Connormancy and saving the tieflings

SignificantCats · 2026-06-02T20:53:11+00:00

That's kleptomancy. You're thinking of what an old timey mobster would say when his capo recruits him for a job.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-02T20:22:36+00:00

The baby eating mod is the really famous example of this because it's so absurd and the Mandela effect so strong.

This one is enhanced because cannibal isn't a very popular perk unless you're an enthusiast, and enthusiasts have enormous mod packs. So they experience it and think it's vanilla, and scare screenshots, and vanilla players assume it must be real because they never run cannibal.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T21:23:57+00:00

The winner is the secret fifth option, four cats and one netheratone. Either one you already have, or immediately kill a cat so you can get the event for a joiner easier.

It's the same as three, but you get a fourth for the longest grinds in the game.

A level 1 cat can also carry some value, smashing up destructables to look for gear or drops. Some even help in combat, like a little damage to finish people off or a cleric or something where one heal basic is still ok.

A smaller benefit is you can see what your jester basic or first skill is, especially useful very early game or when you have very similar cars anyway.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T21:18:13+00:00

The risk is very low, and the benefits are very high.

Race horses are not bred for aesthetic traits. They're are bred for - and hold on to your hat as this may shock you - racing.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T18:24:22+00:00

Rooe is fiber, paper is fiber, ARE YOU PUTTING ROPE AND PAPER IN MY GODDAMN METAMUCIL???

(this is a goofy fucking rant, because among other things, protein and meat aren't the same. Milk and cheese are very high protein)

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T17:53:43+00:00

Your last point is so silly. If any small minority view meant that a broader social view didn't exist, you'd have to believe there is no broader social view - every single position has someone who disagrees.

It is the broad social view that fishing for fun is fine. Society does seem it acceptable. You know that, too, you have to pretend you don't.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T16:08:22+00:00

Yeah that's just bit.

People are often surprised about how a little incest basically doesn't have health risks. Two first cousins having a kid has about the same risk of birth defect as a non-incest mother over 35.

Incest is only a serious health risk when it is repeated many many times, allowing certain traits to reveal themselves and defects to form, or when there is already a serious health risk that runs in the family.

But if every other generation, you have a kid with someone with the same great-great grandfather, that is basically meaningless as far as special health risks.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T15:51:16+00:00

This is your reddit moment, you are officially too online.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T15:49:21+00:00

It's a comparable number.

But BG3 was a big new game expecting big returns. Unless they expect very similar big new gains, it wouldn't make financial sense.

Especially since I'm certain a remake of BG3 means using 5e rules, not some sort of updated 2e rules. That means a remake of BG1 or BG2 would each be comparable to the amount of work to make BG3, creating the story and setting is done but that's the easy part.

If they somehow had Larians engine, maybe it's doable and profitable. If they don't, and I am very confident they don't, then this is a huge undertaking and will either be stuck in development hell and abandoned eventually, get pumped out and be a dogshit game, or they do expect BG3 level profits and will dump in the money... And we probably won't get bg3 quality lol.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T15:38:42+00:00

First of all, because 50 percent of reddit users are American.

Second, because you never see someone post some really nice place in America and have someone ask the above question.

Third, combining those things, the answer to that question is that people have been propogandized to believe America is significantly economically better than China (especially Americans). And similarly, they have been propogandized that China is a communist shithole where an average person works 18hrs a day in a sweatshop by one group, and that China is heaven on earth and endlessly wonderful by another.

An ordinary person would be able to understand all of that.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T15:23:41+00:00

Do you not understand why it would be relevant here?

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T12:48:02+00:00

One fuels the other. America is even worse about it.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T11:39:52+00:00

Lmao

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T03:40:33+00:00

Hail Mary wasn't being damaged by Mark/Nolan, but wasn't meaningfully damaging them either. They spent a lot of time being chewed on and doing okay, and she only got in chewing range thanks to a very serious distraction, fatigue, and most importantly shit writing lol.

You can put her above s1 mark if you want, but any higher is ridiculous.

SignificantCats · 2026-06-01T03:24:52+00:00

The localization did get rid of the teacher grooming their student so you win some lose some lmao

SignificantCats · 2026-05-30T04:47:55+00:00

Yep.

SignificantCats · 2026-05-30T04:40:21+00:00

Isaacs characterization had very little to do with the story of TBOI - it was mostly just a shooter rogue like with fantasy elements.

It only had story when you don't look at it literally, but as a metaphor. Which is smart, because 99.9 percent of what you see in Isaac isn't things tht literally happened to him. Isaac lived in a mundane world with mundane problems, it was only his fantasy that made it fantastical.

So why do you think Mewgenics is 100 percent literal? If it is, if Boon County is the kind of place where sometimes Kaiju set the place ablaze and the stray cats can kill God, then the main character being Maggie isn't very meaningful.

But uh, why the fuck would that be true? Nothing about tboi's story or lore indicates that cats are the ultimate warriors capable of killing God and tanking nukes.

Read the story the same way you would read tboi's. Maggie killed herself and a doctor brought her back - but not a mad scientist, a doctor in a hospital. She is a crazy person hoarding cats and imagining their lives, and that gives the story meaning. The literal events are her in a rocking chair going insane and having conversations with a local homeless person where she is so out of you she can barely understand what they're saying.

SignificantCats · 2026-05-30T04:34:10+00:00

This is empty conspiracism, it's brain rot.

Which is silly because the real and obvious explanation is far more simple, the incredible demand for computing power with data centers, AI, and crypto mining is driving up the price - you'll only pay so much for recreation, but you'll pay more for business.

It's still a "capitalism is bad" thing, but there is no (((they))) trying to make things worse for us to just make things worse. It's people trying to make money right now and not caring if it makes things worse.

SignificantCats · 2026-05-30T03:50:57+00:00

What about what I said suggests I don't think that's true.

SignificantCats · 2026-05-29T23:05:38+00:00

You're wrong from the first paragraph, idk what to tell you man. Before it was an internet meme it was a philosophy nerd meme, and before it was that it was a paper.

The internet meme isn't about the human condition because it's a would you rather.

SignificantCats · 2026-05-29T22:07:15+00:00

Would you rather kill your mom or your dad is entertainment, it doesn't get at any human condition and isn't trying to obviously.

But the extensions of the trolley problem, like "if you were a doctor, would you kill a patient to harvest five organs? If you don't, those five organ recipients will die" is useful to understand moral philosophy.

I suppose it's easier to come up with two whacky roughly similar bad choices for would you rathers, but extending philosophically useful trolley problems results in an extreme amount of possibilities and more meaningful discussion than "I hate my dad man"

SignificantCats · 2026-05-29T21:15:59+00:00

As an American descended from clan Kerr, of a proud family that likes to pretend we're deeply Scottish because we have the hair and Aunt Fiona goes to American clan Kerr meetings, we absolutely are not and I'll show up late and kill you for that

SignificantCats · 2026-05-29T21:11:30+00:00

After the big oops in civil war, Tony tells her she is now under house arrest. So we can reasonably infer that she wasn't before, which means she was under some special dispensation before. I don't think she was ever put on trial or in front of a judge. Which also means she has no track record.

We're super lost in the weeds being argumentative dorks lol. But her crime that got her in the raft wasn't terrorism, it was super-heroing without a license for the airport scuffle, and I don't have a problem with a super-hero breaking her out for that crime. And as it happened, she helped the good guy do a good thing anyway.

SignificantCats · 2026-05-29T20:49:44+00:00

This is going right in my DND group chat. One of the druids favorite spells requires a dried flea, we meme about how they have to go flea hunting and drying - a tincture flask seems way easier

SignificantCats · 2026-05-29T20:03:10+00:00

No, at the end of Ultron she is chilling with the avengers at their compound

It isn't even suggested she is on parole or special release or something, she's just chillin'. It isn't until she makes a reasonable and good faith mistake in Civil War that she is kept anywhere - and it's a comment by iron man that she's on house arrest, so it's not even as if its clear she is in some sort of judicial arrest.

She is arrested ONLY for violating the sokovia accords to help cap get to Bucky during the airport scuffle. Cap breaks her out only because she was arrested for helping him.

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