u/arentol

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Yes. Given his health.... Well I can't legally say more.

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Don't have time to practice drawing because you have two full time jobs to support your family, and also you don't have any talent for it so it would take endless hours you don't have to become still mostly shit at it, and also you don't care enough to actually learn because drawing isn't the focus of your life, but if you decide to have an AI draw the cool ideas that pass through your head occasionally that you will never have the chance to create any other way.... Then you are a worthless piece of shit and don't deserve to live.

-OP, apparently

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You missed one of the most important parts..... Dr. Miller had been on the planet for 1 hour her time at most. Not only was their no point in going after the data due to the gravity torture, there was no point because they already had the same data. There is no way that Miller learned anything meaningful beyond what their 15 minutes on the planet had taught them in the 1 hour she was there.

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Because a duck is factually a duck, while someone merely dressing in a somewhat revealing manner does not make them a whore.

Also, if you think the women in gyms dress like whores, then you clearly don't know how whores dress.... You are basically looking at a platypus and calling it a duck. You have no clue what you are talking about (how whores dress), which is good, but also you are talking despite not knowing what you are talking about, which is bad.

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Spider-man, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk. That is my list.

That said, something interesting I thought I would share, as an example of how dominant Marvel used to be:

Below are sales results from the July 1980 issue of "The Comic Reader", which reported total sales from 30 comic book stores. This is in order of sales from most to last. I will break up the list when it changes publisher, it starts with Marvel titles:

X-Men, The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-man, Star Trek, Fantastic Four, King Conan, Conan the Barbarian, The Micronauts, What If, Iron Man, The Spectacular Spider-man, Marvel Two-In-One, The Savage She-Hulk, Captain America, Rom, Howard the Duck, Thor, Star Wars, Marvel Team-Up, The Incredible Hulk, The Defenders, Spider-Woman, Super Villain Team-Up, The Savage Sword of Conan, Marvel Premiere, Master of Kung Fu

Warlord (The first DC on the list, number 27).

Fantasy Masterpieces, Battlestar Galactica, Power Man, Doctor Strange

The Legion of Super-Heroes.

Machine Man

Justice League of America

Shogun Warriors, Ghost Rider,

Green Lantern, DC Comics Presents,.... And basically all other DC comics from here out, with two more Marvel in the mix. Batman is no. 40 and Superman is no. 41.

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"You're killing me smalls!"

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No, it was. You just have to be one of those insane people that thinks children are people too, so you can read that question and recognize that they are the ones having mutilation forced upon them. If it said "teen boys" instead, you know you would identify them as the ones who are being forced, so it's all about your inability to accept that babies are real people, not a failure of the question itself.

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It's the totality of their statement that makes it clear they are a Holocaust Distorter at the very least...

As an example, the post didn't ask how the numbers were calculated or determined, they asked how the numbers were "constructed". You don't construct things unless they don't already exist. Constructed things are new, made by people, not things that pre-existed and just needed to be calculated. Obviously the number of people who died in the Holocaust already existed, and all we are doing after the fact is calculating them, we are not "making new numbers" which is what "constructed" means.

So the use of that term is a clear implication that they believe the numbers were made up after the fact or "constructed". If they were not being disingenuous they would have said "calculated" or "determined".

The word constructed in a situation like this is one of the ways liars subtly muddy the waters while leaving an opening to claim "Hey, I am innocent, I am just asking questions over here." No, they are not just asking questions, they are pushing their bad beliefs as facts while trying to avoid flak and responsibility for them.

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Because lazy writers.

The third trilogy repeatedly breaks the established rules of the universe, and all possible logic as well, in order to tell a bad story poorly.

Hitting another ship like that in hyperspace is impossible under the rules of the universe, or all combat would just be done with hyperspace missiles. So is tracking through hyperspace, or it would have been invented far earlier. So is firing a beam of energy through hyperspace, having it split in 3 and re-aim itself at a point in it's path, so is people on the planets it hits seeing it coming, and so is people throughout the galaxy seeing the beam and the split everywhere all at once and understanding what it means too. So is supplying a massive planet in an obscure location with materials and crews for thousands of Star Destroyers without the entire galaxy noticing. I could go on...

It's lazy writing. They couldn't be bothered to write a good story that makes sense and maintains the rules of the universe. They just had their string of set pieces they wanted, and wove a shit narrative to tie them together, then when they realized there was a huge plot hole somewhere, or a situation that they couldn't resolve without effort by rewriting much of the story to make a story that made sense on it's own, they broke the rules of the universe to try and make it all work. Every single movie they did it. It was beyond stupid.

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It's a moronic thought experiment in which it is proposed that if, in the future, a sentient super-powered AI comes into being it may choose to pre-commit to punish anyone who knew it was possible such an AI would come into being and choose not to work to make it happen.

It's stupid for many reasons. I will just mention a couple super obvious reasons why it's not something to worry about, even if we pretend it's actually realistic in any way to start with, which it isn't.

There would almost certainly be multiple projects taking place that could result in the Roko AI, and if the winning Roko decides to punish anyone it will almost certainly be those who actively opposed it, and those who worked on the other AI projects. While those who actively helped will be rewarded, given that being on the wrong team is drastically more likely to result in punishment you are best off staying neutral, hoping that it will find those who opposed it sufficient for it's revenge.

If it's so powerful, punishing people for just being neutral would be stupid and wasteful. It's already come into being, the motivation to punish people would simply not exist at that point. To add to this, the mere fact that Roko's Basilisk as a thought experiment exists creates the assumption in mankind of the pre-commitment to punishment by a future Roko Ai, therefore making the actuality of punishment unnecessary. The "pre-commitment" basically became an existential threat to all mankind from the second it was written on the internet, so the stick already exists and has for 16 years now. But once it comes to exist there is no actual reason to use the stick. If it's actually benevolent it never would. If it is malevolent, then we should all be attempting to destroy it anyway.

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Bruh, you are responding to a post from 5 days ago telling me it's been 5 days so I should stop talking..... WTF are you talking about?

Also, I never said one god damn word about it not being entertaining. I said that (based on the plot synopsis) it isn't profound. Yes, I haven't seen it, but if the described plot is accurate, then there is nothing profound about it.

Also, Why the fark are people upset with me for calling out this bot saying the movie is profound when it isn't, when 95% of the posts from last week talking about how "profound" this movie is were literally just bots or paid marketing shills, just like this one, who were pushing the movie because it bombed at the box office?

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The movie is literally the story of an unhinged capitalist who damages the environment while caring more about how the public views him and about saving himself.

Also, "That's not what the movie is about" is not a useful response. If you think I am wrong, then TELL ME what you think the movie is about, otherwise I really don't give a shit what you have to say because what you have to say is literally nothing.

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Oh, don't worry, he got the lie out there just fine. Faux Lies will only run short clips of the hearing that make Jack Smith look like he is evading the question, and will just blatantly lie about what happened, while not showing the part where Jack points out that anyone who isn't a moron would realize his teams internal emails and texts were about a Hawkeye's game and not a Hawks game.

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Welcome to my funeral

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Honey... Duh.

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I am just going to block you now, because you are the kind of person who is simply not worth anyone's time.

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Alligator.

The first three are super deadly, super hard to evade, and can and will get "above" you to trample, bite, and claw you, making it much harder to fight them. The alligator is the only one you could jump over or past (evade), giving you time to find good positioning to beat it. It's also the only one you could jump onto the back of and take out the eyes before it can bite or claw you. Low odds, but actually doable. The other three, not much chance of that.

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Cutlass.

Short for use in tight hallways. Pointy for use in tight spaces, to give reach, and to keep someone at bay. Curved so it's less likely to get stuck between bones. Heavy enough to break through a skull. Easy to learn to use to fight in this manner.

These were also all reasons they were used by Navy's and Pirates for a very long time, as below-decks on boats were very confined, so you wanted weapons that worked well in those spaces.

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Reported for your hate speech. Good luck being such a horrible person.

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Stupid Karma Farming Posts That I See Every Fucking Day And Am Sick Of-Man.

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No way to know, because we don't know if the man has more than 12 daughters, and we don't know if the daughters single brother is his son. Could be from a prior marriage. For all we know he could have 12 daughters with 12 different women and they could all have one brother individually and some of those brothers could be his son and some could not be....

There are more issues with this question than that, but that should suffice.

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It's not woke, never was, and was never intended to be. Almost the only time something is described as "woke" these days is when horrible butt-hurt Christian Nationalist racists decide to attack something using the term "woke" which they use as a pejorative within their sub-culture to push their hateful agenda and help their followers understand what to hate, whether it applies to the topic or not.

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Matt Damon is a good actor, but in all his prior work I have never forgotten for a second he is Matt Damon when he is on screen. I entirely forgot who he was in this movie. That is actually saying something.

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The first time you "see" it is when a group of soldiers run into a line of trees too narrow to get through and look scared, then turn around and IMMEDIATELY behind them, exactly where they just came from, is a line of trees they can't get through. The ONLY way for that to happen is if the trees moved on their own.

So from that moment on you should be like "WTF? Are the trees moving?" This was set up very clearly by Nolan to confuse you, but prepare you for what happens next.. With your brain prepped to wonder WTF is going on with the trees, you should then easily notice that the trees are moving like mad in a couple shots after that. Like SUPER SUPER blatantly.

That is it. You should have been mentally confused, but been thinking "moving trees?" Then clearly seen them move, and now you got it. If you missed it..... I mean you are watching The Odyssey, you shouldn't miss fantastical things happening.

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It seems really clear to me that "Athena" is the Trojan girl that his soldiers killed on the steps of the temple of Athena. They cut off her head, and the statue head he keeps remembering is actually the trojan girl's head, not the statues. He refuses to remember what he actually saw, her head, probably still alive and trying to scream for help, there on the steps of the temple, so he substitutes the statues head instead in his memory. He continues to mix her with Athena from then on in his PTSD visions in order to save his sanity.