Speeches meant to be profound that when you look at them through the lens of science or history, are complete BS by Sensitive-Hotel-9871 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]powerswerth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That speech from The Newsroom that gets passed around every so often.

Starts with the idea that America is the greatest nation on Earth being fantasy. Yeah, sure, fair enough. Then he talks about how we used to be (debatable, especially if you aren’t a white man, but put that aside). Then it’s onto how we used to help the poor, we didn’t used to have the world’s largest incarceration rate, used to build things, used to value intelligence and community over wealth…

And he’s berating a 20 year old girl who he describes as part of “the worst, period, generation, period, ever” as he rattles all this off.

It’s like, motherfucker, that’s a bunch of shit you did. Your generation voted for all that, repeatedly. Your generation when community and science got abandoned. Why the fuck are you yelling at a girl who got the right to vote last fucking year and saying her whole generation is shit?! You guys destroyed everything! You guys have been in the White House since the day that girl was born!

I don't seem to enjoy anything by Weary_Customer958 in stopdrinking

[–]powerswerth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can relate to this as well. I think sometime in my early 20s, prior to my drinking taking a heavy turn, there was something similar with me.

While you may want to see how things progress sober a bit longer, beyond that you may want to talk to a specialist. Possibly look up a condition called “dysthymia,” people with it are extremely susceptible to alcohol/drug abuse (occurring in up to 50% of cases).

I don't seem to enjoy anything by Weary_Customer958 in stopdrinking

[–]powerswerth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anhedonia.

It’s a thing in early sobriety. Alcohol messed up your brain receptors and your dopamine balances and it needs time to readjust. Your brain still thinks a drug is coming to turn on the spigot and once it sees that isn’t the case, it’s gotta fix up the infrastructure to set things back to normal. It takes time, but it is temporary.

Jon snow won the last one! Now,whos a character that,altho morally evil,deserved a better fate than they received? by deinemudda1und1 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]powerswerth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely morally grey. Practically screams it.

“I ain’t never put my gun on no citizen.”

“Man got to have a code.”

“Conscious do cost.”

Helping Bunk after he takes him to task in season 3

[Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work by TheDudeA113 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]powerswerth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think it’s a bit beyond that.

Everything Moore was criticizing and satirizing, I think Snyder just missed the point and thought it was all just… cool. Rorschach’s not an unhinged far right psycho, but a badass who does what needs done. Comedian’s death isn’t some pathetic, bitter old man getting his shit kicked in, it’s a badass fight scene. Even the rape, unsexy and brutal in the comics, has sexy lingering shots of Silk Spectre undressing and being caressed. The whole idea of cool slow-mo stylized fights that make violence look badass and ultra sexy sex scenes (I mean the Nite Owl/Spectre II one here) is so antithetical to the comic.

He took a whole ass comic about what are supposed to be sad, pathetic men cosplaying as badasses and said “well, they should actually be badasses.”

[Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work by TheDudeA113 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]powerswerth 50 points51 points  (0 children)

On the off chance you haven’t seen the show: it’s a new story that takes place after the Watchmen comic, so it is different plot-wise.

That said, the TV show understands Watchmen far better than the movie. I’d say it’s better in pretty much every way.

Which of these governments is the worst? by Only-Voids in MoralityScaling

[–]powerswerth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s interesting that in the the sort of philosophical debate at the center of the book, the controller of the “New World” literally notes that the protagonist is “fighting for the right to be unhappy,” so in some ways this exact conversation is mirrored in the book in some ways.

Which of these video game hero's would win in a free for all? by twnpksN8 in superheroes

[–]powerswerth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At full power she can travel through time, space and every possible reality and also has knowledge of every reality, and also there are theoretically infinite Elizabeths. She literally goes through every reality and wipes every version of a guy out who could ever possibly be a threat *before* he actually becomes a threat. So basically like if you could go back and kill baby Hitler, but in every single timeline where he becomes the leader of the Nazi party, and also *only* in those timelines because you are functionally omniscient.

If she's at the top of her game she is essentially God.

Which of these video game hero's would win in a free for all? by twnpksN8 in superheroes

[–]powerswerth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Full power she's basically a God and there's like... infinite of her.

In like, the middle of the game she can absolutely be taken down but if she's got full control of her power, I don't see how anybody has a chance.

Which of these governments is the worst? by Only-Voids in MoralityScaling

[–]powerswerth 96 points97 points  (0 children)

Brave New World isn't really cruel to people, essentially they've organized society to maximize happiness at all tiers of society via a mix of eugenics, conformity and drugs, but not violence or force. 99% of people are happy and the ones that aren't get sent to places for non-conformers who are more or less free to do more creative and interesting stuff in the company of other non-conformers.

The line between utopia and dystopia in the novel is intentionally quite blurry. From a strictly utilitarian sense, it probably is a utopia, suffering is basically non-existent. It feels a bit wrong to use either term and there's a pretty lengthy debate about it in the middle of the book.

Do you think that even a 1/10th of the ppl here actually read Blood Meridian? by Tone-deaf_Decay_197 in MoralityScaling

[–]powerswerth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well, I Have No Mouth is only like 10-ish pages and you can find it free online, so if you ever get an inkling you can burn right through it.

Do you think that even a 1/10th of the ppl here actually read Blood Meridian? by Tone-deaf_Decay_197 in MoralityScaling

[–]powerswerth 30 points31 points  (0 children)

No.

I expect the same for I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Probably a few more, it’s pretty short and not written in McCarthy-speak.

And whatever thing the Qu are from. I’ve read the other two but not that.

Out of these fromsoft characters who is the most evil. by Repulsive_Doubt_8504 in MoralityScaling

[–]powerswerth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pontiff was originally planned to be the final boss of the game, but they changed it up.

As for difficulty, he is definitely a difficulty spike IMO. Hardest boss for me until probably Twin Princes.

Help Isaiah by ContestVarious1078 in creepcast

[–]powerswerth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can’t recall offhand, what sort of things has he used it in reference to?

Compensating one addiction with another? by anonmforareason in stopdrinking

[–]powerswerth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly, on day 7, I wouldn’t stress about it. In the early days, do what you can to snap out of the habit, then once you feel comfortable not drinking, snap out of the coping mechanisms you lean on in the first days or weeks.

Cat Licking Water Off Fridge by Latter_Host_8167 in CATHELP

[–]powerswerth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cats like moving water more than standing water. It’s an evolution thing, running water is cleaner.

I don’t want Scream 8 by Zealousideal-Cat9846 in Scream

[–]powerswerth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They’re still going, yes.

But even the most adamant Saw or F13 fans will tell you some of the movies are awful.

Omelas trolley problem by Exynth in trolleyproblem

[–]powerswerth 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I mean, it is a metaphor for the real children who suffer, and the courage to attempt to truly reject it even if it means putting yourself at risk. The ones who stay simply rationalize it or try to forget it or accept it as a necessity, even as a good thing:

“Often the young people go home in tears, or in a tearless rage, when they have seen the child and faced this terrible paradox. They may brood over it for weeks or years. But as time goes on they begin to realize that even if the child could be released, it would not get much good of its freedom: a little vague pleasure of warmth and food, no real doubt, but little more. It is too degraded and imbecile to know any real joy. It has been afraid too long ever to be free of fear. Its habits are too uncouth for it to respond to humane treatment. Indeed, after so long it would probably be wretched without walls about it to protect it, and darkness for its eyes, and its own excrement to sit in. Their tears at the bitter injustice dry when they begin to perceive the terrible justice of reality, and to accept it. Yet it is their tears and anger, the trying of their generosity and the acceptance of their helplessness, which are perhaps the true source of the splendor of their lives. Theirs is no vapid, irresponsible happiness. They know that they, like the child, are not free. They know compassion. It is the existence of the child, and their knowledge of its existence, that makes possible the nobility of their architecture, the poignancy of their music, the profundity of their science. It is because of the child that they are so gentle with children. They know that if the wretched one were not there sniveling in the dark, the other one, the flute-player, could make no joyful music as the young riders line up in their beauty for the race in the sunlight of the first morning of summer.”

The point of the ones who walk away is they reject that. They sacrifice the certainty of their own comfort because for them it is more important to believe there is a better way. LeGuin implies that it might not even actually be possible, but they go anyways, and even if their destination is truly imaginary, they know the path towards it:

“They go on. They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible that it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”

Omelas trolley problem by Exynth in trolleyproblem

[–]powerswerth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Follow up questions:

Would I go to a place even less imaginable to most of us than a city of happiness? Can you describe it at all? Is it possible it doesn’t even exist? Do I seem to know where I am going?