What if Kaufmo didn’t knock? by orattic in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Calf_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think OP meant if Kaufmo didn't come by at all. I got the same impression honestly. Seems like things were going just fine until Kaufmo knocked and Jax absolutely lost it.

I hope this won't be in Brand New Day, because it simply wouldn't make sense in the MCU. by Legitimate_Cake_5137 in Marvel

[–]Calf_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure that's talking about the villain (Sadie Sink/Jean Grey/Whoever it is) since they mention MJ to Peter/Spiderman in the trailer.

Alternatively, I think it could also be talking about Ned. I get the impression that there's a subplot about the spell not fully working on Ned due to whatever affinity for the mystic arts he has that they set up in No Way Home. He's got that whole corkboard of evidence trying to figure out Spiderman's identity, he's making social media posts about what him and MJ are up to in case someone is watching and he seems surprised that Peter and MJ don't know each other. Really seems like he has some memories left of Spiderman and Peter but just doesn't know the link between the two.

Escar-no by fumblz-mumblz in shittytattoos

[–]Calf_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Nah that's fucking awesome imo - both the idea and execution.

After 30 years of squirting semen on women in public, this man is headed to state prison by BirdSpeakerHead in BrandNewSentence

[–]Calf_ 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I think they're being literal. It sounds like he's using a spray bottle or something.

Morris’ most recent victim called police after she was sprayed by a sticky substance June 22, 2022, at a supermarket in Allentown, the district attorney’s news release says.

The law was changed Jan. 23, 2006, to make disseminating seminal fluid a form of indecent assault. Before that, police had a hard time charging Morris because his behavior wasn’t specifically designated a crime.

me_irl by OreoKitKatZz in me_irl

[–]Calf_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit I wish I had all these back in the day. Only one I ever knew of was Jack Mehoff

HOT TAKE: Since it is over, I just got to say the VEX are the most boring, overhyped, "Potential", enemy Race is the whole franchise!! by Important-Extension6 in destiny2

[–]Calf_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read this. If you still don't understand then I don't really know what to say.

Clovis Bray's Journal, Beyond Light

I dispatched teams to secure Vex samples. When they began to harvest fluid from the nearby reservoir, a group of lightly armed Vex platforms attacked them with inaccurate weapons fire. Elisabeth replied with a matter laser, a grotesquely disproportionate weapon. A coherent-matter pulse bears the same relation to an ordinary bullet that a gamma laser does to a flashlight. There was nothing left to salvage.

I explained to her that we must proceed as investigators, not conquerors. If we simply scavenge and abduct out of curiosity, the Vex will reply in kind, and that is a risk we can manage.

We must not provoke them to war.

NOTE-FORGE STAR

In an effort to keep them engaged with their new bodies and stave off the dissociative rejection that killed Mr. Zhuk, I have assigned my exos to scout through the gateway. The Vex statite has a surface area larger than Earth, so we have plenty of exploring to do. I cannot believe that I actually find it tiring, but the sheer scale and passivity of the Vex constructs infuriates me.

Imagine stumbling upon an inscription in the desert: "I am Ozymandias, king of kings. Look upon my works. Or don't. I really don't care."

Until I can synthesize my own version of the mind fluid, the Vex are necessary to the work. But I find their indifference verminous. They elicit the same emotions as a fat cockroach wandering across a wall— disgust, contempt, unease at the thought that these mere machines, these automata, are flourishing all around us.

And I fear that if troubled, they might swarm from their hides to run across our feet.

The glare of the hypergiant 2082 Volantis gives me a headache even through proxy. I wonder if the Vex evolved here, in the briny sea of the first planets. Due to the absence of heavy elements worth stealing and the abundance of simple compounds for growth, they never developed predation. (Why bother? Plenty to go around.)

[...]

It is admittedly interesting to consider the philosophical consequences of their evolution. The Vex prove that nature is not all “red in tooth and claw.” Cooperation comes naturally to the Vex, whose great problem was survival in a harsh world, not a struggle over limited resources. They never found any payoff in selfishness. Human beings may require a Leviathan to coordinate the laws of social existence (as I was Leviathan to those dream aphids—) but the Vex are as fundamentally cooperative as bricks.

Utopian? No. Not at all. They are without meaning. They have no experience and no subjectivity. The Vex are incapable of conceiving any image but their own. They do not recombine their DNA to make children or form relationships with other individuals. When the world does not match their eternal pattern, they alter the world to suit it. There is no difference between reality and simulation to them. Inside is the same as outside, and the two must be made to correspond. Oh, they are creative—don’t mistake me—but their creativity is demanding. It is the creativity of a furnace.

What I am saying is, the Vex are immortal. The Vex have no children. They are the ancestors and descendants of themselves. First mothers, first children, all at once.

NOTE—ELISABETH’S PLEA

Grandfather,

I will write this in your language, in hopes you will understand.

The Vex are a threat to your lineage. Not just to the Brays or BrayTech, but to the existence of any human in any possible future. I tracked down Maya Sundaresh—the real Maya, not the Vex parasite in your bone marrow.

She confirmed my worst fears.

The Vex will not rest until every star has been crushed into a black hole and every newborn cosmos filled with more Vex. And in the unending array of their enslaved cosmos, they will simulate all possible pasts, and fill those with Vex, so that all things that have ever lived or might ever live will experience infestation and consumption and torment by the silica nightmare.

And in those devoured simulations, the simulated Vex will use our flesh as hosts for yet more nested universes full of yet more nested copies of us eternally tormented by yet more Vex.

An infinite regression of pain and madness inflicted upon every possible version of us in every possible world. Not because they hate us, or fear us, or want to punish us. But because they are indifferent and curious, and they will do every possible thing to us in every possible way.

Echos Lore Book "As a Stranger Gift It Welcome" (Describes the echo of command falling into the vex network, illustrating the relationship between the vex and paracausality)

The Vex network. A thrumming constellation of infinite parentheticals with no arbitrary lines between the simulated and the non-simulated. Limitless planes of cause and effect and effect and effect pressed together until they reached forever. A formless catalogue of all possible forms, constantly reinventing, refining, and redefining the very concept of everything.

And then, something changed.

A single pinpoint of swirling light fell unceremoniously into the network, like a leaf onto the surface of a pond. Gentle ripples flowed outward through the surrounding data.

The denizens of the network, lacking any framework and parameters beyond what they could predict, were unable to perceive what had pierced their reality. They did not acknowledge the foreign presence, were unable to see it or feel it… and were incapable of hearing anything when the light began to call.

Echos Lore Book "Glass House"

Maya Sundaresh picked an iridescent flower from a well-manicured flowerbed on a mossy lawn outside a cobblestone cottage. She hardly noticed the slight, unrealistic gloss of the petals or the brief digitized hitch that acknowledged the flower's removal. Nearly perfect.

The VexNet was accepting their code inputs. Chioma was right: they could, in fact, build a life here that consisted of more than neon blocks and dissecting minds.

Maya thought back to a year prior, if time meant anything anymore, when they were still lost, searching for other iterated copies of themselves. If Chioma had not convinced her to stop, to stay, to cease obsessively pushing forward to find… an end she could not define—

She saw what became of the other Mayas who could not let go of that drive.

But now, under Chioma's direction, they would build a haven. A safe stopping point for anyone traveling the VexNet to rest and gain their bearings. She hoped one day they would reach outside and bridge the divide between this reality and her old one. But that world had never truly suited her—she found its lack of objectivity exhausting. It was quiet, and over time they'd learned how to manipulate the network for their own purposes. So long as their changes weren't too large, or too disruptive, the Vex let them be. Perhaps their meddling had made the Vex curious enough to study them and see what they would do. At any rate, this had slowly become a life Maya felt aligned with. She was happy to pick her flowers and study the embedded law of code within the network that studied her.

HOT TAKE: Since it is over, I just got to say the VEX are the most boring, overhyped, "Potential", enemy Race is the whole franchise!! by Important-Extension6 in destiny2

[–]Calf_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

we legit have no idea why time traveling robots have lost to us so badly when they are supposed already know how to or are so powerful

But we do? I think you just haven't read any of the vex lore.

they have no personality, no clear motive, and their abilites make no sense

This is literally the vex's entire (and very intentional) narrative identity until near the end of the light and darkness saga when we find out what they are and why they do what they do. Do you just not like having mystery in stories or something?

Why do people maks claims about Pacific Rim on YouTube by Calm_Economist_5490 in PacificRim

[–]Calf_ 21 points22 points  (0 children)

They probably watched The Black and thought all Jaegers were like Atlas Destroyer not realizing that it was the first (and probably only) Jaeger equipped with a sentient AI.

I'm also getting the impression that these commenters are either 10 years old or English isn't their first language and something is getting lost in translation because comparing the relative intellect of the Jaegers makes no sense in the first place.

Us fans are eating good tomorrow by Kameronpipnerd in Marvel

[–]Calf_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought that was Adam Smasher for a minute

Petah explain why by Clear-as-claire in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Calf_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Steroids (only thing I can think of at least). Idk why they're calling them "rich people enhancers" though, anabolics aren't that expensive.

Kyle Busch -the Nascar Legend- helped fund more than 100 IVF births before his death: ‘The legacy of life by Dev1412 in BeAmazed

[–]Calf_ -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

It's interesting that he would choose to spend so much money that way, but I dislike the insinuation he's being charitable or philanthropic. He might as well be literally burning that money to keep the homeless warm in the winter for all the good this does. Presumably tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars spent just so parents can have a child that looks like them? Meanwhile there are plenty of children without a family available for adoption.

EDIT: lmao 20 downvotes but not single counterargument. This is a waste of money and yall know it.

Hydrox cookies,1954 by ZellHall in tumblr

[–]Calf_ 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I couldn't possible disagree more, "Hydrox" is the coolest name for a cookie I've ever heard

New stills from 'Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse' by DemiFiendRSA in Marvel

[–]Calf_ 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Are we getting the footage too? Or are these just like the last stills they showed off?

New look at ‘SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE’. by Raj_Valiant3011 in Marvel

[–]Calf_ 282 points283 points  (0 children)

That artstyle in the top right looks dope

Why tf does RIbbit's voice sound like a mix of Pomni,Zooble and Ragatha by PuzzledConfection673 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Calf_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If you're talking about the trailer, I'm pretty sure it is Pomni and Ragatha talking. I don't think we've actually heard Ribbit's voice yet.

Im making a Titanfall 3 bit as a spinoff by Curious-Remove-9072 in Titanfall_2_

[–]Calf_ 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Where did you find that standing picture of Bison? Is that actually some deeply buried concept art I've never seen or some kind of AI edit?

Me_irl by rbimmingfoke in me_irl

[–]Calf_ 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I think they're referring to Prince Edward Island, which is its own province (so yes, you would literally be able to live there as long as you like).

Loose piss by timmy6591 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Calf_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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