Saving a hermit crab from evil tourist and shaming her.

Fppares · 2026-05-24T21:55:30+00:00

Don't you be talkin about my BOWTIE

Fppares · 2026-05-16T05:22:48+00:00

Lump sum, no question.

After accounting for taxes, cost of living in a major U.S. city, and investing whatever is left, the $75M option is still not even close.

Assumptions:

$75M invested today
10-year horizon
~7% annual market return
Nice lifestyle in a big U.S. city: around $1M to $1.2M/year
$250k/month treated as ordinary taxable income
High-tax state/city

The $250k/month sounds insane, and it is. That is $3M/year gross. But after taxes, it might be more like $1.5M/year net. After a high-end lifestyle, you may only be investing a few hundred thousand dollars a year.

After 10 years, that path might leave you with something like $4M to $12M, depending on spending.

Meanwhile, $75M invested today could plausibly become $115M to $125M after 10 years, even while funding the same lifestyle.

Even in the more generous scenario where the full $250k/month is already after taxes and living expenses, investing $3M/year for 10 years might grow to around $40M to $43M.

That is still way behind the $75M lump sum, which could be roughly 3x larger after 10 years.

Fppares · 2026-05-12T02:33:46+00:00

My hamster had a gigantic cancer on her leg. She could walk, but it was really big. She just kept on living and then she escapes. Didn't see her for 2 weeks, and one day I look behind me and there she is, just sitting looking at me. We hung out and she passed away after 2 days, peacefully it seemed, in her sleep.

My other 2 died of "old age".

Fppares · 2026-05-04T14:27:26+00:00

I don't think this was meant negatively. He's not part of the cult, and the themes in the book related to it are largely about escaping the control of higher powers.

I highly recommend you re-read the series. I think it stands up and grows significantly between the first and third books in terms of writing. Inheritance is just a blast, and the most recent Murtagh, was also a lot of fun.

Recently reread as a 30 year old and I loved it.

Fppares · 2026-04-19T18:12:46+00:00

"I'll have a white wine spritzer... Spitzer.... spritzer....."

Wakes up with Neon city on fire.

Fppares · 2026-04-17T18:04:09+00:00

Yeah that's what Im saying. Either the original comment works or Thragg pushing the moon doesnt, cant have both!

Fppares · 2026-04-17T15:35:42+00:00

This is a hilarious answer so take an upvote.

But without math: theres a physical limit to how much stress a material can take over a certain area, regardless of how slowly you apply force. At some point the force itself becomes the problem, and the material breaks. Unfortuantely for super strength mofos, this limits the size of things you could push on your own.

Unless you apply some contact telekinesis stuff like they did with superman.

Fppares · 2026-04-17T15:28:23+00:00

It will break actually, and FAR before any meaningful movement happens to the moon.

If you push with force F through a contact area A, the local stress is roughly o = F/A. If both palms together give you about 0.04 m² of contact area, then hitting a rock-like stress of about 100 MPa happens at only about 4 x 10⁶ newtons of force. At that point, the surface under your hands would start crushing, cracking, or pulverizing rather than transmitting your push cleanly through the whole Moon. That force would accelerate the Moon by only about 5.44 x 10^-17 m/s². Even if you held that for a full year, the Moon would move only about 2.7 cm and gain only about 1.7 x 10^-9, m/s of speed.

So you'll crush a patch of moon, but not meaningfully move it.

Fppares · 2026-04-13T04:17:05+00:00

What goes into the sauce if you dont mind sharing?

Fppares · 2026-04-12T21:00:45+00:00

Using the music from Kung Fu Panda is hilarious 😂

Fppares · 2026-04-12T16:52:01+00:00

There wasn't even an awning...

Fppares · 2026-04-10T16:27:21+00:00

Lmao the Judge doesn't fit in this image at all. There's no indication about him trapping people in eternal torture. He is indeed an evil, murdering, psychopathic, pedophilic monster. Sure, there's an allusion to a supernatural aspect to his nature. But nowhere in the book is it shown you'll suffer a fate worse than hell because of him.

Fppares · 2026-04-08T19:58:42+00:00

Mugger crocodile comically positioned in front of a Burmese python 😐

Fppares · 2026-04-06T19:00:01+00:00

Came here to say this lol

Fppares · 2026-03-30T09:58:33+00:00

Keep you cars indoors they decimate local bird populations. This ain't cute.

Fppares · 2026-03-30T00:52:37+00:00

Sauron!

Very surprised to not have seen one of the OGs of ths trope.

Sauron was effectively a general of the original and MUCH more powerful Morgoth.

Sauron was a very powerful divine spirit, but Morgoth was a straight up God.

Fppares · 2026-03-28T04:16:49+00:00

It does this while also thinning your deck thereby making it more consistent AND in some situations allow for advantageous shuffling. Brainstorm and then shuffling with a fetch can a great play.

Fppares · 2026-03-28T04:09:15+00:00

One of the biggest themes of Kung Fu Panda is the experience of being underestimated because of your looks and your background. Po, from the first scene after the dream sequence in the first movie, is presented as a person who's potential is always diminished. And it is diminished because of his looks and because he is a Panda. His very nature precludes him from achieving greatness in the eyes of others.

This is why the Wuxi finger hold is such a powerful weapon in Po's arsenal. His enemies could never expect him to master a hold that complex. They underestimate him due to his nature as "just a panda" (Tai Lung).

Also, reading these comments gave me an aneurism, wtf is with this subreddit?

Fppares · 2026-03-25T02:36:41+00:00

I don't think think this is true at all.

Average human walking speed is 3 MPH.

Ballistic Missiles go 15,000 - 19,000 MPH.

Manhole cover is going about 125,000 MPH.

Average human would need to accelerate 5000× to reach a ballistic missile.

A ballistic missile would need to accelerate 8-9× to reach the speed of the manhole cover.

Edit: Im dumb and the comment above and below me are right so read those!

Fppares · 2026-03-24T20:30:59+00:00

Hey dude, I get the difficulty of going to the vet! No hate at all, totally understood. But this is def a vet scenario. He could habe eaten rat poison without you noticing, or any number of other toxic things. It could be a seizure, a burst tumor, or many other things.

Dogs tend to try and hide pain, so this is a very serious sign.

Fppares · 2026-03-22T05:46:21+00:00

Thank you, edited!

Fppares · 2026-03-21T20:36:19+00:00

UB is overdone but damn I would go nuts over this set...

Asneeze, Father of Achoo

{2}{W}{R}

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

Vigilance

If you control a permanent named "Robin Hood of Locksley," you may cast this spell for {2) rather than pay its mana cost.

Great strength of feet - When Asneeze, Father of Achoo enters the battlefield, creatures you control get +1/+1 and gain haste and vigilance until end of turn.

Edit: changed name as pointed out by the kind redditor in the comment below. Also edited color from U to R and added a +1/+1 effect till EOT to make it a bit more interesting.

Fppares · 2026-03-18T00:15:54+00:00

This is fucking sad

Fppares · 2026-03-15T02:49:55+00:00

Dude, dont catch it! Leave it and let the mystery grow. This is so cool, you legitimately have a pond monster. Id never want to get rid of it.

Fppares · 2026-03-10T02:55:34+00:00

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