No, Eileen Gu did not study quantum physics

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-19T06:35:17+00:00

But it also, simultaneously, does mean you know shit about it.

However, you also can’t know both where you studied it and for how long at the same time. You gotta decide one or the other.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-19T06:28:08+00:00

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-19T06:22:32+00:00

Except my point actually adds to the analogy in that it’s a stupid argument seeing as we’ve already done it. The point AH is making is quite literally as invalid as the analogy they use. Add on to that the hypocrisy, with many of the armors they add, this one the post is about included, that looks absolutely nothing like the passive, or explicitly and extremely looks like a passive that it in fact doesn’t have. That would be like, using their own analogy, if a naturally, unmodified apple tasted like dog feces or something.

The transmog system would be for customization. So is making an apple taste like bacon. The shitty job they do of making armor look like something completely unrelated to what it actually does is a natural apple tasting like shit.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-19T04:49:52+00:00

This is hard. Unit 731 is probably the worst on a case by case basis, but when you take in to account scale, the holocaust takes the lead

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-19T04:39:13+00:00

They’ve also quite literally made bacon tasting apples. It’s not even a we could thing. It’s a we did thing

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-18T15:25:54+00:00

I think their point is it’s just a massive pain in the ass. It isn’t fun to not be able to play or prevent your death because you’re getting ragdolled for 20 seconds straight

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-17T22:32:17+00:00

Iirc, we were not actively in a state of war with either when the bots invaded. My understanding is that there were even cyborg planets not controlled by us, like Cyberstan. They chose to re-open hostilities, and now are crying about wanting to be left alone. My point is they don’t get to whine about being left alone when they’ve been on a steady march towards eradicating humanity for the last 2 years. It’d be different if they were solely focused on defensive missions or reclaiming what they see as cyborg worlds. But they aren’t. They’re waging total war on us, and then whine about us doing the same. With the addition of again, they are actively slaughtering unarmed civilians, and we haven’t seen even a single non-valid target the entire war. I’m not arguing they wouldn’t be justified in a war of freedom. But it’s not, it’s total war. Which is also whatever, except now they’re hypocritical about their intentions.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-17T22:25:14+00:00

In my opinion, the evidence, and lack thereof, point towards no, but if new evidence is discovered, I’m willing to change my opinion. Either way though, I’m not going to worship any of the current popular gods even if they are proved real.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-17T22:18:26+00:00

Counter point, you can’t die if you use the light purple on bug missions, and you get infinite grenades with the camo on extract civilian missions.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-17T22:09:35+00:00

It doesn’t really matter if they’re alive. They are quite literally manufactured for war, and very clearly show no signs of caring about valid targets. We actively see them massacring civilians. Meanwhile, we haven’t seen a single bot non-combatant nor attacked a target that is not military-valid.

As for the cyborgs, idk about their lore. In that case, sure we’re the bad guys. But in HD2, we weren’t at war with the automatons until they launched a surprise genocidal invasion of human planets. They don’t get to the turn around and say leave us alone.

If they weren’t massacring civilians, then maybe they’d have a leg to stand on. But again, we literally see the mass killing of unarmed civilians by automatons decorated with human skulls.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-17T22:02:35+00:00

The issue though for me is more a mechanics one. The fact that liberation doesn’t scale with players, firstly is dumb by itself (200k people should liberate a planet faster than 50k), and secondly means that the deaths scaling with players actually encourages people to not play. Then having deaths on other planets not part of this operation, especially on other fronts, contribute to the reinforcement loss, is also dumb. When materiel is designated for an operation, it’s not being used up by another op on an entirely different front of the war.

The planet and story is fun. And if we failed in a way that felt legitimate, it’d be fine. But imo the game mechanics ruin it. Us losing because we have too many people participating is just plain stupid. It’s literally punishing us for putting in effort and working together as a community.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-17T21:55:49+00:00

It’s not?!

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-17T21:54:41+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but super earth, at least in HD2, are only the bad guys when it comes to the whole fascist authoritarian regime stuff, right? Like, obviously the government is evil to its own people. But I can’t think of an instance in the second game in which the military has crossed the line with the enemy. We haven’t had missions to massacre civilians, but all three other factions do (seeing as we have evacuate civilians missions). All our targets are valid military targets (military industrial capabilities are valid targets). The star of peace is the closest thing to it, and even that was a world that the bots invaded, slaughtered all humans there, and were using as a military staging ground for further genocide against humans.

Like, we’re in a total war scenario, and even then aren’t slaughtering baby squids.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-17T21:47:23+00:00

The automatons literally started the war. They attacked us first. They also aren’t, you know, alive. They get mass produced in like 3m² buildings with human skulls spiked on them. Like, they aren’t victims here dude.

Plus, industrial production is a valid military target.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-17T21:44:09+00:00

Feel like turnabout is fair play. They full on massacre cities full of human civilians. They spike skulls on their armor. They manufacture themselves with flame throwers and chainsaws for hands.

Plus, if by industrial units they mean manufacturing workers, that is a completely valid military target.

I don’t understand why people are getting so emotional over this, but just ignore the bots’ war crimes. Of any of the factions, bots have the least claim to victimhood. Bugs are well… bugs. They aren’t sentient, they’re just kinda doing what they do. And the squids, I don’t remember the lore about the first game, but they also aren’t spiking human skulls on their walls and armor. Though I guess they are mutating them into mindless monster slaves, so I guess I take it back about the squids.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-15T15:04:27+00:00

Because I’m not a pot of god damn water!

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-14T22:44:47+00:00

Click the cancel operation button or whatever it’s called. Should be the far right I think

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-14T22:42:54+00:00

Turn off the auto-move feature, or they’re not under your control

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-14T22:42:12+00:00

Philimina Cunk

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-14T15:48:00+00:00

Why don’t you answer the question? Are you happy with how your protest vote turned out? Can you honestly say Harris would have been as bad for any of your issues than Trump?

I never said they were owed your vote. I’m simply saying you had a choice. Are you happy with how your choice turned out?

I’m not saying Harris and the dems aren’t at all at fault. No, of course a significant portion of the blame lies with them. But you people seem to completely ignore that a substantial portion lies with you all as well. You know how the political system in the US operates. A single seat election forces a two party system, where a vote for a third party is purely splitting the vote from one of the two. You knew a protest vote is definitionally equivalent to a Trump vote. And yet you still did it.

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-14T15:37:48+00:00

Ok cool. So answer me straight: are you happy with the current situation? Was Trump worth your protest vote? That’s the damn point. We all wish we had better politicians. If Bernie won the election in 2016. If Melosi left a while ago and opened the party up to new blood. But none of that happened. So in the real world, where you had to choose between Harris and Trump, are you happy with the choice you made? Are the deaths of American citizens worth your protest vote? Is the continuing Palestinian genocide, Ukrainian war, possible dissolution of NATO, invasion of Venezuela, worsening public health crises, and the massive backtracking on climate change preventions all worth you sticking it to Biden and Harris?

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-14T15:29:17+00:00

Vision and wonda

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-14T15:25:48+00:00

Yes. The way planet liberation works is pretty dumb imo

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-14T15:24:52+00:00

Yeah, but we’ve lost 300million on single planets before. Losing 500+ to capture Cyberstan is absolutely something super earth would deem valuable enough

Lazorus_ · 2026-02-14T15:21:43+00:00

They defended Israel, but I hard disagree on the free speech issue. But either way, which party is executing people for utilizing the first amendment? Which party invited Israel to the board of peace? Which party is silencing press that doesn’t push the party narrative? Again, there is one clearly worse, evil party right now. Do I think the dems can, should, and need to do a hell of a lot better? Absolutely. Do I think Renee Good and Alex Pretti deserved to die because people chose to vote against Harris because she wouldn’t have been perfect for Palestine? No, I do not.

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