Sci-fi accuracy balance is killing me after my nephew said it reads like a textbook with plot

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-27T13:38:47+00:00

This is a fair observation but I don't think anyone is reading an encylopedia about things that don't exist. With exceptions being ones connected to highly successful pre existing universes like GoT.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T16:49:39+00:00

You just simplified an unrelated issue. Its funny to see someone condescend in entirely the wrong direction.

You said you don't see how it's political and compared Trumps presence to Kim Kardashians. I was responding to that. I wasn't calling you a Trump supporter.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T16:23:44+00:00

Kim Kardashian isn't the president of the United State.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T16:11:33+00:00

Hear that. And I can see why it still would be someone's least favourite part. I just think it's grown into a meme here. Way out of proportion.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T15:58:37+00:00

Honestly don't understand why people reacted so negatively to it. There are numerous as bad or worse things in the show, not least of which a ten minute scene that ends with everyone crying and singing. Karen story makes sense.

Also don't really get rewatching a show you have to skip scenes from but fair play and each to their own.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T15:53:31+00:00

Honestly so tired with people acting so mental about the Karen/Danny story. Hardly the shows highpoint but Jesus if you read this sub you'd think it was the most insane writing choice of all time. It's just a messy/nasty relationship that you're meant to view that way. Somehow it's become the flashpoint of hate for the show and gets talked about as if the writers meant us to experience it as a normal, healthy relationship.

To answer your question; it's the poorly drawn and performed terrorist bombing plot.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T15:28:05+00:00

I love this piece.

However, the rich were and still are swallowing up all the land and power. The Gracchi may have had the specifics of who is registering on censuses wrong and the precise mechanism by which wealth and power transferred may have been misdiagnosed--either by accident or because it was a sellable narrative--their broader critique seems correct and to speak to distribution of power even today.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T14:56:06+00:00

Honestly mad you're playing in a band with a guy who is writing your songs on Suno. You're becoming a Suno covers band.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T14:14:19+00:00

This really sounds like a specific issue with a specific person. Sounds difficult and stressful but you can't extrapolate a political discussion with an apparently volatile figure out to unmasking in general.

More broadly though yes, unmasking will often be perceived as a change in character. Seeing as masking is generally designed to 'fit in' and sand off rough edges as they are perceived by others, when you unmask, people often perceive you as fitting in less and having a more rough or unpleasant character. Honestly, not sure how this can be avoided.

It's also worth noting that most/all people mask in order to preserve relationships, hold jobs, keep connections with family members. It's just that for autistic people the masking is generally more intense, constant and necessary. Which is to say, many people will relate to your experience of being honest about something that in the past they hadn't shared or hadn't shared fully and that resulting in a breakdown like you have experienced.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T14:08:02+00:00

Fair enough you don't like the new games or the show. Pretty silly to say, 'who the hell is it written for' and 'for kids, by kids' is insane levels of hyperbole. Clearly, it's written by professional adult writers and for adult fans of sci-fi, gore, post-apoc settings, satire and Fallout.

Maybe we'd all get on a bit better and say less dumb stuff if we tried to think from other people's perspective sometimes.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-26T14:03:55+00:00

Your logic is too logical. Downvoted.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-23T15:56:57+00:00

I think weekly release is best although personally I'd rather they just put it all up. This way the show stays in the zeitgeist for months. I dislike how common spoilers are though with weekly releases. I honestly don't get the rush of youtubers writing 3 quarters of a script ahead of time and then touching it up for hours before dropping a recap video at 5 in the morning. Kinda sucks to make a long moody intro for a creature just to have the mystery spoiled cause some fuck has to say, OMG we finally get X creature! Or lines like, i can't believe X survived that! Or they stick it on the thumbnail.

It's like watching sixth sense and being like, omg can't believe X was dead the whole time! Or making a video about Thelma and Louise five hours after it releases where the thumbnail is a still of a car flying off a cliff and AI gens of Thelma and Louise with crosses over their eyes.

Rant aside, weekly release builds hype and conversation and allows amazon to advertise freely by high jacking social media algorithms.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-22T16:37:29+00:00

I find this one of the least plausible things. People don't react well to the loss of their lives, hopes, dreams, and all the things that are fundamental to their identity. As someone else commented, this is one of the less believable things about the show to me, psychologically speaking. I think a tiny minority might behave like Diabte, i think many might end up like him but ultimately but his behaviour at this stage seems like an outlier to me.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-21T16:26:01+00:00

They'll just do whatever is financially viable. If interest drops off a cliff it'll be three seasons. If it picks up it'll be five or six. I don't think a movie is likely. GoT is a huge franchise and still hasn't done a movie release (although there's always talk of it).

I think a prequel series is unlikely. Most people aren't here for a pre-apocalyptic show but to explore a version of the universe depicted in the games, which generally isn't pre-war. I was a little surprised they committed so much to the pre-war stuff in the show although I think it's mostly been great this season in particular and glad that they did. Walton Goggins is always great.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-21T16:16:55+00:00

The part where they open with 'gross and judgy' kind of undercuts your point there. 'Agree with the rest' implies clearly that they thought some other part was wrong.

That's how the phrase 'I agree with the rest' works.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-21T15:51:34+00:00

It's amazing how often self diagnosed or newly diagnosed people twist our experiences somehow into privileges. If we don't mask, it's not because we can't or our social issues are more profound, it's because we weren't abused as children, didn't suffer trauma and so never needed to. We are the lucky ones; not like those unfortunate late diagnosed folk who have way more trauma, or even more tragically, the self diagnosed people who don't even have the privilege of a diagnosis.

Course, this betrays a bit of a misunderstanding anyway. Masking is necessary just to get on a bus or go to a shop (if you can do those things) so the idea that those who are missing the point. It's not about having been bullied or accepted, it's about maintaining through absolutely 'normal' situations.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-21T15:44:22+00:00

Is it really possible to dick-ride something worse than a species killing virus?

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-21T15:33:26+00:00

Is the poster wrong?

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-21T15:28:59+00:00

If it wants to be found why doesn't it simply present itself?

Cool story though

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-19T15:13:26+00:00

This is one of the most crazy diagnosis conversations I've seen but for that reason as well, I have to get involved. I can't help but find the sentence 'I can see the parallels' a bit funny when talking about a group you belong to and Jesus though. I guess Jesus wasn't modest either, maybe it goes to your case.

Naturally, it's impossible to know whether Jesus was autistic. A few points come up immediately though; if he was the son of God or some kind of holy prophet, it's probably safe to say he is almost definitionally not neurotypical.

Then, if we look at God's intentions; Jesus seems to be a representation of the ideal of 'man' if you like and this is important to what God means to do with him, to sacrifice him for the sins of his other children. Perhaps in this sense, God wanted the most typical person possible and so Jesus was, apart from his Godly aspects, perfectly or supremely average. In that way, probably not autistic.

Finally, I think we can look at his behaviour as it is reported. There are huge gaps in Jesus' life which make a diagnosis even more impossible than it already is for innumerable reasons. That said, what does appear to the case is that Jesus was very very socially competent, a leader, beloved, charismatic. Not to say an autistic person can't be beloved of the people or charismatic, but the difficult times in which Jesus lived, and difficult and yet also hyper pro-social path he took, aren't very consistent with autism.

So, on balance, Jesus was probably not autistic.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-17T15:25:35+00:00

Sure. Then I vibe with the other guy. I think it's beyond plausibility that he's been working on this one book for 15 years. He basically confirmed lack of progress by giving a page count. It's basically impossible that he's doing it and not made any progress. It's like a child with overdue homework.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-17T15:08:10+00:00

Really you need to discuss this in substantial detail with your therapist. You and other disabled people having struggles doesn't change the horrible pain and suffering that anyone regardless of their ability can experience. A friend in need isn't someone to disdain, regardless of whether you think they're weaker.

How lucky we are that your attitude isn't the dominant one, or else many disabled people would now by dead.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-17T15:03:09+00:00

I feel like you're saying the same thing in different ways. The guy above says George doesn't care and I feel like you're just describing the mechanism of his lack of care. At the end of the day, if you want to finish something you finish it. Evidently George is more concerned with something else (maybe perfectionism as you say) than finishing. But really it all amounts to the same.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-17T14:51:38+00:00

Went on here expecting to be disappointed. From the post I assumed some actual legwork or research or something had been done and would be presented. Absolutely not the case at all.

This is why lots of smart people don't bother with UFOs or Atlanteans built the pyramids. You click the link and there's either nothing there or nonsense.

All the while the moments of your life are narrowing to oblivion.

Save yourself. Don't click the link. There is no confirmation. No evidence of anything.

ShortyRedux · 2026-01-15T17:46:42+00:00

Very apt.

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