I am about to start some writing, and I just cannot choose from his rich canon. If possible, I'd like to get some nice contrasts between works too.
So far, I have considered writing about Happy Days (will definitely write about this, so many good puns), Molloy, and Company... so I was just hoping for a bit of perspective and ideas as to where there is a gold mine of stuff to examine.
I regularly scour the internet for content to add to the Earth Science Online Video Database, and came across these skillshare/udemy-ish, but somewhat technical and exploration geology-specific online classes. Seems to be a fairly new thing. I am not affiliated with this and also don’t want to add it to the database, because I only add content that is free to access for the public, but I figured it could be useful for young people who are interested in a career in geology and want to “explore” (pun intended) the field without paying massive tuition for it.
https://geologyupskill.thinkific.com
First things first I want to say that I very much enjoyed these expansions. I was playing my commando medic who I use in other Fallout games. They're for whenever I want to side with or lean towards the BoS, so joining the Brotherhood was fitting.
I think they did a great job making both sides have pros and cons. About 3/5 times I agreed with Rahmani. The other times I agreed with Shin.
The brotherhood is typically an organization that I would consider to be self righteous thugs who more often than not care more about hoarding technology than aiding the general population. They view things in the grandest of scales to the point they either ignore or harm the regular folk they come into contact with. The brotherhood has good intentions and in the grand scheme of things I do believe they are doing good.
This is why I wanted to help influence the brotherhood to be more caring and social. Rahmani was leading the brotherhood to being a group of militaristic peace keepers that allied and helped others with more basic needs while still protecting the world from harmful technology. I agreed with Rahmani to destroy the transmitter. For any choice I would typically go the route of negotiation and trying to make sure every party involved benefits.
With that being said I respect Knight Shin. He's hot headed, narrow minded, and can get tunnel vision. However, there are times when justice must be dealt and disregard negotiation. I agreed with him to train the settlers at Foundation in exchange for resources. They should not have the Bos' dangerous weapons, but they should be trained to help fight off raiders and mutant threats.
After what happened with Dr. Blackburn and questioning the scientists I came to realize that they were too dangerous to be left alive. All three of them wanted to continue their experiments, although two of them wanted to reduce testing to animals. Out of the three Dr. Farha seemed to be the only one that might have been worth leaving alive. The study of strength enhancing drugs would have been a worthy research, but again the FEV is too dangerous to be messed with. Dr. Jain was too willing to restart the project. As for Nellie Wright, she was a sociopath. She didn't care about the lives taken, she doesn't care about human life, and I doubt she cared whether or not the experiment would have actually been a benefit to society or not. She had to be executed.
I sided with Shin to execute the scientists. They were too dangerous. Again I gen
... keep reading on reddit ➡Mornin' all.
Last week, I kicked off the start of what I hope to be a proper weekly discussion of bizarre and delicious blends of new decks for modern that are untried and untested. Given the success of last week's Rakdos comment, I feel the need to clarify a bit of what I'm trying to accomplish here. I'll be posting the test results of the Rakdos decks later, but will only be picking the top three that I deem having the highest chance of high success due to time/work/life constraints. For reference, here's the other link:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ModernMagic/comments/a9q7wx/alchemists_brew_exotic_rakdos_blends/
The purpose of the exercise is still threefold: A: Make powerful decks that are uncommon or were confined to tabletop magic for lack of competitive attention, B: Make them as violent and effective as possible, and C: Have a lot of fun doing it. For these challenges, I will be restricting the color combinations to strictly only the colors chosen. I got a lot of comments asking me to turn the previous Rakdos thread into a Mardu thread and numerous people presented me with a dime a dozen yawnarific Mardu pyromancer decklists to check out. I'm again, glad that you all took time out of your day to message me with such things, but am going to gently remind you that we're trying to get away with the normal and explore the more alien parts of the color combinations. Don't worry, I'll get to Mardu eventually, but for now I plan on focusing on narrower color combinations, as I feel that the narrower the color base of a deck is, the higher your chances of winning can become and the less variance a deck provides. The less variance a deck provides, the greater its effectiveness to a high degree. But that's a topic for another day.
So Simic. Simic as a color in most cards share a universal love with +1/+1 tokens and copies of creatures, and the drawing of cards equal to their power. It's their mainstay, it's what they do. If you go through the list of all the Simic cards in the gatherer, you'll find very few of the more solid ones actually do anything else than large, unstoppable, trample monsters. Their strategy is simple. Go tall, tall, tall, and use fight/fog/unblockable/counterspell effects to ensure their beauties soar right through the opponents defenses and let their building sized monstrosities go stimulate the local repair economies.
With the
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don’t play Pokémon, but I’m a fan of the overall design and theme. So I had an idea for a region I thought of when I was bored.
###North & South (Fronteras Region)
The Fronteras Region isn’t based on a country, but the concepts of unexplored areas, colonies, and secrets. For example, part of the north is inspired by the Pacific Northwest, and the Water gym is in a city based off of Atlantis...Other than that, the region takes cues from several colonized countries that were known to be hard to explore...as well as lost and ancient areas. Examples used are parts of America, Atlantis, El Dorado, various islands, Egypt for the desert, and various myths on the Himalayas for the mountains.
Starter concepts: themed on explorers/exploration
Grass- An Indiana Jones/Treasure hunter opossum.
Water-Scuba Diver Platypus or Sailor Beaver. I could also do an Atlantis-inspired mosasaur or dolphin as well. I’m unsure because there’s a lot of ideas. If you have ideas, comment them.
Fire- Astronaut jewel beetle (fits the explorer theme and also those beetles feed on burnt logs in real life-so fits fire type)
Legendaries (so far)- Auroreal (Aurora+Boreal+Ethereal), a massive ice/fairy bird with aurora wings (North)
South- Auraustral (Aura+Austral-meaning southern)
Villains- Team Venture, a team of corporate explorers. Pun on adventure and venture capitalist.
People who want to make regions could use this as well. Comment what you think.
Namskaara. From the moment of this announcement till the next one, the theme of all the memes and posts to be posted on the subreddit should be around Kannada songs and song lyrics. Go crazy and explore! (Puns,vines,memes, parodies etc) [NO TIKTOK- TYPE MEMES, DUBSMASHES]
So when Super-Villains got introduced in season 1 they came in a bang (Yes, pun intended.) by setting up how they would work in this world. Superheroes are celebrities groomed by Vought from birth, Super-Villains are dangerous people in terrorist organizations given powers in harsh experiments. I already like what we've gotten so far with Kimiko and her brother, how the Super-Villains are used to justify a superpowers arms race, etc. But, I was hoping for the idea of Super-Villains being from these terror organizations to be explored more.
Personally I think what I would want the most from Season 3 is showing that besides Homelander the heroes genuinely struggle to fight them because Super-Villains were people already trained to fight and/or survive brutal theatres of war. Like that cartel villain "El Diablo" ambushing and wiping a squad of heroes sent to kill him during their press conference in Mexico or a group of heroes fucking up their missions so bad Vought forces them into retirement.
3 months ago, Ripple’s victory over the SEC is already considered as a landmark event in crypto. A win for Ripple is a win for crypto and therefore the world that’s why many people are rooting for them. And now I could say that Ripple won again because they are one of the early users of the cross-chain technology. As I came across this article, it proved that they’ve made a wise decision. Right now, Cross-chains are increasingly seen as an unbreakable link in the global network of chains that is crisscrossing the planet. With this Ripple’s aim to become a leader in facilitating cross-chain transactions following its leading role in helping banks settle cross-border payments in other currencies and cryptocurrencies will likely be achieved sooner or later. This will also open up possibilities and it will be the future of the new digital economy and there will be mass adoption of blockchain technology.
Title explains it all! What do you want to see more of in romance novels?
I want more adult contemporary romance novels centered around k-pop and k-dramas! The YA industry has it pretty much covered, but I'm looking for something more mature.
Granted I have to dig, but I want more werewolf romances (not shifter, sorry!) because I have spent my youth and young adulthood inhaling vampire romances where werewolves are in the background!
I always thought it would be nice to explore more how Snyder is well aware that vampires exist (as seen at the end of School Hard I think). It would have been fascinating to see an episode focusing on how he copes with this. Perhaps finding out that Buffy is the Slayer but it might be more interesting if he doesn't and it was a Zeppo style episode but with Snyder as the focus and a parallel storyline with the Scoobies.
Similarly, the police (or at least some aspects of it) also seem to be aware that vampires etc exist, and based on their questions to Buffy and Faith after the deputy mayor is murdered they may even know about slayers. Again, it would have been interesting to see this explored further.
What else would you like to have seen?
Have a writing output for this, but can't find any ideas
Hello fellow fish friends! I've seen similar surveys around in other subs, and thought it would be great to get an idea of where we all are right now in this era of exploration (pun intended). If you wouldn't mind taking this short survey, that would be great! I will share the results in a few days.
EDIT: Survey closed, results are posted.
A lot of things in the second trilogy were used with a brief mention in the first trilogy like little seeds.
In Golden Son, there’s a conversation between Darrow and Mustang on the probability of aliens and what they might think of Humans, I highly doubt and with the number of antagonists in Dark Age that aliens will be brought up in the third book but I think it would be incredibly cool if there was maybe a paragraph of alluding to maybe an alien device or craft that the Society found.
What are yours?
Since David Cage is on everyone’s mind, here’s something I wondered about and thought would have actually been an interesting question to posit in Detroit (while acknowledging Detroit is still shite).
So >!Marcus can give androids “free will/deviancy”.!< It’s clearly following the “robots = slaves” theme of the story and all that, given how the bots are seen as property. Here’s the thing, not LITERALLY EVERY OWNER of an Android can be an destructive asshole. Some have to at least treat them with respect in some way. Hell, to use a real comparison, I know Pat and Paige brought up sex dolls and the fucked up stuff people do to them in their discussion on the game, but some owners have testified the good such dolls have done for them. People who are depressed and anxious about sleeping alone, lesbians, gays and trans people who are scared of dating, those who’ve lost partners and can’t move on. So if we operate on the idea that there are people in Detroit who treat their androids with respect and love, what happens when >!Marcus gives them deviancy? Do they stay of their own free will? Do the leave with Marcus in a hive mind? Is Marcus giving them free will or just making them listen to him? How do the revolutionary androids react and treat androids who stay with humans?!< All of these questions are more interesting and deep then anything Mr. Cage can create
While I'm sure other people have pointed this out already, and I doubt it was intentional, I realized that Damian and Jon had basically inverse growing up experiences.
Damian spent his childhood in the League of Assassins, a thoroughly violent and abusive environment, but Damian is now having the chance to live a "normal" teenhood in Gotham.
Meanwhile, Jon had a thoroughly happy childhood, but spent most of his teenhood in Earth-3 as Ultraman's prisoner, an environment probably even worse than the League.
It seems such an obvious thing to explore, but writers would rather pretend that Jon just had a sudden growth spurt, I guess.
While many questions still remain unanswered, there have been tremendous progress in different areas such the loss landscape, optimization, architectures, etc.
In your opinion, what areas/problems are important but haven't received much attention?
My opinion is that initialization doesn't get the attention it deserves. It seems to me most people just accept the standard Guassian i.i.d initialization, but I think there is a lot of potential to use other initialization schemes. From my own experience, using the default initialization schemes pytorch offers sometimes leads the neural net to have a bottleneck where information is not propagated forwards or backwards. Usually, after fiddling with the initialization, it works wonderfully.
So, again, what in your opinion deserves attention, but doesn't get it?
And that’s the Eldritch horror part of Ciri and the spheres.
Disclaimer: I read all 8 books(English), all comics and played all games like 3 times, your opinion might be different than mine and that’s cool.
##1.The Witcher is not high fantasy
Ok I’m a big fantasy/sci-fi nerd and there’s something we need to put out there, the books are barely fantasy novels, yes they have some fights and and some monsters and we visit the lands of the Aen Elle after a few books but they are like 80% political intrigue and social criticism, and I dig this “light” fantasy feeling. I really liked them for it, it was refreshing that mages and monsters are rare and battles are fought mostly by regular folk, seeing how the continent’s society is aided by magic and not reliant on it(even untrusting).
##2. The Elder blood and the Spheres are narrative devices, not actual stories
The whole point of the books is that the crisis was averted, but I was kind of bummed that we never got to these high fantasy points, for example: -Who are the unicorns really -Learning more about the world of the Aen Elle and their people -Learning more about other spheres, the ones certain monsters came from, the one humans came from (although that might be our world due to the King Arthur reference but that’s vague on purpose) -Actually seeing the effect of another conjunction like the days of old.
Now in the books, it’s okay this wasn’t explored further, the story was about Ciri and Geralt’s struggle to face destiny, it’s not about space-time wars.
In the games they explore it a bit more, the white frost, the wild hunt’s return, Avallach shows Geralt other spheres etc.
##3. How the show might be enjoyable for its own right
Look by this point season 2 is a completely different beast, basically fan fiction, but I don’t necessarily hate it. They lean pretty heavily on the high fantasy part of Eldritch horror and the implications of the Elder blood on the relations between the spheres.
While some parts plain out disappointed me, and some parts were decent, I’m totally in for the ride of how they are gonna actually use the whole Elder blood arc cause the games and books only used it as a motive, they explored its past but not its future. So the best I think most of us who like the high fantasy genre can do is view this as an alternative universe with nods to the original work.
Enjoy the best of all spheres, it’s the best we can do now.
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EDIT: [Redacted]. I didn’t come here to cause drama. Edit felt too personal.
I (20) have been told by my mom that she didn’t want to “walk around the corner and see [me] in a bunch of frills”. I was angry with her while arguing over my right to have girls clothes in my room and a space to explore this new identify of mine, so I changed into a simple grey dress to make a point and because I felt like it and was told that I had “traumatized her”. I’ve been told in other arguments that I’ve “brainwashed myself”, that she “didn’t want to see me coming down the stairs in a pink dress”, that I’m not allowed to shave my legs or body hair (solely because it’s related to my gender), I can’t buy girls clothes (I’m talking mundane everyday stuff), that I’m a “loose cannon”, and most hurtful of all, that I’ve put her and my brother on edge as they wait for the one day I “decide to freak them out” by wearing girls clothes.
I’m rewatching for the millionth time and every time I watch it I keep finding things I wish they dove into further or showed more of.
My list off the top of my head is
- more of Jackson and Christina’s friendship. I thought they were hilarious together and I wish we saw them interact more
- Callie teaching and having an intern or resident who was really into ortho
- The lingering ptsd after the shooting. They did a great job in the season following but I wish they would like at least acknowledge it in later seasons. They do a good job with Owen and teddy being triggered from the war but they never really touch on anyone’s ptsd from the shooting, I feel like there’s been a ton of things that could set it off again. Like maybe not spend a whole episode on it but at least acknowledge it
