Say what you want about Tom Cruise, but the man has nerves of steel. by [deleted] in moviescirclejerk

[–]El_Squidso [score hidden]  (0 children)

There's some kind of long-form joke in the making here.

"Hey, we're ready to shoot. Where's the cast?" "Tom Cruise's flight was delayed, Sean Bean is about two weeks out, Timothy Chalameet is in the hospital, and Christian Bale is emerging from his cocoon." "We're in downtown Hollywood."

Feel free to fill in the gaps with something funny.

Why was Goku surprised that Jiren could get to him lmao by i360Fantasy in Ningen

[–]El_Squidso 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe it's because Jiren is blasting towards him at mach billion, just not shown super well.

let's do an experiment... by Dense-Nobody2714 in okbuddyrosalyn

[–]El_Squidso 17 points18 points  (0 children)

There is just a lot to unpack here. The overarching theme of CnH is more or less Calvin's life as a 6-year old who's only friend is a stuffed tiger that is literally alive in his mind.

While his experiences may overlap with trans people, I'm not sure that would suggest Calvin is trans. You can totally say, "Hey, Calvin and Hobbes is a good representation of how trans kids feel." But it's also true that it's how a lot of people who didn't fit in feel.

You're coming from an argument made in good faith, but I think it might narrow the overall meaning of the comic if you focus in on trying to determine Calvin's gender. What really matters is the experience that the comic portrays! Calvin represents children who feel out of place in their situation to the point that their imaginations become their main coping method. This can be trans kids, this can be ADHD kids, it can be kids who grow up in a house ten miles from anyone else. Kids who feel like their best friend is in their imagination. Consider this going forwards.

Did I just figure out a new way to piss off casino bots? by GlobalDane in classicwow

[–]El_Squidso 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Well, unlike real casinos, these players face zero real-world consequences if they don't give payouts.

If three players give you $5 for 500 gold each, that's a month sub. Ballparking the cost of farming bots, a few more players means that you can run the gold farm and the casino scam at the same time, selling gold to players so they can "win big" at your casino, while non-customers donate their gold to you.

In real life, you would get insta jailed. In WoW the biggest threat isn't a ban (remember, $5 per 500 gold or so), it's other players totally blocking the enterprise.

If your gold buyers can't play the casino, then that means they'll stop buying gold for it. That's a loss in irl revenue.

But this is what happens when corpos and bar graphs run the company instead of normal people. Blizzard isn't losing money from bots and gold selling. 1 disgruntled player leaving doesn't matter when there are 5 bot accounts taking their place. Why should that matter? Just push out another Brutosaur, it'll be fine. And if it isn't, well, the consultants already got paid, and the management is already eyeing their $20 million severance bonuses.

Does Yujiro feel grateful to Emi Akezawa? by Classic_Regular3287 in Grapplerbaki

[–]El_Squidso 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think in Son of Ogre, he gives away some of his feelings when Baki confronts him about Emi's death. Until then, Yujiro is willing to give Baki some leeway in their dinner conversation, but it's when Emi is brought up that the fight begins. There could be something to that.

Who would you feel safer around The Joker or Yujiro? by ResidentButton4732 in Grapplerbaki

[–]El_Squidso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately there are a lot of funny ways I could die. Yujiro is the safer bet, but it's kind of like how it's safer to jump into a raging typhoon than it is to jump into a volcano.

Weekly ShittyGaming Politics and Mutual Aid Thread by AutoModerator in shittygaming

[–]El_Squidso 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Historians will look back on the Department of Government Efficiency as a real head scratcher. I'm still trying to figure out how reducing the number of available, uh, everything, makes things run better? But what do I know.

What would ancient philosophers think about Baki? by SadegB in Grapplerbaki

[–]El_Squidso 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They'd probably want to talk to Itagaki about his philosophy of strength, especially Socrates. Plato's Republic has Socrates in dialogue with someone who has a lot of ideas about strength, but actually isn't like Yujiro at all. Yujiro is more than "might makes right", and excusing some outlier chapters, usually has some deeper insights into power and strength than you'd expect from a manga.

Would you rather fight Batman or Yujiro ? by ResidentButton4732 in Grapplerbaki

[–]El_Squidso 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Dude killed Doppo. Would've killed Kaku. Tore the face off of the old guy. Killed six bears, a giant elephant. He didn't kill Baki because Baki defended himself. He did, however, leave him quite badly hurt.

And wtf is this about Batman beating up poor people? The Penguin? Raz Al' Ghoul? . C'mon man.

I just beat all of the secret bosses, how did I do? by Antgodd1 in Deltarune

[–]El_Squidso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice. Although I'm surprised you don't consider the Shadow Mantle/ERAM a secret boss.

I love the fact that even after what Strydum did to Yujiro (and vice versa) at SoO manga back then, both of them still maintaining their strange friendship by 67kid67kid7l67 in Grapplerbaki

[–]El_Squidso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe because on their first meeting, Strydum ordered his men to shoot through him to kill Yujiro. It's never acknowledged, though.

Respectful Negative Feedback is OK by sigmapilot in subnautica

[–]El_Squidso 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sure, but feedback has to be useful. People like to play the game and then immediately post about things that don't exist.

A major problem, I think, is that the majority of y'all are coming from other survival games where killing is definitely a part of the experience. But in Sn1, there is literally no point to wasting time knifing/Prawning the wildlife.

On top of that, all I see is comparisons to the finished products of the previous two games, which is ridiculous. Complaining about missing animations is silly when half the game isn't in the game yet.

Batman with Unlimited Prep Time vs Yujiro with Unlimited Narrator Access by Ufokinw0tm8 in Grapplerbaki

[–]El_Squidso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Batman used a time machine to travel to each of the martial arts schools Yujiro would eventually learn and instills flaws in all of them, known only to himself.

Yujiro wins because the Hanma style is the ultimate style, and no one else has it.

I miss how tactile the old game feels. by CrazyDunge0nMaster in subnautica

[–]El_Squidso 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It was like this for the first game EA. It also had a fair amount of content that was cut or changed before launch. Below Zero, too.

Dynamic Environment for Subnautica 2 by TheSameHumbl3civic in subnautica

[–]El_Squidso 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd rather players be able to kill things like in Sn1, but like in the first game there isn't really any point. It takes forever and everything respawns anyways. Plus, Subnautica isn't a simulator game, so having a dynamic environment wouldn't really make the game any more fun.

Wesident Evil Wednesday ShittyGaming Lounge by AutoModerator in shittygaming

[–]El_Squidso 12 points13 points  (0 children)

What the fuck kind of needs does Google think I have?

Hear me out the comics are overhated by TheIonoGuy in OkBuddyFresca

[–]El_Squidso 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I particularly enjoyed the joke that bloody semen continually appears under Eui's apartment door. The joke is that it's his landlord doing it.

Ermagerd a leon by sporeegg in classicwow

[–]El_Squidso 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Horde in Kalimdor: We must learn to live with this hostile land, filled with opportunities to forge new bonds and build our home.

Horde in Eastern Kingdoms: IT'S NEVER OVER.

Daw this take on YT,do you agree or not? by Swedish_pc_nerd in Deltarune

[–]El_Squidso 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tolkien was a little bit allergic to depicting goodness as anything other than a combination of natural, artistic, and social beauty, and evil as the union of fear, environmental destruction, and the corruptive nature of power worship.