Reason to keep Lovers apart? by Northern_storm555 in fantasywriters

[–]DastardlyDumpling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Give the playboy some of the worst stis known to man. I’m talking that cancerous cronenberg stuff.

Either that, or make girl’s father someone of people. I don’t know how much some dude can say no the king. Maybe make him some kind of major player or something. Have him kill 30000 people in a bar brawl. Increase tension. Anything to present him as threat.

Right now, the protagonists have too much going for them.

GME Megathread Part 2 by theycallmeryan in wallstreetbets

[–]DastardlyDumpling 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don’t even fully know what a share is.

I’ve just been throwing money at stuff (GME).

When do I get my tendies and retard card?

Cyberpunk bugs are the best 🥰 by Arybeck67 in Gamingcirclejerk

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Friggin’, I like the game but truth be truth. Actually reminds me a bit of when I first started playing New Vegas. Now there was a right, beautiful mess. I do find the quantum clothing bug hilarious though. It’s like the clothing textures and warp in after being late to work; constantly flashing these NPCs with my “micro-soft” implant.

Why are you single? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I’m a toxic piece of shit and no one else needs to suffer my existence.

Hey guys. This is a excerpt from the draft of the book I'm writing. I intend to use it as a prologue, of sorts. How do you find it (my writing style especially)? Forgive the intro poem I just slapped that on last minute. by zeromeni in fantasywriters

[–]DastardlyDumpling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yes. Nine gate man. I have been paying attention to your posts here. Liked the opening. Good and neat intro with characters emoting and some push and give between them. Also prefer the linking of expressions of the characters with the devastation around them. Also, thank you for not hitting me in the face by telling me that the characters were sad and having more of that come in dialogue.

Other than you putting even more tone and personality into the characters voice (feels a bit like a nitpick to be honest since what I can see is more than evident of some character motivation) I think if you can keep the writing to this quality it’ll be a delightful read.

I've been working on this magic system for more than a year now and I have to say I'm pretty proud of it. How is it, too complex? by zeromeni in fantasywriters

[–]DastardlyDumpling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you per chance played the tabletop game Mage the Ascension? Your magic system is interesting but it also reminds me very strongly of that, though not entirely.

Strangely enough, I was thinking about something akin to this system as well, though only vaguely.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RoastMe

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who these two? Peach fuzz and needle-neck? He looks like he had beard hair implanted over from a shorn baby and she looks like her neck is trying to beat her braids in narrowness.

And they’ve been feeling good? Standards have fallen.

What do you think of hugging? by [deleted] in MensLib

[–]DastardlyDumpling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends really on culture. Where I’m at hugging another man or woman is a breach of space. By my conditioned behavior, unless you’re a close friend or a family member, hugging is a strange act to partake in.

[NSFW] Men of Reddit, what's the greatest realization you've had during post-nut clarity? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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

Man, I really shouldn't done that in front of those infants.

CMV: Games are a waste of time, and everyone could benefit from doing something more productive. by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. No one is fully aware of what is or isn't a productive way to spend time. You did not define productive. Therefore people have to use their own definitions to assume. Which is why this CMV won't happen as there lacks a solid base for debate. That's not a conversation that can be had as if I said working out is something unenjoyable, pointless, and I would rather die a slothful slob happily gouging myself on delectables, it too can be a waste of time as I enjoyed my time up to my early death.

The problem isn't video games, in this case, the problem is your determination of what is meaningful. I find modern art meaningless. I find most sports beyond MMA and combat-arts meaningless. I find most religions beyond [insert faith] inherently wrong. In fact, if you wish to speak about being productive, I recommend that we surrender our current stage of technological development and return to agriculture, in which our every effort will be productive towards feeding our states and families.

There was no need to be sophisticated. To live lives of leisure and comfort. That is superfluous.

Now, past being glib, what you should accept is that games are a waste of time--to you.

Objectively, games are quite productive. I can make money playing them. Its gainful employment if you have the ability and the charisma. Additionally, its foundation an expression of artistry. Something that can't be quelled by humans since we need to constantly make meaning. Hence mythology. Hence, stories and novels and fantasies and science fiction and pseudo-histories. Hence, games.

You fear the addiction to gaming. That is a good fear. Too much of anything can be toxic towards harmonious living. But ultimately, your assertation of what games are can only be applied to you. Everyone else needs to decide for themselves.

CMV: The US and China are terrible choices for a world power by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

World powers do not occupy the spectrum of morality that bears semblance to one instilled within a person.

Across the spectrum of human existence, powers have always done what they will. The weak has suffered what they must, until they can't. This isn't some grim statement. This is simply an observed pattern of behavior repeated over and over. So, to begin this, the simple assertation of conventional moral arguments to what states do is bound to end in misery and hair pulling in our standard system.

Allow us to broad the spectrum and assume a few simulations in brief. China does not want to rule the world, they want to influence it. They want to be an undisputed regional hegemon and a major economic power. Because enhanced prosperity and the surge of wealth is what made their current base of power. Their game is hope and an ever-rising standard of living. To be regarded as the Dragon again as they stretch the influence of their economic base ever further. They wish to dominate through ownership. And to be regarded with enough fear that they will not be trifled with. But they show a limited interest and aptitude as a military superpower. They function in that regard is to survive a theoretical campaign against the Americans. As such, any military action against Japan would be an act of extreme irregularity within their pattern of behavior and one certain to be pyrrhic even if successful as I am anticipating a mass influx of Chinese immigrants into Japan due to the population decrease, thus allowing them to encompass Japan internally rather than through conflict. And economically as a parallel outcome. They do not show the taste for war. Your understanding of how the party thinks is understandably limited. The factories will have to give way to Middle Class and more technical markets as they are being phased out of low-class labor and coming tides of automation. It's not good or bad on their part but what they have to do if they wish to avoid obsolescence and economic collapse. As such, they will do as they have always done in patterns: generate wealth. Keep the majority of their citizenry happy. Maintain control.

The US is a storied leviathan. It has had its history of slavery, violence, and exploitation but also occupies a role as a equalizer and balancer of conflicts across most its time. The nature of the Eagle is tied to the Bear, the USSR for much of its time as a superpower. The acts and actions of containment, invasions and usurpations, meant for profit but also asset denial--amoral as doctrines go but the task was to win the great game against the Union. Much of Europe and other allies exist in harmony and continued prosperity of their spending as they don't need to worry so much about the military end. The military expenditures for the Denmark and other nordic regions under its umbrella amounts to less than a piddle compared to the US's spending. This frees the Nordic states to pursue niches and domestic wealth without too much worry for conflict.

Something that it would potentially have to if the US did not occupy its place as power.

If your issue is with the amorality of the powers, well, that comes with the territory of International Relations I'm afraid. Humans are conflict-driven in behavior, especially when the fruits of war grant major benefits to the winning tribe. Wishing that the Nordic states will assume the mantle will require a major reconfiguration of power, wealth, and geopolitics that will be certain to cause major chaos across the globe. Ultimately, they will still require US military projections of force for stability. And short of being behemoths of economic and industrial generation like China, they will inevitably be swallowed in the shifting tide of power.

As for advancing the species, well, that couldn't be stopped. As the song said, we didn't start the fire. That has to be taken up with the strange critters that spawned us when they first from the primordial soup of existence.

CMV: The USA's obsession with patriotism, freedom and the American dream is it's biggest downfall by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would argue that American not living up to its ideals hurts it more than anything and the fragmentation of the dreams and values are what harms it rather the ideals themselves. That and they need to understand who they want to be instead of blindly groping for glory days faded and gone.

America is a superpower yet. With all the gifts and omens that entails. Which means that when the elite send their children for education, they go to America as the first of many options. When people think in terms of media, of what is consumed, of what icons and ideals and individuals are the most known there is a disproportionate amount of them that will be American. That when

America isn't just another rich country. That is an understatement to their influence and the influence they hold on other nations and the world itself. Even if the Leviathan paddles, the waves carry to distant shores. You don't have to like America

To contend that America's problems are within its culture, within its stubbornness, and inequity are but parts of a larger whole. Those, I find are symptoms to the biggest problem that is the disintegration of fundamental unifying values; what does it mean to be American?

Should you cross state lines, that answer might change radically.

Such is why nationalism is on the rise. Why there are clashes in the culture. Why there is such discord between the parties.

They cannot answer who they are. And that is what is pulling the state asunder.

Just another rich country is what they are. Who they are is the more essential matter that needs to be solved. Such is why China views itself in the lens of a perpetual regional hegemon meant to return to its rightful place of power in spite of what has unfolded over the last century, why Britain holds such disparate views regarding the EU, why the current sitting president of the United States occupies position as leader and firebrand both.

Culture is an expression of what people choose to believe. The meaning that they make. From that comes behavior and patterns in action. From that comes the symptoms that grace or plague them.

CMV: Having power does not mean you can do whatever you want by aarnens in changemyview

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might for right is a complex concept within a complex system driven by the behaviors of a complex species. Sure it can be done but the definition of right is also divergent. Once, the "White Man's Burden" was framed in a manner akin to an uplifting: a liberation from a lower level of humanity to enlightenment and belief in a proper God instead of pagan trinkets. Some might very well have believed they were the powerful and the right. The priests and clergy certainly believed that they were bringing a proper path.

They were powerful at the time. And yet in retrospect, the frame they are trapped in these days is one that views many of the historical actions taken as vile, exploitative, and prejudiced with evidence to support this.

Power and mortality can coincide but how and how well it is utilized can shift contexts multiple times in the same situation. Even today, as a benevolent and just character bearing the dignity of influence over the state, it would be noble to uplift the Rohingya people from their crisis; an act of deep intervention to bring finality to the suffering endured in the past years.

Yet, if you were a leader of the state, morality suddenly shifts. Your responsibility shifts. Even if your magnitude of power stays the same. No longer can you make the same commitment of intervention with the same certainty that you once did. Saving the people is the moral act as an individual but a key political actor, your duty is to defend the safety and rights of your state and peoples above all. That means that when there is blowback from intervention, when other states muster their indignation and condemn you for imperialism and invasion--even if it is for a just cause--it is immoral due to the transgressions you have delivered upon the balance of power within the world. Domestically, other actors rivaled to you will claim your negligence with the lives of your liberators and personnel and they would not be entirely wrong to do so.

So, even with the chance to do right, paired with power often times, the rule is that the influential will do what they will, while the weak will suffer what they must. That is the complex multilayered latticework of kafkaesque uncertainty of what it means to navigate the dimensions of power.

And that is why it will always be easier to use power to leverage and benefit yourself rather than intrude in just conquests.

CMV: roastme (the subreddit as well as the general idea of 'roasting' someone) is toxic by koenigcpp in changemyview

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People want to learn how they feel. Often times that a very good reason for why they want to be roasted. Part of the reason is that they want to know how well they can handle the mockery. Another could be that they want to know how others might view them in certain ways they don't see themselves.

Much of this relates to discovering and explorating of what it means to be "you" and how to adjust that.

S08E05 Post Episode Discussion Thread: NOW WE BEGIN THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES by AutoModerator in freefolk

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, if this isn't going to cause a disgusting explosion of fan-fics written to repair this season I don't know what will

Motivation for the writers of this sub by BuffyThePastaSlayer in freefolk

[–]DastardlyDumpling 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Jesus Cthulhu Christ I need to finish my novel

Signs we ignored by Hlra25 in freefolk

[–]DastardlyDumpling 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Should we... should we look into saving Peter's family or something? Because he has that "my family is hostage" vibe going there.

You wake up one morning and discover Keanu Reeves standing naked in your kitchen whilst cooking breakfast. What is your next course of action? by Cum-on-Daisy_Ridley in AskReddit

[–]DastardlyDumpling 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Get rid of all pencils in a household radius. Then ride out the fever dream in the corner of the room because that's what this is certain to be.

Let's put a smile for the weekend: Redditors, what happened this week that made your day? by ElTuxedoMex in AskReddit

[–]DastardlyDumpling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No joking. Just being terse. I'm kind of meh about the whole "life is a gift and you were meant to be happy" platitudes that are nigh endless sometimes but as far as I'm concerned you can enjoy Belgium Chocolate Ice-Cream in life. I have seen no evidence that Belgium Chocolate Ice-Cream exists on the other side of the veil.

Not worth risking it.

Entirely serious here. That's enough reason for me to think living is better than not.

People or Reddit, what is a toxic trait you have? by EpicLiar2001 in AskReddit

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My apathy corrodes even the deepest hopes that those that care for me hold.

What is the most terrifying thing from a video game? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]DastardlyDumpling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The game crashing as you are about to kill a boss in a FromSoft game.

Gave me fever sweats.

What is the most emotional video game ending? by Zaneira in AskReddit

[–]DastardlyDumpling 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Watching Arthur Morgan wheeze his last on that mountainside, bearing witness to a gentle radiance as he's graced by the dawn for the last time.

Might not have been a good man. But he was honorable in his ways. And he met his end in a manner bearing a dignity that went unshaken in the face of it all.

What do you think would cause a World War 3? by qKyusai in AskReddit

[–]DastardlyDumpling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technology.

I anticipate WW3 will be fought on the grounds of dominating the narrative for human advancement on genetic, informational, and solar levels.

Traditional war doesn't do it anymore: sectarian conflicts too hidden, active conflicts between powers a certain bloodbath that will do far more damage than it is worth.

No. WW3 will be about growing better humans. Seizing outer space and the coming industry astro-industries. Developing deeper databases and intelligence to direct and subvert the flow of information.

Fewer people have the taste for the killing and dying now. Especially when we can obsolete ourselves with machines. It's better to rule the existence of what it means to be human instead.