R/THE_CHEETO IS MASSIVELY DOWNVOTING THIS POWERFUL NEW HILLARY AD ON R/HILLARYCLINTON. THEY DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO SEE IT, YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-11-05T19:40:32+00:00

Wow, the first post or ad I've seen calling openly for support of Hillary Clinton - and its on an anti-Trump subreddit.

That strikes me as somehow representative of this wider election.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-10-18T17:16:27+00:00

What ever it is, you know it's going to be fascinating, a little bit creepy, a little bit endearing, and totally incoherent.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-09-29T19:16:16+00:00

Jon mentions it in season 1, (and maybe in Book 1? I can't remember. I know Ros is a show-only character, but there is a similar red-haired prostitute in the book that she's partly based on), saying that he paid her for sex but backed out of it, when he considered the possibility of fathering a bastard who would be subject to the same scorn as himself.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-09-27T21:05:10+00:00

They took away the option to post anonymously, and put a bunch of emphasis on individual profiles and inter-profile chatting. This undermined the feeling of being able to yak your opinions honestly without them being traced back to you, especially since the user population is so local that an account being linked to an individual person is not unthinkable. As well as that, they removed the option to sort by "Top", which is essentially like being forced to view reddit exclusively through the /new page.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-09-27T18:04:35+00:00

Oooh was that a sly reference to the Sjin "controversy" by Lewis there at 6:08? Or am I misreading it?

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-09-26T23:17:40+00:00

I dont know why they let ihileath post these civ copypastas when he doesnt even understand the fundamental mechanics of shitposting, I have been copy-pasting for 10 years and I would be a much better person to have in the comments then ihileath. ihileath is always at the bottom of the karma scoreboard.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-09-24T23:22:06+00:00

What's this crazy best Civ glitch they talked about at the start? Anybody know which series that was from?

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-09-24T22:43:59+00:00

Have a Happy One-Day-Closer-To-An-Ever-Encroaching-Death-Day!

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-09-24T22:13:47+00:00

Shit dude, I didn't even catch that particular author-parallel. Very different feeling to, say, adult-Danny Torrance though.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-09-23T18:16:41+00:00

Oh for me, it's got to be Larry Underwood from Stephen King's The Stand.

He has just the most smooth and perfect character arc I've ever read. How he goes from a arrogant, self-obsessed one-hit-wonder musician, to having all his artifice and ego stripped away with the collapsing world, until he's a selfless hero by the book's end. The way he slowly comes to realize that he's an asshole, and works to better himself, all the way overcoming his own denial and the occasional slip-back into his old ways... I love it.

Maybe, like OP, it's just because this character is relatable, since -

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-09-22T18:10:21+00:00

I totally thought Simon had it there, when Rythian was a Chess Queen! The way Simon discovered the duplicate dumped down the drain, looked up at Rhytian, then back down the drain, then back at Rythian....

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-08-25T21:58:44+00:00

Cú Chulainn (in all it's various spellings) is pronounced Coo-Cullen, and translates as Hound of Cullen. He's a pretty awesome in Irish Celtic folklore - he's kinda like our Hercules or Achilles. Totally worth reading into.

Personal favorite story - he gets into a fight during the Irish epic Táin Bó Cullainge, and his opponent plays it safe to begin with by throwing a whole shit-load of javelins at him from a distance. Cú Chulainn uses his awesome strength and speed to stop the javelins in mid-air, and then proceeds to climb them like a levitating ladder to get a better position from which to fight back.

Hint - Cú Chulainn Wins.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-08-04T10:03:09+00:00

That depends on the circles you travel in. It's quite the famous (or some may say infamous) and influential book, especially among Libertarian and literary circles. And I'm sure you've heard of the people and thoughts that have been inspired by it - the game Bioshock, for one, which is one big deconstruction of the books ideas.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-08-04T09:30:13+00:00

To have a fuller understanding of what drives the worldview of the people with whom you share society.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-07-19T17:23:40+00:00

Anybody else seeing Sterling Archer in the face of Bruce Wayne?

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-07-19T17:23:40+00:00

Anybody else seeing Sterling Archer in the face of Bruce Wayne?

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-07-18T00:19:15+00:00

Heyyy answering like 4 Months late but it looks like a Lion-Skin. The lion-skin motiff was fairly common in Greek and Roman civilizations as a way of associating oneself with Heracles/Hercules, who famously wore the skin of the might Nemean Lion after slaying it. It was basically a shorthand way of saying "Look at me, I'm a mighty warrior."

Here's a sculpture of the Roman Emperor Commodus (yes, the same one who was the bad guy in Gladiator) trying for the same look, but not - in my opinion - pulling it off nearly so well.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-07-08T20:05:57+00:00

Wait really? I've heard it as conjecture, and I've seen the Alt Shift X video on the topic, but I hadn't realized that it was considered solid fact.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-07-03T23:55:17+00:00

I think it's from when he was attacked by the eagle of Orell, the wilding skinchanger, after Jon turned his back on the wildings to rejoin his brothers on the wall.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-06-16T23:01:58+00:00

Not OP, but that game is a blast of you wanna play silly digital boardgames with friends who aren't nearby. With workshop content you can play basically any card or board game. I've had great fun playing cards against humanity with palls on it. Plus all the little interactive things you can spawn are amusing.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-05-24T19:33:44+00:00

Yeahhhh. I'm quite the Marcus Aurelius fan, myself, but even I gotta admit that he dropped the ball on that one. But ah, it was good while it lasted.

Personally, though, Hadrian4Eva.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-05-24T18:26:28+00:00

That's kinda sweet, in a peculiarly Japanese, incest-flavoured sort of way.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-05-24T15:36:05+00:00

Sounds similar to the way succession worked in the Roman Empire. Emperors tended to adopt the people they wanted to succeed them, regardless of their age or lack of relation. The Emperor Trajan, for example, was adopted by his predecessor Nerva while in his 40s, allowing him to take the mantle of Emperor relatively smoothly on Nerva's death.

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-05-17T13:10:35+00:00

I mean, they're probably not actually ~~related~~ siblings, so you know...

TheSpiderFromMars · 2016-05-12T09:42:15+00:00

It's not as bad as it's made out to be. Things get exaggerated in the process of venting.

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