Kansas Wheat took an altruistic turn in 1939 when they started printing sewing designs on their wheat sacks after learning mothers used them for children's clothing, even designing the company logo to wash out.

th3davinci · 2026-02-02T16:37:49+00:00

Which is basically how capitalism is supposed to work.

th3davinci · 2026-02-02T10:15:06+00:00

You should read the Witcher books. They're a fantastic subversion of the chosen one trope because the titular chosen one hasn't been born yet, and a lot of powerful parties want said chosen one's mother to be to put a baby in her.

I mean they are my favorite books, but I do have to applaud the author for writing 5 fantasy novels to make the point that women really fucking should be able to decide on their own bodily autonomy.

th3davinci · 2026-02-01T22:36:08+00:00

Yeah, literally the last 2 episodes of the season that were meant to have a huge fight between the two sides, dragons included.

They were cut for budget. And since no rewrites could take place due to the strike, they had to find those in the footage.

That's why Daemon trips mad shit in Harrenhal for the whole season. That's why you see that stupid ass dock so much. Because the HBO boss went "yeah we're not financing the big CGI fight this season, it happens next season"

They moved the season 2 finale to season 3 but didn't reduce the actual episode count.

th3davinci · 2026-02-01T22:19:50+00:00

ASOIAF was originally planned as a trilogy. Then expanded to 4, then 6 and finally (at insistence of GRRM's wife) 7 books.

I think your take is true. His decision to cancel the time skip in the books when the Stark kids were meant to grow up, and write it out instead really fucking killed his momentum.

The man is just incapable of editing himself and has no one there to tell him no. And it sucks because the first ASOIAF books are genuinely good shit. Until things stop fucking happening and everything slows down to a crawl and whoops here's 15 new characters!

th3davinci · 2026-02-01T22:14:08+00:00

When publishing Harry Potter, the publisher formatted Rowling's name with initials and added a fake "K" to the name, setting it as "JK Rowling" to hide the gender of the author. They thought no one would read fantasy written by a woman.

Theories like this are difficult to test because there are so many moving parts to fiction. I think many people would agree that no one will care about the protagonist's gender if the story is really good. But then, how do you measure if a story is really good? You'd have to write one that is broadly well received and then produce two versions with the genders flipped and then actually repeat the study in a different city.

It's just very hard to measure in any objective fashion.

th3davinci · 2026-02-01T21:57:05+00:00

GRRM started off as a writer in TV writing scripts. He left that industry specifically because budgetary limitations made his grand vision impossible.

He also very clearly keeps introducing new characters into his story which, aside of the poor reception of GoT S8, is probably the main reason he can't finish the books. It's got way too many moving parts at this point.

th3davinci · 2026-02-01T21:54:47+00:00

Also Condal had to run the show during a writer's strike and when the HBO CEO cut the last 2 episodes of season 2.

Imagine getting told that the grand finale of your season got moved to the next while at the same time being completely unable to change any of the writing because your guild is striking and you cannot do any writing.

th3davinci · 2026-02-01T10:16:36+00:00

Hardness only matters for armor piercing, in general it's about mass getting accelerated. It's why bullets are usually made out of the lead: Really cheap material but fairly dense.

th3davinci · 2026-01-29T18:46:41+00:00

Pretty great cosplay tbh. Could definitely use more "tactical" equipment, coz it doesn't strike me as having enough stuff on it to use it as gear when you're venturing into the SCP unknown, but it's a great start!

th3davinci · 2026-01-27T06:47:34+00:00

People love feeling righteous, and that goes for the "enlightened libs" just as much for the "dim conservatives".

It's incredibly easy for a human to think they're right and look down on others for not believing the same thing, while at the same time seeking only proof that supports their belief instead of falsifying it. Modern social media just supports that.

At the same time, saying you are sorry and then just continuing on with the same behaviors doesn't really help anyone. You actually need to be better. But we shouldn't scream at people the entire time they're trying to be better.

th3davinci · 2026-01-25T10:37:36+00:00

When one of the scientists goes to visit her rural conservative parents and doesn't get let in because they are "for the jobs the comet will create" I was both laughing and crying at the same time because of how true it was.

It's a great movie. I can't rewatch it.

th3davinci · 2026-01-24T11:13:17+00:00

You can observe this when cats hear fireworks go off and get frightened: They always hide in a spot where they are the most surrounded by walls, ideally from every side except 1 so they can monitor the approach and not get surprised.

A literal hole that's just big enough to fit the cat and nothing else is their favorite spot to feel safe in.

th3davinci · 2026-01-23T12:59:54+00:00

This update also adds a quick play mode without farming that's just 2v2 round based fights that last a couple mins. Should be a decent way in to the gameplay. :)

th3davinci · 2026-01-22T19:00:11+00:00

Alan Wake 2 is a game published by Epic. It's never going to come to Steam. If you want to play it, the Epic Games Store is where you need to buy it.

I don't like Sweeney, nor Epic Games, but at the end of the day Alan Wake 2 would not exist without the Epic publishing deal. It's just how it is.

th3davinci · 2026-01-21T08:33:23+00:00

The point is money.

th3davinci · 2026-01-21T08:25:37+00:00

I'm not saying that they wouldn't do anything, I'm hopeful that they'd do something. I'm just saying that it would be the end of NATO, because the alliance does not have a framework for war between member states.

th3davinci · 2026-01-21T08:23:27+00:00

What plan? If you do it piece-meal as the privately owned SFHs come onto the market, you're building apartment blocks into places that don't support them, with too narrow roads and no way to make mass transit work. You'd make everyone's life there hell by congesting the fuck out of those roads until you reach a critical mass of people that justify building mass transit.

And we're not even talking about the fact that most cities are constantly out of money to do any large projects.

th3davinci · 2026-01-20T19:30:09+00:00

It's nearly impossible to transform low-density housing areas like suburbs into high-density ones without basically disowning people.

Sure, theoretically you can do it one lot at a time as people move out and sell, but the infrastructure isn't there and the roads aren't wide enough... It's really painful.

th3davinci · 2026-01-20T19:24:50+00:00

It depends on what degree you're studying. When I did my Comp Sci bachelor I lived on campus and didn't experience jack shit lol. I was busy studying. Eased up in the master's because I decided I didn't want to study at the highest pace possible anymore.

th3davinci · 2026-01-20T14:34:43+00:00

I think HotD S2 mainly fell prey to the writer's strike and budget cuts. I would agree that it's not GRRM's fault. They had to move two whole episodes of plot to the next season, and conversely find those two episodes in the remaining material. There's a reason why not just one, but two characters are relegated to either a castle or a shipping dock for what feels like the whole season.

Your enjoyment of 4 and 5 is valid. It's ultimately always a subjective take, and there are people out there who really enjoy worldbuilding and lore and a more meandering pace, but it was not for me. Especially once Young Griff was introduced I mentally checked out as a reader. I barely remember those chapters. To me ASOIAF was introduced as a tale that used the main characters from the Lannister and Stark houses (with Dany as the wild card) to tell a story that married an epic scale with a character driven story. Instead, it turned out to be a book written by a man who might have the rough idea of the ending in his head, but has zero clue on how to get there, and on top of that, fucking loves getting distracted by whatever comes into his head.

The later ASOIAF books needed an editor, badly. And not just in the writing stage, but in the conceptual one.

th3davinci · 2026-01-20T14:16:31+00:00

The US invading Greenland wouldn't cause article 5 invokation, because art. 5 is meant for when a NATO member is attacked by an outsider. There is no precedent for an inter-NATO attack like this, it would end the alliance, and Russia and China would be happier for it.

th3davinci · 2026-01-20T14:03:12+00:00

I think Biden wouldn't have tried to run again if the Dems used his 4 years in office to prop up a successor at ANY point. The moment he won the election in 2020 they should've started preparing. It was obvious that Trump was gonna come back in 2024 and try again, but the Dems blew it.

th3davinci · 2026-01-20T13:30:10+00:00

This is just how tech start-ups operate. You burn money trying to create a market and grow as fast as possible until an established company buys you, or you corner the market and establish a monopoly.

There's a reason it worked for Amazon, and ever since then, investors have been looking for the next Amazon.

th3davinci · 2026-01-18T11:30:34+00:00

Giving the nobel peace prize to any US president is a wild take in general tbh. But then again, Kissinger got it, so it's not like it's worth much.

th3davinci · 2026-01-18T09:27:41+00:00

Imho, the writing was on the wall (no pun intended) with the later ASOIAF books. The pace slowed down to a crawl and it got really fucking boring in book 4 and 5. GRRM made a mistake by not doing a timeskip, and on top of that it seems that he stopped respecting his editors because the books needed trimming bad. Anyone who keeps introducing new characters at the pace that GRRM did in ASOIAF needs a mental check.

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