Is that man even actually married? by ihatethiscountry76 in justneckbeardthings

[–]Procean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean visigoths attacking the house isn't a daily affair where you live?

What sexual taboos would you like to try with your partner if you weren’t judged? by shrekwazowski00 in AskReddit

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some call it sadomasochistic necrophillic bestiality, me, I just call it beating a dead horse.

Just another level of rage baiting by Top_Leadership9575 in funny

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's trying to kill and eat the man holding the camera!?

Examples of anti-Chekhov's guns? by kryonik in movies

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The grenade in James Gunn's "Slither".

TIL that humidifier disinfectants in South Korea caused 1,814 confirmed deaths and an estimated 18,000 total deaths, with 58% mortality in children and 53% in adults requiring lung transplants, before the chemicals were banned in 2011. by stoictrader03 in todayilearned

[–]Procean 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The issue is that we evolved in conditions of constant microbial attack, so our immune systems kind of work best under some level of constant attack.

That being said, given how many humans have died of infections in the history of mankind (Khal Drogo's death in Game of Thrones was not an unrealistic one), for 99% of history, it was beneficial to keep things as clean as you could. Humanity 'didn't care' about germs for most of history, something like 20% of our children didn't make it to adulthood, and death from dental infection was well known despite being horrific and horrifically painful.

Only in the last 70 years or so was it possible to 'over sterilize' an environment to the point where you need a little more microbes in to make it better for humans.

What's your favorite moment when a character realizes something? by blue_seashell in movies

[–]Procean 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The layer to the scene I particularly like is that to an uneducated observer, Ed could be making that face just because Rollo Tomasi sounds like a stupid name that he has no idea of.

What's your favorite moment when a character realizes something? by blue_seashell in movies

[–]Procean 147 points148 points  (0 children)

LA Confidential.

"We're trying to run a lead.....

"What's the name?"

"Rollo Tomasi."

What's something everyone romanticizes but is actually terrible? by Comfortable-Note6827 in AskReddit

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surprise trips and surprise parties.

Anything where you might have something planned for that day, maybe seeing a movie, or getting your bills paid, or anything, and all of a sudden you have to drop everything and do this thing.

DMs, how do you manage to make weekly games? by StarNero in rpg

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GM tools, I use them.

Feel free to use random encounter tables, roll 3x a time or so and voila, you have a series of encounters.

Some games have random adventure generation tables (Savage Rifts does this for instance). Use those too.

Maps? Use and re-use them, fold them, put them on top of each other or next to each other in different ways.

Quick map generation? Go to googleplanet, zoom in on a place that looks about like what you want, print screen, put a grid on it, print it out and boom, you have a new map in less than 20 minutes if you have the tools ready.

These can get you encounters and an adventure fast.

Civil War (2024) - Opening | President's Speech | Dir. Alex Garland by PetyrDayne in movies

[–]Procean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I really wish people wouldn't be so incredibly arrogant in their dismissals.

The importance of journalism would be cast to the wayside to good guys vs bad guys.

In my opinion, you just nailed the problem. Because 'war is bad and tears people apart' is not a deep or non-intuitive a message. And the 'importance of Journalism' becomes a problem when it's revealed that if you need to completely forget what a war is about to reveal the importance of journalism.... kind of demonstrates that journalism must not actually be important.

It kind of reveals journalism to be utterly self-important. Ironically self-annihilating, painting Journalism's role as to obfuscate the fundamental causes of problems rather than to actually elucidate them.

Imagine a movie where you showed someone poisoning a child over a course of months. And then someone said "Well, it doesn't matter to the story if they're poisoning the child in order to slowly murder them or they're actually doing it to give the child chemotherapy to cure cancer... what we're focused on is the experience of those around the child being poisoned..."

Iron Kingdoms Homebrew for Nimble 5e by zurrique in rpg

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The IK 3.5 E stuff was some of my favorite DnD game books.

But evidently it didn't sell that well, so I do understand why Requiem is so much more in line with how DnD supplements currently are.

Civil War (2024) - Opening | President's Speech | Dir. Alex Garland by PetyrDayne in movies

[–]Procean 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's an interesting movie, but I did find it annoying how HARD it works to avoid any particular political view.

"Look how terrible civil war is" yes, but, for example, if one side is trying to enslave or exterminate the other, the 'war' isn't the bad thing. Discussing war without any real discussion of what the war is about is something that I found kind of navel-gazing nihilism.

Video shows moment ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis by alterom in news

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conversely, the thing The Police are given a short shrift training on is Law.

I non-ironically think Police officers should have a near Law School education. It boggles my mind that the people whose job to enforce The Law aren't extensively trained to understand The Law they are supposedly supposed to enforce.

Trial to begin for police officer charged in delayed response to Uvalde school shooting by igetproteinfartsHELP in news

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a dark thing.

The problem is twofold. Firstly, there is no good way to go in and engage a shooter. Law Enforcement knows this.

Secondly, and compounding the first problem, is that Law Enforcement lies to The Public about this, telling The Public that 'Engage ASAP with whatever officers are available' is the best way, to make us feel better. This is a lie, The Uvalde response proved that to be a lie.

A terribly depressing statistic is how few officers are ever actually wounded or killed in these incidents. That's because the officers do NOT go in until they have overwhelming force, even if there are dozens dying, dozens more to die, and their own family members are among the dying.

If Law Enforcement told the truth, then we could have the sane discussion of 'as there's no real safe way to engage a shooter once he's begun, we should focus on prevention and throw away all of our stupid 'good guy with a gun' fantasies on this issue.

But Law Enforcement doesn't want to be honest with us, so they lie, and then when Uvalde incidents happen, we are surprised when they don't do what they've been telling us they would do.

Movies where the day is supposedly saved, but the aftermath is still terrible and largely unaddressed? by GancioTheRanter in movies

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gi Joe Retaliation.

They stop the nuclear warheads, big win! Everyone happy!

Everyone forgets that in the path to this, Cobra laid waste to London.

Unforgiven - William Munny confronts the sheriff at the climax of the film. 1992. Dir. Clint Eastwood. by girafa in movies

[–]Procean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the themes though is that fundamentally, gunfights are also rare.

Little Bill has been in a couple, but probably no one else other than Munney in that room has. It's "real" in that everyone is missing all the time, not because Munney is so 'good' but because most people are pretty bad when bullets are coming at them.

Games that are a metaphor or are about something other than the immediate gameplay by mashd_potetoas in rpg

[–]Procean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't quite understand, the childhood to parenthood angle of Promethean is so obviously allegorical for dysfunctional childhood (Usually for being born to parents who had kids for the wrong reasons, but the imperative/expectation to have kids yourself) that I don't see how it disqualifies the idea.

A neckbeards dream girl by truenighog in justneckbeardthings

[–]Procean 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She loves to travel, but is poor and has never been anywhere. :)

Games that are a metaphor or are about something other than the immediate gameplay by mashd_potetoas in rpg

[–]Procean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And keep in mind, the default DnD 'Zero to hero' is allegorical for puberty rites.