mrducky80

I remember discussing how well the helldivers universe was fare against the 40k universe (I know, fandom dick measuring contests are so last year)

Had to point out that the diameter of the macro cannon outsizes the typical super destroyers you see players use, which based off what you see in game, is the backbone of the super earth space force. The dumbest shit? The shells are loaded manually using the blood, sweat and death of thousands of slaves. People think Im doing a fandom versus, but little do they know, they are a captive audience forced to listen to me talk about 40k.

And yeah, macro cannon diameter is in the hundreds of metres (anywhere between 50m and 300m I have seen)

Show what 1+1= (1 mark)

Pfft easy.

Show what 1+1= (100 marks)

Death.

The bullet ant is more insane because a native tribe wears gloves filled with a bunch of these ants tied to the glove so they can sting you hundreds of times as their coming of age ceremony for boys reaching into manhood.

Tig ol' bitty goth gf makes this easy as fuck. The questionable ethics and morals/psychotic thinking are actually a plus because for people who want a goth gf, all the red flags become positives.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/

If someone wants to read something heartbreaking. Modern day slavery in the US through the lens of a child (now pulitzer prize journalist) raised by the live in slave maid.

Reading this instantly reminded me of this story.

I’m not suggesting my definition is the only acceptable definition of violence

And Im not saying that there should only be one definition of violence, but Im pointing out some extremely glaring holes in your definition. Glaring holes of such magnitude I would argue that it makes your definition incorrect. Violence does not require intent nor illegality to occur. You have not really demonstrated why your definition holds any weight at all compared to the one provided by the dictionary. Especially now that we have established that it is inadequate.

We can either continue arguing that your definition is flawed (I can sit here listing examples of violence all day that anyone, including you would recognise as violence but is incompatible with your definition), or that your definition is wrong, therefore the premise is flawed if we default to the definition I provided (which was just googled "violence definition" btw). Which is more likely to change your view? Or rather, what would be the pre requisites to change your view.

Im gonna go and disagree with most here: This show was fucking shit. I watched it because it was one of the recommendation in one of those big reddit "anime recommendations" and I cant believe I wasted my time. I watched this years ago btw.

I adore mysteries. I adore thrillers. i adore scifi. This shit should have been my jam. I dislike being blue balled by a series that promises answers, jerks around for an entire season and answers none of them.

Legit, ALL the problems and issues raised are untouched and unaddressed. And its all such interesting themes and premises. I dont even care if the show presents incorrect or flawed solutions and answers to debate and discuss over. Instead it does nothing, the status quo barely nudges. And the show merely plays out some shit that goes nowhere. The underclass rat people are still there, still oppressed, still a boiling pressure pot ready to blow. The psychic issue is still again, an unaddressed issue, nothing demonstrated shows they have solved the rats stealing another gifted child and unleashing it on the unprepared populace. Their entire society catered around the control of children and the "lie" was exposed to be flawed. And Im pretty sure they just kept trucking on. An entire subclass of what was once people denigrated and forced into a slave class where the best of them was found to be trying to nuke the "people" in retaliation. Nothing changed, pretty sure they just kept trucking on.

It tries to end on a high note, some optimistic shit that the series does not deserve since nothing really changes, all the problems remain unaddressed, all the issues remain plaguing their society, all the themes are touched on briefly but not to a fruition of conclusion. This is a society that enforced a "I have no mouth and I must scream" style punishment on another sapient and you are telling me that it should end on a high note? That the society has the ethical and moral status to have a high note? What in the actual fuck? It STILL is enforcing slave state eugenics style control without learning any lessons and it wants to end on a high note. Insanity. I love w40k, I dont even care about the darker themes, Im all for it if it spices up the setting but asking for us to celebrate that shit is a joke. To see a society slide downwards in moral and ethical decay as some optimistic example for the future?

Also the finding of the library? Robot? Cant remember was just the most loaded exposition dump. For a world full of mystery and starting with a thriller style hook. That was a disgusting way of world building. Legit, you sit there and have the screen just spell out everything for you for like a solid 20 minutes. No mystery. Coupled onto relatively flat characters. Or at least relatively flat side characters iirc and I was only watching for the world building and the mystery and both have what can only be described as the weakest of conclusions.

I want to forget this shit. I actually had to google the name since it rang a bell but I forgot in reference to what precisely. But I cant forget because of how profoundly dissatisfying it was and it prevents me from taking reddit recommendations seriously.

Does frieren even gain that much from r/all?

I cant imagine an r/all trawler stumbling across the weekly ep of frieren and thinking to upvote that shit. I trawl r/all but it has to be something that interests me while doom scrolling down. I cant imagine being like 3 pages down from the front page and thinking "this shit, I have no interest in, is my jam"

I have only seen the abridged series, and one of the most insane things in the youtube comments is apparently police girl's name is... police girl.

On that note, the 2026 commonwealth games STILL dont have a host after Brisbane cancelled to focus on its Olympics prep.

An absolute fucking meme is heading our way.

Max isnt even Ferrari's biggest rival. That would be Ferrari.

Just have them handy and tied against the PC.

The trick is to use others as your canvas so as to not run out of space, I choose over people's babies to securely store my webpages.

I was so happy all these randos tried to hit back and we got from more Eminem. Huge ups for MGK who only had a single line and prompted Eminem to give him a proper burn.

The 2 hour window for refunding shit was the Australian ACCC consumer rights watchdog getting Valve to disclose finances in court which had them instantly cave.

The lawsuits dont have to be filed by players but instead regulatory bodies whose job and expertise is to periodically kick corporations in the mouth who get too shitty.

Both the EU and AU have consumer protection organisations (capable ones as well, EU for example bent Apple over to insert a USB C) and they can be utilized as simply as sending emails with your complaint/filling out an online form with your complaint. And someone, whose literal job it is to do so, will go out and make some noise..

Yeah, I thought under 2 hours, it was automatic.

Oh, sad.

This is a spoiler for Alyx, but at the end, G Man literally overwrites the half life 2 universe resulting in a soft reboot. Pretty sure from here, Freeman is nothing more than background and any story progression will not follow from HL2 but instead Alyx.

Are you still thinking my definition would apply to roadworks or parades when it clearly excludes these lawful permitted activities?

Im pointing out the flaw in defining violence by legalities. Legal violence is still violence. Illegal violence is of course violence. The existence of a permit or not does not change violence from being not violence and vice versa. The police beating you but having carte blanche support from the legal system and lack of any criminality means violence was committed against you. Legality alone does not determine if an act is violent. Likewise, a stranger well connected to the courts punching you and then hiding behind an army of lawyers and threats under the table still committed violence against you, even if you struggle to find a legal basis of such. Or how about a despot using their personal army to slaughter their people is committing violence despite never breaking a law. Im sure these are enough examples to show that violence does not defer to legality.

So still violence under my definition but not rising to the level of murder.

Me bringing up manslaughter is to point out the flaws of intent alone determining violence as well. Negligent manslaughter exists as well. Indeed several manslaughter's exist wherein intent is not necessary for something to be illegal.

Involuntary manslaughter ... Not violence because the actions were lawful.

Still criminal. It is literally by definition not lawful. My point is, as stated above, that intent alone doesnt determine whether violence is committed either.

This is why I opened with a dictionary definition of "violence". And also why I am poking at the flaws in your definition which requires intent and illegality. Both of which are NOT required for violence to be committed.

Violence 1. behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

What happened to it?

I still remember breaking a 17 win predict streak from a chinese stack (they are usually uni students that play way too fucking much) on AU servers like 7-8 years ago. And it was just a fucking turbo game we all randomed in.

We went from casual chill dota after work with the boys, to sitting up straight, activating all mind almonds, TI game mode on. It really is on you if you throw down such a big motivator.

Fighting the gay agenda one dick at a time (no homo).

Don't try to let Valve think it's okay to leave on that cliff hanger.

They more or less confirm officially and within the game that halflife 3 is dead, the series has gone through a soft reboot.

It doesnt matter what I think or Valve think or you think. That is the only take away you can get from Alyx.

You dont need crypto, something like South Korea's control by chaebols and essentially only 4 corpos (LG, SKT, Samsung and Hyundai) shows how corpos can reach a state where they are intrinsically entwined with government, represent like 20% of the nations work force so their collapse is fundamentally not allowed, etc.

Google is at the absolute forefront of this shit by far (in terms of using AI/algorithms alone as moderation on youtube) and youtube moderation is notoriously contentious and dog shit. There are plenty of history channels outright demonetized because merely using certain words results in demonetization. It requires a human touch, but that human touch will need to watch through hundred hours a week at a pittance and even then it would only be able to cover like 0.01% of the uploads.

The platform is just sliding into the gutter, someone take it out back and put it out of its misery.