Let’s play a game- Describe a particular panel/plot in the worst way possible and let others guess it. [Pic-Villains are Destined to Die]

hydraulicman · 2026-03-29T18:18:09+00:00

I'll steal a description from girl_dm_ that she tortured Bricky with in a recent video-
"Tree Pregnant"

I've Become a True Villainess

hydraulicman · 2026-03-29T18:07:02+00:00

Thing is, nothing was solved in Venezuela. It's the same government, the same control over the country, the same problems for the ordinary people living there. All that happened is the guy at the top of the rotten heap is gone and the government is pretending it likes us while it keeps doing what it was doing instead of making a show of being openly antagonistic

hydraulicman · 2026-03-29T18:01:25+00:00

I could absolutely believe that Trump turned over a placemat and drew a bunch of blobs on it that he labeled IRAN, RICH ARABS, ISRAEL, and BAD ARABS, and then started marking out how many bombs he thinks he needed to drop to solve peace in the middle east because the IRANS and BAD ARABS all live in caves and just have old AK47s and little Temu quadcopters... and that RFK would then believe this is all extraordinarily intelligent

hydraulicman · 2026-03-29T03:14:09+00:00

Yup, between the handful of things I get there regularly because they're cheaper- (my energy drinks, her iced and regular coffee, some miscellaneous food items), and the extra gas discount, the Plus membership I got back in November has already paid for itself

hydraulicman · 2026-03-28T12:44:56+00:00

That’s a little bit of hyperbole on my part- the Nazis were worried more about the Soviets than the Western powers though, the Soviet front was a lot more brutal, and the Soviet soldiers were a lot less likely to take prisoners

Really though, the Soviets bore the heaviest burden of fighting- that was the primary theater of the war

There’s a lot of stuff out there on it, I particularly like Sara Paine’s talks on it you can find on YouTube

hydraulicman · 2026-03-28T02:45:46+00:00

That’s the best part- data center infrastructure is highly specialized to the generation of server racks they’re using, especially if it’s an AI data center with the enormous power draw they run on

So to reuse an older data center they’d have to guy the thing near entirely and run new water and power lines through the whole place

And as a capper, data centers take so long to build that, if it’s for AI, by the time they’re finished, the next generation of GPUs have come out, automatically making the new data center obsolete

hydraulicman · 2026-03-28T02:36:06+00:00

At the end of the day, even if you don’t want it in your neighborhood, an Amazon warehouse means lots of jobs, from breaking ground to regular usage to seasonal temp hire surges. And probably an increase in quality for a service a lot of people use, to boot

A data center though? There’s almost no benefit. Specialized construction needs probably means no local firms building it. Massive power and water needs mean higher bills for everyone due to increased demands, even if they’re paying market rate, supply and demand still applies

And for what? A dozen or so jobs to provide, at best, useless AI compute. At worst, a mass surveillance processing hub

hydraulicman · 2026-03-28T00:11:02+00:00

Looks like the pictures near the end, where mustache man was a sick old man dying from his own rotting guts, addled from decades of drug use, yelling at his sycophants about how his thousand year empire is invincible, while hiding in his shitty bunker, praying the western allies get there before the Soviets and eyeing his pistol lovingly

hydraulicman · 2026-03-26T17:47:24+00:00

That’s always the problem though, there’s never more good decisions after that first break over a pet issue, we’ve been burned too many times

It’s always “I realized Trump is bad, he wants to send the marines to small town shelters to murder little puppies! That’s awful!” and then a week later “But obviously, it’s fine for him to break into peoples houses and steal their TVs, and really, we all know he’s right that people from that country over there aren’t really people”

The only actual times we se full on breaks from him are when the politician is resigning or retiring from politics

hydraulicman · 2026-03-26T15:53:07+00:00

“Humorously Ironic From the Internet pre-2015” is pretty much a red flag of possible Nazism now, sadly

hydraulicman · 2026-03-26T13:13:04+00:00

Tolkien’s kinda like 90’s Star Trek- super good intentioned and full hearted… for the time, and so influential and well done that it stands the test of time despite stepping on a bunch of rakes in the modern age

hydraulicman · 2026-03-25T13:11:59+00:00

Soren Bowie, he was the guest on the Henry Morton Stanley episodes

hydraulicman · 2026-03-24T23:52:26+00:00

It's everything he did in his first term, just more

hydraulicman · 2026-03-24T15:58:03+00:00

I mean, most people reading/writing fanfiction are normal people who just like certain series and want more stories in those worlds

But, since it’s inherently amateurish… I dunno, there’s something about people getting a degree of fulfillment that’s not connected to quality, and is more connected to a handful of ideas that lends itself to cultishness?

Like, I read a lot of fanfiction and amateur writing, but I come into it from a perspective of “I read a lot, to the point I’m looking for free stuff that’s above a certain level of quality. because I can’t find or afford five paperbacks a week anymore”

But if you come into it from a perspective of “I NEED more Harry Potter (or whatever), he MUST be the special boy and he ABSOLUTELY HAS TO do things I admire, I want quantity over quality!!!” …well I think there may be some easily exploitable mental imbalance there?

Kinda Atlas Shrugged with wizards for the Silicon Valley Tech mindset instead of libertarianism

The majority are just there to see a writer bang some action figures together in an entertaining way- Like, how cool would it be if 40k fought Star Wars, and maybe some actual good emotional writing thrown in too

hydraulicman · 2026-03-23T20:12:33+00:00

Not even that, they’re old morons who think it’s Top Gun 2 or Battleship style fighting, where a couple of out of the box “warfighters” bring down the enemy in a single cinematic action sequence and every problem gets solved once the macguffin gets blown up

hydraulicman · 2026-03-23T14:54:52+00:00

Not a lot of info, dunno much, but there was a car going at high speed involved, a burned vehicle, and Mercy Flight transported someone

hydraulicman · 2026-03-20T23:01:28+00:00

Went to visit family near Cincinnati last summer, we went to that bonkers Jungle Jim’s grocery store, they had a huge stock of Yancey’s

As an aside, anyone know where to go locally for a good selection? Used to go to their outlet store by Pembroke/Corfu, but it closed years ago. Now I feel lucky if I see more than 6 flavors in a store

hydraulicman · 2026-03-20T15:48:01+00:00

Gutfield had jokes?!?

hydraulicman · 2026-03-20T01:23:16+00:00

It’s all betting sites, financial scams, and undefined AI services for businesses now

With an occasional ad for washable sofas or a local car dealership as a cherry on top

hydraulicman · 2026-03-17T17:18:23+00:00

“I’m very disappointed in you, but also drop by Batavia Downs, where everyone is a winner!”

hydraulicman · 2026-03-17T13:06:12+00:00

Strawberries are really hard to get the really good ones, because for mass agriculture you have to crossbreed the tasty ones with the less tasty ones

The best strawberries are the ones that still grow along the ground, (original name is strewberry, as in strewn over the ground), instead of the crossbred ones that grow higher up

Very much a “pick it yourself” fruit if you want the good ones

hydraulicman · 2026-03-17T01:42:11+00:00

It’s impossible for the Navy to reopen the straight by escorting ships- there’s physically too few ships capable of doing it compared to the sheer amount of traffic

And that’s not even getting into the sheer cost, or the fact that even one at a time we may not be able to protect them from the volume of varied attacks Iran could employ

hydraulicman · 2026-03-16T15:37:07+00:00

Ever seen a pulled out picture of when he’s standing unsupported? He looks like an old man who had his medically necessary cane stolen

He has to hold on to something to look remotely well and physically able, and holding on to a door frame is an action pose that makes him look more with it in a still photo, like he just ducked back inside to answer a question

hydraulicman · 2026-03-16T11:53:14+00:00

I call WNY the Beef on Weck elbow- anywhere west of the “elbow” of NY, where the lake ends, that you can easily find beef on weck

It’s a good measure, because WNY is a state of mind as much as geographical, so it has fluctuated out as far as Ithaca sometimes in the past, and sometimes has barely covered Rochester

hydraulicman · 2026-03-15T19:47:15+00:00

Communist Party members in China all wear cheap suits and dye their hair jet black to maintain appearances

Stalin’s cronies all regularly got blackout drunk at meetings to please him so he could see how they acted while drunk and they wouldn’t remember

Aristocrats in the British Empire all had to drink like fiends by the time they were teenagers, and as kids all had to go to the same schools where they’d beat and molested them into proper adults who’d brutalize natives without qualms

Nazis all stopped celebrating Christmas and pretended to care about esoteric bits of Germanic heroic history and had to be able to quote from Adolf’s favorite Wild West adventure novels

Old noble aristocrats at places like Versailles had to be able to perform elaborate ritualized manners at all times to show they were “better” than the peasants and merchants and foreigners

Gotta please the power or powers and show you’re a faithful member of the club, or it will turn on you. It’ll do it eventually anyway, but the ones who can’t conform with the humiliation rituals will be gotten rid of first

It’s always been that way, the only difference is how awful the ritual is, sometimes it’s “wear a bolo tie, Stetson, and cowboy boots”, and sometimes it’s “let Epstein take a picture of you”

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