2350 pts ยท November 2, 2014
Pretty much! Like you say, he wasn't actively sadistic or evil but he just didn't give a shit about anything besides his immediate desires and objectives and was entirely willing to be a complete dickhead about it.
He stepped down because he felt Aethon was a better fit. Shrike thought he himself was too focused on the Path of Ambush whereas Aethon was more balanced and more akin to Corax (in Shrike's mind).
My buddy is an LA city inspector and I showed him that guys stuff and he was like "yup, pretty tame honestly".
Ehh, I think he legitimately believes his shit. I'm autistic and think I would have been narcissistic if my parents weren't amazing, so I can kinda see where he's at from where I'm at. He's just super detached from normality and has no real sense of what a functional relationship looks like (look up his dad). And then he's narcissistic on top of that so everything revolves around him and he's the solution to all problems (which is only reinforced in his mind by his insane wealth).
If you like this series, you absolutely need to read Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun series. Explores a lot of similar themes, excellently written.
Ehhh, bald eagles get a bad rap as scavengers but as this clip demonstrates they can absolutely go out and kill a motherfucker if they need or want to. They're extremely proficient hunters, they're just also big time opportunists.
The Tie engine sound is iconic.
I wish people had to demonstrate understanding of this statement before they were allowed to post on the internet. Imagine the bloviating we would be spared...
Hah, you didn't even jump to "staged video for clout"? Amateur!
Everyone* is born good, people just get it beaten out of them. *Yeah yeah I know there's a tiny subset that are born with no empathy or whatever, not the point.
Tsutomu Nihei is the name of the mangaka. He's most well known for Blame! which is an *incredible* manga. Biomega is a prequel to Blame! and is also amazing. He's also done several other works, most notably Knights of Sidonia which was also adapted to an anime. He also did a Wolverine 5-issue limited series called Snikt! which is pretty great.
Turns out The Man is just other people who happen to have power over you in that moment. Being polite and honest goes a long way with folks.
Yeah, you just smile, apologize, and accept their judgement gracefully. And don't fuck up the same way again. You can avoid a lot of pain in life that way.
They're pretty wild. One time when I was on a fishing boat as a kid, they caught a shark and killed it, cut off the head. I remember it was still biting for over an hour afterwards. Just chomp...chomp....chomp.
Honestly watching is pretty cool (dad of 2), as long as there aren't complications. With our first it was a little dicey and that was stressful. He was pretty wedged in there and there was a huge spray of meconium when he finally popped out. Doctor was savvy though and had a face shield, I was lucky to dodge out of the splash zone. Second one took literally 3 pushes and he just slid on out, no problem. I preferred that one for sure, and so did my wife!
Lion's technically can't purr, but they absolutely do this kind of contented rumble that might as well be a purr. Source: Used to feed lions at the Oakland Zoo.
You can't really invade the US. The Pacific and Atlantic mean that we're essentially unassailable at home. That's completely ignoring the fact that we have the most powerful blue-water navy and the most powerful air force by orders of magnitude. It would be decades before even a fully motivated East Asia and Europe could catch up. And an authoritarian America wouldn't necessarily lose close allies. It would take a LOT for the UK and Japan to abandon us. There's no external military salvation.
This guy fucks.
4 is better mechanically but 2 is unsurpassed in terms of setting and ambiance. Being stuck in the Inner Sphere is wack and I'm glad someone is finally going back to the Clan well given they're like 500000x more interesting.
Ah yes, the Dark Ages was just things sucking "for a while". Or the Bronze Age Collapse. Oh, and of course it's not that big a deal when "things suck" after a revolution. Why, the Holodomor only killed 5 million people. And of course, The Great Leap Forward only saw a paltry 55 million people DIE MISERABLY. Violent revolution has almost never "worked" (in that it wasn't immediately followed by decades of significantly worse conditions). Across the entirety of human history.
Way less than would die if our infrastructure collapsed. Imagine if food production and transport breaks down: millions die within weeks. Or if power production ceases during the winter. Millions die within days.
Trump's support amongst minorities has only gone up over the last 4 years. He's polling higher than ever with black and hispanic voters. The problem isn't isolated to one racial or socioeconomic group. There's just a lot of people that are susceptible to the rhetoric of the right, for a variety of reasons.
We have to try to thread the needle and move the window without overshooting or else we're just perpetuating the issue with a new set of winners and losers.
I see this a lot in the field I'm in, public higher ed administration. The pendulum has swung here and in many universities the power dynamic has reversed. And it's hurting our education system in a variety of ways (not to say that the old imbalances weren't hurting it as well, but we've overcompensated). Turning the oppressed into the oppressors just doesn't really do any good (see: Israel).
That's just too broad a generalization. A disabled person may very well have power over a non-disabled person within a specific situation and in that specific case can absolutely discriminate. That's a big problem with our whole approach to equality right now, in that it doesn't allow for nuance. It's creating a lot of resentment in people who just happen to have the wrong genitalia or color skin. And while I'm sympathetic to letting the pendulum swing a bit, two wrongs don't make a right.
Same situation here! It's hilarious. My understanding is that early multilingualism tends to slow things down a bit at first, but then they leapfrog their monolingual peers. He's already pretty far ahead of most kids his age on vocab, reading, etc. even in English, so seems to be holding true.
I really like the concept of UBI but I think there's pretty strong evidence (see: COVID stimulus) that it just creates a bunch of inflation and we're back to square one. If you try to pair it with price controls that's opening a whole nother can of worms and then it just gets more complicated from there.
Pretty much! Like you say, he wasn't actively sadistic or evil but he just didn't give a shit about anything besides his immediate desires and objectives and was entirely willing to be a complete dickhead about it.
He stepped down because he felt Aethon was a better fit. Shrike thought he himself was too focused on the Path of Ambush whereas Aethon was more balanced and more akin to Corax (in Shrike's mind).
My buddy is an LA city inspector and I showed him that guys stuff and he was like "yup, pretty tame honestly".
Ehh, I think he legitimately believes his shit. I'm autistic and think I would have been narcissistic if my parents weren't amazing, so I can kinda see where he's at from where I'm at. He's just super detached from normality and has no real sense of what a functional relationship looks like (look up his dad). And then he's narcissistic on top of that so everything revolves around him and he's the solution to all problems (which is only reinforced in his mind by his insane wealth).
If you like this series, you absolutely need to read Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun series. Explores a lot of similar themes, excellently written.
Ehhh, bald eagles get a bad rap as scavengers but as this clip demonstrates they can absolutely go out and kill a motherfucker if they need or want to. They're extremely proficient hunters, they're just also big time opportunists.
The Tie engine sound is iconic.
I wish people had to demonstrate understanding of this statement before they were allowed to post on the internet. Imagine the bloviating we would be spared...
Hah, you didn't even jump to "staged video for clout"? Amateur!
Everyone* is born good, people just get it beaten out of them.
*Yeah yeah I know there's a tiny subset that are born with no empathy or whatever, not the point.
Tsutomu Nihei is the name of the mangaka. He's most well known for Blame! which is an *incredible* manga. Biomega is a prequel to Blame! and is also amazing. He's also done several other works, most notably Knights of Sidonia which was also adapted to an anime. He also did a Wolverine 5-issue limited series called Snikt! which is pretty great.
Turns out The Man is just other people who happen to have power over you in that moment. Being polite and honest goes a long way with folks.
Yeah, you just smile, apologize, and accept their judgement gracefully. And don't fuck up the same way again. You can avoid a lot of pain in life that way.
They're pretty wild. One time when I was on a fishing boat as a kid, they caught a shark and killed it, cut off the head. I remember it was still biting for over an hour afterwards. Just chomp...chomp....chomp.
Honestly watching is pretty cool (dad of 2), as long as there aren't complications. With our first it was a little dicey and that was stressful. He was pretty wedged in there and there was a huge spray of meconium when he finally popped out. Doctor was savvy though and had a face shield, I was lucky to dodge out of the splash zone. Second one took literally 3 pushes and he just slid on out, no problem. I preferred that one for sure, and so did my wife!
Lion's technically can't purr, but they absolutely do this kind of contented rumble that might as well be a purr. Source: Used to feed lions at the Oakland Zoo.
You can't really invade the US. The Pacific and Atlantic mean that we're essentially unassailable at home. That's completely ignoring the fact that we have the most powerful blue-water navy and the most powerful air force by orders of magnitude. It would be decades before even a fully motivated East Asia and Europe could catch up. And an authoritarian America wouldn't necessarily lose close allies. It would take a LOT for the UK and Japan to abandon us. There's no external military salvation.
This guy fucks.
4 is better mechanically but 2 is unsurpassed in terms of setting and ambiance. Being stuck in the Inner Sphere is wack and I'm glad someone is finally going back to the Clan well given they're like 500000x more interesting.
Ah yes, the Dark Ages was just things sucking "for a while". Or the Bronze Age Collapse.
Oh, and of course it's not that big a deal when "things suck" after a revolution. Why, the Holodomor only killed 5 million people. And of course, The Great Leap Forward only saw a paltry 55 million people DIE MISERABLY.
Violent revolution has almost never "worked" (in that it wasn't immediately followed by decades of significantly worse conditions). Across the entirety of human history.
Way less than would die if our infrastructure collapsed. Imagine if food production and transport breaks down: millions die within weeks. Or if power production ceases during the winter. Millions die within days.
Trump's support amongst minorities has only gone up over the last 4 years. He's polling higher than ever with black and hispanic voters. The problem isn't isolated to one racial or socioeconomic group. There's just a lot of people that are susceptible to the rhetoric of the right, for a variety of reasons.
We have to try to thread the needle and move the window without overshooting or else we're just perpetuating the issue with a new set of winners and losers.
I see this a lot in the field I'm in, public higher ed administration. The pendulum has swung here and in many universities the power dynamic has reversed. And it's hurting our education system in a variety of ways (not to say that the old imbalances weren't hurting it as well, but we've overcompensated). Turning the oppressed into the oppressors just doesn't really do any good (see: Israel).
That's just too broad a generalization. A disabled person may very well have power over a non-disabled person within a specific situation and in that specific case can absolutely discriminate. That's a big problem with our whole approach to equality right now, in that it doesn't allow for nuance. It's creating a lot of resentment in people who just happen to have the wrong genitalia or color skin. And while I'm sympathetic to letting the pendulum swing a bit, two wrongs don't make a right.
Same situation here! It's hilarious. My understanding is that early multilingualism tends to slow things down a bit at first, but then they leapfrog their monolingual peers. He's already pretty far ahead of most kids his age on vocab, reading, etc. even in English, so seems to be holding true.
I really like the concept of UBI but I think there's pretty strong evidence (see: COVID stimulus) that it just creates a bunch of inflation and we're back to square one. If you try to pair it with price controls that's opening a whole nother can of worms and then it just gets more complicated from there.