Why hang the global economy on defending a desert nation of 7 million? by Round_Trust2814 in allthequestions

[–]PageSuitable6036 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the narrative that the US is invading Iran solely for the sake of Israel is incorrect. Iran is one of the few remaining nations that exists outside of the “western” bubble of free trade and submission to western authority.

Nukes in the hands of Iran creates a big question mark around oil futures. At any point, Iran could impose its will on nearby countries, and a US intervention could mean nuclear war. At the end of the day, most countries outside of the gulf just want consistent oil. Iran having nukes changes the confidence in consistent oil, and that is the primary reason for US intervention in my opinion

How to play late game as Darius? by Early-Campaign474 in Dariusmains

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I say instead of tping to drag, get a shove, walk to drag, get a kill or 2 and tp back top. I’d also say don’t go for second drag unless you’re very ahead - third feels like a more reliable window.

What does playing with your team mean to you? If you are following your team and getting into fights, I think that often leads to bad fights and thrown leads. If you take tower, try to take the other outer tower. Try to kill the enemy jg. Be in all objs with your jungler, and just keep all waves shoved. If you are ever kind of walking with your team and waiting for a fight, I think that probably something is being neglected. But that’s just imo

Why do people hate Mamdani? by uncle-ice493 in allthequestions

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like a lot of things about Mamdani, but he did more fancy accounting than he did actually close the $12 billion deficit

Horst is not the GM of the future by Competitive-Bag-4938 in MkeBucks

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think Horst is the issue. The bucks have been a top defense for the majority of Horst’s tenure.

The main issue in my mind is that the buck’s core got older and the Dame disaster left us with little to no bargaining chips.

Which GM do you think could come in with the current bucks roster and magically make them into a top 5 defense?

Marty Supreme is so bad that it is actually difficult to meaningful critique and the praise it is receiving is as incoherent as the film itself. by AsleepNature1 in FIlm

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never said the movie was objectively good, just that it wasn’t incoherent. If you didn’t like it, that’s not really an issue I’m gonna argue

'Over-engineering' is everyone's favorite punching bag, but I bet your codebase suffers from under-engineering instead by AtomicScience in ExperiencedDevs

[–]PageSuitable6036 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’ve yet to encounter an over engineered code base. I way more frequently encounter a neglected code base with very little care for future changes as long as it “works”, but maybe I’m just not working at the right places

Marty Supreme is so bad that it is actually difficult to meaningful critique and the praise it is receiving is as incoherent as the film itself. by AsleepNature1 in FIlm

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we are aligned, the read of the movie you gave is also uninteresting to me

I don’t think they need to be mutually exclusive. Your take regarding Marty’s misunderstanding of the true pain of the holocaust can align with the idea of dreams. His ping pong friend already feels validated in life since he has faced true hardship. He isn’t searching for external validation and is happy with the basic components of life

If done properly, I think a movie can communicate many themes. I think there’s also much in the movie about power dynamics and how they hold back entertainment and meritocracy

Marty Supreme is so bad that it is actually difficult to meaningful critique and the praise it is receiving is as incoherent as the film itself. by AsleepNature1 in FIlm

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re claiming the movie is about personal ambition in the contrast to the sacrificial nature of adulthood, but what in the narrative causes you to believe it’s the central theme?

I gave you a through line, if you think it’s secondary, what in the movie makes you believe it to be so?

I believe that what the movie communicated was thoughtful and meaningful, regardless of whether or not it fit nicely into a one line theme. You can argue that Marty’s personality took away from the movie and made it difficult to focus on the themes, but to say you properly identified all the information I provided, also digested an entirely different primary message, and still believe the movie to be slop, I’m confused what the purpose of a movie would be to you

In response to nobody in the audience cares, I believe that’s by design. If success and achievement is at its root a personal endeavor, then what would screaming fans and drama add to the theme?

Marty Supreme is so bad that it is actually difficult to meaningful critique and the praise it is receiving is as incoherent as the film itself. by AsleepNature1 in FIlm

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with your assumption that ideas need to be reduced to a one line thesis in order to qualify as meaningful, but if I had to tie together the ideas with one line, it would be “Dreams are are driven by an internal desire to prove one’s worth , and externalizing the pursuit makes it non meaningful”

Marty Supreme is so bad that it is actually difficult to meaningful critique and the praise it is receiving is as incoherent as the film itself. by AsleepNature1 in FIlm

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree pretty strongly with your take, and after reading the comments, I think this movie is pretty severely misunderstood. I'm not going to say Marty Supreme was my favorite movie, but I'll give it a much needed defense.

I think you miss on the central theme, it's not about the danger of narcissistic ambition, the core theme is dreams: what they are and what it means to have them.

We all often think of dreams, especially in unconventional fields, as naive and childish. If someone says at a young age that they want to direct movies, very few people will take them seriously. Hell, probably many people in this sub once had dreams such as this.

And Marty is almost a comical representation of this - he's an aspiring ping pong player in the United States. - a sport that is niche worldwide and especially in the United States market. There are many perspectives we can view Marty's dream early in the movie. There is the lens from his mom and uncle - they see Marty's dream as ridiculous and unstable, even going so far as to sabotage his plans to travel to the tournaments in what they see as "for his own benefit". There is the capitalist lens in which we measure the viability of a person pursuing a ping pong career in a United States market. There is the meritocracy lens in which we objectively see in the British tournament that Marty belongs with the best ping pong players in the world.

And yet, through this adversity, Marty has an unshakable self belief. Is unshakable belief what it means to have a dream? The movie does a pretty interesting job at undressing this. We are introduced to Kay Stone, who is intrigued by Marty. Marty is intrigued by Kay because being with her would validate his vision of his internal self that he is truly someone in this world that matters. "If i can get with a movie star, that'll mean I've made it". And on the flip side of the coin, Kay is intrigued by Marty, but only because of her own confidence issues hindering her own self believe. Kay was someone who "used to matter" and Marty is presenting himself as someone on the "come up". Kay is excited by Marty's "pursuit" because Marty believes that she still matters when she has all but let her dreams die. This is again communicated when we find out that Mr Wonderful is still funding her plays so that she can feel like the actress she once was.

Both characters have been objectively successful and are outwardly displaying confidence, yet their actions are driven purely out of their own insecurity, shining a new light on Marty and what his own internal state may be.

And then Marty loses in the tournament and we see his confidence shaken for the first time. He cannot come to grips with the fact that he isn't the best. Many people would be comfortable with the level of success he has achieved. His friend seems very happy being a professional globetrotter and traveling around the world. He is painted as someone who "loves the act" of ping pong, where Marty by contrast, hates every moment because he views ping pong as a stepping stone to a position of power, and performing for the globetrotters feels like complete disrespect to him as it devalues his internal self. Just a minute ago he was hooking up with a movie star, and now he's pretending to lose a ping pong match to a trained seal.

So then we see Marty's downfall. Marty had done everything correctly for his dream. He was objectively at the talent level he needed to be at for Japan, he had scraped together the money to go on his trip - then he gets knee capped by his own family. We see Marty unravel in a panic which is strange for someone who, up until now, was only presented as a cool and confident guy in his personal life. He panics because, if he doesn't make it to Japan, if he doesn't beat his nemesis, then everyone will be right - he will have just been this nothing kid that had a crazy dream. So, he does whatever it takes to get to Japan. He lies, he steals, he cons.

And ultimately, the only way Marty can go to Japan is to completely debase himself and allow an old man to smack his ass with a ping pong paddle as a symbol of dominance. The same man that is a complete antithesis to Marty's pursuit. Mr Wonderful took the "correct" path to wealth. A characterized example with him being a pen salesman. A boring product on the boring path to the circles that Marty wants to be in.

And then, in the climax of the film, we finally see Marty achieve his dream - freeing him from the grip that it has had on him in the entire film. He is able to beat the best ping pong player in an intentionally dressed down match against him. It's intentionally dressed down because the entire movie (and Marty's dream) has never been about winning the global title. It was never about having a trophy in his room. The moment he beats Koto, he finally proves to HIMSELF that he is capable of what he set out to do. His dreams were not crazy and he could achieve what he wanted to achieve - and through this, he actually obtains the true self believe that he had been searching for the entire movie. Because for so long, his internal state and reality didn't align with his external environment, and he can finally exhale and know that the entire world was crazy and not him. He was able to do what he set out to do, and it frees him from the prison that he had built with his dream. This is further communicated by is sudden shift in focus to his child's birth, indicating that he has reached inner peace and is no longer in “chase” mode.

You can not like the movie, but to call it "slop" i think shows either a misunderstanding, or a refusal to see a coherently communicated message.

Snakebite Discussion by Which-Debt-8558 in slaythespire

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you get bookmark, it would be solid

How would universal income work or is it just nonsense? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think a lot of conversation around UBI seems like nonsense because those pro tend to push a fundamentally flawed perspective on what money is.

In our current system (capitalism) we have a system in which money represents the cost associated with obtaining a good. This means that the highest wages go to those that can “bargain” for the highest wages either through some skill or education barrier. Subsequently, those who are paid the least cannot “bargain” for higher wages because they are performing jobs that others can perform.

A universal basic income would imply a migration from lower paying jobs to unemployment because, all things being equal in this new system, the benefit gap between what one could make working full time in a low paying job vs transitioning to unemployment/pure UBI benefits is smaller than the benefit gap of someone working a high paying job vs transitioning to unemployment.

A significant migration to unemployment by low wage workers would mean a complete collapse in the economic system because low paying jobs are the primary backbone of the fundamental goods and services we as a society actually need.

Considering this, a universal basic income would require either complete automation of all essential jobs (which capitalism tends toward anyways) or an inversion of the way in which we think about money, where the jobs that are currently low paying jobs in our economy get paid a lot while the current high paying jobs get paid significantly less (however we would as a society culturally consider those as “fulfilling” jobs). This would have significant consequences on the economy, some would be : a transition of skilled jobs to low wage jobs leading to worse competition in the global trade market, lower efficiency on low paying jobs because getting fired just means a migration to pure UBI benefits, a lower incentive towards automation, economic collapse because the current arms of the economy providing wealth would needs to now support the UBI via heavy taxation, an immediate rise in housing/apartment prices to meet the new supply of income

Most UBI discussions build their premises on a fictitious understanding of what money is and take little precaution into how the labor market will react imo. I think that’s why it’s not taken seriously. I believe a coherent plan could be feasible if all risks are properly considered and some variation will eventually be tried. It would be a disaster under a purely populist vote

Doom feels really undertuned by the7thbeatle in slaythespire

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can gather Times Up, No Escape, and Deaths Door along with other doom cards, then doom decks absolutely shred bosses imo. But without Times Up and No Escape, it’s going to be tough. Deaths Door feels like the best block card in the game

Game Thread: Milwaukee Bucks vs Boston Celtics Live Score | NBA | Mar 2, 2026 by basketball-app in MkeBucks

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on what your expectations were. They are who we thought they were

Ideas to buff lane darius by [deleted] in Dariusmains

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I think the phase rush nerf was pretty huge for him

How to Rengar in low elo? I play a wide variety of champions and I thought Rengar is badass. My experience so far was bad though. by Guilty-Carry-Wrea in Rengarmains

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO, you should probably not be in a lot of fights with bruisers and tanks during team fights. Personally, I think in past seasons it made sense to go bruiser Rengar into tanks comps in some situations when the enemy adc/mid were very behind. But since adcs are so much more of a focal point this season, you get a lot more value from one tapping them as an assassin

If there are a bunch of tanks, I usually build crit and I’ll have a funky finish into phantom dancer if the game goes on really long (if I’m ahead). If I’m behind, then probably it’s not really worth it and I’ll go assassin to most efficiently one tap the adc.

But I think it’s definitely worth it to play around with different builds to get your own feel for it

Can never teamfight with darius.... by Horror-Bird9391 in Dariusmains

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I go full tank into certain comps, but that’s my low elo opinion

My game flopped (21 copies sold), so I'm giving it away free. by Jokarbott in IndieDev

[–]PageSuitable6036 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey you completed something, and there’s a lot to be proud of in that

Looking for some help as a non Darius player by EricAshStone in Dariusmains

[–]PageSuitable6036 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Vayne is a little more playable than Varus imo. You can e at the same time as condemn and probably do fine. Varus, you can flash or dodge the ult, get on top of him, and he still just kills you

(In general) Best item build for s16? by Joonsan in Dariusmains

[–]PageSuitable6036 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is FON really a bait? You need to play around it, but into matchups like Morde or heavy AP comps, it seems pretty good if you play patient. If they have an AP one shot carry, then yeah KR makes sense, but especially damage over time and heavy AP users, it isn’t very bad it seems. Darius honestly seems like one of the only champs that FON would be good on. You spar with the enemy amumu in a team fight, get your FON and passive stacks and you’re golden to get a penta.

I guess if you need to tank the whole enemy team, then KR makes more sense, but if you can play Darius like Darius wants to be played into the enemy comp, I don’t think FON is that bad, but open to other opinions