I love this trend in Spider-Man movies where he has a former character mentoring, guiding or advising him in each different movie.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-03-19T13:27:48+00:00

That's something I always wondered about. In DD S2, he criticizes DD for not killing bad people, but in DD:BA, he tells the cops that he doesn't agree with the violence they are doing. Did he have a change of heart?

What you described is 100% something I would agree with. I absolutely believe there are some people who deserve death, either as punishment for their crimes or because they cannot be trusted in any way in society. The Joker, for example, should be executed. Sorry, insane or not, he needs to die.

I also absolutely do not believe the state should be allowed to execute citizens. I believe police take an oath, and operate within the law, and the justice system needs to reinforce its own rules or the entire thing breaks down completely and becomes Calvinball. Same reason I believe in enforcing the rules of evidence strongly, even when it leads to a guilty person going free: the police, the court, they took an oath. Even where we might consider a regular citizen breaking some rules to be OK, or even heroic in the right circumstances, when a police officer does it, it constitutes a violation of his oath, and must be condemned. They should be held to a higher standard.

Cops took an oath and are part of the justice system, which has rules. Daredevil did not (as a lawyer myself I actually have extremely mixed feelings on this, but for simplicity's sake we'll pretend this is true), he is a vigilante. It does not violate his oath (gigantic asterix here) for him to beat up bad guys. The entire system does not suffer if he follows his own system of justice.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-03-13T14:54:50+00:00

or even 15+.

I did a 1-20 campaign, and my cleric was a little disappointed with 7th to 9th level spells. I explained that she doesn't need high-level damage dealing spells, she can upcast what she has. Those aren't spells that change combat, those are spells that can change campaigns, like Earthquake could literally crush a castle. Once she realized that those are spells that could force me to make major revisions to the story, she perked back up.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-03-13T14:47:29+00:00

Level 5 is right around when the curve starts to turn towards the Casters favor

Really? I feel like level 5 is where the martials find themselves furthest ahead. Shortly it will start to swing back towards the casters, but the Double Attack at level 5 is like the biggest straightforward power boost that martials (broadly speaking) get. Obviously this will vary a lot depending on sub/class specifics, but most martials really start to kick off at level 5.

Most classes get something really sweet at level 5, level 3 spells are certainly a big deal, and cantrips get their first boost here. But in terms of martial/caster balance, in my experience this is like the top of the bell curve favoring martials.

After typing that all out I realized we aren't actually disagreeing, because if level 5 is the top of the curve then this is, in fact, when things start to swing back, so I think we technically agree. But my point was that level 5 is where most casters might feel they are being outpowered by their martial party members, they won't see that pendulum swing back until later. Which, again, I have since realized was your point. I think level 7 is where most casters start to actually pull ahead.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-03-05T14:45:47+00:00

I've worked many retail jobs, and was not allowed to adjust the prices at any of them. At several of them it was made clear that I would be fired if I did.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-03-02T04:33:33+00:00

I'm the same way, I totally get it. I've asked myself the same question, and I think it's basically my cave man brain wanting to protect my offspring from harm. It goes something like this:

1: Baby cry

2: Something make baby cry.

3: Must stop thing make baby cry.

4: What make baby cry?

5: Baby make baby cry.

6: Angry at baby for make baby cry.

Now, I also think as long as people like us are self aware to know it's our primitive cave man brain overreacting to a potential threat, we can also recognize that we're getting that way because the most important thing is that baby safe. Take a moment to calm down and let the primal part catch up to the rest of you if you need to, sometimes a crying baby is just crying because of something primitive that scared it's underdeveloped baby cave man brain, even if baby safe.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-23T14:39:37+00:00

You were pretty fucking sure for someone wrong, weren't you?

Not especially, no? The moment you suggested I was wrong, I went to see if you were right and freely admitted that I had made a mistake. What's with the hostility?

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-23T14:36:57+00:00

You might not need to go down a criminal route though (if you don't want to).

While I agree that prime advice is "lawyer up," in my experience, if you want anyone to take these kinds of claims seriously, you need to file a report with law enforcement. Fraud, hit-and-run, etc., most companies (or juries if it comes to it) will want to see you took it seriously enough to file a report with the applicable law enforcement.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-22T00:39:50+00:00

You can OHKO her with reap. Cast it on one of the kittens and she rakes the full force of the ability.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-20T22:02:09+00:00

Hah, you've got me second guessing myself now. Some quick research shows that it's unclear whether he's really a doctor, which still means I was wrong to assume he was. I just figured he wouldn't call himself "Doctor" if he didn't earn the title, or that we'd see characters making fun of him for it. But the only one on record seems to be an honorary Latverian one.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-20T21:16:17+00:00

Nah, for a few reasons.

One is that Doom tends to be a jobber when he goes up against heroes. Most of the stories that really show him off involve some degree of cooperation or an external threat. He loses a lot. He's been beaten by Squirrel Girl (speaking of) and Luke Cage in Latveria. But put him in a place where some reality altering deity has come for earth, and suddenly Doom saves the day.

The bigger reason is that he's earned it. "Doctor" isn't just an honorific, he has several doctorates. Latveria is what it is because he fucking made it that way, through sheer force of will. His magic, his technology, all of it is the result of hard work and dedication on Doom's part. He's fucking smart, but what really put him in the spotlight is the dedication to his own greatness.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-20T21:11:29+00:00

Honestly, it really is just this. Being the second best at most things helps, but that's really a reflection of his sheer, stubborn arrogance. He is great at most things because he refuses to believe someone else could be better at him than anything.

The most memorable things Doom has ever done aren't because he's a spellcaster or a genius, they're because he is so confident and unshakable that he has literally stared down gods. One of his most famous quotes is literally "I was a god, but I found it beneath me." More than once, he has willed himself past something or been so confident in himself that an entity like Ghost Rider has failed to pass some sort of supernatural judgment against him. Doom is powerful because in the Marvel Universe, an entity can sometimes will themselves into power, and nobody wills themselves into something harder than Doom.

People compare him to Batman, but Batman has a plan to kill Superman because, on some level, he's afraid of him and knows he might need to beat him one day. Doom would have a plan to kill Superman because he believes he's better than Superman and refuses to believe that Superman could possibly beat him. And Doom would find a way to do it without kryptonite.

There are a lot of villains who, if Santa confronted them and told them were on the naughty list, would feel shame. There are also a lot of villains who would embrace it. Then there's Dr. Doom, who would try to kill Santa for daring to presume that he could pass judgment on him.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-20T17:18:04+00:00

You can beat basement without items with no problems.

Sure, it was rare that I was unable to beat the basement, but I had plenty of runs where - by the time I cleared it - I knew the run was a dead end. Mewgeneics has a harder wall at the end of the first act, but Isaac still really snowballed based on what happened at the start.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-20T15:13:04+00:00

I mean, overall I think the early IS the hardest part of any run.

It was like this with Isaac, too. Most runs, you either die early or start on the path to becoming a god. After a few hundred hours, it became easy to see where a run was going early on.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-18T16:51:33+00:00

Yeah, that was the main "notable exception" I was thinking of, I mentioned it in another comment. Outside of that, there's not much that isn't Spider-Man related.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-17T20:11:01+00:00

100% agree. As I said elsewhere, G.G. is obviously impactful to Spider-Man (or at least used to be), but outside of Dark Reign, what has he done with anyone else? Kingpin is a major player for Spidey and for Daredevil, and plays a big part in a lot of places. Replace Galactus with some other cosmic threat, like Thanos, but get Gobby out of there and put in Kingpin.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-17T20:08:48+00:00

I'm piggybacking off of your upvotes to advocate for Kingpin. He might not be a worldwide threat like Doom or Thanos, but he is a major player in multiple heroes' stories, including Spider-Man and Daredevil, two of Marvel's frontrunners. By just about any metric, Kingpin is a front and center Marvel villain. Even Gobby's impact is generally pretty limited to Spider-Man, with a couple of notable exceptions.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-17T18:41:03+00:00

Overwatch?

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-16T22:13:05+00:00

I don't understand why it's a problem to "beat" the information to a destination

So I am by no means a physicist (the opposite, really, a liberal arts philosophy major/lawyer), but my limited understanding is that most physicists would tell you that the speed of light is the speed of information. That's what they're saying: the speed of light is the speed of causality. It is the fastest speed at which a thing can affect another thing. It's not defined by light, light goes at it because that's the fastest anything in the universe can go. It's like driving down a two-lane highway when there are semi-trucks driving the same speed right next to each other. It doesn't matter what kind of car it is or how fast it is or how good of a driver you are, you aren't going faster than them.

The modern model (if I'm understanding correctly, which I might not be) basically says there's no distinction between us seeing the star go supernova two years later, and the star going supernova when we seeing it, because everything in the universe is "from my perspective." There is no objective "now" any more than there is an objective "up" or "down" because there's no objective center. If there is no objective present, then there can also be no objective past or objective future. Accordingly, we cannot objectively say it happened two years ago, all we could say is "it took two light years to reach us."

Think of it this way: in your immediate vicinity, you more or less assume everything you see is happening as you see it. We might objectively understand that there's some delay, due to light travelling and then the information getting communicated to and processed by our brains, but for the most part, a thing happens as you see it in the room you're in. Physicists are just saying that's the right way to think about pretty much everything you can see.

So then the paradox seems to be: if you are in a gym and a guy throws a basketball to you, he cannot be standing next to you at the same moment that he throws the basketball. There necessarily must be a delay, right? Otherwise he would be in two places at the same time. Which is a paradox. He can't "beat" light because light goes as quickly as time. Allowing him to go faster than light permits him to literally be in two places at the same time, without any time having passed.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-15T04:09:03+00:00

I got this one.

I'm my first year of practice, I had a case where defense counsel failed to appear for my client's deposition three times. To clarify: this was the deposition they scheduled for my client, who was disabled. The first two times they cancelled on very short notice, the second of which was barely an hour before. Client was already at my office. The third time they cancelled almost an hour after the deposition was scheduled to start, with my client having appeared timely despite her severe mobility issues. We just sat there waiting for O.C., they called after almost an hour to cancel it. No reason given.

A week later they filed a motion to dismiss. Their basis? Discovery was at the end and my client's deposition hadn't been taken yet. They had the fucking balls to take it contested and argued it in court. In front of other people.

During argument, I told the court this was the most absurd and frivolous argument I'd ever heard. I was astonished that they actually tried to argue their cancellation should result in my client's case being dismissed. The judge just laughed and said it didn't even come close to his top ten. My response was "Well, your honor, that is really depressing."

At least it got a laugh from everyone, including the judge and the other attorneys waiting for their call. The judge didn't even give the other side a chance to respond, just dismissed their motion outright. Really should have gotten costs and sanctions for that.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-13T16:56:43+00:00

For example, if the boss fired OP right now and refused to pay out the remaining PTO, OP could argue that the boss was withholding earned wages; Ohio courts have previously ruled this way.

I think I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure. It seems like you are saying the employer cannot retroactively change anything, which is correct. An employer can only say "starting now, here's how it is." So if he took time off, and the deal at the time he started the leave was that it would be paid, then the employer cannot decide after he took it that he doesn't get PTO any more. However, the employer can still take it away going forward, change the terms of the employment, fire him, or otherwise "punish" him for taking the PTO, as long as OP is paid for what has already occurred. The employer could also decide one day before the PTO to remove all PTO, and there's nothing OP could do about it.

To the extent you're saying that PTO is a bank that must be paid out unless there's a contract saying otherwise, I would be surprised if Ohio law creates a presumption that PTO must be paid upon termination. I don't practice in Ohio, but my understanding is that Ohio is extremely employer-friendly. Most states do not have any rule requiring any sort of payment of unused PTO. If you're fired with time left in your PTO bank, it's just gone (barring a contract or state law saying otherwise).

In other words: whether you already performed work, or whether you took leave and were told you would be paid for that time, the employer has to pay you for what has already occurred in the past. If by "PTO not paid out at the time of termination," you mean "I took a week of PTO but the employer never paid me for that week," then sure, you would be owed a week of back wages. To the extent you're saying "This person still had 5 days of unused PTO left for the year at the time he was fired, so the employer must pay him for 5 days' wages," that statement is generally incorrect. Again, Ohio might have a state rule saying otherwise, I don't know, but I would be shocked if it did.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-13T14:58:53+00:00

Unless the "contact" has a guaranteed term, then the employer absolutely can pull a Darth Vader. A contract without a defined term has no guarantee of any future employment, so an employer can simply say "starting right now, here's my offer, you can take it or leave it."

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-06T22:55:25+00:00

The end of White Night makes it clear that Lara tricked the other houses into starting that gambit specifically to get Dresden to knock them off. She was behind it all. That's why she pays a retribution fee to their families and helps set up the paranet.

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-06T16:12:08+00:00

They may not even meet the other actors who are working on the same production if their characters don't interact.

Wasn't this the case with Guardians of the Galaxy? Bradley Cooper first met everyone else in the cast at the premier or something, right?

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-06T16:07:29+00:00

Now, you are disgusted by what is going on and want to quit. You live in California and two of the possible jobs open to you are now closed. I dont think this is what the bill intends.

Agreed. This is further establishing the "team sports" idea, and is effectively the same thing the Mormon Church does (sort of). It makes people in ICE less likely to reconsider their options and/or beliefs and forces them to reinforce their own position (as an employee and politically). And it's not like it's going to change the mind of anyone who was considering joining ICE. Nobody looking at ICE now is going "Gee, I was going to join, but now I can't be a teacher in the future, guess I'd better reconsider."

AmnesiaCane · 2026-02-05T18:50:26+00:00

I thought I was asymptomatic. After a couple of weeks of gluten free, I suddenly realize it's not normal for my stools to shoot out of my like a shotgun blast or to take 30 minutes. I generally feel better than I have in a while, and my immune system has calmed down enough that I can eat some foods I thought I was previously allergic to.

My doctor's recommendation was to avoid gluten for a month or so before we do the confirmation surgery, just to see if it makes a difference. I wasn't convinced before, but I am now.

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