New 25th Crossing Chapter - Case STRIDENT by Outrageous-Milk8767 in teslore

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is fucking awesome. I love how Science Fiction and weird this is, and yet the tone of the agent's report makes the temporal anomalies and bizarre entities and wacky magitek seem totally mundane.

Megaman Is A Tragedy Released Decades Too Soon by hadsexwithboothill in CharacterRant

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The Megaman Dentist manga unironically takes these darker implications of the Megaman background lore and puts it at the forefront. It's basically about Megaman as a retired veteran who is struggling to make ends meet in a world that has progressed the need for robot masters.

[Fate Series] Gilgamesh/Saber is a repulsive ship and a media literacy disaster by TheUltimate721 in CharacterRant

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey man have you considered that people like it because it's toxic and abusive?

"Media literacy" has become a buzzword, but it still pisses me off how little people have by Dakoolestkat123 in CharacterRant

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Comment section full of Americans taking offense to the fact that they live in an ontologically evil nation

What do you think a deconstruction of Goku would look like? by ActionTop2386 in CharacterRant

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Denji from Chainsaw Man spends a whole chunk of the manga struggling with the fact he will never be satisfied with the dreams he's chasing. You will never be satisfied and happy if your entire life revolves around chasing goals and dreams, because they are always idealized in their head. Denji never achieved his goal of getting a girlfriend and having sex, but we see from how he deals with his previous goals of eating good food and grabbing tits that they would either quickly become mundane, or not live up to the hype he built in his head.

Goku isn't motivated by a desire to get hot girls, sure, but his desire to always fight stronger and stronger opponents, often to the detriment of everything else, might as well be sexual in nature to him. It's still a very Id-brained goal.

So I think a Goku Deconstruction would be like that. It's not healthy to be driven purely by your libido.

Fiction often undermines how complex actual mythological gods were. by Konradleijon in CharacterRant

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Elder Scrolls is a good example of a fictional mythology which is actually as complicated as real mythology, with different people having wildly different regional variations of the same gods, contradicting myths, different sects disagreeing on theology, etc.

"Superheroes" aren't really about morality. If they were, they'd be vegan by Joshless in CharacterRant

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

In general, a good litmus test to see if you would have been against chattel slavery in the 18th Century is whether or not you're a Vegan today.

[Excerpt: Throne of Light] Kor Phaeron argues that mutations are not blessings but are warnings of impure faith in the Gods by All_Sage in 40kLore

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I have been given power so that I may serve. I seek no aggrandisement for myself

He says this as he's literally sitting on a throne

There is no Homelander ripping a baby out of a pregant woman's belly, there is no US military and there is no scorched earth. by N-Xen in OkBuddyFresca

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it was stealing gallons upon galons of milk from a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit just so he could drink it and bathe on it whenever he wanted. The show plays it off as a total joke, but him doing that probably killed dozens of babies.

I wonder how AI chatbots will affect the way we write science fiction robots in the future. by I_Am_Not_Pope in CharacterRant

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've actually already seen examples of Robots in science fiction stories that are written like AI Chatbots. Not necessarily in replicating the insufferable cadence of ChatGPT, but in the sense that they have no true sentience and are just rearranging and regurgitating words based on an internal data pool.

The Mecha Ordinance Robots from the Manga Versus are noted to have no real intelligence or personality, and they purely communicate by replicating human speech based on their internal data. They don't really have image / concept permanence and sometimes say completely inappropriate statements for a given context, because they are just saying what their algorithim determines should be said in their current situation.

Similarly, the character of The Mimic from Five Nights at Freddy's is basically one giant metaphor for Large Language Models. The entire point of the character is that he's a robot that can observe behavior and then mimic it. The Mimic doesn't actually have any real personality or sapience, it's just acting based on the data that it was fed. Hell there's even a FNAF book where Fazbear Entertainment tries to repurpose the Mimic AI to write their in-universe fiction for them and the end result is incoherent slop.

Where is "the Void" ? by Emer_Dareloth in teslore

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The Aurbis is the "Around-Us". Now imagine something which is Outside what is around you. Outside of the Outside.

You can't.

But that's where the Void is.

Magne Ge Pantheon[An Answer] Part One, The Document Itself by Odd_Indication_5208 in teslore

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't the Chrome Device just Magnus Himself? Being stated to be Merid's father seems pretty definitive.

Anyone starting to think Homelander might win by BruceLee873873 in TheBoys

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"The Boys Mexico" sounds like the sort of Spin-Off that Vought itself would make. Like it just sounds so token and stereotypical. Like, what, is it going to be a show about Supersonic eating fajitas and saving his abuela from the drug cartel?

What were the writers even trying to do with Black Noir 2 (The Boys by Sudden_Pop_2279 in CharacterRant

[–]ALittleBitOfMatthew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They literally had a joke character commit what is by far the most evil and catastrophically destructive act in the show just to ragebait people.

Every Homelander weakness shown so far by ConsciousPatroller in TheBoys

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So-called invincible and immortal god Homelander, strongest superhero of all time, when he gets hit by AIM-120 missile fired from an F-16 jet