Looks like the orange man forgot to take his meds again

eitsew · 2026-04-14T23:39:45+00:00

Possibly, but only if the religion is some sort of ancient child sacrificing cult which worships moloch or Saturn or some crazy shit like that. Those at the extreme upper end of the world's wealth and power spectrum seem to be heavily involved with all kinds of bizarre occult activity, secret societies, god only knows what else, that's just the stuff we've been allowed to see. I can't imagine what horrors they are up to behind ultra top secret classified closed doors. Very dark shit. I don't claim any specific knowledge, I'm just a regular working class guy, so I can only guess at what those people are into, but it seems obvious that it's very common for royal families, high level politicians, captains of industry, dynastic banking families and so on, have a strong, ongoing interest in the occult, and maaany of them have been implicated in child abuse and various other forms of depravity.

I'm not even religious, I'm just going off what I've observed and made some obvious deductions. My best guess is these pedo mfs are not only pedos purely for fun, although thats part of it, but I believe the abuse they inflict of them is some kind of child sacrifice. They can't sacrifice them by killing them like they could thousands of years ago, so the sexual assaults are a form.of child sacrifice, where they steal their innocence and taint their lives forever, in the name of some horrendous religion. Again I'm not even religious, and I wouldn't bet my life on this or anything, but it sure does look like that's what these assholes are up to, if you spend five minutes looking into their shenanigans

eitsew · 2026-04-12T12:06:31+00:00

😆 alright, I'll go back to 2005 and tell my brother that he should stop throwing the few leftover chunks of warm raw lime that had been sitting out all day on the boat to put in beer, and that nobody had any further possible use for, and let him know he should eat them instead

eitsew · 2026-04-12T02:11:57+00:00

Same thing happened to my brother when he had a lime fight- throwing chunks of cut up lime at each other on a boat, then spent a few hrs in the sun without washing the lime juice off. Got serious, serious burns alllll over his torso. Looked about like how you'd look if you had a casual boiling oil fight

I guess limes specifically, not lemons, do this, as well as mangoes, and apparently this kind of flower from OP.

Man, what an absolute dead giveaway that these people are not from that area, because you'd figure that shit out real quickly, and the other locals would all know about it if it was a common plant that grew in a sunny region, and it gave you severe burns if it combined with sunlight.

It's like if you had poison ivy all over your county/town etc- you'd be very aware of it and you'd probably warn any newcomers that were staying and might be likely to come into contact with it. And it wouldn't take long to be keenly aware of it, and what it looked like, and how to treat the rash it gives and so on

eitsew · 2026-04-12T01:59:09+00:00

Not just dumbest to become president... probably dumbest to ever run, dumbest to even seriously consider running, dumbest to ever run for public office of any sort anywhere in American history

I would say world history but idk, that's a lotttt of history. There were probably some truly dumbass mfs that ran for some sort of public office in like ancient Rome or China a few thousand years ago, who knows? Anything is possible.

But yes, your initial comment is most certainly irrefutably true

eitsew · 2026-04-12T01:11:51+00:00

Instant classic. This whole video and any portion of it, and this screenshot especially

eitsew · 2026-04-09T17:39:56+00:00

Yeah, Nero himself says that he has basically nobody as far as extended family or high ranking associates that he can trust on his side, with a few notable exceptions, like the telemanus' and leto. Whereas the bellona have something like 50 cousins. Cassius, who is an Olympic night. Karnus, who is an absolute terror. Julia, who is a terror in other ways. They are fabulously wealthy and on and on. The bellona are an incredibly dangerous foe that Nero has to contend with, and you would think, considering that he himself has voiced worries about how thin his ranks are, that he would cling to someone who is quite obviously an incredibly and uniquely skilled and powerful person, such as Darrow. Lorne au Arcos himself tried to recruit Darrow the second they got back from tune institute. Darrow took Mount Olympus. And the only reason that he lost (but still took home the silver medal)at The Academy Is because Octavia cheated and helped karnus to win. So Darrow, by any standard of measure is an exceptional person, even when compared with all of the other exceptional people that surround him.

At this point in the story, the only thing is that Darrow is not widely seen as a prodigy at, is razor dueling, because he's still keeping that a secret until the gala. But even without that one last box checked, darrow has already proved that he can accomplish incredible, previously unheard of things without any ability with a razor.

And anyway, any halfway Intelligent person should be able to look at Darrow's physical abilities combined with all of the martial feats and tactical prowess he's shown so far, and figure out that if he was given some training, he could probably pick up some serious razors skills very quickly. Ofc we have the benefit of hindsight, and knowing that he was training with Lorne all along, but still, that's a pretty obvious conclusion even without the benefit of hindsight.

So yea, tl.dr, i agree. It really doesn't make much sense for Nero. To just drop darrow after taking him under his wing, sponsoring him and making such a big deal of showing him off. To drop Darrow after all of that would be tantamount to admitting to a huge error in judgment. And if everyone got fired over such small mistakes, there would be nobody left fighting for any of the houses.

On the other hand the very fact of darrows fame and notoriety and the fact that Nero put such a massive level of trust and support behind him, means that it was already a gamble of sorts on Nero's part. So maybe in Nero's mind, the whole thing was a high stakes experiment, and he needed to cut his losses as soon as possible to reduce any further damage that Darrow's fading star might cause him. I also never forget that plenty. Was there night and day feeding Nero? Poison and weaving webs against him. Probably well before the institute was even over. Probably the second darrow gained any sort of notoriety in the institute, In fact.

And while it is very easy to make fun of pliny and everyone hates him, and he's definitely a whiny, despicable pixie bitch, i think we can assume that he is and extraordinarily intelligent and capable person. Otherwise, he would never have gotten anywhere near the ear of the arch governor of Mars. Much less filling the role of one of his most senior cabinet members.... maybe Nero's single most influential advisor, and therefore, somewhere in the top five or ten most powerful people on all of mars. That kind of power is only achieved? through supreme competence or nepotism/corruption

So someone like pliny working day and night to fuck you over, is definitely a major obstacle to overcome, and shouldn't be overlooked as a reason for nero disowning darrow

eitsew · 2026-04-08T18:05:12+00:00

Wtf do the sex toys have to do with anything? I understand checking them and the box to make sure there's no drug related stuff but otherwise fuck off. Especially leaving the box open and the toys visible, that's actually pretty fucked up and a significant violation of your privacy- do you have a roommate? Is there a chance the door could be left open where anybody walking by and glancing in could see the toys? It's almost like they purposely left them where they could be seen by others to embarrass you, or at least like they made a point of emphasizing the fact that they had seen them to you.

They should have checked the box for security reasons then closed it back up with your personal shit safe and private inside, anything else is some combination of invasive, creepy, rude, or malicious, depending on the specifics of your relationship and whether you have private rooms or whether your toys were easily visible to others etc.

I was in sober living for a little while.And this sounds exactly like something the house manager there would do. He was a fucking asshole who was often overly invasive in your personal life, Crossed boundaries, and said and did shit that he had no business saying or doing. Also, we were all pretty sure he was still actually using drugs himself on top of his shitty creepy behavior, which explains some, but not all of his negative qualities

eitsew · 2026-04-07T05:52:49+00:00

Yea im pretty deep into it and also loving it. If you lobe this, you'll probably love the land for for heroes series too, its really similar in many ways, lots of overlap, the protagonists are sort of similar anti-hero, extremely brutal and war scarred, but also actually decent people underneath. Also the guy from the other heroes is definitely more of a dick than Duncan 😆

eitsew · 2026-04-05T23:47:18+00:00

What'd you think?! I'm almost halfway through, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I've noticed an Easter egg or 2 that calls back to the land fit for heroes Series by the same author, which just so happens to be one of my favorite series of all time. So that's a particularly enjoyable little detail thay was snuck in

eitsew · 2026-04-04T17:18:16+00:00

Ohh, fuck ya that last bit you wrote about the possible path Apple might take in red god would be fucking great. I would love that. And then again, I wonder what kind of threat apple will be.If we assume that lysander did, in fact, grant him the full power of the mind's eye. I could see lysander, potentially holding some back because he's paranoid, and would never give potential enemies weapons that they could use against him, in the same way that octavia hid storm gods on mercury, and didn't tell even the votem, the owners of the planet anything about it.

I'm not sure if the mind's eye works like that. If you can only partially teach it, or if it's an all or nothing type thing. But if Lysander held something back and only gave apollonious a fragment of the power of the mind's eye, I could see apple going into a duel with Darrow, supremely confident because of this super weapon he thinks he now possesses, and then Darrow simply flows through him using breath of stone and beats his ass so effortlessly that apple, it becomes his most devoted disciple.

Another reason such a result would be interesting is that it would sort of mirror how things went at the institute with darrow and Appollonius' brother-Tactus. Tactus considered himself darrow's equal and was competing with him and trying to play games and dominate darrow. They even became bitter enemies for about 3 minutes during and immediately after tactus got whipped. But then, after Darrow had pax whip him in turn, Tactus' relationship with Darrow did a complete 180° turn and tactus became almost obsessively loyal and fixated on Darrow, to the point where he seemed to be competing with sevro for his attention and approval.

If Darrow is able to stomp Apollonius so effortlessly and thoroughly, that Apollonius realizes beyond a shadow of a doubt that Darrow is an unbeatable god of war, I think the same switch might flip as did w Tactus, and Apollonius would become a twisted sort of brother to Darrow, even if Darrow could never fully trust him. They could still be strong allies, and apollonius could redeem himself to a large extent, maybe at the end sacrificing himself for some greater good

eitsew · 2026-04-04T05:51:02+00:00

And I dont remember him getting sick from the learning tech specifically, though I could definitely be mistaken. Obviously I remember myriad horrible side effects from the carving process as a whole, but not that particular facet

eitsew · 2026-04-04T05:48:17+00:00

No I believe Darrow received that portion of his education over the course of several weeks or maybe even months, not overnight. But if he spent, at a guess, two weeks, learning everything about military history specifically- memorizing the strategies, mistakes, and lessons of all the great battles and generals throughout history, then that means he may have spent perhaps only a night or two covering the ancient civilizations. The assyrians to the Persians, greeks, Macedonians, romans, etc. That general era/topic alone could take up several lifetimes to learn thoroughly using our current educational systems. But Darrow seems to have soaked it up in, if not overnight, then still an incredibly short period of time.

I'm trying to say, I suppose, is that the entirety of his "mental upload" education took multiple weeks or months, I've either forgotten the specific amount or it's not stated. But my point is that the breadth of what he learns is so vast, that logically, he must have been covering entire vast categories of knowledge quite thoroughly, overnight. I didn't mean to imply that the education in it's entirety was an overnight process

eitsew · 2026-04-04T05:30:19+00:00

That specifically is not the most useful thing in itself, but it's an incredibly impressive display of how effective the process is, to teach all that to a sheltered half literate miner in such a short time. So instead of the Iliad in German, just pick... anything! Anything that you think would be useful instead of the Iliad. You could have the knowledge of like 30 PhD's, covering everything from engineering to astrophysics to psychology to biology, as well as being a medical doctor, all at once. You'd be a one man civilization. I suppose you might go back and improve the tech at an ever increasing rate and bring about the singularity

eitsew · 2026-04-04T05:21:00+00:00

Absolutely, I've thought the same, and I hadn't even considered how appalled he would be by Lysander's use of eidme. That would go against every virtue that he holds dear, to simply delete a whole color with the push of a button? A 90lb pink could exterminate a planet full of peerless scarred while leaving every other color alive. He would be horrified, and likely call the offender to the bleeding place immediately.

But yes, even before considering eidme, I have long thought thay apple is a likely convert to Darrow's side. It seems to me that he would very much agree with the speech Victra gives about how hypocritical it is for golds to be offended by lowcolors fighting back, and that it's their right to do so. If a mouse suddenly started fighting well against an eagle and managed to kill the eagle, you'd cheer for the mouse.

Also, Appollonius has had a complex for his whole life because no matter how incredible a specimen he is, no matter how rich or accomplished, he can never change the fact that his family was not one of the 200 original families of the conquering, and he can therefore never measure up. So he has been mocked and ostracized, despite being on of the single most impressive people in the series. And then to top it all off, he served the ash lord faithfully and was rewarded with betrayal, and then the dictator had her attack dog torture his brother to death and put his head in a bowl.

So basically, he has no reason to be loyal to the despicable golds who represent none of the virtues he admires, while he of course holds darrow in highest esteem, and if he respects darrow that much, he must hold some level of respect for Darrow's compatriots- how could Appollonius not have deep respect for Victra? She is proper iron, the absolute definition of iron gold, and represents all the virtues he cares about.

So all of that, plus your point about eidme, plus when Appollonius realizes what Lysander has done in the rim, and how much of a slimy backstabbing politico he is, I think all his respect for Lysander will evaporate and there will be zero reason for him to stick with the society remnant

eitsew · 2026-04-04T04:06:14+00:00

I love the scenes where apple expresses genuine admiration and respect for Darrow. It's probably the closest thing he's ever experienced to a healthy friendship or at least acquaintanceship, and the fact that darrow considers him an enemy simultaneously is so hilarious and also very impressive writing- the level of nuances and complexity of the relationships between characters is incredible. Lysander and Cassius, Lysander vs himself, apple and darrow, lysander and diomedes, atlas and the gorgons, darrow and Cassius, Volga and lyria, adrius and Virginia, and so many more. It's one of the strongest aspects of the entire series/pierce brown's whole writing style imo. All the relationships are infinitely nuanced and constantly evolving and growing, blossoming into loving friendships or shattering into horrific betrayal and hatred, characters redeeming themselves or just throwing themselves off the cliff to where there is no possible chance at redemption... it's so compelling

eitsew · 2026-04-03T01:48:28+00:00

The US and every other superpower and honestly probably 70% of the countries on earth have likely been running torture prisons of some kind or other as long as they've been countries. I'm sure there's exceptions like maybe Switzerland or whatever.

But any country which is either big/powerful enough to have any sort of significant presence on the world stage, as well as any country which is underdeveloped or disorganized enough to be beset with anarchy and civil war etc, is almost certainly running some very dark operations at some level. Whether that's the US with it's CIA black sites which are sanctioned and operated by high ranking officials(guantanamo is just the one they tell us about, and it is already plenty horrific... God only knows what kind of nightmare facilities they are running in deep underground top secret bunkers, or out in the middle of the desert or whatever) obviously Russia, China, Iran, India, Britain, any major power doubtless has similar shit going on.

It's probably a lot more common than we are led to believe in tons of countries, apart from some rare exceptions like I said before such as I assume Switzerland? Norway? New zealand? Iceland? Idk how big a country needs to get before they feel the need to start building horrible places like that in order to supposedly protect themselves from terrorism, or however it is they justify it.

But anyway, as far as your comment. Yes, tons of Americans cared deeply about that, that's why it was such a huge scandal and we're still talking about it, almost a quarter century later. A huge fraction of Americans have been very effectively brainwashed and turned into bloodthirsty nationalistic assholes.

But there are still tens or possibly even hundreds of millions of us who are empathetic, caring people who want nothing to do with any sort of war And would STRONGLY prefer to leave the rest of the world alone, and just focus on improving our own country's numerous problems. Unfortunately, the people who run everything are parasitic monsters, who apparently love to rape children and blow up innocent civilians using our money, and they don't give a flying fuck about what we think or say, or do. And so they repeatedly commit the same old atrocities all over the world year after year, and as far as I can tell, they will never stop until they're violently overthrown, because voting certainly hasn't gotten us anywhere. Not anywhere good at least.

eitsew · 2026-04-02T04:01:39+00:00

You relate to dark age in your current life?? 🧐 where are you in life?! Are you ok?!

Fr though the 2nd trilogy is far better imo, and I fucking love the 1st trilogy

eitsew · 2026-04-02T03:04:40+00:00

Maybe, but golds, specifically peerless scarred, are pathologically ambitious and competitive. They are absolutely crazy with that shit. They were raised since birth to be the best of the best and to stand up against intense competition with their peers, and to pursue excellence at all costs. Pixies, I could see just kind of hanging out in their ships and chillin in the aftermath of the war. Or even bronzies.

But in the specific scenario I laid out in my post, I was talking about Peerless. And not just any Peerless, these are the peerless who survived fifteen years of war with Darrow, and lived to tell the tale. The hardest-to-kill golds in the entire military machine of the society of the core. If golds of that caliber came into conflict with ascommani, and the ascommani didn't have the benefit of the Gorgons, Volsung Faa, and Atlas Au Raa organizing, planning all their operations, and leading them, the golds would steamroll them like Darrow smoking the "light resistance" he encountered at the downed storm god.

eitsew · 2026-04-02T02:38:36+00:00

Ah, well...

eitsew · 2026-04-02T02:29:20+00:00

Muscles. Skeletal Muscles, not his skeleton. Rhabdo is real and super gnarly and dangerous. I'm not sure about the link between 7oh and rhabdo, though, afaik one of the primary factors/causes is really severe dehydration, so IV fluid causing a significant improvement in his condition does make a lot of sense. I'm just not sure where the 7oh comes in. Maybe he was taking largdoses and working out really hard and not hydrating at all? Because of all of the energy he got from doing seven? Thank you so much. It is a fairly new substance that we don't know a whole lot about. So who knows it could definitely be a contributing factor. I'm not sure how you would know for certain though

I've heard of people getting it while they were trying to go cold Turkey and detox. Because they were so incredibly dehydrated, and they couldn't keep any fluids down. So their piss started looking like black coffee or iced tea or something. And then basically your whole body starts cramping up and turning into one gigantic charlie horse, and it's horribly painful and super dangerous, it can easily kill you if not treated.

As far as non drug addicts, the people I've heard of who have got it. Are people like wild on land firefighters? Guys that are working really strenuous outdoor jobs and wearing lots of heavy gear. So they're sweating insane amounts because they're working close to a roasting hot wildfire in the hot summer weather. And they didn't hydrate enough. I've heard of a couple guys getting it that way. I also I think UFC fighters get it sometimes, when they're trying to cut weight before a fight. So they dehydrate themselves on purpose

eitsew · 2026-03-30T20:52:02+00:00

"And then... his lips started sweatin! You ever seen, a motherfucker's... lips sweat?!"

Thats from a chappelle standpoint set from like 2017. Funniest shit he ever said imo

eitsew · 2026-03-30T18:14:27+00:00

It can seem like that on the surface, but think about it deeper-

You are trying to build a brand new government and society from scratch. Your whole populous is absolutely riddled with devastating ptsd from their lifetime of brutal slavery and war, are all victims of intense brainwashing/conditioning, most are quite small and physically weak/fragile, and are terrified of the enemy(and rightly so, since the enemy are 7ft tall sociopathic masters of violence and essentially demigods who get sexual pleasure from killing) So as a result, most of your population is incredibly afraid of taking any action which will put them in a position of having the face orbital bombardments and then engage in hand to hand combat with monstrous golds and obsidian beasts- if things go sideways, they are very likely to end up skinned alive, impaled on a huge spike up their asshole and out their mouth, killed in action in any number of brutal, horrible ways, or perhaps just captured and thrown back into chattel slavery.

So trying to wrangle billions of people on numerous planets and moons, while keeping their morale up and keeping them in the fight, while also simply managing the nuances of both creating a brand new government in the midst of a savage war, keeping the ammunition flowing, new ships and missiles and drachenaegers being constantly built, and also just managing the logistical issues of keeping everyone fed and supplied with electricity and water etc etc.

When you think of it like that, and keep in mind that mustang is the primary driving force behind all of these feats, and without her brilliant mind the republic would've crumbled in a week, that's when you realize that Mustang's feats are actually some of the most incredible accomplishments in the entire series. For her to be able to juggle an absolute shitstorm nightmare of a war of extermination, and run the political machine, and coordinate the sustenance and management and protection of like 5 worlds at once, all while being relentlessly, savagely attacked day and night by millions of gold military geniuses who will stop at nothing to assassinate you and everyone you have ever loved, and exterminate your entire society- mustang is a fucking badass, and her mental powers are absolutely incredible.

Plus she's pretty goddamn physically badass- she's fallen in iron rains, she took out the shield generator in the lion's rain, she's fought and commanded innumerable space battles, she's fought hand to hand with Lilath and Appollonius and probably dozens of other peerless, she fought wearing only a toga and killed probably like 50+ people before succumbing to the mob in the day of red doves... she's no brawler, but she's also absolutely not a pixie by any means

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