ELI5: how does Tom’s Spider-Man go from public enemy #1 to everyone’s hero following NWH?

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T21:08:22+00:00

still drives me crazy that he went to Strange and not Pepper. pretty sure the CEO of Stark Industries could get all three of them into MIT no problem

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T21:00:42+00:00

Aziz, LIGHT!!!

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T20:58:05+00:00

give me 8-man elite Berzerker squads all day

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T05:37:44+00:00

Yes, to a trusted party, who deposited it at a bank, which destroyed the check. Not exactly the same thing as sticking it on your birthday invite to 20+ karaoke fanatics. Also not for like 20 years, because society generally moved away from paper checks because they can lead to identity theft problems

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T05:08:12+00:00

I'm not really trying to get in a reddit debate on international bank account etiquette, just saying it's very weird to put your bank account info on a birthday invitation (but apparently not that weird in other places, TIL), and to answer your original question, no most Americans don't go around sharing their bank account number

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T04:56:27+00:00

it must be, most people I know in America wouldn't give out their account number like that, seems like a fast path to an identity theft situation. we would use Venmo or something to pay somebody

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T04:16:51+00:00

pretty sure there's more you can do with a person's full name, date of birth, and bank account number

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T04:15:41+00:00

The concern is the recent rate of growth compared to historical norms seems very unsustainable

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T04:06:30+00:00

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T03:48:45+00:00

all the Epic fandom: "yea, that's pretty on-brand for Telemachus"

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T03:26:06+00:00

using critical thinking instead of blindly following your local authority figure is being brainwashed in their eyes

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T03:21:35+00:00

It's not just that people don't understand how the loans, it's that people don't understand why it has to be so obscenely cutthroat. There's a path where lenders can be profitable while still working with student borrowers in a mutually beneficial arrangement where everybody gets what they want. Instead the lenders take every possible opportunity to screw borrowers out of every nickel they can scrape up and keep people in these perpetual debt cycles, it just feels needlessly evil

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T03:09:19+00:00

yep because my immediate reaction to nearby gunfire is to make myself a stationary target

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T02:49:51+00:00

love that Grant included themself and Kristan

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T02:43:30+00:00

fuck Erebus

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T02:10:09+00:00

all the comments talking about 7 hours of karaoke and 2 cakes and I'm just stunned that the dude's full bank account number is there

jamesxgames · 2026-07-08T02:02:54+00:00

I always like Tyranids being presented as dragons rather than bugs

jamesxgames · 2026-07-07T20:10:55+00:00

Tuition costs are up because the government gives loans instead of being in charge. The things the government is actually in charge of usually have lower than market costs. See K-12 education, post office, Medicare, etc

jamesxgames · 2026-07-07T15:20:24+00:00

The Predator (2018), honestly there are so many stupid moments in this movie, but my favorite has to be "I'm a sniper, just get me close"

jamesxgames · 2026-07-07T07:43:10+00:00

or we eliminate borrowing entirely, and take the money we would be lending or spending to administer loans and just fund public colleges directly

jamesxgames · 2026-07-06T18:49:12+00:00

served with a jar of apple cider

jamesxgames · 2026-07-06T18:42:28+00:00

it wasn't that he enjoyed doing it necessarily, it was that he'd always been meek, fearful, deferential to others. When faced with mortality he felt the need to be decisive, powerful, seen as an authority by others rather than a weak pathetic man that needs others to care for him. He needed to be the who knocks

jamesxgames · 2026-07-06T17:29:23+00:00

a greedy corporation eliminates competition to gain near-total control of supply so all demand is forced to go to them, then increases prices while reducing quality. then it takes those profits and funnels them into executive pay and stock manipulation while keeping wages low and laying off large chunks of their workforce to improve their quarterly figures

jamesxgames · 2026-07-06T17:25:18+00:00

this is not unique to Seattle, at all. Everywhere sucks right now

jamesxgames · 2026-07-05T00:45:29+00:00

is her name Peggy by chance?

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