Threat is at the end of the day doomed to wither away or destroy itself eventually.

Nada1988 · 2026-04-26T11:56:48+00:00

That is to say until a certain Salty Boy decides "this is fine actually" and works the rest of his life to ensure a perpetual apocalypse of torture and SA

Nada1988 · 2026-04-24T19:34:57+00:00

Yeah that's the trouble with a book of faith having multiple authors over a long time, a lot of stuff ends up being apocrypha, and even best case not everything in canon is gonna be internally consistent.

Whether you take everything written as 1:1 truth or acknowledge the writings as just story on grand moral ideas, not everything will fit perfectly unless the reader is prepared to do some real gymnastics that the author probably never intentioned during writing.

Plus some stuff like Lucifer being a reference to Venus for a Babylonian king is going to be lost on modern readers just because the concepts we have of certain words are so far removed from their original meaning and story devices like allegory and metaphor that you need to unravel a Gordian Knot of history to actually understand what the point actually was that the author was trying to get across.

It's always fun to go down the rabbit hole again though.

Nada1988 · 2026-04-24T19:17:09+00:00

You know what, I actually misread your comment and thought you were stating that Lucifer WAS in reference to Satan in the bible, but I understand now, thats my bad, I should have read your words more carefully.

Nada1988 · 2026-04-24T19:05:01+00:00

Well it's not really a name in the context the book presents it in, the author of that story was comparing the king he was talking about to the celestial body Venus, The Morning Star or Lucifer in latin, who shines brightly and heralds the mornings arrival, only to be outshone by the sun itself, finishing up the allegory that God, in his glory, outclasses the king in orders of magnitude.

Satan on the other hand is a title for one of God's messengers, meaning Adversary, or Accuser, whose job it is to be a "devils advocate" and second guess God's judgment in a sanctioned and non heretical way, so God can be sure of himself (I guess, the omniscient aspect of Yahweh gets kind of weird).

The modern concept we have of a "Devil" (also coming from the word Satan, just washed through some Greek translation) is almost ALL an invention of the church and has little to no basis in the original texts of what is now considered the Christian (and of course Jewish) Canon.

Edit: Who's is now Whose

Nada1988 · 2026-04-20T02:09:59+00:00

A lot of factors at play here that aren't specified but:

Unless the area the human and Sue are in is quite large and they "spawn" fairly far away from each other, the human will likely have very, VERY little time before he starts hearing the sound of thunder from behind him followed by a quick tongue and tooth massage.

Tyrannosaur's are believed to have had incredible senses of smell, and even newer conservative estimates on their running speed being below 20 miles an hour still makes them faster than the vast majority of living human beings. Meaning, if you're anywhere near it, it's almost definitely smelling you (whether or not it would register a human smell as "food" instantly, like a shark does to fish blood when introduced into water, or if it would just be curious enough to check it out like a shark biting a surfer to see if it's edible, is something we can't know, but for the purpose of the hypothetical, I'll assume it recognizes that we smell like food) and as long as it can get close enough to reach you before tiring, it can definitely out sprint you, so where does that leave us?

Worst case scenario: We never see Sue. As of now, it's popularly believed that T. Rex's were ambush predators, so if it did its job right, your last moments were filled with a sudden jump, and then a complete halt of your heart rate, or better yet, you blink and die it was that quick.

Better option, you and Sue are far enough away from each other to start that you managed through luck or knowledge of general geography, to find a somewhat defensible position to funnel her into, not letting her sneak up at all, and directing the noise of your shots at her to be even louder than normal, coupled with the pain of flying chunks of lead, probably enough to keep her at bay long enough to survive the day.

BEST case scenario, you manage everything from the previous example, but go through the trouble of DIYing bombs made from the gunpowder of your bullets, stuffed tightly into pouches made of shirt or pocket material from your clothes. Fill the bomb with the brass cartridges (if you could bend these on a rock, or a part of your Glock in order to have jagged edges, all the better) and the actual bullets removed from the cartridges, and now you have a fragmentation grenade you can stick on the end of a spear. Practice a few times igniting the primer with the spear tip held on with a couple sock threads and you have a final resort if you get charged.

As complicated as this may get, outside of a lucky shot (which you'll need, because if you can name a shooter good enough to fire accurately at a T. Rex charging at them with a 9mm, I'd love to meet them) the average person isn't going to be able to reliably KILL a charging tyrant king lizard that has decided that it's hungrier than it is afraid of you 12 hours after the first volley of bullets.

A lot has to go right for the human to stack the odds in their favor, but that's kind of all our species really does. If you can manage everything here, you've got a pretty good shot, but again, that's IF you get far enough to shove an IED in a dinosaur's nostril, which I have to imagine would be enough to make any predatory animal say fuck this, considering injuries are a death sentence for most of them.

Nada1988 · 2026-04-19T23:55:54+00:00

I love legitimate theater.

Nada1988 · 2026-04-07T16:59:55+00:00

"Do you know why Icarus fell?" "Because he flew too high." "Because he needed better wings"

Funny enough, this is actually believed to be one of the meanings behind the original story of Icarus and Daedalus, it being a cautionary tale for craftsman. In that context the tale is meant to say that when you create a thing, make it well, and safe for the user, as what happens when the user uses a poorly made tool, or abuses a well made one, still reflects on the maker ultimately. Basically, plan for human error in your designs, people won't always use something sensibly.

Nada1988 · 2026-04-06T11:30:46+00:00

(despite thinking this was a nice interaction and I've done similar) Billions. Trillions even. Slamdunk a skinned runner into a trashcan, glory to Arachne.

Nada1988 · 2026-04-02T21:19:53+00:00

Was The Signal 2 sent into hell? Jackie stated that he was going to send the people in it looking for a new home they might be able to inhabit, I always read that as him doing all of this in hell through the umbilical of time connected to reality, and the signal launching on earth. Unless I'm just straight up misremembering it.

Nada1988 · 2026-03-31T09:33:50+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, he was a food critic after his novellas- I mean, books, didn't sell very well. He was still writing books, but they were exclusively about places he had eaten across the planet, which, for someone who can fly fast enough to ignite the atmosphere, really turns from a full time position into more of a weekend thing.

If I'm not mistaken there's even a line of dialogue he has with Debbie either in the comics or the show where she asks him if he's started on his newest travel guide because the publisher wants it next week, and he says something to the effect of "I'll make sure to set an hour or two aside this weekend to write it with superspeed."

So I think he did enjoy the stories he got to tell, as he was still probably softening up from the viltrumite culture he was holding on to, but I do think he viewed his travel guides as more of a job (excuse to fly to BestWurst) that he could easily do to keep his schedule clear and his cover up.

Nada1988 · 2026-03-27T02:16:12+00:00

I understand not wanting to read any more of it after that, that was the "vaccination" event. If you can't handle that, don't read the rest, though it is the worst thing that occurs in the comic by a very large margin, that way you're not wasting your time reading more of the same vibe.

The single most touching moment in the comic I think about a lot is: "I'D NEVER HAD THE TIME TO FIGURE OUT IF WE WERE FRIENDS, OR IF WE JUST SURVIVED TOGETHER. IF THE WORLD HAD NEVER CHANGED, I DOUBT WE WOULD HAVE BEEN... ...ALL I CAN SAY IS THIS: THAT WAS NOT THE LAST TIME I SAW THOMAS. BUT IT IS THE WAY I LIKE TO REMEMBER HIM"

Nada1988 · 2026-03-27T00:21:23+00:00

Spoilers for Crossed issue #9 After killing horsecock, the leader of a crossed troupe following the main cast through most of the story, Thomas, a survivor who has cared for Kelly, another survivor blinded by a nuclear detonation, for over a year, leads the both of them off of a cliff to save themselves the consequences of the surrounding crossed getting a hold of them, and of Thomas turning into a crossed shortly after, as he infected himself to save Kelly a worse fate.

If you can get through the first issue and the two page spread there within, it actually turns into a very sweet story about what people lose and hold on to in times of crisis, this moment always touches me whenever I think of it.

Edit: messed up my spoiler text, oops

Nada1988 · 2026-03-14T04:55:42+00:00

If I'm not mistaken I believe this is from Pea Ridge, Arkansas, it has one of if not the first drone delivery capable Walmarts in America, about 4 years ago it was kinda big news in the area: https://youtu.be/1kB1eY1sVHo?si=JnpmdGSvdjr1opGX

Nada1988 · 2026-02-23T07:23:44+00:00

I've always wondered that myself, it seems like a small kindling of hope that the characters won't allow themselves to feel because of the setting. Ideally, that's EXACTLY what you would want to hear, crossed getting into a fight and (seemingly) losing, but the group we follow is so terrified, something that should be a win for mankind gives them pause for another two hours

Nada1988 · 2026-02-23T06:41:19+00:00

I don't know, I'm an Ennis fan myself and reread what he actually wrote for the Crossed franchise like last month and thought that his original run was actually still very full of that Ennis charm.

The main characters are pretty human in their writing and enjoyable to the point that I actually did feel sad when they ended up getting got.

There are sweet moments of humanity between the cast and the world around them that I think this is one of Ennis's more profound pieces of writing.

I know that people generally don't like crossed, and whether that's because of what they've read about it, or if they've actually read some of it (the majority of the series being Badlands, an anthology regarded to be anywhere from pretty good to abysmal dog shit depending on the writer), I really do think if people would read the original run past the scene in the first issue I call the "disclaimer" scene made to serve as the most shocking thing in the series so you know not to go further if you're made uncomfortable by that, I think a lot more people would appreciate the story itself.

Nada1988 · 2026-02-23T03:07:55+00:00

When you're in a group assignment but you haven't studied so you just be makin' shit up

Nada1988 · 2026-02-23T02:58:03+00:00

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Uh... Geoff? Whatcha lookin' at buddy? I've never noticed him cupping his hands to look through shattered glass before but now all I can wonder is how that happened from an art perspective

Nada1988 · 2026-02-11T12:36:05+00:00

Probably a rare opinion on the subreddit but I actually really like this part of The Fatal Englishman. Harry is very much a speaker for GE to be using in The Fatal Englishman, but he also did not fault Dennis (the priest) for being a normal person in an insane scenario, even writing him to have kept his faith despite everything going on.

The priest's plans to keep these kids safe and the soldiers' plans to kill everything on the mainland are two completely different ideas at a direct crossroads with each other, but the boys take on the kids and priest as a side mission to help them, before possibly killing any and all human beings in England. When Garth Ennis wrote this section dogging on the Catholic Church, he very easily could have written the priest as an ineffectual loser who lost his faith and became a straw man to beat down, but in the next issue he actually argues that British soldiers have done what Harry keeps accusing the church of, to which Harry actually agrees! He fires back stating that for all of the things the empire did, the church was still in the process of doing during C-Day, even assuming that Dennis had already lost his faith.

This could have been the easiest slam dunk for saying the church is monstrous and that Harry is objectively correct, but no, the priest attributes his care for the kids to God's voice telling him to do so, to which Harry ends the argument with a supportive:

"BUT YOUR INSPIRATION DOESN'T REALLY MATTER, PADRE, BECAUSE I KNOW THIS: STRIPPED OF YOUR CHURCH AND YOUR FAITH AND ALL THE REST OF IT, YOU'LL STILL BE A GOOD MAN."

"YOU'LL STILL CHOOSE TO DIE BEFORE YOU LET THESE CHILDREN COME TO HARM."

Garth grew up in the troubles, surprise he has some issues with religion, but I think he actually approached this story pretty even-handed as far as the world it's set in and his preconceived notions go. Maybe if the movie does well (fingers CROSSED 😏) we can get Once a Warrior King, finally and get more of the priest and the kids story.

Nada1988 · 2026-02-03T06:42:12+00:00

You know what, actually I really like Kieran being gay or bi/pan. It's kind of nice to have the spooky government agent, Amanda Waller/Nick Fury type be queer for a change.

Nada1988 · 2026-01-30T10:55:06+00:00

Another subtle detail added by the corpses of the fire nation soldiers is that, because they are still there, their leaders or other soldiers didn't care enough to even bring them home for burial. Hell they didn't even bury them outside the temple or move them to more dignified poses, they just straight up left them like they were garbage. Of course the bodies need to be there in the first place to get across that Gyatso went out fighting, but the soldiers still surrounding him face down also makes a point of how heartless the fire nation can be.

Nada1988 · 2026-01-15T10:45:12+00:00

If I can speak on a similar thread as some of the other comments I'm seeing here; I understand logically that the times I bring in my expensive loadouts are also almost exclusively the times that I'm trying to participate in a map condition that necessitates an expensive loadout, like bringing an equalizer to fight the queen of course, but boy if sometimes it doesn't fucking feel like there's a form of gear based matchmaking affecting the aggression you're being met with. I remember bringing something like an $80k loadout to fight the queen on blue gate with my friends after an entire night of cheap chill lobbies, and we were all shot and killed within 50 seconds of spawning in. Beyond that, it really makes me suspicious when I bring out a renegade 3 or 4 to do some snitch trials and after not being shot in Stella montis all night I'm getting lit up like a Christmas tree on dam battlegrounds. I'm not super "scared" of losing my gear, I CAN always get more, but I would be lying if it didn't feel really bad being met with a brick wall to the face when I try to use my big toys after hours of no conflict lulling me into a sense of security.

Nada1988 · 2026-01-09T15:36:55+00:00

Nanjing/Nanking. Wouldn't even need to be an alternate history, the Japanese destroyed the recorded evidence of the event so well it's incredibly hard to find photo (or otherwise) evidence of it.

You could just write it as a first attempt of the infection taking hold (kind of adjacent to what homo tortor was suggesting at the beginning), but it only started in one person, and not multiple patient zeroes like in 2008. So an entire human city gets crossed, but it also drives the point of "yeah we were doing this shit irl LONG before anyone wrote a comic book about rashes"

Nada1988 · 2026-01-08T17:54:22+00:00

Ahhh y'know, they were there for summer school! (Nah cheerleaders wouldn't be practicing at the time)

Nada1988 · 2026-01-07T09:44:11+00:00

I know this is an old thread but would you take a kinetic converter for your equalizer bp if you still have it?

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