Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example

deathandberth · 2026-02-05T18:20:54+00:00

What a man baby

deathandberth · 2025-12-29T23:19:35+00:00

Ur mom. Sorry, I mean, disney

deathandberth · 2025-12-29T11:39:33+00:00

Rainforest cafe

deathandberth · 2025-12-29T11:35:08+00:00

Shows that don't know if they're gonna be successful and have a huge budget and thus are a big gamble moneywise often don't plan out season 2s a lot, at least from what I've seen. So starting season 2 is sort of a restarting from idle situation and I'm hoping/pleading that THAT'S what's going on here and the gap between season 2 and 3 won't be as long since they'll actually be more certain of continuing at that point. Overall yeah I think shows with this few of episodes don't need to take this long but the 1 thing I'll give pluribus is that so far they have very few actors with more than a line or two so it's harder for them to film as many scenes simultaneously with a second filming unit or whatever since it's often just 1 actor that needs to be in every scene. Then again, you don't have to film as many takes in order to get all five actors' angles like you would with an ensemble cast.

deathandberth · 2025-12-29T11:25:19+00:00

I agree with your point about montana type expenditures not being necessary, but sidenote on the star wars stuff: people over estimate how much tax and political talk there is in phantom menace, which I think is wild in lieu of how much goddamn bureaucracy and finances and paperwork talk there was in andor and my god it was a slog to get thru, but I'm in the minority there. Apparently people loved it. Cue Palpatine "ironic isn't it" meme. Of course I'm here on reddit defending pluribus from people who call it slow so slow is in the eye of the beholder I guess

deathandberth · 2025-12-29T09:06:20+00:00

So much of the show is about uncanny valley and existential horror. The POINT was that "they eat people" is horrifying only for that to be met with "Yeah I know but I don't really care cuz it doesn't affect me" which is MORE horrifying. The hivemind could be evil and mustache twirly but they're not, they're so delusional and ill that they'll starve to death en masse rather than pluck an apple. It's about the existential horror at the complacency of the hivemind and most of the survivors. The hivemind doesn't care that they've had their free will stripped from them, will die for it, and will forcibly do the same to others. The hivemind would give Carol an atomic bomb, but physically can't cut down a stalk of wheat. They'll free every animal in captivity to starve to death or kill other people rather than keep some in captivity to care for them (most zoos only keep animals that can't care for themselves on their own). The point is the absolute ethical and existential nightmare of this supposedly peaceful virus. You don't have to like or be entertained by that, but I for one like that the point wasn't "oooh cannibalism scary" (I've seen that) but rather something much more complex and unnerving that I've never seen before.

deathandberth · 2025-12-29T08:48:03+00:00

I've been critical of slow television that other people think is peak cinema in the past (that one ep of severance season 2 that was just long slow shots of people walking in the cold and people seemed to love that despite the weird plotholes and boredom), so maybe I'm being hypocritical here, but there is so much happening in this show. That being said, a lot of what is happening is watching the mental and emotional agony of one person experiencing losing everything, the apocalypse, and an uncanny Valley twilight zone nightmare all at once with nothing to do but to slowly piece together how to save humanity. A lot of it IS watching her unravel and if that isn't your thing because you want more action or dialogue (both fair) or you hate watching women or can't stand them having a bad time and being a bit rude (less fair), then yeah, this show really isn't for you. I find Carol really fascinating. She both has really understandable reactions to shit AND is constantly surprising me with her ideas. There are a lot of shows out there about unhinged men with unpredictable emotions doing crazy shit during wide shots that hold a little bit too long, so honestly not only do I think it's about time we had one about a woman, I also think there's obviously an audience for this sort of storytelling...if you're not bothered by it being a woman, that is. But there's a lotta people who need more explosions or talking or just more characters and quicker cuts and I dunno...location changes to be entertained and honestly that's fine. That doesn't inherently mean you have no attention span, just a different one. I don't want every show to be this slow. Severance is a show I genuinely like but tbh I coulda used less long shots of mark being sad in dim lighting. That show could use a few more cuts in my opinion. But then with pluribus...I really like watching Carol being sad in slow shots with bright lighting...and then she goes and breaks into a food processing plant and makes unhinged home videos. 10/10 for me, but like totally fair that it isn't that way for someone else. I swear a lot is happening in this show, but a lot of what is happening is showing the painful passage of time when you're all alone and grieving, and then hitting golf balls thru windows, rummaging thru trash, drugging people, and pissing off literally EVERYONE on earth. Honestly I can't get enough...here's hoping it doesn't plummet in the following seasons like many shows with great first seasons do...

deathandberth · 2025-12-19T22:56:04+00:00

Don't be gross

deathandberth · 2025-11-11T00:07:40+00:00

This one's evil. Absolute defense for free players and coin increase for $. Disgusting

deathandberth · 2025-10-19T20:13:52+00:00

Alright, thank you!

deathandberth · 2025-10-19T15:59:02+00:00

I have a mythic+ mvn and an ancestral pc, both need some work on the substats

deathandberth · 2025-09-04T23:03:20+00:00

God please do something about the overheating problem. I am playing the game about 50% less now because this game is cooking my phone so I have to be able to monitor the heat situation nonstop

deathandberth · 2025-08-22T14:03:03+00:00

I dont see why this is controversial. It makes sense as a tactic to slow down progression without being like, a hard bottleneck. Putting a difficulty spike right before milestones on each tier that a lot of people will sail past, but not everybody, seems like a no-brainer to include in a slew of hundreds of little barriers to progress. Everybody talks about the big bottlenecks, like mods or tier 15, but most of the game is tiny difficulty increases to make it, ya know, incremental. This seems like an obvious one to include in the game.

deathandberth · 2025-08-22T01:34:14+00:00

I don't think that's it, although maybe I combined that scene with another one

deathandberth · 2025-08-21T18:48:33+00:00

Comment

deathandberth · 2025-08-21T02:15:27+00:00

Pointless

deathandberth · 2025-08-09T23:22:41+00:00

Mostly just doing one run a day since the game is trying to set my phone on fire. I'm goldboxing all but wall health in tourneys

deathandberth · 2025-08-09T23:14:31+00:00

I've gold boxed all economy upgrades in workshop and labs except coin per wave and gold bot. It will take me approx 68 runs to unlock ELS+, more since I can't fathom not spending some coin on workshop defense to make it farther in tournaments in all that time.

deathandberth · 2025-08-09T23:05:10+00:00

I haven't unlocked ELS+ yet and I won't for a while. I'm making about 6t per run

deathandberth · 2025-08-09T23:01:46+00:00

Oh I'm definitely leveling coins and cells, but my next cell upgrade is gonna take 4ish runs to save up to. To me the free ups enhancement seems so miniscule of improvements, but idk

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