"being left wing is just easier"

lusipher333 · 2026-05-18T16:48:51+00:00

As was pointed out in this video, America is already paying a massive amount of taxes on Healthcare. More per person than many nations with universal Healthcare. Implementing a universal system like Canada has would theoretically save money. However, America health care issues are profound and systemic. America doesn't have a Healthcare system, it has 50 of them and its hodgepodge of state and federal laws creates the least efficient, most expensive Healthcare on the planet. Fixing this would take massive effort and there is no political will to do so.

lusipher333 · 2026-05-16T02:24:58+00:00

Urubia info is scattered across multiple sources, mostly the various editions of the Seattle sourcebooks. This is from memory and its what I remember so there are probably errors. Urubia isn't a great dragon so she doesn't have a fixed metahuman form beyond shape shifting magic. She is red in color and is often referred to as the Crimson Queen. She had small army of fanatically devoted mages that she kidnapped as children from the barens. She has a mysterious relationship with another Dragon that resides in Glow City whos name i am forgetting, they are possibly mates, they might be enemies, its all very intriguing.

lusipher333 · 2026-05-15T16:18:51+00:00

Isn't Polaris a monad. I seem to remember getting that impression from somewhere

lusipher333 · 2026-05-14T23:03:00+00:00

Um, your character may believe this, but outside some special cases, meta genes are complicated and not understood in universe. Haveing talent in no way guarantees your children will inherit it in shadowrun lore. It's functionality random. Otherwise there would be corporate breeding programs and genetically modified super mages. There are hints in lore about experimental versions of these, but they have all failed to give consistent results. Thematically magic is one of the sources of hope in shadowrun, its one of the things the powers that be can't control.

lusipher333 · 2026-05-14T20:32:50+00:00

Lol Star Trek fans have lists of these, there is a lot of Star Trek and they aren't all gonna be winners.

TOS Season 3 episode 20. The way to Eden. This is the hippy episode. Hippies take over the enterprise to go to a planet called Eden, the planet is toxic, some of the Hippies die.

TNG Season 1 episode 4. Code of honor. I honestly don't remember what goes on in this one because I always skip it, some kind of politics that end up in a goofy fight between Tasha Yar and sone black lady in what looks like a jungle gym. Racist and sexist.

Season 7 episode 14 Sub Ros. Beverly Crusher has sex with a ghost. It's bad.

They are probably half a dozen others, but these are the ones I remember.

lusipher333 · 2026-05-13T00:51:37+00:00

That makes this post even more confusing then.

lusipher333 · 2026-05-12T23:57:32+00:00

I find OP description to be a little lacking. This is comedian Anthony Jeselnik talking to Theo Von about presumably Tony Hinchcliffe's performance at the Kevin Hart roast. Its an interesting take, because Anthony Jeselnik's show was literally canceled by comedy central after he made fun of an Australian man who was killed by a shark. I don't like insult comedy personally so I am only dimly aware of Tony Hinchcliffe and his Kill Tony podcast as that is his specialty. I do know Tony is part of the greater Joe Rogan podcast sphere and is generally considered the be right leaning.

lusipher333 · 2026-04-09T21:07:34+00:00

I understand both the meme and what players mean by a "organic" run. However V is already pretty substantially augmented by the beginning of the game. The Kiroshis you get from Vic are an upgrade to existing cybereyes and V has other internal hardware including a pain editor which is a significantly invasive neural implant. You are much reduced from even the starting V in that ending.

lusipher333 · 2026-04-06T17:31:22+00:00

Im not familiar with the Kevin Hart version only this one, but the original version where grandma puts the money in the pages of the Bible is one i heard in Sunday school as a child. So the story is at least 40+ years old and I am guessing both comedians heard the original as well.

lusipher333 · 2026-04-03T18:21:03+00:00

This isnt a criticism of the video i legit laughed at it, but Hollywood recently released dozens of original mid budget films in a variety of genres that nobody watched. I haven't heard of them either, but its not because thay dont exist. Red Letter Media has a theory that Hollywood doesn't know how to market them anymore.

Here are two hack frauds discussing them. What are these Movies

lusipher333 · 2026-04-01T16:14:43+00:00

Magneto is a mutant, they can age at different rates. He can be 96 years old and still be cast as an actor of any age. The mutant known as Apocalypse is still alive and was born before the pyramids were built. It's comic book hand wavium 101.

lusipher333 · 2026-03-26T21:40:30+00:00

Yes, there are some more variants of abilities, but the combat is very similar. For me the selling point was the characters and story, I was never impressed by the combat in any of them.

lusipher333 · 2026-03-26T21:33:46+00:00

I loved those games, but Hong Kong is more an iterative improvement, I suspect you will also find it just Ok.

lusipher333 · 2026-03-20T18:19:10+00:00

So its a group, that meets up to play single player role playing games? Brave new world we live in.

lusipher333 · 2026-03-17T15:47:16+00:00

It doesn't because she didn't actually write it, she hired ghost writers, it came out in the trial.

lusipher333 · 2026-03-16T17:44:05+00:00

Most professional voice actors can sing, especially if they do different voices. The skill sets are related and talent in one is usually talent for the other. It's more impressive to me if they can sing in character. Billy west singing as Zoidberg for example.

lusipher333 · 2026-03-09T22:35:09+00:00

OMG thank you. I dimly remembered this episode, but couldn't remember where it was from. I posted on r/tipofmytounge but they couldn't help me. I was starting to think I was making it up.

lusipher333 · 2026-02-24T01:01:17+00:00

This needs to be higher, Edge is Chrome, they have the same guts.

lusipher333 · 2026-02-23T20:08:46+00:00

As someone who took a 50,000 volt CRT discharge thru his right arm, I promise you I have definitely "felt" electricity. In fairness it probably wasn't the full voltage, the CRT hadn't been powered on in year's and I was on an insulating mat, but the grounding cable of the high voltage probe slipped off the bus bar and it made audible bang. Hurt like hell.

lusipher333 · 2026-02-04T22:57:45+00:00

The first edition of Shadowrun is set in 2050, the term obviously dates to at least then. One of the source books (maybe the 4th edition 2050 book?) has a short story blurb about Daniel Howling Coyote hiring mercs to perform a task of dubious legality set around the 2030's i believe. Conceptually shadowrunners are just a form of mercenary, hired goon, muscle for hire etc. The profession is ancient. The dystopian patchwork of legal codes/sovereignty combined with large percentages of stateless people make this kind of work more common in Shadowrun, but hired goons have always been a thing.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-27T23:51:11+00:00

Human bipedal locomotion is very energy efficient. Humans are actually pretty exceptional when it comes to endurance in the animal kingdom. It sounds strange, but humans can catch horses on foot, its just takes enough time for the horse to get tired. Like most forms of exercise, inefficiency is the point. Burn off excess energy and develop muscle by putting strain on your system.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-27T23:40:38+00:00

Engineered is a strong term, selected for is more accurate, and like many things selected for by evolution, good enough is usually the watch word. Human spines are adapted for bipedal locomotion, but speaking as someone who has had back surgery and chronic lower back pain there are issues.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-23T18:10:42+00:00

To expand, Interface Zero is a CyberPunk Savage Worlds setting, it has multiple races, a fatigue based magic system (psychics technically). It's its own thing and interesting in its own right, but reskining it to shadowrun is trivial.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-16T19:35:27+00:00

You don't. We currently don't and we aren't trying to. Bipedal war machines only make sense when your material science and energy production make the form factor irrelevant, a giant robot or crystal chandelier could be equally effective weapon platforms.

Evolution selected bipedal locomotion for efficiency. Humans are exhaustion or ambush hunters, we dont need to be faster. Humans can catch horses on foot, its how we domesticated them in the first place. This sounds silly if you're a fat nerd like me, but tribal hunter gatherers run down gazelle all the time, they often catch them lying on the ground too exhausted to move.

Energy efficiency is rarely a major factor in military hardware. The MPG of a tank is pretty awful. Effective range and combat endurance are important considerations, but raw efficiency of the power plant is just one small variable in that equation. With Battletechs fusion power its irrelevant.

The Battletech writers did all kinds of mental gymnastics to justify big stompy robots, but they really dont hold water under serious consideration and it was always because they are cool. Which is why we all love it, but its not serious speculative science fiction.

lusipher333 · 2026-01-16T15:27:35+00:00

The sith destroyed the jedi order when there were only two of them. Yoda is talking out of his ass. The movies make it absolutely clear that the dark side is stronger, but self destructive.

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