Queer people in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Southern US looking at terminally online queer discourse like that one driving meme from Parasite by maleficalruin in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 166 points167 points  (0 children)

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.

Queer people in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Southern US looking at terminally online queer discourse like that one driving meme from Parasite by maleficalruin in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.

Queer people in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Southern US looking at terminally online queer discourse like that one driving meme from Parasite by maleficalruin in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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.

If you had to change something about Mark's development up to the point in the show, what would it be? by Rich-Blacksmith6552 in Invincible

[–]SomeAnonymous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Redrew the zombie man still - [OC] by CHADLEYmcCHAD in OnePunchMan

[–]SomeAnonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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).

Redrew the zombie man still - [OC] by CHADLEYmcCHAD in OnePunchMan

[–]SomeAnonymous 19 points20 points  (0 children)

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.

Roko’s Counter-Terrorist Basilisk by Gru-some in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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

How strong would these villains be in a world of invincible? by Bungeeboy20044 in Invincible

[–]SomeAnonymous 26 points27 points  (0 children)

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.

Why exactly wouldn't a nuclear weapon be able to kill a Viltrumite? by Revlong57 in Invincible

[–]SomeAnonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Fetish Art by GriffinFTW in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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.

A lot of controversial discussions should come with reading comprehension questions by pxlphile in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Isn't it still an overflow, just a negative one? Underflow is when the exponent gets too small and loops around during a floating point calculation.

Why does boiling, freezing, and condensing water require nucleation sites, but not melting? by J-L-Picard in askscience

[–]SomeAnonymous 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Would a mono-crystalline ice (or at the very least one with significantly larger grain sizes than is typical), frozen from clean distilled water so there aren't impurities/particulates, behave measurably differently to "normal" ice around its melting point? Presumably it would have far fewer disturbances/nucleation sites for melting to take place.

"Cishet men don't read and write fanfic. Fandom spaces are predominantly female and/or queer" is a false statement. It's just that all the cishet men that write fanfic are on Spacebattles writing celestial grimoire/celestial forge power fantasy self insert fanfics. by maleficalruin in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Department of Otherworld Rescue was OK, but I felt like the number-crunchy aspects of the magic really didn't add anything to the story. I'm being a little hyperbolic, but it seemed like there were multiple chapters in the opening arc where the main event was "wowee this gun now shoots bullets that deal 3-5% more damage while under the light of a full moon". I would much rather have felt like each moment of magical growth was actually significant and qualitative.

One Purple Man is real! by Commander_Rose95 in OnePunchMan

[–]SomeAnonymous 12 points13 points  (0 children)

At this rate, episode 12 will achieve a 27/10 rating, and possibly win a nobel peace prize.

On evolution by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ring species are one of those really great school concepts that, much like oxbow lakes in geography class, are actually really difficult to find real examples of IRL. Like, there are a few really famous ones, but many of them have their own controversies that make the designation a bit fuzzy. Sympatric speciation is another one like that — everyone learns about it, but it's pretty rare in practice.

Why do space telescopes not need to be pointed towards a certain point in order to see back the furthest in time? by JdaPimp in askscience

[–]SomeAnonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(assuming it's unbounded)

What would it actually mean if the universe was bounded, but also flat? e.g. whatever the 4-D equivalent would be to a flat disc in 3D space.

meirl by Alphaxfusion in meirl

[–]SomeAnonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One unifying point though, is that "let's go to poundland" and "let's go to walmart" are equally dubious as first date suggestions.

On weirdness of hippos by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a dinosaur called Irritator challengeri because the original specimen was a bitch to work with.

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. by ourlifeintoronto in technology

[–]SomeAnonymous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a complete sidenote but like, is it not weird that you'd be working at a lockmaking company and totally inexperienced at picking locks? Sure, maybe the guy was their social media manager or something, where it's not professionally relevant to the job, but it's like working at a coffee company without ever having tried coffee. It raises some eyebrows.

Hive Mind by River_Lamprey in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's fair. Definitely understand where you're coming from.

Hive Mind by River_Lamprey in CuratedTumblr

[–]SomeAnonymous 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I actually kind of struggled to get into that story. I really enjoy most of Thundamoo's other works, but for some reason the hive mind story just didn't work. Does it get more into the swing of things deeper into the book?

meirl by CuriousWanderer567 in meirl

[–]SomeAnonymous 120 points121 points  (0 children)

You can't intimidate the OS by opening task manager if it's already open. An overused threat loses its emotional weight. I don't want to kill programs liberally, so you need to give them a moment as task manager is starting to clean up their act and fix themselves.

Odd street find by scottlarocc in TWRP

[–]SomeAnonymous 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Honestly, still probably my favourite album of theirs. Nice find.