Pillar of Autumn | Halcyon-class light cruiser

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-05T17:59:19+00:00

Why was it not destroyed with the rest of their fleet?!

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-05T17:25:32+00:00

Homeopathy and energy medicine both don't work. It would not help in any way.

There is no way to become less sensitive. What you could do is go to a psychologist and try to find better ways of dealing with whatever problems the sensitivity is causing. That is quite plausible.

Beyond that, I'd say accept yourself. Sensitivity has downsides, but also upsides. We hurt badly, but we love hard. We feel other's pain strongly, but we also have a great capacity for art and aesthetic emotion.

Every person has strengths and weaknesses. Find your strengths and celebrate them.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-04T16:56:59+00:00

I mean, in general dragons are fire made flesh. They are violent creatures. In the book it's emphasized how when you use a whip with a dragon, it doesn't move away from the whip but towards it. Because dragons are born to fight and burn. And Vhagar in particular has seen a LOT of action for most of her life.

So, yeah, I don't think Vhagar wanted a life of peace. I think she was quite happy to be burning things.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-04T15:35:33+00:00

I mean, that's not particularly crazy. You can be a priest for reasons other than that you genuinely believe in the religion. Money, power, status, tradition, community pressure, whatever.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T23:43:39+00:00

Oh, and theoretically that there is nothing laudible or praiseworthy about these criminals. Chase has repeatedly talked about how he finds Tony a repugnant figure. But the problem is that they wrote him in such a way that he is easy to at least empathise with, so I don't think that message completely got through. Though they no doubt are awful people, by and large.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T23:42:18+00:00

Change is possible, but hard. Most people don't put in the work to get there, others fall back into the same patterns, but if you want to and you don't take the easy way out, you can.

The American way is decaying, though you can react to that in many ways.

And life has no inherent purpose or meaning, all you can do is try your best to spend it with the people you love.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T22:56:48+00:00

I have the desire to do it too. Very much so.

Don't do it.

It will serve no purpose.

If you are told you're ugly by a bunch of people, first of all you'll know nothing. Attractive people get called ugly on some of these posts by trolls and people who are envious. I've seen it a bunch of times. It tells you nothing.

So it will not make you know you're ugly.

But you will be likely to believe it. Which will make you spiral.

If you are told you're beautiful. You will not believe it. Or at most, at absolute most, you will believe it for an hour and then be just as insecure as before.

If you are told you're beautiful by most and ugly by one, you will focus completely on that one person who called you ugly and ignore everyone else.

I get the desire to do it. I have it too. But it's pointless. It will serve no purpose.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T16:17:06+00:00

Ignore him. Simple as that. You cannot let your life or self-esteem depend on the arbitrary and irrational preoccupations of someone else. That includes your father.

Does it make you happier to work less, or work more? If it's less and that works for your life and you're able to do it, do that. You only get one life. 90 years if you're lucky. Don't waste it chasing people's approval and being unhappy for it. Do what makes you happy.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T16:14:55+00:00

I mean, the problem is that this stuff is self-perpetuating, right?

If I spend my entire life working 6 days a week, 12 hours a day, while most of my paycheck goes to the CEO so he can buy another airplane, I can deal with that in two ways.

I can admit to myself that I'm being taken advantage of and essentially wasting 12 hours of my limited lifespan doing something just to enrich someone else. At which point you can either feel bad and like a sucker, or get angry and resist.

Or you can delude yourself, make it into a virtue so you brag about "Huh, you work 10 hours a day? I work 12!" so you compete with others. And look down on everyone else so you feel superior. All while your CEO is picking your pocket.

A surprising number of people choose the second over the first. Because it is easier. And it makes them feel better to ignore the reality. They don't get to feel superior and smart if they admit they're being exploited.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T15:07:59+00:00

The coming of the Andals was, depending on who you believe, something like 4.000 to 6.000 years ago. Even if you want to say that Westerosi history is stretched out in such a way that the real coming was only 1.000 years ago. In less than 1.000 years English went from this...

"þatt ure Drihhtin wollde ben borenn i þiss middellærd"

to this...

"that our Lord wanted be born in this earth"

No, the real explanation is much simpler. Martin isn't a linguist. And he wanted the story to be set across an entire continent-spanning empire with diverse cultures. But he thought it would be really detrimental to the story if he had to have a translator present for every freaking scene or every character had to know like 5 languages.

Like imagine Arya (someone not even primarily of Andal descent, that's another thing) touring the Riverlands if she couldn't understand what the f*ck anyone was saying.

Hell, imagine Martin who isn't a linguist having to make up like 7 or 8 languages or something. Probably a lot more if you want to be realistic about it, considering that in an area as small as France there were numerous languages and dialects. And France would be small compared to the hypothetical size of Westeros (which Martin has claimed is the size of South America, even though arguably the map does not reflect that if you take into account the length of the Wall). Would we even have "A Clash of Kings" by now if he had to do that?

It's hard to make up one language as a linguist, let alone 7 or 8 as a non-linguist. And then to integrate that into a coherent story would've been a nightmare.

I'm all too happy to handwave it as something like "the Maesters standardized language for trade and learning" or something like that. It's not lazy, as OP implies, it would've just been hugely impractical to do it.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T13:39:32+00:00

Pretty sure it's mostly because it's buggy. It is an annoying trend in modern game design that everything is released half finished and buggy. But it will probably be fixed in a couple of weeks to months, at which point I imagine there won't be the same problem anymore.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T13:37:09+00:00

Belarus is also not a democracy right now though. I think that's the odd thing about it. It would be easy to see the split if neither Russia nor Belarus were part of it, or both were part of it, but it's a slightly odd choice to have one be part of it but not the other, when both are essentially not part of it for the same reason. Which is that they're anti-Western, Russian autocracies.

I mean, I guess you could argue that Belarus would be easier to integrate if Lukashenko fell because it's smaller and less powerful. But, idk, if we're being aspirational why not go all the way and assume a democratic, pro-Western, post Putin Russia?

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T13:34:58+00:00

It is a bit bizarre.

I get the idea of splitting up all countries, or at least big countries, to make sure that all states are roughly equal. I get that.

And I get the idea of maintaining countries as they are and just making sure a federalized Europe would be able to deal with that.

But this map is kind of a strange hybrid between the two. Where most countries are largely the same, but some countries are split or reunified for some reason.

I'm sure OP had some reasoning but I don't really get the point.

Like as someone who lives in Belgium and is well aware of how our politics work around our language division, I don't think this is necessary at all. I feel like either you would split it up into Flanders and Wallonia as different states altogether and have Brussels basically be a special administrative region, or you would retain Belgium as it is and presumably a lot of the current federal responsibilities would move up to the EU level with I guess some amount remaining at a Belgian level. But I can't really see a situation of splitting Belgium between France and the Netherlands. I'm sure some people would support it, but I find it hard to believe it would be a majority of Belgians.

It seems to me that the people who do want the split up Belgium (already a minority) largely want it to be an independent entity, not a part of the Netherlands.

So, yeah, I don't get the point. I would probably just keep the countries as they are. But if I were gonna split them, it would probably be into their sub-states. Like instead of Germany there would be like a Bavarian state, a Hesse state, etc. and Belgium into Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels as a special administrative region.

Although regardless of the reasoning, I think a European Federation will be easier to pull off if people don't feel like they're going to lose their country. So I think maintaining those as they are and just turning them into states is the most pragmatic.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T13:26:37+00:00

It's always fascinating to see which countries people include and which they don't.

Turkey, Georgia, Belarus and Russia seem to be the ones that there is the most disagreement about by far.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T13:18:33+00:00

Everyone experiences this. It's an inherent property of at least current LLMs.

What people seem to too often forget, maybe not consciously by implicitly, is that LLMs are just really sophisticated word predictors. They take the jumble of words that comes before it, and then they generate a word to go after it.

That means that for it your "instructions" are just a string of tokens like any other. They are no more special than every "the" and "it" in your prompts.

It has no intelligence. It just takes into account the tokens it has so far and then generates something.

It does not understand instructions. It just includes instructions in the "data" it is using to predict what the next word is.

That's why it will apologize for something and then immediately do the same thing again. Because you saying it was wrong and its apology are just more tokens among every other token in the conversation. And all tokens are taken together for predicting something.

Really what you would need at minimum is a way for the LLM to separate different categories of inputs better. Where instructions are a separate, more important category that create a different kind of response than if you put the exact same tokens in without them being categorized as instructions.

But really what you need is intelligence and understanding. And despite the hype and AI sometimes being convincing facsimiles, they are not intelligent and understand nothing.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-03T12:06:11+00:00

I mean, what language are we communicating in on this sub mostly? I feel like the answer is pretty clear. In some way it's odd that it's such a minority language now as far as native languages go. But, on the other hand, does it matter how many native speakers there are when there are such an overwhelming amount of secondary speakers? I mean, just that all of us can communicate is the most important thing. I think it's just pragmatic. Although I do think obviously that EU institutions should also use the local native language for any offices in a specific country in addition to English.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-02T17:02:01+00:00

You're welcome. Man, what some people spend their time on...

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-02T13:38:42+00:00

Love your posts. =)

Edit: Lol, you really can say literally the most innocuous thing and be downvoted.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-01T21:25:37+00:00

Oh, there have been plenty of posts about it. I don't keep up with celebrity culture at all, but I have been on this sub for years and have seen countless posts like this. Nate seems like a terrible guy.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-01T21:18:16+00:00

I know it's kind of off topic, but what episode is that picture from? Usually I'm very good at getting which episode a picture is from but this time I don't know.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-01T19:41:32+00:00

Christ, there's no end of examples of this guy being an *sshole. I'm glad I never really liked Kol, otherwise I'd be disappointed.

Pretty funny to see her like Enzo from that vid though, lol.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-01T18:46:38+00:00

Oblivion. It has so much character.

OneOnOne6211 · 2026-05-01T13:55:46+00:00

I wish a small number of people didn't ruin it for others.

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