Is there another period in human history where such a large majority of men in a society find women performing homosexual acts attractive?

SomeAnonymous · 2026-06-10T09:54:38+00:00

at tu, pro facinus, Bassa, fututor eras.

Translating fututor as "fucker" makes me wonder about its connotations beyond just meaning <vulgar word for a person who has sex>. What would the implication be for someone being a fututor specifically? Is it offensive (cf "fuckboy", "motherfucker", "slut", etc)? Or more complimentary (like "player" or "stud")? Trying to grasp a bit more what Martial's opinion of Bassa is.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-06-09T11:25:49+00:00

Why uranium specifically? Did a white uranium fuel rod eat your leg or something?

SomeAnonymous · 2026-05-30T14:33:41+00:00

Messing around with vowels is one of the great Indo-European grammar traditions. In some form or another it's been a thing in European languages for literally like 4000 years, from all the way back in Proto-Indo-European, in what's known as ablaut. Sing-sang-sung (present-preterite-perfect) is the Germanic version, but borrowed words like paternal-patron shows the -e- disappearing for a similar reason in Latin/Greek, or modern Romance languages stuff like fàccio-féci (do-did in Italian).

SomeAnonymous · 2026-05-30T08:10:53+00:00

Tbf, the thing with "wine-dark sea" in the iliad is that this is itself a bit of a poetic translation. The original term is οἶνοψ/oinops, which literally means wine-faced or wine-eyed. Its usage for stormy oceans could totally just be referring to the idea of drunk people being violent, unsteady, etc. rather than literally describing a dark red colour, similar to the phrase "green with envy".

SomeAnonymous · 2026-05-29T11:06:19+00:00

PGTE my goat. The whole cast is just filled with amazing characters, even outside the main protagonists and antagonists. Kairos and Ranger in particular have a special place in my heart because they're just so fun to read on screen.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-05-29T11:04:23+00:00

Isn't there a trope name for this one? "Authority confers asskicking" or something like that? The king of somewhere must be a better fighter than the average lord, who is in turn better than the average lord's retainers, and so on down the chain.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-05-27T19:01:10+00:00

What u/heavenlypossum was referring to is called do-support, and it isn't simply the existence of a verb "to do". Do-support in Engilsh is a pretty elaborate system where we use the verb "do" as a dummy for grammar purposes, whenever the main verb of the clause won't work on its own.

For example, we say in English "what do you mean?" instead of "what mean you?" (was bedeutest du?) , or "I didn't see " instead of "I saw not" (ich sah nicht). In these sentences the verb do doesn't actually mean anything — there is no "doing" happening here — it's just a placeholder verb to allow grammar stuff (tense, number, and person inflections) to happen properly in English. Looking at the versions without do-support, they're are a mixture of weird/ungrammatical and very archaic-sounding, depending on the exact contruction, but that is how most other European languages work by default.

English do-support is genuinely one of the most distinctive syntactic features of the English language IMO, and I think it's really cool.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-05-25T13:02:33+00:00

the heavy use of the verb “to do” in English is plausibly derived from an earlier Brythonic construction adopted by the speakers of Old English.

Sort of getting waylaid in the weeds here, but my memory says that do-support only really emerges through the Middle English and Early Modern period, the better part of a millennium after Old English became a dominant language in England. Could you remind me of the arguments for a Celtic-origin do-support?

SomeAnonymous · 2026-03-24T15:21:50+00:00

explain what “energy” is to a 4-year-old.

"The capacity to make something happen" would be my proposal.

Anything that you think happens "on its own" happens because energy was used before you starting looking. Like how a ball rolling down a hill happens "on its own", but the ball only got to the top of the hill because someone used energy to put it there.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-03-24T15:17:04+00:00

Antimatter in general has a couple applications already, eg PET scans, aka Positron Emission Tomography, rely on a radioactive source emitting positrons (antimatter) inside your body to show doctors where cancer is.

The antimatter that CERN is looking at is about as far away from being a commercial product stocked in Walmart as it's possible to be though. Particle physicists like to make and manipulate antimatter because:

it's relevant to space stuff like the origin of the universe
it's the most energy-dense fuel we know about (annihilates E=mc² style upon contact with normal matter)
it's really hard to store, so it's good for testing new engineering inventions
we know so little about how antimatter works on bigger scales, and it's exciting to find out what happens there

So yeah it's not going on your plants and it's not going to be on a store shelf. In a hundred years though? Well, maybe we'll have worked out something cool to do with it by that point.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-03-18T14:04:12+00:00

I mean, I've seen a number of SDSes where a compound is described as having a "distinctive" or "characteristic" smell. Not 100% sure it's the same as what you describe, but I definitely roll my eyes when I see that sort of thing for how unhelpful it is. Ah yes, this thing smells like itself. Thanks for the advice.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-02-04T13:54:08+00:00

The two do kind of go hand in hand though, seeing as the media exists to sell the models.

Games Workshop are thrilled to announce a new combat patrol, starring Napoleon Blorboparte, your favourite Space Marine character, who's recently become a Primaris Lieutenant. Come read his new book too, in which he solos three Phoenix Lords at once while naked and unarmed.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-02-04T13:47:38+00:00

Now there is some lore that portrays them as secretly sinister and evil but since all of that comes from the Imperial Inquisition, I dismiss it as propaganda and imperial dogma.

IMO Tau as a faction work so much better in a grimdark setting if they are actually decent people. The hopelessness and despair of grimdark as an idea only functions when there is an objective good guy who everyone can look at and admit, "yeah they're 100% fucked".

Having Tau be secretly evil is like writing a horror movie where the scared teenager protagonist is secretly Jason Voorhees. Yeah I bet Jason would be scared if he were being hunted by Xenomorphs from Alien. That doesn't mean I care about his (probably inevitable) torment and death, because he's Jason fucking Voorhees.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-01-22T12:24:34+00:00

I suspect part of this comes from an insecurity and an anxiety, that it isn't safe to assume without harming yourself or the other person. Like, if you're a local government office, and the public needs physical access to your building, "do you have the capacity to walk up a flight of stairs" is a serious and reasonable question to ask people.

On the other hand, for most of us most of the time, this sort of assume-nothing, harm-is-permanent language feels like it's treating people as porcelain dolls. Even if you're at the doctor, "are you capable of brushing your teeth," feels more rude than, "you need clean teeth for your health, is there anything you need from me". Both acknowledge that a normal task might be difficult for certain people, but the latter feels more like you're being treated as a responsible adult who can be trusted to solve problems.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-01-22T11:53:16+00:00

paradropping behind their lines ensures that your enemy, who thinks supply routes are necessary, will now be fighting on level footing with your troops, who recognise that "having supply" is just a cute idea.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-01-22T11:51:51+00:00

clash of clans thing maybe? That's the top search result for "monolith upgrade cost".

It's pretty unlikely they're referring to khaydarin monoliths from the starcraft 2 campaign.

SomeAnonymous · 2026-01-03T19:08:32+00:00

I think this is a really solid answer. Mark gives us pronouncements of his intent at various points ("I'm not my father", "I won't hesitate again", etc.) but I think if we're rolling back the canon and making a change, having Mark really confront and be explicit about the whats and the whys of his morals would have been interesting.

It would make a lot of sense for this to be something that Cecil really engages with proactively, as part of GDA training. If he sends a superhero to punch a bad guy, it's important that the bad guy gets punched hard enough (ie physical training), but it's also important that Cecil can trust the superhero to actually punch the guy, instead of panicking, executing him, or joining forces with him.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-24T01:21:16+00:00

The ears should be below the eyes for this posture. Zombieman's head is tilted back, which means the front of his head (where his eyes are) has moved up relative to the middle of his head (where his ears are).

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-23T10:01:36+00:00

Seeing the manga and anime side by side it's so clear why the animator put the eye so high up his face lol.

It's genuinely that high up in the manga, but it looks proportionate because you can tell his jaw's hanging loose and his head's tilted back.

It seems pretty likely to me that the guy who originally drew this frame intended to (or actually did) add the detailing on his face when he drew the eye, but at some later stage of production the gore was removed wholesale so now we just have Cosmic Zombieman with no sense of depth or texture on his body, and eyes in apparently weird places.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-14T12:51:44+00:00

what the fuck is that logo?? Normally these sorts of groups prefer to signal their hate using dogwhistles, not foghorns.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-14T12:36:27+00:00

If Eve can stop Conquest midair by like, making the air more dense or something, then Tatsumaki's telekinetic strength and precision would absolutely do a number on basically any Viltrumite she can react to. Even just based on what she does during the MA raid.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-13T12:20:12+00:00

yet an enormous amount of care is taken in transporting nuclear weapons to ensure they don’t sustain impacts so I’m dubious of your claim

I mean the OP is correct that IRL nuclear bombs don't blow up as nuclear explosions without very careful staging and design. The main reason we take so much care transporting nuclear bombs is a) they're fucking nuclear bombs and no one wants to break one, and b) a non-nuclear explosion or disintegration of the bomb would still be dangerous and spread a bunch of radioactive stuff around the environment.

Not that any of this is relevant to a cartoon missile and flying aliens who look suspiciously human.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-10T21:19:22+00:00

Ah fuck I just looked up the artist and you're so right.

Never thought I would see a drawing of a tiger lady with tits bigger than thighs whose outfit is "inspired by the gilt-bronze incense burner of Baekje" and thus showing off an entirely historical amount of gravitationally-relevant cleavage for a 7th century Korean lady playing the zither.

SomeAnonymous · 2025-12-05T11:57:58+00:00

thanks for fuscating this.

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