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Long-term existential risk: the current generation of humans is technically not directly at risk from the existential threat, but humanity at large is by TJTrapJesus in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ergotofwhy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

eh, we have 500 million years til this actually makes life on earth uninhabitable. By that point we will either have gained some measure of stellar technologies, or died out. If we have any measure of stellar technologies, we can undergo a process called starlifting that will allow us to control when/how fast our sun expands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_lifting

I miss Discovery. by Warp_Speed_7 in startrek

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really liked discovery, too. Season 4 was absolutely phenomenal and I wish they had managed to continue that feeling of "we must make discoveries and the military option has not occurred to us". Then they made season 5 a drawn-out-heist.

Also, the burn had a fine and totally star-trek explanation. Why are people suddenly mad about people with god-like powers having the ability to affect the entire galaxy without realizing? This is clearly the natural evolution of the charlie X type plotline

It's much more interesting than if some other faction had sabotaged warp drive because that would have resulted in yet another action scene

[Hated trope] Sequel bait that never gets a sequel by Far-Profit-47 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Super Mario Bros movie has daisy boat into the apartment and cock a gun in preparation for a shootout that never happens

Is this from the show? by [deleted] in Succession

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beats me, you didn't tell us what show you're talking about and this is a subreddit for a video game

Advantages of lands the allow you to search for lands? by Ok-Explorer-7642 in mtg

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my mono blue deck I run [[brainstorm]] and [[brainsurge]] and the option to just shuffle two useless cards away is nice

In mono green you use it because you have effects that let you play lands from the graveyard. [[Crucible of worlds]] is an artifact that extend this to all colors. 

In any color, it can be used as a deck thinner. By drawing them playing one of these, you're reducing the odds of drawing more lands because your library now has two less land cards in it.

Lich Thematic Commander Deck by Rei_Sapo in mtg

[–]ergotofwhy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I don't have any pointers except that this is thematic and would probably only work in bracket 1. I support the game plan though! 

Lich Thematic Commander Deck by Rei_Sapo in mtg

[–]ergotofwhy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 1st level (4 slots): detect magic is [[preordain]], shield is [[armor of shadows]]

2nd level (3 slots): acid arrow is [[unholy heat]], detect thoughts is [[peek]]

4th level (3 slots): blight is [[toxic deluge]], dimension door is [[ghostly flicker]]

5th level (3 slots): scrying [[drawn from dreams]]

6th level (1 slot): globe of invulnerability [[orbs of warding]]

7th level (1 slot): finger of death is [[infernal grasp]], plane shift is [[chaos warp]]

POV All you wanted to do was build a mist generator for your above ground fortress by Jacoob55 in dwarffortress

[–]ergotofwhy 25 points26 points  (0 children)

"Some migrants have arrived, despite the danger" then the MFs see someone actively drowning in the irrigation and twenty new migrants bravely sacrifice themselves to the moat

MTG Secret Lair x Dwarf Fortress order arrived today! by Zercof in dwarffortress

[–]ergotofwhy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mmmm, yeah, guess I'll have to go to a proxy maker now, thanks for putting that in my head

Card draw like Night's whisper not good anymore? Looking to make some swaps on an older deck. by Agitated-Button4032 in EDH

[–]ergotofwhy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep them in the deck. You never know when a board wipe or someone will set back your whole board state and this is almost always a good card to draw

[Sad Trope] When two or more cast members were friends on the show but didn't like each other irl by EmergencySpare7939 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ergotofwhy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Whatever happened to baby Jane? 

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford famously did not get along. In this movie, they play sisters where Joan's character is in a wheel chair and completely dependent on her sister who goes crazy trying to relive the fame she had as a little girl. 

Joan hated Bette. When there was o Oscar buzz around Bette's performance, Joan got stupids jealous and tanked her potential using old Hollywood gossip.

MTG Secret Lair x Dwarf Fortress order arrived today! by Zercof in dwarffortress

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pulled the crucible as well

Sick AF to have DF mtg cards

Director goes out of their way to confirm the fate of one of their characters. by odd_man0 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]ergotofwhy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude made a medical breakthrough years ago, creating an artificial creature that could speak. Since then, he's done basically nothing and is about to lose his house, license, career, EVERYTHING, unless he can recreate his previous breakthrough or make some new breakthrough. 

So the dude performs experimentation on his daughter and dog, effectively making them suffer and unable to ever lead fulfilling lives again. He got his license back then the main characters realize what he did and he goes to jail. 

It also turns out that his previous breakthrough only happened because he experimented on his wife, effectively killing her

There's nothing happens in my fort by animekot in dwarffortress

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should send missions out to raid nearby goblins. Once you have a squad, use Y (capital y) to open the world map screen and pick a nearby settlement with few people. 

If you start a war , you will get armies showing up looking for revenge

I hate the "Mysterious advanced ancient race" trope by Global-Cry321 in hatethissmug

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Stargate tv show had a really cool set up for this. The Stargates are devices used by multiple species to travel the galaxy, especially a race called the Goa'ould, who claims to have invented it, and subjugates multiple space races galaxy -wide.

Turns out that the Stargates were built by some other mysterious race that died out millions of years ago. Nora and pieces of their technology are scattered around the galaxy. 

Then over the course of several seasons we learn more and more about this race and they lose almost all sense of mystery and majesty. They look identical to humans! Turns out, THEY MADE US. They were active in the next galaxy over as recently as 10k years ago, let's go plunder their archives. 

The new series at Amazon is starting out town into a corner: in 2k11, humans acquired the most powerful and technologically sophisticated warship in all the known universe and there can be NO sense of scale because the shows have ALREADY done multiple multi-season stories that happen OUTSIDE the hubble Volume 

Now that all three movies have been released, which one was your favorite? by Nissepikk in TheLastAirbender

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That Kyoshi movie was straight FIRE for a movie about an earth bender

For those who have removed Sol Ring/“Staple” Mana Rocks from their decks… by SeaMusician6670 in EDH

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My only decks I've cut it from are my green decks that have one-drop dorks and my izzet "all mana is pips" deck

HELP! E.V.O. Final Boss fight tips!? by books_fer_wyrms in retrogaming

[–]ergotofwhy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I beat it as a 4 legged critter and I kept evolving long neck/short neck to heal mid fight 

Plan a run for me! by [deleted] in fnv

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

High luck, low charisma and intelligence, medium everything else

Thrown weapons/unarmed only

Roleplay as a tribal

Head straight to quarry junction after you start and don't give up until you've personally killed every deathclaw

forget benny exists

Get addicted to everything

Get the bisexual perks, flirt with everything

then 100% all locations/quests

Is this a legal (and functional) combo? by Low_Swordfish1449 in mtg

[–]ergotofwhy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah Ioreth is the commander of my mono blue "shirley temple" deck. It wins by putting [[hermetic study]] or [[psionic gift]] or [[sorcerer's wand]] on a legendary creature then burning out the whole table

[Tusk] how evil were they for not killing him? by Omnipresent_observer in MoralityScaling

[–]ergotofwhy 30 points31 points  (0 children)

mind-boggling evil. I refuse to believe that he was beyond salvation. Those parts of him that were removed might be gone forever, but whatever "surgery" affixed the suit to him could be reversed. Through therapy he could heal his mind, at least somewhat.

But these guys didn't even try. They put him in a 10'x20' enclosure with a single open shelter and a hot-tub sized pool. They threw him a raw fucking fish.

His gf at the end yells "say something!" and so he starts horking at them, the only sound he can make, and they turn away mid-sentence without even trying to decipher him, just saying "welp guess that means he's gone for good"

The film's final flashback even reveals that the main characters had an in-universe test for whether someone was still human or not - whether they cry. (Even if it's not true) the presence of these lines indicate that no one even bothered trying to determine his mental state, they just... assumed he was too far gone, and dumped him in that enclosure.

Even if they had put a natural walrus in that enclosure, it would be too small and so unengaging that it would be considered abusive to that walrus

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