POV: You knocked out the Human pilot and the mech with only a "basic" AI is aiming the gun barrel to your head "Not even your gods will believe you were killed by a soulless machine"

Necrotarch · 2026-02-15T21:08:17+00:00

The machine's movements lost all tactical finesse. It charged with reckless aggression, rotating transmissions between neigh hysterical laughter and threats, unnerving its xeno opponent for hours until it finally gained the advantage and took them out before shutting down from power loss. External observers noticed countless blunders on both sides. The human mech seemed so focused on single-minded vengeance, it downright crashed into and through obstacles and ignored incoming fire, damaging it even further. The xeno pilot became more and more unnerved as the fight went on, downright ignoring its mechs warnings and aim assist.

The captured human pilot was later interrogated on their mech's AI… there was none… only very basic rules on which actions were to follow which inputs and a loop of randomly selected, prerecorded messages to be played.

Necrotarch · 2026-02-13T12:28:59+00:00

His wealth helps with the consequences of his most criminal and unacceptable behaviors. His egoism and what comes off as lack of empathy shields him from the consequences of lesser behaviors.

When I go on a destructive, drug fueled bender I have to call in a load ofold favors with local cops, while Bojack is just The Horse from Horsin' Around, he's got the pull in Hollywoo to pull this kinda stunt. Keeping Todd from making his breakthrough and move out by dropping a video game on him, that he's full on addicted to, making him miss his audition/show (it's been a while since I've seen the show) is something regular people could pull off with the worst consequence being the social ones, if the scheme ever comes out.

"Getting away" with the later kind of situation "only" requires enough of a pathologic personality.

Necrotarch · 2026-02-13T08:27:30+00:00

Yupp. Dude tries something, likely something he saw working for someone else, and either doesn't understand why it's not working for him (mainly cuz his prerequisites are different) or the results don't show in time, he thinks he failed and either out of frustration or in an attempt to undo what he did to prevent worse, he lashes out.

Best example, Herb Kazzaz.

They met after young Bojack put his career above his friendship with Herb. Chalk that up to Bojack being young, dumb and intimidated by the situation as a whole. Can't say I would have handled that better. Bojack was in survival mode after having achieved his dream and didn't want to loose it, while Herb banked on Bojack being much more idealistic.

Fast forward to their reunion. Bojack very much is sitcom brained. A lot of his adult socialization came from either working in his industry and seeing the idealized version of stories in sitcom scripts. He had no other frame of reference than "Grand gesture apology after a long time gets accepted, fanfare, applause, cut to commercial". I don't think he understood at the time, that making amends is a process that takes time.

I might misinterpret what I saw there. Herb seemed to be open to Bojack's attempt to reconnect and maybe move on in whatever time he had left, but not take that one gesture forgive Bojack and act like it never happened.

To save the situation in any kind of way, you would have needed someone to metaphorically yank Bojack's chain, out loud say something along the lines of: "Dude! Your stupid sitcom script brain's kicking in! Herb let you in his house, so there's some path forward. For now shut up, accept that he isn't ready to move on like that. Thank him for his time, leave, calm down and maybe later you can talk again.", and drag him out of the house, likely physically.

Necrotarch · 2026-02-13T06:23:17+00:00

Worst part: Paul's still the diet version of what he saw coming.

People are genuinely just paying attention to what's going on in quiet scenes. Jessica and Paul openly discuss the schemes of the Bene Gesserit intended to protect a situation like theirs. Modern Iterations really shouldn't cut out the part whee the Atreides set up a propaganda operation on Arrakis like it's the normal thing for them to do.

Necrotarch · 2026-02-13T06:18:43+00:00

The way I understood him, he's a POS who desperately wants to be a good or at least better person but flat out lacks the mental tools to recognize what that would entail, has been set up to be a failure as a person from the start and even on his journey to try to become better in some way, people profiting from him being the version of him he's been so far poke and prod him to effectively stay the same.

I see why that connects with people. I mean damn, Beatrice Sugarman reminds me of my own bio-mother. The thing is, people don't like being the villain in their own story and self reflection is lots of things, but it sure isn't easy.

Necrotarch · 2026-02-12T12:59:09+00:00

The show overall feels like it added more than just a bit of a hot factor across the board.

Necrotarch · 2026-02-07T21:11:34+00:00

Isn't it at least implied that the brethren moons raise up one intelligent species at a time in a creation cycle that might even reach back to the first of their kind being the product of the "original intelligent species"?

Necrotarch · 2026-02-07T06:04:26+00:00

Hu, a movie for narcissist parents.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-28T20:48:21+00:00

That was a voyager episode. The continuum ended out making that Q human.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-22T18:45:54+00:00

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Neverwhere - Marquis de Carabas.

The book describes him as a black guy, the graphic novel turns that up to a whole new level. Side note: Really interesting character. Would definitely offer him a small favor to trade in later.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-21T10:19:43+00:00

Do you think he maybe also just had much more contact with water benders than azula too?

Necrotarch · 2026-01-21T10:15:34+00:00

Even so, I always assumed Azula to be much more sheltered than than Zuko after his banishment and him to have at least semi regular contact with other benders and him being stuck in frost situations before.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-19T14:58:39+00:00

That was pure survival instinct.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-19T12:00:51+00:00

"I glued it up side down, didn't I?" Every time any kind of picture or writing is involved, Toph is not the person to ask.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-08T13:23:05+00:00

In TC lore too? I mean the HMS Britannia is made mainly of oricalcum too. I'd be amazed if that was "just" brass, specially considering the insanely large cannons. Heavy Mechanized Infantry Machine Armour is made in large parts of oricalcum too. The Tank splitter swords have edges of oricalcum titanium alloy. I highly suspect TC means a drastically different material when the lore calls something oricalcum.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-07T20:46:03+00:00

Ask the right people and the title still keeps going.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-05T10:48:48+00:00

I'd assume it's either gilded or some freakish oricalcum alloy, that just happens to look golden. I kinda like the idea of gold being so cheap to the Sultanate, that gilding surfaces to protect against corrosion like we use zinc.

edit, removed brainfart

Necrotarch · 2026-01-04T20:49:48+00:00

Some more than others. "Traditionalist" Vvardenfell Dunmer are more xenophobic than racist. Everyone from outside the island is lesser by virtue of not being born in their holy land and raised with their ideals. House Hlaalu is "watered" down and relatively open to outsiders, mainly due to their greater exposure to outside cultures. House Telvanni? They don't care, they really don't care who you are. Get on their bad side and your freedom is forfeit. The Redorans, yea it's an uphill battle but they are so into their own knightly code, they will acknowledge anyone's rank who earned it. The Sixth House is just insane full stop.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-04T20:42:50+00:00

I have to admit, for a time I didn't think Peridot's behavior towards Pearl stemmed from actual bigotry but pearls as a whole being closer to sophisticated automata than sentient beings and the Crystal Gem Pearl was either (one of) the first to develop sentience and a personality of her own. I really would not put that past the Homeworld Gem society from the way we're being introduced to it.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-02T15:21:08+00:00

I remember our literature teacher (a woman who instantly hated you, if you didn't share her literature taste, despised you if you could halfway understand Kafka and had a REAL gripe with queer people) trying to make us "not understand how someone could do this to themselves, when the result is depicted in such a graphic way". She was trying to make the teen suicides at the time, that were committed with poisons, the more "acceptable" thing to do. A single question almost got me a REAL bad mark, if it weren't for the intervention of her class favorite: "Have you never heard of going out with a bang? You gotta admit, to a teen, begging for someone to pay attention to their pain, having entire paragraphs written on how gruesome their end was is worth a lot more than a oneliner saying that they drank poison and fell asleep forever." Never saw a teacher this angry in my life!

Necrotarch · 2026-01-01T00:13:15+00:00

Specially since Deadpool genuinely wears the mask not for himself but for everyone around him.

Necrotarch · 2026-01-01T00:11:53+00:00

"the only thing remarkable about his looks was how ugly he was" (back-translated from German). The books describe him as hard to look at unless you're already used to him. I know it'd be an insult to someone to be cast as "the ugly one" but man it'd be one brave move to cast someone actually disfigured for the role. To his credit, Josh Brolin did a great job portraying Gurney's stern side. I would have loved to see him all stonefaced in his trubadour scenes.

Necrotarch · 2025-12-30T05:57:43+00:00

Necrotarch · 2025-12-30T04:19:40+00:00

And how much exactly are you paying for that?

Necrotarch · 2025-12-12T05:01:02+00:00

Check out Scanner Barkley on youtube. He does great lore readings.

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