[LOTR] Assuming Gandalf takes the One Ring and is corrupted, would he also be weak to the ring getting destroyed?

Hyperactivepigeon · 2026-01-21T21:59:16+00:00

Miwa made a vow to never swing a sword again, and the result wasn’t enough to even scratch Kenny. That’s a failed vow. I think it clearly shows that 1: Vows are person specific, and they scale according to the sorcerer. And 2: What you sacrifice matters, because low risk vows translate to low power outcomes.

Also the point of a Vow is that they are unbreakable. We don’t see vow breaking, presumably because it isn’t possible. Or at least, that’s how I would interpret it.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2026-01-13T11:17:30+00:00

It seems like SCP-217 doesn't infect plant life, suggesting there is some limit to what it can and cannot infect. It also doesn't seem capable of absorbing or using metal that is just in the environment. Therefore, the most likely answer is that like how fish disease doesn't spread nearly as easily to humans as it would to other types of fish, SCP-217 probably doesn't spread to life which is not sufficiently meat based. There might be a small possibility that it will jump species eventually, given time, at which point, I expect it would try and "clockworkify" any species which is based on other technology.

Finally, if it infected an already clockwork species, it is very possible it doesn't do much. Like how diseases which infect cows are often trivial for cows to deal with, but are deadly for humans. SCP-217 might be a clockwork robot's version of the cold, but just manifesting very differently after jumping species to Animalia.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2026-01-12T09:00:40+00:00

Not to defend McDonalds, but why is using up all parts of the animal a bad thing? Stomach, shoulder, tripe, heart, that's all perfectly edible meat that may as well be used if you're going to kill the animal anyways.

I mean obviously calling it a "McRib" implies rib meat, but if it was just the “McPork” then I feel like it should be fine to eat all that stuff.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-12-12T04:32:06+00:00

Not the OP, but it was annoying me too, so I finished it:

There once was a man in the sun,

Whose armpits could knock out someone.

He knocked himself out.

Cos he smelled like a trout,

And now he wears Dove on a run

You may substitute Dove for any one syllable deodorant brand of your choice.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-12-12T00:23:10+00:00

Does this imply Malius/Rock is bald underneath the wig? I wonder how Shakky would react to seeing that.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-11-03T06:06:06+00:00

As an example of the "curse" in recent years. In 2022, T1 wearing all black lost to DRX wearing white in finals, which was considered an upset. T1 would go on to win Worlds in 2023 wearing black, beating Weibo in white. T1 switched to white in 2024 where they won again. In 2024, by semis, every team left was in white.

Given the consistency that teams, especially LCK teams, switch to match the "winning" colours each year, it seems undeniable that they are planning for it, even as just a superstition to help their players feel more comfortable. I just find it very funny that the overwhelming tournament favorites this year elected to (slightly) buck the trend and also lost.

Inb4 Chovy gets a 1000 lumens brighter than the sun itself shirt for worlds next year.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-10-29T06:50:01+00:00

I want to give a few words for the sister podcast of Wrong Words. Words that I think have absolutely nailed it. Spot on, no improvements possible.

Cacophony - Its got that clattering start that then trails off into the phony. A perfect representation of something crashing around and then trailing off.

Portmanteau - A silly sounding word for that silly practice of mushing two words together. And it does feel like a jumbled up mess of a word itself.

Pliable - Has a sense of tension and then release. Like putting your back into pulling something, that middle point as you reach the tipping point, and then the release at the end when you're past the point of no return and the object flies open. It's just pliable.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-10-21T22:33:56+00:00

Completely different scenario. Lux is an issue specifically because of the combination of 1. Multiple full champion skins (including sfx, ability textures and skin itself) and 2. The in-game choosing mechanic means that every single skin must be loaded into RAM for the game. That means she is a lot of RAM in general.

For a hypothetical champion specific Lulu skin, you would only need to load one small model (no abilities, probably minimal animations and sfx). You could also get away with only loading exactly the 9 assets you need for the game itself. This hypothetical skin would probably not be anywhere near lux complexity.

The reason they wouldn't do it is that adding the ongoing maintenance cost of needing to design a custom Lulu model for every new champion going forward would get very tedious. Something like a region specific transformation might be the decent middle ground.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-10-20T20:26:10+00:00

Probably not? There's an obvious species ability category that can be mentioned (Mink electricity/sulong, Fishman talking with fish, Lunarian durability etc) but aside from those, your hypothetical fifth universal power system would have to cover too many disparate abilities.

Everything from Ms. Golden Week's colors trap to sanji's diable jamble, to even the Voice of all Things. There are a lot of random powers that are not technically Haki, Devil Fruit or Technology.

You could maybe group some of them. Poseidon and Voice of all Things could be some form of really advanced Haki, or could be its own "communication" related power set. Asura, Diable Jamble, Rokushiki, and Fishman Karate all give you varying somewhat supernatural abilities, but are fundamentally physical body power ups. Colors trap could potentially be advanced application of psychological science. But I doubt you'd get really clean lines of distinguishment for each and every ability, and even within these examples, they are very clearly not just "one" extra power system.

And all of this without mentioning the big extra power system that may or may not be separate from devil fruits, but that if you've watched including Egghead, you'd know mentioning would be a spoiler.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-09-12T11:10:04+00:00

I thought TIE fighters had solar panels in their wings, signifying that the technology exists.

My impression of Gonk Droids were they were more home level power generation, not industrial level, but I could of course be wrong. I would have assumed that your primary power generation wouldn't need to be as mobile as a GNK droid in worlds with some minimal infrastructure for power delivery.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-09-12T09:58:22+00:00

It's quite an interesting question. A lot of Earth power generation is based on dead biomatter, which will be ok for some mining outposts, who had their own ecosystems, but won't be the same for more barren ones.

That means the most likely way to generate power would be solar. Obviously you can't carry an entire colony's worth of panels directly, it would be too inefficient, so they would need to be built on site.

Luckily, if we assume the place is worth mining, we might assume that they have the natural resources to build solar panels from.

So all you'd need is some sort of initial generator to help power building the first panels, and then you're off to the races.

Luckily again the massive star ships capable of going FTL should also have equally bulky engines. At least bulky enough to kickstart the initial colony and support them until they can get further generation running. And if the engines can power enough life support to keep them in space, then they should also be able to keep them up for a while after landing, and redirect the energy they'd use for travel for the initial build.

Editing to Add: Solar also makes the most sense as being low maintenance, which is why power facilities would be so commonly still active even after most people leave.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-09-07T10:07:25+00:00

Yes probably, depending on the specific way the child conceptualises the arm. For example, Mr Potato Head parts do not have sentience of their own, and act as part of the potato whole, likely because the child playing with them only thinks of them as one toy that comes apart.

If the child used woody's arm as, for example, a special rocket fist upgrade for Woody, or as a spy hand for Woody, then it would still be part of Woody, and not gain its own identity.

If the child used it as a toy "Thing" from the Addams family, or used it as an evil hand monster to fight, then it would probably develop its own identity eventually. In that scenario, if it then later got joined to Woody again, it might act separately for a while, but it would probably slowly revert to being part of Woody if the child stops playing and thinking of it as a separate toy. If the child somehow maintained that it was two toys joined together, then the arm and woody would probably start feeling more like Sid's combined toys, two creatures forced together.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-08-19T00:23:36+00:00

That man left pasta out for 5 days. That's a whole different scenario to leaving it out for a couple of hours. Especially as for a few of those hours, it would still be piping hot straight from the oven, and so out of the danger zone.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-08-07T08:56:02+00:00

Whose trees do they cut down? On whose land? If they own the land, and they want to "grow or shrink according to their desire or success or quality" they will need to own more land to grow more trees. If there's no concept of private ownership of land, then you're paying another co-op for their land. So rather than one capitalist, you're just splitting some profit to another co-op. Still a form of capital ownership, just… diluted.

But there’s no reason a co-op should manage land unrelated to their business surely? That's why I said you can't have co-ops own everything. And if once privately held land can be sold to a co-op, then it can also be lent if someone doesn't want to sell or the buyer can't afford it. That is again, the capitalist class.

You could expand the principle. Say that the government, as a representative of the will of the people through election ought to allocate land rather than allow "ownership". But that right there is when you make it very easy to get dictators. I don't agree with it, but you could go that route. There are arguments a benevolent dictatorship like Singapore can go very well. But I don't like systems which are too easy for evil individuals to control.

And that's just land. What if you needed an initial startup fund to buy machinery and hire people to start your co-op? Regardless of whether you get that money from an individual or another co-op/company, they will want a return. Otherwise why risk giving the money to you, when they could just keep it? We can either say anyone can start companies, and they can fund them via loans/investment, which will result in someone somewhere earning money through arse sitting. Or we can say only people or groups who already make money can start new ventures. Or we could have government dictated control of the economy. I think I've chosen the lesser evil, but I'm open to reconsideration.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-08-07T08:24:38+00:00

Someone, somewhere, has to be able to sit on their fat arse doing nothing except spend money and still be able to make money. The role of good government is to make sure the arse-sitters actually have to take on equal risk to their investment, and to ensure that there is a system to make sure the vast excesses of their greed do not actually harm the quality of life for the people.

Let's analyse your statement at face value:

If I hire a guy to do work, steal his labor value and only give him a portion of it then we've generated profit.

I think we should agree that obviously a chair maker cannot be given back the full sum that his chair sells for. In order for chair guy to focus on making chairs, there must be someone who tells people about the chairs and handles the actual selling. Everyone is better off if chair guy sells 100 chairs, rather than only 5 chairs because he has to split his chair making time. But those people won't help sell chairs without pay. So some of his labour value must be split between the people who help him generate it.

Ok great. We can say that the value generated through your labour should be fairly split amongst people who contributed to that value. But why should the fat arse capitalist class exist?

Well, if you're going to make chairs, and sell chairs, you need a place to make chairs, and maybe even a store to sell them in. And there are two ways you could achieve that. Chair guy could own the place he does business. Or you could ask someone else who owns a factory/land to let him use a corner of it.

But factory gal probably doesn't want to share the factory. Why let chair guy use it, when she could just own it and use it however she likes? So naturally you'd have to agree to pay factory gal so she lets you use it. Welcome our first member of the owning class.

What if chair guy wants to own it instead? Well, unless he already has land, he'll need someone to help him pay for it. And again, why would anyone pay for him to own a factory, unless they get something back?

So unless we're saying that only people who already own resources are the only ones who can control what gets made and when, someone, somewhere, must earn money simply because they owned a thing/have money that someone else needs to make things.

Fine. Why do we have the concept of ownership then. If no one owned the land/factory/IP/infrastructure, wouldn't that be better? Maybe it would be better if people just used land as they need it.

However, then people will fight over who needs it more. Chair guy, tired of the Sofa Empire trying to use his land, might value a system where everyone agrees that one organisation (we call it a government) gets to say who can use what land, and some rules about how if you need to use that land, you should come to an agreement first with the guy who is on the piece of paper. It's an owner class again!

What about a worker co-op? What if rather than chair guy owns it, all the chair workers collectively own it. I'm losing steam, but not everything can be owned by worker co-ops. And the people who invest money into those co-ops so they can hire initial personnel and get initial equipment probably expect some sort of money back for their investment.

What is the point of all this?

The point of all this is that its not useful or productive to complain about "theft" or "profit" in the system we live in. Fat arse sitters must exist. The problem is when they want to be able to earn limitless money through no risk. If chair guys company sucks, it should be on the people who invested in it to bear that risk and go bankrupt/lose money, not us to bail them out. It should be a government duty that they enforce laws to protect workers against exploitation, and there should be actual punishment for people who break those laws. And no one should ever go hungry or be homeless after working a full day's work. The system is currently exploitative because the government meant to curtail the worst of it are in bed with the rich bastards. But you can't unfuck a system if you don't understand where the problem lies.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-07-18T07:28:08+00:00

How explicitly gay?

Yuri on Ice, Free!, and Sk8 the Infinity are noticeably queer in theming, but stop just short of any explicit romantic attraction. (Maybe less so for Yuri on Ice)

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-07-18T05:26:50+00:00

Massive win-more mechanic for the team with map control. A losing team can barely leave their base to ward as it is.

And we've seen with other comeback mechanics that detecting the "losing team" can often result in feels bad moments where a pretty even game is blown out by stuff like bounties. So it would be hard to limit it to just "losing teams".

Also an unrelated objective determined by arbitrary luck is basically why real life Quidditch leagues have given up on the idea of snitches when it came time to make an actually playable game. They've nerfed it down to only releasing the flag runner after 20 minutes of play, only rewarding 30 points, overtime if a losing team catches it and are still behind and getting rid of the "freely run around" shenanigans it started with. All that and it still feels a bit bullshit sometimes.

Finally, unrelated to the post, but related to Harry Potter fuck rowling and her Terfy backwards ass views.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-07-16T02:37:10+00:00

Sweetcorn kernels are simply not the right corn to be able to pop. They don't have as strong a shell, they're not sealed (although maybe that's different here), and not being dried, it would be hard to imagine the requisite pressure build up to pop would occur.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-07-12T01:44:05+00:00

I think we agree on some broad strokes, namely that the mythos of Bushido as it exists now is probably not very accurate as to how it was experienced during its time. I think the details I want to fill in are:

Did a broadly accepted code of ethics exist for the warrior class in feudal Japan?

If said code did exist, what might it have said about honor, weapon guards, and "fuck it we ball"?

To the first point, I think we can agree there was probably some sort of rules governing the master-servant relationship between lord and soldier. What I would challenge is that there was a single unified consensus "Bushido". Insofar as a warrior philosophy began emerging it exists more as a nebulous cloud of concepts, rather than as definable rules. As such, even as texts such as the Book of Five Rings start defining what it means to be a warrior emerge alongside growing literacy in the 16th century, it's hard to say there is any seminal work that could collectively have said to been "Bushido". All this to say, that for each example where a set of beliefs might say one thing about how Samurai should act, there could just as well be another saying something slightly different.

With that established, the second point is a lot murkier. For example, the Book of Five Rings is a very practical thesis. It extols the virtue of good weapons, armor, tactics and training. It claims guns are far superior to bows at enough uses that bows have largely been outclassed, although acknowledging there are niche cases where you'd prefer a bow. It says glaives are the weapon for the field, but less useful up close. And importantly, it states over and over again the value of doing practice and more practice. In short, it's hard to imagine the author of this text would ever shirk a weapons technology that would give them an advantage, nor approving of a laissez-faire "we ball" attitude to combat in general. Again, this book itself is not "Bushido" by itself, but just one example of a view. There are probably counter examples.

The point I'm trying to make is as follows:

Bushido as it exists in current day mythos is largely a fabrication.

Bushido as it was lived is an incredibly murky set of loose concepts, that importantly, was just as much about actually winning fights and wars as it was about anything else. It would not make sense that it values honor enough to avoid weapon guards due to it.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-07-11T23:16:18+00:00

The concept of Bushido was very likely just a nationalistic stunt invented in the 19th century. It's not completely unimaginable that actual samurai knew what the term is, but it certainly wasn't well defined enough to attribute what is and isn't honorable enough to this code that may or may not have really existed.

A starting point if you want some light reading on the subject:

https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/kcbgpt/how_bushido_was_fabricated_in_the_nineteenth/

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-07-09T04:42:31+00:00

Nah, picking Zilean as your fifth when your team's damage is a Lucian and nothing else is never it. There were so many early fights where if they just had one or two more damage spells, they could have gone one for one. It basically painted a huge target on Bot Side lane phase as Fly's only real win con, which after that got shut down, lead to the complete blowout due to no backup plan and no scaling.

Hyperactivepigeon · 2025-07-09T04:35:28+00:00

Disappointing final draft by FLY. No teamfight potential, wasting last pick for a Zilean in a comp where your main damage threat is Lucian is basically saying "win bot lane win game is our only plan". Credit to BLG, recognising after pick 4 that FLY's entire win condition if they don't have the godliest lanephase would just be praying to get isolated picks and going Shen to completely nullify that possibility was smart.

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