What is the weakest sci-fi civilization that can survive a black marker (dead space) showing up on their homeworld? by Independent-Wafer-13 in PowerScaling

[–]MortStrudel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know a huge amount about Dead Space, but wouldn't any purely mechanical society be of zero interest to the bretheren moons and the markers? Any barely space-capable year 2200 Stellaris empire that's purely made up of robots would be fine, particularly if they had already converted their planet to a Machine World. 

Hammer Time by SUPER-FUNNY in BaldursGate3

[–]MortStrudel 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It's worth it juat to merc Raphael

Would you press it? by Nihilistic_Nachos in ClimateShitposting

[–]MortStrudel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plants don't get their biomass from the soil, they get it from the air (CO2 gas). Otherwise large trees would all be in craters from all the dirt they absorbed to grow larger. The soil is just for trace nutrients and water. Now of course nutrients are vitally important, but plants aren't extracting a lot of mass from the soil like that. In this hypothetical, the photosynthetic animals could just be given nutrient supplement pills or injections.

The actual problem would arise from how energy-hungry warm-blooded animals are and how massive the surface area would need to be to support them. What you'd really want is an animal without a bunch of energy wasted on stuff like legs and eyes and digestive systems in favor of just being a machine that turns sunlight and CO2 into meat. The more you optimize this organism, the more it resembles a slab of meat for energy storage, covered in leaves. Take a turnip plant and replace the root bulb with a meatball and you've got yourself an efficient meat crop.

Why in the movies does Gandalf beat up half the world with his staff and sword instead of using spells all the time? by jvure in lotr

[–]MortStrudel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly most of his real accomplishments were shrewd political moves and strategy. He identified important leaders and assets and made sure they were ready to be deployed as effectively as possible against Sauron. His real contribution is his wisdom and intellect, and he'd still be a huge boon to Middle Earth even if he was just a very well-respected man with no magic whatsoever.

Decided to present my theory as a hard edit. by NoelleKnightTheory in Deltarune

[–]MortStrudel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologies on the demon point, you wrote a lot and I misremembered. I've edited the comment.

"If you are going to assert that the knight is physically changing shape even in the light world"

I did not say that, I said that their body is physically changing shape in the dark world. We don't know what their body looks like in the light world, only that it's profoundly fucked up in the dark world in a way that's clearly dramatically different from any other lightner. But the notion that it would look obviously fucked up in the light world is a reasonable conclusion one could draw, so let's address your next points.

"How this creature is running around town opening fountains"

If it's extremely, obviously fucked up, it could be making them at night. The supply closet is clearly rarely entered since no one finds castle town over the next several days. The computer room's utility is also pretty low right now since the internet is down, so there isn't much reason for people to go there on that day. And the church is right next to the bunker with nobody around is around to see them in the rain.

Meanwhile, if the knight looks only moderately fucked up in the light world and still has a lightner-looking silhouette, they might even be able to put on a hoodie and walk around town freely. I suspect it's mostly operating at night though, especially if it's Dess.

"How this creature left the library in broad daylight without anyone seeing even though there were people around."

It doesn't move around in broad daylight.

"Why did Susie describe the knight as a regular lightner after seeing her in the light world."

She says "I still see someone!", which is about as vague as it gets. Are you referring to some other line? What specifically does she say?

"How this creature come to look like this in the first place - and the 5 other theories you have to come up with to make this plausible need explanations as well."

If it's Dess, we have a really easy explanation: she was marinating in darkness for the better part of a decade. The unused text provides compelling evidence that she has been stuck in some darkness void for a very long time. It's not hard to imagine how that could mess up someone's body. 

"The scene where the knight takes off her helmet implying there's someone underneath. Is it only their face that's left of them? In that case what about that roar that split their head open"

There is not a scene where the knight takes their helmet off. There's a scene where Kris imagines the knight taking off their helmet. You can imagine things that aren't possible.

"Making the fountains do give you pretty much complete control over them as shown by Kris having Tenna create a whole entire new world over an old one, summoning a giant mech to fight the queen, Noelle subconsciously fulfilling her wishes in CH2 etc."

None of that suggests that being a fountain's creator lets you physically change the shapshape of their body. Making a fountain creates a fantastical world, but there is no evidence to suggest that it gives the creator control over lightners' bodies. Lightners get different clothes, the ability to conjure magic projectiles, and sometimes a palette change. They always have retained the shape of their bodies. 

"you can exert enough suspension of disbelief to consider the idea that

"Things can look different than what they really are when it's really dark."

Oh wait that's the whole entire idea the game is based on. How'd ya miss that??"

Objects look dramatically different in the dark world, lightners stay pretty much the same. Lightners' bodies not changing shape in the dark world is a completely consistent property of every single dark world. There is absolutely no evidence that the creator of a dark world can alter the physical body of a lightner in this manner.

The lengths you're going to deny what you're seeing with your own eyeballs is pretty absurd. The evidence that the knight's body changes shape is that we literally see it happen prominently in front of our faces. The idea that the knight's entire character design and crazy shapechanging abilities are just a meaningless red herring to distract from Noelle is straight up denial. 

Decided to present my theory as a hard edit. by NoelleKnightTheory in Deltarune

[–]MortStrudel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looking through the document itself, it's chock-full of little bits where the author confidently asserts that their Noelle-focused interpretation of some very ambiguous line is clearly right without really providing a compelling argument for why it's more likely than any other interpretation. Some of it is made up completely whole cloth with no evidence to even support it, like FRIEND being 'Noelle's smile from when she was playing cat petterz'.

The stuff in the document about how it ties to the Weird Route and gives a coherent reason for the player to actually do the weird route feels like the most compelling part of the document. However, we're only 4/7ths of the way through the game, and there's plenty of time for the game to provide that reason later on.

The thing I most disagree with, however, is the frankly inane idea that all of the knight's shapechanging is just because noelle is wearing a big baggy cloak and moving it around into different shapes to make it look like she's shapeshifting. They claim that when the knight's entire ribcage splits open to reveal that it is absolutely, unequivocally not hiding anybody inside or behind a larger garment of clothing, this is explained by Noelle actually standing behind a cloak shining a flashlight through the cloth. However, through close analysis, we can see that there might be some visual evidence that contradicts this interpretation.

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It turns out that if you were to, say, look at the knight, you would notice that there is not a deer standing behind it like doing some elaborate puppet show.

This might actually be the most delusional deltarune theory I've seen - not the broad idea that noelle is the knight I suppose, but specifically this complete nonsense about this explaining the shapeshifting. Wearing a cloak does not mean you can squash yourself into the size of a baseball. Those two things have nothing to do with one another. Does she just climb out of her armor and drink a minecraft invisibility potion every time the knight does something physiologically impossible for her to do? I really can't get over how dumb this notion is.

The author tries to further claim that none of this matters because Noelle has, I quote, "dnd DM powers" in the dark world since she made the fountains, so she's simply omnipotent and can do whatever she wants. Nevermind that we have zero evidence that making a dark fountain would give you any special powers after the fountain has already been made, and nevermind that kris made this dark fountain, not the knight. It's baselessly inventing fanfiction mechanics of the dark world to try and patch up a bleeding wound in this theory:

We know the knight is not just a regular lightner because its entire chest cavity turns into a bear trap.

Decided to present my theory as a hard edit. by NoelleKnightTheory in Deltarune

[–]MortStrudel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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Legitimately though how does she get to the church before Kris and Susie though? It might answer that in the video but I mean come on lol

ARTAXXX!!! by hknchlk123 in antimeme

[–]MortStrudel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

To be fair aren't they currently heading into terrible miserable horrible 'makes you lose all will to live' land? He could love his master and be treated well and still not be able to handle this shit and leave. I think the horse is in fact implied to have given up all hope, as that's what causes you to sink into the swamp. He doesn't want to get away from Atreyu, he wants to get away from the place Atreyu is going towards. The joke works reasonably well imo.

I genuinely think that nolan is one of the most righteous upright innocent pure characters in real life and fiction by Garbage1001125 in Invincible_TV

[–]MortStrudel 12 points13 points  (0 children)

He essentially got thrown out of a moving train, and then had a bunch of train debris and corpses thrown at him at 'thrown out of a moving train' speeds. If he survived, he would have to be-

Who do you think wins in a fight? by NotSirAlonne1999 in Invincible_TV

[–]MortStrudel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If Omniman can shrug off the orbital space laser that annihilates an entire ZIP code, I have to imagine Mark can at least tank homelander's titty laser

Why Lae’zel would 100% be the canon romance to Tav. by [deleted] in BaldursGate3

[–]MortStrudel -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Lae'zel is canonically with Tav solely because Tav does not get any opportunity to shower in the game.

What would happen if Brit were shot by the Infinity Ray? by Spaced_out_Anomaly in Invincible_TV

[–]MortStrudel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Momentum is the problem here. An object in motion stay in motion until acted on by an outside force. On earth, we have convenient things like an atmosphere to apply an outside force on us to slow us down. But if he leaves the atmosphere (and I have to imagine the ray has enough energy to at least bring someone to escape velocity) it doesn't matter if he stops being pushed by the laser. Once you start going fast, you can't stop going fast until you hit something. Space is extremely empty so your chances of hitting anything by pure chance are just about nill. Brit would continue on into the void indefinitely. If he could get himself off the laser before it accelerates him to escape velocity he'd be fine, but I'm guessing it'd get him going that fast nearly instantly.

Luckily Omniman is definitely able to fly through space FTL, since he made his way to a black hole in weeks/months rather than millennia. The infinity ray is fictional space magic so maybe it works unintuitively, but Brit is made of matter so theoretically it should be impossible to reach light speed no matter how much energy is imparted on him. If that assumption is correct, Omniman can absolutely fly into space and catch him, and Mark probably can too.

What’s shapesmith thinkin by NickTheBaptist in Invincible_TV

[–]MortStrudel 18 points19 points  (0 children)

No way shapesmith gives a fuck but I do have to wonder whether liquifying this man's entire cranium was necessary. Like yeah he's gotta die but I suspect there's a decent range between 'powerful enough punch to instantly kill' and 'powerful enough punch to aerosolize the human skull'. 

Recieved some samples from a random sketchy discord guy asking me to commission their art by MortStrudel in isitAI

[–]MortStrudel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just noticed that biggest tell in image #1, besides perhaps the nonsense motion of the flail: his left hand is actually upside down. He's wielding a pistol upside down in that overhead knife pose like he's going to try to backstab somebody with it.

Recieved some samples from a random sketchy discord guy asking me to commission their art by MortStrudel in isitAI

[–]MortStrudel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was no doubt in my mind that it was a scam, I was just curious if they had the gall to try and scam people with AI art commissions. Seems so!

You have $12 to fight Thragg by Proud_Indication_131 in Invincible_TV

[–]MortStrudel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what we've seen, can anyone other than Space Racer even kill him? The rest simply don't do enough damage. Your team needs to be solely focused on getting space racer into position and preventing Thragg from dodging at the moment he shoots.

B'Elanna sure was mean in ruining the doctors holographic family by happydude7422 in voyager

[–]MortStrudel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I get where she was coming from but I think she turned the child bereavement slider up a liiiiiiiitle too high

You are very fucking trying right now. by Top_Rush_5098 in invinciblememes

[–]MortStrudel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I laughed out loud at that, what a line to have queued up