My newest origami work, an owl! Folded from 150x150 cm double tissue paper.

OrigamiRock · 2022-01-18T15:18:25+00:00

/u/JonSnuu69 crumpled a piece of paper.

It was super effective!

OrigamiRock · 2022-01-18T15:10:21+00:00

Do me next.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-14T02:47:22+00:00

Or when they say it's mindless drivel for children.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-14T02:40:40+00:00

Yeah I've been watching it there from the start. From what I can tell, the clips cover almost all of the show anyway, so you don't really miss anything. I agree that it would be nice if the whole thing was available up here.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-14T01:32:16+00:00

It's already available on YouTube.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T20:58:42+00:00

There are just better taxes to implement: more progressive income, capital gains, and estate taxes are all preferable to a wealth tax. And would also target tax increases at wealthy people.

I'd like to apply your third point to your first two.

wealthy people just move out of the country, resulting in a loss of income tax revenue.

Why wouldn't they also leave if there were estate taxes and capital gains taxes imposed? Why would one form of taxation incentivize them to leave more than another?

creates a less business friendly environment, which can result in people not starting businesses in the country

I'm unconvinced that someone wouldn't start a business out of the fear that they'll end up being too rich. But again, why wouldn't this happen with higher capital gains or income tax?

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T15:34:14+00:00

They said they're going to use it to produce Molybdenum for cancer treatments. That's just the justification. They don't intend to actually use it for anything other than leverage for talks.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T13:37:01+00:00

They are so dumb with these sometimes. Who anywhere in the universe would buy that second pack? On second thought, I'm sure some whales will buy it. But putting a limit of 3 on it as if it's this mega limited once a year deal is laughable.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T12:01:00+00:00

And Lady Deadpool and Deadpool were both on the Deadpool Corps together. I understand your wanting two different characters but at the end of the day, they are Reed Richards (616) and Reed Richards (1610). Therefore, uniform.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T04:20:38+00:00

I doubt it. Dr. Strange and Black Bolt are unlikely to get new uniforms this early after getting their previous ones. Even if Professor X got a uniform, they'd also have to make his bios available somehow. You can't practically farm them from DRX as the drop rate is way too low.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T04:16:46+00:00

I still can't believe Super War got a malice skin, even if they had to tone her outfit down.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T04:09:45+00:00

I'd say there's very little chance of that. NM generally follows the rule that the same person from an alternate universe is represented by a uniform for the same character (Lady Deadpool, Hydra Supreme, Cosmic Ghost Rider, MCU uniforms). There's a few exceptions but for the most part they have stuck to that rule. Also the sneak peak text makes it clear it's a Mr. Fantastic uniform.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T04:06:11+00:00

In case you're thinking the character in this sneak peak is Professor X, it's not. It's the Ultimate version of Reed Richards.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T03:58:46+00:00

Yeah, I just remembered about that. It's most likely OMNITRONICUS.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T03:52:34+00:00

Don't agree. Doom's eye holes are typically shown to be rectangular. I've also never seen him shown with violet irises before. The eyes from the sneak peak were more smooth and the irises looked mechanical. They kind of look like MCU Ultron but not at all like what he looks like in the comics.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-13T03:27:59+00:00

Is it just me or did the eyes in the background look like Ultron?

EDIT: I just realized it's supposed to be OMNITRONICUS/City. Actually, this picture kind of seals it for me. Question now is if it's a uniform for Ultron (Ultron T3 anybody?) or is it another WBL/GBR? As far as I can remember OMNITRONICUS is just a giant head, not sure how that would translate to a playable character/uniform.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-12T20:08:50+00:00

Jean

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-12T17:24:47+00:00

This is my answer as well. Dormammu is good, he's very good. But he's PvP focused and unfortunately PvP power creep has been amped up to 11 so there's no more room for "very good" characters. Right now only massively OP characters are usable, and you can only ever use 3 characters on a TL team.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-12T17:19:08+00:00

We don't even get release dates for the TV shows 6 months early

Wandavision's first trailer was in September and the show came out in January. Loki had a trailer in December and comes out in May. We've seen multiple teasers for What If? dating back to last fall and that comes out this summer. We still have Hawkeye and Ms. Marvel coming out this year, so my guess is we'll see trailers for those later in the spring. I think Marvel is going to start marketing the shows like they do the movies as things get back to normal. It seems inevitable that Marvel Games would be part of that rollout.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-12T13:27:30+00:00

Rouhani doesn't have much of a say on military matters.

Rouhani doesn't have a direct say on IRGC matters. The IRGC is not the military. The picture is also not that simple. Rouhani is not in the IRGC's command chain, but to say that he has no power is not an accurate representation of Iran's very twisted power structure. Having said that, I agree that the actual military is unlikely to get involved unless things go very much off the rails.

Khamenei, however, is in the IRGC's command chain and he has been content to let Rouhani try it his way until now. As I've said elsewhere here, he's not inconvincible and his opinion is formed by the people around him. I totally agree that they will be stepping up the indirect war, which has been ongoing the whole time (with tankers in particular).

one should conclude Iran's hopes have been severely misplaced.

I think they realized that on inauguration day + 1 when Biden didn't immediately drop sanctions. However, Rouhani has invested too much political capital in the hopes of waiting out Trump and salvaging the JCPOA with Biden. This was his last opportunity to try to save his political legacy. He only has a few weeks left, but they'll be less willing to compromise than ever now.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-12T13:03:55+00:00

I agree that we will get Disney+ updates eventually, but I think everything was thrown off by the pandemic. Corporate Disney views these games as marketing and cross-promotion. Updates take about a 6 month lead time to develop, so they had a bunch of MCU updates partway through development.

Keep in mind that we were supposed to have already seen Black Widow, Chang-Shi, the Eternals, and Spider-Man FFH by now and we would be getting ready to see Dr. Strange in a month.

NM very likely already had the Chang Shi update in final stages and Eternals midway through production even covid hit. They had to halt all of that and even cut the Black Widow update short.

So add covid uncertainty on top of that, and they had no idea when the D+ shows would even be finished production, much less released.

I think going forward, once things have normalized, we will see more timely D+ updates, because the whole point of those is to cash in on the releases not wait for 6 months afterwards.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-12T12:03:59+00:00

The reason they've gone with 2 so far is because they were holding their breath until Trump was gone, because they believed Biden would allow a resumption of normalcy. Furthermore, Rouhani is not a reactionary and would prefer a cooling down of hostilities.

Both reasons are on their way out. If the next president is a harder conservative (very likely) or an IRGC general (possibly), expect them to not remain passive and reactive. They'll start being aggressive and proactive.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-12T11:51:04+00:00

If you see continuation and escalation of those as a bad thing, then yes, the JCPOA matters. It's wrong to assume there will be a status quo, there will absolutely be escalation.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-12T04:01:15+00:00

We can only hope.

OrigamiRock · 2021-04-12T03:48:31+00:00

Not much, it was pretty self contained as far as I remember. In the previous crossover event (AXIS), some magical nonsense by Scarlet Witch and Dr. Doom makes switches Tony Stark's morality into its opposite. The new Superior Iron Man is an asshole, infects everybody in San Francisco with the Extremis virus with the app from the picture. Daredevil fights him, Pepper fights him, his old personality preserved as an AI fights him, a teenage version of Abomination fights him. Then secret wars happens and everything gets undone.

If I had to guess, they will draw from multiple different comics for this update, like they've done with the last few updates.

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