KhanCipher

joined 5 years ago
[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago

Dracula:

A miserable little pile of secrets

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

And the funny thing about that deal from what I remember is that Fox at the time couldn't say no to George because they were in a bad financial situation that made it so they needed him a lot more than he needed them.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

I never understood how someone can feel good about themselves after they win thru cheating

Because the only way it matters is the PR afterwards if 'caught', and even then everybody knows that everyone is cheating in some small and hidden ways that leagues can't really catch it all, and only really can go after the blatant stuff and/or stuff that "looks bad" to normal people (see: doping, despite every single person you see on the field, court, pitch being genetic freaks of nature to begin with). Cheating and bending the rules in a way that they clearly weren't meant to bend is just a part of sports. If you follow a major motorsport, I can tell you that not a single team has put a legal car on the grid, in fact I would be shocked if someone did put a fully legal car on the grid.

It's a large part of why I laugh at e-sports followers when they act shocked and appalled that someone would cheat when anyone could've told them that its just a natural part of being a sport.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure by this point Kratos knows, or at least has some idea that there was a lot more to her than he assumed.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Wilmington OH

Huh... this is the first I'm hearing of this data center being built, and I live within 25 miles of it. Sure explains Amazon's sudden expansion in the surrounding area over the past year, and also explains why a couple of the major 'small towns' here have been trying to aggressively gentrify over the past couple years.

The community was previously left stranded by a major multinational when in 2009 the closure of a DHL Express facility eliminated more than 8,000 jobs, devastating the local economy.

That's like not even close to what happened, but okay. I mean, it's a very simplified version, but lord there's a lot missing to paint the picture.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, that's my headcanon

In my experience, a lot of people that have these fantasies seem to have some amount of childhood trauma, and also seem to absolutely have "daddy issues" and/or "mommy issues".

Do not ask me how I came to this conclusion.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So... the SSN. Like no matter what, the system you're proposing is going eventually piggy backed on as a convenient system of proving someone is who they are, like the SSN was despite all the problems with it.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, the idea that every single person that vote republican must be some some secret fascist is somewhat wrong, from my perspective it is at least. Don't get me wrong here, I know people that absolutely do vote like that because they are some of the worst human beings in existence. But there is something that so many of you just don't understand. For context, I live in pretty much middle of nowhere rural ohio.

The quickest way I can put this since I'm typing this up during break at work, is that a lot of you have no clue just how insufferable the mildest american liberal is if they got dropped in out here.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

You better not lose a children's card game to it, or else you may be sent to the shadow realm.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

Before global warming, their "solution" to the idea of a supposed overpopulation problem in their heads was ideally war, or just straight up starvation of the working class. But it was mainly war, because it established a pecking order among the rich, and did the job of killing poor people well enough.

Also overpopulation has been a "problem" to these fucks for a really long time.

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

"No lowballers, I know what I have."

[–] KhanCipher@hexbear.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

I can only speak from a urban rural divide perspective, but it's largely because for a long time neither party really cares for anyone living outside of big cities. For the Democrats they always seem to consider this something to be prideful of, and always seem to have a disdain whenever they have to interact with people in rural areas. For the Republicans, they also have the same disdain, but they also try to keep it hidden, and go a step further and imply that they'll do everything they can to spite the other.

It really comes down to wanting to spite the other team for percieved or real slights they've done.

 

Not my picture, but while I was working I spotted these shirts in the boys (kids) apparel section at walmart.

 

>sprint

>32 round AR mag

>weapon bloom

I only made it two minutes into the video before closing the tab in disgust. kiryu-slam

 

Context: The warlmart I work at has begin putting out the christmas stuff a couple days ago.

The war on Christmas will not end until it has been forced to retreat back to december, and stays there!

 

4 and a half minutes, or 5 and a half with the minute long title intro, into this and i'm already getting heavy vibes just from this screen cap that I'm going to want to chuck the writer, and everyone who signed off on this into the sun.

 

I'm in a restaurant, just got off work, trying to eat my "end of work week breakfast". Meanwhile some old fucks are talking shit about poor people and people on welfare half way across the room, and good fucking lord it's pissing me off.

Good god I have to deal with co-workers shitting where they eat, why can't I get some fucking reprieve away from work...

 

It's about that time when I actually write down how awful the Prime Directive is generally written in trek (I'm going to call it PD from here on out in this post), but first I should lay down what the PD is, it's reasons for existing, and some of my thoughts on it.

The PD out of universe largely exists because of two things. The writers becoming aware that the lives they live were built upon the suffering of others, in this case more about becoming aware of the horrors of colonialism. The next reason being largely a reaction to the Korean and Vietnam wars, though mostly the latter, in a sense of don't stick your nose in other people's business. This is all looking very reasonable so far, like yes we should rules and guidelines to exploring and interacting with other civilizations. The problem is that the writers more often than not have no clue what the PD actually entails, and use it more as a literary device more often than not.

In TOS the PD is largely used as something for Kirk to brazenly violate to show how much of a man he is, and it always working out in his favor, which further proves how much of a man he is. From TNG onwards the PD starts becoming warped and distorted, the most egregious case (besides like all of VOY) of this was the TNG episode where the Enterprise accidentally does a first contact with pre-warp civilization when responding to a distress signal, finds that the two civilizations are in a supremely fucked up situation (one is abusing the other), and Picard decides that the best course of action was to take his ball and fuck off. This was so bad that Lower Decks lampshaded how fucked it was. Then from there on out, it gets dragged out to have our main characters have debates in the important meeting room on whether or not stopping a natural disaster from wiping out a civilization is "playing god" or not, which the answer almost always ends up becoming "The consequences of preventing their civilization from being wiped out, must be on some level better than just letting them die". Partly because I highly doubt any of us would walk away knowing we could've and had the means to do something, and didn't. Also partly because the audience would likely not forgive the characters for not doing anything as well.

The other part of the PD is the 'don't stick your nose in other people's business', and this regularly violated in trek as well. In TOS there's a episode where the Kirk and company are in a system where two civilizations are having a simulated war with each other, and as part of it the simulated casualties of said sim war have to... it's pretty obvious what they're supposed to do. This goes on until the away team that includes Kirk, Spock, and some others are declared as casualties, so of course Kirk goes fuck this shit, this is all stupid and forces the two civilizations to actually have peace talks about what to do now. And the enterprise leaves with it being said/implied that the federation sent out someone to help them and mediate the talks. Which at the end of it I don't think anyone could knock Kirk for violating the PD in this case.

The flipside of this in TNG is the episode where the enterprise and crew is helping a civilization avert a natural disaster, and it's part of their culture that the inhabitants willingly euthanizing themselves after a certain age. This comes to provide the drama for the episode when one of the key people literally gets to that age, and is expected to do the thing while the crisis is still going. Like the I recall the civilization going out of their way to delete said guys work, and pretend he never existed in the first place if he didn't go through with it, he ends up going through with it and the civilization is saved, and nobody learned a damn thing from this. Great job writers, you made a civilization that's so stupid that they'll shoot themselves in the foot rather than survive, that's all I have to say on that.

Now what about the Klingon Civil War, yeah technically that's like it's whole own list of PD violations. I think K'mpec said it best about that whole thing, in TNG: Reunion he pretty much told Picard to his face "Look I know you've got your federation ideals to hold yourself to, but both of us know the federation is absolutely interested, regardless of the ideals they espouse, in the matter of who becomes the next Chancellor of the high council. Not for diplomatic reasons, but to not have a potential war with the Klingon Empire, and that's why I picked you to be the arbiter for picking the next Chancellor."

Now for ENT: Dear Doctor, fuck this episode, fuck Phlox for condemning a Valakians to extinction for the crime of allegedly keeping the Menk in 'evolution hell' (serious, that's the fucking reason), and fuck the writers for making this piece of fucking garbage the PD origin episode.

Alright, is the living situation between the Valakians and the Menk good. Fuck no, absolutely not, that much I know we can all agree on. The premise of the episode is that the Valakians have a genetic problem that is making them evolve into extinction. I'm sorry, but what? What the fuck is this shit, I'm pretty fucking sure it doesn't quite work like that. So questionable science aside, the Valakians have a problem, then throughout the episode Phlox finds a cure for it, and decides that it would be unethical to give the cure to the Valakians. Because he believes that the Menk are on the cusp of a evolutionary jump, a jump that can only done if the Valakians die out. Then due to exec meddling, he manipulates (he doesn't, but like fuck this episode) Archer into not giving the cure to the Valakians, originally it was supposed to be Phlox keeping the knowledge of the cure to himself. Then the NX-01 leaves, and we're supposed to cheer on the doc and Archer for being enlightened...

Where the hell do we even start with this episode, like legitimately where? Like we're mirroring the 'Picard takes his ball and fucks off' episode in TNG, except significantly worse because of the entire implied extinction of the Valakians, not to mention the strange leaps of logic, and the science that sounds very suspect. All that makes for episode that is not only bad to me, it's just flat out offensive on the moral plane.

 

To preface this, I already know the abridged version of what all happens in the story, and I also know what the internet thinks of Ava. So I wanted to play it for myself and see if I can find these so called unforgivable sins the character does. I'm up to Eden-9 (rescue Jakobs planet, right after Maya gets merced), and I haven't really seen anything Ava does as offensively bad yet, and I feel everyone hasn't done anything out of character.

So essentially from what I've played so far, she hasn't really done anything deserving of hate yet.

 

Imagine using this energy for actually productive change, over being angry that you're being slightly inconvenienced.

Pretty much what happened is it wasn't advertised that you would need an epic games account to play the multiplayer, and people are angry about it for some reason. Likely because it's Epic, not because they had to make an account, though knowing Gamers they probably would be pissed about about having to make an account outside of steam too.

And it's funny because the one discord server I usually hang out on that has pretty chuddy people on it largely had a reaction of "Sure it sucks, but there's a lot bigger fish to fry in the games industry."

 

Like I grew up essentially being a homeschooled church kid (who was also abused too) living in a rural rural area, not like a suburb like actual countryside. The homeschooled part is kinda just more that my parents sorta given up on trying after 6th grade. The church kid part was mostly enforced by my parents to try to have a social outlet for me. But at the end of it I just don't know how to talk to people, which has its own set of negative consequences.

It gets worse when any resemblance of community around here is steeped heavily in religion of the evangelical variety. So even if I wanted to I couldn't do anything without being told some nonsense about how everything wrong with me is that I'm a 'lost sheep' that needs to reconnect with god. Including going to get therapy, because I've heard that some of the professionals here is on that BS too.

And the more I'm thinking about it, the more I feel like I'm completely screwed out of having a relatively normal life. Not to mention I found a way to unintentionally self sabotage the first relationship I had.

And this just turned into me rambling about my situation.

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