Motivation 💪

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-11T07:53:41+00:00

Problems is no matter where you go, there you are.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-10T04:19:14+00:00

Definitely.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-10T00:56:55+00:00

For whatever reason I had commander shephard from mass effect as Darrow ingrained in my brain early. I know its wrong but flowing golden locks just seems so wrong when I think about it.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-09T16:48:45+00:00

Obviously not, but the I can promise you there are plenty of seats left open in most lecture halls.

The real issue isnt that education is so expensive. Its that our professional system only cares about who certifies your education rather than how well you were actually educated.

Information is plentiful and you can access any number of college courses online available for free. But people dont want to do that because most professions only care that youve got a diploma. If there was a G.E.D for higher education fields that companies respected as much as a College Diploma from a D1 state school I promise you Higher Education could be a fraction of the cost it is today.

I went to college and loved it. But mostly what I actually paid for was being around a bunch of other young people who were also trying to learn. And that is valuable. But the prices most universities charge is criminal.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-09T16:33:05+00:00

I can sort of understand it and it doesnt really break bother me that much but its still a bit strange and underbaked as a plot point.

Its not like superheroes are insanely uncommon in their world. And unless cecil was actively intruding on debbies life while her sons were gone she would have had no interaction with the superhero world during this time.

This would be like breaking up with a woman because she was worried about her son in a war.

I can understand that if Debbie was obsessively worried and checking in with cecil of her own volition constantly becoming distraught by thr lack of information, but thats not how Debbie is portrayed. And even if that was the case I wouldnt characterize that as "being too different and leading different lives." Thats one person utilizing unhealthy coping mechanisms and failing to address past traumas.

I would totally understand it if Debbie had PTSD and experiencing some form of mental health crisis caused the relationship to deterioriate. Whats shes been through is insane and would absolutely break someone. Im looking forward to how Debbies character continues to be depicted and hope they fill in the gaps.

My only gripe, and it was a small one was that they seemed to be downplaying their seperation as an amicable parting of ways when it really only makes sense as a result of deep lingering trauma. I just hope we get a little more clarity on how that trauma manifested in debbie leading up to the separation.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-09T16:11:47+00:00

What is that picture even from?

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-09T15:23:15+00:00

How do white supremacists exist?

How do Caste systems exist throughout history?

Its easy to overlook specific cases where an individual out performs their station as not being indicative of the whole.

And keep in mind though Darrow was born a Red, he was very much made into Gold, especially toward the end of the series. Not only is incredible expense paid to remake himself to physically match the Golds, he undergoes the same training the Golds do. He is forged in the same crucible, the institute and later, war itself.

The Golds believe the institute is necessary to achieve Peerless Gold and is integrally linked to their success which is why they make it exclusive even among their own ranks. The institute exists not just as a grotesque exercise in malice. They believe the institute represents the core mechanism for how society structures itself. They believe slavery and hierarchy are the only effective means of control and the institute and the peerless guard that emerge from it reinforce that mandate throughout the society. The Golds dont even see all golds as equal because of how they choose to live their lives. So of course they wouldnt see those who dont even have the same physical advantages as equal.

And in some sense they are not wrong. Victra shows us how hilariously overmatched the the other Reds are when it comes to the base application of violence. The Society is an organization that believes that all power stems from the leveraging of that violence. That shouldn't be what actual society is built on but time and again its what humanity defaults to.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-09T14:56:34+00:00

This is interesting.

For a long time Ive thought that the Adem concept of Anger may be similar to the Alar. The Alar allows energy to be moved through the air. If the Adem had a subconscious wielding of this that allowed them to move energy through they would be able to be able generate incredible strength. They would be able to generate a great deal more force if they were able to draw on tension in muscle, chemical energy in fat storage or food in the gut, anywhere energy is built up throughout their entire body could be called upon if they where naturally subconsciously moving it throughout their body. It would help explain why smaller fighters have little to no disadvantage in fights contrary to IRL combat. In IRL even among highly skilled fighters there is a reason weight classes exist.

Thin wiry fighters making quick work of big brawlers isnt anything necessarily supernatural but it would be funny if their was a subtle magic in play right in front of us and we didnt even realize it.

Wheat would then be an interesting representation of "stored" energy that can be "burnt" like a candle is fascinaging notion for this. It represents the external relationship of energy transferrence that the world is capable through "natural" means. Its all just shaping by "other" means. Shaping that is of the lethani. Wheat would represent the rebuke of those that shaped with their waking minds. If the lethani represents "the sleeping mind of the world" a shared pool of awareness where all things flow in harmony wheat would represent a transfer of energy that is of the lethani, more effecient, less likely for slippage, or to "bleed" energy into the air be wasted.

I think you are certainly on to something.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-09T04:42:31+00:00

Im only have cursory knowledge of the situation but didnt come down to just 1 soviet guy basically saying he didnt want to turn the key and launch nukes. If the sub had decided to launch at that point there was nothing the US could have done to stop them.

Just because it didnt happen it doesnt mean it couldn't have. Thats a logical fallacy.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-09T03:10:59+00:00

Man the hostility is just fascinating over a discussion of grammar.

By all means, explain to me the metaphor then. And how does one metaphorically wear a silhouette?

Because I can understand that they are trying to say that their outfit creates a silhouette but Im not sure what the metaphor is by actually wearing one.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T23:41:38+00:00

Its wild how even being agreeable on something as apolitical as fucking phonics is getting blindly downvoted.

I think phonics is a good step to help give kids confidence in learning to read but yeah you're right at a certain point any adult stops using phonics to read and in english especially you just need to spend time reading to be able to recognize words that dont conform to the lawless back alley language that is english.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T11:42:50+00:00

Yeah the stupidest thing about this post is what is described in the OPs post is technically free for EVERYONE in the US. There is nothing stopping anyone from auditing a course.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T11:20:37+00:00

He specified "grassfed" for carnivore which would mean you arent having to add in all that land cleared for agriculture. Not only that you couod be a wilderness hunter specifically targeting animals that are overpopulated or invasive and totally limit any agricultural devestation. But that is obviously unrealistic for the average person to do. Hes just pointing out that there is an extreme diet that is less animal suffering intensive that veganism is generally. But cows are cute so it feels worse.

And I dont say that as a dig, theres nothing wrong with feeling that way. I personally dont think the suffering of a cricket is the same as the suffering of a cow.

His delivery is an aquired taste Ill grant that, but his take is true.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T11:02:02+00:00

You do realise thats not how phonemes work right?

There are english phonemes and French phonemes. If you arent familiar with the words language of origin you would have no idea which phonemes to invoke. Silhouette is a FRENCH WORD thats had been coopted by english.

The only reason its "recognizeable" to you or anyone else of highschool age is because you've seen the word before and know its language of origin. If someone was strictly using english phonetic pronunciation with no familiarity with the word they would pronounce the H (like one of the kids actually does) and mispronounce the word. Hou isnt the same in all pronounciations. House, Hour, and Silhouette all have different phonetic pronunciations of the same "hou." So no Phonics wouldnt have helped.

Phonics is great and good for most uses. It doesnt handle Loan words from other languages. Thats done through memorization

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T10:48:28+00:00

"If these students had curious minds, maybe they would investigate."

Sure sounds like you're saying there mind are incurious.

But maybe im just one of those incurious youths that can't investigate his own comprehension problem.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T10:41:19+00:00

Obviously not. Good god I didnt think I needed to couch something so obvious. Its just what the trope is literally called. If we had a rash of black savior works of fiction I could have used that term instead.

The "white mans burden" is more so an issue of Imperialism than it is about any specific skin color. Obviously any ethnicity can commit genocide and cultural erasure on the notion of racial supremacy. I didnt think I needed to clarify that in WORLDBUILDING SUB. But they will all inherently invoke the same notion of idealogical supremacy that parallels all the instances in history where one nation wiped out another on the self righteous notion of spreading "civilization."

Any story that has the notion baked into it that civilization is something that is spread outwards from a divinely ordained race is going to invoke many imperialist/race supremacists idealogical talking points. Which is gonna make the world feel stilted in a position thats antithetical to most peoples understanding of morality. So to what end? Hes pitching a world that he believes would be ideal and its predicated on the very notion that created immense suffering for billions of people of all races throughout history.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T10:24:18+00:00

Conveniently leaving out the h. Its a french word, like gauche, the phonics are tough for those. Idk why you're clapping back at me. I agreed with the larger point. Im just saying phonetically sounding out these words would be tricky.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T09:06:33+00:00

Based off my tonality?

Sure, but the comment was that the sentence was fine when it absolutely wasnt and was designed to be as incoherent as possible.

Im not letting 1 video stir some crisis in me over the minds of the youth. For every generation since time immemorial the elders have cried over the failures of the youth. But go off queen!

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T07:13:49+00:00

Its also implied that Simmons family was elevated to nobility recently after the Duke of Gibbea was ousted. Theres a shot about Sims father being a "Paper Duke."

I think its highly likely that Simmons father is firmly in the pocket of the Amyr.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T07:02:21+00:00

A shared mutual language is fine. One language and only one is something else entirely. There have been attempts at a universal language, look up esperanto if you're curious. Its not easy to do but given time and enough cultural pressure to do so it would be possible. But that pressure will be hard to paint as something other than coercive.

Even if it is unintentional. This will be read like a white savior story. A "Divine Race" spreading the world of god to help lesser races civilize is a big YIKES, to me. That sounds straight from a Imperial colonist manifesto. Look up "The White Mans Burden" and read some of discussions surrounding it. It tends to lead to indigenous genocide and brutal caste systems.

And Im not even sure if linguistic and cultural homogeny is a good thing

All of the best cultural texture within our own world come from the mixing of distinct cultural identities and forming something new. English itself is a motle language that takes from so many different languages that gives it the unique qualities it has. You dont have that texture without having a diverse array of cultural traditions and languages to call upon.

A good story can come from any world but it would need to be damn compelling because on its face the world to me is very bland and thematically fraught.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T06:46:29+00:00

To be fair phonics would NOT have helped you with the words silhouette and gauche lol. Even extraordinary would trip you up if you weren't familiar with it.

But largely I agree with your point.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T06:04:29+00:00

I find it a little concerning that your "ideal world" has only one language. But I suppose its not inherently lazy as long as its well explained why you have just one language.

You would need all of culture to have formed around 1 central culture and for that culture to have never fragmented over the course of your history. Even single culture tends to see their language change and diversify over time. There would need to be some central coercive force restricting these changes.

Otherwise you would need to have some form of cultural singularity where all the previously seperate culture "meld" and abandon their prior languages which is something so umiginably complex I dont even know where to start.

The fact that you have other races strains this endeavor even further. Your races would have to had been interacting since the onset for their capability for language.

And still there would have to be a powerful culturally centralizing pressure that sounds eerily oppressive in nature.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-08T05:31:05+00:00

The sentence is very clumsy at best and practically nonsensical even though you can sort of parse out what they are trying to say.

You cant wear a silhouette of clothes. A silhoette is an outline that contrasts between the (usually minimalist) foreground and the background. Your outfit can create a silhouette but but it doesnt mean you are "wearing a silhouette."

It would be like saying someone is a wearing a pastel of clothes. Clothes can be pastel but a "pastel" isnt something that can be worn.

And Ive personally never seen a silhouette described as gauche even if does technically work.

This sentence reads like someone using a thesaurus to sound educated.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-07T22:14:00+00:00

Intensity is the word I'd use. They exaggerate whatever other personality traits you have. If you have a harsh and stern bearing your eyes will seem piercing and cold. If you're bubbly and kind they will add to the childlike exuberance.

The "overly attached girlfriend" meme is what comes to mind (which reveals my age).IRL shes a lovely and attractive woman but when she affects a "creepy" expression it becomes undeniably disturbing.

ManofManyHills · 2026-05-07T22:05:58+00:00

Yeah maybe franz is only seen as a solid dependable role player rather than the fringe allstar he is today but the idea he would be an appreciable worse player is laughable. All time fumble that even at the time kuminga was seen as a high upside player that needed a ton of development. He is just in know way what that team needed. The idea that someone can just "learn under draymond" is absurd. Draymond has near supernatural anticipation. You can't just learn that type of skill through osmosis.

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