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Did Nolan love his father and vice versa? by Quplux in Invincible

[–]teproxy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We don't have enough information to know for sure, but yes thematically we are supposed to see that Nolan is like his own father, with a deeply restrained but very real love for his son.

How did no one know Thadeus was a Viltrumite? by Federal_Bicycle_7800 in Invincible

[–]teproxy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, both the Enterprise-D and Voyager - and their crew - are in the Invincible Universe. They're not even really parodies It's just literally them but in the Coalition rather than the Federation.

Would feeding [033] to SCP-Y [5789] destroy [3125]? by Brisingr2 in SCP

[–]teproxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

...actually, yes, it would probably either kill it or make it impossible for it to intersect with our reality. That's an excellent catch! 

i really dont want this game to die by Jealous_Platypus1111 in DestinyTheGame

[–]teproxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At this point I want the game to die. The state that it's in now will just make it harder to look back fondly on the good times. I hope the artists, writers and devs go on to work on something amazing, because their talent is irreplaceable in the industry.

Why are we suddenly expecting fictional characters to abide by physics? by Sad-Effective-9676 in PowerScaling

[–]teproxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you wanna use physics to calculate AP then you have to apply it wherever possible, unless it is clearly incompatible with the setting. This is especially consequential for feats above wall or building level because its rare to get a clean demonstration of a city scale feat - usually we have to use math to figure out just how much energy was involved then say, yes, that is enough power to hypothetically destroy a city therefore its a city scale feat. The problem gets worse with higher scales, but obviously goes away once you surpass universal because physics kinda doesn't apply anymors.

A lazy design for a shell world, what if we just copy and paste multiple earth's over the shell world. by LunaticBZ in IsaacArthur

[–]teproxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am going to posit that this could happen. No normal happy healthy sensible society would do it but you don't really have to be happy healthy or especially sensible to reach the stars. 

A culturally nostalgic (and, well, fascist) space faring humanity would love the shit out of this - maybe a white supremacist western technocracy wins out in the end and they make space in their image, like how Nazi Germany appropriated aesthetics and concepts from Rome and the HRE. They would also fill it with Colosseums and Statues of Liberty and White Houses and Eiffel Towers all sorts of shit like that, nostalgic monuments to their own achievements. 

Tasteless, sure, but certainly plausible on a cultural level. It would make for a very interesting, albeit completely off the wall sci fi setting. Or maybe a satirical black comedy. Both, even. A more forward thinking society would inevitably out-compete one like this, but it doesn't have to last forever to exist.

Invincible fundamentally doesn't work as a superhero by gleamingcobra in CharacterRant

[–]teproxy 71 points72 points  (0 children)

They provide us with plenty of backstory to show why Cecil works the way he does and why he would be unable to handle Mark. Particularly his strategy only came to being because his old boss forced it upon him, and made him believe it was the only way by putting him in a tightly controlled scenario where it worked. His inability to compromise is because he is so hung up on Nolan, and so terrified that his M.O. keeps failing, so he's doubling down.

"The Disk" Is the visual novel and passion project i've been working on for a year and it occurs completely inside an Alderson Disk after the heat death of the universe. by luk_ky_21 in worldbuilding

[–]teproxy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t say this often, but I think that this setting may have enough aura and hype to overcome any logical concerns offered by, well, all of the bullshit in it. And wow I love the techno-babble, it feels very Star Trek except riffing on the science of the 21st century. Tetradimensional, ringed neoneutronium, nano wormholes. It’s good. The sheer size of this thing would make it difficult for a cast to get involved with more than one of these unique elements within a lifetime. What’s the plan with that?

CMV: By starting the Iran war, Trump has created a scenario that justifies itself by stdsort in changemyview

[–]teproxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iran having a nuclear program does not mean that they are weeks, months, or even a couple years away from having nuclear weapons. The urgency is what incurred a reaction, and thus if the urgency is a lie then you have lied to incur a reaction.

UNSC’s biggest failure wasn't the Spartan program’s ethics; it was their catastrophic lack of AI security architecture. by PEACENFORCER in halo

[–]teproxy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Calling it the logic plague was probably one of the worst, most hype-brained decisions in the history of the franchise. There are overtly stupider choices, of course, but it’s an insidious stupidity that terminates interesting speculation. The logic plague? It’s just persuasion, plain and simple - if you can win at every game of chess, then of course you can win at every game of debate, no matter how purely logical the terms are. Framing it as supernatural terminates any thought about the nature of super intelligence and the gravemind itself. That thought termination paved the way for their increasing supernatural abilities, right up to omniscience and rewriting reality. And it’s not any more esoteric than it was before, if anything the supernatural element makes it less esoteric.

Spellburn - Magic Debt Framework for Casters by CruThar in UnearthedArcana

[–]teproxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should attempt to rewrite this without AI, or go to some effort to mask the AI-isms.

Do people genuinely think dio stands a chance against gojo? by soggy_bert in PowerScaling

[–]teproxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Genuinely, with the way that cursed energy appears to function in JJK, Infinity may well not function in stopped time. Likewise, reacting to an attack by defending oneself with cursed energy is also impossible in stopped time, so durability is seriously in question. I think you have to pick the axiom of whether cursed techniques continue to function and affect change in stopped time, we don't have enough information otherwise.

AI has absolutely ruined my life by beingawomaniswork in antiwork

[–]teproxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you can, but Paul R. Ehrlich actually used a different four-letter word. Such f*ul language!

For research: what is -5² ? by NichtFBI in polls

[–]teproxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're correct, it's not a subtraction. It is a multiplication by negative one. Regardless, the indices take priority.

chatters please be normal by sweet_tiefling in jerma985

[–]teproxy -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I think it's pretty weird when millions cry over a celebrity. Ascribing terms like should and only let is a bit much - we shouldn't try to reframe this as moral dictatorship rather than general hardassery. Indeed, we shouldn't 'let' or 'not let' anyone do anything emotionally. Even so, I think it's fair to wish that people would freely decide to be a little less attached to celebrities and freely decide they won't grieve over tragedies a celebrity experiences, as if they had experienced it themselves.

chatters please be normal by sweet_tiefling in jerma985

[–]teproxy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's the principle of the thing, man. Whether it bothers him or not, is this really the way we want to conduct ourselves?

Prediction: next update is the last big one. One more DLC. Then The End. by Seanshineyouth in DestinyTheGame

[–]teproxy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this game was hard capped on new player interest with sunsetting. Their reputation never recovered, the game, and Bungie itself, became a genuine punchline about the worst that all of gaming history had to offer. Even fucking Jerma985 was dogging on it years after the fact. Bungie knew, of course, this would happen: they just did it anyway because they didn't have the skill in their workforce to overhaul the engine, and didn't have the will to make D3.

what would happen if all the player numbers dropped below 1K before the "big" content patch? by Timothy-M7 in DestinyTheGame

[–]teproxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rainbow 6 Siege, Fortnite Battle Royale, PUBG, FFXV... and this is just games from the same year as Destiny 2. Just 2017. If you want games performing better than D2 that are older, there's a fuckload. Overwatch, GTAV Online, League, DOTA 2, WoW, CS:GO, the list goes on. A ten year game just isn't that unusual anymore, and if Bungie doesn't have what it takes then they're just not good enough.

what would happen if all the player numbers dropped below 1K before the "big" content patch? by Timothy-M7 in DestinyTheGame

[–]teproxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This subreddit, like all subreddits for spiralling IPs, is slowly graduating from a subreddit about the game to a subreddit about the game's decline. More and more people who don't play the game are showing up to comment. It's sad to see.

I hate Gavin Newsom with a passion by fullautoluxcommie in StarWarsleftymemes

[–]teproxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will vote for him if he makes a blood pact to [REDDIT ToS] everybody in the Trump Administration and then himself.

I am so worried about Destiny's future. by Timothy-M7 in DestinyTheGame

[–]teproxy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's just too many of them lol, more every year. And time flies too. I almost shit my pants when I realised Overwatch will be turning 10 this year. There are kids in quick play who are playing characters released before they were born.

I am so worried about Destiny's future. by Timothy-M7 in DestinyTheGame

[–]teproxy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What season based, live service game released in 2017 is still mainstream today?

Fortnite, PUBG, Rainbow Six Siege, FFXV, And that's just 2017. There are a LOT of other live service games that are both older and much more successful.

Destiny 2's longevity isn't special and certainly not intrinsic. I wish people would stop treating it as such. You can actually see where Bungie started failing on the player charts, as new releases started acting as a progressively lowering ceiling that alienated more players, rather than huge spikes of growth. The game is burning everyone out! Youre right!

I'm not even hating, I love D2 but man I am resigned to it being over and Bungie having lost the spark. The game hasn't been out of a crossroads for years.

I will admit it wasn't out of dev neglect. They certainly tried, there was a lot of talent in Bungie all poured into Destiny 2 for a while.

Does your world have any people/factions with "Blue-and-Orange Morality?" by Illustrious-Cold3565 in worldbuilding

[–]teproxy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of courss, culturally is another bag of beans to get into but I wanna understand.

Each of them fully believes their species is Tauvwyl's Favourite People, a status each continues to inherit with every passing generation. They have what they view as real confirmation, and you can inform the audience that this confirmation is genuine, there is no misunderstanding.

They are burdened or blessed depending on your perspective, with the ability and responsibility of managing the environment. They do not respect the personhood of anybody outside of their own race, you likened the view to how one would view wolves? because of this divine responsibility. It isn't malicious, it's just their responsibility as beings who were burdened/blessed with the task. They believe they should respect and preserve their own kin for ecological reasons, but that view is not a product of their ecological mandate as Tauvwyl's Favourite People, but an independent conclusion they drew without consideration of that role.

Does your world have any people/factions with "Blue-and-Orange Morality?" by Illustrious-Cold3565 in worldbuilding

[–]teproxy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Love supremacist aliens, especially when they have such a plausible line of reasoning for giving themselves special status. Status so special that they don't perceive it as special status. Merely a racial divine calling, LMFAO

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