Meaning: A victory that is not worth winning because so much is lost to achieve it/a victory that wasnβt even worthwhile in the end. βWe wonβ¦but at what cost?β
Examples 1: Anderson Silva vs Demian Maia, a performance so lacklustre that even though Anderson dominated the fans and media was ripping him for months for not pressing the action and being boring, even Dana was asking him to apologise and called it βthe most embarrassing night in the UFCs historyβ. Leaving midway through the fight.
Example 2: Michael Bisping vs Dan Henderson 2, Bisping got dropped and almost finished in multiple rounds with his face being torn to shreds while Dan just had a couple red marks. Dan was way past his prime fringe too 10 and wasnβt seen as a real contender. The talk after the fight was Mike isnβt a real champ who a 100yr old Dan Henderson almost won against and that he was dodging the real contenders.
Example 3: Frankie Edgar vs Gray Maynard 3. Frankie took a ton of damage in the bouts with Maynard, with him saying in the 3rd bout after getting dropped in round 1 he didnβt βcome toβ until the 4th round and didnβt know what happened.
Apart from Pyrrhusβ own Pyrrhic victories of courseβ¦
Pyrrhic Victory. It wasnt a concept we had every dealt with before the war with the Humans.
Humans werent new to the Galactic Stage, they'd been around for a few generations, and they'd had FTL even longer. They were just on the other side of the Galaxy than the rest of the Galactic Community, so no one had meet them before the [wormhole/Einstein-Rosen bridge] that made a short cut across the galactic core possible was found.
They had a decent sized empire of their own, a half dozen or so systems fully "civilized" and well over a dozen frontier systems when our science teams met them. Each system was its own "nation", but they all participated in the United Terran Government.
The UTG was delighted to meet new species, and the Galactic Community was glad to have new trade possibilities.
The humans were... rugged. They preferred worlds most species avoided. If you had a world with too much solar radiation, and its gravity well was too deep, but had a wealth of resources? Charter a human mining corporation. More than one human "resort" popped up after such charters.
Everything was going great, until the Ard'utan decided the wanted a system on the Humans side of the [wormhole Einstein-Rosen bridge].
The Ard'utan were... an outlier of the Galactic Community. They kept to themselves, and wanted no trade or diplomatic contact with anyone else, they weren't xenophobic, in that they wanted to destroy other species, but as a species they saw anyone not of them, lesser. Bugs to be ignored. They only swatted if you bit them. So no one antagonized them.
They kept their borders more or less closed with a military might larger than the rest of the Galactic Community combined. Even if you added in all the UTG fleets, they still had a slight edge in ships... one and a half ships to one of ours.
The Ard'utan astronomy had calculated that one of the Human systems was one of their sacred stars. It had a modest human station on it, little more than a repair and refueling depo on a semi habitable moon, so the Humans offered to sale the system to the Ard'utan.
The Ard'utan... felt this was an insult. They saw the system as a holy site, and the Humans profaned it by living in its light... then had the audacity to offer it for sale. They "sanctified" the moon with plasma.
The humans were... upset.
Before, the UTG was little more than a diplomatic entity that allowed all Terran Governments to maintain Diplomatic Ties. After... the humans united behind its banner. It
... keep reading on reddit β‘How many of the Old Apes feel as i do?
The banksters have bought out and control the Government, which has completely fu*#ed up the World, Up is Down and Male is Female and any shade of grey in between, Education has become indoctrination rooms and debt has been expanded, people have been robbed and forced to speculate in manipulated markets to try stay above water.
They are burning down the house to get away with their ill-gotten loot.
I no longer care whether Silver goes up in Fiat value or not, i just want to see JUSTICE prevail and take these vermin out .
DISCLAIMER
This is a crossover fanfic of Wings of Fire and How to Train Your Dragon. It's also a sequel to a previous fic called Pyrrhic Fury. If you have questions, such as "What happened in the first fic?", ask u/Ninj0guy, u/StormbringerO5-5, or u/Grouchy_Raccoon_6681, as they have read it. Thank you and enjoy.
"SHADETAIL!"
"Yes?" Shadetail called, suppressing an eye roll with the utmost difficulty. Nightshade was hungry again.
"Bring me another fish!"
"Yes, Nightshade!" This time, Shadetail failed to suppress the urge to roll his luminous green eyes. Nightshade was perfectly fit enough to go outside and catch his own fish. He just enjoyed making Shadetail do it instead.
"Bring me another fish, Shadetail." he muttered all the way down to the underground lake where the rebels had set up their hideout. "No, Shadetail, I can't get it myself. It would take waaaaay too much effort to drag myself all of those six feet to the nearest food cave and snag myself a dried mackerel. Youuuuuu do it, Shadetail. I'm just too laaaaazy."
"What was that?"
"Nothing!" squeaked Shadetail. "*Ahem-*nothing, nothing at all. Here's your fish, sir."
"Hmmmph." grunted Nightshade, snatching the fish from Shadetail's claws and tossing it into his mouth. Shadetail watched as he chewed the fish slowly, then swallowed. He sighed with contentment, then turned and deliberately spat the bones into Shadetail's face. The fish's spine bounced off of his nose and the sharp end left a little gash on the end of his snout. The sudden sting caused him to step back a pace, which seemed to amuse Nightshade greatly. The bigger Night Fury roared with laughter at the sight of his assistant apparently scared of a fish bone.
"Ha! Haha! What's the matter, little lackey? Scared of a little dead fishy?"
"No, sir." Shadetail muttered.
"Speak up when your king addresses you, you disrespectful, pathetic excuse for a Night Fury."
"No, sir, I wasn't-"
THWACK!
Nightshade lashed out with his tail and caught Shadetail full in the face with his extra-sharp tail fins. The razor-thin flanges tore three deep cuts in the smaller dragon's face, leaving it red and dripping with fresh blood. Nightshade watched with mild disinterest as Shadetail desperately tried to stem the bleeding. One of the cuts was just above his right eye, and blood ran into it, clouding his vision. He never saw Nightshade's tail whip around and slam into his left cheek too. He only felt the red-hot pain as Nightshade's tail
... keep reading on reddit β‘Also, how long do you think it will be until the Exile set comes back?
I vividly remember both unlocking and turning my pyrrhic ascent vestment into a ornament and now it's nowhere to be seen, it's unlocked in my collection but it isn't showing as a useable ornament, it doesn't even appear in the menu to be turned into an ornament
One of the things I canβt shake with Cliffhanger is how hollow the victory feels. Itβs great that Gabe, Hal and Jessie survive, but letβs recap their βadventureβ - Gabe fails to rescue Halβs gf and she plunges horribly to her death, Hal now hates Gabe.
Gabe is racked with guilt and returns for Jessie, who berates him for feeling guilty. At that exact moment, a team of psychotic criminals crash land above them and fake a distress call. Jessie guilt-trips Gabe into helping Hal get them down, only for them to have guns shoved in their faces on arrival, and forced to help the villains find their money, with the implication theyβll be βdiscardedβ once they cease to be of use. As if these poor mountain folk arenβt already dealing with enough tragedy.
Gabeβs misfortune gets worse as he is relentlessly shot at, beaten, bombed, frozen, almost yanked off a mountain ledge. Meanwhile Hal is beaten, strangled, threatened and insulted.
Worst of all though, he is made to watch his friends, Brett, Evan and even old Frank, get needlessly gunned down by the villains. Renny Harlin loves doing this - create some loveable characters and then murder them - like those passengers of Windsor 114 in Die Hard 2, including naughty kid, his parents, anxious old lady and (in the workprint) very young girl and her doll.
In the case of Frank, they hold down Hal as Frank approaches in the helicopter, knowing that its blades will drown out Halβs screams trying to warn him. Krystal shoves her gun in Frankβs face, confusing the poor old geezer (βbut, I was trying to help you..?β)
Then they release Hal, teasing him with βbetter run Tucker, a friend in need!β so they can relish gunning down Frank before Hal can save him. This is all done in slow motion of course (and was even gorier in the workprint). Hal comforts Frank in his dying moments (βwhy?β) as the villains make jokes. Krystel yells at Delmar βyou stupid maniac! No one told you to shoot!β but she only seems perturbed because she got Frankβs blood on her pretty face. Delmar lightheartedly shrugs βweβve wasted enough timeβ.
All this stuff is rather traumatic and doesnβt really fit the fun-action-movie mould, but listening to Rennyβs commentaries he likes to have his villains slaughter innocent people so that βthe audience will want Sylvester/Bruce to kill the villainsβ.
Heβs right, but whereas Die Hard limits how much innocent life is taken to preserve the fun tone, Renny goes all in. It would be nice to have some requiem for Fran
... keep reading on reddit β‘
An example I always think of is 2017 Iron Bowl for Auburn. They won but lost Kerryon and in the next game he fumbled due to getting hit in his injured arm IIRC.
