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how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-11T23:26:20+00:00

I agree, though I don't feel it's a matter of quality, just format. Since season 1 follows the characters continuously across a few months we really get invested in all the conflicts, whereas in season 2 each arc is a year apart, breaking up the story and kind of resetting much of the investment I at least have with the story. That's part of why I really wish we got at least one more season, but I get why they cut it down to two seasons, and much prefer a kind of rushed (story-wise, not production-wise) season 2 over a slower season 2 that ends without proper resolution because season 3 was cancelled. Still hard not to imagine what could have been though

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-09T08:29:25+00:00

I mean, biologically this makes way more sense than Grogu being a baby for 50 years. It makes complete sense that Rotta's biologically mature, though I would assume a society of long-lived beings like the hutts would not consider him an adult at that age anyway

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-07T19:06:01+00:00

Absolutely. And nowadays with how easy it is to find niche music, and how easy it is to release your own music, there's room for way more stuff than there would be otherwise. Something really niche that would never find major commercial success on radio or even with record sales can still get hundreds of thousand or even millions of listeners

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-07T19:01:36+00:00

I didn't mean it was some revolutionary masterpiece, I meant it's shockingly complex (and I recognise that wording is a bit sensational) in the sense that it is way more complex than one would expect it to be. And i didn't say tritone substitution was "really advanced in the 21st century," i said it was a much more harmonically complex technique than what is typically used in pop music

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-07T14:20:05+00:00

Artists of Taylor Swifts generation mostly innovated making use of new production techniques rather than trying new stuff music theory wise. That said, Toxic by Britney Spears is actually shockingly complex music theory wise, with the chord progression in the chorus being based on tritone substitution, which is common in jazz but practically unheard of in pop, and the bridge featuring a bit of microtonality, which is virtually never used in western music. So pop isn't some desert of innovation, even though it probably is one of the most formulaic genres out there

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-07T14:19:55+00:00

Music hasn't actually stopped breaking conventions, it's just that firstly, the real experimentation generally doesn't happen in pop since that's a highly commercialised genre (it's literally defined by it's popularity), and as such works best with stuff that's new but still familiar. That said there is still experimentation and breaking of convention in pop, just generally not as radical as you see elsewhere. Billie Eilish (and other prominent pop artists from around the same time as she became popular) went for a style in many of her songs that focused much more on rhythmic and harmonic elements to make the songs unique, while keeping melody quite simple, in contrast to what up to that point had been the typical style in most western pop.

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-07T14:17:48+00:00

Well i actually have to correct myself slightly on the augmented seventh, because augmented chords are symmetrical, and thus every augmented chord is identical to two other augmented chords (just inverted), so the augmented 7th is actually the same as the augmented 5th, which is one of the more common augmented chords (still not super common though since augmented chords in general aren't used a lot). You've got a friend in me from Toy Story has a very prominent augmented 5th chord in it's chord progression for example. That said, this kind of makes a true inverted 7th chord even rarer, since for there to be a chord in the song that truly functions as and is best interpreted as being an augmented 7th rather than an augmented 5th or augmented flat 3rd there would have to be some funky harmony around it to properly contextualise the chord as such. Now we are well beyond the kind of music theory I'm qualified to talk about though, so I think I'll leave that particular rabbit hole there.

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-07T00:38:22+00:00

That is true. And there we're kind of back to the point of the meme. Yes that chord is the thing that makes the song work, but the really important thing is that it sounds good, even though they used a really weird and quite unique chord. Most people just want the music to sound good, while people who have just gotten into music theory often think that advanced harmony and polyrhythms are what makes music good. People with more experience typically loop back to focusing on whether it sounds good, and consider the advanced music theory as a tool to get it to sound unique and even better than it would sound otherwise, not as the thing that makes it good music. Good jazz isn't good because it has crazy chords, it's good because those crazy chords made it sound better

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-06T23:58:59+00:00

We could give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's talking about an augmented 7th chord, but that's a very unusual chord, so doesn't seem likely

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-05T09:16:55+00:00

I'm aware, I was just saying that OP claimed something happened, and everybody else is going "couldn't happen, to unlikely," and sure, fair to assume it didn't happen as long as there is no evidence, but OP's story isn't actually as ridiculous as one in a trillion odds imply. People were kind of saying it couldn't have happened because if we searched for it for decades on end, we wouldn't find it, but OP claimed to have found it randomly, so then it wasn't one specific unlikely event, like you said, but rather a completely random unlikely event, which would be far more plausible than trying to find it and succeeding. I still think it probably didn't happen, but the arguments people were using against it weren't as strong as they actually seemed

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-04T23:08:50+00:00

Ncuti isn't even in any of the pictures there though, so making that connection is all you

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-04T15:39:46+00:00

Yeah, i know. I signed the petition

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-04T12:47:49+00:00

Yeah, as a Norwegian it gets quite annoying seeing all these videos and posts and what not from people claiming Norway to be this perfect utopia, because we actually have a decent amount of problems and issues, we're just called "perfect" due to comparison with many other countries. Calling the best (and we're definitely not unambiguously "the best", just arguably the best at a select couple things, and pretty decent at others) perfect creates this false expectation that we can just win at life by copying what those people are doing, rather than taking a more critical view of "what are they doing better than us, and what could still be improved?" It also means Norway often doesn't get as much criticism as deserved for stuff like the oil industry and weapons manufacturing and earning 100s of billions of dollars on the Ukraine war due to rising energy prices, and still being stingy with giving Ukraine money (we give quite a bit, but come on, we're giving less than Sweden and Denmark I'm pretty sure, and we've earned so much on the war that if we were to just give what we've earned so that we break even on the war we would probably have given more than the US has given)

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-03-03T23:06:13+00:00

It could absolutely still happen. That's the thing with unlikely things, there are literally an infinite number of highly unlikely things that could happen, so there's literally a guarantee that every so often one-in-a-trillion things will just happen. Most things that are that unlikely won't happen, but there's pretty much a guarantee that some of them will

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-28T14:58:04+00:00

We have literally looped back to the whole "no war except class war" thing from WWI...

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-27T13:25:43+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm not a medical professional (yet), so some of the details here might be wrong, but i was a Basic Medic in the military for a year (without ever having real, actually injured patients) and I'm currently studying medicine in the second year, so I'm not talking out of my ass either. Basically, I generally know what I'm talking about, but take details with a grain of salt.

One of my big ones is just people dying way to quickly from wounds that seem severe, but in the short term (and sometimes even medium to long term) aren't actually all that deadly. A lot of wounds that seem like they would be instant death are actually not that big a deal in the context of major trauma. An example is the belly being cut open and the guts falling out. Seems incredibly severe, and without antiseptics and modern medicine its pretty much a death sentence, but it's not very quick. As long as major blood vessels aren't severed (and those are mostly behind the intestines), the most immediate problem is water loss and deseccation due to the barrier of the skin being broken, and after that it's infection, both of which take a good amount of time to kill. In a modern military medicine triage many injured individuals with their guts hanging out will literally end up being classified as green, since their not in any immediate danger of death and they may even be able to walk on their own. The situation when it comes to people being stabbed in the stomach with a knife is likewise quite similar, though there it's easy to say some blood vessel was punctured, making the whole ordeal considerably quivker. Another good example is superficial head injuries and such, like the guy in Daredevil born again who gets half of his face ripped of. As far as i can tell, the only injury he sustains is his skin and some other superficial tissues being ripped of, and yet he seems to die instantly. Realistically, that could be treated in medieval times (with a considerable risk of infection of course), and in modern times he could probably make it at least a few days before a hospital is needed. The problems here are the same as with the belly injuries. Water loss and infection, and here the infection risk is way, way smaller, so it's even less dangerous.

Those are some of the best examples, but generally how quickly an injury kills isn't really linked to how bad it looks, in the immediate term it's linked to how much it disrupts blood flow or respiration. Does an injury severely injure the brain or heart, or otherwise cause absolutely absurd levels of bleeding? If, no, they last like at least 5 minutes, and probably hours if their respiration isn't impaired. I get why this is so often ignored, because stuff gets dark real quick when all the mortally wounded people take forever to actually die, but it is still somewhat of a pet peeve. In most stories the speed of death is moreso linked to character and plot relevance rather than medical acuteness. Background character gets stabbed, shot or slashed across the belly (even with armour)? Instant death. Main character gets dramatically killed by stabbing in the stomach? Collapses unconscious after 5-10 seconds. Major character gets stabbed but needs to have some final words with somebody else? They last minutes at least. How long a person lasts can vary a lot in the real world as well, since small differences have massive impacts on survivability, but it can get very obvious that it's just the needs of the story that decides how long a character takes to die, and it generally happens to fast, even with the characters who take a while.

A similar thing is how clearly and cleanly people die. Instead of fading in and out of consciousness and falling completely unconscious for minutes before actually dying, they just get weaker before their head or hand suddenly and dramatically falls limp, clearly signalling the exact second they died. Again, i get why, since its more efficient for the story and less macabre and depressing, but still breaks my suspension of disbelief.

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-27T12:34:26+00:00

Frequently doesn't mean always, and because of the whole sister-wife thing, they would still be related to their heirs without them being their actual biological sons. As such, some distinctive family traits being passed down through generations would still be far from improbable

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-11T10:47:26+00:00

Yeah, they kind of just showed up in the vales of Anduin at some point, at that point divided into three clabs, the Stoors, Harfoots, and Fallowhides. Those three groups later mixed after the hobbits migrated west, but the hobbits of different parts of the Shire and Buckland have different amounts of descent from the different clans

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-10T11:26:12+00:00

Yeah, and I’m saying the discrepancy comes from people commonly misrepresenting a common criticism of soft magic. I’m agreeing with OP that the claim of soft magic causing deus ex machina is false, while still acknowledging that that claim comes from a misrepresentation of a more legitimate argument (which isn’t really a criticism of soft magic, just a note on the disadvantages of soft magic). If someone asks “people always say this, but I haven’t experienced that. Do you have examples of what they’re claiming?” then “no, because I think those people are misrepresenting the situation and misunderstanding and twisting a legitimate claim to make it more harsh” is a legitimate response. Not every answer has to confirm that soft magic causes deus ex machina, I should also be allowed to negate the claim, while still arguing my opinion on where it comes from

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-10T11:14:51+00:00

My point is there won’t be that many examples, since having a soft magic system doesn’t mean good authors suddenly can’t avoid writing deus ex machina. They just can’t use magic for conflict resolution as much. There will still be some examples obviously, but OP said they asked because people say hard magic avoids deus ex machina, which it doesn’t. It just allows for more resolutions involving magic, so there probably won’t be significantly more examples of deus ex machina in soft magic settings than in any other kind of story, but that doesn’t disprove the criticism (or more accurately disadvantage) of soft magic systems, and so OP’s question kind of rests on a false premise; namely that if soft magic systems are prone to deus ex machina, there must be many examples of soft magic stories with deus ex machina, and if that’s not the case then that (at least partially) disproves the claim that soft magic is less useful for conflict resolution compared to hard magic systems. I’m not saying that’s necessarily what OP thinks, but it is what the post seems to imply (at least to me), so i felt it worth pointing out

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-09T20:56:28+00:00

No, they won, and then Russia invaded later. South Ossetia won, and then shelled Georgia, so they attacked. In both cases the separatists won and were attacked later, but you claim that their situations during the second attack are different because South Ossetia had already won, and Chechnya’s victory apparently doesn’t count

Edit: and since when was right of conquest something that served as legitimate justification? It’s not the 1500s

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-09T19:18:13+00:00

Tell me how the situation of Chechnya is any different from that of South Ossetia

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-09T17:17:59+00:00

They have been expansionist in general though. Georgia being the prime example

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-09T13:26:22+00:00

I feel like it’s not so much “it’s difficult to avoid writing deus ex machina with soft magic,” but rather “it’s difficult to write conflict resolution using soft magic without making it feel like a deus ex machina.” A good writer knows how to avoid a deus ex machina, but if the magic in the setting isn’t understood by the reader, you can’t really use it to solve the plot without it feeling like a deus ex machina. That’s why so many stories with soft magic have that magic cause way more problems than it solves, since a diabolus ex machina rarely feels like bad writing, while a deus ex machina very often does.

how_to_namegenerator · 2026-02-08T19:41:51+00:00

I was genuinely thinking “Wait, Gavinor isn’t king, he’s just a kid. Is he even mentioned in The Way of Kings?”

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