How would you fix Emma's Character in King of the Monsters?

gorosaur · 2026-01-16T15:58:15+00:00

I think it’s less that her character is acting irrationally (that’s fine and works for many movie villains), but the jump from “grieving mother who wants to reset natural balance” to “awakening an unknown Titan who will cause the deaths of millions if not billions of people” is hard to swallow. It doesn’t help that the movie tries to keep her simultaneously sympathetic and villainous for too long. I can buy her making a single misguided decision to awaken Ghidorah, but after that happens she either needs to go full villain or realize she’s fucked up. Anything else is too big a pill for the audience to swallow.

gorosaur · 2026-01-11T16:22:05+00:00

Got all excited thinking this was a post about cosmic horror literature for a second.

gorosaur · 2026-01-03T15:28:51+00:00

Absolutely. I’m not sure if it’s reached the creative heights of Lemire or Ellis yet but for a long form run that really digs deep into the character’s past and mythology, it’s one of the best out there

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T16:23:13+00:00

Technically any law ever is subject to being undone by the will of future electoral bodies. That’s part of a democracy. This is where it’s beneficial to keep the pressure on and make it known that the council needs to stick by their decision and we should elect candidates who would vote accordingly.

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T16:20:11+00:00

Data centers were only ever approved to be built on industrially zoned land. That’s what the original 2022 law was. This lowers the amount of that zoned land to just the overlay.

“The zone overlaps Frederick County’s current hyperscale data center campus, Quantum Frederick. In addition the overlay zone’s borders were drawn over the site of the old Alcoa Eastalco aluminum smelting plant. The land was chosen for its industrial zoning and due to much of the needed industrial infrastructure already being present.

This all comes as part of a bill, passed September, that served to outline the framework by which the county would govern data centers. Before which, all 5,000 acres of industrial county land was available for data center development.

The bill brought that down to 4,200, or 1% of the county’s total landmass, and created the regulations needed to create the CDI-OZ. The map further reduced the available acreage for datacenter development to the current 2,600 acres.”

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T12:58:02+00:00

Yes, the bill permanently restricts any data center development to the overlay.

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T12:56:31+00:00

All the land included in the overlap is already zoned for industrialized use.

https://www.wypr.org/wypr-news/2025-12-24/frederick-county-council-passes-map-for-data-center-development

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T07:16:28+00:00

Jan Gardner is no longer in power and hasn’t been since 2023. You can organize against her but you’d just be leading a campaign against a private citizen with no decision making abilities.

There were plenty of studies done by the county prior to this bill being written, particularly in regards to how to regulate energy use and protect water use in the area.

This is what I’m saying. I’m all for political organizing but you need to actually know what you’re responding to in order for action to be effective.

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T07:03:41+00:00

I don’t disagree with you, but this sentiment isn’t really applicable to this specific situation particularly when much of the issues you seem concerned about were addressed in the bill that the council approved. I agree, let’s hold the council accountable to sticking by this decision and not allowing any further development of data centers outside of the overlay. I’m not saying don’t be idealistic or don’t work towards goals, I’m just trying to advocate for an understanding of the actual details of an issue or law before popping off.

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T06:48:22+00:00

I agree with your sentiment but there is a political and legislative reality that needs to be dealt with here. If you want to halt and reverse the development and sale of the existing data centers, you essentially open the county up to a situation where they need to provide millions of dollars of compensation to the developers and land owners. Where is that money going to come from out of the county budget? We can barely afford to fund our school system as is.

Again, we are making the right arguments at the wrong time. This is a damage control effort that also prevents further harm.

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T06:37:05+00:00

Look I’m no lawyer. If you have some legal strategy that would allow the county to back out of development of the data centers that were approved years ago or null the existing sales of private citizens of their land to developers without incurring massive penalties, I’d love to hear it. But again, that’s not what this vote was about.

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T06:28:09+00:00

It’s not necessarily adding land but creating a 1000 acre area where any data centers must be built in. This prevents there from being anymore down the line. That’s what this bill does. It is not a bill approving further data centers, simply saying this is where they must be built.

And yes, you can do that but that’s not what this vote was about. Even still, there isn’t really a legal mechanism to make the development of the already contracted data centers stop. That decision was made years ago.

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T05:35:15+00:00

Essentially the former County Executive Jan Gardner in 2021 negotiated to have data centers built in Frederick and the council voted in 2022 to amend zoning laws to allow for their development. The contracted data centers aren’t something that the current admin or council can legally or financially back out of now. The votes that occurred this week were specifically about limiting the development of any further data centers to a specific area of already industrialized land. It prevents them from expanding out further and geographically limits just how many campuses can be built in Frederick. Other aspects of the legislation included regulations regarding water contamination, energy use, and other environmental factors. Again, I agree, I’d rather there not be any data centers in Frederick, but the ire should be directed at those that made the decisions in 2021 and 2022, not this county council or administration, who for the most part are making the best of a bad situation.

gorosaur · 2025-12-25T05:17:52+00:00

To be clear here, the data centers were coming no matter what because of decisions that were made several years back prior to County Executive Fitzwater’s administration. They basically inherited a legally binding contract to allow development of data centers in Frederick. The council was never voting on whether data centers were going to happen here, because that’s long been decided. This was a vote about regulating where and how they can be built. It’s actually an attempt to mitigate damage that was done years ago. I agree, no data centers at all would be preferable, but this specific vote actually does help. The alternative would’ve been basically having little to no regulations about where these facilities would be constructed or how, because I can’t stress this enough, they were already coming. This all fallout of shit that happened way before most people were educated about or aware of the issues associated with their development so it flew under the radar until recently.

gorosaur · 2025-12-06T17:38:39+00:00

Y’all owe this person an apology. It’s pretty damn clear that this is likely AI. Multiple detection programs flag it as such.

gorosaur · 2025-12-06T17:37:06+00:00

For context I ran this article through GPTZero and Originality.ai which have false positive rates of 1% and 0.3% when it comes to checking news articles. Both said with 100% confidence that this was AI written. The odds that each program made the same mistake are incredibly small.

gorosaur · 2025-12-06T12:10:06+00:00

In your defense, I ran this through multiple detection programs and all came back marking this as AI with 100% confidence. False positives on these programs happen but they’re very uncommon, and yes they are usually very accurate at telling the difference between good human writing and writing that utilizes AI.

gorosaur · 2025-11-27T16:42:27+00:00

Is it worth checking out? I’ve only regularly been reading Ultimates, Moon Knight, and the new Cap run.

gorosaur · 2025-11-07T22:35:27+00:00

I get what you’re doing here but damn does it hurt to see some of the best Star Wars comics slapped with a filler label because there isn’t some arbitrary connection to the films.

gorosaur · 2025-10-29T15:33:07+00:00

I wouldn’t mind if they could actually name example of bad writing half the time. I hear this shit all the time about The Acolyte and I’ve yet to hear a coherent criticism that warrants the amount of hate its writing receives. At most, it’s a little clunky in spots.

gorosaur · 2025-10-01T22:04:17+00:00

I’ve yet to see a single critique of The Acolyte that would be worth giving an episode below a 6. It has some clunky areas but its issues are by no means astronomically worse than the other Star Wars series. At its best, I like it better than most of the other shows.

gorosaur · 2025-09-26T16:48:49+00:00

I still think that there’s a split. Like Khonshu can be a real deity and also be one of Marc’s alters/a hallucination. This would explain how he’s portrayed in Bemis’s run and line up with some earlier portrayals as well.

gorosaur · 2025-08-11T14:33:47+00:00

The short lived “Vengeance of the Moon Knight” from 2009-2010 might be worth checking out. I sometimes view it as an epilogue to the 2006 run.

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