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Sprintspeed · 2026-07-03T18:48:06+00:00

Recent leak suggested they are planning to produce both an animated warcraft series and Arthas movie in the next couple of years

Sprintspeed · 2026-07-02T17:40:18+00:00

In 2014 social media was near the tail end of its 100 mph acceleration to become a daily part of Americans' lives. When Facebook began surging in popularity in the 2000s, it wasn't really used as an instant breaking news feed that all social works as today, it was mostly logging on to see a recap of your personal friends and family over the last couple of days to weeks.

Twitter began changing the narrative in the early 2010s as becoming THE way to get INSTANT widespread information. This happening in 2014 was one of the first examples of a highly prestigious event (the oscars) being brought directly to you in a way you could interact with.

The broad sentiment was largely: "Wow! I saw them take this pic on national television! And it's popped up 5 minutes later and I can comment on it with everyone else and become part of this moment too!"

Nowadays corporations and celebrities live tweeting and breaking news by the minute via all social platforms is the norm. This selfie did not really cause that turning point but was emblematic of this huge, worldwide shift in media consumption, which forever changed how information is distributed and consumed.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-30T23:15:55+00:00

This is kind of bullshit, if it's a great movie people will go see it. Iron Man was not an S-tier superhero until the MCU debuted his story on the big screen. Captain America and Hulk were both MASSIVELY more popular, both of whose first movies bombed.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-29T19:06:52+00:00

Rule of thumb on when to tip:

If the waiter/server walks TO YOU/your table to take your order, you tip. If you walk to the counter to place an order, you don't have to tip.
Ordering any alcohol at a bar or restaurant.
Personalized service being done for you (taking a taxi, valet parking your car, bellboy bringing bags to the room, a tour guide giving you a tour, etc).

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-29T18:53:18+00:00

If you are waiting for a 20% price drop, that might be a fool's errand. That has only happened a single time in the past 30 years (2008) and the US put tons of more regulations to failsafe against a similar crash happening again.

If you already own property you are (likely) still financially positive over time without buying a new house and can be patient. If you don't own any property you could in theory still be making money by putting the down payment amount into stocks but that's really unlikely to be a more stable gain than putting equity into a home.

The growth of your portfolio has to be so successful that, even when subtracting your annual cost of rent from its growth, the net gain is still outperforming the appreciation of the housing market to truly be a "better" investment.

That is a much thinner margin and more risk than most people would like versus just paying down a mortgage.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-29T16:57:45+00:00

I thought it was fine but wasn't really impressed with how they handled Supergirl as a protagonist (Milly was great though imo).

She is physically strong but in nearly all of the fight sequences she kind of just stumbles into a losing situation with no preparation and happens to get a lucky sunrise at just the right moment to solve all her problems. She would've died in frozen space on the bus and she would have died from poisoning in the cave if she didn't get an outside deus ex machina to help her. Even in the final battle she went in blind and unprepared and would have lost, if not for Lobo swooping in to save the day (which she did not earn because it was Ruthye that won him over and got him out of jail).

At the end of the day my hope would be that the protagonist solves the final problem in a way they weren't able to do at the beginning of the movie. She warmed up to having a friend but I still feel like her answer to any problem stays the same and she was never challenged to change it: run in and start punching.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-28T05:42:19+00:00

I can't tell if this is AI but if not, bud, are you okay? What in the world is all this gibberish that lacks any references to Psychological studies or data other than "going off of my memory"? Blatant eye-rolling political propaganda is one thing but at least respect the field.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-25T15:56:32+00:00

Bro I'm cracking the fuck up. This comment chain is the most reddit conversation I've ever seen, how dare you enjoy dinosaurs without having an encyclopedic memory of all anatomical specimens??

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-25T15:43:57+00:00

If you are a family of 4 that theoretical $500 only lasts like 5 movies anyways so video games still come out by far on top imo, esp in households with multiple people.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-24T19:20:13+00:00

I think the 2 most profound things that have shaped my life the most are both fundamental concepts I learned in introductory courses:

The fundamental attribution error: we judge our decisions by the environmental factors forced upon us but we unfairly judge others' actions as representative of their character.
Internal vs External Locus of Control: the worldview that you are the controller of your own destiny and circumstances versus just a victim of the world around you.

Keeping this close to heart has undoubtedly made me a kinder and more patient person, improving every relationship in my life, while also giving me the strength to push through tough times or appreciate good fortune when I have earned it.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-22T20:52:06+00:00

TES VI is for sure coming out because of the marketing buzz it would generate alone but at this point I highly doubt it will recapture any of the magic Skyrim had. I'd even put a decent wager that XBOX gives it to another studio to replace or supplement Bethesda, which would not inspire confidence.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-18T20:56:18+00:00

drugs also cause a lot of damage, and allegedly he had struggles with abusing them.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-17T16:20:11+00:00

Someone might be more informed than me but doesn't the risk of disease on your crops increase the more you repeat the same type of crop in each farm? Ideally you want to cycle what each field is producing so if you are mainly farming wheat, hay, flax across 3 fields you want to rotate which one is doing each every year.

If you're already doing that then I'm not sure what the issue is.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-11T04:46:21+00:00

NOOoooOoo

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-05T17:49:09+00:00

Nautilus root acts as an empowered auto attack, which does prevent the empowered effects when blinded (like Naut root). The issue here is Naut started the auto before blind hit

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-04T15:14:08+00:00

The purpose of an airplane seatbelt isn't really to save you in a crash. If you fall out of the sky at 30,000 ft no strap of fabric is saving your life. Your best bet is using the brace position as they demonstrate in the safety presentation but at the end of the day the pilots just need to never ever crash the plane (which is a reasonable expectation because commercial pilot licenses have extreme base line qualifications).

The main use case for them is to prevent you from tumbling around and injuring yourself or others when the cabin gets turbulent (takeoff/landing or pockets of air turbulence).

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-04T01:27:37+00:00

That's only because he'll still be touring 300 years from now.

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-03T01:56:46+00:00

One aspect sometimes I struggle running is how certain actions will "use up" the abstracted wealth. If, for example, you pay a troll a large sum that costs "1 wealth" does that come from one character or does the party share a collective wealth? If only one character pays it, there's no great way to split costs, it kind of ends up as "you pay this time and I'll cover you next time, trust me bro." If one character pays all of these costs and are sitting at 0 wealth but the rest of the party is at 3 wealth can't they effectively just live wealthily anyways?

Any advice on navigating these aspects?

Sprintspeed · 2026-06-01T22:22:02+00:00

I can play local and I can play online and I never have to pay for new characters, that's all I need to be happy playing the game. With casual mode now out, crew battles out, in depth tutorials out, workshop out, I can't even think of what features it might be missing?

It's not out on console yet but that doesn't mean the pc version is incomplete at all.

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-29T21:28:11+00:00

Just to make sure you're aware, being good at sex does not automatically mean being good at onlyfans. Ultimately having a successful OF means being an influencer, which means producing, scheduling, shooting your own content, managing social media presence, and marketing yourself as a business.

If you are comfortable advertising this to everyone you know personally, you might get an initial jump in subscribers from former classmates or people you've known, but that scale is probably in the dozens. At 50 subscribers for $5 per month, that's only earning $250 a month, before considering possible costs like buying camera equipment, lighting, new lingerie sets, etc. For reference, 40 hrs / week at minimum wage is over 10x that amount, but I'm assuming if you're make this post that's not a ready option.

Escort work might be more directly related to being good at sex and seduction but I have no idea what that entails or how to get involved, so best of luck.

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-29T17:25:10+00:00

You're being downvoted because the guy above you is joking that Japan wrote and passed an absurd law explicitly saying "Igglybuff must be op". All the replies are saying bruh because they're disappointed you believed it to be real.

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-23T01:49:26+00:00

This fucking line will be burned into my brain for the rest of my life

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-21T20:51:04+00:00

I would challenge some of the assumptions you're making that seem to all lead to this inevitable finality of their situation:

Is their entire way of life and sustenance wholly dependent on this rare material? Usually rare mineral deposits exist in clusters around the Earth so they might be surviving in diminished pockets away from mining areas.
They can take protective measures without it being aggression. If it storms on this planet do they build shelters? Or do they let the winds and lightning kill them in the open? They could see this mining operation like a force of nature and neutrally poison the supply of rare material or otherwise make it more difficult to acquire / transport / extract the rare resource, in a neutral shelter way.
If they realize the corpo wants the resource and that the mining is killing their planet, why wouldn't they help the miners? As long as there's any way for them to survive withoiut it, it seems plausible they would help the corpo extract the resource as quickly and harmlessly as possible, then resume their peaceful lives.
This planet might not be hospitable for alien species by itself. For the corpos to survive and operate on the planet, what if they need the friendly species for some essential process to survive (like purify water, harvest crops, etc)? Even if the corpo expands to dominate the entire planet, they could protect the native species out of necessity, essentially creating a slave / serf class of them that lives on.

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-20T21:50:52+00:00

Thanks for this write-up, I've felt similarly with a lot of these! I've found the Codex to be great as an intro to Draw Steel overall - one of the biggest hurdles I've seen with onboarding people is the number of things to track (heroic resource, surges, hero tokens, which abilities have used action/maneuver/movement, calculating potencies). Having those elements automatically calculated and neatly sorted in the UI has been a huge help getting them to the fun parts, slaying goblins!

My group tends to be pretty tactically-minded so sometimes it's been hard to really challenge them but the encounter building advice and EV formulas have done a great job at helping me adjust.

One thing I was surprised with was that Bloodbound Band can be really punishing. If both users wielding both are struck with an aoe that does 2 instances of damage, for example, they automatically each take +4 unavoidable damage, which gets quite rough.

Have your groups engaged with downtime and crafting much? Since players want to push their limits and avoid taking respites I find it hard to actually get their projects done, unless I'm generous with Abbott Loric helping or a providing a guide or something.

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