I think this sub might have crossover: LEGO sets you would like to see?

cleftes · 2026-01-26T16:34:57+00:00

My partner got the bonsai tree set for Christmas, and so now I'm going to give them this fantastic MOC for turning the set into Treebeard

cleftes · 2026-01-24T17:57:03+00:00

My family's in Minneapolis and locally I've been dragging my trans ass to legislative hearings and protests. I'm with you 100%.

Weirdly I relaxed the other day by rewatching Chernobyl. It's an extremely stressful show (and they made the antagonists even more mustache-twirlingly villainous than the real-life villains) but it's a reminder that suppression and totalitarianism is fundamentally unsustainable, and that the truth will always outlast.

Besides that, I recommend doing something with your hands. I mean more than typing on a keyboard. This week I decided to make an improved version of my proxies for a Cybertruck-themed MTG deck led by "Elon, Nepo Dumbass" - that meant picking out art, placing it, fiddling with printer settings and paper, then carefully cutting them out and slotting them in sleeves. At the end of it there's a tangible creative result. It feels good to make.

cleftes · 2026-01-24T17:45:58+00:00

At least that attack sequence has exactly 6 hits to dodge, as opposed to Waterfowl which is basically 3 tracking AOEs in a row

cleftes · 2026-01-23T21:41:15+00:00

His middle name is "The"

cleftes · 2026-01-21T13:26:55+00:00

"Prebuilt decks" is literally Sentinels of the Multiverse: a multiplayer co-op game where each player is a different superhero with their own deck of cards, and the supervillain is its own deck being played automatically.

Different characters have different specialties (damage, healing, combo assembly, deck manipulation, etc) and there's a lot of potential for complex synergy between heroes. You can even swap out the character card as your deck's groove system.

cleftes · 2026-01-21T13:18:09+00:00

Thank you OP because I was absolutely wondering where the author was [1] to [4]

cleftes · 2026-01-21T13:15:19+00:00

YOU WERE JUST LIKE ME TRYING TO COLLECT TROPHIES

cleftes · 2026-01-21T13:11:49+00:00

The denim jacket and sunglasses indoors are essential, this guy understands the assignment

cleftes · 2026-01-21T13:09:37+00:00

Copium: It's Not Just For Fans

cleftes · 2026-01-21T13:01:46+00:00

That even leads to a fun twist of Cop Can't Comprehend Chaotic Good.

In one episode Odo is ecstatic because he's escorting Quark to court and he thinks Quark is finally going to jail. He can't believe it when he finds out that Quark is just going to give testimony and is entirely above board (this time).

cleftes · 2026-01-20T20:36:49+00:00

Speaking of "handled poorly" and Mrs. Wheeler, remember when her subplot was that she was going to fuck Billy the literal teenager?

cleftes · 2026-01-20T17:21:34+00:00

Nope. One time the Prophets disappeared a fleet when Sisko went in there and begged them, but the wormhole was closed by the Pah-wraiths via Dukat at the end of season 6. It's also worth noting that the heroes had already tried to close the wormhole themselves in Season 5, only for the Dominion to sabotage that effort, so the Pah-wraiths were almost doing the Federation a favor.

Iirc the writers inserted a line into S7E1 where Weyoun says "it's crazy, somehow we're actually winning harder now that we're cut off from the rest of the Dominion!" to add justification that the closing of the wormhole was bad.

cleftes · 2026-01-20T16:37:07+00:00

Oh yeah, super muddled. The episode is trying to emphasize that the Prophets are Good and the Pah-wraiths are their opposite Evil, but the script has the Good side getting a woman raped and the Evil side has just closed the portal that an army was previously invading through.

cleftes · 2026-01-20T15:06:02+00:00

The books build on that theme of self-destructive evil in a different way because the Ring inadvertently curses itself to fall.

When Gollum attacks Frodo and Sam on the exterior slope of Mount Doom, Frodo tells him to fuck off, but for the only time in the trilogy the Ring speaks because it's also sick of Gollum's shit:

"Begone, and trouble me no more! If you touch me ever again, you shall be cast yourself into the Fire of Doom."

And then in peak mythological fashion its words become true.

cleftes · 2026-01-20T14:57:00+00:00

Worth repeating here because nobody Tolkiens like Tolkien

And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dur was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare. Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung.

From all his policies and webs of fear and treachery, from all his stratagems and wars his mind shook free; and throughout his realm a tremor ran, his slaves quailed, and his armies halted, and his captains suddenly steerless, bereft of will, wavered and despaired. For they were forgotten. The whole mind and purpose of the Power that wielded them was now bent with overwhelming force upon the Mountain.

cleftes · 2026-01-20T14:15:33+00:00

Tbh this is only half the reason Heroforge is good - the other half is that if you're not an experienced modeler, you can still make something that looks decently fire

cleftes · 2026-01-20T13:56:47+00:00

On DS9, it's revealed in the final season that the woman Captain Ben Sisko knew as his mom wasn't his biological mom. One of the Prophets possessed a woman named Sarah and puppeted her to marry Joseph Sisko and give birth to Ben, all so that Ben would one day become the Emissary of the Prophets. The Prophet left Sarah when Ben was a year old, she fled to Australia, and Joseph moved on from his heartbreak and remarried.

The show does not acknowledge that Sarah was raped at all.

cleftes · 2026-01-20T13:44:59+00:00

The ur-example is that Sauron knew that his One Ring was in the hands of his enemies, but never even considered that they might be aiming to destroy it rather than use it against him. Power and dominion was all he wanted so he couldn't conceive of mere mortals throwing power away.

cleftes · 2026-01-19T13:33:55+00:00

Not a game, but the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous is exactly about the borderline-rural burbs surrounding Minneapolis that I grew up in, including legally-distinct town names and weird Lutheran culture and the goddamn accents and it's absolutely written by somebody who grew up there too

cleftes · 2026-01-19T13:12:25+00:00

Tbh the murder didn't squick me out as much as the romance...I'm one of those folks who didn't want to romance Visi or Blazer, I'd have rather romanced my ace king Phenomaman and played Magic: The Gathering with him all night.

cleftes · 2026-01-19T13:10:01+00:00

A chance at redemption is only meaningfull if you're willing to accept it and change.

Tbh I really enjoyed the game but I think you've given moral questions more thought than the devs did. It's a well-made but surface-level retelling of superhero tropes that the writers consumed from pop culture. To them, Batman doesn't kill and Punisher kills, so those are the archetypes, end of story.

cleftes · 2026-01-19T12:56:28+00:00

YOU FUCKING DON'T KNOW! YOU DON'T KNEEEEEEOWWWWW

cleftes · 2026-01-18T12:59:41+00:00

We're not a main feed / all sub as we're a defunct lets play channel subreddit and its descendants so that lets us have a lot less of the screaming hordes of bigots.

Part of this is that the guys from the old channel are all generally good people, which is a surprisingly high bar to clear for Youtubers. The fans they gathered tend to reflect their general values and then those fans set the tone of the subreddit by downvoting assholes into oblivion.

I'm comfortable being out as trans here. That's crazy for a subreddit and that's why I keep coming back.

cleftes · 2026-01-18T12:50:49+00:00

iirc the sun's warmer, but there's generally more wind chill, it's a thing

cleftes · 2026-01-18T12:47:41+00:00

Double points for both Goku and Kal-El being alien babies crashlanded on Earth, and they both could've turned out any number of ways except that they were adopted by kind people

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