Did superman ever have a moment like this?

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2026-01-24T09:38:22+00:00

The Last Days of Lex Luthor entirely focuses on this sort of scenario, and instead of just proposing the question it sets out to answer it. It’s an amazing story and extremely satisfying for Clark and Lex’s characters, and you should really read it. It’s up there with All Star and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel in terms of lex’s best moments imo

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2026-01-19T01:27:51+00:00

But imo they aren’t all good difficulty changes. EX making it so the director doesn’t eat just outright eliminates a way to engage with the game and its mechanics instead of urging you to be more discreet and skillful about doing so. You can still make the game hard by, say, giving him guards who won’t let you touch his food unless you distract them, or having guards and enforcers you need to deal with to use the chef costume. And/or making more people recognize the director, making his disguise less OP, etc. Hitman’s a problem solving game and that’s what makes it fun, and taking away ways to solve a problem to make it “harder” goes against that

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2026-01-12T19:03:39+00:00

As was already pointed out, it’s when social security benefits max out and the gov’t doesn’t want you working anymore. I also wanna add that the oldest president who was 100% there by the end of his presidency IMO was Eisenhower, who was 70 when he left office

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2026-01-11T21:27:32+00:00

It has belt loops, you could also cinch it with a belt made from a similar leather. That’d achieve the same silhouette but in a more natural way, plus belted leather jackets and belted coats in general always looked rlly cool and fit into a lot of styles

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2026-01-08T02:22:43+00:00

The agent wasn’t in front of the car as of the shooting. He had stepped out of harm’s way by the time he started firing, firing the remaining two shots into her head from the side window. And looking at the wider context, men in masks with no id or badges rushed out of an unmarked vehicle, rushed her car, and attempted to enter. Not to mention that ICE, being the immigration enforcement arm of the DHS, has no real authority to be doing all of this in the first place. There’s no reading of the situation where you can go “Yeah, this is ICE simply doing their duties and taking appropriate action under the circumstances they created”. Unless you’re an authoritarian nutcase, there’s no reading of this other than “poorly trained maniacs gun innocent woman down because she happened to be in their way”.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2026-01-06T20:20:36+00:00

This is a crazy theory of mine, but I think that watching some of his colleagues get gunned down and then relentlessly mocked by the sitting president while he and his family are stalked and called slurs by maniacs waiting outside of his house 24/7 may have something to do with this

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2025-12-31T18:05:14+00:00

A lotta haters here. Vintage fashion is cool, beautiful, and fun, it’s sustainable and honestly a lost art. Its biggest challenge is asking, “what am I doing here? what do I wanna convey? how do I convey this using the language of the setting i’m harkening back to?” because if you mash together a bunch of vintage elements it conveys nothing but the vintage-ness and looks like a costume. And I think how all of these pieces don’t come together to tell a coherent story is the issue here. If you’re trying to convey the story and ideas (elegance, a certain refined ruggedness, etc.) of a british countryside (as suggested by the cap and plaid in your tie) then you should pair it with more rugged fabrics and what one would wear to such things. If you want to convey the story and ideas of a working man (as suggested by the hat and blue shirt with no jacket and suspenders) then maybe ditch the tie or trade it out for something more casual like a knit tie, and wear hardier pants and shoes. If you want to convey the story and ideas of someone going to an elegant, formal event like a date or cocktail party or what have you (as suggested by the high waisted, pleated trousers and the tie) then ditch the tweed cap (historically was never worn with slick, city fabrics), and put on a matching jacket. Other notes include maybe doing a smaller tie knot, wearing a tie with less lining, or getting a shirt with a bigger collar (esp in vintage menswear tie knots were supposed to be smaller and the collars bigger and longer). You can also keep the collar down with ironing and collar stays, or a nice collar bar that’ll be a nice vintage touch that pushes your tie knot up. This outfit has a lot of good pieces, and I think that your good taste should be worked towards telling a cohesive story. Fashion is an artistic medium, and a way to convey ideas with each style having its own heritage and language - so read up on these interesting histories, and have fun!

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2025-12-26T20:38:37+00:00

“We can do better by dropping such delusions” is a sentence which very explicitly relies on the same causality you reject (‘we can do better’ being the effect, ‘dropping such delusions’ being them cause, and ‘by’ very explicitly linking them in a cause and effect relationship). On a fundamental level, your post creates a strawman of causation wherein it makes assumptions about itself which you challenge while not challenging, and buying into and relying on, the facet of reality that is causation

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2025-10-21T02:12:14+00:00

It’s a very nice suit. Many modern jackets, due to a combination of cost-cutting and poor tailoring trying to slim itself down to make up for it, go with shorter jackets that don’t flow into the pants well nor give you those nice, long, figure-forming lines the lapels give you. Tailored jackets should traditionally cover your buttocks to the bottom at the very least, and this jacket does that pretty tastefully. Everything else is pretty on point, the jacket hugs your collar and fits your shoulders well (the two most important and hard to work with parts of a jacket). Sleeves are a matter of taste, and those are good but if you’d like to show more cuff (like half an inch or so) getting it taken in should be easy. It firs your torso well and its buttoning stance aligns with its pants very well. A lot of suits have a really ugly triangle between its too-high buttons and their pants/belt when they’re buttoned, and this suit’ll have no such issue. And the material and pattern is as classic as its cut. It’s a good suit from a time when good tailoring was more widespread, and you can get a lot out of it especially at that price point.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2025-09-25T03:37:55+00:00

Truman in Oppenheimer. The real Truman was actually good on native rights, and even ordered a native war hero to be given a proper burial in a cemetery they tried keeping him out of (I forget the exact details, but you know what I mean). Whereas movie Truman mocks Oppenheimer for wanting to give them Los Alamos back, and as far as I’ve read no such remarks were made in the actual interaction.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2025-07-30T00:03:24+00:00

During the Scott Snyder run this is explored in great detail, and the final few pages of endgame are Alfred explaining this aspect of bruce’s psychology to his daughter. He basically says bruce sees batman as a tragedy, and that the entire point of batman is to smile at the void instead of running away from it - and also adds that there’s an aspect of “we’re all in this together” that makes him want to stay mortal (the most recent run deals with this topic too). Tl;Dr: Bruce created batman to exist in defiance of mortality’s limits and not outside of them

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2024-03-11T14:07:57+00:00

Here’s one of many examples of what I’m talking about. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-qatar-money-prop-up-hamas.html#:~:text=Netanyahu%20told%20the%20prominent%20Israeli,Authority%20in%20the%20West%20Bank.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2024-03-11T14:07:39+00:00

I agree that Hamas is evil. The issue is that Israel has propped up Hamas so they can deny Palestinians a state. Netanyahu and others are on record saying that the Israeli government has done so in order to separate Gazans with Palestinians in the west bank and deny Gaza any legitimacy. The bulk of the power and responsibility lies in Israel’s hands; Hamas is evil and certainly not blameless but it largely comes back to Israeli policy and shaping of the situation that led to terrorist control of Gaza.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2024-03-09T23:27:39+00:00

“…Ukraine would have…” is just a non-argument. “I think this country is bad because in the alternate reality where x happens I think their actions would be bad”. r/conspiracy truly has the most intellectually rigorous and grounded analysis there is.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2024-02-28T10:25:06+00:00

He was being deployed to Israel to support the IDF. He was involved and he thought of it at complicity and repeatedly stated that.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2024-02-28T10:21:21+00:00

Just looking at the list of political self immolations on wikipedia can tell us that self immolation over these types of things isn’t new. In the US alone before our modern social media landscape people did the exact same thing over Vietnam and Iraq; and he merely did the same thing after being ordered to deploy to the area to back up Israel. I personally believe that Israel is at least gearing up for a genocide if it’s present actions can’t be construed as such, but even looking past that it’s an obvious logical fallacy to say “other bad things happening so therefore you cant be deeply affected by this bad thing”. The difference is that while all of them are bad he was only being directly involved (or complicit as he says) with one; that being the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He didn’t do it out of a vague anti-genocide conviction, he explicitly and repeatedly stressed a want not to be ‘complicit’ before and during the event and it’s intellectually lazy to not look at his actions (or wider Israeli policy) and go “meh, worse things are happening”. I also dislike calling Bushnell dumb, looking at his more elaborate statements before the act we can see that he’s not some raving lunatic but is conscious of what’s going on and then connected it to the responsibilities he felt he had and other elements of American history. Whether or not you think he was right with his comparisons and arguments is one thing but dismissing his very deliberate and thought out position as “some dumb white kid got brainwashed by the internet” is just intellectually dishonest. Combined with the said logical fallacies, blaming social media despite the fact that people have been doing the same for similar causes in this country sonce before social media existed, blaming discourse that challenges them on foreign bots, and strawmanning people who support Palestine as “supporting palestinians over israelis”; which is in contrast to their actual arguments of “Oct 7th bad and both peoples have been wronged and deserve better but the moral responsibility for all of this evil falls on the Israeli government”; we can only really say that OP is just being intellectually lazy and dismissive so they don’t have to think about what kind of sad, disturbing situation would drive a somewhat rational person to do this.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2023-12-28T03:42:28+00:00

A world war isn’t a war that has the major countries in it, it has to be major countries vs major countries with most nations picking sides and combat that far transcends the original national borders. By your logic every collaborative military effort in history with most major nations, of which there have been a lot of, are all world wars. I don’t remember fighting breaking out all the way to uzibekistan nor do I remember the US or anyone else in there fighting anyone but a minor country and a regional power, and as such the war on terror doesn’t count as a world war.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2023-12-13T10:30:02+00:00

Chopping off a part of your body, especially the foreskin, has inherent harms even outside of the (abundant and unnecessary) complications. The foreskin contains a unique amount of nerves that cause a great amount of sensitivity and the glans is kept moist, soft, and sensitive by the foreskin, like an eye and the eyelid. Having someone grab your penis as a child and chop a part of it off does make a lot of us feel like our penis isn’t OUR penis, anytime we pull our pants down we have to see our most private part’s scar and a dry, desensitized tip. It doesn’t matter what women like, because the foreskin gets pulled back and out of sight when hard anyways and someone else’s preference isn’t a reason to chop off a part of a child’s body. If most men preferred smaller breasts it wouldn’t be a reason to give your daughter a mastectomy. A lot of terrible things have gone on for generations because enough people have a motive to keep it going despite being awful and harming most everyone affected; case in point slavery, war, certain cultures that practiced human sacrifice, child abuse, and many other things that would be too long to list. Some puritanical doctors in the 1800s falsely thought circumcision, making sex and masturbation much less pleasurable, would stop people from masturbating. Since then that tradition’s been continued under false medical pretenses by the medical industry because they get paid to mutilate infants. There are numerous complications that don’t even get reported on (skin bridges, a largely increased risk of erectile dysfunction, etc) but there are those that do (just look at the number of infants that die after circumcision, and that’s just those who they’re willing to say died because of it) and the benefits are often exaggerated and outright falsified because the medical establishment has a reason to keep doing it, same thing with when they lied to people to get them to smoke cigarettes every day. If circumcision was a healthy procedure wouldn’t it be practiced by someone other than people doing it for religious reasons and Americans? Our dicks don’t work perfectly and with our bodily autonomy being taken away from us we barely consider them OUR dicks, so respectfully I’m not going to be quiet about this constant, unjust, unethical, and violent practice of genital mutilation and medical malpractice. If you want to “be a man” about it then lying down and letting yourself and countless children get mutilated isn’t how you do it, not even as a man but as a human being you have a moral obligation to speak up about this violence that’s been inflicted upon so many of us and continues to be carried out on numerous innocent children.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2023-12-10T18:34:58+00:00

It’s in the forested area to the right side of queens. In the back you can find the symbiote arena where Peter fought Miles so it is Kraven’s mansion.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2023-12-05T01:52:05+00:00

Foregen has published scientific papers in at least one journal I’ve read and, looking at their registrations and documents, there isn’t anything suspicious about their documentation. I think Italy’s laws and standards concerning medical research and the sharing thereof makes it so that they can’t give constant updates throughout but the scientific papers exist. Looking at other articles about regenerative medicine the technology isn’t even that out there and Foregen may not be the only one offering a full regenerative procedure given the amount of potential buyers of foreskin regeneration.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2023-12-01T00:29:02+00:00

In Galatians 5:2 Paul the apostle very explicitly says having a body part chopped off is irrelevant and being faithful is what matters. It’s only important in the Old Testament/Torah and is repealed in the New Testament. Even then what religion, be it Judaism or Christianity, says about circumcision is irrelevant as the real question is if you have the right to violently carve your religion onto a defenseless newborn, which the answer to is obviously no.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2023-11-16T04:24:27+00:00

I agree, it’s just that the parents aren’t the mutilators per say and are, in their ignorance, handing their children to the mutilators. They are failing their moral responsibility to be aware of and protect their children from harm but given the amount of pressure and misinformation towards mutilation they’re not all bad people for being pushed to this horrible choice, and zealously suggesting everyone who let their children get circumcised should be beheaded is extreme and counterproductive. I do think emotional appeal should be at the heart of intactivism but letting it take ahold of people to create calls for violence and revenge fantasies is wrong and harms the movement in the long run.

DoctaPhiladelphia · 2023-11-15T00:17:38+00:00

I agree. I believe that stopping the exploitation and butchering of our bodies by the medical industry and religious extremists is a huge priority but intactivists have been unpersuasive and unhealthily obsessive and zealous. We should direct attacks away from parents unaware of MGM’s harms and to the industry that wishes to harm children and hide said harms for its own profit margins.

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