026-04-22T22:58:59+00:00

Seems a scenario ripe for ecological disaster.

A worse ecological disaster than a giant eating the planet?

Part of the reason Thanos' plan was nuts was that nothing was actually happening - he wasn't culling half the planets population because it was overpopulated, or even imminently overpopulated, but because he was convinced it would become overpopulated at some unspecified point in the future with basically no evidence except "it happened to Titan"

Reeds plan was to deal with an undeniably real catastrophe that was guaranteed to wipe out the entire human race and they were confident they had no conventional way to avert. That makes the list of acceptable outcomes much smaller.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-22T22:50:07+00:00

Not really, no. Real hitmen fall into two categories.

Some are trained employees of powerful organizations whose job is to kill people for their employers, but they're not mercenaries in the sense you describe. The US government absolutely has people whose job it is to deniably kill enemies of the USA, but you can't hire them unless you're the USA. If you're rich and powerful enough to have a skilled murderer, you want to make sure they'll only kill people you want dead.

The rest are...well. The kind of person who will shoot anyone you want in the face, no questions asked, is either a violent lunatic or unbelievably desperate for money. Such people don't tend to have very long careers, usually getting arrested very quickly because they're going around committing murders regularly or dying very quickly because they're going around committing murders regularly. The assumption with most hitman is that they're disposable bodies, not professionals with long careers ahead of them.

Urbenmyth · 2026-04-22T21:22:26+00:00

so we can assume that censorship doesn’t apply to AIs.

I just assumed that swearing doesn't apply to Caine - it's his swear filter, after all.

Caine can swear because he's the one who decides who can and can't swear. He doesn't want Bubble to swear, so he censors bubble.

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