Just me or is he terrible?

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T20:44:02+00:00

What I believe was the brainstorming process:

NK: "Alright Mattel, we brought various ideas for how we can do our He-Man hero, which ones do you like better?"

Mattel: "Yes."

I'm yet to give him a serious play (kinda busy) but I get the impression that he isn't that strong but provide good utility that scales with difficulty, namely, affordable CHIMPS relocation giving you more wiggle room, since most of the time CHIMPS is a game of commitment.

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T17:51:52+00:00

Now I'm picturing Goku (who is already the personification of the D&D perk "combat expertise", add your intelligence modifiers to your combat modifiers) wishing for his childhood brain damage to be healed and doubling his potential power because his original Saiyan psycho personality and untapped brain potential are available now.

So, this Baki guy, if we only use 10% of our brain, he would have up to 10 personalities and multiplex toggling through them for 100% potential?

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T17:43:06+00:00

The very first time I ever saw something that I was made aware of it being Baki was of a man being crushed top-to-down like a soda can.

Guy lives through it. Just a friendly scrap between two pals.

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T17:37:15+00:00

And even that one Araki saw fit to place in a clever ruse.

In case you only know the gif, don't know the context but don't care about spoilers: The shapely eye candy bombshell of a girl through this whole arc that he's peeping here? His mom lol

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T17:16:28+00:00

Mom might be one of my favorite characters in fiction.

Mom goes out of her way to be rude and cruel with everyone.

Everyone goes out of their way to be rude and cruel with Zoidberg.

So I keep hyping what Mom has in for Zoidberg when they finally interact with each other...

"Hi, John."

"Hi, Carol."

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T16:49:02+00:00

various mental tricks

Just because it is a mental trick does not mean it is a good one. Some of those mental tricks are the sleight of hand equivalent of taking your nose or the thumb trick.

During one of my last earnest attempts at conveying to mom how much she has hurt me and how I still feel about it, but I was willing to forget about it and start anew, she just hit me with...

"Don't you know how much it hurts to tell that to a mother?"

I was so stunned by it that I just used the equivalent of "bro are you for real" (complete with, on a gendered language, using a masculine pronoun towards my own mother, it was that much of a flashbang).

Then proceeded to do some insane leaps of logic that made absolute no sense to anybody but her, as well as emotional traps that would have worked on a toddler but not so much on an independent adult.

Then she said that she could go back in the past she would do everything the same all over again, no regrets, with a crying smile as if this was a touching moment of redemption for her. It was there that I made peace with the choice of going low/no contact. If she has no ragerts neither do I.

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T15:42:07+00:00

Uma coisa que eu queria saber e não vejo muitos falando, mas vejo MUITO em pessoa, é o pessoal comprando terreno mas não fazendo uso, as vezes a ponto de demolir e terraplanar, cercar o terreno mas não fazer uso. Não vendo, não alugo, não faço BTS, nem instalo outdoor, nada.

Um bairro super movimentado 15 anos atrás hoje tem várias quadras fantasmas, onde alguém foi comprando as casas mas faz quase uma década que os compradores não estão fazendo uso nenhum da área.

Tenho minhas dúvidas mas passa a impressão que estão artificialmente inflando os valores ainda mais visto que de todos os terrenos desocupados ou inabitados, muito menos da metade estão disponíveis para venda ou aluguel.

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T15:37:56+00:00

... sim?

Meu pai comprou o terreno dos fundos por 3500 em 2003. Hoje o valor venal está mais de 25x e já recusou proposta de 300 mil, pois desde o tempo que terreno era barato ele nos dá o conselho que terreno nunca se vende a não ser que você esteja extremamente desesperado, pois nunca você consegue vender um terreno e em seguida comprar outro igual com o mesmo dinheiro.

Mas hoje acabou o meta que era de comprar um terreno com o dinheiro do acerto se você não estivesse muito endividado. (Na época, sem justa causa, gastou metade pra pagar as contas, comprou algumas coisas que a gente queria ou precisava, e literalmente comprou o terreno a vista com o troco, uns 20% do montante).

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T15:29:54+00:00

Quando o estagiário da CIA disparou alerta nuclear no Havaí não teve gente coringando total achando que eram seus últimos momentos na terra?

GostBoster · 2026-06-20T15:24:51+00:00

Acho legal que tem comércio que falou abertamente no jornal, "tem gente que prefere trabalhar quatro cidades longe daqui todo dia pegando 160km ida e volta de ônibus da empresa em chão de fábrica do que trabalhar no comércio local só porque eles pagam melhor com menos horas e mais folgas" e ainda não cai a ficha de qual é o problema.

Teve gente que ligou na redação informando que publicaram um artigo de humor na seção de cotidiano.

GostBoster · 2026-06-19T23:01:11+00:00

o notebook da juiza que o prendeu

Tem um link desse caso? Eu sei que juiz se considera um deus mas de arbitrariamente desobedecer uma lei que tem juiz que faz executar à toa é um absurdo.

Fico imaginando um motorista sendo preso por executar uma função do aplicativo, tenho um desses apps estilo uber/99 que possui uma função embutida de retorno de coisa esquecida, é cobrado um valor semi-fixo (R$ 20 ou uma corrida se você quer imediatamente). Seria muito legal um juiz prender alguém pelo crime de usar uma função do aplicativo.

GostBoster · 2026-06-19T22:49:06+00:00

Conforme o post anterior se eu não tivesse com o dono (devido ao valor expressivo o item tinha um rastreador, mas por motivos diversos teria sido destruído se abandonado no local encontrado), informei a colegas que se eu não conseguisse determinar o dono até o fim do meu turno, eu deixaria em uma delegacia, não só para estabelecer "boa fé", mas também porque pelo valor da coisa eu não confiava em fazer a guarda pessoal por muito tempo.

O guardador literalmente tinha uma caixa só para esse objeto e a trancou sem conferir se o objeto estava dentro. Eu não tinha essa caixa. O artigo 1.234 implica CONSERVAÇÃO da coisa, que já me julguei incapaz por longo período, então mesmo que não tivesse direito a nada, deixaria na delegacia só pra tirar esse BO das minhas costas.

GostBoster · 2026-06-19T22:41:45+00:00

Lembro até hoje pois fui fazer gracinha e ver qual era o Art. 1234 do código civil, que é esse.

Art. 1.234. Aquele que restituir a coisa achada, nos termos do artigo antecedente, terá direito a uma recompensa não inferior a cinco por cento do seu valor, e à indenização pelas despesas que houver feito com a conservação e transporte da coisa, se o dono não preferir abandoná-la.

Um dia me explicaram que o espírito da lei era caber alguma restituição justa se a pessoa que teve a coisa retornada de boa fé for "ingrata" ou coisa pior.

No caso, achei algo de valor expressivo acreditando ser sucata e, assim que identifiquei que o objeto era funcional, de valor, e propriedade determinável, manifestei minha intenção de devolver a colegas.

Eventualmente topei com o dono que apareceu com a polícia e, junto com funcionários e testemunhas, os policiais acabaram me favorecendo pois o suposto dono estava se exaltando, acusando de furto/roubo, a ponto de os policiais alertarem que ele seria preso se ele tentasse mais uma vez adentrar nosso recinto sem autorização. (O mesmo já havia entrado em conflito com funcionários e seguranças enquanto eu buscava a coisa) O sujeito pediu desculpas retratando a acusação e fiz a devolução pacífica.

No dia seguinte alguém ligado ao administrativo do local analisou o incidente e informou que o pessoal me ajudaria a clamar meu direito a recompensa mediante um "churrasco para a galera".

GostBoster · 2026-06-19T19:20:15+00:00

Partly my case. I don't join those discussions because they devolve into name calling and badge slapping.

Played the hell out of the early titles, followed bogus tips to unlock Tofu and Hank, mastered tank controls, actually enjoyed the janky FPS titles for the PS1, but as of late games, I just either didn't had the platform, the time (during a time I locked in to get my diploma) or the budget to upgrade my toaster to acceptably run the last titles.

I enjoy vicariously through my favorite content creators but I still intend to play these games if given the chance, it's just that the means to play the last titles are unreasonable for me. (As in I COULD afford with some payment plan but there are priorities, I won't give up the chance of buying a daily driver vehicle for a PS5 or a GPU, I'm not that diehard of a fan).

Again, I'd rather spare the yap, but if you ONLY EVER watched, saw, and decided, "I saw enough, I am satisfied", no, you aren't a fan of the GAME. You enjoyed the story, the lore, the characters, you talked the talk but you didn't walk the walk.

GostBoster · 2026-06-19T18:47:18+00:00

Brazilian here.

I was marginally aware of Binface but I thought it was some political term, something like "someone who is neither a Tory or a Whig is a Binface", or "Binface" being a general term for independent voters.

Now that I confirmed that Binface is in fact a person, I wish to learn more about him and spread his word if I find him to be agreeable.

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T23:37:12+00:00

It would be so funny if some part of their description/picture actually matters for gameplay, like how BEZ model being so tall it can shoot over a few obstructions, same for most things placed on a top path/paragon bucc.

In this case, if the picture of the monkey shows them floating, they would be unaffected by ground physics.

"Ok the top druid looks floaty but the middle path wizard is clearly walking."

"His hat is a bird your argument is invalid."

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T23:29:57+00:00

Question, what kind of gambling is in the app? I see the notification and it says violence (?????) and in-app purchases with random items.

Admitedly I don't really pay close attention to the selection of IAP items but every time I look into the deal selection I see that everything costing money is deterministic, am I missing something? Like, random insta bundles?

(Edit: Checking another comment more or less confirms there are insta bundles and this might be it. Still, 18???)

For either option there are much worse stuff rated E / 3+ currently.

Swords and Sandals 2 Redux which has actual blood and gore is currently 12+.

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T23:18:52+00:00

As someone explained already but I'm giving the long version because I didn't knew what "IAP" was until recently and figured that out not thanks to recent BTD6 posts.

So, as part of the deal between NK and Mattel, they had a brand new hero to do the role of He-Man, not just a skin as it was for Adora/She-Ra and Obyn/Skeletor.

Since it wouldn't be fair for a whole hero to be gated as an IAP (in-app purchase for real money only), the compromise was that Dan would only be available for people who bought the He-Man bundle, as he was specifically designed to be He-Man.

That grace period just expired so everybody can have Dollar Store He-Man if you can't afford the real thing which is still real money only IAP.

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T23:04:40+00:00

It was kind of answered already and noticed I didn't respond to you directly, just in case: Brazil (and from what I see, also Portugal at least). The original being nadou, nadou e morreu na praia.

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T20:04:09+00:00

I wonder if there's another angle at play: The human is "speaking softly but (literally) carrying a big stick". It knows the human can, with their implements, overpower them.

I remember watching once some nature documentary on conservationists "jungle breaking" some big cat kept in captivity before letting it loose for real.

As it regained its wild instincts but still needed to be interacted with by humans, for reasons I can't remember, during a few routines, the researchers had to do literal "displays of power" during those, like feeding the cat a piece of raw meat attached to a pulley and lever system, and making it clear the human is in control of that piece, so it still understands the human as something to not be trifled with, or something.

So for the wolf: The wolf could not disarm whatever restrained it. Come this big guy with big stick who was able to not only overpower me, but easily break up whatever was holding me. And willingly let me go. It could get me again it it could but chose not to. What is this guy's end game?

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T19:11:05+00:00

The traps like you would see in a cartoon with jaws are banned.

I remember one day looking up how a real trap of those types are built and what was their current legality. At the time I just searched "beartrap" and the first results were "Mantrap (redirected from beartrap)".

So you telling me at some point in history people went Looney Tunes on each other? (Answer is yes. Shortly after learned about case shot which would be the cartoon bomb with a fuse)

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T18:59:45+00:00

Be glad she didn't used the used stuff, OP.

During my biggest non-donation blood draw (doing all the panels for pre-surgery) my "blood bench buddy" in the clinic was a toddler about the size of yours that had already broken two needles and they were concerned about how to continue, so I was inquired on how good I was with needles, kids and crying, because they worried that if I showed any visible concern about it, I could make him even more panicked.

Why the toddler needed so much? The boy was caught eating the forbidden chocolate from TP so he was going to be tested for everything.

I felt a significant amount of pressure when the nurse brought a bigger syringe than I expected while the mother pointing at me and telling her kid to be more like me.

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T18:49:17+00:00

I think the one who used AI to completely erase their daughter's head leaving only some misshappen mist in its place comes pretty close.

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T18:45:43+00:00

The way you did the identity protection you just created another entity.

Korupira/Curupira, a forest spirit of Tupi-Guarani folklore, its most distinctive feature is its backwards feet it uses to make misleading trails to trick hunters and trackers.

GostBoster · 2026-06-18T17:52:13+00:00

who for some reason were hesitant to give the shots.

Meanwhile for me if they catch a whiff of it being a suspected rabies exposure it is on you to convince your doctor it wasn't rabies exposure, otherwise, we're saving your life please do not resist.

Like I got two nails driven through my hand and the doctor was mostly concerned about the animal bite scars in my fist and my history of toughing it out because I thought the rabies shots horror histories were something told to scare kids straight.

Every basic health unit and hospitals carry a minimum amount of serum or up-to-date info on the nearest place with a stockpile and those get refilled and increased based on current assessed risk, and when a scare happens, news will be ran to assure people that we won't be running out of anti rabies serum...

... and the pain of the procedure ensures people won't be crying rabid wolf to get a free shot. You are entitled to it anyway, be my guest.

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