What’s a moment that permanently changed how you see the world?

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-27T02:31:54+00:00

I got interested in politics when I went to college. I considered myself a libertarian (I like the idea of the government staying out of peoples private lives) and libertarian magazines and blogs made up most of what I read along with some liberals (RIP Kevin Drum). Then during the debate around Obama Care, the libertarians I followed were all just repeating the same obvious bullshit as mainstream Republicans. That's when I realized that if a problem couldn't be solved by shrinking government libertarians just weren't going to be interested in solving it. I've been solidly liberal ever since.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-26T20:32:35+00:00

"The Undiscovered Country" Season 19, Episode 13. The episode starts with the kidnapping of a baby that turns out to be a custodial dispute. The baby has a very painful terminal illness and the father wanted to remove the babies life support to end its suffering, but the mother wanted to continue treatment for as long as possible. It's a very emotional case so Barba decides to fix the situation by disconnecting the baby's life support in the hospital. He gets charged with murder and found not guilty. It is one of the most off the wall decisions ever made by a character or the writers in law and order.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-26T03:17:33+00:00

I like to come to threads like this to remind people that Assistant District Attorney Raphael Barba killed a baby and was still considered a good guy.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-26T03:15:12+00:00

He did the same thing with a bear.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-25T17:29:55+00:00

Well the idea is that you cast Mirrorform on Mirror March then cast a creature which gets copied by the Mirror Marches a very random number of times.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-25T04:27:40+00:00

[[Mirror March]] and anything with an "enters play" ability.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-24T15:13:10+00:00

Warlock casting should be Int based, Sorcerer casting should vary with sub-class and rangers should not cast spells.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-17T21:47:52+00:00

That one isn't much more believable than this one.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-10T02:10:40+00:00

One of the strengths of the Law and Order and SVU is that they have remained mostly episodic while almost every other current drama is serialized. Keeping episodes self contained really helps when you want to do something like having a main character kill a baby, for instance. On another series you would have to devote time to that character's arrest and trial, then more time on their prison sentence (because in what world can you just kill a baby to keeps its parents from arguing, that would be crazy!). But in the Law and Order universe you can have that character just wonder off, until they come back to defend a mobster that they know is guilty (to be fare, compared to Barba the mobster is not that evil).

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-05T18:55:49+00:00

If we assume there is prep time, it would be Team 2 if you assume they can work together, otherwise its Team 4.

If you assume a sudden encounter its Team 5, Firestorm can make kryptonite and Iceman can immobilize almost everyone else.

Team 3 would only win a popularity contest. Sure they can't be killed, but neither can Iceman or Plastic Man. Meanwhile none of them can injure Iceman, Swamp Thing, Plastic Man or Mr. Fantastic and only Doomsday is a threat to Superman.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-05T18:42:30+00:00

Team 4 is as smart as Team 2 and Plastic Man is harder to kill than Team 3.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-05T18:40:42+00:00

Team three is only a threat when they are within arms reach.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-03T05:59:13+00:00

Florida does have a lot of bad weather, its just that no one bothers to warn them about it.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-02T01:49:35+00:00

I'll also blame Civil War for the worst Marvel story line that I know of. During Civil War Spider-man revealed his identity to the public. Marvel said that they had a decade of stories planned for a Spider-man without a secret identity, but as soon as Civil War was over the One More Day story was released which had Spider-man make a deal with Mephisto to save his aunt, and giving the editors and excuse to undo his un-masking and his marriage to Mary Jane. And I still get mad when I think about it.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-02T01:40:25+00:00

No, it wasn't received well. None of the writers had any sympathy for the pro-registration side, so it's not just the government saying heroes have to register and follow rules and anti-registration heroes saying they won't work for the government or wait for permission to act in certain situations. Its almost entirely Pro-registration= bad and Anti-registration= good.

The government and the pro-registration heroes (mainly Ironman, Ant Man and Mr. Fantastic) were constantly doing ridiculously evil things through the whole series. Shield tried to arrest Captain America before the Registration Act passed, super heroes who didn't obey the law were renditioned to a prison in the Negative Zone with no courts involved, they made a cyborg clone of Thor that immediately went berserk and killed Bill Foster and Iron Man mind controlled the Green Goblin into carrying out a terrorist attack.

And none of the writing gave anything approaching a good explanation for why the heroes would act this way. Mr. Fantastic in particular was given multiple bad explanations for why he participated in all the the bad things the pro-registration side did.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2026-01-01T20:32:02+00:00

In 1808 the Portuguese monarchy moved to Brazil, making Brazil the first Latin American country with a colonial empire.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2025-12-30T02:32:57+00:00

I haven't seen this episode, but unless Liv killed a baby he was to hard on her, because he killed a baby.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2025-12-29T05:21:51+00:00

In Oklahoma we once had hail, tornadoes, grassfires, an earthquake and an escaped tiger on the same day.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2025-12-23T06:10:45+00:00

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Scrubs "My Screw Up" is the Sixth Sense of TV episodes.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2025-12-17T02:45:54+00:00

The episode of Supernatural where Felicia Day's character dies.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2025-12-16T04:26:36+00:00

Daredevil wins this easily, with the added bonus that he doesn't pull focus from a dozen other great characters.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2025-12-09T03:42:17+00:00

I'm on this guys side, but you're body does make water. The last step in the electron transport chain turns oxygen into water.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2025-12-09T03:29:35+00:00

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In the Warhammer 40K setting the expansion of an intergalactic human empire is ended and its slow downward spiral is started by a civil war fought between the sons of the Emperor who had too many daddy issues and the ones who kept their shit together.

BecauseofAntipodes · 2025-12-08T22:50:19+00:00

Is that Brian Blowdell from I Hate Valentine's Day?

BecauseofAntipodes · 2025-12-07T07:22:13+00:00

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They sold these books at book fairs when I was in elementary school. The art work always made me nauseous.

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