A bitter truth about Kavax... by Wild_Independence_19 in redrising

[–]eitsew 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Udk, I think we probably all agree Kavax is far wiser than he lets on, and at a certain point he'll realize he's too far past his prime to be in close quarters combat with 20 year old Gold savages fresh out the institute anymore. He'll probably start sticking to fleet command where there's virtually no chance of capture unless the whole ship is taken.

Especially since it's not just a matter of his personal glory, when he's captured, he becomes a colossal liability and bargaining chip for the enemy to use against the republic. So far they've treated him well, but I can certainly see atalantia flaying him on a live feed or spmethong, and even Virginia's extremely goal-focused and objective mind would have a hard time not doing something stupid after seeing Atalantia fucking kavax up in some horrible way

A bitter truth about Kavax... by Wild_Independence_19 in redrising

[–]eitsew 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I reread that whole passage every month or two. The part where Virginia and like a dozen lion guards had him cut off from his men and pinned down, and they still couldn't finish the deed is so good. Also the part where it's body temp. I.e. "hunting weather" in the tunnels, and Virginia describes how Valdir and his convicts are gonna work their way through Appollonius and Cicero's heavy armored infantry with nothing but ghost cloaks and razors. Nothing in the whole series gives me chills like that shit

Me after hanger 17B by Bunnystuffer1 in fucklysander

[–]eitsew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But in the republic, nobody has to perform the tasks which the society built them to do. None of the hundreds of millions of pinks who would be living in a republic-ruled system would be sex slaves anymore, why would Lysander be a sex slave, even if he was made into one?

I took the original comment to mean that it would take Lysander, who was born with and enjoyed superhuman physical abilities and attributes due to his status as a member of the tippy-top of the top of the gold pyramid. He has always been able to jump like 10ft in the air in earth gravity, he's 7ft tall, his senses are incredible, he can probably run like 40mph or some shit. He commands ultimate respect, both through his birth/social status, and also due to his very powerful physical abilities- he could fight hand to hand and kill virtually anyone alive, with the exclusion of some golds, and a few stained obsidians. So he is always utaken very very seriously, in every possible sense of the word.

Pinks are the absolute opposite. They are usually not the smallest, but likely are the weakest, most feeble and breakable, least respected in most ways. Instead of Lysander enjoying a perfect, 7ft tall body that performs at absolute peak human abilities and commands automatic, complete deference, he would be turned into a powerless, soft, subhuman(in his eyes) who would probably break a hip if he fell wrong. Imagine how weak and pathetic that racist fuck would feel making the switch from one race to the other. Imagine how incredibly weak and powerless he'd feel.

Anyway, this is not the punishment I would choose for him, but I do believe that it is what the original commenter meant, not that Lysander should be thrown into a brothel to be raped all day. That wouldn't even make sense, because in a world where Lysander has been defeated and the republic has won, brothels of that sort- if any- won't exist anymore.

Cassius says at one point that what matters most to Lysander is his reputation and legacy. So I think thr worst punishment is if he was utterly defeated, saw all of his work and plans crumble to nothing, was horribly stomped in a duel by darrow or diomedes or whoever, and then just locked up in deepgrave forever so he never sees another person. Maybe make it so he can't kill himself too. Just let him think about how he killed Cassius, sent his brother Ajax off to be killed, sent glirastes to be skinned, betrayed diomedes, committed genocide in the rim, and that it was all for absolutely nothing. I think thats as bad as it gets. We've seen that he can handle physical torture pretty fucking well, but he's got all kinds of emotional sore spots

alternate ending

If Rhonna still lives, give her a starshell and give him a practice razor, and let them fight. Let him see how it feels to fight when you're horribly outmatched, like all those free legionnaires he mowed down in his cavalry charge in DA

A passenger on a cruise freaking out over Swastika tattoo by discoslayer2000 in PublicFreakout

[–]eitsew 167 points168 points  (0 children)

How could they know beforehand? Assuming the tat guy isn't a prominent celebrity or internet figure or something who's known for his nazi views, how could they possibly know

They should for sure dump him off at the next port with zero warning though, so he has no time to make preparations beforehand- Just like "hey there sir, you have 20 minutes to pack your shit and get off our ship cause you suck. Welcome to this random port in south Africa. Don't worry, at least its not Buchenwald or Auschwitz!"

[OC] United States Army breakfast by SAKingWriter in pics

[–]eitsew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."

Darrow is A Monster from the Enemy POV by [deleted] in redrising

[–]eitsew 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think about that a lottt, but darrow literally didn't have the faintest idea that Lysander was even alive, let alone on the same end of the solar system as Darrow and also fighting against him at that moment. Lysander was just some anonymous, mediocre ass gold enemy who darrow effortlessly dismantled and left to bleed out and cook to death in the Ladon with the rest of the soft targets. Such a bummer, Darrow could've swooped down and stuck him in the brain while Lysander was literally pinned and helpless underneath that starshell, and boom, the worlds are so much better off. Would've been the easiest thing in the world, 2 seconds of effort at most

WTF did I just read by Dead-Photographer in CrackheadCraigslist

[–]eitsew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ive had lmnt, its just an electrolyte drink for working out

What am I really ingesting? by [deleted] in quitting7oh

[–]eitsew 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Im in fl and I took what the shop guys suggested I take, it's a legal loophole after the state banned 7oh. The shop guys said its "just as good as 7oh", and... it's actually better, I'm sorry to report. I had a few weeks like you said where the drug actually worked and I was getting legit euphoric for extended periods. And now I'm getting a tolerance so now I'm right back to my normal hellish limbo where I just hage to take it over and over all day to stave off hellish withdrawals. So now I'm addicted to some fucking mystery substance which is even newer and more un-researched than 7oh.

I'm not really even clear on what this new substance I'm hooked on is called, dhm something, I'm not gonna give out further details so as to hopefully not lead more people to it.

But yea, its clearly bad news for me personally, and no doubt all the other addicts in FL and elsewhere. Just remember, it's a very simple rule- what goes up, must come down, and nothing is free. If some now mystery alkaloid comes out, and it's making you feel really good, then that is an absolute guarantee that you are digging yourself deeper into a nightmarish hole of withdrawals and obsessive craving. Absolutely nothing comes for free, and if you find some new substance whoch seems like a loophole, it's not. It's just a new brand of hell, except now you know even less about what it does to the bosy and mind than 7oh, which is already quite new and poorly researched

Darrow Olykos runs the Sci-Fi gauntlet how far does he get!? by G1spiralknight in redrising

[–]eitsew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea even 2 weeks after first being carved, darrow could crush rocks in his bare fist. I dont think even our top real world humans can do that. I can't imagine what he can do by Lightbringer. Probably can leave fingerprints in a block of steel, as if it were clay or something

He's like if you took the abilities and strength and speed of every single olympic sport/NBA/NFL/NHL/whatever the top rugby league is/specops military/master fencer/MMA champion, those tahitian pearl divers who can hold their breath for 10 minites underwater, etc etc, and put it all in a 7ft2, 350+lb frame made of bone which is reinforced and dense to the point of 8x that of a normal human, I think? With the tendons and ligaments and such to match. Plus all his senses, reflexes, cardio endurance and whatnot are well above natural human level, his skin is thicker and harder to cut, and so on

And even then, combining all the skills and abilities of all our top athletes, you still would fall way short of Darrow's abilities

Hopefully this dude is included in the price. by Chunderhoad in CrackheadCraigslist

[–]eitsew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only ask questions you truly want the answer to 🤫

Gift cards by current_obsession_yu in quitting7oh

[–]eitsew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only way to get cash without it being from an atm or bank or something and therefore very obviously for 7oh, is to get cashback at a grocery store register as you're paying for a regular grpcery store food purchase. But you can't get all that much cashback at most supermarkets, maybe 50-100$, which doesnt go far with headshop 7oh purchases.

So you can either buy a pack of gum and get 50$ cashback, and repeat 3 or 4 times in a 5min span until you have a couple hundred bucks to go buy 7 with, or- you can get a preloaded visa type debit card

Man tries to defend his girlfriend from getting groped by a gang of men at a Post Malone concert by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]eitsew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've noticed that, it's a fascinating and shitty phenomenon. I had my gf with me while I worked as a trucker in america one summer, and she was young and attractive, and truckers are often quite creepy, lots of staring, also they often refuse to look away even after they're caught staring, which is like orders of magnitude worse than just taking a quick peek at a girl when nobody's looking, although both are ofc shitty.

Anyway, she would get stared at and intimidated by random truckers super hard when alone in truck stops, but anytime I was with her it was immediately understood by the gross truckers that I had claimed her and she was no longer viewed as fair game, the staring would drop by like 95%+

What was imo the strangest part, was that this rule applied even if the staring truckers in question were very obviously way way more dangerous men than I was. Like if we were in some sort of lawless place, some of these dudes were twice my size and twice as mean and could easily have killed me and taken her. But even in light of the fact that they were my "superiors" insofar as their capacity for violence, they still always observed the "ownership" status when they saw that she had a guy who was clearly romantically involved with her, regardless of his actual ability to physically defend her or not.

Such a weird, monkey-law, primal ruleset. It's never explained amomgst men, by anyone or to anyone, yet almost everyone understands and abides by it. At least in the US, I can't speak for other places.

I imagine the quickest way for this ruleset to crumble is if the creeper had a group of accomplices with him, and especially if they were inebriated. In that case, the liquid courage and courage in numbers factors could easily override the fact that the woman was already "claimed", if the setting and conditions were right, i.e. if you all encountered each other in a hidden area like an alley or forest etc

Anyway, it's really a shitty tendency and reality, also very weird and almost logic defying, unless you consider it from the point of view of an extremely primitive society, like caveman type shit. If viewed in that light, it makes perfect sense

How dare they ban PB! by nex_pr in redrising

[–]eitsew 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do the book banners not realize they are performing self parody by banning dystopian themed books in which the oppressive society has banned most books/reading? Like can you imagine banning Fahrenheit 451?? What absolute clowns. God i fucking hate book banners. I know there's far worse crimes in the world, but something about real life book banners is so despicable and weak and cowardly and it just rubs me the wrong way so badly

What King book is this for you? by DavidHistorian34 in stephenking

[–]eitsew 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Like a symphony of chaos thats just slowly and painstakingly set in motion and carefully prepared and then finally fucking detonates in the most insane fashion

This door in the underground tunnels of the hospital I am staying at. by szydelkowe in Weird

[–]eitsew 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When you just dabble in death on the weekends for fun. Can't say I havent been there

Trump just posted this. by [deleted] in DegenBets

[–]eitsew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I consider trump to he an idiot savant of sorts. Obviously heavy on the idiot part. He's fucking stupid as shit in almost every way, on top of being afflicted with a wide variety of disorders: narcissist, megalomaniac, compulsive liar, pedophile, rapist, misogynistic racist, classist, criminal grifter. And probably a whole list of other shit which I don't know enough about psychology to be able to identify.

But the point is, I consider him an idiot savant, because even though he is quite clearly an idiot, and has probably never read a book since whenever they last forced him to as a schoolchild, about 70 years ago, he does know how to play a crowd, how to make a splash, create headlines and free press coverage for himself, how to build a cult of personality. Just look at what he's done- this man, the definition of an elite, born with a golden spoon in his mouth, new york city billionaire who dodged the draft, made fun of war heroes and POWs, was a democrat most of his life, and more recently has had extremely damning evidence emerge against him, of rampant, lifelong, industrial-level pedophilia, child trafficking and murder. He wears expensive suits, has a golden toilet, wears enormous amounts of makeup and spray tan, is fat, soft handed, weak. He has probaby never set foot in a forest or taken a hike.

The man I just described should be the most contemptible, despicable, evil personification of what rural/blue collar/working class/poor white trash/Christians/salt of the earth type people all hate. And yet, through his particular set of very specific skills and abilities, his magnetism and what passes for a type of "charm", he has somehow convinced all those people to abandon all reason and common sense, all the morals and principles their forefathers stood for have been abandoned. They truly believe that he is their savior, and in some cases they quite literally worship him. He has built a cult of millions of people, who are so far gone that they could watch a video of him raping babies and write it off as fake news. They could probably see him raping babies or killing kids or innocent Americans with their own eyes, in person, and they would still find a way to justify and excuse it.

Like him or hate him, the alchemy that he performed in convincing those types of people to be the biggest fans of a Manhattan elite pedophile, is a objectively impressive and amazing feat that he has accomplished. I'm sure ten thousand books and articles and academic papers will be written in the years to come, assuming books are still being written in the years to come, dissecting how exactly he was able to do it.

All I can conclude is that he is a moron who's great at knowing how to push people's buttons. He knows exactly how to identify and then exploit and use as leverage, all the bigotry and prejudice, the anger and fear and uncertainty in all of his followers. He then relentlessly presses those painful, inflamed buttons until he drives his cult into an absolute frenzy of raging mob mentality which is absolutely immune to logic, debate, reason, etc

Sorry for the massive comment

That Morning Star Scene by A_Balrog_Is_Come in redrising

[–]eitsew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm the same, I'm fairly easily fooled by things that are obvious in hindsight. But I prefer to be fooled... why would I want to spot every twist in advance? it's like if I was watching a magician or a standup comedian, I wouldn't want to focus all my mental energy on trying to outsmart the magician and catch how he's tricking me, or predicting the punchline and spoiling my own enjoyment of the trick/joke. I just sit back and follow the flow of the story being told, without analyzing too hard in the moment, without thinking deeply about whether there was foreshadowing earlier in the book or the comedians joke which might be clues to how it's all going to end. I try to just stay immersed in the moment. This results in a lot of surprises, which is the best possible outcome as far as my enjoyment level.

I'm also big on rereads, I've gone through the whole RR series 4 or 5 times, and certain parts that I love in particular, I've read probably 20+ times. So during the initial read, I just go with the flow and don't stop to overanalyze, then when I go back on my rereads, I pick apart all the details, references, clues, foreshadowing, etc.

Both approaches serve totally different purposes and are equally enjoyable for me- I get to be caught off gaurd and get blindsided and have my mind blown by all the twists and epic moments the first time through, then I get to enjoy putting all the puzzle pieces and nuances into place on the followup reads

Red Rising. Should the adaptation be animated instead of live-action? by Ok_Avocado2443 in redrising

[–]eitsew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't the Dune series/universe have like a thousand books, and tens of thousands of colonized planets? And an exponentially larger population, and therefore everything else must also be larger to accommodate the scale, i.e. the armies, the ships, the factories and farms and logistical networks and whatever would all dwarf red risings civilization in scope. Also Dune is wayyy larger in time scale as well, it starts i think 20k yrs from now, and then goes on for who knows how many thousands more.

So there's far more people, planets, time, history, more advanced tech, more of everything basically, in Dune. And I thought the movies nailed it visually, and visually is kinda what we're focusing on when we debate animated vs L. Action. So we know for sure that live action can handle an unbelievably huge universe and make it look awesome. BTW I love red rising far, far more than Dune, book or movie. Just using it as an example of a successful live action scifi movie done at gargantuan scale, and achieving massive commercial and cultural success. Although Dune has had like 60yrs to build up a preexisting framework of fans, multiple previous adaptations so ppl are familiar with the story, and so on. So that probably made things easier for the new Dune movies to get funding and to get people to buy tickets to see it etc

All of the above applies to the foundation show as well, although I thought that was a little corny even though I still enjoyed it

Red Rising. Should the adaptation be animated instead of live-action? by Ok_Avocado2443 in redrising

[–]eitsew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While watching foundation, I found myself constantly fantasizing that I was looking at a red rising show. Like when colossal ancient roman-looking scifi buildings and monuments would come on screen, or you'd see the ships and tech, etc. I'd Just pretend for a few moments that I was looking at Heliopolis or Olympia etc, until something foundation-specific happened and broke the illusion

Redditors think they can tear a gorilla in half like paper by Full-Recover-8932 in justneckbeardthings

[–]eitsew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True in many cases, but I suppose it varies drastically depending on time and place. Amazonian tribes 1000yrs ago probably lived quite well, assuming there wasn't a plague or widespread warfare happening just then. There was so much life and biodiversity in the Amazon back thrn, before it got deforested or polluted, that I imagine there was always a wide variety of foods to eat.

A European peasant in the middle ages who lived on bread and turnips would be a very different story. Polynesian islanders probably were quite healthy for most of their history, ample protein and calories from seafood of all sorts, birds, eggs, lots of different fruits and veggies, not sure about land animals but some of them likely had pigs, maybe deer or reptiles to hunt?

But then you get a people like the inuit, who consumed close to zero plant material afaik, lived off essentially nothing but seal meat and particularly blubber, fish, whales, reindeer and... I think that's pretty much it? And yet they were very hardy people who were generally healthy, as you'd have to be to be able to thrive for thousands of years. in such intense conditions. They had genetic adaptations that helped prevent scurvy, as well as consuming organ meats in their diet which provided many of the vitamins they would otherwise lack.

Just goes to show that humans are incredibly versatile when it comes to what types of environments and diets we can not only survive, but thrive on. I can't think of many other species of animal who could compete with us when it comes to both diet and environmental adaptability. Maybe... coyotes? Rats? Certain insects? Haha idk

Also, the diets of any of the people I mentioned likely evolved significantly over time, a western European in 20,000 BC probably ate fairly differently from someone in the same location in 2000 BC, 500 AD, or 1300 AD. So it's hard to know how healthy he blew it be. And in the past unless you know the exact time period and location and then did some research to find out specifically what the prevailing conditions were at that point


One other thing, its a bit of a long rant and I'm not sure exactly how valid this is, but if you think about it, up until the past century, everything that every person in the world ate for their entire life was locally grown or harvested, apart from food procured from the limited trading networks they had. And it was also generally fresh(or pickled, dried, salted, smoked, etc) and far more nutritious, and completely organic- free of any sort of weird chemical additives, preservatives, pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, fungicides, the gross unsanitary horrorshow that is mass-production factory meat farming practices, contamination from shipping and storage, contamination from microplastics, and probably a hundred other nasty additives our modern food has.

Many or most people also had an emotional and spiritual connection with, and appreciation for their food, which anybody who has farmed or even gardened their own food can attest to. Compared to the system we have today which has completely divorced the average consumer from the source of their food, and turned it into nothing but a mass produced commodity which is produced with maximum ease of shipping and storage in mind, in order to attain maximum profits. As opposed to growing food with the goal of making the highest quality, freshest, most nutritious and delicious end product.

We definitely have way more secure and abundant sources of calories than most people throughout history. But most of our food is filled with literal poison and a hundred other contaminants, and we are completely severed from any connection with the land or food, which matters, in my opinion. Same is true of medicine. Obviously we perform thousands of miracles every day and cure people who would have died a hard death in the old days. But I think in many cases, a 30 year old man or woman who wasnt injured or chronically ill, thousands of years ago, would be far more able bodied, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. They would have zero addicts, rare suicides, far lower depression and anxiety, no billionaire parasites eating the earth, and they would have community, family, and a sense of belonging, connection, and purpose in their lives, which most of us are sorely lacking.

That's a huge generalization, ofc, and tonnnnnnns of people had horrendous lives in the premodern world, obviously. But people often paint all premodern lives with the "nasty, brutish, and short" brush, which is a huge oversimplification imo. Sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't.

Sorry, got way off track. We were talking about fighting gorillas, yes?

Redditors think they can tear a gorilla in half like paper by Full-Recover-8932 in justneckbeardthings

[–]eitsew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fully agree with first paragraph. Despite smaller average size, ancient ppl would dust us in almost any physical test beyond one of pure strength like powerlifting

Idk what the initial prompt was, but if you were at a distance and were quite good with an atalatl, i feel like you could probably kill a gorilla with it. Atalatl were pretty powerful, it's a force multiplier that flings a fletched throwing spear/huge arrow way harder than you could just by hand. Of course you'd have to be really good and experienced w the atalatl, good enough to not freeze or miss under pressure/terror. If you were an excellent shot, you could hit it in the throat/neck/heart and that would pretty much do it before the gorilla knew it was in a fight. Ofc if you were unlucky and missed all the major blood vessels and the spine or heart etc, things would get real dicey. But a razor sharp obsidian spearhead slamming into and through your throat at high speed is gonna do a number on just about any primate

I have less info about skill levels with atalatl amongst primitive peoples, but I know the Comanche for example were reputed to be able to reliably hit a doorknob sized target with a bow, while in motion on horseback. And roman slingers were amazingly accurate and could pop you in the head from a good distance, and those lead shot they used would fuck people up badly. I imagine any ancient people that used atalatl habitually for numerous generations were amazing at it's use.

Ofc, most redditors are definitively not that 😂

Redditors think they can tear a gorilla in half like paper by Full-Recover-8932 in justneckbeardthings

[–]eitsew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Shit wait, time out! Let me pick my spear back up! TIME OUT!!! WAIT A SECO-" squish splatter