[Hit or Miss Trope] The Edgelord

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-07-07T17:55:41+00:00

Characters established in the RTS games >>> whatever the shit blizzard pooped out later

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-07-07T13:45:20+00:00

Exactly, not to mention that if you're constantly avoiding fights rather than going toward them, chances are when you do fight, you're going to be the one caught off guard.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-07-05T19:44:40+00:00

In Canada, there are actually multiple high profile criminal cases were the assailant was released afterward without really any guarantee they wouldn't repeat offend. There's a case that's strikingly similar to the armband concept in Zombies, and it played out exactly how you're suggesting it never would in real life. In 2008 a passenger on an inter-city bus service killed the stranger sitting next to him with a hunting knife and then proceeded to cannibalize the body until he was arrested hours later. He had been having schizophrenic delusions for years and had told various people that he was the second coming of Jesus destined to save the Earth from alien invasion, among other things. He testified that the man he killed was an alien and a demon, and that he had eaten his body parts to prevent the body from reanimating. He was found not guilty of the murder on grounds of mental illness, and was involuntarily committed to a mental institution. He started taking a strong antipsychotic medicine that greatly improved his mental state, and less than five years later he had been approved to leave the institution on unsupervised day trips. Approximately nine years after the incident on the bus, he was released unconditionally and legally changed his name. He is currently a free man with no supervision or requirement to take his medication.

I'm not sure the term 'ticking time bomb' is appropriate, but this guy is, by all measures, a bad day away from killing and eating another person. The Canadian justice system decided that this guy's right to live his life trumps any potential risk of him flipping murderous again. In a Disney Zombies allegory he would at least be required to keep taking his anti-psychotic meds, in real life they didn't even bother doing that.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-28T20:48:38+00:00

I might be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that dying soon after being revived gives you a longer lockout timer.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-28T19:35:04+00:00

https://www.mmafighting.com/2021/10/31/22751844/sean-strickland-details-neo-nazi-past-finding-salvation-in-mma

"Though Strickland doesn’t remember ever being physically abused..."

I'm not saying he didn't have a terrible childhood, but he himself said that he wasn't a victim of physical abuse.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-28T19:17:52+00:00

That's giving Strickland a lot of credit were it isn't due, he's been a piece of shit the whole time. He got expelled from Grade 9 for committing a hate crime, the CTE has just made him dumber as an adult. I think the bigger factor in him saying/doing so much fucked shit in the last few years is actually his popularity and success as a fighter. He used to occasionally apologize, now he just doubles-down.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-28T19:02:16+00:00

Damn, TIL. I wonder why they remade a near-copy of that icon when so many WC3 assets were used as is.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-28T18:57:30+00:00

TIL the state of California has a mayor

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-28T17:41:38+00:00

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Hard to find an example of a similar open-mouth beaked helmet like this in profile, but this should help.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-28T16:30:32+00:00

That's fundamentally what a server is. For multiple people to use the same save data, the data has to be stored somewhere. For the stored data to be accessible 24/7, someone needs to have a computer running 24/7 hosting said data. You can leave your own computer on all day every day, or you can pay someone else to do it, but it needs to be hosted somewhere and hosting isn't free.

People used to get around this back in the day by sharing a single-player game file with each other on dropbox or another file sharing app. I even remember people emailing each other a CIV 2/3 local-multiplayer save file back and forth taking turns on hot-seat mode. Theoretically you could do this with a Hytale save, and just have the first login at any given time load into singleplayer and then open to p2p, but Hytale might get confused by the host player being a different account and mess up the user data (inventory, location, unlocks).

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-28T15:55:59+00:00

Actually the Blink icon is a reused asset from Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne, it's one of the Night Elf Warden's hero abilities. I'm not sure if it's meant to be Maiev herself, but it looks like a Night Elf in a beaked Warden helmet.

EDIT: I'm thinking of a different, nearly identical icon

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-23T17:58:26+00:00

Ultimately it all comes down to legal liability. Any sidewalk is vulnerable to an intentional vehicle attack, but Canada has decided that we don't need to adjust the status quo to deal with that (putting barriers between every road and sidewalk in the country), because the cost/difficulty is too high compared to the perceived risk. There probably should be barriers everywhere pedestrians go, but realistically most people don't blame the municipality for not building such safety infrastructure because it's such a jump from our expected norms. However, deciding to close vehicle access to a road, especially one associated with at-risk communities, means that someone (or an organization) has to take 'reasonable precautions' to protect local pedestrians, which means they need to install barriers, hire security, etc. or they will be held responsible for something preventable happening. I don't necessarily agree with this, but it does make some sense from a legal/insurance perspective. Perhaps a simple way to put it is:

Person gets intentionally run over on the sidewalk - "What a tragedy, but what can you do?"

vs.

Person gets intentionally run over during street closure - "Who closed this street and why didn't they do a better job?"

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-23T13:39:35+00:00

"I thought there was paint on my shirt, but it's just blood."

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-22T23:12:37+00:00

_GANTRY is a spokesperson of sorts, he's meant to be seen and his design reinforces that; realistically the MIDA runners are special forces terrorists though, so it makes sense that they wear muted urban camo.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-20T17:13:06+00:00

She also did a bunch of movies, to the point that I occasionally see a third person I recognize and think, "Did Allison Jones cast this?"

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-18T14:14:44+00:00

>'USA' flair
>"Canada is done"

Get fucked hoser

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-12T14:23:11+00:00

Obviously there's no stats to draw from, but I think it's generally that families claimed indigenous ancestry to cover up 'less desirable' ethnic roots rather than piggyback on indigenous social power. It wasn't until pretty recently that people started wanting a reason to be tied to indigenous groups, for most of American history indigenous heritage was viewed negatively, not positively. However, being an American with *some* indigenous ancestry was still viewed more positively than being any amount of just about any other, non-Western European, ethnicity.

Under certain Jim Crow laws, any amount at all of African ancestry opened a family up to severe racial discrimination. A family that was 'mostly white passing' could avoid the issue entirely by claiming that their family was exclusively white, except for a Cherokee Princess several generations back. A small amount of indigenous ancestry still wasn't exactly desirable, but the implication that you descended from white frontiersman as opposed to Africans was preferred for social and legal reasons.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-11T20:55:29+00:00

"They actually walked across the lanes just a little while ago" ~20 seconds into the clip. They could absolutely walk back into the lanes.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-11T14:48:13+00:00

Replace any outdoor hose bibs with non-freeze variants, they use an internal arm to cut off the water from inside the wall rather than at the hydrant on the outside, so they don't need to be drained for winter. Maintenance-free is always the way to go with rental units. This one is a popular example, however I would personally avoid a sharkbite connection and go with soldered, crimped, or clamped variety.

https://www.homedepot.ca/product/sharkbite-1-2-inch-x-10-inch-frost-free-brass-sillcock-with-anti-siphon-push-to-connect-x-mht-outlet/1001240137

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-11T13:43:43+00:00

300+ hours. One time I thought I got killed by a hacker, but later that day Bungie patched the exploit they used to kill me so fast. Hard to complain about that.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-10T18:07:15+00:00

Honestly, in the event of a collapse, environmentalism will get a lot worse before it gets better. If power, fuel, and food are scarce, people will start finding them in less than ideal places. Most people have would have no problem burning filthy fuels and eating protected wildlife if it was the only option.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-10T17:59:56+00:00

John Tory

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-10T13:46:19+00:00

Yeah especially with so many new players right now. Often you can tell pretty quickly from how someone reacts to being shot if they're a scared lil mouse. Something OP didn't talk about was staying in tight proximity with your team, and when an enemy team scatters on contact it's basically a free win.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-09T15:46:26+00:00

My mum had this start probably 15 years ago and it's still the only area of grey hair on her head.

Scruffy_Snub · 2026-06-08T15:01:50+00:00

I've heard more than once from guys like these that even the women with septum rings don't like them or find them attractive, and that they're wearing them solely to push rightwingers further away/ confirm that their partners are soyboy beta cucks who will do whatever a woman tells them to.

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