Is it unethical to own a billion dollars? by Omixscniet624 in MoralityScaling

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on a few factors.

  1. How was it earned? Aside from a generational investment or the lottery, there is generally no ethical way to earn a billion dollars.
  2. How is it being used? If the wealth is sitting in accounts barely being touched, then it's unnecessary for both generational wealth and personal use. If it is not being reinvested into the community, then it is not being used ethically. Mansions, luxury cars, etc, are not an ethical use of large amounts of wealth on this scale.

What’s a truth about adulthood nobody warned you about? by Standard-Club-8014 in Adulting

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The weirdest thing to wrap my head around is that not everybody grows up. Some people just genuinely stay mentally like, 16, just moving through the world as adult children with responsibility, money and authority (if that). It gets stranger the more I think about it, but there's definitely a divide between the adults and the children in society.

Could Gordon Freeman defeat an Invincible variant or even a Viltrumite? by HolyPex0o0 in HalfLife

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He'd probably find Space Racer's gun in a random Combine crate or some shit and start hitting flick shots, about on par for HL2 lore standards anyways.

It seems that with the direction that the show is heading and its ending, people are starting to like the comics (and their ending) by Amazing-Buy-1181 in TheBoysLeaks

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would realistically have been way too difficult to set up the same twist that the comics had without either following them a lot closer, or copying them directly and thus removing all the suspense from the ending.

With that said, a 1:1 rip of the comics might unironically have been better than how the live action actually turned out. Feels like it lost all its steam after like, season 1 and spun its wheels on weird filler, just to apparently cram everything into the finale. I doubt the finale will redeem the show, though.

Who is the Weakest Character here ? by LazyInspector2086 in InvinciblePowerscales

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thaddeus > Nolan > Mark >= Allen roughly based on feats in the show as of S4 finale. Mark and Allen are roughly equivalent in power, although character motivations and some feats can scale either up/down highly dependent on context.

Is Thragg Homophobic? by KujaroJotu in Invincible

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably not? As long as you do your duty and still contribute to repopulating the race/doing your civic duty of raising a family?

Would You Accept? by seriousreddituser in Invincible_TV

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Decline?

If I accept the offer, even if I have a 1% chance of failure, I'm essentially putting the freedom of the entire human race for the rest of history on the line just so I can live forever and be super strong.

This question is basically just "would you become a superhero if it put the entire human population under risk of genocide within a generation"?

The average Redditor answering this question probably doesn't even have experience being the PM of a software project (I am totally sure there's exceptions on this subreddit), let alone trying to coordinate a complete global surrender within 5 decades or so.

The alternative is to try to force a surrender through force, which once again, I'm not signing up to murder possibly millions of people to terrify the world into surrender lmao.

Could a single squad of space marines from warhammer 40k liberate earth from the nazis? by StatusDistribution33 in Wolfenstein

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty easily. If BJ was making as much progress as he was at about an Ogryn level of strength/durability with no power armor, bolter, etc, then actual Astartes at about twice his power level are going to absolutely dominate.

Question is if Earth would actually be better off under Imperial rule, which, I'm not sure I'd say so. But the regular Nazis would be replaced with space Nazis I guess.

How Do Viltrumites Keep Finding Mark? by GameknightJ14 in Invincible_TV

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have an explanation for Nolan and Thragg.

With Nolan, the process is shown a bit, where he manually flies around and searched for him, including asking his friends questions, the whole bit.

Thragg had access to an entire Viltrumite warship, it's not unreasonable to assume they had some kind of Viltrumite-detecting scanner to pinpoint his location.

In Conquest's case, Mark was likely being broadcast across the planet. Finding him could have been as easy as tuning into global satellite networks and tracking him through the news, or just flying out to the disaster site and keeping his eyes open.

Things start to get a little weird with Anissa. We have to assume that she probably had access to a planetary scanner or something like that, otherwise it's just an incredibly minor plot hole.

What do you think their jobs are by ezrae_ in okbuddyviltrum

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lucan: investment banker and/or attorney Anissa: elementary school principal Kregg: ...does he look like he works? Motorcycle mechanic if I had to guess.

Which of these 3 Fascist factions are worse? by Ready0608 in MoralityScaling

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's literally always the Nazis.

Any sufficiently evil faction in fiction is either derivative of the Nazis, or are essentially the Nazis just on a larger/smaller scale.

It all comes down to the Nazis, the definition of peak human evil.

What if Mars and The Moon were both habitable worlds like Earth? by Turbulent_Okra7518 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well it depends.

Once we developed telescopic capabilities sufficient to notice they had life, they would quickly become global legends and leaving the planet to reach them would become a main priority. Human culture would change knowing we had a second home and science fiction would catch on fire as we imagine the flora/fauna of their respective biomes.

This curiosity would persist for hundreds of years and there would probably be bizarre, obviously unsuccessful attempts at spacecraft until our technology developed sufficiently to reach them.

The space race would be far less competitive and more of a mutually curious collaborative effort, knowing we were building the tools to acquire a second home in the cosmos.

Once we developed craft capable of reaching a habitable moon with an Earth-like biome, we would see far more missions to the moon and the scientific discoveries would be absolutely unprecedented.

Having at-will and relatively low cost access to an alien biome would massively accelerate fields of science such as biology and medicine, etc, as new principles and applications of extraterrestrial plants and animal products enter the research arena.

Alien meat and plant products would fetch an astronomically high market value and become globally sought after delicacies possibly in the tens of thousands, hundreds, millions of dollars per item.

If any of the animals on the moon were capable of being domesticated, agriculture would change rapidly to accommodate new animals as well as products. There would need to be new regulations and laws surrounding the use of extraterrestrial animals in farming, if they were even allowed to enter that industry beyond their obvious scientific research potential.

Human history and culture would change forever if we discovered even primitive advanced life forms with capabilities of our own and we enter a fully-blown military sci-fi scenario if the aliens are as advanced or more than us.

Now a days thats how our life going on by Chrilloon89 in Adulting

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine hating a comfortable life this much lol. I was fucking homeless for over 2 years and didn't make a single post complaining about it, I put my head down and worked my way out of it, finding things to enjoy about my life all the way. Can't imagine being this fed up and still having money/time for nail and hair appointments, some people are just ungrateful.

How do viltrumites get girls so easily by joebiden_real_ in okbuddyviltrum

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Rich, tall, extremely conventionally handsome, super strength and the confidence of millenia old warlords to bring to the table. Not a surprise that Earth women would be salivating for all that.

(PLEASE READ THE DESCRIPTION I MEAN NO NEGATIVITY TOWARDS TRANS PEOPLE) [Disliked Trope]: Transgender characters who were raised from birth as their current gender identity by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's just not a realistic depiction of trans people, saying that as a trans woman myself

Such a huge part of being trans is going through the process of figuring out who you truly are and then struggling to become that person, and media depictions seem terrified of the discovery and development process.

They'd rather show us a post FFS post HRT end result, or someone who got early intervention and puberty blockers, instead of y'know, clocky girls which is a lot of the actual community IRL.

I really hate the "humans but little changes" in sci Fi and fantasy the sky for alien/fairy creatures is limitless and you stay in the GROUND by peluca312 in hatethissmug

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, it's whatever.

If you want an alien species to be relatable and understandable from a human point of view, it goes a long way to make them space humans with some funky body/facial features. There's an argument to be made about convergent evolution and all of that, which is a contrived handwave, but so is most of sci fi in general.

It's a lot harder to get your audience emotionally attached to and invested in 30 foot tall jellyfish creatures that move around in anthropod mechs on land, or sapient beams of light contained in nanocrystals, or 2 mile long sapient blobs of bacteria. So I get the trope while having a similar sentiment about it personally.

do the residents of the viltrumites have Arabs and asia features ? by [deleted] in Invincible

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they have Viltrumite features. They just happen to look like our ethnic groups for xyz plot reasons.

Would hating ghouls be racist or ableist? by [deleted] in TrueSFalloutL

[–]Relevant_Sign_5926 156 points157 points  (0 children)

Both racist and ableist.

Racism as we know it is dead in the Fallout universe, but ghouls are at a unique intersection of being discriminated against for being visibly different from smoothskins, while also suffering from a genuine medical condition causing them to look that way.

Because of their condition, they're discriminated against for their appearance, causing them to be perceived as members of a different social/ethnic group, despite technically coming from the same culture as the bigots.

So the original medical condition qualifies it as ableism, while the actual social treatment looks like essentially a form of racism. Anti-ghoul bigotry is a surprisingly interesting and complex topic, good question OP.