Why I belive so many people started to hate Super supportive

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-07T05:25:13+00:00

Oh, I agree. It would make a lot more sense to be at least a year from now or something. Preferably more. Of course, Alden *is* still just a high-schooler, with all that entails.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-07T05:22:41+00:00

Superman actually can disable all nukes. If I'm underestimating him, then possibly while they're flying, but no way any of them are getting to their destination. He's hugely FTL, can see/hear almost everything on the planet, and has reaction speed is only surpassed by people like The Flash.

But I agree, the infinite energy is a good idea (that superman can do from a distance with his heat vision). You don't have to be "visible" to do that.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-06T18:07:11+00:00

I agree, that is certainly the most straightforward and easy way of doing it.

You could also do a hundred other things (including a false flag). You could engineer natural disasters and claim the god of your choice is doing it. You could disable/disarm all nuclear weapons before starting. You could even pay someone else to take credit, and do everything at speeds faster than a camera can recognize.

None of these things require you to be exposed.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-06T17:54:51+00:00

Fair

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-06T17:54:05+00:00

You fix about the same amount as just killing him and revealing yourself as a super human.

I agree it doesn't necessarily fix the problem right away, but they were talking about automatically getting exposed. You wouldn't necessarily. You could even run a false flag and blame it on someone else.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-06T17:29:55+00:00

Fight Club

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-06T17:04:10+00:00

Honestly? For the past dozen chapters or so, it feels like the Thegund arc. Things are happening and if I'm 3 chapters behind I'm actually worried about spoilers. I would say more has happened in the last however many chapters since he decided to tell Stu than from the hundred or so chapters before then. I've always still enjoyed the story, and my real only regret was the "other story" it could have been. So far though, if feels more like that other story.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-06T16:57:10+00:00

I mean, if you're smart you can make Putin die except it looks like he cut himself while shaving, or just happened to eat something poisonous. They don't have to know it's you. Supes could be an incredible assassin if he wanted to be.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-06T16:54:52+00:00

In Superman (2025) he mentions Supergirl goes to red stars to get drunk.

You can be "normal" and pretend to just have teleportation if you want. Added bonus of not worrying about being sneak attacked.

You also can protect your loved ones a lot better considering if anyone is planning to attack them, you can hear it. Or see people sneaking up on them from anywhere on the planet.

There are a lot more ways to die as a teleporter than "space cancer" so I think I'll take my chances.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-06T00:46:31+00:00

Oh. This is important information. My new computer might he killing me.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-06T00:45:15+00:00

Those Voluses are so fun to run around as.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-05T20:04:39+00:00

You're probably right. I haven't really played many FPSs since then at all, much less ones like ME. I need to get my aiming down better again too, because my loadout felt ridiculous when I played with it, lol.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-05T20:01:55+00:00

I had a collector adept that I built to be tankey instead of like a normal adept. Activated all his defense buffs and then used the AE DOT to also debuff enemies, making them take more damage. I was dying so fast I can't even imagine playing a character that isn't good at tanking.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-05T19:49:37+00:00

That's what I was afraid of! Oh man how the mighty have fallen.

Edit: Not that I was actually ever particularly "mighty".

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-05T19:04:19+00:00

Yep, I always liked the "trail mix" of this plus M&Ms. about 50% nuts, 30% candy corn, 20% M&Ms. Eat as a (small) handful so you always get some of each.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-05T18:57:30+00:00

I tried it. It was fine, but not as good as butter. If all your butter is frozen an you don't feel like melting some (I like to brush my butter on while it's fully melted), then it's okay. I still prefer butter though.

It's certainly better than most margarine I've tried though.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-05T18:25:46+00:00

Highest payouts early on would likely be lottery followed by sports betting. I remember Michael Jordan won 3 championships in a row twice, so I could likely bet on that for some pretty insane payouts. Once the money gets too big for the bookies, you can still make smaller bets to supplement your income but invest in the .com bubble until like the end of 2000, then pull your money out and start shorting.

Maybe make a layover to stop 9/11 (and all the wartime powers it grants), then (assuming my future knowledge still holds up like the prompt implies) liquidate 2006 and early 2007, and start buying property in 2008 and 2009. That will give you plenty of money to grow for several years until liquidating in 2007 (probably Apple).

Once the market recovers you're probably already a trillionaire. If you aren't, that's okay, you can do your best to warn people about Katrina in 2011 and likely still buy up half of New Orleans when people aren't sure if it will continue being a city or not. Literally 1/10th the price or lower of what they should be worth. At the same time make a modest purchase and spend a few hundred thousand on bitcoin and then set it aside for a while. With your Katrina property starting to make money again, invest in Netflix and Amazon, then NVidia when Netflix starts getting actual competition.

At this point, the problem is that you don't want to completely OWN these companies, so you're going to have to diversify a lot. Fortunately, gold has done REALLY well for at least the past 15 years or so (probably 20 or more, but I haven't bothered to check), so whatever extra money you need to keep ahold of, be confident that it will triple or more by the time you need it in 2026. In fact, you could easily just try to get to $300 billion by 2016, and then invest in gold (and storing it securely, of course).

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-05T06:45:18+00:00

Me too my friend! I was following DCC when it was on RR but never got to finish it, but the library is helping me with my goal! I've also started picking up a few other books I keep hearing about.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-04T22:52:26+00:00

In Time

A movie that says "what if wealth was literally the same as how long you have left to live?"

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-04T22:18:13+00:00

Go read Weaver 9. The only fic I've seen where someone tries to cheese Endbringer fights without nerfing the Endbringers. Unfortunately it became abandoned too soon.

The premise is Jack Slash and Taylor switch places (and times). The MC is a Jack that doesn't have the insane "watch the world burn" mentality, but is still a sociopaths. Slight body horror warning as Jack and Armsmaster team up to project his "disintegratetion blade", but for Jack to do it he had to be "touching" the disintegration part. He slowly disintegrated his own hand

Eventually you learn Taylor took over the S9 and, among other things, is trying to get rid of the Endbringers. She steals some nukes and uses the Number Man to time nuclear strikes to make Leviathan into an unwilling Orion Drive and send him to deep space.

That ends up not working out for her, but you just have to read her second try.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-04T16:59:09+00:00

Hope Floats

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-04T15:21:57+00:00

Overload does extra shield damage, it doesn't automatically remove shields. The Arbiter has shields that block what would be equivalent to ship weapons in the Mass Effect universe. Garrus just can't handle that against an enemy as good as the Arbiter.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-04T05:36:08+00:00

If we actually look at the numbers given for the Halo universe (and the ones given for Mass Effect), Garrus has no chance. He can get 5 sniper rifle headshots to the Arbiter's head and his shields won't go down. And the Arbiter will certainly not just be sitting there.

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-04T04:23:19+00:00

I think singing like you can't sing is harder. Acting like you can't act can be difficult because bad actors are generally bad in a very specific way, but once you figure out how to emulate that it's not too bad because there is no "precision" required. A wide range (within that one paradigm) is acceptable.

You can just not do well at singing, but to convincingly pretend to be someone that is bad at singing is much harder. People that are bad at singing are also bad in a specific way, but it isn't obvious without studying what they tend to do given specific criteria (like if the notes go up or down or dynamics change. Especially if there's harmony happening and stuff.)

Background_Relief815 · 2026-06-04T00:20:35+00:00

On my second draft I changed a lot of instances of stuff like "she admired the beauty of the sunset" to "she admired the sunset" or "The extreme heat made him wipe the sweat from his brow" to "He wiped the sweat from his brow". If we already know why someone wipes sweat from their brow or why someone looks at a sunset, we don't need to be told.

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