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Out of Context Comics

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Comic panels taken out of comics so we can make fun of them!! We love the golden age stuff!

Rules:

  1. Comics must come from actual comic books. No AI or Photoshops.

  2. Single panels are preferred.

  3. Comics should be unintentionally funny. Spider-man cracking wise is not what this is about.

  4. Don't be a dick.

  5. I can't believe I've had to add this... NO RACISM.

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[–] Pothetato@lemmy.world 59 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Being able to just declare math formulas to act on the physical world is an intriguing super power.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

How would you even world build that in? Become a prominent mathematician and figure out all the uses?

X is the objects mass and Y is how fast it is going, now there is a black hole next to your face.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Charles Stross The Laundry Files - It's a good read

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Does it pick up? It feels like a slog so far. I don't even remember how far I got before I had to drop it. I love the premise though.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Kind of Dr Who meets James bond meets BOFH in a way, there's a lot of build-up with tons of details that come together by the ending.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there's a Final Fantasy Tactics class that is exactly that

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

If your level is divisible by four then you die instantly and if it's a prime number you're on my team now

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Katalepsis does exactly this for millions of words, and it’s (unfortunately) one of the best books I’ve read in my life.

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Paradox from Ben 10 does that which on itself a reference to Dr.who. If i remember correctly, its not that he got powers from being sucked into the time portal but that his mind expanded allowing him to travel among other stuff.

from the wiki: Paradox was displaced outside of time, where he lost the ability to age and was unable to sleep or eat; just exist. He went insane for a while, but then got bored and regained his sanity. Gaining complete understanding of the space-time continuum, Paradox forgot his original name in the process