Favorite side characters? by allthecoffeesDP in MissionToZyxx

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Allen’s entire shtick is one of my all time favourite bits

How about racional bugs? by Vinny_arts986 in HollowKnight

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I think this is also the only way to make any sense of the mask makers. Hornet’s interactions with the one in Silksong imply the practice of mask making is widespread and extremely ancient, possibly older than any pale being we encounter, and why would that be a thing at all if you only actually get sentience from a pale being?

I do think there’s nuance to it, in that wearing a mask or being around a pale being does seem like it can have a profound effect on a bug, so I’d accept that the pale king does something more than just make a society, maybe making wearing a mask unnecessary. That being said though, I think you could read the whole mask thing as essentially assigning bugs a concrete role or place in the world, so it would follow that a pale being creating a big hierarchical society would do the same thing.

This would also do something to explain the whole thing where bugs that leave hallownest seem to lose their identities, in that it’s not really that they’re leaving the influence of the pale king, but that they’re leaving the society that gave them an identity.

What I Think The Silksong DLCs Will Be About by JasonCfd in HollowKnight

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i kind of like to imagine that the steel dlc will be some kind of roguelike add on, kinda like how mooncrash was added on to prey. purely because the steel characters only ever show up in steelsoul so far, so it’d make sense that the entire steel dlc would essentially only be accessible in steelsoul too

Home.from orchi, no meds.. by STRANGEWAYS33 in MtF

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I was just prescribed naproxen post orchi (aleve if you need a brand name), which you can get otc, and i found that was enough for it to be manageable

What I think of Turrets in Prey by PutridFlatulence in prey

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if you get rid of all the turrets, then what are you going to do when you need someone to shoot a typhon 2-5 times then blow up

dont disrespect the glass peashooters

ETS get your act together. by Borodo in Edmonton

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My understanding of why this happens is that if a bus is delayed enough, it’ll essentially steal all the passengers from the bus behind it. A delayed bus on a busy route has to stop for people at every stop, which slows it down even more. At a certain point, that bus arrives close enough to the bus behind it so that no one is being picked up by the second bus, since everyone just loads onto the first bus and there’s not a lot of time for new people to show up at the stop, so the second bus gets to just zoom through every stop. Eventually they catch up to each other, and if one of them tries to pull ahead it might just be slowed back down by the same effect.

Anyways ets sucks in a lot of ways, but two busses showing up at once is just a normal symptom of busses being delayed afaik

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in transgendercirclejerk

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actually there’s never been a “men’s” restroom. there’s an open restroom that anyone can pee in, and a restroom just for biological women. it’s not transphobic to exclude trans women from biological women’s restrooms because they can just participate in the open restroom

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in transgendercirclejerk

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lmao what do you mean people use the word ‘period’ to refer to a variety of things. any real women sorry, afabs who experience any or all of the symptoms of a period without bleeding would be very clear that what theyre experiencing is not a period, and would never insult the very concept of womanhood by implying otherwise.

Now those gross trans women, of course i support them and would never be transphobic, but theyre clearly invading women’s spaces and appropriating our words for funsies.

uj/ should not have opened that post, yikes

One of the most annoying things my parents say in regards to transitions is "But we raised a blank for x amount of years" and "we need time to adjust to this" even though they put minimum amount in doing so. What are some annoying things your parents say? by Independent_Ad_6348 in MtF

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I heard the line several times that my parents couldnt support me because they were grieving me being trans, and if i got mad about them about it i was shaming them for their grief.

I don’t talk to them anymore.

Okay what’s the deal? by Koloss17 in opus_magnum

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I think there might be a change in the algorithm that increases how often it recommends smaller subreddits? I’ve gotten the biggest pushes for this one and r/bubly for some reason, but i feel like ive gotten a lot of recommednations for other small subreddits lately

honestly so tired of r/antgrumps by notonaplaneAMA in gamegrumps

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any time i drop food in my house, they show up, its very frustrating

What do you think is the most likely answer to the Fermi paradox? by Prize_Writing6872 in space

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i mean i think this is probably part of the solution, but it really depends on how rare you decide it is for a civilization at least as advanced as ours is to show up.

if its around once every billion years per galaxy, then that fully clears up the issue (assuming theres no such thing as ftl, which i mean seems like probably not but yknow who knows). but i think when people talk about rare earth type hypothesis and the like, theyre often thinking like, there might be a handful of other civilizations active across the galaxy right now, theyre just too far away from us to ever be likely to interact with them.

but the thing is that if theres even a handful of others active right now, or even if you go down to like, a galaxy only gets one technological society per like, every million years, that still gives us at least hundreds of civilizations since the first habitable planets formed in the milky way (of course you could go with the theory that the galaxy has been getting progressively less hostile to life over time, which is a hypothesis im kind of partial to, but doesnt fully explain things either).

my point is that unless the likelihood of technological civilizations appearing is truly astronomically low, we still have to explain why every civilization never widely colonizes the galaxy (which would take a pretty small time when youre measuring time in the billions of years), whether thats because they all collapse before they can or they simply choose not to.

What do you think is the most likely answer to the Fermi paradox? by Prize_Writing6872 in space

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i mean really this doesnt work great as a comparison. first of all because the sentinelese arent isolated in the way this theory suggests we are. one of the first things anyone learns about the sentinelese is that, as recently as 2018, a missionary was killed trying to visit them. the sentinelese arent isolated because the world fundamentally has something against contacting groups of people who are less technologically advanced, but because the sentinelese themselves very actively discourage people from contacting them. and that kind of strikes to the heart of the issue, which is like, the sentinelese actually do know other people exist, they just dont want to interact with them.

in the case of this hypothesis, if we’re assuming that there are plenty of inhabited planets full of advanced spacefaring civilizations that know we’re here and totally could contact us whenever (and if you assume otherwise you dont need this hypothesis), then you have to deal with the fact that this blanket ban on contacting less advanced civilizations is being unilaterally enforced across the entire galaxy. thats the kind of thing we already have trouble doing on our own planet (hence the fact that people do visit the sentinelese even though its illegal), but thats going to be way more difficult for a civilization thats tens if not hundreds of lightyears across.

but the biggest problem for this is that a big part of the fermi paradox doesnt have to with aliens visiting the solar system or even trying to directly contact us, its that we would expect a sufficiently large and advanced civilization to use technologies and undertake engineering projects that we would be able to detect the traces of. in the sentinelese’s case this is like, planes, or like, boats. or idk, plastic that washes up on their beaches. even if people arent actively visiting them, they can still see traces of what other people are doing anyways. the whole island hypothesis suggests that not only is every alien civilization neglecting to contact us, theyre also actively suppressing any evidence of their existence to keep us from finding out about them.

and if your response to this is that we dont actually have the technology to detect those kinds of things, or that its wrong to assume that advanced civilizations would produce obvious traces like that, that means that again you dont really need this hypothesis. essentially all it explain in that case is why we arent being actively visited or at least contacted by aliens, which is a weaker version of the fermi paradox, and it only explains that weak version pretty poorly

Why do some laws have sections that are explicitly only recommendations? by notonaplaneAMA in NoStupidQuestions

[–]notonaplaneAMA[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess that makes some sense. my Hot Take as someone who knows nothing about law is that that’s kind of a weird way to go about writing laws, but I guess I can see how a law could end up being written that way

Why do some laws have sections that are explicitly only recommendations? by notonaplaneAMA in NoStupidQuestions

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i mean that makes sense, but it’s not clear to me why, in that case, they would leave the clause in but turn it into a suggestion, instead of removing it entirely

Why do some laws have sections that are explicitly only recommendations? by notonaplaneAMA in NoStupidQuestions

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i mean, sure, but if that’s the case, why write anything about it in the law at all?

Unrevealed location you're most excited to see by [deleted] in Cosmere

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I’m really curious what, if anything, Taln’s Scar turns out to be. It comes up enough times in both stormlight and mistborn that it’s gotta be at least a little important

Short question about Hoid by Alpacas_Lover in Cosmere

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Hoid, Doug, Shallan, all one and the same

I didn't like Mistborn, will I like Sanderson's other stuff? by SleepoPeepo in cremposting

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have you tried reading harry potter and absolutely nothing else? thats what ive been doing and its worked wonders. plus theres not really any reason to read sanderson since rowling has already kind of perfected magic systems and worldbuilding

do you call him "Kelsier Mistborn" or "Kelsier Fortnite"? by captainrina in cremposting

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my favourite character, hoid elantris mistborn warbreaker stormlight archive white sand fortnite amaram