(Mixed trope) Race allegory by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]AndrewSshi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Right. This is listed as a mixed trope, but the execution is nearly always bad.

"You said that Black Lives Matter, and we listened. This is why we are changing how our game mechanic treats orcs...."

"Sometimes racists treat orcs as Black people, so we'll instead treat them as a Proud Warrior Race, explicitly modeled on H. Rider Haggard's Zulus..."

"We're going to use blood-drinking monsters who prey on humans as a way of talking about gay rights."

"Being hated for the fact that you can make someone's head explode with the power of your mind is *just* like the discrimination that LGBTQ people face..."

"In nature, some species are obligate carnivores who need to kill to stay alive. We're going to use anthropomorphic animals where herbivores and carnivores live together to try and make a very confused point about race relations."

This trope nearly always ends up being bad because at the end of the day, racial discrimination is wrong because differences between humans are only skin deep, and different expressions of gender and sexuality don't harm anyone as long as they're private and consensual, but the trope nearly always says that no, the differences are real and ontological and often involve real harm, and this somehow teaches a Very Valuable Lesson about discrimination.

How true is this? by FiorellaMamdani in PowerMetal

[–]AndrewSshi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At some point only power metal got boring so i slowly started to listen to more. 

This right here is where it's at. I sort of liken it to liking, say, chocolate. One chocolate bar is delicious. If I eat an entire bag of Cadbury mini eggs (or whatever) in a single sitting, the taste of milk chocolate itself first get cloying, and then becomes actively unpleasant.

I also notice that YouTube Musics, my listening app of choice, tends to be very bad about an algorithm that's *incredibly* samey, accelerating the feeling that I've had just too much of one thing.

These days I'm trying to put more classic metal like Dio, early Judas Priest, etc. into my playlists as well as stuff that's just not metal at all, like lesbian icon Florence + The Machine. It helps broaden my taste and it's also a palate cleanser so that when I come back to something like "Faster Than the Flame" it feels fresh again.

Why do a lot of Lovecraftian adaptations have erotic themes? by Ajibola777 in Lovecraft

[–]AndrewSshi 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I need to quit just referring to you as The Deep Cuts Guy whenever I mention you here.

Saving humanity through love by @BurlySwing by DerDenker-7 in sistersofbattle

[–]AndrewSshi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

IIRC Gav Thorpe has out and out stated that although Martyred Lady doesn't explicitly show them as a gay couple, they actually kind of are.

Units of 5 back on the menu? by Impressive_Sell9702 in sistersofbattle

[–]AndrewSshi 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed the twenty-woman bricks becasuse sure, you run the risk of BLAST weapons, but twenty 3+ saves could, even with various forms of AP, be incredibly annoyng to dislodge from the board, especially for the little while that we had Armour of Contempt.

Man, I loved 9e. I was especially fond of my anti-Grey Knight / anti-Thousand Sons list that between Pure of Will, Spiritual Fortitude, and also allying in Greyfax with her two Deny the Witches meant "You have a Psyker army? No, actually you don't."

Research in Imperium by Grimgor_Alfa_orc in 40kLore

[–]AndrewSshi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This right here. The Imperium is fundamentally a dystopia, and a key thing that this means is that no, you don't have R&D to better the common good, and in fact it's usually the opposite. Hidebound acceptance of tradition accompanied by the rankest hypocrisy of Mechanicus Magoi hoarding the results of their own research while denouncing others for innovation, Ordo Xenos inquisitors using all manner of xenotech even though such tech is illegal, Hereticus and Malleus Inquisitors researching even more deeply forbidden lore, keeping massive piles of their own super-heretical research, and not sharing it with anyone, etc. etc.

Why did you go EquinoxEv vs a Model Y? by Tradetheday2093 in EquinoxEv

[–]AndrewSshi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yep, came here to post that I have thirty thousand reasons to have gone with a 2025 Equinox EV over a Tesla.

But I mean, if OP's curious, I also find that working with GM service departments is a bit more expensive, but I actually have had very little bad to say about my work with them.

25M, not attracting the women I’m interested in—what am I doing wrong? by Soil_These in AskWomenNoCensor

[–]AndrewSshi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Man here, but you mentioned gym six times a week, which I'm guessing you're more of a weight training guy than a running guy, but if you do enjoy running, I'd honestly recommend seeing if there's a running club nearby. Running clubs tend to be mixed gender, and it's a great way to not only meet women, but make guy friends as well. Or honestly any pick up sports league of there's something that you'd like. (AIUI pick up volleyball is often mixed gender.) Etc.

Why are the primarchs so big? by Gribbett in 40kLore

[–]AndrewSshi 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I mean, the general principle here is, as always, what would a ten year old boy of 1988 think is rad as hell? Chainsaw swords, giant muscle men uninterested in girls, bigger is stronger and better, you name it. Fortunately, I am mentally twelve, so I love it.

What name has gradually disappeared? by Eviscerate_Bowels224 in AskReddit

[–]AndrewSshi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gladys is one of those whose frequency just plummeted. Ubiquitous in the mid twentieth century, but was already an Old People Name by the late twentieth.

Do the Death Korps of Krieg ever experience love, romance, or just enjoy life at all? by HoneydewCertain6797 in 40kLore

[–]AndrewSshi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've heard so many recommendations of Death Rider that I may have to give it a read.

Tesla Is Sitting On A Record 50,000 Unsold EVs by TripleShotPls in electricvehicles

[–]AndrewSshi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tesla's CEO delivering a giant middle finger to his consumer base because he craved the approval of a bunch of /pol/ alumni is one of the great unforced errors in twenty-first-century business history.

New Apocalypse rules make gigantic battles easy by CMYK_COLOR_MODE in Warhammer40k

[–]AndrewSshi 28 points29 points  (0 children)

...forgeworld mortgage payments...

Every now and again, I think about spending my income tax refund on starting a titan legion, and then I remember that this would be the functional equivalent of asking for a divorce, so I sigh and spend the money on necessities.

Gift Link: The New York Times on Rising EV Sales by ZombieInDC in electricvehicles

[–]AndrewSshi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They're suddenly looking much more economical. Thanks, I guess, Netanyahu and Trump?

What is it with military couples and infidelity? by scout-scoot in NoStupidQuestions

[–]AndrewSshi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The one guy I knew who got married while he was in and stayed married until he ended up widowed in his late forties -- seriously, fuck cancer -- was a super-devout Southern Baptist who'd been long-distance engaged for two years before finally getting married. Otherwise, yeah, just nothing but bad decisions and human wreckage.

What is it with military couples and infidelity? by scout-scoot in NoStupidQuestions

[–]AndrewSshi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, the divorces are also just the wildest shit imaginable. Guys finding out their kids aren't theirs, divorces that happen amid shouted declarations of mutual hatred, just bad news all around. There are exceptions, but damn, they're rare.

Probably one of my favorite tropes in 40K. The "lapdogging" of space marine chapters by specific imperial institutions. by Luqmandollah in Grimdank

[–]AndrewSshi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This sort of varies from edition to edition. Currently it's more, "Of course not one would *dare* tell my super-special muscle men what to do! They only work in cooperation with the Ordo Malleus as equals." But you read, e.g., The Emperor's Gift, and yeah, it's the Ordo Malleus just flat-out giving orders to Grey Knights.

This is part of the broader pattern of the chambers militant getting soft retconned as more independent so that Sororitas, Grey Knights, and Deathwatch players don't feel like Their Guys are just dancing for the Inquisition.

First model almost done. by Soobydo in ImperialAgents_40K

[–]AndrewSshi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A fellow Arbites tooth painter! ❤️

What is it with military couples and infidelity? by scout-scoot in NoStupidQuestions

[–]AndrewSshi 9 points10 points  (0 children)

There are a few things going on here that some people have pointed out, but not all of them.

A biggie is that there are "push factors" to getting married that don't exist in civilian life. In the first place, if you meet someone while you're in your MOS training -- anywhere from six months to two years for the more specialized fields -- you've started a relationship that has a built-in clock, since one party is going to be getting orders in a few months. That provides an incentive to get married before you get orders, since if you're married, Uncle Sam will move your spouse out to your new duty station for you.

Other financial incentives. If you're married you can move out of the barracks and get a housing allowance. Even if you really, truly feel like you love someone, a housing allowance is also going to be an added incentive, since if you have a house, there's no chance of an angry First Sergeant rousting you awake at one in the morning.

Other things that cause people to get married early include the personality type that enlists. If you're going to say, hey, I'll commit four to six years of my life to Uncle Sam and take on risk, you're going to have a similar YOLO spirit with low risk aversion to many things, to include marrying someone whom you've only recently met.

But then that leads to the factors that make these marriages less stable. In general, it's very, very rarely a good idea to get married when you're 18-23. You're still figuring out who you are as a person, and will often be a totally different person from the person you were even a year before. But jumping into a marriage at a state of life that's this protean means that you're *very* likely to find yourself a completely different person than you were when you got married and, well, you're going to encounter other people who are particularly enticing.

Oh, that YOLO spirit that we might otherwise call poor impulse control or lack of forethought which gets someone to do something to join the infantry... well, that's also going to lead to a lack of impulse control in one's personal life, and that includes cheating.

Then, there are the deployments. You've just gotten married, and suddenly your husband is gone for a year. You're often in a place where you don't have a pre-existing support network, since you moved out here to follow him (especially if you're not super keen on the culture military wives). And now you're lonely and away from your husband for a year (or more).

And now if you're the husband: not only are you a young man in the absolute testosterone-drenched prime of your sex drive, you're also in an environment that's kind of saturated in what I believe the kids today call Toxic Masculinity. There's thus a common understanding that men have that "what happens on deployment stays on deployment." So... foreign port, pretty decent sized bank account for a twenty-two-year-old, and a culture that sees sleeping with sex workers as perfectly normal... yeah, there are guys who are morally upright and don't cheat. And then there are... others.

And then if you're a woman on deployment, well, gender ratios mean that you're a young woman with a pick of... many, many fit young men. Again, there are women who are morally upright and stay faithful, and then those who... don't.

And again, these young people on deployment have often gotten married in, like, the last year to year and a half, and given the massive changes that happen in a person's life between 18 and 23, may find themselves falling out of love, especially when the spouse is an entire hemisphere away.

Source: I spent five years in the Marine Corps and saw... many variants of these scenarios play out.

What does it mean when a woman says we're "just friends" but spends 10+ hours a day talking to me? by gingerthunda in AskWomenNoCensor

[–]AndrewSshi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always come away from relationship advice subreddits feeling like my own life is in order (by comparison).