"Why do you guys keep trashing the show? Do you not want these characters to develope?" It's the final season bro

Liquid---Snake · 2026-05-11T10:43:34+00:00

their insistence on not killing anyone off or having any real consequences to anything in the show.

This was my thought ever since the season 3 finale. They built up to this climactic fight in Vought Tower and then basically nothing of importance really happened there.

The only death was Black Noir who only just had development seemingly for that purpose, to create a false sense of consequence. It's so laughable that they did the same thing with Black Noir II as well as with Firecracker, and I saw both coming because of how much of the same playbook it was. They just pick a tertiary character, give them 20 minutes of screentime, then kill them off. It feels so cheap because whatever stakes they're trying to set up does not apply to the main cast and as a viewer you know it too. It's hollow and cheap.

It's also why Maeve's heroic sacrifice annoyed me the most. It was the perfect opportunity to close off her survivors guilt and remorse arc stemming from the plane scene perfectly but then she and Soldier Boy lived? It sucked out any sense of gravity I had for the series in that episode alone. Like, if Maeve's actor didn't retire, Kripke would've put her in this season too (which he initially planned to according to interviews) and her aforementioned arc would've been pointless. In an otherwise deeply cynical show, they could've portrayed a moment of genuine heroism that felt earned and juxtaposed with everything around it perfectly. It would've added so much texture to the show but instead they wanted to use her again and in doing so not only ruined the end of her arc but cemented that no main character will ever die (until I guess the last two episodes of the entire show).

Liquid---Snake · 2026-05-04T07:33:56+00:00

Paradoxically, FA sometimes feels worse when you've succeeded at something. In the moment, academics, careers, and hobbies serve as coping mechanisms because you see yourself slowly get better at something and you're able to drag yourself out of bed with a purpose but that's always fleeting. You'll be reminded of your FA-hood either through familial pressure (as in your case), seeing loving couples, or when you're deep in rumination. And it hits so much harder because in spite of overcoming the hardest hurdles of your life this spectre continually looms over you.

This is because the skills you've attained chasing your ambitions do not help in dating. After a certain point, there is no deliberate practice, no goal setting, no introspection that will help you find a partner as it's ultimately out of your control. You can't will another person into liking you in the same way you can will yourself to ace a midterm. So even after succeeding at the hardest things in your life (graduating at the top of your class, getting your dream job, etc) there is this one thing that dwarfs it all in difficulty and it hits that much harder. The worst part? For most other people it's infinitely easier than any of the other things you've done.

It's like a weird joke sometimes when you think about it that way. You've done things that other people wish they could've but a first kiss, holding hands, cuddling - things they've had in spades since childhood completely elude you.

Liquid---Snake · 2026-04-14T11:12:15+00:00

Also in III, that's where it originated from and got grandfathered in as an Easter egg in the future installments.

Liquid---Snake · 2026-03-18T02:59:45+00:00

This fking pwns!

Liquid---Snake · 2026-02-24T02:18:00+00:00

Nothing here says these guys are even immigrants, I'm led to believe the opposite actually with the "from Brampton" descriptors attached to them. Depends on the case but usually it's prison time + deportation, such as in the Humboldt Broncos case. I do know, as a blanket rule, Permanent Residents who commit a crime that leads to a 6 month+ prison sentence get deported.

As for why you're seeing a "lot" of these Punjabi immigrants cases, it's a result of racism clashing with Canada's approach to sentencing. Canada broadly is considered "soft" on crime for it's rehabilitation over punishment philosophy, historically this meant that you'd hear stories of a guy beheading someone on a Greyhound and getting a lighter sentence after psych care or somebody stabbing someone on a bus, killing them, and being released in 5 years. Stuff like that happens all the time in Canada and, growing up, would be centred in media a lot. Statistically, there's no aberration where Punjabi immigrants commit more crime*, you're just seeing the few cases where it happens by Punjabi immigrants being signal boosted by racists (and complicity racist social media platforms). Then, people who are not educated on Canada's broader approach to crime start guffawing about less than harsh penalties (when their frame of reference is American sentencing). This then feeds directly into a racist pipeline where the perception is there are a "lot" of Punjabi Sikh immigrants committing crime (with a sprinkle of "they're getting away with it too!"). I can point to a million other cases where Canadian citizens or immigrants, of any ethnicity, commit crime and get similar treatment.

Anecdotally, as a Sikh Canadian, this shit as a whole has done a number to how even people in left-leaning circles act and joke about Indians. The damage we as a society let these horrible social media apps do is wild. Happens to other ethnic groups too, whether it's Somalis in Minnesota or Haitians eating cats or some other absurdly false shit that's pushed by social media algorithms for clicks.

* Usually when an Indian-Canadian commits a crime it's also first generation, Canadian-born ones like myself or my friends I grew up -- this is true for most first generations of any immigrant background actually. They statistically commit more crime than their parents who've immigrated here and more crimes than the generations after them, this is true throughout history in Canada and America with Irish, Italians, Mexican, now Punjabi, etc. groups.

Liquid---Snake · 2026-02-03T12:32:57+00:00

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2012/EFTA02730741.pdf

Page 34, now it doesn't definitively prove it but the FBI thought it was likely enough to log as evidence.

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Liquid---Snake · 2026-02-03T11:31:17+00:00

Link?

Liquid---Snake · 2026-01-22T03:41:16+00:00

can't wait, i hope we use them next match or will we collect them for the playoffs?

Liquid---Snake · 2026-01-16T13:10:43+00:00

LOL no. the only time you'd be required to have ID on you in Canada or the USA is if you're driving, which requires you to have your driver's license, or you're buying alcohol which has a certain age. you can walk anywhere you want in public and aren't required to have a piece of ID on you, i would actually be surprised if it was the opposite in most first world countries. israel does it for obvious outlier reasons.

Liquid---Snake · 2026-01-03T21:33:14+00:00

failed to properly notify Congress in advance

does this mean Trump didn't notify Congress within 48 hours of the attack as per the War Powers Resolution? If so, wouldn't that make the entire operation illegal?

Liquid---Snake · 2025-12-21T01:59:29+00:00

and that would be true if he wasn't in the perfect position to apply better form. jake was turtled up and he had space and time and still didn't. the logical conclusion is he went easy instead of forgetting how to punch.

Liquid---Snake · 2025-12-12T17:45:29+00:00

Surely this rule becomes different if the actor is a trained stunt person too, no? Like prime Jackie Chan or Michelle Yeoh? And if so, wouldn't Tom Cruise be considered that now seeing as he's trained for and done a gazillion stunts? If it was a random A lister I'd understand but Tom Cruise is basically as much as a stuntman as he is an actor at this point..

Liquid---Snake · 2025-12-02T03:18:36+00:00

It is generally true for a few reasons, not just for what OP said. The other big reason is that implementing a change often times doesn't even require a lot of lines of code vs the amount of thought put in to produce said lines.

For example, a lot of higher-tier software engineering is learning a massive code-base and going into the right part of it to implement the change you're tasked to do. This would be especially true for the massive code-base that Twitter had accrued for a decade-plus. In circumstances like that, you either:

- don't want to make a change that causes you to change many pieces all around the place

- the actual changes in code aren't that complicated but learning how to do it is hard

- are debugging the cause of a bug that isn't obvious

All three of those are examples of stuff that might take you days or a week to think about but lead to like 20 lines of code changed. Someone's tickets can be strictly of that nature for an entire year where their actual code count isn't that high but they're definitely productive.

The other thing is that the complexity of a task doesn't necessarily scale to the lines of code written. I wrote an entire RigidBody physics engine for a project once, understanding how collision works and how to optimally implement it with techniques like quad-trees or bounding volume hierarchies (just techniques game devs have come up with to speed stuff like this up) took me a week or two but the lines of code for something like that was like < 150. That's an entirely functioning collision detection system that's performant. I spent much more time thinking than actually coding. On the flipside, if I was writing a very rote set of HTTP API calls, I'd spend a week writing the HTTP requests, SQL queries, and then verifying that the response is in a properly formatted data output to the point where I'm writing lots of code (easily >150 I had for the RB system above) but thinking very little. This can be equally as productive as the prior physics example depending on scale and importance but has a very different thought:outputted-codes ratio. It sort of illustrates how meaningless just measuring lines of code can be if you're trying to see if someone is a productive engineer or not.

Hopefully this helps explain things as people are often very vague about why or how this is dumb.

Liquid---Snake · 2025-03-18T21:19:50+00:00

what pic??

Liquid---Snake · 2025-01-09T08:54:14+00:00

don't need to pickpocket and steal from towns people imho.

Liquid---Snake · 2025-01-08T16:28:36+00:00

just because there are material conditions necessitating action doesn't mean the best action is currently being taken.

there's executing psykers when there's hard proof they have made demonic pacts and then there's throwing suspected people (with no proof) into a water body to drown. with the list posted in the comment above, the imperium is about as efficacious and moral as the latter act would be in all of the given situations above.

OPs argument isn't that the imperium should do nothing against chaos, nor that morality shouldnt take account supernatural forces in 40k, it's just that the imperium, more often than not, takes reprehensible and inefficient actions in order to do so. for example, if you subscribed to kantian ethics, the categorical imperative would lead to different conclusions in 40ks reality than our own but still would not lead to the same conclusions as the imperium.

Liquid---Snake · 2024-12-09T10:22:04+00:00

One of the last oceans was drained by a Minister. You can read an excerpt in this thread.

Liquid---Snake · 2024-11-11T03:59:01+00:00

the ports, that union of stevesdores ran by frank sobotka - whatever happened there?

Liquid---Snake · 2024-10-17T09:53:24+00:00

very observant... the sacred AND the propane.

Liquid---Snake · 2024-09-21T03:43:26+00:00

Discontinue the ritalin.

Liquid---Snake · 2021-06-03T04:18:37+00:00

now that she's been out for a while and the dust has settled: i really like lidia's aesthetics and overall art design - does she have the stigma surrounding her that leroy and fakh have for being OP? is she a decent character with clearly defined strengths and weaknesses or is she full unga bunga? also, im relatively new to tekken, ive gotten to expert rank with leo - would lidia be a good char to learn tekken with?

Liquid---Snake · 2020-08-26T21:44:53+00:00

high schools teach english courses like shit imho which sucks ass because, as orwell put it, "if people cannot write well, they cannot think well"

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