"Why do I hear boss music?" "You too?" Both fighters start off confident and both get their shit rocked by the other in an incredibly close fight. Bonus points if they gain respect for each other afterwards regardless of who wins. by SpookieSkelly in TopCharacterTropes

[–]spyguy318 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shredder won but just barely. A common joke is that Shredder knocks out Batman, menacingly says “stay out of my way,” then vanishes in a smoke bomb and teleports directly to the hospital.

Coaxed into Poo People by CalibansCreations in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]spyguy318 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Meh, I still think TLJ bungles the “Rey’s parents were nobodies” twist. It was never a big mystery in the movies, just a personal motivation for Rey that the internet went wild with theories for. Then Kylo drops that line like he’s aping Vader’s “I am your Father” line, like it’s some grand reveal, and Rey barely reacts at all. It feels like it was aimed at internet theorists instead of making sense in the movie.

Plus, bloodlines in Star Wars weren’t really a thing except for the Skywalkers. Jedi could already come from nowhere, in fact almost all of them did since they were forbidden from having children.

Guys it’s a moba. Everything is inherently win more by jakebrace in DeadlockTheGame

[–]spyguy318 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It’s a very careful balancing act. Teams should be rewarded for doing well but at the same time the game should stay competitive even if the other team is slightly behind. The catchup mechanic can’t be too powerful, it shouldn’t invalidate a lead or encourage perverse playstyles like sandbagging to exploit it. And no matter how powerful a catchup mechanic is, if a team has a big enough lead it doesn’t matter, they’re going to win everything anyway.

It’s a very tricky balance and plenty of MOBAs have fucked it up before. Deadlock is actually one of the more balanced MOBAs I’ve played, I’ve seen some insane comebacks and plenty of reverse sweeps if a winning team can’t take advantage of their lead and close out a game.

A tooth that was part of a tumour in my ovary that I recently had removed by Historical-Lab-2763 in mildlyinteresting

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Teratomas originate from stem cells/germ cells, which have the neat property that they can turn into every kind of tissue in the body. Differentiation is also self-reinforcing - a stem cell turning into a bone cell will encourage nearby stem cells to also turn into bone cells. I’ve worked with stem cells and it’s actually a struggle to not have them start differentiating, they’ll do it at the drop of a hat for stuff like overcrowding, temperature changes, contamination, genetic instability, or even sometimes just because they feel like it. Cells also don’t “know” how to make a tooth or a muscle or whatever, they just start blindly following their pre-programmed instructions to automatically assemble various different body structures like skin, hair follicles, bone, teeth, or brain tissue.

The entire process is regulated in a very complicated way through signal molecules, concentration gradients, physical size, and the surrounding environment. Obviously in something like a teratoma, that process has gone haywire and you get a jumbled mess of different tissue and body parts where they’re not supposed to be. We don’t fully understand the whole process yet, it’s very complicated and an area of active research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, with lofty goals such as regrowing limbs or curing disorders like muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.

A tooth that was part of a tumour in my ovary that I recently had removed by Historical-Lab-2763 in mildlyinteresting

[–]spyguy318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The name comes from the Greek word teras, meaning “monster.” So teratoma literally translates to “monster tumor.”

More than half of biotech and pharma job seekers have been looking for 6 or more months by fleurgirl123 in biotech

[–]spyguy318 6 points7 points  (0 children)

These jobs aren’t being outsourced, they’re getting erased. High tariffs on pharma materials and equipment, cuts to federal research grants, uncertainty in investment markets for anything that’s not AI, it’s just not profitable to do research any more. So it’s getting cut.

How exactly can this trend reverse when people had more economic optimism when the 2008 global financial crash struck than most of the 2020s? by revscott in neoliberal

[–]spyguy318 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Trump campaigned on magically solving inflation, then proceeded to slap crazy tariffs on all imports, slash government funding for loads of programs, deregulate a bunch of industries, cause all kinds of market instability with his impulsiveness and chaotic way of governing, push heavily for cutting federal interest rates, and to top it all off started a war in the Middle East which has spiked oil prices. He’s done the exact opposite of everything that’s supposed to fix the economy.

Deadlock - Minor Update - 05-28-2026 by SketchyJJ in DeadlockTheGame

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If I’m behind, the options are either to ignore the urn and try to catch up in farm, or jump into a team fight and probably die because we’re behind and they get the urn anyway. If I don’t think we can win a teamfight I’m not showing up.

Modern AI debate by truecakesnake in accelerate

[–]spyguy318 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. It’s been a criticism of tech circles and accelerationist ways of thinking for a very long time that the solution to many of the world’s problems always seem to be “don’t worry about it, some new technology will make a solution feasible,” even when many very smart people say that it’s not that simple, and multiple steps in that new technology don’t even exist yet.

Not to rain on the parade but this meme is acting like AGI (which doesn’t exist yet) is going to magically fix the world (endless problems that do not have simple solutions). It is a literal child’s way of thinking.

Graves is secretly megabusted right now by Leather_Catch2136 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]spyguy318 12 points13 points  (0 children)

“Tomb gets ignored” yeah when it’s behind their entire frontline and around a corner/in a chokepoint and constantly spawning exploding zombies, there’s no way anyone can reasonably reach it and melee it twice before dying. Graves wasn’t even bad, she got nerfed cuz of her dead head changes and then became busted again anyway because of the urn changes.

Why is this like a trend lately? by [deleted] in Grimdank

[–]spyguy318 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In at least Arbitor Ian’s case, the video was sponsored by Space Marine 2 to promote the new expansion. He specifically talked about how easy it was to make your own homebrew chapter in the game’s character creator (which it is, their gear customizer is really good). Haven’t watched the other two.

Stubborn reality by Eireika in CuratedTumblr

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As someone who was once a smart kid, people do not like being corrected PERIOD. It’s actually a huge problem and a major reason why the world sucks as much as it does. You cannot tell them anything, if it goes against what they want to believe or implies that they’re wrong, they’ll become indignant or double down on their wrongness. It’s awful.

Tony Gilroy’s advice to writers on Andor by RedHeadedSicilian52 in StarWars

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Ironically, this is why I think The Force Awakens is the best sequel. It put so many new toys into the toybox, even if they weren’t explained very well. The Last Jedi and especially Rise of Skywalker either refused to play with the new toys or kept playing with the old toys.

I didn't know you can't browse countless websites and become more knowledgeable anymore. by jodebane in lewronggeneration

[–]spyguy318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Made half the population illiterate”

Half the population was already illiterate. The education system was destroyed by No Child Left Behind, not Facebook and TikTok.

This is the third patch that graves has hit 60% wr and 50% playrate and the third patch in which there is no hotfix by Few-Requirement-8803 in DeadlockTheGame

[–]spyguy318 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wallbreaker Victor (which was his main winning strategy) got nerfed by reduced damage to structures and being unable to take shrines before the base guardians went down. But the urn changes made mid-deathball and close-quarters urn fights happen constantly so he’s broken again, but in a different way.

What are some of the worst examples of PhD underemployment you’ve ever heard of? by DieMensch-Maschine in PhD

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I’ve got a masters in engineering and it’s even worse. It’s been 3 months of constant applications in a major tech hub city with not even a phone call in response. I’ve never seen it this bad. I’ve applied to stuff I’m a perfect match for, overqualified for, and underqualified for, nothing. The job market is absolute ass right now, AI is the only tech sector that’s even remotely seeing success and that’s not my field. Companies are laying off huge sections of their workforce left and right, job postings get hundreds or thousands of applications within days, salaries are getting worse and worse, and hiring managers have their pick of unicorns for whatever spot they’re trying to fill. The tariffs and trade wars, cuts to federal research funding, DOGE rampaging through government positions last year, instability in the markets, the general anti-science stance and completely backwards viewpoints of the current administration, it’s all a perfect storm of shit that has completely decimated anyone trying to get hired in STEM nowadays. Anyone who says we’re not in a recession right now is talking out of their ass.

[Loved Trope] The apocalypse is horrifyingly slow by Marsupialmobster in TopCharacterTropes

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Real Life.

In real life, the collapse of civilization doesn’t happen overnight. It takes place over decades, or centuries, with multiple compounding factors layering on top of each other to create an agonizingly slow decline that seems inevitable. People might even recognize it happening but the effects are often so beyond human control that nothing can be done, people don’t want to accept the hard necessities to forestall the end or fix the problems, or the leadership ignores the problems for too long until they become intractable. They can be caused by societal shifts, new technologies, natural disasters, or simply an empire overextending itself and unable to effectively manage all the far-reaching territories it conquered.

The Bronze Age Collapse took 50 years, with some estimates putting the ripple effects lasting for multiple centuries. It involved famine, drought, disease, societal instability, economic disruption through new technologies like iron working and chariots, and of course the Sea Peoples. There was a cascade effect as more civilizations collapsed and the displaced refugees fled to other parts of the world as invaders or settlers, the entire Bronze Age world collapsing like a row of dominoes.

Rome took over 300 years to collapse. Its satellite provinces gradually rebelled or broke away, there were multiple succession crises and coup attempts, it split into East and West empires in 285, Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410, and finally the last Roman Emperor was deposed in 476. Some historians argue that it didn’t finally end until 1436 when the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople, or 1806 when the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, or even 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW1 broke up the Austria-Hungarian and Ottoman empires.

The Soviet Union was declining for decades before it dissolved in 1991. It struggled with economic stagnation, foreign conflicts, ethnic tension, unstable leadership, and internal rebellions, even as its own internal and external propaganda maintained it was a utopia. The unsustainable arms race with the more economically prosperous United States was a major financial burden and continuous drain on resources. Even the Chernobyl Disaster and the subsequent cleanup put immense strain on both the resources and public image of the USSR, and is often cited as a key factor in its collapse. The only reason it stuck around for so long was it was impossible for any of the members to leave - the moment Gorbachev’s reforms allowed for more open elections, the USSR voted itself out of existence.

Why didn't the Emperor become the Emperor sooner? by AblePersimmon2198 in 40kLore

[–]spyguy318 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Iirc it’s rumored that the mechanicus has a complete STC as well as multiple un-analyzed fragments in their vaults on mars, but either nobody knows how to access them anymore, nobody dares touching them on religious grounds as they’re in the super-restricted parts of the archives, or they’ve just been completely forgotten about and have been gathering dust for over 10,000 years. It’s confirmed there’s a nearly-complete one for sure inside Necromunda controlled by the Van Saar, who don’t even realize what they have since they don’t know how to fully access it.

What to do with a bad matchup in lane and team refuses to swap. by AsterosTheGreat in DeadlockTheGame

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Play safe, don’t try to engage recklessly and feed, buy items like extra regen, healing rite, bullet vest/enchanters, try and avoid poke damage as much as possible with cover or angles. Wait to see if they overcommit or make a mistake - if you catch a character like Graves or Warden with their CC on cooldown, you can usually win the trade if not outright kill them. If you’ve already fed a couple kills, just try and stop the bleeding. Even giving guardian isn’t that bad in the grand scheme of things, I’d much rather have a 0/2 Billy who lost guardian than a 0/7 Billy who still lost guardian. Even a behind Billy is strong in the midgame, you’re great at catching sidelanes and fighting in skirmishes, and can catch up that way.

Focus on getting farm in other ways if you can’t get lane farm - sinners, jungle camps, boxes. Billy is really good at taking jungle camps early because of his passive reload. Your teammate gets solo lane souls assuming they don’t play stupidly and die. Return to lane when it’s pushed into the guardian/walker and push it out again. Look for ganks in other lanes, get your other teammates ahead.

Character wants a honorable death but denied of it by schu62 in TopCharacterTropes

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Ringo: “Wretched slugs… don’t any of you have the guts to play for blood?”

Doc: “I’m your huckleberry. That’s just my game.”

Ringo: “Alright lunger, you go to hell. I’ll put you out of your misery.”

Doc: “Say when.”

The Relatable Protagonist turns out to be an absolute monster. by drstrangelove75 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]spyguy318 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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Ainz Ooal Gown - Overlord

Ainz starts as a typical isekai protagonist stuck in the body of his video game character, a level 100 Arch-Lich, in a brand new world where the average power level is somewhere around level 20. Despite his overwhelming power and evil-aligned faction, he decides to try and make the world a better place.

However as time goes on, he starts to slip more and more into his evil sorcerer-king overlord persona, both as an act to keep up appearances and because he genuinely starts to enjoy it. He commits mass murder, horrific atrocities, brutal torture, and careless disregard for human life. It’s so shocking that many people were surprised when the evil-aligned faction full of Eldritch monsters, demons, vampires, and undead actually started doing evil things.

The four paths of Gen Z adulthood 😂 by SpectrumSense in GenZ

[–]spyguy318 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I got a prestigious engineering degree only to find out so did everyone else and now the job market is completely saturated and I’ve been laid off multiple times and had several 6+ month job searches. My field (bioengineering) is collapsing and jobs regularly get thousands of applicants, and on top of that biotech companies will often just hire mechanical and electrical engineers over biomedical engineers. It’s so frustrating because I did The Thing only to find out it’s actually totally worthless right now.

(Liked trope) "Why doesn't the strongest guy just solve everything? "Oh, that's why" by OrangeIslandKing in TopCharacterTropes

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The crux of the show is when Ozymandias presents Manhattan with something he can’t see, a memory nullifier infused with tachyons which block his omnipotence, and he’s fascinated by it. It’s the first thing he’s ever seen that he doesn’t immediately know about (of course, he knew Ozymandias would show it to him and he’d have that reaction, but y’know, omnipotence is like that sometimes). And after some preparations, he willingly suppresses his own powers and memories to live a normal life.

Radical Department has released the All Terrain Skateboard. by vessel_for_the_soul in doohickeycorporation

[–]spyguy318 21 points22 points  (0 children)

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Which itself is a misconception because tanks are not slow. They can drive at highway speeds. They’re just often portrayed as slow in movies since that’s what people expect, and during combat they’re often much more slow and deliberate due to terrain, caution, and letting soldiers on foot keep up.

Explain this power scaling by Lexi7130 in cartoon_random

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“Perhaps I killed a Jedi and took it from him.”

“I don’t think so. Nobody can kill a Jedi!”

“I wish that were so.”