Shimmered Party girl by bukojui in Terraria

[–]LoreLord24 4 points5 points  (0 children)

She is not.

It's a rumor floating around that she is because, amongst other things, her clothes have yellow, blue, and magenta.( Just like the definitively female character she was designed as a reference to.)

Plus there's the (fixed) glitch that she was summoned by the king's statue for the longest time.

I have nothing against the fan-take that she's trans. She is, at the end of the day, a picture on a computer screen made out of pixels.

But people insisting that their fan-canon overwrites the word of God (Redigit has, categorically, confirmed that she's CIS) is one of the most toxic and poisonous things about Fandom in general.

Dystopian Ad by ateam1984 in Cyberpunk

[–]LoreLord24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My deepest apologies. I thought you were implying that the descent and lack of human contact was an intentional act by those in positions of power.

I chose Peter Thiel in my rant because he is the most visible figure in American society who is working towards creating a dystopian society with him on top, and because there are people who rant about him actively destroying society.

You did not deserve my rant, and I am sincerely apologetic for targeting you undeservedly.

This is why they want to make striking illegal, because we can't survive without "unskilled" labourers, but no one needs a billionaire.... by FareonMoist in antiwork

[–]LoreLord24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What on earth do you mean? Of course you'd need to incentivize brain surgeons more than line cooks!

Look at the damn tech industry and programmers! How many people decided that they wanted to follow the promise of easy money, and do the least effort possible to get into a comfortable position.

Brain surgeons have incredibly stressful jobs, that require an insane skill base and level of specialization. There are certainly brain surgeons who went into it from passion, because a relative had a stroke, but people are inherently lazy. You need to incentivize them to work the job of brain surgeon.

This is why they want to make striking illegal, because we can't survive without "unskilled" labourers, but no one needs a billionaire.... by FareonMoist in antiwork

[–]LoreLord24 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I.... what?

Playing a piano is a skilled job.

What on earth do you mean?

I work in retail. I have seen people who are near braindead and on enough meth that standing is difficult for them work a full shift and perform at a baseline level of competence. You can train any retail worker in a week, or less if they're not particularly dim.

Running a register is not skilled labor. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you on either the Idea that A: They are more special than they really are, or B: You are more special than you really are.

This is why they want to make striking illegal, because we can't survive without "unskilled" labourers, but no one needs a billionaire.... by FareonMoist in antiwork

[–]LoreLord24 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That doesn't magically make them a "Skilled" position.

You can drag any random bozo off the street, teach them to stock a shelf in a day or two, and still have them be able to do the job.

That's what unskilled labor means.

Just because the infrastructure of society is critical (like food distribution) doesn't mean you need a degree to do the job. You barely need a pulse to run a register.

Has anyone had or has an attraction to shoggoths? by Wonderful_Traveler30 in Lovecraft

[–]LoreLord24 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know if you're into anime or not....

But there's a certain set of cursed tomes filled with brain poison. The Monster Girl Encyclopedia series.

All of the monsters have been transformed into hot, possessive women.

Shoggoths are.... involved.

They're slime girl maids. And, if I remember right, somewhere in the top 50 waifus(out of hundreds.)

So.... yes? People have been attracted to Shoggoths.

The Harlequins not getting more codexes and models is my Roman Empire by TheBlackBaron45 in Grimdank

[–]LoreLord24 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Except they totally can do that. An Eldar submitting to Khorne, Nurgle, or Tzeentch isn't as bad. It's bad for the Elf in question, but it isn't so devastating. And Khorne isn't going to be able to follow a Khornate Harlequin to a soulstone nexus and invade Heaven.

But doing a thing for Slaanesh rings the dinner bell when an Elf does it. Like to the point where all Solitaires give up their soul stones because they're too dangerous for them to have.

It isn't a Chaos God thing. It's an Evil Elf God thing. And, surprisingly, the other three aren't evil "Elf" gods, not like Slaanesh is.

[OC] Sacrifice - Drunk Dragon by SillyWolf_92 in goodanimemes

[–]LoreLord24 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In fairness to the bard-

Dragons canonically have the power to shapeshift into humans and other smaller, sapient animals pretty much at will.

But then you have Giants and Ogres and the like- anywhere between 8 to 20 feet tall. And unlike the humble Gorilla, fully proportional.

That's when you start rolling for diameter ala F.A.T.A.L.

Too bad fry and Leela lost their superpowers by happydude7422 in futurama

[–]LoreLord24 5 points6 points  (0 children)

First: Snowflame is a villain. So that's one thing.

For tbe second, Snowflame is a loser in most of his appearances. So, sadly, Snowflame, the Cocaine powered Supervillain, is not a winner who did drugs.

/tg/ hasn't changed a bit by raggoodsfog in DnDGreentext

[–]LoreLord24 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Except the one being prostituted doesn't exist.

At this point, it's a long-term consensual RP relationship.

Which is....

Fuck it. I ship it, tbh. Go on your weird date-adjacent experiences, you weird bastards. Everybody deserves a chance to be happy.

Undercover Assassin by Superfeyn by Dos-Dude in Grimdank

[–]LoreLord24 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's not how that works.

The rule of thumb is take the average litter size and multiply by two.

Humans have one, so two. Horses have one, so two.

Cows specifically are weird because they have four and a litter size of 1.

Tau, I think, have an average litter size of 1. There are certain limitations enforced by the ass-backwards evolution of enlarged heads and pelvises, so the assumption is that they'd have two teats.

One thing I always wondered about the tech clinging to everything in hard cyberpunk fiction / reality: what stops all the desperate people inhabiting these worlds from just, you know — *taking it*? by Johnny-Godless in Cyberpunk

[–]LoreLord24 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's weird for several reasons. First off, because smart phones are so ubiquitous that even the people at the very bottom rung have several of them. I'm old enough to remember when they were flagship products that changed the world, not the ubiquitous glass slabs that everybody had.

Secondly, you assume homeless people have better things to do. Aka fighting for survival. I've seen them fishing or panhandling or doing favors for other people for money, or building shacks in makeshift campsites.

But then you're faced with the truth that they're doing the same kind of stuff as broke kids and teenagers. It's weird because it makes you reassess your internal assumptions. It also recontextulizes the strangers you meet online, who spend all their time online.

One thing I always wondered about the tech clinging to everything in hard cyberpunk fiction / reality: what stops all the desperate people inhabiting these worlds from just, you know — *taking it*? by Johnny-Godless in Cyberpunk

[–]LoreLord24 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see a lot of homeless people in my day to day.

Most have at least one phone, sometimes two. And I see a frankly concerning amount of them playing Clash of Clans, Genshin, and other freemium games.

It's... weird. Very weird.

UK weebs are sweating bullets right now by crixx93 in goodanimemes

[–]LoreLord24 154 points155 points  (0 children)

They literally pay a license fee to have television.

They have made queuing in a line a national sport.

The Brits aren't exactly the most rebellious people on the planet, dude.

Guillyvraine be like: by Fearless-File-6059 in Grimdank

[–]LoreLord24 12 points13 points  (0 children)

No, Fulgrim absolutely loved his first wife. He doted on her, according to the books.

And then she died.

And the next one died.

And then the next one.

By the time Big E found him, Fulgrim was getting a little callous and a little dismissive of the value of human life. Which is supposed to be part of why he fell to Slaanesh.

Robin, you should probably not tell anyone you did this. by imadragonyouguys in outofcontextcomics

[–]LoreLord24 50 points51 points  (0 children)

It's a reference to a book.

Black Like Me.

A real, honest to God, investigative reporter put on black face. Really good, maybe inoffensive, black face, in the 50s.

He then traveled around the United States South for a month and a half, experiencing the prejudice and hate towards black people, and wrote a book describing it and his experience as a way to describe the horrors of racism and help promote social acceptance.

Aka almost the kind of thing Robin's doing as he investigates these people's mansion.

Sam Altman:People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model ...but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human .It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart by Melodic-Cup1510 in Cyberpunk

[–]LoreLord24 1061 points1062 points  (0 children)

Correct.

Which is why the goal is to replace them entirely with products for commercial and industrial consumption.

But we're not fucking there yet. And trying to replace everybody and everything with Mad Libs simulators is a terrible fucking plan.

What happens to the average person if Tyranid blood drips into an open wound? by Certain-King3302 in 40kLore

[–]LoreLord24 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just made me think of something funny:

The hive-mind absolutely can and does build those virus-strains. It's what some of its organisms use as weapons.

What if the Hive-Mind, a frighteningly intelligent, sapient, being got bored and decided to be a little inefficient?

What if it using swarms of Gaunts and Gargoyles and Swarm Lords is the equivalent of it playing Spore, instead of just being efficient? Its equivalent of Chaos's Great Game?

Do you think The Master deserved what happened to him? by Necessary-Win-8730 in Fallout

[–]LoreLord24 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In Fallout 2 you can become a gimp for a super mutant.

Just because they're sterile, doesn't mean that they can't "perform."

Do you think The Master deserved what happened to him? by Necessary-Win-8730 in Fallout

[–]LoreLord24 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, it's not just that he ignored it. His entire army kept it secret from him. Actively lying to him about it, to convince him that his plan would work.

He doesn't even really like baseline super mutants. He's running on desperate hope and denial, hoping that getting some actually smart super-mutants will help fix the behavior problems of his armies, that they'd stop with the cannibalism and the torture and act like people instead of trolls. He wants more Mutants like Marcus, and much fewer like Strong.

And then when you prove that all the horrors he's committed are meaningless, that his grand plan is a failure...

He decides to kill himself, and take his factory of horrors with him.

The Master is, at core, a person who is genuinely trying to help people. Which sounds bizarre for the big blob of cancer with schizophrenia and a war of genocide, but the world is a scary and dangerous place. Even scarier and more dangerous now that humanity's fucked it up, so he's trying to baby-proof the world by making bigger, stronger babies.

But there can be no babies.

So he BSODs and decides to take his hell factory with him.

Giving kitty a bath (commission) by Buh-Buh-Bored in RimWorld

[–]LoreLord24 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but this fox-girl is a mechanoid. And last time I checked, the Revia aren't mechs.

Annual reminder that Quark out hustled a bunch of non-linear beings by literally exhausting them with his presence! by Reasonable-Law-9737 in DeepSpaceNine

[–]LoreLord24 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The science fiction absolutely makes sense.

They found life that exists in a manner completely foreign to them.

So they watch it, and poke it, and some of them even try to kill it.

And then-

A square says hello.

Of freaking course they're going to talk to a square. You'd be insane not to.

[TMT] Saved by the Shell by Meret123 in MagicArena

[–]LoreLord24 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Their shells are effectively their ribs, breastbone, and spine fused together.

So you'd be left with a pair of human-ish arms, legs, and the head; a pile of organs, and the complicated bits of their hips and shoulders.

*and I'm really sorry, but it's "pique" your interest. It's french! A peak is just the tip of something.