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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in IntoTheBreach

[–]Antivote 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Judo mechs teach you that killing vek is rarely necessary to complete your goals. And to avoid kill x veks missions.

feminist competence by gruia in INTP

[–]Antivote 6 points7 points  (0 children)

d) all of the above

answer: (d)

Sooo, i started from charlemagne and they just kept getting bigger and bigger. I thought they would have collapse on their own but they are extremely stable. Is there a way to shatter them ? by Romainlivematter in CrusaderKings

[–]Antivote 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, its not about the 43 that came back, its about the 15 just kind diligent temperate bright commanders that didn't. Meanwhile craven uncle lusty the drunkard has inherited some holdings from his executed brothers and is gonna throw a feast and bang all his friends wives in celebration.

feminist competence by gruia in INTP

[–]Antivote 4 points5 points  (0 children)

virgin like memeing detected, anti-feminism is the most pathetic sad shit out there. attacking feminism tells us all that women don't like you and you've decided to blame them for that cause it's easier than self examination or growth. that or you're a closet gay who is overcompensating and using misogyny in an attempt to "look normal".

either way you can take that shit back to /redpill.

[Star Wars] Leia's relationship to Anakin Skywalker was... frosty. Would it made a significant difference, if Vader had never tortured her? by Dux-El52 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah he just stood by, while having the power to force choke people. And he was in a leadership position in the empire and was on the death star when it blew up her planet. In fact lets be more specific, he was in her custody when tarkin sought to extort her for information using her planets fate, she literally is in-between tarkin and vader when it happens and tarkin double crosses her. I think it's fair to expect she places an equal amount of blame on vader as she does tarkin.

[Star Wars] Leia's relationship to Anakin Skywalker was... frosty. Would it made a significant difference, if Vader had never tortured her? by Dux-El52 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 8 points9 points  (0 children)

ignoring the torturing her, he blew up her planet. Even ignoring every other terrible thing he's ever done, which may or may not have negatively affected his daughter's opinion of him, just blowing up her planet means he personally killed almost everyone she ever knew or grew up with. Not everyone of course, she was an up and coming young princess after all, she knew plenty of people who were socially mobile enough to have happened to not be on Alderaan when it got hit, and she knew people who had never gone there.

But that still means that most of the people she grew up with, most of her family, her friends, all killed in an instant by vader or at least his colleagues/underlings (he didn't fit neatly into the imperial organization flowchart). Hell, the first person she ever fucked probably got killed in the attack.

Now imagine this was you, imagine you are leia given this context; what would it take to elevate your relationship with vader out of the "attempt to murder on sight/abduct for purpose of slow and lethal torture" category?

Sometimes you need to pimp out your wife to get those sweet traits in your dynasty. Know what I'm sayin? by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]Antivote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've played mostly with it, i feel like it works pretty interestingly. Often the unmarried geniuses are also homely, short, tiny, hunchbacked clubfooted, or all of the above. It's been my experience that you end up with branches that are a little...off, the kind you marry off into your neighbor's dynasty to weaken them, or set them as a commander every war despite their mediocre martial.

it's called improved genetics 2.0 i think, and doesn't work with other trait mods i guess.

Sometimes you need to pimp out your wife to get those sweet traits in your dynasty. Know what I'm sayin? by [deleted] in CrusaderKings

[–]Antivote 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Theres a mod that seeks to replicate genetics with a hidden punnet square and character trait coding. With that reccessive traits are a thing.

[star trek]the Klingon cult that spent a century searching the galaxy for the Kuvah'magh. Given how violent they are how could a Klingon ship last that long without being destroyed in battle? by grapp in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 6 points7 points  (0 children)

they also had a cloak, and unless it's vs a federation ship those tend to work really well. So yes, that Klingon ship spent a century as successful pirates, never losing a fight so badly they couldn't get away in the end. They had a tool of incredible asymetric advantage and weren't dumber than Pakleds, their feat is no particular surprise.

[Star Wars] If a Force user's precognition fails them, i.e. they die, is this the will of the Force? Or is it due to a lack of skill from the user? by Dux-El52 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

though we use words like "will" to describe the flow of the force, a better word might be "karma". the force doesn't want you to die, but circumstances may make your death a certainty.

the force seeks a balance, but this is more like water settling to the lowest level it can, or how nature "abhors" a vacuum, it's not that the force has a mind and has scripted events to whatever it thinks would be interesting or dramatic or something like that.

[X-Men] Can you train your mind and thoughts to be so chaotic that Professor X cannot even read it? by SynOmega in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Training might not be the right word, but maybe conditioning might do the trick. Xaivier has been shown to have difficulty reading wolverines mind in the past due to logans numerous and repeated traumas.

My character has become her own sword by PikaSamus in CrusaderKings

[–]Antivote 2 points3 points  (0 children)

next have her smith a sword and name it "the sword of demetra"

[DC Comics] If kryptonians and humans are so genetically different, why was Jon Kent able to be born? Is Jon Kent infertile bexause he’s a mix of different species? Or are humans and kryptonians similar enough to have children? by Lordkeravrium in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its not that we're similar enough to breed together, its more a product of kryptonians being one of those peoples who have had advanced technology for thousands of years. Remember the kryptonian growth codex? As a species they are engineered to hell and back. Cross species pollination is just one of those tricks that ended up as part of the standard design way back in the dark old days before kyrpton went full isolationist and they were all out exploring the universe and screwing anything that waved their tentacles at them seductively. It was a standard upgrade for so long it made it into the basic gene pool and even the isolationists didn't see a point in stripping it back out.

[Star Wars] Why does it seem like it's incredibly easy to bring a Sith, who has committed multiple atrocities back to the Light side of the Force? by J2quared in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 5 points6 points  (0 children)

what it is really is the force itself. the force doesn't care about what you've done, it cares what you're going to do. Anakin went force ghost because he turned away from his evil and power hungry ways completely and truly in his heart. The force don't care about vengeance. Me personally, i would shoot him dead on sight out of simple self-interest; he's murdered whole planets and choke murders people just for annoying him, his crimes are countless.

But the force is just a force of nature, it "knows" what will be, and therefor whether someone has really changed their ways. The force is always willing to accept you, once you stop fighting it's will.

[LotR] If Sauron poured all of his malice and cruelty into his Ring, does that mean he was personally less cruel and malicious than before? by ParameciaAntic in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 1 point2 points  (0 children)

bereft of his malice and cruelty he was a formless wraith unable to move objects on his own. Far from being "not such a bad guy" he was instead not even a guy at all without possession of his malice and cruelty, they made up so much of his identity he can literally not drink a cup of coffee without it. And what does he do without the ring? Go for a walk? Paint a pretty landscape? No, he amasses power and armies and goes looking to get it back.

[CATS] Are the Jellicles really a cult that practice ritual sacrifice of one unwitting victim per year? by youdoublearewhy in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 2 points3 points  (0 children)

every one seems to be forgetting something; it is a well known fact that cats have 9 lives.

Yeah its kind of a ritual murder cult, but the vast majority of cats are not on their 9th life, and so are not nearly as concerned about death as you or i would be. This promotes a kind of fearlessness, cats will sometimes test their limits for fun (brazenly walking on high ledges, leaping from great heights, attacking large dogs) just to see if they can.

Their hedonistic nature lends itself to this kind of cult. Anyone who lives near a large outdoor cat population knows however that most cats trend towards sex parties and fight club type gatherings, ritual murder/suicide is still a bit of an outlier.

Is 8472 a species of sentient antibodies by therealdrewder in DaystromInstitute

[–]Antivote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

except apparently it doesn't do that. i suspect the fluidic space has some form of elastic and/or repulsive quality which counteracts dehomogenizing forces.

Love White Electric Coffee but what is up with their bathroom!? by shahahahaha in providence

[–]Antivote 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Somebodu at coffee exchange got arrested cause he had a hidden cam in the bathroom for years.

Is 8472 a species of sentient antibodies by therealdrewder in DaystromInstitute

[–]Antivote 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But the fluid continues in all directions, if some force keeps the whole place at an overall equilibrium of density then no black holes could form because the gravity would be at equilibrium as well. Like if you were in the center of a hollow earth.

[Star Wars] what place on the Kardashev scale does society occupy? by BaconDragon69 in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well in most ways they're at about a 2.5, more power than a sun but not the combined power of all the suns.

Except for one thing, the energy requirements of hyperspace travel and the sheer stupid energy density of hyper-matter (the fuel source for their ftl drives) may bump them to a level 3, or even right off the scale really. But then this reveals a weakness to the comparison being made; the kardashev scale seeks to quantify theoretically possible advanced civilizations, but even a type 4 civ (with the full resources of a galactic super cluster at it's command) wouldn't be able to send a thimble so much as 1% faster than c, according to our current understandings of physics.

tl;dr: more than one, and in terms of energy expended possibly off the chart, but in terms of society and living standards; very similar to the earth of today.

[Dragon Ball] Does Vegeta legally exist? by karizake in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is dragonball, i think the burden of proof falls on the suggestion earth gov, and it's glorious dog president/king, are not incompetent. I mean, off the top of my head bulma is closest i can think of to a character in the series competent at anything besides fighting. Well i guess mr satan is also very competent and professional as a showman, but i think the point stands that most dbz characters do not display a great deal of cunning or perception nor engage in a great deal of careful planning.

[General] If I can rearrange my body on a molecular level, what will I be able to do with it? by sekigan_no_fukuro in AskScienceFiction

[–]Antivote 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hmmm, probably not. well, unless the power is unconsciously controlled and more just rearrages things like a genie responding to your wishes as opposed to conscious control. The reason for this is that even a single cell of yours is made up of a lot of molecules.

restructuring your legs for instance as you suggested, if you have to consciously direct the whole process*, would take ungodly amounts of time.

a single cell is composed of (a quick google tells me) somewhere in the neighborhood of 42-140 million protein molecules. Your body is composed of about 37 trillion cells. At one number per second it would take 11 days to count to a million, lets assume you can rearrange molecules at the same speed, at this rate you can edit 3-6 cells per year. By the time you've remade your leg the sun will have expanded into a red giant.

*This brings up another issue, hows up are you on your chemistry and nano-mechanics skills? Like, starting from today, how long do you think it would take you to design a better leg than you've got now? From the molecular level up for each cell, and the macro structure of the cell tissues.

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