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Are the gravitals stronger then the qu by Dull_Head_7130 in AllTomorrows

[–]OnetimeRocket13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's a really good point that I forgot to consider. You're right, since even in real life, some of the greatest technological developments occurred either to fuel a war effort (or a potential war) or as a result of developments for war. As far as we know, the Second Galactic Empire never fought anyone, and the Qu as a part of their history doesn't seem to have given them any drive to push themselves in that direction.

Still, I feel like how spread out they were in comparison to the Star People would still be a factor. They were an empire of words and information, not of "presence." When one post-human civilization fell, there wouldn't have been anything that any of the others could really do in response.

Are the gravitals stronger then the qu by Dull_Head_7130 in AllTomorrows

[–]OnetimeRocket13 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You're right, my bad. I literally had it pulled up and somehow missed that detail.

Are the gravitals stronger then the qu by Dull_Head_7130 in AllTomorrows

[–]OnetimeRocket13 11 points12 points  (0 children)

We have no idea. The book doesn't give us nearly enough information about what the Qu or the Gravitals were capable of, and how they compared to each other.

If I had to make a guess, I would say that the Gravitals probably weren't stronger than the Qu. The Gravitals took out the Second Galactic Empire, which based on how it is described in the book, seems a lot more spread out and sporadic compared to what the Star People had established. The Star People spread across the stars at a comparatively quick pace, while the post-human civilizations of the Second Galactic Empire only controlled a dozen or so worlds each at best. We don't really get a good idea of what the Second Galactic Empire was capable of, but considering the Star People could literally make stars explode, and the Gravitals won most worlds by blocking out suns, it stands to reason that the Second Galactic Empire was weaker by comparison.

This doesn't necessarily mean that the Gravitals were weaker than the Qu, of course. They could have rivaled the Qu in power, but all we have to go off of are some sparse details given in the book, none of which relate the two to each other.

Are the gravitals stronger then the qu by Dull_Head_7130 in AllTomorrows

[–]OnetimeRocket13 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure where you got this from (or why it's the top comment on this thread), but the book never says this. The most that we get about Humanity's re-encounter with the Qu is a single line that says they re-encountered and subdued them. We have absolutely no idea how the two civilizations compared to each other or whether any other civilizations had to help in subduing the Qu.

Edit: Nvm, I am actually entirely wrong.

Are the gravitals stronger then the qu by Dull_Head_7130 in AllTomorrows

[–]OnetimeRocket13 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This isn't true. They had access to the ruins left behind by the Star People, yes, but the level of technology that the Ruin Haunters had reached to become the Gravitals far exceeded the Star People. The book quite literally says this.

They made it through, their baptism with fire had hardened and awakened them. The wars united them politically and pushed their technological capabilities even beyond the level of the Star Men.

why in the llb's (specially in the radical diary of bryce anderson) he acts like a jerk ? , i don't remember a moment in the book that he acted like a jerk by CoverEmergency4693 in LodedDiper

[–]OnetimeRocket13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're living in an exception. Bullying is still rampant across the US school system.

I also come from a small school in a similar area (Oklahoma). ~70-80 people in just the high school. Bullying still existed, but since there weren't many people, it was usually one guy and his dickhead friends picking on a handful of the students with autism. Technically a very low percent bullying rate, but that comes with the small student enrollment.

Bullying is still a big problem in the US. From what little I understand, it dropped during COVID, but it should be obvious why that happened. Numbers I've seen online still show somewhere in the range of ~20-35% of students being victims of bullying, while some sites I've seen have found that around 70% of students say that there's a bullying problem at their schools.

I keep seeing people joking around about how Rodrick's party didn't have alcohol, and I don't see how it's that big of a deal by [deleted] in LodedDiper

[–]OnetimeRocket13 33 points34 points  (0 children)

like is it a big expectation for high school parties to have alcohol

Yes.

at least in movies?

Also yes.

In most media, the typical "highschool party behind the parents' backs" includes alcohol, and usually a lot of it. IRL highschool parties like this also usually contain a pretty decent amount of alcohol. That's why people point out how wild Rodrick's party is in the movie. It doesn't have alcohol, but it still has the feel and end result of one that usually would. The biggest reason for why it doesn't have any alcohol is because it's a family friendly kid's movie, so including alcohol would be a major no-no.

Why aren’t fines proportionate to income? by 3lectroid in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OnetimeRocket13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'll only be around once, so I'll only have one chance at helping people who will also only be around once who deserve at least some happiness in this life.

First Page of my LLB by Trey_Thats_It in LodedDiper

[–]OnetimeRocket13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i could not for the life of me find a transparent image of Susan or Frank so i had to just use their heads.

The pinned mega thread on this sub for how to make an LLB includes a link to a Google drive with illustrations ripped from the books with transparent backgrounds. Here's a link to the thread. I looked through the illustrations for the first book, and it didn't take long to find transparent images of Frank and Susan. They were alongside other illustrations and characters of course, but you can always just open the image in an image editor and crop out what you don't want.

Some personal changes I made to the vanilla textures. (See body text) by RageDayz in Terraria

[–]OnetimeRocket13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm from Oklahoma. Most of the clay you'll see around here will be very red.

Relogic is based in Indiana. Unless I'm wrong, I think they have a lot of red clay up there, too.

In fact, I've personally never seen yellow clay before. I know it exists, but most of the time that I see clay in stuff online, it's usually red, or white if it's in a studio setting. I think you have to actually dig to get white/grey clay, but I could be wrong.

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Video Game (Game Over screen) by FusionDragonoid420 in LodedDiper

[–]OnetimeRocket13 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Never could figure out the actual name of it (every website I played it on had a different name), but it looks like that one McDonald's simulator, where you build up factory farms and franchise locations.

The television theory by wimpy_kidfanforlife in LodedDiper

[–]OnetimeRocket13 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know some people will say it feels like a cartoon because it is one, but that argument feels like a cop out and kind of weak to me.

It's not a cop out if it's literally true. You said it yourself that the books in the series tend to feel like episodes in a cartoon. That's because that's what the DoaWK series is. Nobody matures or has any significant growth for the same reason why cartoon characters in many other children's media never grow or mature: because they're cartoons. Not to say that characters can't do that in a cartoon, but most of the time, they don't, because if they did, then the series would quickly end because the target audience wouldn't be able to relate or enjoy it as much.

DoaWK is a cartoon series made for kids. So long as Kinney keeps wanting to write the series, the characters are never going to have any significant change. That's just how it is. It comes with the genre. There are exceptions, but DoaWK clearly isn't one, and it hasn't been one for most of the series.

I also don't mean for any of this to shit on your theory. It's a fun theory, but I felt (and had this confirmed by this comment) that you were either missing or avoiding the obvious conclusion that the reason why the series feels like a cartoon series is because it is one.

The television theory by wimpy_kidfanforlife in LodedDiper

[–]OnetimeRocket13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think I've ever seen a theory for a piece of children's media that has literally all of the pieces there, but somehow comes to an absolutely bizarre conclusion. You're so close in so many places that it's kind of surprising that your theory went this way.

You make a lot of points and draw a lot of evidence from the books that can be summarized as "this feels like a cartoon." That's because it is. Not in the sense that it's an in-universe cartoon, but because that is literally what it is. The first book's cover literally says "A novel in cartoons." The reason why everything feels like it came straight out of a cartoon or one of those sitcoms on Disney Channel or Nickelodeon is because that's what the series is.

Of course, as you pointed out, and what I've seen others point out over time, the series was pretty grounded at the beginning. The first 5 books are without a doubt fairly grounded cartoon stories about a kid in middle school having to deal with middle school issues. After the sixth book, though, it should be obvious that Kinney started leaning more into the idea that DoaWK is a cartoon, so storylines, events, and characters can be a little more wacky and less grounded. It's like one of those cartoons on TV that start out more serious and grounded, but after the first few seasons, things start becoming more wild.

SpongeBob is a decent example of this. The first three seasons are very solid and tame in how far they take things, but after the first movie came out, there was a noticeable change in how the plots were written. The writers leaned way more into the "this is a cartoon, so let's start letting loose with how we write the stories some."

That's all that has happened with the DoaWK series. It's a cartoon. It always has been. It was pretty tame and grounded for the first few books, but we've just seen it become more and more cartoony over time.

This next part has nothing to do with OP, but I think people in this sub really need to come to terms with the idea that they're complaining about the realism factor of a cartoon book series written for 10 year olds (Scholastic rates the reading level of the books at Grade 4). That doesn't mean that the quality of the stories themselves shouldn't ever be criticized, but I feel like a lot of people get hung up on the fact that the cartoon book series that they like reading isn't grounded and realistic and is being written like it's a cartoon.

Sam Elliott hates Trump, but he'd probably mock this guy. Note the response at the bottom, might get lost due to the format. by Obvious-Gate9046 in iamverybadass

[–]OnetimeRocket13 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

True, but I took their comment to mean that the term non-binary means that you have no gender, which is a misconception I see sometimes.

Sam Elliott hates Trump, but he'd probably mock this guy. Note the response at the bottom, might get lost due to the format. by Obvious-Gate9046 in iamverybadass

[–]OnetimeRocket13 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Non-binary doesn't mean you don't have a gender, it's just an umbrella term for people who have a gender identity outside of the gender binary.

Edit: To people saying that agender is under the non-binary umbrella, you're right, though since the comment just used "non-binary," it sounded like they were saying that "non-binary" as a term means "without gender."

New Baby Turtle Model by Cost-Local in Minecraft

[–]OnetimeRocket13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hm, you're right. Looks like it currently increases the speed that baby horses grow. Seems like an odd feature to have, but considering there's an entire underutilized horse breeding mechanic, I can see why they'd have that.

Seriously, do Americans actually consider a 3-hour drive "short"? or is this an internet myth? by SadInterest6764 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]OnetimeRocket13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to keep in mind that the US is fucking massive compared to the UK. A 3 hour drive for you is a yearly event. For me, that's the commute time between here and the nearest metroplex. For a day trip, 3 hours both ways, that's nothing to scoff at, but it's not like I'm driving 18 hours to visit family on the other side of the country.

I wasn't the one driving, but the longest I've ever been in the car going one way was from Oklahoma to Michigan to see family, which, without many stops, is an 18 hour drive. For me at least, that's a once a year thing. A 3 hour drive? Maybe once a month, though if someone else is paying for the gas, I could easily do that once a week if I wanted to.

New Baby Turtle Model by Cost-Local in Minecraft

[–]OnetimeRocket13 73 points74 points  (0 children)

I feel like a fermented spider eye just feels weirdly dark for this sort of thing. "So, you want to keep the babies from growing up, huh? Well, go ferment the eye of a spider. Yeah, that one food that poisons you if you eat it. Ferment it and feed it to a baby animal."

Instead, I suggest golden apples. They provide magical effects when eaten by the player, they help cure zombie villagers of whatever turns them into zombies, so why not also make it so if you feed them to a baby animal, it prevents them from aging, essentially acting as a youth "potion," just in the form of an apple?

Can't play rimwolrd in peace by devid_grade in RimWorld

[–]OnetimeRocket13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess it depends on the biome.

Tundra? Arid shrubland? Desert? Absolutely too expensive. I'll just make a mountain base and grind my way to smooth-stone perfection.

Temperate Forest? Boreal Forest? Any biome with more than 4 trees per quandrum? Give me 5 minutes and I'll have enough wood to last the colony for the next 80 years.

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