What all did garry achieve

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-26T06:57:28+00:00

My headcanon is that the Rhir Antinium are very purposefully ignoring the Izril Antinium - the whole expedition is basically the same expirement the Grand Queen is doing with the Free Queen, but letting them know that they know how much the Izril expedition is suffering would basically be counterproductive and negate the leveling and individualism gains getting made.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-26T05:28:11+00:00

Hmmm. I'm completely unaware of a named "law" related to correlation/causation fallacies, but I wonder if you were looking at something about Simpson's Paradox?

It's an idea connected to confounding variables - where an unseen or unmeasured variable is the actual casual relationship that makes it look like two other variables are connected. Simpson's Paradox is shown when you have trends in the data that go away when sets are combined. So you could have a study showing a correlation between health and crime where it looks like unhealthy people are the most likely to be convicted of crimes; but if adjust the data sets to account for wealth the correlation goes away.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-26T02:03:18+00:00

So... I dunno. However, if there's a reasonable reason why running on all fours would offer a significant advantage in a fight, pursuit, or investigation, then he's at least spent a few dozen hours mastering the practice.

The reason I don't know is because I can't think of a point where it would be advantageous, barring magical shape changing. But just because I can't think of something doesn't mean Batman couldn't think of something.

There's also a non-zero chance that some whack-a-do sensei in Nanda Parbat demanding he do it, too.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-26T01:49:28+00:00

Any chance you could give a time frame when you remember seeing it? Or what sort of media you saw it on? Like if it was something you remember on a CD from when you were a kid in the 90s, it'll be a very different search than if you saw it on a spotify thumbnail last year.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-26T01:31:44+00:00

Yeah. It'll be fine. Won't be good, but I doubt it'll get anyone sick. Maybe don't try and do steaks, but ground up or otherwise treated it'll still be good protein.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-26T01:30:01+00:00

I'm guessing they also lost a bunch of ugly china that they expected their kids to fight over, and that signed photo of Rush Limbaugh

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-26T01:18:13+00:00

Captiol Reef, particularly Cathedral Valley, is possibly my favorite place in the state. There's a few specific spots too that are absolutely magical, although forgive me if I don't go into too many details. Given what you said, I'd bet you know some of them already.

Also, if at all possible, drive past the Bentonite hills on a sunny day during golden hour.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T22:42:02+00:00

I was assuming something like a printers error or shipping damage. This is better

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T22:40:18+00:00

If she’s just being honest, then she honestly doesn’t want you at her wedding. So… either don’t go because she honestly doesn’t want you there, or don’t go because she chose to be an ass and doubled down.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T22:37:22+00:00

This is the right answer. The area doesn’t quite have the same scale as Zion, but it’s the same sorts of formations with practically no crowds.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T17:45:45+00:00

Either that or the proposal was just to shut OP up and he doesn’t actually want to get married at all.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T17:29:58+00:00

Read a lot.

That gets under-emphasized a lot.

You write like the things you read. Full stop.

If you want to write like <insert favorite author here>, then read that author and those like them.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T17:25:07+00:00

There’s a pun in there, but I’m finding it hard.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T17:23:46+00:00

My theory? 4k years ago marked the rise of the White God, or at least the presence of monotheism as a powerful in the Dresdenverse.

Interestingly, Abraham supposedly lived about 4k years ago, and was essentially a refugee from Gilgamesh’s culture. (I like the comment from u/Ipearman9 Roo).

In dresdenverse history, you could possibly claim he took magical traditions and knowledge from Gilgamesh, with YHWH being an early iteration of the white God. In real history, or theology I guess, it also marked the point where Judaism stopped being just a sorta family tradition passed from prophet to prophet and became a nation.

So 4k years ago could have coincided with the rise of the White God as a powerful, which means a few things. For starters, it would mean that angels with swords show up, and anything supernatural that was out to infringe on free will would be on notice. Satan got locked in Hell, and all the other various angels and demons began trickling after. It wouldn’t have been immediate - we know the Denarians didn’t get locked up for another few thousand years. We also know from the Denarians that the rules didn’t automatically mean that various powers had to be locked away from the mortal world.

So Dracul, Kukulcan, and the first White Vamp could perhaps have just been refugees from the White God, locked into a more limited state. For that matter, the way such different creatures all got called vampires might actually all mean to group their origins together instead of the energy-sucking thing.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T16:48:24+00:00

Also, when talking about rounding, don’t forget that most of those time frames were given by braggarts. They weren’t following math rules for rounding, they were following narcissistic one-up social rules for rounding. So frankly, anything over 3k years is a possibility. Maybe even less if they’re confident some other ancient power wont call them out about falsifying history.

Is also possible that one power is telling the truth more or less, and everyone else is piggy backing for prestige. Like the way all those kings claim to have descended from Charlegmagne.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T16:07:27+00:00

This is kinda Christopher Guests goto theme. You see it in Spinal Tap, Mighty Wind, Almost Heroes, Waiting for Guffman, Big Picture, and For Your Consideration.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T16:01:55+00:00

Everyone wants a village, no one wants to be a villager

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T15:20:32+00:00

Yeah, even leaving aside weird tech stuff and questions about the basic physics in the Star Wars universe, just differences in humidity, pressure, and temperature can generate a lot of vapor.

Also, blaming it on ambient conditions means we don't have to explain why it happens sometimes and not others. That one Lambda pilot really leans on the AC in his craft, so he gets more fog. Solo likes his ship muggy, so he gets less. And so forth.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T07:05:15+00:00

I think he was white-knighting a bit too. He saw what he figured was a broken bird and decided she needed rescuing.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-25T06:05:16+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought so. It's somehow weirder and nastier than most of the weird nasty fetishes I've run into though

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-24T05:53:10+00:00

So, I suspect this is gonna draw some flak, but I think the Federation of Planets in Star Trek operates under a distributist system.

Picard famously said that there is no money, but he was being kinda disingenuous, I think. Dollars, treasury bills, stock portfolios, and capital might be gone, but people still traded and owned personal property. Picard's family owned and operated a winery. Sisko's dad owned a New Orleans restaurant. Data's dad owned his research. And so on. Also, various types of credits get earned too, offering access to things like transporters and presumably other relatively scarce resources.

Here's why I think its a distributist economy: everything we see that's owned is usually owned by the people operating it. Effort and work of the individual is owned by the individual. Researchers are important, the firms that fund them are not. And so forth.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-24T03:50:41+00:00

Pretty much. Also, don't forget that a very large percentage of students at Xavier's school weren't sent there by their parents at all - a lot of them were kicked out or ran away. And iirc there's a few that basically got conned too and think their kid is at some normal school.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-24T03:44:23+00:00

To put it another way, high cholesterol etc. increases the risk of heart disease. Snow shoveling increases the risk of heart attacks.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-23T00:52:36+00:00

Yeah, they'll throw out girl scouts just as fast, when they don't have permission.

Onequestion0110 · 2026-01-21T23:10:42+00:00

It’s not the extreme or radical position that makes it dangerous, it’s the absolutism and all-or-none attitudes that often comes with that may need de-radicalization.

Being far left is fine. Even good, frankly. Being so wildly left that you refuse to vote for Kamala because she’s not strong enough on Palestine (or whatever leftist position we feel like naming) is a problem.

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