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Cake day: June 6th, 2024

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  • Did you just pull a “No I’m not, you are!”

    Dude, wow… just, wow.

    Dont lie. You would never have considered my point. Because you’re more concerned about being “right” than actually changing your viewpoint.

    Ive presented straight up facts. Also note that you didn’t even refute my argument. You are not a black person. Ask yourself how I could know this. Then try to understand how little of your own thoughts are actually yours.

    Maybe if you do that you’ll learn to deprogram yourself. But hey, I get it. It’s easier to blame other people for your shortcomings.

    I won’t respond any more to any further arguments on your part.



  • Sword fight? Fanning at each other, crossing and smacking swords. Maybe even walking around each other. I don’t think that’s how a real sword fight would look.

    In real life most sword fights would be over in seconds with no more than three moves. BUT obviously that’s not very visually appealing so we get insane sword clashes with lots of unnecessary movement and the infamous “sword lock” where the swordsmen needlessly press into each other for that dramatic tension despite that being something that is never, ever done.

    Interestingly enough, one of the BEST sword fights in cinema is in The Princess Bride. It manages to be dynamic and engaging and lengthy without giving into a lot of bad swordfighting tropes. This is a great rundown of the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0rkUbrPo3k







  • For real. Omg you just reminded me of another absolutely stupid scene from the Netflix series, Another Life. That series’ writing is so bad some people think it’s on purpose.

    So the ship needs to perform a gravity assist to avoid a cloud of dark matter or something. During the slingshot maneuver, they get so close to the star that they should’ve been absolutely vaporized. But you know what, fine. Flying unnaturally close to the star looks cool and the rule of cool applies. But their first attempt at the gravity assist FAILS and now they have to try again.

    That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.



  • Space Flight.

    I walked in on my roommate watching “Don’t Look Up” right during the space shuttle launch scene. Literally every single thing was wrong. The trajectory the shuttle took off the launch pad. It flying RIGHT SIDE UP as it did the gravity turn like a fucking airplane. The fact 50 other rockets were in formation with it despite that being stupidly dangerous, them all having different TWR ratios, there not being nearly enough launchpads anywhere in the world to do that, etc. Just everything.

    We have existing video footage of shuttle launches. It’s not some crazy mystery. This isn’t Gravity where they add a window that doesn’t exist on the ISS for dramatic tension. It’s not Star Wars where the X-Wings behave more like airplanes than spacecraft for visual appeal. This was deliberate negligence.

    A very common one is spacecraft seem to always launch in a direct line away from the planet. They just go straight up. That’s the least efficient way to get into space. But I usually let it slide because explaining orbital mechanics and Hoffman transfers isn’t necessary for good story telling.


  • In Criminal Minds, there’s a super hacker that can basically infiltrate any system at will and do impossible things (like simultaneously scanning every street cam to find a specific license plate). Government supercomputers with elite security are no match for her.

    Okay, I get it. This is a work of fiction and she’s basically a mechanism to speed up the plot.

    In one episode they find some kid’s password protected laptop. The super hacker goes “oh no, I can’t hack that. It’s running Anti-Hack OS! We need the password”. The password ends up being plain text password that a brute force dictionary attack could break in seconds.

    I’ve never facepalmed so hard.




  • I remember arguing with dipshits the last time this was a hot topic. Their lame arguments basically boiled down to “think of the children” as if the only reason people were using a particular restroom was they were perverts spying on women.

    First, obviously this isn’t true. Not even a little bit.

    Second, even IF it were true, which I remind you, it isn’t, wouldn’t a better solution be to allow either parent to accompany the child to the restroom?

    “What if a pervert follows my daughter into the bathroom?” “Okay, so you want to make it illegal for you to go in with her?”

    And let’s not forget that this is unenforcable to begin with. What, are they going to require ID check? Make you present your birth certificate? Have you pull down your pants before you can enter? FFS due to a clerical error my ID mistakenly said I was female for a time. I would’ve been legally required to use female restrooms.


  • I love Ryan and she definitely came into her own with great acting, but initially she wasn’t as great an actor. BUUUT that totally worked because she was Borg so her wooden acting was perfect for the role! And as she improved as an actress that came off as 7of9 becoming more human.

    IIRC there was a late season episode where different parts of Voyager were stuck in different time periods and 7of9 was supposed to be her original Borg self and Ryan had such a massive problem with it because she’d essentially forgotten how to be a bad actor.