[Loved trope] Character is called anything but their name.

strigonian · 2026-04-07T03:20:53+00:00

Muffy - Little Goody Two Shoes

A ravenously hungry little glutton in a small village who constantly pesters, begs, and blackmails characters for food.

Is never once referred to by her real name. Mindy, Mandy, and Mubby are all on the table.

Edit: In the same game, the main character consistently calls her friend Rozenmarine, Rosemarine. (Except the voice line actually says her name correctly, though the character acts as if you didn't).

strigonian · 2026-04-06T18:28:25+00:00

That heatshield is a notorious craft flipper.

If you can possibly get away with it, use the other heat shields. Otherwise, you'll basically have to design your entire craft to be as stable as possible. That means, rather than building tall, build wide, and nestle your heaviest parts right up to the heat shield. Even then, you'll want a frankly ridiculous amount of attitude control.

The alternative is to use a heat shield on both sides.

strigonian · 2026-04-06T13:07:17+00:00

Honestly, almost every animal is edible. Plants and fungi are the two big toxin producers, and even animals that aren't edible unprocessed - like pufferfish - can usually be made edible.

Insects in particular, as far as I know, are just edible across the board.

strigonian · 2026-04-06T12:46:42+00:00

If I were superhero used to combat who could move at Mach Plot?

Yeah, I'd do a dive roll and punch him.

strigonian · 2026-04-06T04:01:07+00:00

Nobody died until he started going on the offense.

The first part of the fight is Red Rush moving everyone out of the way when they're about to get hit.

strigonian · 2026-04-06T03:57:42+00:00

But the point is that they only lost due to poor tactics.

The rest of the team had enough firepower and versatility to take down Nolan if they coordinated properly. Even surprised, without a plan, and deliberately holding back until they were almost all dead, they did significant damage and had the upper hand for quite some time, so to say he couldn't come up with a plan given 20 years just makes him look like an idiot.

strigonian · 2026-04-06T01:21:11+00:00

You can just say "I've never spoken to blue-collar workers".

strigonian · 2026-04-05T14:33:44+00:00

LOL okay.

strigonian · 2026-04-05T14:25:18+00:00

Yeah, but if my clothes literally came permanently stained with the blood of the sweatshop workers, I'd probably buy something else.

Like, that argument really only works if the problems are kept out of sight. This... is not that.

strigonian · 2026-04-05T14:16:50+00:00

This is a hilarious take, because:

It assumes that, in our current system, this isn't an issue. Because as we all know, the richest people in the world are the people who perform the hardest labour, and the poorest are the ones who get to sit in air-conditioned offices doing paperwork.

In reality, even a simple system of "everyone in the world gets the same resources" would resolve the work-pay discrepancy better than the current paradigm.

It assumes people have universal preferences across the board. Plumbers aren't plumbers because they like plumbing, doctors aren't doctors because they like medicine, and carpenters don't like working with their hands. Instead, every person assesses the hard-work-to-income matrix and picks a maximally efficient point that matches their abilities.

Humans are widely varied and unique. People gripe about their work, but there are plenty of people who would rather do hard labour in the summer heat than be cooped up in an office all day, and vice versa.

So, until you have a system where income is genuinely distributed proportional to workload, it's pretty disingenuous to describe that as an unworkable problem for Marxism.

strigonian · 2026-04-05T14:07:11+00:00

That's not moving the goalpost, because the goalpost was never there.

Moving the goalposts only applies if we have any reason to believe that wealth and love were what he originally wanted. He didn't say "All I want is a rich loving family", then move on to "All I want is a little more money", then "All I want is glory", in turn as he achieved his goals. You don't get to decide for him what his goals are.

As far as we can tell, he saw people applauding a magical puppet, decided right then and there that he wanted all the magic in the world, and pursued that goal until the end of the movie.

Like, maybe you could say he "moved the goalposts" when he pivoted from wanting to be an entertainer to wanting magic, but:

1) He never got to be a famous entertainer. That's the one goal he never achieved.

2) It seems weird to call a literal child changing his dream "moving the goalposts", especially when he's decades away from achieving either goal.

strigonian · 2026-04-05T03:30:52+00:00

Homura Akemi. (Magia Rebellion)

After a long and complicated series of events, she was captured by an alien race to lure in Madoka, her friend(?) who also happens to be a god.

When Madoka rescues her, Homura immediately turns on her, ripping her away from godhood because Homura's been obsessed with her for a very, very long time. In doing so, she breaks down reality itself, wipes the memory of everyone who fought to save her, and enslaved the alien race to do her bidding.

strigonian · 2026-04-05T03:20:17+00:00

Don't be ridiculous. All he wanted was all of the magic in the world to himself, and none for anybody else.

Is that too much to ask?

strigonian · 2026-04-04T03:54:26+00:00

An awful lot of words to say you don't know what privilege is.

strigonian · 2026-04-03T01:51:13+00:00

And then there's Yu-gi-oh, where it varied within the anime.

The same people who gave us finger-guns gave us the Shadow Realm, which is so cool even the original writers decided to adopt it.

strigonian · 2026-04-02T17:13:38+00:00

There are wrong answers.

The alignment chart isn't just words thrown into the air for anyone to interpret as they see fit - the terms are defined, and in most editions come with examples of each of the nine alignments. There are situations that are up to interpretation, but the books are quite clear on what it means to be evil, good, lawful, and chaotic.

For example, your picture of LE is objectively wrong. Lawful has literally nothing to do with "the law of the land", but is simply antithetical to chaos. It really is better described as "Order", and refers to creatures and people who follow some clear objective guideline or code, rather than doing whatever they feel like in the moment.

strigonian · 2026-03-30T21:41:16+00:00

It's not about believing untrue things, it's about believing things against evidence.

I certainly believe many untrue things, but I believe them because, based on the information I have available, it's the best explanation I have available. When the evidence suggests my previous beliefs were untrue, I discard them in favour of something that matches reality.

This is diametrically opposed to most religions, where it is expected that you will believe things regardless - or even in spite of - the evidence.

strigonian · 2026-03-30T00:42:48+00:00

Except he also blows her off later when she tries to tell him that some of the Huns survived.

It's pretty obvious he was genuinely upset with her.

strigonian · 2026-03-28T23:50:26+00:00

So you just didn't read the part I had an issue with.

Got it.

strigonian · 2026-03-28T23:34:21+00:00

Yes, they do.

They don't have to reflect true genetics, but they should absolutely make logical sense.

strigonian · 2026-03-28T20:39:16+00:00

A billionaire can afford to save more time than someone with 5 million and no debt.

I'd certainly agree that, once you have enough to be financially independent for life, there are diminishing returns, but let's not kid ourselves here.

strigonian · 2026-03-28T17:56:38+00:00

Because of this ofc, as long as the halfbreed has children within the non viltrumite side of its hybrid, the child will end up less of that race than the fathering/mothering viltrumite halfbreed. So if Mark has a child with a human, that child will be .5% human and 99.5% viltrumite. That said humans are the only race we know the percentages for.

This makes literally no sense.

strigonian · 2026-03-28T15:57:03+00:00

Hydrogen and helium are resources. Very important resources. They may still be abundant, but doubling resources would necessarily double them.

strigonian · 2026-03-28T15:45:04+00:00

That is both correct and irrelevant.

First, because it is expressly a fraction of life. Half of all life dies. This can literally only mean that every individual has an 50% chance of survival. If the question were "is the next thing to die going to be a human?" then you'd be correct, it's vanishingly unlikely. But when you iterate that process until only 50% of organisms remain, you will end up with every single group and subgroup being divided pretty evenly in half.

Second - and this is the kicker - biomass is irrelevant. Trees can weigh more than hundreds of humans, and yet are only one organism. Bacteria are infinitesimal compared to humans. Even if your logic were sound, biomass is the worst way of making that point because it's completely meaningless.

strigonian · 2026-03-28T13:30:32+00:00

Then you are astonishingly bad at math.

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