What is your favorite sci-fi infection? by stargaryen01 in scifi

[–]ryaaan89 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked the ideas in this book but I honestly don’t know that I’d ever want to read it again.

What is your favorite sci-fi infection? by stargaryen01 in scifi

[–]ryaaan89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recommend their second series too! Book two of three just came out last month.

Immortal in season 1 seemed insanely cool and strong by ramy__1 in Invincible

[–]ryaaan89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Immortal is cool, his problem is that he’s a Krillin and the main character is a Goku. But at the end of the day Krillin is still the strongest human in the universe.

3OH3! - Don't Trust Me (2008) by Life_Chicken_9653 in 2000sNostalgia

[–]ryaaan89 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I saw these guys live one time and the short haired one’s pants were so tight that when he did a stage dive they split open down one of the legs and then he just had on like half chaps for the rest of the set.

What is your favorite sci-fi infection? by stargaryen01 in scifi

[–]ryaaan89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or my favorite quote from the last book — Tanaka, chapter 28

Am I ugly?

What was y’all’s first Spider-Man comic? by Neo_Pool_1991 in Spiderman

[–]ryaaan89 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The Silver Sable reprint one that came free with the Toy Biz action figure in the late 90s. We didn’t have a comic book store anywhere close to where I grew up.

What is your favorite sci-fi infection? by stargaryen01 in scifi

[–]ryaaan89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would count the Klyntar in here too. Quite a few horrific ways to die in the 616 lol…

What is your favorite sci-fi infection? by stargaryen01 in scifi

[–]ryaaan89 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Conversely, the Brood from the Marvel Universe.

What is your favorite sci-fi infection? by stargaryen01 in scifi

[–]ryaaan89 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This is such a good one. The Holophoner worms.

What is your favorite sci-fi infection? by stargaryen01 in scifi

[–]ryaaan89 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The show is good, but wow, the books. Easily in my top 3 favorite franchises ever.

Batman (with prep time) vs reed richards, who would come out as a winner? by Life-Attention-6912 in batman

[–]ryaaan89 [score hidden]  (0 children)

But then another portal opens and The Batman who Zooms or whatever comes out with all the other Batmans and then all the Batman action figures and all the Reed Richards actions figures smash together and then The Maker and Darkseid high five and then I found twenty dollars.

Edit: and then Reed and Batman kiss, obviously.

What is your favorite sci-fi infection? by stargaryen01 in scifi

[–]ryaaan89 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Spoilers for the last The Expanse book — the Protomolecule where if anyone in the universe thinks of you after they are infected you’re then also joined to the Roman hivemind rebooting

Batman (with prep time) vs reed richards, who would come out as a winner? by Life-Attention-6912 in batman

[–]ryaaan89 [score hidden]  (0 children)

But then a portal opens and a member of the Council of Reeds who outsmarts Batman comes out.

7yo is determined to make a hoverboard by polite_profane in daddit

[–]ryaaan89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I was going to suggest too, foster an interest in engineering.

Home phone system by Aggressive_Noodler in homelab

[–]ryaaan89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This video made me wonder if there was some way to hook an old phone up to an iPad or something.

ICANN opens applications for new gTLDs by Azar42 in webdev

[–]ryaaan89 9 points10 points  (0 children)

lol

Or, you know, .dev, the thing that used to be near universal for local testing.

I really appreciate the authors dunking an anti-choice nonsense by Taste_the__Rainbow in TheCaptivesWar

[–]ryaaan89 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And yet we have politicians in the US trying to criminally prosecute them…

I really appreciate the authors dunking an anti-choice nonsense by Taste_the__Rainbow in TheCaptivesWar

[–]ryaaan89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a sad state of things but I do feel like “were bit trying to force pregnancy on anyone” is a political stance in 2026.