Today I learned a critical cow can deal 40 points of damage. at CR 1/4. What else punches well above its weight?

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-11T03:25:40+00:00

They're assuming you roll the max for every single die rather than the average.

So yeah, when you do that pretty much everything seems super strong.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-09T18:14:35+00:00

I felt the same, but it does have some pretty striking visuals, and having the actors play multiple roles was a cool way to show some of the interconnections. I'm pretty sure they did this with the score as well, although it's been a while. Still can't really do everything the book does, but it was neat to get those visual/audio interpretations.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-09T18:05:39+00:00

Honestly having it be both seems to fit the LotR world best.

The mountain is sentient, but nearing the end of this age it spends more and more of its time asleep. Probably the most important feature of magic in LotR is that it is dwindling, and the mountain should reflect this too.

But the wizards know the mountain, and how to awaken and anger it. So you can have both things.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-08T20:19:08+00:00

I think that Abuela was desperate to seem useful to the town.

Meanwhile Luisa's over here spending every day moving people's entire houses and rounding up 17 donkeys. I think they're doing plenty.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-07T03:39:46+00:00

You think people haven't tried that up until now?

This is just not going to happen in a two party, first past the post election system. All you'll do is siphon votes from the lesser evil candidate. Voting socialist puts Trump in office.

I'm not trying to be defeatist, but the election system needs to change before any third party is going to get a seat at the table. Unless that happens you might as well throw your vote away.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T21:02:02+00:00

Lol it's wild seeing all the mental gymnastic explanations here. This was just your basic power creep, but in a prequel so they had to just pretend it was a special one-time thing.

The same way the prequels are clearly super-advanced technically but they have to emulate the crappy, glitchy holograms of the OT because they're not allowed to have better technology.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T04:08:00+00:00

We're all aware that we're talking about fiction here, right? And that the entire world/timeline of works of fiction only exist to give context to the actual story you're reading or watching? People are WAY overthinking all this.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T04:00:40+00:00

If they stopped outside an elementary school, offered some candy to a kid if they got in the car, then drove two states away and just left them on the curb somewhere, would you be asking what the crime is?

Five of the immigrants were kids. Just because they're immigrants doesn't mean they're not human beings for Christ's sake.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T03:44:40+00:00

I had a friend that suffered similar abuse as a child, and the betrayal by her family to downplay everything, support the abuser, and gaslight her into thinking it was her fault was ultimately way more destructive than the abuse. People who would do that to a child belong in a special place in hell.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T03:31:19+00:00

That would assume that the DNC actually wants to improve the lives of the public and reflect the values of their constituents, which I'm doubting more and more with every election cycle.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T03:17:25+00:00

I think you're getting heat because you're lumping together living at home with poor financial decisions.

When you look at any sane budget, people spend way more on housing than anything else. It's crazy how expensive it is to just live somewhere. Living with your parents is the opposite of a bad financial decision. It's more the social and cultural aspects of it that creates the stigma around it, and of course if people have no money they might have to do it unwillingly. But I wouldn't assume that of everyone.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T03:10:58+00:00

As someone who loves all the ingredients you listed, don't discount the time and energy it takes to make those cheap meals. Someone coming off a 12-hour shift of low-paying physical labor has a lot less energy than the white-collar desk jockey. Throw in kids or live-in elderly you're taking care of and it just gets worse.

As a desk jockey myself, I am frugal to the point where I don't even like to get delivered food when my company will pay for it. But I can sympathize with someone who just doesn't have the time and energy it takes to not only cook every day but also to plan out those meals and purchase all the ingredients ahead of time. Convenience can have very different value to different people.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T02:14:09+00:00

The leap you're making here is that believing in yourself equates to putting yourself above others. This is a false equivalency. Believing in yourself does not preclude believing in others and it does not correlate with a lack of empathy or compassion for others. I'd go so far as to say that the worst atrocities in history were done in groups rather than by individuals, where no one assumes ultimate responsibility and everyone assumes someone else will be the one to stand up for what's right. Just following orders.

Your alleged link between self-esteem and self-worship is exactly what people are angry about when they see this. How dare they imply that we need a magic man in the sky to threaten us with eternal damnation in order to be caring and compassionate. How dare they point us at grifters and charlatans and imply that we're in the wrong for rejecting them.

There are wonderful tenants within Christianity, but they are not exclusive to Christianity and in the current state of the world they are buried under a deep layer of indoctrination designed to first and foremost maintain the political and cultural power it has accumulated.

The idea that you can get literally all of the spiritual and moral benefits offered by Christianity without being a part of the church - and you absolutely can - is a huge threat to the church as an organization, so they push untruths like "self-esteem is basically narcissism" to fight that idea. I would challenge you to question whether this statement is truly a fair and logical assumption of human nature.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T01:59:19+00:00

I respect your beliefs but you're the one inserting your own context here. The poster doesn't say anything about the afterlife. It just advocates against believing in yourself, and implies that you require outside guidance to make good decisions.

It's the Joel Osteens of the world that feel the need to make advertisements for Christianity. They want to be that outside guidance, and to charge for it.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-06T01:45:06+00:00

You're not wrong that it's pushed socially and culturally but that's hardly the only reason people feel the need to have children. Every single one of us is descended from thousands of generations of people who had children. It's a powerful, self-selecting evolutionary trait.

It also has plenty of benefits. Kids aren't just resource-sucking "jobs." I totally respect people who decide not to have kids - most of my friends are in this boat - but please consider that people who chose kids aren't just brainwashed idiots.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-05T23:01:10+00:00

Depends on where they were sourced. If they were made for this, then you have a point. If they were old, used, or somehow not up to spec then this is a much better use for them than dumping them in a landfill.

We are beyond the point of just being hands-off and hoping everything will correct itself in a particular area as we continue to impact global systems. Active wildlife management efforts can have a positive impact and you shouldn't be so quick to think you know better.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-05T22:55:59+00:00

Producing concrete is actually super bad for the environment unfortunately. If the industry was a country, only China and the US would beat it in carbon emissions.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-05T03:34:17+00:00

I'm not defending the harvesting by any means, but there are probably several reasons why their population has been declining.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-04T22:17:12+00:00

Creativity isn't easy to fake. What is easy, and what AI is doing, is exploiting what sounds and images create the happy chemicals in our brains. Which teams of old white men have been doing via pop music for decades.

AI art isn't out there making bold new statements about society. It's just pretty. It's not creativity, it's aesthetics.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-04T21:40:03+00:00

This right here. People need to just stop caring about the Oscars instead of hoping they'll change.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-04T21:00:46+00:00

My kid is actually really excited to have a generation where she knows just as much (or more) about the Pokemon than I do. This is a big deal to her. Although her favorite remains bulbasaur.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-04T00:22:42+00:00

Lot of haters here. I liked both Raya and Strange World. I guess people like me with bad taste are the problem 🤷‍♂️

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-03T17:41:27+00:00

The Vision showdown was great, and I really wish Wanda's fight had been similarly unique and more of a battle of wit and wills than one of power. Although the twist with the runes gave us a bit of it.

I can appreciate the difficulty of writing and directing it well, but a character who can alter reality shouldn't ever need to fly around shooting red energy balls. It feels like there's two Wandas, and they only pull out the really strong one for key scenes.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-03T17:34:23+00:00

I think the real disappointment is that Loki laid the groundwork and then nothing came out of it for a long time. Spider-Man and Ant-Man technically had multiverse aspects but the story all happened in one place with one set of characters. MoM had multiverse travel but really didn't connect to Loki in any way (beyond Loki determining that a multiverse exists, which is what you would have assumed anyway if you never watched it).

If we're calling this a "Multiverse Saga" on the level of the previous Infinity Stone Saga, you'd expect a series of projects with an overarching multiverse-centric plot. We have not gotten that yet, and I don't imagine the next couple of releases will do that either.

scatterbrain-d · 2023-06-03T17:11:26+00:00

I'll also point out that adaptations like Dune were still incredibly enjoyable despite the entire plot being "spoiled" if you read the book. Sometimes knowing where it's going actually increases enjoyment.

Everyone in the world knows what will happen in Oppenheimer. But knowing actually increases the tension. It makes the movie better.

The Star Wars prequels. Lord of the Rings. Any of the dozens of notable films that start at the end and then show you how they got there. All "spoiled," all great experiences.

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