[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Everett is at least a minor toon force user, so normal power scaling doesn't apply. He can beat anyone or be beaten by anyone depending on which is funnier.

Mrs. True can usually overpower him because he's usually being a jerk to her, but when she's in the wrong she's usually cowed by him.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I can't speak to the behind-the-scenes drama, but I agree that Pierce was at his best in Season One, where he was a little bit grandiose and a little bit of a jerk but still had moments of wisdom and humanity. I always liked the talk he gave Jeff in the boating episode.

Turning him into a total buffoon villain from season 2 onwards was a change for the worse.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Like the Klingon dish gagh?

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah. I mean I agree that focusing on change at the systemic level is more effective than changing individual habits, but what people don't realize is that the systemic change we need is the kind that will force those individual changes.

Taxing or regulating the oil companies will help, but it will help by making energy more expensive so people are forced to make do with less.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

If you liked Norsemen, try Lilyhammer.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's actually speculated to be the case with the word "bear." There was a superstition that saying its true name might summon it.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Haha, fair. But, even just based on the quote, I don't think leftists are very known for caring what their ancestors think.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

This comic is still around? I haven't thought of it in years!

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

My Hero Academia.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

So "Horonium" was once so abundant that it was accessible even with Earth's limited capabilities in the NX-01 era, but somehow it's now gone from the entire quadrant? Seems like there must be a story there. I wonder if something like The Burn could have come into play (I never watched DISC past the first season, so I'm going off of hearsay of what that was.) Or possibly it was a material somehow created and scattered all throughout the galaxy at once with a limited lifespan. Given that it powers the time portal, maybe it has some weird temporal properties that made it disappear.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I work at an office suite, and a lot of people say hi to me with my name. I know none of their names. I'm also really terrible at recognizing faces (prosopagnosia). People probably think I'm extremely cold and aloof, but really I'm doing my best.

[-] HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Well, we have a source of input that AIs don't for the moment, and that's our actual experiences in the world. Once we turn that into art or text or whatever, the AIs can train on it, but we're like the photosynthesizing plants at the bottom of the content food chain.

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