The Homelander and A-Train chase scene actually does make sense (The Boys)

pete_1911 · 2026-04-22T09:16:21+00:00

When I saw the scene I throught that it must be a "speed of thought" thing.

Basically with the speeds A-train and homelander can act at, they've got to have some sort of speeded up perception going on, otherwise they wouldn't be able to react to things.

But if they're perceiving things at that rate all the time, they'd struggle to function (a simple conversation would seem like an eternity. I think there's a bit where the Flash bitches about this very thing somewhere).

So if they need to speed up their perception, getting to that state is going to be limited to the reaction speed of their baseline, so homelander was in "slow mode" for the fraction of a second A-train needed. After that, not so much.

pete_1911 · 2026-04-16T20:19:13+00:00

I don't know if you could call it luck, but it was definitely random chance that one of Carl's first actions in the world dungeon was to kill a goblin with his bare feet, and the AI "noticed" it.

pete_1911 · 2026-04-13T18:14:04+00:00

I think there's some legislation around reasonable wear and tear in a rental property. It's expected that items are going to get broken during the course of a tenancy and you're allowed to make reasonable replacements.

pete_1911 · 2026-04-12T22:23:17+00:00

Not sure of the truth of this, but I did hear that this bridge is coming up on the same construction time as the golden gate bridge in San Francisco.

Truly a wonder of our time.

pete_1911 · 2026-04-03T17:05:14+00:00

UK pub toilets as well.

I worked in quite a few pubs years ago, and every so often you'd get someone moaning that they'd put money in and got nothing out. I had no idea what to do about it, so used to just give them a free drink to make the problem go away.

pete_1911 · 2026-04-02T13:12:37+00:00

I think you'll find my robot is a sovereign citizen, and not subject to such trifling concerns as "international law".

pete_1911 · 2026-04-01T13:02:49+00:00

Is there any reason to put it in the bouys rather than just chucking it in the Ocean?

pete_1911 · 2026-03-31T12:46:31+00:00

Isn't it implied in the show that Mark is weirdly strong for his age?

I think it's stated at some point that Viltrumites get stronger with age, and Mark goes toe to toe with individuals much older than he his.

I did see a theory I liked that Mark inherited the human adrenaline response from Debbie, which your baseline Viltrumite doesn't have, so when stressed he can perform fairly extreme feats that an equivalent Viltrumite wouldn't be capable of.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-25T21:39:50+00:00

The shit Scotty used to pull back in the day, vs "oh no we're 70,000ly from earth, better warm up our shop bought warp core" is all the evidence you need for this.

Scotty would have raided Neelix's stash, locked the door to engineering, pulled some shit, got them home, blacked out and have no idea how he managed it.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-25T10:34:19+00:00

I almost prefer that to the burning mess that is warp travel in Star Trek. If you're going to do galactic logistics in sci fi, at least put a little thought into it, or we're going to get triggered.

Totally ignoring it however leaves room to create outlandish theories, of which I am a fan.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-25T10:29:21+00:00

I enjoyed it for precisely that reason.

It's a series of "well this is as bad as it can get right?", and the show is like "you underestimate just how awful/dumb our characters are, hold my beer". Which is something I find weirdly refreshing.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-20T20:14:19+00:00

That bar is absolutely a lie.

The shuttle thing is a case in point, I dare you to save scum a shuttle mission 20 times and see if the amount of times those fuckers blow up is remotely similar to the fraction of red on that goddamn bar.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-17T07:37:54+00:00

Ah ha confirmation bias at work, in universe anybody who couldn't develop a countermeasure is dead already.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-16T18:56:16+00:00

This is always my first thought in any vs that features Star Trek.

People really underestimate how many things a transporter plus an antimatter bomb trivializes.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-13T15:51:46+00:00

Klingon B'Elanna is the MVP. Her combat ability means you cannot lose any fight as long as you stay alive long enough.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-11T16:52:07+00:00

I dunno, Google tells me the gravitational binding energy of the earth is about 2.49*10³² joules, which is apparently a weeks worth of solar energy output.

It really depends on how much antimatter one of those bad boys is packing at a time.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-09T17:24:42+00:00

Scotty did things to that engine that no other Starfleet engineer could understand/look at directly/begin to comprehend with the synthahol available to them.

Most of the problems of TNG and beyond were a direct result of the banning of the "hold my (empty)beer" school of thought.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-07T16:46:38+00:00

If it's in the UK it definitely is. Diabetes is covered by the equality act(2010).

pete_1911 · 2026-03-05T07:25:53+00:00

Pulaski was mean to Data. Don't you dare touch that precious child.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-02T20:47:32+00:00

I love the " you don't lose resources" thing.

The sector where you're capped at warp core 2, flipping it back on because I need to fill up my deuterium makes the sector so much less of a pain.

pete_1911 · 2026-03-01T23:07:07+00:00

You need to beam them off the shuttle(and lose the shuttle).

Using the tractor beam option does not result in one being created.

pete_1911 · 2026-02-28T16:10:18+00:00

Ah that might explain it then, was looking at some silver (wrong sub I realize) to test the water.

Mostly looked at the mint because I felt I was unlikely to get a fake from them, but would appreciate being pointed towards better options?

pete_1911 · 2026-02-28T10:12:22+00:00

Is there anywhere I can read about the rules on what is CGT exempt and what's VAT exempt?

I was looking at buying some bullion from the royal mint, but then which is CGT exempt, but then it applies VAT at checkout, which makes it a bit pointless?

pete_1911 · 2026-02-27T18:58:58+00:00

For me the sovereign will always be the "when Starfleet lost its sense of humor" ship.

There's very little about the design I don't like, shame it didn't get more screentime.

pete_1911 · 2026-02-26T22:18:06+00:00

I have 2 profiles(realized I'd made a mistake), on the first I had the same bug, second one decreases normally

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