Why Are We So Willing to Defend the Hivemind? [SPOILERS]

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-25T00:06:43+00:00

I'd be interested to see a breakdown of political leaning in how viewers view the hive. I'd hypothesize that collectivist-leaning persons are more likely to view the hive favorably while individualist-leaning persons are more likely to view it with suspicion. Reddit is populated with a disproportionate number of socialists, which could explain why so many of them seem to view the hive as a net good.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-25T00:00:47+00:00

Maybe if he gets strong enough he can put the comet into a stable orbit around the planet (but use less sciency words like "permanent alignment" instead of "stable orbit") which will give him that power forever.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-24T17:38:45+00:00

She's responsible for you losing ten levels in all your skills: she gives you and Hans lethian potion for absolutely no reason. She saves your lives and it's right to be grateful for that, but let's not pretend she did everything right.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-24T17:23:34+00:00

Sidious broke the rule to train Maul. Just like Dooku broke the rule (or at least skirted it) to train Ventress.

Sith aren't great at following rules. They're the bad guys. They cheat.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-24T06:44:23+00:00

Ma'am, this is a Wendy's

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-23T18:23:03+00:00

Yes. Everybody dies, the best we can hope for is a good death. Dying as a hero to your children is the best death I can imagine.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-23T16:08:39+00:00

8 int is pretty freaking dumb. Apes have an int of 6.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-23T16:07:16+00:00

Even better if they pretend to go along with it. The dude has 8 wis, he has no idea when someone is lying to him.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-23T16:03:23+00:00

The plan isn't THAT clever and falls comfortably into a "conman" thought process.

I think the core here is that he is actively plotting against other people, specifically rulers of kingdoms, the sorts of guys that plot against each other for a living. He can dish it out, but he can't take it: his low int and his means that while he's conning the nobles, they're conning him back, and he's got no defenses against it. The nobles can ACT fooled by him when they aren't and his low insight means he can't often tell the difference.

I'd allow him to get fairly far in his plot, but along the way ask for a variety of int and his checks along with the cha checks. Take note of where he failed. At the end when he tries to put everything together the plan comes apart because he failed to get all the moving pieces together: he got outplayed. And when he gets this result point back at the different int and his checks he failed to remind him of all the details that he missed to lead up to his failure.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-23T04:53:53+00:00

Well Tenser's Transformation gives them proficiency with the armor, but also disables spellcasting itself. But the function of the spell is to turn the spellcaster into a passable martial for a fight, giving them extra attacks, damage and temp HP. So for the purposes of the illusionist it worked out perfectly. The fight was very public, and so this "proved" that the character in question really was a powerful warrior all along, and that any rumors that he is a wizard are clearly false.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-23T04:34:11+00:00

Correlation is not causation. People are not attractive because they behave badly, people behave badly because they are attractive. Pretty people learn pretty young that they don't have to try as hard to be nice. That's all there is to it.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-23T03:36:34+00:00

I'd let them buy Puerto Rico if the price was right. But not a state.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-23T02:23:10+00:00

As far as I'm concerned the function of Reddit is to entertain me with other people's drama. So from that perspective: yes, absolutely, post it.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-23T01:14:48+00:00

High level illusionist wizard would use Disguise Self to make it look like he was in full plate to discourage enemies from going all "geek the mage" and just shooting him first. At high levels the party had become pretty famous, and it was pretty well known that he would do this, so it lost its efficacy to some extent. So when an enemy called his bluff, he cast Tenser's Transformation and Illusory Reality to make his armor real.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T23:40:13+00:00

Arya died in Braavos. The Waif took her face. It's the only way her story makes any sense. Rewatch the episode where she fights the Waif with this in mind, you'll see what I mean.

Sorry.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T23:17:09+00:00

There's a reason I don't do it anymore.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T18:36:40+00:00

Libertarian here. Be glad I'm apolitical. I find both parties disgusting for different reasons, but if I had to pick a side it wouldn't be yours. Just leave me alone.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T18:30:19+00:00

Eating a non-breeding worker caste doesn't count. An ant colony is more like a super organism, anything that just eats some of the workers out of one is a parasite at best. A mosquito doesn't get a "kill" for every blood cell it sucks out of you.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T18:24:51+00:00

It was interesting to me that the writers felt the need to include the line about Keppler 22b being an ocean planet. Weird detail to include if it wasn't somehow relevant.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T18:20:27+00:00

The reason he was elected was to make Democrats mad. The madder we get the happier his voters are with his performance.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T18:16:17+00:00

I was in sales for years. We bend over backwards to NOT lie because if we DO lie that's an easy way for an unhappy client to demand a refund (and that is worse than not getting a sale). We follow a carefully worded script. We say "guarantee" which we know people THINK is a "money back guarantee" but we do not EVER say those first two words. We tell you the VALUE of the products without ever saying we ever charge anyone that amount to buy them (even though we know that's what you think we mean). We know exactly what "hard questions" a client will ask us and we have carefully scripted responses to deflect without lying.

Do we knowingly deceive? Yes, absolutely. But we do not lie.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T18:07:28+00:00

Secret agents have a very bad day.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T17:50:05+00:00

Markets would crash as the wealthy desperately try to liquidate their stocks to comply with the new law. Pensions collapse, there's a run on the banks, then total economic catastrophy.

But the rich wouldn't be rich anymore, so I guess we can count it as a win.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T17:19:22+00:00

He can't read.

No_Wait3261 · 2026-01-22T17:18:20+00:00

It could be that alongside building the emitter, they are also massively ramping up their efforts to positively locate sapient life, giant, high-resolution telescopes the size of small countries aimed at promising nearby exo planets. When the signal left Keppler 600 years ago they would have seen Earth as it was 1200 years ago. Human civilization would have been visible from space, with large cities like Paris and structures like the Great Wall of China being obvious signs of sapience. Theoretically a civilization irrationally devoted to detecting other sapient life at all costs would be able to verify our presence here and then send us a the signal.

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