u/Smallzfry

Grew up with the gift of foresight and knew that Dundee would fall in the future.

He didn't even need foresight, apparently there was a whole statue dedicated to the fall of Dundee. Gotta love the random lore bullshit we get trickled in XD.

Nightcrawler, personality-wise he's much closer to me than Moon Knight is.

Yeah, the hook on the back and really broad blade means this is slightly different than a billhook. It might actually be closer to the weapon version used in the later middle ages, although most of those have a spike on top as well.

As you said, the name doesn't really matter - if it works, it works!

A new (to me) brand to check out!

Damn you for making me want new knives right before the holidays.

Kizer and Civivi are also contenders, both above and below that price point. Specifically the Kizer T1 and Begleiter lines and the Civivi Elementum. All three have options down to $60 and higher-tier configurations up to $120-ish.

I hadn't heard that term, but after looking those up that just looks like a billhook with the back sharpened. I'd argue this is closer to a billhook just because it's single-edged.

I think it depends on what parts of the show you enjoyed the most.

If you liked the first half, then the Moench and Ellis recommendations are good. I also recommend the ongoing MacKay run (starting with The Midnight Mission), as it features Mr. Knight a lot and has a lot of callbacks to the older runs. You should probably read these three authors anyway.

If you liked the mental hospital section, then the Lemire run from 2016 is the closest. It's a well-written run, but a bit confusing if you're not familiar with the character imo. After that, go to the MacKay and Moench runs.

Very nice! That distal taper in the handle reminds me of the TMD Featherweight knives, that's a wonderful touch!

That's a fair point, I hadn't registered that connection.

I read their comment as two objections: the first to the general meme (the dick joke) and the second to the idea that Edith is Goldberry (as the parallel to Tolkien's Bombadil). Your interpretation definitely makes sense though.

I agree that we need an explanation now.

Jokes about sex and genitals are generally considered crude, gross, or juvenile. This is a dick joke meme. Personally I don't mind the occasional well-done one like this, but they get old fast, especially since they seem forced.

From the man himself:

... it should be 'high', purged of the gross, and fit for the more adult mind of a land long now steeped in poetry.

That's an MCU invention. Of the three, Marc is the best fighter - Jake is the street-level cabbie who is wily but not ruthless in the way that the show made him appear.

I literally did the calculations on a 250K home with the same mortgage duration and rate, the only difference is I've factored in the small amount I've put aside to start saving as a down payment.

As for "a lot of people", the average debt in the US is around $105k, but that includes mortgages. If you look at medians it's around $80,000, and that's still including mortgages. En extra $93k is enough to either completely cover or significantly reduce the average American debt.

It's like the idea that $1000 is not a lot to have but it's a lot to owe. Getting rid of that $93k owed is a lot more meaningful than having the $93k on its own.

$93K (which is what someone calculated it out to be) is enough to pay off student loans and all other debt I have and put a significant down payment on a house within the range I'm already looking at. Based on current rates, the bigger down payment would save me roughly $400/mo.

An extra $100k, when leveraged correctly, is a massive boon to even 90% of the US, let alone the rest of the world.

What's the pen? It looks a bit like my Sheaffer Prelude but it's definitely something different.

Yeah, everything they pointed out is subjectively funny at best.

Destroying jobs without adequate replacements is not something to be celebrated. You should read up on the Luddites to see the actual consequences of job replacement, it includes starvation and devaluation of human skill.

I wouldn't rejoice either if I spent half my life learning to do something only to be replaced by a machine that does a worse job faster.

In my case, I had the same question as you so I looked for "SD card" and stumbled on this post hoping for answers.

It's in the Huston/Benson run from 2006. TL;DR: Moonie is fighting his demons and losing, it's a dark time for him but it gets brought up a lot as an example of how brutal Moon Knight is - which he isn't most of the time.

Hey, it was one face! And it had personal significance!

Just to expand on the point, the first people in Scandinavia, the Western Hunter-Gatherers, lacked light-skinned genes. That was roughly 15,000 years ago, and it took another 10,000 years for other groups to make their way north and settle more permanently (as far as I'm aware). So historically Northern Europe has been a visually diverse group with distinct genetic groups that mingled frequently.

Then if you go back to the Viking Age, they traded out to the Middle East and Africa. Given that many groups were polygynist, and many marriages and concubines were for political bonds, I wouldn't be surprised if there was genetic inter-mingling from farther out again. So while skin tones likely lightened from the original WHG group over time, there would still be dark-skinned peoples present in early medieval Scandinavia. Even the group we think of as fair-skinned (not fair) and blonde-haired has always had an array of appearances.

The Waldman Letter is a fantastic reference that I think every fan should review periodically. Too many people miss that LotR is simply dedicated to England, not meant to be based on the nation as we know it now. Our modern stereotyping hinders us from seeing the whole of the world that inspired Tolkien, and it leads to these discussions.

AT Namielle is absolute hell for Lance. You can't block anything because it's all multi-hit with chip damage, so you drop 1/3 of your health (or more) in a single attack. There's rarely enough time to sheath and heal, and just avoiding the attacks is really difficult with the lance's hops. That fight whittled my patience so fast and it goes straight into "never again" for me.

The thread (including the comment you originally replied to above mine) is specifically discussing AI discovering bugs in AI-generated code, and how that is wasteful because we are using AI in both processes. You somehow interpreted that as we should "leave bugs undiscovered", which is not what they were saying at all. I attempted to clarify by stating that we shouldn't be using AI to generate code, as that would mean we aren't using AI to fix its own mistakes. You again somehow interpreted that to mean something that wasn't said or implied. I never said anything about AI-generated bugs making up the majority of bugs, I don't know where you picked up that idea. In fact, nobody in this thread has stated anything about whether or not most bugs come from AI, nor are they saying that AI is directly responsible for these bugs in particular.

This entire thread can be summarized as:

• discovering bugs with AI is good
• creating bugs with AI is bad
• discovering AI-generated bugs with AI is at best neutral
• we should generate less code with AI

Those are the talking points brought up so far outside of your comments.

I said what I said because you had misinterpreted comments and responded to the misinterpretation twice. I'm not being passive-aggressive with that statement, that is just regular aggression that is addressed clearly and specifically to you. I am simply asking that you read and comprehend the statements that are being made before replying to those statements without assuming that there is an implication that is going unsaid.

I have some favorites that I revisit every couple of years:

• First Contact Protocols by u/AndaBrit
• Deathworlders, specifically the Xiu Chang Saga by u/hume_reddit
• The HEL Jumper by /u/sabatonbabylon
• Blessed are the Simple by u/naturalpinkflamingo
• The New Species by u/itsdirector

I really recommend going through the Classics and Must Read lists in the sidebar. You'll learn where some of the old tropes come from and see some honestly better writing than the flood we get a lot of the time.

War for Gao is where it stopped being HFY, because it was no longer centered around humanity. It's still fun sci-fi, just not in the same category.

Seriously, I wonder what people are doing with their knives that they're regularly breaking through what looks like 5/8" of steel. It's like people reacted so hard to the flimsy hollow-handle "survival" knives that they forgot there's a middle ground that works perfectly for most use cases.