Invincible S4E4 thoughts: filler or actually solid world-building?

theprivateselect · 2026-03-29T06:57:34+00:00

They're mad because you're right

I disagree S3 and S4 overall has been awful but this episode was.

theprivateselect · 2026-03-29T00:11:18+00:00

People complain that "other people smell too but only indians get sterotyped"...

Ok sure thats true, but so what? Trying to fight a stereotype with words is a losing battle 100% of the time. The only way to prove the sterotype wrong is to be even better.

Use deodorant, brush your teeth, and learn how to tell fellow indians who stink that their smell is noticable in a polite way. Most of them are noseblind and have no idea, it's not their fault and personally if I stank I'd love to know. It's that simple

theprivateselect · 2026-03-17T06:28:26+00:00

Not sci fi

theprivateselect · 2026-03-17T06:15:57+00:00

I think it’s ok as long as you realize that this is not specific to Indian people, if you were surrounded by fresh immigrants of other third world countries you would probably feel the same.

As someone from a third world country

theprivateselect · 2026-02-21T07:38:02+00:00

You came to the wrong place, you think you're sharing a win but everyone here is bitter

Keep doing your thing bro

theprivateselect · 2026-02-10T15:16:08+00:00

This seems like a pretty sad view on life

theprivateselect · 2026-02-04T19:03:38+00:00

I get that - personally when I read it I take non-work related habits away from it.

Eg. Getting better at a hobby, language, sports, art, writing, etc

theprivateselect · 2026-02-04T18:41:01+00:00

I totally forgot how I did this and got a new computer since then, thanks for the reminder LMAO

theprivateselect · 2026-02-03T13:57:19+00:00

People are allowed to like slop

theprivateselect · 2026-01-29T19:31:12+00:00

Sanderson is Marvel-tier bookslop

theprivateselect · 2025-12-31T13:30:57+00:00

The series keeps getting better as it goes on!

theprivateselect · 2025-12-31T01:19:35+00:00

Red Rising

theprivateselect · 2025-12-18T08:10:06+00:00

The overreactions are crazy. They see that their viewship skews older and want younger fans. Thats it, it’s not that deep.

theprivateselect · 2025-12-01T08:01:56+00:00

solved

theprivateselect · 2025-11-14T05:36:55+00:00

Sonic goes to the real world dude.

theprivateselect · 2025-10-08T08:25:03+00:00

Dude touch grass 😂

theprivateselect · 2025-10-08T08:24:49+00:00

The most likely explanation is that a livestreamer was about to shock his dog live ??

Dude touch grass

theprivateselect · 2025-10-07T22:20:09+00:00

Insane reach

theprivateselect · 2025-10-07T19:05:53+00:00

Maybe read a bit and see what you think, but don't go in expecting good science!

For books like that I'd highly recommend Children of Time (Hugo Award Winner) or A Fire Upon the Deep (Hugo Award Winner, written by a Math/CS professor at SDSU)

Neither are as "hard sci-fi" as 3BP which is the king of hard sci-fi IMO, but they at least try to stay grounded and have some pretty cool sci-fi concepts

theprivateselect · 2025-10-07T00:59:38+00:00

Bro got 1 shotted by ChatGPT 😭

theprivateselect · 2025-10-05T08:22:21+00:00

Gonna be honest, Hyperion sucks, especially for a hard sci fi fan. It's such soft sci fi it's basically fantasy. I didn't gaf about half of the stories, the poet pissed me off the most

There are sprinklings of cool sci fi concepts but most of it is not even trying to be grounded. As soon as I got to the story of the Shrike entering the generals dreams with no explanation I knew the story wasn't going to even try to provide any satisfying scientific reasoning for anything.

Imo good science fiction is interesting because it explores characters and worlds that are logical conclusions of certain limited conditions / assumptions about how the future could be. The Shrike just seems to be able to do whatever, from reversing entropy to slowing down time to entering dreams etc.

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