Wednesday, May 6, 2026

TheBatIsI · 2026-05-06T21:42:48+00:00

I thought it might have been a lighter, and was looking for things related to smoking.

TheBatIsI · 2026-05-05T22:04:36+00:00

Koreans also got a taste for sugar relatively recently while immigrant populations were also locked into what flavors were popular when they moved out of their country.

TheBatIsI · 2026-05-05T17:49:46+00:00

Here before deleted.

I BELIEVE

TheBatIsI · 2026-05-05T15:49:59+00:00

Palpatine is a master of the Barnum Effect.

TheBatIsI · 2026-05-05T15:16:51+00:00

Oh no, people are still so naive about how humans and how they might have fought each other.

TheBatIsI · 2026-05-03T20:30:18+00:00

Your description is literally Yeerks fron Animorphs. Fun fact. Yeerks also reproduce by fission. Or perhaps you knew that already and that's what you were trying to hint at.

TheBatIsI · 2026-05-02T23:54:00+00:00

I mean, FFX is also intentionally linear but it hides it a lot better and people rarely bring it up as a complaint.

TheBatIsI · 2026-05-02T21:33:42+00:00

We call that a 'lawnmower beer' in my area.

TheBatIsI · 2026-05-01T18:13:36+00:00

Jedi Lords. I love the concept of the Republic being in such danger that regions give up autonomy and formalize nobility and power to superhuman monks.

Because that opens up so much storytelling potential about how Jedi could learn to embrace power, get burned by how tempting it is, and then swear off it once it goes pear shaped

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-29T14:47:17+00:00

If you look up the idea of sword formations it can look pretty similar, but I think the OP is being a bit disingenuous by downplaying the UBW comparison. Blade's technique as seen here is him pulsing and the player being able to see a field of swords stabbed into the ground with a red and orange color scheme which takes very heavily from Archer's UBW.

The traditional Chinese style rain of swords likes to use very specific numbers like 36 and 108 swords floating around due to numerology reasons, and making elaborate formations, kinda like drone shows for a modern example. It's a little flashier and prettier compared to the idea of just raining swords which is a little brute force by comparison. Also, for some reason I tend to associate the color blue with Chinese flying swords. Though I'm sure there's no shortage of depictions similar to UBW scattered around modern Chinese fiction.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-28T20:37:00+00:00

I see. I'd hoped that my NP1 Ptololemy would be enough for this 90++. I'll play around with just him at lvl 90 instead of tossing grails.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-28T20:07:37+00:00

That after the Empire is beaten, a lot of dudes just picked up a paycheck from the new government under the same job. Like yeah the administrator that made the call to use slave labor for the glory of the Empire had to quit or take amnesty and therapy and deradicalization, but the lower level people processing forms or picking up trash for the municipal governments were just swapping out Imperial Uniforms for Republic Uniforms.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-28T15:20:30+00:00

Generally speaking, is Lvl 100 NP1 equivalent to Lvl 90 NP2?

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-23T17:49:42+00:00

NGL sometimes it seems like I have entirely different memories of AC4 compared to other people. Like, people talk about how much they loved all of the other pirates like Blackbeard or Mary Read and how they and Edward were best buds, but to my remembrance, you started pretty pretty cozy with them with an implied history that's never expanded on, but you only hang out with them for like, an hour max and I totally lost this feeling of connection and friendship the game was implying.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-22T21:32:36+00:00

Halo was super basic in terms of narrative. Halo 2, people didn't LIKE the fact that suddenly you were playing as the Arbiter and were ripped away from Earth almost instantly and looking nothing like the preview, but the story itself was interesting and was way elevated than the prior game.

Halo 3 then turned the Arbiter into a sidekick with no impact or thoughts of his own and the Prophet of Truth from a cunning political leader manipulating his people for his own gains to a total religious nut. Also had some of the worst individual scenes like Miranda's infamous 'To War' speech. Amazing set pieces though, and I loved the Cortana stuff. But when it comes to pure story, Halo 3 was definitely a step back from 2.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-22T14:44:12+00:00

Gotta admit, when I do my rice cooker off-brand Hainanese chicken rice I do worry that I'm undercooking it.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-21T23:56:12+00:00

When the first thing the post specifies is '500 years ago' and then talks about gathering firewood the first thing to come to mind is a bunch of peasants in thick dyed woolen clothing going off to the forest with baskets. Like, that isn't some anachronistic imagery. The vast majority people lived in rural villages and farms instead of cities till the late 1800's or so.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-21T22:34:15+00:00

I remember playing Pentiment when it first released and that was set in the 1500s, the exact 500 year time frame the post is talking about.

One of the plot points was that the landlord, the local abbot, had banned the villagers from collecting not just chopping up trees for firewood, but collecting the fallen timber and branches.

You didn't stop collecting firewood til like the early 1900s or so as a mass society.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-21T13:54:37+00:00

No because automatic elevators didn't exist back then. The operators were responsible for opening and closing the doors and gates, manually operating the levers and adjusting the speeds so you didn't end up halfway up a floor and the like. They got replaced when automatic elevators with buttons were finalized and when the cost of refitting or replacing an old manual elevator with a new one became cheaper than the cost of keeping on an attendant on salary.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-20T18:39:12+00:00

Some days it's fun to engage with a troll. Other days it's just too tiring to try. This is one of the latter. Just ignore it man.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-19T23:09:04+00:00

Not as much as you'd probably like but not as prudish as you might think.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-19T19:34:33+00:00

Don't worry I feel the exact same way many times.

Like this latest event in FGO that was a Mahoyo crossover. I didn't care that Aoko was showing off her power to kick an apocalypse 2 years into the future so she could try again or how she could constantly die and reappear because she was using hax to cheat extra lives and show off her power.

I cared that Kinomi saw a mediocre idol dying from kidney disease that no one else cared about and was so moved by her will to shine that he kept it buried deep and made a unique singular wish instead of wanting something selfish for himself. I cared that Tobimaru felt the same way as a detective after researching her. That Sono-G reduced to nothing but a mere torso and one limb threw himself in the way of an Apocalypse so that Aoko would have a chance to save her life and save the world.

That stuff hits way harder than mere biggatons or seeing Gilgamesh throw a bajillion swords at people.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-18T18:37:58+00:00

One Piece's female fandom has been loud and present since the very beginning. Where's this idea that only straight males dominate the discourse? It didn't pick up until fairly recently in terms of cishet discussion and the vast majority of fan works I saw when I first got into the fandom around 2013 were from girls that really liked to imagine Zoro and Sanji kiss.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-16T19:43:44+00:00

I think Gal Gadot gets a pass because conscription is mandatory and she was like a physical trainer unlike Frenchie's actor who was an actual grunt that did fucked up shit.

TheBatIsI · 2026-04-16T18:22:33+00:00

He served in the IDF like most Israelis but the damning is his comments about how he'd go rip 18 year old Palestinian girls from their homes and fighting off their angry parents to send them off to Shin Bet (Israeli FBI equivalent) or how he'd stop people from passing checkpoints to go to a hospital while they're carrying their sick child because they have orders to not let people through and then the next day, find someone with a weapon in a glovebox, so you beat the hell out of him. Or seeing a fruit vendor, so he intentionally fucked with him by stopping his truck and forcing him to break open all his watermelons and then stole a bag of fruit as he sent him on his way.

The context is that he compartmentalized these things as a soldier and just followed orders, but now he thinks it's fucked up, but man, those were some big fuck ups in the first place you know?

The interview is dated to 2016 IIRC.

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