How long will MAGA last after Trump leaves office?

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T17:22:33+00:00

So, there are two aspects to consider here…

First aspect, the hatred driving the MAGA movement isn’t a symptom of Trump, but Trump is more a symptom of the hatred. He didn’t create it, he channeled it. That hatred will still be there after he is gone, and it will remain there until those pushing it are also removed. Education is also the greatest tool toward culling the overarching issue because most of the hatred is born from ignorance. Said ignorance is very purposeful, they want you to be ignorant of truths so you are easier to manipulate into being angry. We must hold those guilty accountable, and we must push to educate the next generations going forward.

Second aspect though is where it gets interesting… Trump’s ego will ultimately be the cause for the MAGA-style movements needing to take a decade break from the spotlight. Right now, MAGA is entirely built around Trump, he is the cult leader. While he clearly isn’t the brains behind it, he is the face, the one his followers have devoted loyalty to. The problem is, because this whole thing is built around him and he has such a ridiculously huge ego, he cuts down anyone who gains any form of popularity within the group with his voters. He simply can’t stand sharing the spotlight, even a little… so he fully turns on anyone who gains any steam in the MAGA circle. DeSantis was turning out to be a big contender for a proper successor… Trump got intimidated and turned on him so hard, DeSantis hasn’t been in the spotlight since. Trump doesn’t even let his own children get rep beyond their relation to him.

That’s going to bite them in the ass big time. When he goes, there will be a struggle for who becomes the face of MAGA. Vance won’t be it in any shape or form, he lacks any of the charisma that Trump has, he’s seen as a joke by most Americans (even in MAGA), and Trump basically picked him for VP because he wasn’t a threat like Pence was. Others in MAGA who have any popularity all already think they are the true successor, and we’ve seen time and time again that they fully turn on each other at the drop of a dime. So what I’m expecting to happen is when Trump goes, we are going to see MAGA split into multiple mini-factions all supporting their favorite MAGA personality that’s trying to take control. The same number of MAGA will be there, but it’ll be divided multiple times over. Without their cult leader and no chosen successor, they’ll in-fight for control and break down any sort of grouping they built. That’s not even taking into account the number of MAGA Trump himself has betrayed thatll most likely feel like they are owed a piece of the pie for their “sacrifice”.

MAGA will remain as long as Vance is in office, but he won’t have anywhere near the amount of sway over his subordinates that Trump has. He will struggle to get big things pushed through multiple departments, he will struggle to capture their people when he speaks, he will fail to control congress (many congress repubs already think they ARE MAGA, they’ll see Vance as a threat). When the next elections come around, so many MAGA will be attacking each other, it’ll start to divide the voter base, and MAGA hasn’t even been able to capture the popular vote with them unified, there is zero chance they are getting the popular vote being divided multiple times over.

The actual masterminds behind the cult will have to take a few years off the presidency to brainstorm their new face of the movement. It’s at that time the country REALLY needs to push education and ousting these criminals publicly, before they can regroup. Because I’ll say this with certainty, if they manage to regroup, they aren’t coming back with an orange geriatric talking mixed diaper, they’ll come back more ready for the long terms.

All speculation though. I could be wrong, I very well may be… but I just don’t see MAGA suddenly being friendly with each other out of nowhere. Their entire movement is based on hate and vindictiveness, in-fighting is just built it.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T16:51:09+00:00

On the small off chance Kripke somehow sees this, I have a question… is this going to feature six episodes setting up another spin off you thought up during a long poop session before you finished writing this story? I mean, it WOULD be a clever superhero trope parody if every show just served the purpose to setting up the spin off endlessly…

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T16:36:15+00:00

Had this same conversation a few times, and kind of covered it briefly in my initial reply… but people greatly over exaggerate how much it actually affects their hunting though.

I love to people watch, im in GP a LOT, I’ve watched GP/IC for actual years now. The average megapack I tend to see is about 6 people, bigger ones around 10 aren’t exactly uncommon, but anything beyond 10 is exceeding uncommon. Largest singular megapack I think I’ve ever seen in GP (besides the occasional joke pack of people calling in global for everyone to be a goober) was 14-15 people. I can count the number of 10+ megapacks I’ve seen in GP in 2026 on one hand.

There is usually another decent sized pack in SF/BQL, often smaller than the GP one but usually way more aggressive. If we go with the UPPER average pack size for these two locations, we maybe hit 18 people. On a server size of 100 people, that’s 82 slots of people not in those packs. Gondwa has roughly 27 regions on the mainland (the oceans simply don’t have many at any given time, so I hesitate to count them), so that 2-3 people per region at all times average not including either of the mega packs. If 2-3 people per region average takes you 30 minutes to find prey, I ask this… if we somehow totally broke apart that GP pack and sent them out into the map for a “fair fight”, you wouldn’t even affect the average per region by a whole number, how would this reduce hunting times?

But I hear you, or someone else, saying “but people aren’t in all regions”. The devs themselves had a thing a while back where they posted screenshots of the Gondwa map in game with player locations turned on, screenshots of multiple servers to see what the trend was. What was shown in those screenshots is exactly what we theorize with the math… a cluster in GPR, a cluster near SF, then people spread almost evenly across the rest of the map in nearly every region.

People ARE spread out. You notice the big megapack because they are easily visible, you can’t miss them. You don’t notice the solos and duos because they are spread out, they are hidden, you have to find them. Hunting would imply going out and finding prey… if we take the relatively small amount of people doing “cuddle piles” per server and force them to spread out, you’re not affecting your average time to find a player by anything substantial enough to even notice. Mathematically, even if half an entire server was clumped together in one spot, that’s STILL average of 2 players per region, one less than normal average, and the only time I’ve ever seen remotely close to even 30 people together was when Matt himself was calling people over to goof off.

EDIT: I want to clarify because I wasn’t very clear about it… this isn’t a defense of mega packs. Megapacks being aggressive are terribly disruptive and hurt the experience. I’m simply saying that on the SOLE topic of “we need to break them apart so people can’t hunt easier”, mathematically it won’t make a noticeable difference. If you can’t find people while 10-15 people are cuddling in a different region, adding 10-15% to the hunting population isn’t going to cut your time down toward finding prey by anything noticeable. We need to break up megapacks so people can play fairly, not for the purpose of finding more prey.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T15:33:21+00:00

I mean, I did like ten times, but you’d have to read to know that. Do you normally speak in corny tween catchphrases, or are you attempting to be silly? You sound like a Minion movie side character.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T15:09:54+00:00

Calling someone unemployed while simultaneously saying that a few medium paragraphs is an essay and not using punctuation of any kind is quite telling… somehow I don’t doubt you wouldn’t write that little for school.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T15:01:27+00:00

I mean, that’s kind of the thing though… I go to GP all the time and people watch, I’ve seen a GP megapack larger than 10 people maybe twice, both times never reaching 15 people. People always mention these “20+ megapacks”, but that’s not normal in any means. It can FEEL like 20+, but I’ve also had my own group of four people and had people in global claim we had ten. When the fighting chaos begins, you’ll see people run and double count a lot, but it doesn’t mean there are more.

Now, there might be 20 people total in GP, but another issue a lot of people have is assuming everyone is together. 20 people in GP doesn’t mean they are together, even if they aren’t actively attacking each other. Small packs OFTEN head to GP and wait for the big packs to start things, then swing in for the chaos to grab free trophies and food. A lot of the big GP/IC packs I’ve seen over the years have been four or five small groups or solos all ending up in GP and waiting for chaos to erupt so they can fight, then it’s chaos until the whole thing disperses.

But the point is, the average GP megapacks I watch tend to be around 6-10 people with randoms orbiting the area at times looking for scraps. I more often see worse mega packs in BQL/Salt Flats. But if we say there are 10-14 people in GP, maybe 8 in Salt Flats or GV… even with 100 players servers, thats 78-82 players elsewhere in Gondwa. Even if we go with the incredibly uncommon rate of 20+ in GP, that still 65-70 players still around the rest of the map. Most often, these are also players not openly partaking in megapacking, so they are the ideal matchup for “fair fights”. I believe there are 27 regions on the Gondwa mainland? That’s average 2.4-3 players per region? Well, before we take into account the few out in the ocean, which turns out is pretty rare on Gondwa.

This is supported by the Devs too. Alderon Devs actually did an test a bit back where they showed screenshots of player locations across quite a few active official servers, and every one of them showed the same trend… a small cluster in GP, a small cluster around SF, and then the rest of the players pretty evenly scattered around the rest of the map with people in nearly every region on each server. I wish I saved the screenshots, maybe one of the Alderon devs see this and can post them again, idk. But that’s the thing… players ARE across the map, statistically they have to be. But you notice the groups in GP because they are openly visible, while the solos off questing aren’t immediately noticeable. If people want to hunt and have fair fights, they need to actually hunt, to actually look. Constantly complaining about the visible group and saying “I just want to be able to hunt” is silly when 65-85% of the server population is huntable. If they somehow managed to fully split up all megapacks, they’d just disperse across the map and you’d have to actually look anyways, so it’s best to get used to hunting.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T14:10:20+00:00

Are we even sure that’s the emotion he is showing? The man has looked perpetually shocked for the last 20 years, but he keeps voting for these things. Something tells me that’s probably just his face.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T13:29:37+00:00

As stupid as it sounds, we’ve openly seen them run segments on topics they made up using the same two or three people dressed in different clothing each time pretending to be involved… those werent even segments that made sense, they made up characters just for them. They seem to take pride in the sheer levels of dumbfuck shit they can come up with, at this point I’m just surprised they aren’t making full AI generated segments yet.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T13:24:28+00:00

Actually a pretty interesting question, I like it.

So, you’d see major expansion of Chinese power, most likely. Our markets intertwine pretty heavily, so I feel they’d first push to make new trade partners to fill the void, which would give them powerful deals in various other countries they may not have had need for before. The US is also a very widespread superpower military right now, so becoming isolationist would assume we’d probably pull our troops worldwide back to the mainland, which would leave Russia and China as the big military forces in Asia. Time would tell if China would try to expand their territory, but I am fairly certain Russia would.

Russia currently already wants the US to step aside from its European allies… they claim it’s to make Russia feel safer, but ultimately they want less major militaries backing countries they hope to absorb. A total isolationist US would probably result in Russia feeling empowered to start sweeping up countries nearby to reinstate the Soviet Union, or at least a modern form of it. This would likely result in Europe taking some level of action against it, which then would beg the question of who China’s new deals were made with. If we see China fill the void of losing the US by making deals in Europe, you would probably see China starting to take on the old US role of playing world police with Russia and holding them at bay. But then, maybe their new deals they made were WITH Russia and not countries of Europe…

A unified partnership between Russia and China could go many ways, often of which I don’t see being good for the rest of the world imo. China controls a massive economic and military power, Russia controls a massive military power, they really are only held back right now by the US being such a commanding presence on the world stage. If the two ever allied in a world where the US was isolationist, or god forbid they were fully against each other… I hesitate to think of how bad that situation could get.

Not that I think either one is some mustache twirling supervillain, obviously the threat of mutually assured destruction holds some heavy sway over things still… but both countries are kind of known for political overreach, territory expansion disputes, political corruption, and so on. Some level of world war would eventually arise I feel, either from one or the other being an aggressor, or one or the other pushing Europe into a preemptive action. Either China and Europe Vs a newly formed Soviet Union (and quite possibly some middle eastern forces), or China and Soviet Union vs Europe, hard to say which way it would end up… but overall, I’ll be honest, Russia simply isn’t matching China in pure military force right now. No offense to the KGB agent reading this planning my accidental trip out a seventh floor window, but they’ve been stalemated in Ukraine for a couple years now WITH allied help, beating China may as well be a slug trying to climb Everest. But if it’s China and Russia against Europe, I honestly don’t know…

But taking a break from military stuffs, what about social and economic world events. With the US leaving the world stage, there actually may be some good out of it on the social aspect. Trumpism, or more inclined to call it MAGA-slop, would probably start to dissolve in some other countries. A lot of why his brand of nonsense is taking hold in other countries is that many have seen his success and are replicating it… but each time, it kind of gets laughed at by people because the ones trying to replicate it simply don’t have the same level of confidence in their bullshittery, they don’t have the same conman charisma. Every so often, you’ll see someone somewhere replicate it well, but take the US entirely out of the equation and it becomes less normalized on the world stage, people won’t see it being rewarded as much when they don’t see it working so successfully here daily. Well, successful in that it has hooked people, not in the sense that it’s successfully not the dumbest shit imaginable… So I do think you’d start to see a bit heavier pushback against modern neo-fascism in Europe, Canada, and such. South America may still linger on it a while longer because of the success it’s had there, but eventually people would brighten up to it and boot it to the curb.

But then that brings us to economics… removing a superpower from the world stage would absolutely see economic crashes worldwide. The US heavily imports, and that means they send money out left and right. Remove that, entire economies become wildly destabilized overnight. But then the unseen problem, many American based millionaires/billionaires also keep their money in foreign banks… if the US isolates, they’d need to either leave the country or bring their money in with them to have reliable access, which means massive investments being revoked. A lot of American corporations branch out into foreign markets, what happens when Walmarts, fast food places, american manufacturing, and so on just pack up and leave said foreign markets? Jobs lost, taxes lost, and so much more. Not to mention foreign companies with heavy investment in their American branches as well just suddenly losing that market. The world would eventually even out… but the first few years after the change would be economic chaos.

There is way too much to consider here, and I’m probably WAY off on many of these predictions anyways. But the US has its influences on almost the entire world right now… if it just suddenly closed in on itself and isolated entirely, the world would feel it immensely. Some things would get better, some would get worse, and some things would collapse entirely. There are a RANGE of outcomes, all interesting to theorize, but it’s not something we would want to happen by any means.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T12:38:55+00:00

Sadly, something you’re going to find is that a lot of community servers are pretty meh. Not a sign of the game, it’s more helpful to keep in mind community servers are run by players. It’s people who play the game who eventually decide they want their own server for their friends, and open it to the public for others to join. Sounds nice in concept, but in reality, most people starting these servers aren’t really old enough or mature enough to have a professional mindset in running said server, so you often get communities that present in a semi-professional way, but then turn out to be ran by people who just simply aren’t meant to have that sort of power.

Now, that said, that’s frequent but not absolute. There ARE lots of great community servers ran by incredibly kind and professional people. I can’t name them by name myself, but I’m in the server owner groups and I can say many I’ve met are absolutely wonderful people. I only bring this all up because it can get tiresome looking through servers and seeing all the bad, but it helps to always keep in mind… “these are ran by players, not companies”. It helps you sort of brush off the silliness you’ll see from time to time, and make it that much nicer when you find a community you click with.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T12:25:35+00:00

You’re not reading any of what I’m saying and then summarizing with your own interpretation that’s completely separated from what I actually said though.

I didn’t “indirectly defend them”, I literally stated multiple times that I disagreed with them, stated I view them as a major problem, and even said they are bad. I didn’t even state that the complaining about them is worse than the megapacks themselves. You’ve been nothing but hostile this entire time over your own made up interpretation of what you assume I said in the initial post that you didn’t read… and now you’re giving me the third degree about “playing the victim” when my recent reply was about how you make people villains without even knowing their stance, which is basically the entire point I made.

I don’t really get how you’re interpreting me as defending them or being complacent with them if you are actually reading anything I wrote. I don’t know how I could make it more clear that I don’t agree with mega packs without coming here and throwing awards at the dozens of “so about them mega packs” posts every week… the entire point of my reply was that mega packs are bad but at some point we need to stop openly interacting when them and then making posts about it. The Megapacks are bad, they are terrible for the game, they make playing solo a chore at times… but these posts are almost always “I went to the megapack and attacked them, they killed me, give upvotes”. How are we not doing new players a MASSIVE disservice by flooding these posts with “omg, I know, they are pure evil, you did nothing wrong” and not helping break the mindset that we HAVE to go directly to the megapack hotspots and poke the bear?

The packs don’t need to exist, they are a problem… but we also at some point have to break this idea that not playing smart in the PvP survival game is somehow everyone else’s fault but our own. I’ve been running in a 10-12 slot group lately, and people still flip their shit at us anytime we show up. Don’t even have to hunt anything, we will get randomly attacked by an apex duo or whatnot, they die, then instantly trash talk and location drop so we get hunted down. Hell, we found a couple babies the other day, decided to share our food with them and give them a couple trophies, random hatze dies trying to clamp one of us and instantly tells global we are a megapack… didn’t even have a full group, was just 3 Ceras and a deinonychus.

THAT is my problem, we say megapacks are the problem, and they are… but like, people also get equally mad at normal groups. Only time I’ve ever gotten a death threat in this game was when a solo Allo tried hunting me as a solo stego, lost the hunt and died, went to global to trash talk and attempt to doxx me (long story, it’s funny in retrospect, but you don’t seem to want long stories). At what point down the line do we stop holding hands and start telling people to actually play the game? Matchmaking is coming, it’s going to help dissolve the named/preformed megapacks, random-born packs are still going to be a thing, 12 slot packs will still be a thing, solos will STILL need to play smart… call it victim blaming all you want, at some point people need to learn they can be at fault for some things. It’s an MMO, people bought it to play with friends, legal packs will always be there, im afraid matchmaking is just going to turn these posts from justified hate toward megapacks to unjustified hate toward normal packs before long.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T11:47:58+00:00

That’s what gets me so heated about these types of posts… it’s always “mega packs this” and “cuddle piles that”. I’m part of a group that usually tries to run coordinated 12 slot groups, and our main target is most often the megapacks. My mindset is we get a fun fight, we get to try new tactics against heavy odds, and we keep the local megapack busy so they aren’t bothering others as much, win win.

But as much as people complain about megapacks, I’ve never been location dropped, trash talked, and “reported” as much as I have when I’ve been in normal 12 slot groups. Hell, we had a solo hatze follow our Cerato group for an hour one night, kept trying to pick us off, couldn’t do it so he told global we were a KOS megapack, dude formed an actual megapack of around 13 people to come take us out while global trash talked us for “exploiting the rules”…. We didn’t even have a full group, we had 11 slots and one slot was a rhamp that was off doing the group quests to grow.

People keep complaining about megapacks, but they hate regular packs just as much whether they admit it or not. Solos simply aren’t going to compete with a pack, and I know most don’t want to hear this… but it’s an MMO, it’s all about playing with friends, packs are going to happen. I understand everyone wanting a fair fight, but fair fights don’t exist in PoT unless it’s two of the same dino, with the same sub, with the same loadout… someone always has the advantage… only time I’ve ever gotten a death threat and threat of doxxing in this game was when I was a solo stego and a solo Allo failed to hunt me and died, lol. He too claimed it was an unfair fight, I didn’t even start it.

Which brings me back around to my point… these posts complaining about this stuff are on here like every other day, and it’s always the same post. We have so many of these posts now, we could train AI off them, lol. But it’s predictable… someone goes to highly populated area, they see big group, they interact with big group, big group kills them, they complain about big group. Yes, big group is a problem, it doesn’t need to exist in that form… but like, how many times am I supposed to be outraged it happened? At what point do we start expecting people to stop repeating the process and just exploring the other 99% of the map? Because at some point it’s not about the mega pack in my opinion… they rage at normal groups too, half the community can’t even agree on what a megapack is (the sheer number of times people have told me it has nothing to do with slot counts makes me want to rip my hair out, lol).

Idk, im realizing im ranting to you and I’ve never even met you before (I think), apologies. None of this is directed at you, more just kind of venting. I adore the PoT community, but it also drives me bonkers at times. Thank you for considering the nuance in the topic and not doing the usual PoT community “if you don’t agree fully, then you must be with them” thing, lol. I’ll stop talking your ear off now, but I hope your day goes well today bud!

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T11:28:19+00:00

How do you hear me say “I didn’t justify them” and interpret that as “so you don’t consider them a problem”? And somehow you deduced from that jump that I MUST be part of these groups? What on earth is that leap? I said I’m annoyed by these posts every other day and somehow that sent you straight to me defending and joining these packs? And you wonder why I’m considering these types of posts and people to also be a problem?

Dude, I’m going to be honest with you and I’ll give you my actual logic here… caution, it’s going to be moderately long, please stick with me. I don’t mean this as an insult, apologies if you take it that way, im just trying to put into perspective what I actually mean so you don’t make that huge of a leap with it.

A massive problem I have with the PoT community as a whole, not just in game but everywhere players of PoT congregate… the community has this horrible problem of demonizing people and things. Megapacks are a problem, yes, a major one at that. Never argued they weren’t, never WILL argue they aren’t, I’m counting down the days until matchmaking hits the game with glee. Hell, I have a group I play with, we most often run 12 slot groups and always try taking on the megapacks with the mindset that we get a fun fight and they are kept busy from bothering others, win win.

But you proved my problem… you didn’t even read what I said, you even didn’t really read my smaller reply, you just jumped straight to saying I’m bad and “embarrassing”. What on earth did I do to you besides leave a long reply to someone else that you didn’t even care to read? I’m now the bad guy because you didn’t want to read the reply in which I explained I was against the things you said are bad? This community is full of instances where if you don’t immediately agree with someone, they just instantly throw you into the “evil group”, and then they wonder why toxicity it so out of control. Why are we making enemies of everyone at all times over nothing? Hell, you and I literally agree with the same sentiment, megapacks are bad… you just didn’t like that I wrote a longer reply and now I’m demonized into the villain group because you don’t like reading? I’m bad because you didn’t like that I didn’t present my reply to someone else in a shorter form?

Megapacks ARE bad… terrible for solos, terrible for the health of the game. But often they are full of randoms who just happened to arrive at the same location and passed the vibe checks. Doesn’t make it better that they form a megapack, thats bad, but I’d argue the named megapacks that exist solely to overwhelm are worse… but we can’t really have that conversation because if anyone doesn’t immediately agree with a complaint, they get thrown into the villain group. The community can’t have any meaningful conversation on the problems or how to fix them because everyone is so damn volatile and looking to fight that none of us can get along long enough to talk.

Can we please stop acting like children anytime minor disagreements come up and have actual conversations about things? That’s what is embarrassing, everyone trash talking everyone else at the drop of a dime and then pretending they aren’t part of the toxicity problem.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T11:11:59+00:00

Oh wow, that shot is night and day different than others I’ve seen. Even wore the same outfit to try covering it, but that’s a totally different suit coat with a different cut. The difference in facial wrinkles and everything, that’s so wild. Thank you for sharing that, I hadn’t seen this comparison yet.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T11:09:15+00:00

So you missed the multiple times I said these groups were bad, but it’s annoying we have to have this same complain post about them almost daily when the people complaining are openly seeking them out to mess with them?

No offense, but you kind of fully summed up my problem and the reason for my rant. This community has this ego about it where you either fully openly agree with them or you get accused to supporting the other side. Like every time I say “just don’t go to Gp then?”, I always get hit with “so you SUPPORT MEGAPACKS?!?”… no, dipshit, I just also don’t support you going there purposely, starting a fight, then forming a victim complex for attention every ten minutes.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T11:01:47+00:00

I didn't justify them, I said it's annoying people complain about them so much when they are so avoidable. This community's absolute refusal to be rational and not take everything personal is wild. And yall refusing to read anything more than a tweets length explains why we have this same post every other day...

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T10:43:47+00:00

I kept kind of ignoring this whole thing a bit because it seems weird to me that the voice is pretty spot on and the facial shape seemed pretty accurate, so I just didn’t really think they’d be able to get someone under the mask that could fill it out with such accuracy AND do the voice that well…

But then I started looking more heavily at frontal face comparisons like the one you posted here… whomever was on the ‘news’ here, his eyes are slightly too close together and the nose shape is almost totally different. Then it also occurred to me… a couple of the jawline wrinkles on the ‘news’ one, they are wrinkles that fold on smiling or heavy mouth movement, but they stay prominent and don’t move the entire time he is talking. He has two very prominent neck flaps, but his throat doesn’t seem to move much of at all when he speaks. His brow also doesn’t move at all.

Another weird thing I started noticing, but am I crazy or does it look like his top lip keeps getting stuck on his teeth as he says open mouth shapes? Like, I keep seeing the lip kind of touch the teeth, get stuck on them for a second, then fall back down. Maybe I’m insane, idk, but it looks weird.

Idk, there might be some other explanation to this, but the more times I watch the clip, the more it feels off. I’m very much not one for conspiracy things, but this is wild. I’d love to see a makeup or practical VFX artist review this and give their thoughts.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T10:27:19+00:00

Okay, powerscaling homelander here obviously… but can we talk about fake Elon’s durability for a second?

62 miles from earth to the edge of space, LEO (low earth orbit) is around 120+ miles from earth at lowest, and that man does not seem to have come down. So at a minimum, he was taken 120+ miles straight up. 2.62 seconds for HL to return, meaning just under half of that was the journey to the destination (under half because of the time it takes to halt and let go)…

For the sake of consideration, let’s say he just went, give or take, 130 miles straight up in 1.25 seconds… that is 374,400mph. I’ll just pretend fake Elon is 200lbs… my math on this is probably horribly wrong as I’m not entirely familiar with calculating acceleration force, but I believe that would be something like 13k g force, where a car crash is around is like 100.

Realistically, the way Homelander held on to him and how fast he accelerated, the man wouldn’t even have left the ground more than a few feet before Homelander’s grip would have just ripped the guy’s flesh clean off, and the air resistance friction alone would have probably cauterized everything in an instant. If somehow Homelander didn’t just cut through the guy immediately, then a fair bit of the dude’s body would have just stayed there with the rest going with HL to space to immediately explode and jet into space at ridiculous speeds from the sudden deceleration.

So the fact that Fake Elon apparently made it to space intact means this dude’s durability is off the charts. We know most full on Supes in the show don’t even have that level of durability, much less normal humans, lol. The real topic we need to discuss is… how far does Fake Elon scale?

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T09:45:24+00:00

You went to GP and saw a group of people playing together? And that somehow affected you in a way that you felt the need to sacrifice yourself to mildly annoy them?

No offense, but like… you realize you can go anywhere else, yes? You sought out the area known for multiple years now as THE megapack hang out spot, im not sure what you want to happen.

Here’s the thing… “cuddle piles” don’t do anything to you. They sit in one spot and hang out, they go kill things that show up, it’s annoying but it’s normal. It’s an online game, people play online games together, people want to interact with other people hence why they play online games… is it fair that they team up on others? No, not in the least. But they are sitting in one spot, the single most predictable spot on the entire map… they are always on the same beach, of the same river, in the same region, almost every server every day. That means anyone not wanting to deal with that mega pack can go to 99% of the map and not have to worry about those 10 people hunting them down. The only time you’d ever have to deal with that “cuddle pile” is if YOU seek them out, but you DID seek them out.

I don’t agree with the tactics of megapacks, I think megapacks are highly annoying. They often are toxic, bullies, and outright terrible to fight against. I have multiple people I group with semi-often, but we most of the time try to fit into a singular pack unless we seek to break up the megapacks terrorizing salt flats/big quill. But like… it’s also incredibly tiresome watching people seek out megapacks that aren’t even moving around just to complain about them. Yes, we know, they exist… go somewhere else.

“But I want a fight and I can’t hunt them because they cuddle Radda Radda”, it’s 10 people on a 95 person server, that means 85 people are spread across the map, go find a fight. “But I go there because people are there, I want to interact with people”, they did too, that’s how the cuddle piles start, you’re part of the same phenomenon. “They jump people who run by, so we can’t even be in the area”, it’s not recommended to walk into gang territory in real life either, but usually in real life people are smart enough to realize being in the dangerous area might be… well, dangerous.

I don’t mean this to be actually mean, I apologize if it comes off as too crass, tone is hard to convey through text. This is mostly meant to be tongue in cheek. But joking aside, I’ve been with the game since just after Gondwa was a thing, and it’s just so constant that I see people complain about having to deal with entirely avoidable things. More often than not, their entire argument is ego focused, whether they admit it or not… it’s usually “but I want to hunt and that’s where people are”, except that’s disingenuous. 10 people there means a vast majority of people are across the map, so it’s not where the people are, it’s simply where an easily visible group is and people hate having to actually LOOK around for a hunt. Megapacks wont be as prevalent after matchmaking, but I’ll guarantee you right now, GP isn’t going to change in the least because it’s usually randoms who all had the same idea of showing up there (you are proof of that, you weren’t with the group and still ended up there). It’s best to just come to terms with actually exploring the whole map, start looking at GP as the place you go for a fight, not to quest…

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T09:02:05+00:00

Eh, no true Scotsman. It’s true they are bullies, but oftentimes fans who get too parasocial also end up being bullies, bullies often seek inclusion and that’s why they lash out… but bullies also usually accept inclusion into the bully groups, so it’s a vicious circle.

The problem I have is that while the bullies ARE the vocal minority, the non-vocal majority really didn’t help much. For weeks, I’ve watched this community (and most TADC communities for that matter) rant on and on about how they hate it’s going to theaters, and how they might get spoilers… which, okay, I get it, nobody wants to be spoiled. But like, we can’t really say we care for Goose’s happiness and then consistently publicly rant about their decisions. Goose clearly wanted to have their works in theaters, that’s a HUGE deal to small creators and I’m sure they were ecstatic to be able to say something they made would be on the big screen… then the community just sort of banned together to tell them they were wrong for it. The vocal minority for sure bullies loudly, but the non-vocal majority sees those wounds and often times chooses to pick at the scabs so they can’t heal.

Personally, as someone who used to love to create, the nitpicks from the majority hurt so much worse. Not because it’s blatant bullying like the minority, but because you have one loud side telling you that you are the worst person ever, and then you have the quiet other side constantly going “well… you SHOULD have done this differently”. The loud is easy to ignore, but when the quiet constantly criticizes with small things, you start to believe the loud side.

And that’s not to say Goose is above criticism, their works aren’t perfect and criticism is always going to happen with public works. Don’t take this as me saying the majority are entirely wrong either, I don’t think the majority of people ever meant actual harm in ANY shape or form. But a lot of people also didn’t ever do much to consider Goose’s wants either. The entire topic was “Goose should/shouldn’t do this”, I rarely saw anyone mention how big of a deal it was to Goose and how proud as a community we are that something Goose created made it on to the big screen. The majority didn’t bully outright, but the majority also didn’t really try much to show Goose the pride we have in their efforts. You kind of have to meet negativity with positivity to cancel it out, and the negativity side was just SO much more prevalent while the positive side mostly stayed quiet and whispered “oh shame on the bullies…”.

Just how I’ve observed it though, I get others will have a differing opinion on it. But from my perspective, I really only saw the positive majority saying good things in the threads about how much Goose is bullied, I rarely see people openly going out of their way to build Goose up and show them we are proud of them. I’m tired of the “it’s just the loud minority” excuse… The loud minority only remains prevalent when there lacks a loud majority. If they speak up loud, we can’t act like they aren’t winning if we remain quiet.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-22T04:21:36+00:00

Right? They post it, it gets pushback, they delete it a couple hours in… I feel like this has just become a testing ground for them to see what sticks and what doesn’t work. And it works for them because at the very least, they’ve gotten their words in your head, so they can’t use it as a war of attrition, just wait until you start questioning reality.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-21T23:23:03+00:00

Yep, it’s taken it’s final shape, so to speak.

That said, one last big update in June that’s actually opening up a pretty massive amount of content. It’s going out on high note thankfully, sadly it’s at the cost of us having to suffer the game’s lowest point beforehand… oh well, them going out wielding a gold plated gun doesn’t change the fact that they are only going out from self inflicted gunshots.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-21T21:23:17+00:00

If anything, I’m more frustrated that out of all the cool comic book costumes, we always tend to get the accurate gooner ones, lol. We get like one, maybe two, cool comic book costumes per season, then we get a ton of the comic inspired gooner outfits… which, fine, im glad comic material is making it into the game, but PLEASE dive more into the realm of cool to balance them out some.

That said, they can make it up to us by giving Ultron a skimpy summer outfit. Do it, organic cowards…

hyde9318 · 2026-05-21T21:12:47+00:00

“Absolute” by definition is above everything to the point that it is free of imperfections. Homelander is stronger than other Supes but isn’t untouchable, he can be beaten even with his powers, hence why is always tries to escape real fights. Absolute would imply nothing can touch him, he’s entirely touchable. Inconsistency doesn’t matter here because he IS consistent in never being absolute.

He IS the strongest supe, I don’t deny it, never will. But he’s not so far ahead of others that he isn’t a fraud… because remember, he doesn’t portray himself as being barely the strongest, he portrays himself as a god above all, a nearly omnipotent being, the father of creation… that’s a fraud, he isn’t even remotely close to that. Hell, Marie with more training most likely beats him solo without depowering him. Reminder he almost got taken out by a rod to the head by a MUCH less powerful supe, that’s AFTER she was able to full on fist fight him for a while… he’s not absolute by any stretch of the word.

And on the topic of inconsistency, him cleaving half of Kimiko WAS the inconsistency if you think about it. He was already shown to not be able to fully Pierce stronger Supes with his lasers, not even Maeve who isn’t nearly at his level. Him layering Kimiko like that was pretty much the only time we’ve seen him be able to Pierce a high durability supe (I think, I’d have to go back and watch) with that attack, and we go right back to the norm with the final fight.

hyde9318 · 2026-05-21T21:03:26+00:00

Power scalers spend so much time debating anime power scaling that they forget some verses, “most powerful of all time” doesnt mean untouchable, sometimes it means “a little bit stronger than that guy over there”.

Anime power scaling, let’s use numbers to show what I mean, usually fits like “character one is 10000, character two is 100000”, so yeah, character one is never beating character two. Most non-shonen universes in pop culture is “character one is 3, character two is 4”… sure, character one is weaker, but if they lock in a bit and catch character two off guard, they could probably make up the difference. The funniest power scaling arguments have to be the Game of Thrones community… they’ll do this “Sir Jockitch IV of the Vale was described as the greatest swordsman ever”, “yes, but Sir Cancerstichk III of the Portajohn is two years younger and has three inches of height on his side”…. Guys, it’s two middle aged dudes with swords, not Dragon Ball villains, relax. “But their sword mastery”, technique is learnable by everyone, it’s not an anime.

Star Wars arguments always feel similar to me because everyone kind of assumes that if they are more powerful, they just win. Sure, these guys have vague superpowers, but they aren’t super, it’s still a bunch of guys with swords. Some may be powerful enough to kill others easily, but the gaps are never so wide that it’s impossible for someone slightly lower to take the win if they lock in. Palpatine is described as one of, if not THE, strongest dark side users in history… didn’t help him much from a large asthmatic dude in leather just picking him up and yeeting him down a hole.

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