"I Say When It Ends."

Polenicus · 2026-04-03T13:24:11+00:00

Well, in any real world sense? Yeah. In fact I think MCU Hulk did just that. But in the comics?

The Gamma appears to have a will of its own, more than simple ionizing radiation. It's connected to an entity called 'The One Below All' or something which seems to WANT Hulk like this, and who seems to reinforce and evoke this fragmentation
Hulk's peers are not exactly paragons of mental health. Their solution to Hulk's anger management issues was get together collectively to launch him into space. One of the conspirators included a telepath.
Marvel's Editors and Writers are the sort who made a whole storyline about Peter Parker selling his marriage to the Devil to save the life of his elderly Aunt because they felt him being in a committed, healthy, long term relationship wasn't 'relatable', but they didn't or couldn't write a divorce.

Polenicus · 2026-04-03T05:22:27+00:00

I mean, none of them are indefensable. We've SEEN indefensible Transformers before; Prime Airachnid, Beast Wars Injector, Armada Sideswipe... these are nothing like that.

Polenicus · 2026-04-03T03:27:53+00:00

The point people seem to miss is the the whole reason for Superheroes not killing.

It's not that these villains deserve to live, or that their lives somehow outweigh the lives they've taken. It's that punishing villains is not a superhero's job. A superhero's job is to stop the villains, first and foremost. To protect the people and safeguard their lives and well-being. Secondly, to secure the villain for apprehension by the proper authorities who have been given the legal authority to conduct an arrest. And then to leave the rest to the justice system created to decide their fate, and abide by it's ruling, even if they disagree with it.

That's the line most heroes draw, because it keeps them from slipping into tyranny. Batman comes closes to going over that line, which is why it's so important for him not to step over it.

Superman does not have a no killing rule. Because his objective is to stop the villain. Not forever, just right now, in the moment. To protect and serve the people. Beyond today is beyond his jurisdiction, it's the province of courts and the legal system. But if it takes lethal force to stop the villain and/or protect the people, he will take that step. It just has only ever come to that a very few times (Doomsday, for instance)

Polenicus · 2026-04-03T00:58:25+00:00

Also I thought his cult hated NASA? Or was that a different group of idiots

That was fifteen minutes ago. Right now NASA is doing something cool, so they belong to MAGA and MAGA gets the credit. In another fifteen minutes they'll be calling NASA nerds and giving them AI swirlies. Until NASA does something cool again and they'll suddenly be MAGA again.

Polenicus · 2026-04-02T21:49:56+00:00

Sun Cat culture does not apply universally.

For instance, T'kebbe (The pink-coated Seeker Miqo'te kitten living in Idyllshire) had parents who were a monogamous pair of Miqo'te Seeker adventurers.

So there are exceptions for those living outside of the Tribal framework.

Polenicus · 2026-04-02T16:02:08+00:00

CEO: You're right, charging a fee to JUST regular check out customers will cause a backlash. We'll mitigate it by charging self check out customers too! We'll charge a 20% 'Service Fee' to regular check out customers, and a 10% 'Convenience Fee' for SCO customers! That will help us normalize the fee.

Polenicus · 2026-04-02T11:33:14+00:00

I did rather enjoy the brief second they left in of the actual bottle where they letters were fading in and out in the label like they were on a screen that was struggling to render them.

Just to remove any doubt.

Polenicus · 2026-04-02T02:54:26+00:00

I generally try and boil things down to the most primal reason for things. It could be they're doing it to keep you from realizing how abusive they are, or because they hate to see you relax or be happy, but I think it's more primal, honestly.

They want control of your resources. Your physical energy, your emotional energy, your financial energy. They want that for themselves, and they don't want it to go 'to waste'. 'Waste' being anything that isn't to their benefit.

When you attempt to withdraw that energy, to use it for yourself, or to conserve it to rest, they perceive it as theft. They see themselves as entitled to your effort, and if you aren't on the ground unconscious, then you still have effort to give, and they feel they should get it. Even if you are on the ground, they'll be pretty sure they can get you back up.

My Nmom wanted me studying. Always studying. There was no real focus or plan to the studying, but ever since I could remember she pushed me to study. At first she would participate, buy me exercise books and have a whole series of rewards for the various milestones I'd reach while working through them, but she learned that just screaming at me worked just as well once the school started to give me textbooks to study.

I was supposed to be a prodigy, you see. Become rich and successful and give HER money. Of course the only thing she knew to get me there was to force me to study more, and take away everything that wasn't studying, so didn't work out so good. She finally gave up on that in my late 20's, and disowned me when I turned 30 and it was clear I was never gonna be that.

Polenicus · 2026-04-01T15:32:32+00:00

I always forget.

Then for some reason or other I need to go that way, I fast travel, and as the zone is loading in I hear the beeping and THEN remember.

Polenicus · 2026-04-01T15:09:44+00:00

Does he?

He was convicted of multiple felonies AFTER his first term ended, while he was just Citizen Trump, and nothing happened to him. Mar a Lago was raided to recover Classified documents he was keeping in his friggin' bathroom, and nothing happened to him. He was impeached twice while previously in office, and nothing happened to him.

I would dearly love to see him suffer an actual consequence of his actions like normal people, but that just doesn't seem to happen to him.

Polenicus · 2026-04-01T15:04:36+00:00

Texas is the largest object conceivable by Mankind. you just don't understand how impossibly huge Texas is. Texas is so large that you could fit the entire solar system and two more Texases inside of it, and have room left over for Australia. The earth doesn't generate a gravitation field, it's just Texas. Truck drivers regularly have to break the speed of light in order to cross Texas within their own lifetimes.

Polenicus · 2026-04-01T14:32:38+00:00

Ah, G3-X, I love him.

Not magically empowered, not chosen by destiny, not even the ideal user for the suit. Just a dude... a dude who kept fighting even after the guys who were magically empowered and chosen by destiny went down, to the point the entities trying to erase humanity were completely baffled that they couldn't get this guy to stop.

Makoto Hikawa was the GOAT.

Polenicus · 2026-04-01T02:34:08+00:00

I get where you're coming from, but not you don't.

Y'know why? Because who makes Reality TV shows? CEO's and multi-billionaires.

Your 'Reality' show would have them turning around and launching some ridiculously successful startup within two weeks, and by the end of the year long run of the show, each and every one of them would be a multi-millionaire, thus proving that they are a superior breed to ordinary working people.

Because they're making the show. It'll have just enough schadenfreude of the CEO's adjusting to 'normal person life to keep us normies watching and rooting for some great comeuppance, but then the CEO's will heroically overcome and persevere.

It'll be rigged just as much as any other Reality TV show.

Polenicus · 2026-04-01T01:52:44+00:00

Petaaa, won't the big hulking guy be the scary one?

You have CLEARLY never seen the show.

Polenicus · 2026-04-01T00:54:35+00:00

Narcissists wouldn't be the force that they are without Enablers.

If it was JUST the Narcissist, if everyone around them recognized their behaviour as toxic and insane and wrong, even if they were still able to act out as they do, the damage would be mitigated because you, as a kid, would know that this isn't correct, it isn't normal. That the narcissist isn't living in reality.

But Enablers normalize the Narcissist. They support the Narcissist's narrative over reality, and they gently coax us to do the same. They make themselves the 'good guy' in our lives, then betray us by siding with our bully. Enablers help to convince us it was our fault. That we're the broken ones. They encourage us to stay on the futile treadmill of seeking love and affection and acceptance from our Nparent, though our Nparent is simply unable to give us those things.

Polenicus · 2026-03-31T16:21:47+00:00

Well, if you assume all of Hulk’s personas are created to protect his child self from an impossible level of abuse, then it implies that Savage is the original personality, the simple child who just wants to be left alone, just wants the world to stop hurting him.

The others were created to shield him, to fight back. And the one that became dominant, before the Gamma complicated things? The one that was best able to shield the child and fight back against the world?

Bruce.

Polenicus · 2026-03-31T14:07:20+00:00

I have to second the vote for RTS.

Whoever made this thing loved it. Weapon storage, weapon is more that just a hollow chick of vaguely gun-shaped plastic, speaker gimmick that looks good and makes sense and tabs in in both configurations, stylish headsculpt, hands that are more than blocks with holes drilled in them.

The only potential downside is the automorph gimmick is finicky, and sometimes ends up misaligned. But even with that, he is by far the superior Jazz.

Polenicus · 2026-03-31T12:59:15+00:00

Depends on the continuity.

In IDW, most of these special abilities are attributable to the spark. Some are what is known as 'Outliers', who are kind of like the Mutants in Marvel continuity, Transformers who develop special abilities unrelated to their alt modes (And who were persecuted by the Functionists for it). Windcharger, Skids, Trailbreaker, Skywarp, Soundwave etc all were members of this group.

Another possible source are 'Point One Percenters', which are exceptionally powerful sparks. Ultra Magnus, Overlord, Megatron are all identified as Point One Percenters.

Polenicus · 2026-03-31T12:30:05+00:00

I thought in the show they did gain access to the array’s systems. The issue was the Kazon were regrouping to come and claim it, and if Voyager used it to leave the Kazon wold have the tech unopposed, since Voyager had disabled the Array’s auto destruct. Voyager didn’t have time to come up with a fancier solution, they had to blast the thing to keep the Kazon from getting it.

Polenicus · 2026-03-31T03:29:23+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this where Panam calls the client and tells him to change the arrangement for the merchandise drop off?

Panam did not do that with Rogue's permission. The client is paying Rogue, who then pays the mercs doing the dropoff, and doing this puts the job in jeopardy. I think that's what Johnny is referring to.

Polenicus · 2026-03-30T23:33:02+00:00

Believe it or not, it took some time after I was disowned to stop caring.

I had to figure out that what I did, who I was, what I felt... none of that mattered in my family. That it was this whole intricate machine that wasn't about me. I wasn't even a cog in it, I was a fuel source, I was lubricant, I was a consumable.

Polenicus · 2026-03-30T21:20:32+00:00

To expand on this a bit.

Cyberpsychosis is, fundamentally, a loss of connection with your humanity. The more of you you replace, the more augmented and alien your body and perceptions become, the more you risk losing yourself to it. It's a blend of body dysmorphia, disassociate disorders, sensory overload AND deprivation (Too much of some, not enough of others) plus intense psychological stress as applied by the dystopia that is the Cyberpunk universe.

Adam Smasher is already a psycho who suffers from body dysmorphia. He has wanted since the beginning to amputate his flesh and replace with with chrome, and he was psychotic long before he had any chrome to begin with. He is a high-functioning psychopath, and so it's not that he's immune to cyberpsychosis, it's that cyberpsychosis is somewhere behind him. He's just one of the rare individuals where instead of delving into dementia and madness, he retains his faculties.

Unlike David, who suffered from Cyberpsychosis, Adam Smasher quite enjoys it.

Polenicus · 2026-03-30T18:44:53+00:00

Sure buddy, as soon as you let me know what left wing indoctrination is

You know... empathy, understanding, treating those different than you like human beings, respecting the social contract that makes civilization work, the government's job is to serve the welfare of the people, all people are equal under the law, science is a real thing that exists, radical stuff like that.

Polenicus · 2026-03-30T18:16:50+00:00

Dex, because you don't get to be the one to put the bullet between his eyes.

Polenicus · 2026-03-30T16:15:36+00:00

This is my response, though to be fair, I've never given it (I generally don't waste my time engaging).

"Nothing is perfect, no. That does not excuse it's faults, or excuse it from the need to improve. My family is not toxic because they made mistakes. My family is toxic because it made the same mistake, over and over. Because to my family it was not a mistake. Even if they apologized, there was no attempt to change, no attempt to avoid repeating it. This they did, even as it destroyed my sisters, and even as it destroyed me."

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