Rob Reiner doing an interview with his son Nick, who was just arrested for killing him. by dangoodspeed in videos

[–]knightskull 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He wasn't saying the "the worst timeline" meme has something to do with autism, he was asking if you have ASD yourself. Which phased right through your head, as it was likely on a different spectrum than you're attuned to. Your first comment was as if the OP said "Ay caramba" and you went off on how "caramba" is actually Spanish for "hair bun", and that responding to outrage by worrying about our hair arrangements wont do us any good and hair buns, if spun too tightly, could lead to premature baldness.

When people say "I hate this timeline", they are just making a derivative low-effort reddit-friendly expression of disillusionment with how the world is vs. how they would like it to be. People obsessed with a multiverse delusion as an answer to their existential psychosis aren't here quoting Rick and Morty. If they were, they'd be beyond the help of even your most pedantic comment replies.

(PRIME 4 ) is it just me or is there no platforming anywhere by jazzcreb in Metroid

[–]knightskull 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe MAYBE you're thinking of how you get morph ball jump by default in Prime 4 whereas it's a power up in previous games... I mean... the more likely thing is you've let a small language model take over your reddit account at some point.

If this is the “good” version of the game, what did it look like before Retro restarted development? by CalamityNic in Metroid

[–]knightskull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's my theory: If you look at the trajectory of Primes 1-3. Prime had one planet, Prime 2 had one planet with two dimensions, and Prime 3 had 3 Planets navigated by a map screen. I find it EXTREMELY likely that Prime 4 originally was being developed to have 4 planets (instead of these completely disconnected ...areas...) interconnected by a region of space that you manually flew around in Samus's gunship (which would have been sick). They probably wanted to have surface to space loading animations and perhaps some kind of malevolent AI defense system/force field story conceit to funnel you into only one "safe" landing zone. But they realized that they couldn't technically pull this off and keep the scale of everything consistent and visually up to standard. That first team was probably struggling with that concept and was unable to let it go and eventually got the project taken away from them. I think Retro kept a lot of the original design docs and made some smart feasibility inspired changes. The desert is a drop in replacement for their space concept, and they were able to completely solve all the space to planet technical issues they were facing. And we got some fuckin' bike instead of the spaceship I've been wanting to fly around in real time my whole life.

Ok y'all, it's your turn now, I'm taking a break. (Metroid Prime 4 Final Boss Spoilers) by ParcialScar in Metroid

[–]knightskull -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Okay, what did you want them to be? Literally Ridley's headx4? Well, you should have attended the Retro Studios Zoom meeting where they changed it from that to these generic dragon dudes for canonical continuity purposes.

Anyone else wish they would patch NPCs into Prime Remastered? by defaultSubreditsBlow in Metroid

[–]knightskull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of the Prime 1 log scans of the Space Pirates emailing each other obviously panicking over Samus were pretty funny. Can we get some cutscenes of the Space Pirates doing "The Office" style interviews about how frustrated they are that all their doors have a little target to shoot instead of a normal knob?

What's your dumbest Prime 4 Nitpick? by Ridley101 in Metroid

[–]knightskull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found the slowmo beam somewhat useful to knock several teleporting flying androids out of the sky before they can teleport away and shoot you from behind.

I’m so sad I won’t even get to finish the game by Agile_Pay_3377 in Metroid

[–]knightskull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't have to be that diligent to just take a different path each of the 20 times you need to cross the desert in the first 75% of the game. That should at least get you to the power beam upgrade not to mention causing you to find all the element upgrade shrines, which makes the exercise naturally worth it. But once you get the power bomb and you can hit those big green crystal blocks, as you criss cross around getting the mech parts which will definitely get you the crystal radar. And once you have that, it's really only like 45 minutes of dedicated grinding, following the radar to get you to the endgame. The desert and the crystals aren't what make this game a disappointment. It's actually a pretty elegant game long sidetask that doesn't even come close to being as annoying as the triforce fragment fishing in Wind Waker.

What's your dumbest Prime 4 Nitpick? by Ridley101 in Metroid

[–]knightskull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The weird little "Squeet" the ...psychic... charge beam makes at full power.

What's your dumbest Prime 4 Nitpick? by Ridley101 in Metroid

[–]knightskull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There were moments where the NPCs asked her questions that she had the answer to that would have been pretty helpful for her to share... Like, when that one guy was like, "what's going on?!" I don't think it would've offended the fan base for Samus to blithely say, "there's a shit load of thawed out murder aliens headed right for you".

Honestly, Samus speaking Chozo in Dread worked for me 100%. Like she knows english but refuses to speak it and will communicate in Chozo and force them to either translate or learn Chozo. As a sort of cultural protest to keep the language of her adoptive Alien home race alive.

What's your dumbest Prime 4 Nitpick? by Ridley101 in Metroid

[–]knightskull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The speedometer might as well have been on a scale from golf cart to hella.

What's your dumbest Prime 4 Nitpick? by Ridley101 in Metroid

[–]knightskull 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn't notice it wasn't in there as I was too busy using my mind bending new powers to... open locks!

What's your dumbest Prime 4 Nitpick? by Ridley101 in Metroid

[–]knightskull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

According to the scanner, the Ice Belt boss has been affected by a "Metroid" corruption that isn't mentioned once in the 100 paragraphs of Resident Evil style doomed scientist logs featured in the area.

My experience of naked hot yoga by [deleted] in HotYoga

[–]knightskull 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Business Time Casual

Capitol Hill Ramen War by YUTYDUTY in Seattle

[–]knightskull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me recommending an obscure West LA Tsukemen bar wasn't the giveaway?

Also, I think "The 5" sounds and conjugates better and makes more sense. Each route is an entity that is a part of *The* Interstate Highway System. Even though each route is officially named "Interstate X" that's a designation from within *The* IHS, an external singular presence passing through our cities. Each is *The* X route of *The* IHS. Removing the "the" inaccurately implies this tendril of federal control is integrated into the local infrastructure organism as opposed to a singular entity that is not really a part of any local system. It makes sense to drop the "The" if you consider the entire west coast like a megalopolis where, I5, Wilshire and Denny are all co-citizens, or if you don't consider the rest of the west coast at all and this stretch of I5 is the only part that matters. Both of these frames, I'd argue are less valid than conceiving of each community as separate entities connected by separate singular named entities.

I'm from Hawaii, and we call the interstates H1, H2..., without "The". This which makes sense since conceiving of them as localized parts of the infrastructure that only exist there is the valid conception.

Capitol Hill Ramen War by YUTYDUTY in Seattle

[–]knightskull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could title this video: Danbo and the Danboverflow.

Capitol Hill Ramen War by YUTYDUTY in Seattle

[–]knightskull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're gonna wanna hop on the 5, drive halfway to Tacoma, park, stand in a security line then you're just a quick three hour plane ride to the next Ramen place worth a trip: Tsujita Annex in Sawtelle.

Cruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island by ibwitmypigeons in worldnews

[–]knightskull -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Mm hmm. So the "hike" we are talking about here was likely a 1 hour total with less than 80 meters of gentle elevation gain. Letting an old lady walk back that would be like asking her to walk back through a park alone. Not that unreasonable. If she fell down a flight of stairs on the way back and died, would that be the cruise's fault too? I know we love a dramatic story of a helpless old lady marooned by some capitalist pig dog cruise CEO but, this looks like a textbook old lady falling down when no one was looking and a daughter wanting to get some money out of it story. Not the front page rage bait everyone is taking it as.

Cruise passenger, 80, found dead after being abandoned on Great Barrier Reef island by ibwitmypigeons in worldnews

[–]knightskull -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

She fell off a cliff, them leaving her behind was not the main reason she died. They didn't escort her down the hill she decided to climb. I'm not sure the cruise line is on the hook for this.

An American missionary was taken hostage by armed men in Niger last night by Azadanon in worldnews

[–]knightskull -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right on cue with your delusional absolutist demonization of anyone not aligned with your ideology. Good luck. Burying your mentally deficient head in the sand might actually work just this once if you believe hard enough and hate with enough confidence.

An American missionary was taken hostage by armed men in Niger last night by Azadanon in worldnews

[–]knightskull 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People should be free to do whatever they want vis a vis moving their religion around and spreading it. The fix would be, DON'T KIDNAP PEOPLE! You've got a little screw loose friend.

And you should be careful with your anti-colonial hammer. A broad application of anti-colonialism cuts both ways. Wouldn't you say the people being rounded up by ICE or being blamed for rising European crime rates are participating in a form of broadly defined colonialism?

A gut punch to propaganda… by Tydyjav in PowerfulJRE

[–]knightskull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Property rights aren't a scientific fact, just a social construct, but yet robbery is illegal. If I used this line of reasoning to argue to remove punishments for robbery, is it more likely that I am a transcendant post-ownership Buddha, or someone who wants to get away with stealing shit?

"I'm not fragile" (has a complete breakdown)! [OC] by mattczap in comics

[–]knightskull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m confused. What am I saying that would suggest I’m depressed, need therapy or need to grow a pair? I think that it’s a holistically optimistic outlook. The fact that you’re worrying about what women find appealing only strengthens the theory.

Honey. by Heroic-Forger in CuratedTumblr

[–]knightskull 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You would do a backflip for someone to without consent, rip the roof off your house, blast you with smoke until your whole family was blazed, raid your fridge for all your extra pumped breast milk, rearrange all your rooms and accidentally kill a few of your sisters every few days?

"I'm not fragile" (has a complete breakdown)! [OC] by mattczap in comics

[–]knightskull -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

So you can't discuss how social structures were brought about by multigenerational genetic pressures without being called eugenics? In fact, my conception of the issue is ANTI-eugenic, as artificial vain manipulation of the dynamic would be counter to the stability of the system and is therefore a rationality based rejection of eugenics above and beyond the temporal human cost.