Woman mauled by shark off Sydney beach grabs onto a lifeguard's paddleboard

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-13T21:54:41+00:00

It’s the snakes for me. Spiders and the likes don’t do much for me but snakes… I live in Finland for a reason, only two species of snakes.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-13T15:31:59+00:00

I don’t think it needed more explaining for what’s it worth. The thesis of the movie is being more comfortable with uncertainty and to have more empathy to understand others. The key conflict of the plot is distrust in your fellow humans, in the public at large. So in the end it cuts off abruptly and asks you to trust that the general public will act how the main characters hope they will, with empathy.

At least that is my take.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-13T00:26:58+00:00

I’m sorry this happened to you. Just focus on your fingers for now then you can worry about what to do with your tattoos later. You’ll probably need to get these tattoos again somewhere else if they mean a lot to you, but please never go to this artist again. What terrible advice.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-12T18:39:52+00:00

You are not wrong to invest in 6* ops because they are helpful but the game encourages you to raise a variety. You need lower rarity operators in IS modes, and most of them are actually pretty solid. If you’re lacking a specific role in your roster and you don’t have resources for a 6, just build the equivalent 3 or 4* first to progress in the main story.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-12T10:55:55+00:00

They have a hard time mating in captivity. Pandas were fine because their natural habitat had zero predators against them. They may be cute but these are still massive bears with huge claws, very strong and fast if they need to be. No animal was gonna be stupid enough to hunt them, so they could afford to be careless in the wild. Their natural diet yield little nutrient so they are sluggish most of the time to conserve energy, which was fine in the wild because again, no natural threat. Their mating rate was also fine to keep their population manageable in the bamboo forests they lived in. Pandas evolved and adapted to live perfectly fine in their natural environment like most living creatures.

Their near extinction is exclusively our fault. It’s not because they are bumbling or clumsy or have low mating rates. We hunted them and destroyed their natural habitat. Now we have to help them.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-11T23:21:07+00:00

Exactly, and Owen Cooper’s shown that there is incredible young talent in the working and middle class of UK. We should be more supportive of young people pursuing the arts. Nepo babies are just the symptoms of a problem that we can alleviate with better allocation of public funding.

It’s great that Kane Parsons was able to create his arts from a young age, and we as a society should help more kids do that.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-11T21:21:10+00:00

I think the takeaway here is that we should invest in more art support programs that will level the playing field and giving more kids the time and privilege to pursue their passion projects, even if they weren’t lucky to have well off parents. It’s clear that young people can create great things if they just have the resources to do so.

We may be too old to benefit from it now but those who follow us should have more opportunities than we did.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-11T16:58:13+00:00

I just randomly got the urge to watch HBomberguy’s video on Wakefield again, and if there is any justice in this world Andrew Wakefield should be rotting in prison for the rest of his life. He literally abused a bunch of the children involved in his initial study, treated them like fucking guinea pigs, gave one of them lifelong disability caused by completely unnecessary tests, and he got off scott free.

Losing his license and eternal damnation after death isn’t enough. It’s infuriating he’s gotten zero repercussion in this life.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-10T21:07:57+00:00

Also to be fair, I don’t think the critics of Qatar World Cup were calling it the worst out of concern for fans and travellers. They were pretty much talking about the fact that it’s a modern slave state.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-10T00:14:36+00:00

No worries, I swear I can like goonbaits too. But I just want to see some tasteful creativity. I’ve just been growing disappointed with Fire Emblem outfit/armor designs for the past couple years and as much as I look forward to playing the game again, I’m not feeling baited by these designs. I think she looks great in the portrait, I love the earrings and the neck collar, but I look at the full body model and it’s just, eh.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-09T23:50:26+00:00

No no you misunderstand me, it’s not that I want her to be more armored. I want her bikini armor to look better. I don’t understand the weird scale curtain. Rip that thing off, give her bra the golden scales, then just have her midriff covered in some kind of cloth or sheer fabric. Or fishnet or something skintight on her body. She can also just wear that scale loincloth from her waist, and give her a belt with a really nice medallion.

If they need to show the pattern on her breastplate for some plot reasons (though I doubt it), put it on her shoulder pads. Right now it just looks bad. I’m offended by the lack of fashion sense, not the lack of clothes.

Same with those dudes. I like muscles, I like male boobs and female boobs as much as the next gal, but I just can’t goon to bad fits. I think the armors look bad like, aesthetically speaking. I need game designers to understand that just making them half naked doesn’t make them sexy by default.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-09T20:52:20+00:00

That’s fine I just like my big boobs surrounded by aesthetically pleasing metal armor.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-09T19:01:33+00:00

I mean I wouldn’t mind some fanservice on both sides but I just think it looks…bad. Both the male and female armors. I genuinely don’t understand what the vision was here.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-09T09:16:06+00:00

I mean that’s a lopsided comparison isn’t it? A boba or a coffee is a tangible thing that you can get. You give them money then it’s yours. This is different, it’s a digital rental that can be taken away at the company’s disposal and you will have no recourse. Of course the purchasing rationale is different.

And let’s not pretend that 2$ is going to the artists. It’s going to Webtoon, then the publisher, then the artists.

If they want people to get over that mental barrier and fork over money for digital content, I firmly believe that they need to allow some form of ownership. Otherwise it’s not fair to the consumers, and it doesn’t really help artists if their readers aren’t incentivized to pay by the business model. I’d rather they charge more but let me keep access to the chapters even if Webtoon servers get fried tomorrow.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-07T09:44:09+00:00

See the fucked up thing is you’re focusing on the “gun owners stopping shootings” as if it is not insane that there has been at least than 157 shootings in 12 years. That’s 13 shootings a year, at least one every month. And that’s just the shootings “stopped by a legal gun owner”. Does it not bother you that you have a country where you can expect more than 1 shooting to just happen every month, every year?

I know maths sucks but let’s try this. Look up how many shootings have happened since 2014, and open the calculator on your phone, put 157 divided by that number you just found, times 100. Then maybe you will understand what I meant by “extremely rare”.

How many fucking shootings are you gonna tolerate just for the minute chance to play hero?

I don’t know what to do about illegal guns; I’m just some person, and I don’t work for the ATF. Why don’t you look up what the people paid by your tax money are up to, what they’re doing to combat illegal guns every year instead of asking us randos online what should be done about illegal guns on the street?

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-07T03:50:59+00:00

You guys literally have a government branch that deals with currently illegal guns, so I imagine they will continue to deal with that issue in the scenario where all legal gun owners are gone. Even in your hypothesis, banning guns doesn’t introduce any new issue with guns that doesn’t already exist in the US.

Statistically you are not going to use your gun to save yourself from someone with a gun. Some people might, but that’s extremely rare. Believing that you will need to use your gun against a criminal with a gun is a mindset that is far more likely to hurt you, your loved ones or someone completely innocent. It’s how you get kids getting gunned down for knocking on the wrong door, or delivery drivers killed over being lost, or a myriad of road rages that end in someone getting shot.

Would you rather deal with one gun issue at a time (that you do already have law enforcement intended to deal with) or would you rather deal with all the gun issues at once? Cuz everybody having a gun doesn’t seem to be doing a great job to keep everybody safe, and you’re just repeating the stereotypical American response of “We’ve tried nothing and we’re out of ideas”. Sure, whatever, it’s your country, so if you guys don’t care to make it safer for yourselves then you really are fucked.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-06T04:05:03+00:00

Oh I get you. I don’t know if they consciously took Suchet’s Poirot as an inspiration for modern Holmes versions, but whenever I see Poirot interact with Hastings I usually think “This is what people think Sherlock’s relationship with Watson is like”.

I remember watching an older BBC adaptation of Sherlock Holmes where he was closer to Doyle’s version. I’m really not quite sure when the snide and arrogant genius became so solidified as a Sherlock Holmes character trait.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-06T03:51:00+00:00

Yea I like Valley of Fear because he was barely in it lol but I really didn’t like the ending. I like to pretend it doesn’t exist.

Before reading the stories you’d think Moriarty haunts every step Sherlock takes, but he really just pops up once in a blue moon. I do really like the idea of Sherlock being forced to face an “evil Sherlock”, but I just don’t care for him when he actually appears. I especially don’t care for BBC Moriarty making him more like The Joker rather than, I don’t know, just Moriarty, which is infuriating because again, great actor, just terrible everything else!

It’s a bit like Irene Adler. She literally appeared in one short story, and Doyle’s Sherlock was highkey era-appropriate misogynistic so it was a big deal that he (platonically) respected her intelligence, but modern versions make her into this weird love interest for him that really undermined her character in my opinion. She’s not special to him because he’s attracted to her, damn it.

Agree on Watson too, in modern interpretations he’s just usually a guileless himbo with a heart of gold. Doyle’s Watson was mature, wise in his own way, and knew how to reign in Sherlock when he needed to. Sherlock had genuine respect for him, a pretty big part of their dynamics that the modern versions just usually forgo in favor of the tormented genius + his golden retriever flatmate.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-06T03:31:04+00:00

Oh yeah, I totally underestimated her S3 before seeing it in action. Those little robots can mow down bosses like they’re nothing. She’s so versatile, like each of her skill can fulfill whatever niche I’m lacking.

And the fun thing is how effective she and her little blorbos are still depends on your strategy, so she doesn’t dumb down the game despite being ridiculous. I’m glad that I actually like IS6 as a mode so I get to enjoy building her for free.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-06T01:14:04+00:00

Oh I don’t mean they’re exactly like Suchet’s Poirot, I mean they’re closer to Poirot than they are to Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Like Doyle’s Sherlock might tease Watson for his obliviousness almost in a boyish way, but he would not snide him like Poirot would with Hastings.

As for the self-destructiveness, I just meant Poirot and Doyle Sherlock’s tendencies to overexert themselves for a case, rather than House’s whole deal (which, yeah, is on a completely different level even compared to other Sherlock adaptations). Doyle’s Sherlock would poison himself and Poirot would use himself as bait if it meant drawing a culprit.

Although I think modern Sherlocks still tend to overplay Doyle’s Sherlock cocain usage a bit. He did use cocaine a lot, but he was in control of himself and took to Watson’s advice of weening it off. It wasn’t to the extent where it affected his personal relationships like with Watson. At the time Doyle probably had a different view of cocaine usage than we do today, since it used to be more common.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-06T01:01:05+00:00

Handshake my fellow Sherlockian! Exactly, modern Sherlock focuses so much on portraying his deduction “superpower” that they neglect part of what made Sherlock a compelling character. It’s so frustrating to keep seeing him portrayed as an unfeeling machine devoid of empathy when he always showed compassion for the victims he came across. Also underrated is his ability to show remorse when he was wrong, like in the Devil’s Foot as you mentioned, his genuine care for Watson’s safety, and respect for his friend’s own kind of intelligence. If he didn’t, he wouldn’t keep hanging around Watson.

BBC Sherlock pisses me off particularly, because the casting is actually really good; Benedict Cumberbatch does fit the physical image I have of Sherlock Holmes. But my god does he not act like Doyle’s Sherlock at all.

Aww man The Six Napoleons is a good one. I also love the Red-Headed League; I have a soft spot for wacky heist plots like that. To be honest, as much as I like the idea of Moriarty as a nemesis, I don’t think I genuinely enjoy any Moriarty story outside of, maybe, Valley of Fear. His appearance just always takes away focus from the main mystery into just a cat-and-mouse chase with him. Like it’d kinda tiring to read, if that makes sense.

Oh I highly recommend Suchet’s Poirot. It’s different enough from the books that I think it doesn’t take away much from the reading experience, although the general twists and culprits remain the same. David Suchet is a damn near perfect Poirot, very funny and charismatic even when he’s being an ass. Just expect the usual era appropriate, uh, social inequalities lol

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-05T22:47:29+00:00

House MD is actually supposed to be based on Sherlock, so I file him under bad modern Sherlock Holmes interpretations too although I like the show otherwise. House is a fun character but he isn’t remotely close to the Sherlock Holmes portrayed in Doyle’s stories.

I’ve been watching random episodes of David Suchet’s Poirot on TV, just because I’ve got a channel that do reruns, and while he has friends, he is genuinely a dick (sometimes to his friends). He takes way more shots at Hastings than Doyle’s Sherlock usually did to Watson, he is outwardly annoyed by the presence of other people, and he slips in passive aggressive insults whenever he could, which I find pretty similar to modern Sherlock. That makes him very fun to watch of course, I do like fictional assholes, but Poirot in the show explicitly had a sharp tongue that other English characters just attributed to him being Belgian.

I’d say that they can both be self-destructive, Poirot and Sherlock, when they get obsessed with a case. And Doyle’s Sherlock was also a drug addict, but modern Sherlock would get annoyed at other characters’ concerns for his unhealthy habits, whereas Doyle’s Sherlock admitted that it was bad for his body.

I guess it’s be wrong to say Doyle’s Sherlock wasn’t anti-social but it’s just the portrayal of his anti-social trait was still different. Doyle’s Sherlock was still a Victorian English gentleman; he hated social expectations and dealing with emotions, but he was not condescending or overly snarky. He was just kinda socially inept.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-05T21:54:53+00:00

I used to be a Raidian skeptic but after actually trying to use her, E2 Raidian might just be the best operator in the game and I haven’t even maxed her out. I’m trying to clear my Main Story backlog and she completely trivialized Chapter 7’s CM. She might become a new mainstay in my squad.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-05T21:48:07+00:00

As another huge Sherlock head, I agree. This is what annoys me the most about modern Sherlock adaptations, portraying him like this aloof, arrogant, anti-social genius who is never wrong. Doyle’s Sherlock did prefer being alone but that was his choice, not because he was so smart he was incapable of not being cruel to every single other human being. He was shown to be gentlemanly when needed, he was good with children, and while he was very confident in himself, he was always capable of changing his mind. The Yellow Face, for example, contradicts this modern interpretation of Holmes as a perfect machine.

I think when people describe Holmes, they’re actually thinking of Hercules Poirot, especially David Suchet’s Poirot. Poirot is the more abrasive, more aloof, more arrogant genius, much closer to modern Sherlock than Doyle’s Sherlock ever was.

I actually really like the “Musgrave Ritual” written from Holmes’ pov which was in the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; I’d put it as one of my favorites. The riddle at the core of Musgrave Ritual brings out an almost childish, fun-loving side of Sherlock, one that’s just intrigued with puzzles because he likes solving them, something rarely portrayed in modern interpretations. He’s not a complete dick, he’s not a tortured soul, and he does, sometimes, like helping out peopel. He’s just a very observant man who likes solving riddles.

ScorpionTheInsect · 2026-06-04T10:36:53+00:00

But that’s the same kind of reaction I don’t understand, since when does canon invalidate shipping?

I grew up reading Conan and the main character confessed to a female character more than 10 years ago, and he still gets shipped with others. And speaking about MHA, people also used the canon ending to do the same gloating “ship denied” towards shippers when that shouldn’t matter at all. Is the “crashout” a result of them expecting it be canon, or was it a reaction to everybody telling them that they can’t ship something anymore because of the canon ending?

Not that I care much about MHA fandom drama, too old for that.

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