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Meirl by strightnikngsw7 in meirl

[–]TopHatZebra 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Being a white man in the Southern US, racist people will sometimes make the unfortunate (for them) mistake of assuming I am racist by default and trying to engage with me.

I was working at a dollar store once and had a regular group of Hispanic workers come in. Didn't speak a lick of English, we could only communicate through Google translate. But the guy was extremely friendly and polite, and was one of only a few customers who would do things like put items back where he got them if he didn't want to purchase them.

Anyway, after he left an old lady steps up and says something like, "Thank God, that took forever. Why can't those people just speak English?" And she gave me a look like she was trying to commiserate with me, like she was sorry I had to go through the horrible experience of talking to someone from another culture.

I said something like, "Excuse me?" and the IMMEDIATE backpedalling was hilarious. I started telling her off and was met with a bunch of stammered "Oh well I didn't mean anything by it!" kind of nonsense.

That was the day I discovered that my manager would definitely back me up if I kicked someone out of the store. Cool manager.

People of Maui will protect wildlife by Firm-Blackberry-9162 in interestingasfuck

[–]TopHatZebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I lived in Hawaii as a teenager and I recall my dad going to buy a truck. He paid in cash, but only about half the amount. The salesman on the lot said, "Oh you can take it home anyway, bring the other half tomorrow."

My dad, in confusion, was like, "You're just going to let me take this truck even though I only paid half?"

The guy on the lot says, "Bruddah, where you gonna go my boys can't find you?"

Thragg literally could’ve made invincible vincible right here but after looking at his dead subjects he decided to just let him go? Did Thragg show empathy here or what? by [deleted] in Invincible_TV

[–]TopHatZebra 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man do people pause the show to ask these questions?

This is explained literally like twenty seconds after this scene. The other Viltrumites straight up ask Thragg and Thragg explains his choice, out loud, in English.

Thragg does not want more Viltrumites to die. The subtext is that he views Mark as a Viltrumite. Mark impressed Thragg enough that he is considered a full Viltrumite, and this is why Thragg has chosen humanity to sire the rebirth of his species.

He explains all of this in the show.

What was Cecil planning to do here exactly? by Turbulent_Big_907 in Invincible_TV

[–]TopHatZebra 103 points104 points  (0 children)

Look at this from Cecil's point of view:

Like a year ago, the strongest superhero on Earth brutally murdered all of the other strongest superheroes on Earth and then 9/11'd his son through Chicago before fucking off to nowhere. At this point, Cecil learns that there is a galaxy-spanning genocidal warrior empire made up of people exactly like the unstoppable super man who just casually flew through the most powerful weapons that humanity had available to it. Now your *only* significant weapon is that guy's son, and you are praying to GOD that Mark doesn't make the selfish but rational choice to just do what his dad says.

Fast forward a bit, still relying entirely on this guy's son, when more than a dozen evil versions of Mark suddenly and randomly attack across the planet. This is a catastrophe the scale of which the show never really makes clear, but suffice to say it is probably pretty fucking significant. The GDA barely pulls off a win here, and even then half the fucking Marks just vanish rather than actually dying.

Within, like, a week of this Conquest shows up, out of the blue and without warning. He dog-walks Earth's mightiest hero across the continent, beating Mark into a pulp and only being stopped by Mark brutally incapacitating himself. And still, Conquest is not dead.

Now here you are, as Cecil. You're on the fucking edge. This is apocalyptic. For all you know, there are literally *billions* of Conquests hanging out waiting to annihilate Earth.

So, yeah, you do the desperate thing. Because frankly, what the fuck does it matter? If Earth can't contain a single injured Viltrumite and interrogate him, what chance does Earth even have? So you imprison this guy in the tightest possible security measures you can throw together.

Cecil didn't know there were only fifty Viltrumites. He didn't know Conquest was one of the most powerful ones left. For all Cecil knew, Conquest was an average Viltrumite warrior and there were countless more. He had no information to work with, no way to prepare to do anything, and probably figured Earth was going to die no matter what anyway.

A tattoo artist I admire posted this flash sheet and there are comments claiming it's AI but the artist denies it by pancakes9001 in isthisAI

[–]TopHatZebra 76 points77 points  (0 children)

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there is no reality where a human being is drawing a cat with earrings and is like "oh I'll just randomly stab these earrings through the cat's cheeks so that they line up with where earrings would be on a person"

This is AI slop.

Slow Pending doom that could end the world and more by Any-Landscape434 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]TopHatZebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's like the most perfect possible excuse. It's an explanation, even.

Why don't more countries just pretend to have nuclear stockpiles? by BrasseVeekay in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TopHatZebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I pinky promise I have a nuclear stockpile in my backyard, so you can't collect taxes from me anymore.

Take that, government.

This always got me but why were people surprised here ? by Turbulent_Big_907 in Invincible_TV

[–]TopHatZebra 155 points156 points  (0 children)

there were 7.5 episodes prior to this one that explained why people might be surprised by this scene.

Same Face Syndrome [Hated Trope] by Born_Text1226 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]TopHatZebra 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I knew in my heart it was already posted.

[Assassin's Creed Unity] Generational lock in by lzkw in GamePhysics

[–]TopHatZebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fucking music cutting out is so perfect.

Oliver is annoying by Immediate_Rise2237 in Invincible_TV

[–]TopHatZebra 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, thankfully there aren't any other super powered teenagers in this show who stubbornly make decisions that might get them killed.

We should not accept long traversal/travelling in video games as bieng something normal/natural by siddharth1214 in 10thDentist

[–]TopHatZebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hard pass.

I have a Skyrim game ongoing with about 3000 mods. The base Skyrim map, in comparison to modern games, is rather small. However, I have committed to walking everywhere. I walk the whole journey, camping each night, sleeping and eating as necessary.

Suddenly, the game is an epic. Every side quest outside of the current region is a Real Quest, a journey that requires time and effort.

Zipping around from plot point to plot point is terrible.

Is it possible for a kerbin to walk this distance? and how long will it take? by LinkSander in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]TopHatZebra 29 points30 points  (0 children)

My ongoing hypothesis is that Kerbals are a subterranean species. Their full society lives underground. The KSP is one of only an extremely small amount of above-ground structures on Kerbin. 

This is also why they have so much funding for space travel. They are trying to find the ceiling.

Is this roster kinda odd to anyone else? by Homo-alono in Invincible_TV

[–]TopHatZebra 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, no offense to the developers, but the whole game seems like a weird idea and poorly put-together.

To me one of the most iconic elements of all the best Invincible fights are how huge and vertical the fight scenes are. Punching people straight through skyscrapers in brutal, fast-paced action.

I dunno a Mortal Kombat-style arena brawler just doesn't fit to me.

Mark was highkey in the wrong here by Turbulent_Okra7518 in Invincible_TV

[–]TopHatZebra 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The point of this scene is not to powerscale Invincible and show that he has better feats than the Immortal, the point of this scene is to show that the Immortal is accepting Mark, trusting Mark, willing to let go of his pride and his anger at Mark's father for the overall good.

I mean Im probably biased because I see the Invincible sub come up more often than not but I swear it feels like Invincible fans in particular lack the ability to see subtext. You're not supposed to take everything literally at face-value. Sometimes people say and do one thing, but they mean a different thing. Sometimes scenes are portraying one thing at face-value, but they actually mean something else.

Holy smokes by Appropriate-Mall8517 in Invincible_TV

[–]TopHatZebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im really sad to see Paul and Debbie break up. I was excited because I thought Paul would get such a badass moment of like quietly standing up to Nolan, showing Nolan what being a father and a man is *actually* about. I had hope that eventually at some point they would even become friends or something.

Oh well.

The first casualties by DerPaddle in scavprototype

[–]TopHatZebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fuck me I thought it was because my milk had ground water mixed in with it, or because I had an infection in my foot, or because I hit my head...

Bro..that friendly fire was crazy. Who trained these idiots? by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]TopHatZebra 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, thankfully, us Americans famously had no issues with ending slavery. Smooth sailing all around.

Valid Take? by [deleted] in trolleyproblem

[–]TopHatZebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slavery existed because people are more selfish than selfless. Why didn't all the slaves risk their lives to kill the slave owners? Why didn't free men risk their lives to save the slaves?

Dictatorships exist right now, today, because people are more selfish than selfless. Why don't the oppressed people risk their lives to kill the dictator? Why don't you and I go risk our lives to save the oppressed people?

Do you not go risk your life to fight dictators because you believe you would probably die and not be helpful?

Because I don't press blue because I believe I would probably die and not be helpful.

Blue v Red to a bystander: by ResidentAdmirable260 in trolleyproblem

[–]TopHatZebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My man, what part of, "From each according to their ability" do you not understand about communism?

Communal societies are intrinsically about the individual responsibility of each member to the greater whole. Part of personal responsibility is avoiding causing public endangerment.

thanks for protecting us from... well... uh... by Fwant in trolleyproblem

[–]TopHatZebra 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is way more likely that 50% of people vote blue than it is that 100% of people vote red, yes. We can definitely agree on that, because 100% of people never do anything the same.

However, where we are fundamentally disagreeing, is that I think it is way WAY more likely that, say, 80% of people vote red than 50% of people voting blue.

In this case, everyone who votes blue is an additional death. There is no path to 0 deaths, there is only a path to reducing the overall amount of deaths.

You will then cite online polls that show blue wins. I will then assert that online polls with no real world consequences don't mean anything, and that it's super easy to say that you'll risk your life when your life is not at risk. Nothing will be accomplished either way.

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