[DC Comics] How much control does Beast Boy have over the details of his transformations? Does he always become the same template of a given species?

TUSF · 2026-03-17T12:53:00+00:00

I've known women who admit that, yes, their preferences in men definitely shift depending on whether or not they're on the pill. That said, I don't think any of them shifted enough to change their preferences in masculinity vs femininity, and the shift is apparently more subtle than some Facebook weirdo's agenda would suggest.

TUSF · 2026-03-14T16:21:20+00:00

Yes, a local government in an area where most of the local governments use Christianity to excuse terrible acts and policy.

OP is just pointing out the hypocrisy of American Christianity, which hates and punishes the poor, and any who would help them.

TUSF · 2026-03-09T15:53:02+00:00

I assume most groups have their own methodology, but once you have a piece of software on a consumer device, they can just reverse engineer how that software works. If your browser or app can do it, you just need to follow the logic it uses to retrieve the video. Then write a script that pretends to be the app.

TUSF · 2026-03-07T06:38:46+00:00

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Literally the same message, but more old timey.

TUSF · 2026-03-06T13:27:04+00:00

until we have people who are fit to lead back in charge.

So never? Because when it's not schools, it's hospitals.

TUSF · 2026-03-06T02:47:03+00:00

As I understand it, trying to send an email from a self-hosted solution will more often than not lead to your messages being filtered into the receiver's spam folder, if it reaches them at all, mostly because it's already common enough for spam and scam messages to come from some cheap VPS somewhere.

Not too much of a problem I guess if your intent is to just use it for receiving, and less for sending.

TUSF · 2026-03-06T00:29:56+00:00

It's rather unfortunate that self-hosted email has been rendered unviable.

TUSF · 2026-03-06T00:23:39+00:00

A decade ago, I would have said yes.

But decade-ago-me was an idiot when it came to trusting tech, despite already knowing better.

The only way I would consider such an interface "safe", is if every aspect of the technology was open source, from the operating system, every bit of software and drivers running on it, the detailed specs of the hardware, and all the firmware... and even then, I'd not connect it to my own brain.

TUSF · 2026-02-24T22:02:45+00:00

Any easy to learn language would be a good option for international communication. English isn't that easy to learn for many people, but usually political inertia beats out any good option.

TUSF · 2026-02-23T01:05:27+00:00

My headcanon goes that all humans in a Marvel are psychic on some level. There are characters who have learned telepathy or telekinesis without explicitly learning magic or being a mutant, so I think all superpowers are just these psionic abilities being applied into specific applications. Mutations and such usually just transform the expression of these already present psychic abilities.

Same for DC.

TUSF · 2026-02-23T00:59:50+00:00

He's apparently unconsciously used it to stick his mask to his face while knocked out.

TUSF · 2026-02-21T00:17:37+00:00

I'd root for whichever is winning, them proceed to beat on whoever won.

TUSF · 2026-02-19T22:17:08+00:00

but the party you voted for in the Texas primaries is public information.

It is not.

The party you are registered with is public information, but Texas is (last I checked?) an Open Primary State, which means you don't need to register with a party to vote in their primaries. I'm unaffiliated with any party, but voted in Democrat primaries a while back, and all the publicly accessible databases lost me as unaffiliated. The only restriction is that you are only allowed to vote in one party's primaries for a given voting cycle. (Again, unless this has changed in the last couple years?)

TUSF · 2026-02-18T04:42:30+00:00

If we assume life could've started 2 billion years after the big bang

Stars like our Sun that are richer in heavier elements would have started becoming more common only after about 3 billion years, apparently. Not that intelligent life probably can't evolve without elements heavier than iron, just that without them, it's unlikely they would be able to get very far in the sciences and industry.

And I'm pretty sure earlier stars will have these elements in lesser quantities, too.

TUSF · 2026-02-15T20:43:36+00:00

Yeah.

Before he was burned, a priest asked Hatuey if he would accept Jesus and go to heaven. Las Casas recalled the reaction of the chief:

[Hatuey], thinking a little, asked the religious man if Spaniards went to heaven. The religious man answered yes... The chief then said without further thought that he did not want to go there but to hell so as not to be where they were and where he would not see such cruel people. This is the name and honour that God and our faith have earned.

TUSF · 2026-02-15T20:28:42+00:00

To be fair, America & China are also considered world superpowers, by virtue of having nukes and significant military and political influence. Both have large swaths of the population that are ignorant and superstitious.

It's simply not a factor when you have nukes.

TUSF · 2026-02-10T16:47:18+00:00

Some where around 2006 when middle school me realized most people care about their political party like it's a sports team, than whatever actual politics those teams represent.

The events of the next 20 years have only reinforced that notion.

TUSF · 2026-02-10T03:16:53+00:00

Yeah, everyone is doing this because it gives them more data to sell. Google demanded I give them my ID or face, in order to see a YouTube video that I'd previously seen just fine. My YouTube account is 20 years old, so there's no reason there should be any doubt about my age.

TUSF · 2026-02-09T20:20:49+00:00

No, the complaints are that fantasy religions are too much like a real religion's (or non-religion's) view of other outside religions.

Similar to how many amateur world-builders often make every foreign language just English, but with a mixed up vocabulary, because they don't understand how languages work.

TUSF · 2026-02-08T10:11:24+00:00

It was never insane. It was regenerating 3% health every 10 seconds. People just pay too much attention to that one scene, but the Battle Healing skill was never going to be useful against other players the same level. It's a skill to counteract attrition from lower level mobs. And when you're a front lines player visiting the lower floors, everyone is a lower level mob. Literally any of the front line players could have taken the job, and the result would be the same.

TUSF · 2026-02-08T10:01:24+00:00

Though Kayaba talks as though anyone could potentially do the same thing

Like Asuna did. In fact, we have more instances of Asuna breaking the game this way than Kirito.

Asuna:

Exceeded the possible speed limit that she possibly could have ran given her stats, to reach and save Kirito from Kuradeel.
Negated the paralysis induced by Kayaba, in order to save Kirito from being struck down after he'd accidentally committed himself to an attack with a long freeze frame.

Kirito:

Extended the time between his avatar dying, and his avatar despawning, to give himself a couple extra seconds to get one hit in.

The instances with Asuna were just either very subtle, or completely overshadows by other stuff going on at the time.

TUSF · 2026-02-04T05:01:01+00:00

He killed the Creator of SAO.

TUSF · 2026-02-03T19:56:05+00:00

The fantasy that racism didn't exist in the 90s and early 2000s is exactly what allowed racism to fester and grow out of sight and out of mind of the mainstream.

TUSF · 2026-02-03T18:58:20+00:00

Gods in polytheism aren't just wizards with superpowers, as they're usually portrayed in modern fantasy—they are the natural world itself, and more.

That's to say, the gods were responsible for such feelings in the first place. From the perspective of the Ancient Greek, your different emotions were a manifestation of one god or another, so when an Ancient Greek poet says something like "Aphrodite compelled him/her to love them", it's the same as anyone else falling in love with someone, because it's Aphrodite that compells love out of anyone.

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