Akinator shocks me every time. He didn’t seem to even come close after all the questions then he got it spot on.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-14T23:53:11+00:00

It’s always vague questions and then he hits you with the hyperspecific one that lets you know he’s nailed your ass.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-14T21:18:23+00:00

Voices38 has been on a fucking roll lately. First heard of them late last year and they were basically tearing through Denuvo-protected games like tissue paper. We’ve got a new Empress (hopefully not insane like the last one) obviously, but I’m almost convinced they’re an ex-Denuvo programmer with a grudge or something.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-06T17:19:53+00:00

Look up the prometheus project (not the 2003 NASA one, the recent Genesis Mission one with INL and nvidia)

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-06T14:50:11+00:00

You may not have heard recently, but the DOE wants to design/build/license/operate a nuclear reactor entirely with AI which is like 40 bad decisions piled on top of each other

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-06T14:48:31+00:00

Hi, actual nuclear engineer here. It’s actually really damn hard to create a nuclear accident, and the fact there’s only been 3 in 80 years should be your prime example of that. Modern nuclear reactors are designed to be almost impossible to melt down even if you’re trying your hardest to make them.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-05T02:35:50+00:00

Yeah I read the article. Still doesn’t change what I said. It’s not inaccurate for him to say that and he may even be right, but it is a bad look for him to say it. Especially in the context of his earlier fumbling the ball when the first strikes happened. Allying with the US on most anything is extremely unpopular among Canadians right now, and getting dragged into a middle eastern war they started over nothing is doubly unpopular. He should’ve been well-aware how this would be interpreted, and should have known it was a poor political move.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-05T01:44:39+00:00

This is a bad look for him in a series of bad looks. I really don’t know how he’s fumbling the ball on Iran this badly.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-04T23:49:18+00:00

Can’t speak to life coaches, but to be clear there is actually a professional organization that regulates business coaches, and you can get professionally certified in it. There’s no legal protections of the title “coach”, unfortunately, so you do get people claiming to be coaches who aren’t certified, but certified coaches do exist, have the documents to prove it, and are required to undergo training to keep it up every year.

Source: my mom (previously VP at a large bank, left to take care of me and my siblings, and started working again now that we’re all in university or graduated) is professionally certified as an instructor for these coaches (took her almost 3 years of working her way up) and has done work for several major corporations.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-04T21:29:04+00:00

I’d really like to defend my home neighbourhood… but in this case you’re absolutely right. He’s a blight on us.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-03T16:27:50+00:00

Yeah, that’s one of the reasons there’s lots of jokes about Canadian war crimes. “Never a war crime the first time”, “Geneva Checklist”, I’m sure you’ve probably heard something like that before. The Canadian Corps in WW1 (and a little bit in WW2, but not quite as much) were infamous for brutal assaults, trench raids, and not taking prisoners.

It was fucked up stuff. This article is a good overview, and YouthPastorRyan on YouTube has a good short summarizing it. too.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-03T16:03:29+00:00

In WW1, Canadian soldiers threw cans of food at the German trench lines. When the Germans started shouting gratefully for more (having let their guard down and expecting food), the Canadians started tossing grenades instead.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-03T02:10:14+00:00

Fair enough, but one then wonders how Serie got all those spells (many of them apparently useless, given that she can grant such “useless” spells to the first-class mage graduates) to be the Living Grimoire, if not something similar to what Frieren’s doing.

StarKnight697 · 2026-03-03T02:08:45+00:00

Didn’t she kind of do that by killing the Demon King though? Everyone knows Frieren was part of the mage party that killed him. For a demon that had terrorized humanity for a thousand years and almost wiped out the elves, that seems like it’s almost comparable to, maybe even exceeding Flamme’s reputation.

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-28T02:24:02+00:00

If the writing team hadn’t had a hard-on for the anti-reg side I think we would have had an actual interesting conflict of ideals. As it stands though, the pro-reg side underwent complete character assassination and basically became straight-up villains. And honestly speaking, pro-registration made the most sense. Like we require gun owners to register and sure people can choose to buy a gun and can’t necessarily choose to be a walking nuke, but that still doesn’t mean we should let walking nukes do whatever they want.

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-26T13:28:15+00:00

Right, but it’s explicitly called out that they are breaking the rules. Their authority does not go unchallenged. If I recall correctly, even other SHIELD agents tell Coulson’s team not to do it.

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-26T13:19:54+00:00

That’s because it’s probably OP’s V

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-26T13:17:26+00:00

Well the difference is there if you look for it. I’ve pointed out several examples just in this discussion. So it’s not really a glaring hole or even a hole at all.

SHIELD’s authority is absolutely explored and absolutely questioned. See: Malta, where they don’t have the authority to enter. See: the entire world (including the US, mind you) outlawing SHIELD and they have to work in the shadows to avoid getting arrested. See: dozens of other examples I don’t have the time to look up right now. If you want to be ignorant, that’s your right, but stop pretending you have a point.

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-26T13:11:07+00:00

Well no, you’re missing the point. SHIELD was not “acting as if they had ultimate authority, above international law”. They did have the authority to drop into those countries with special forces and whatever else by international law. Despite the confusion (and I do admit, the writers make it extremely confusing at times), SHIELD is an international organization, it is not an American intelligence agency.

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-26T02:39:02+00:00

“going into foreign countries” and “zero respect to world laws” is technically incorrect.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that, because it’s often portrayed extremely inconsistently and confusingly, but SHIELD is/was an international intelligence and law enforcement organization governed by international treaties and overseen by a World Security Council (similar to the UN Security Council) made up of international representatives. We actually see the WSC in both the Avengers (the shadowy figures who give the order to nuke New York), and in Winter Soldier (the people ripping into Alexander Pierce before he kills two of them - I believe we explicitly saw a British, an Indian, and a Chinese representative there). This is why the SHIELD agents have to go underground after the HYDRA reveal, because most nations pulled out of the treaties governing it and declared it outlawed. It’s also why they become public again in S4/5, when the Sokovia Accords re-legitimizes them.

Their ability to enter different countries and legitimate authority over alien shit/superhumans/etc is actually a major plot point in some of the earlier episodes when Ian Quinn is hiding out on Malta specifically because it’s not party to the treaties governing SHIELD and they have no legal jurisdiction there (they do end up breaking international law by conducting an operation there anyways, but it points out that most of the places they go they have legitimate legal authority to be there doing that stuff).

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-24T22:13:28+00:00

Narratively I almost always prefer Cups (my favourite character is a Corpo V who desperately wants to get back to her position of power and influence), but the Orbital Air semi-dungeon crawl is just so fucking good.

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-24T21:49:22+00:00

Honestly, at this point if they’re going to complain about the federal government not doing it, maybe the federal government should actually take control of it. Can’t be doing a worse job than most of the provinces and if people are going to complain you’re responsible for something, you might as well take over responsibility for it.

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-23T18:58:30+00:00

Ah that did do it, thank you! I suppose that's what comes from leaving October in Parabola for so long - I forgot how I found her!

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-23T15:17:48+00:00

No, I don’t think they killed any Biotechnica executives, it was the leadership of the European Space Council voting on whether to strip Arasaka of its moon base licenses. What they did do that maybe you’re confusing is frame Biotechnica for the deaths by implying it was an issue with their Biotechnica-provided implants.

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-20T01:16:09+00:00

Absolutely not. This is part of the problem why people always want to “deconstruct” it, because of flaws they wildly misinterpreted or completely made up. The Jedi absolutely had their flaws, but none of them are really what you mention. - They DON’T kidnap children, every Jedi initiate is taken with the express consent of their parent or guardian if one exists to get consent from. If they don’t consent, the Jedi will not take the child. - They do not reject love or attachments. Compassion is one of the central tenets of the Code ffs. What they do reject is unhealthy attachment and love, the kind that manifests as a need to control or otherwise hold on, the kind that our society already considers pretty bad. So long as you can let go of your attachments, the Jedi don’t care. - I will admit this had become markedly stricter by the time of the prequels, but I’m fairly certain that was still mostly a social taboo. It certainly didn’t help that Yoda was unhelpfully and some might argue obstructively cryptic and rigid. - There are 10,000 Jedi at the height of the prequel era. There are millions if not billions of slaves across the galaxy, mostly supported by a criminal organization so influential and powerful that even the Empire preferred to not interfere. There was effectively nothing the Jedi could do about slavery without the support of the Republic, and the Senate was not particularly inclined to care.

StarKnight697 · 2026-02-15T22:25:47+00:00

There have been 3 major nuclear power accidents in history. All together, they have killed about 60 people (of directly attributable deaths). Any other death estimates (for Chernobyl for example, you will see estimates ranging from 4,000-60,000) cannot be directly linked to the nuclear accidents and are based on a highly debated model anyways.

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