A almost 50 year old man doesn’t want to look uncool on his bike.
Have you noted to him how fucking uncool it is for a grown man to think safety (especially of children) is uncool?
Takes just one slipup of someone, not even them, but just someone in traffic, and he will never forgive himself his shitty attitude.
Strictly speaking humanity is a part of nature.
I think the easiest thing “plot-wise” is to endow the magical object itself with a sort of sentience. Like not as much as the Sorting Hat in HP, but to the tune of that.
I strongly feel Vision definitely is sentient, as anyone who’s seen TNG would know the arguments made for Data, and they very much apply here. If we assume the first, and there is something in the hammer that judges people, then yeah, it’s hard to explain how some can move the hammer a bit, but not gain the power, despite the wording of the spell. Cap almost moves the hammer, even making tor raise an eyebrow slightly. So perhaps there’s “degrees of worthiness”. And Vision is pretty high up there, but not “have all the power” high. Or perhaps the power just didn’t manifest at all because Vision didn’t even try to “tap into” it. Who knows, comics can explain it however they feel like.
But I would not agree that Vision is “an elevator”.
“Prove to the court I am sentient.” - Captain Picard (from “ST:TNG The Measure of a Man”)
These are fun to talk about but yeah, it does boil down to “take your pick.” Still, doesn’t mean we can’t have fun theorising.
Fair enough.
Although I’d call it the Picard tug or something, perhaps. Huehue
Exactly.
The Picard Maneuver was born out of desperation during the battle. The Stargazer, which was damaged, suddenly accelerated into high warp directly towards the Ferengi ship. By doing so the Stargazer appeared to ship’s sensors, for an instant, to be in two places at once.
Do you guys not know that that is exactly what a Picard maneuver is? Seemingly being in two positions at once?
The Picard Maneuver was born out of desperation during the battle. The Stargazer, which was damaged, suddenly accelerated into high warp directly towards the Ferengi ship. By doing so the Stargazer appeared to ship’s sensors, for an instant, to be in two places at once.
Since vision is clearly sentient, couldn’t one argue that his sort of absolute sense of morality just made him worthy?
Might not be a biological life form, but defining life is hard and he clearly is sentient.
Like imagine Commander Data. I think he could be worthy to lift the hammer, if it’s about the lifter being “good”. And TNG had a lot of arguing if he’s alive or no.
Yeah. I genuinely think it’s definitely not most people. And most people aren’t greedy.
But living in a society where the power is with the small insane minority who is greedy and blind to consequences will make a society in which even non-greedy people end up making “financially smart” decuisions (read:selfish gain at the possible cost to others, like cheap items despite knowing they come from countries with very badly exploited workers).
But yeah, I’m honestly of the opinion that we genuinely have only one massive problem on this planet, and it’s the psyche of these money/powerhungry fucks. And while it might be somewhat common — ambition is not be frowned upon, as long as you’re even vaguely moral — the truly pathological version comes when an ambitious psyche is twisted by our already somewhat twisted society.
Here’s a nice piece from a self-confessed money addict, former wall street trader. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html he’s also written an entire book about it.
So what could be done about this? Well, it’s genuinely an addiction and lack of empathy. Do we have any medication with anti-addictive and perhaps empathy-generating qualities?
We do, actually. They’ve been under lock and key for almost 100 years, because they’re potentially the antidote to the ills of our world, and the psyches of the powerful fear such things.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathogen
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/antiaddictive
That’s a mighty fine argument there, buddy.
Correction, you’re now pretending as if you knew what an implication is the whole time, when you clearly didn’t. If you had done, you wouldn’t have written “those words don’t appear on the text”, as I was obviously writing down what the implication is, not directly quoting something. Ie, in other words, yes, it is unlikely that Trump will win, so in most cases, US won’t stop supporting Ukraine, but on the off-chance that the diapered orange clown wins, he definitely would bend over for Putler.
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“It’s unlikely Trump would try to please Putin”
We had a laser printer and a divorced dad who was eager to please us.
So yeah, I printed the whole fucking walkthrough. :D
“Yer a wagene, 'Arry”
I think it’s more like they tested the plate and at best the plate could take three shots when optimally dispersed, in a way that there’s would still be a tiny chance that the wearer wouldn’t instantly die.
It’s more “improve your odds” than “be bullet-proof”.
Probably weren’t direct shots, but like, at an angle.
When I was in the army, we tried an insert like that in our shrapnel vests. The cost to mobility was pretty severe compared to the area the plate covered. Most troops wouldn’t have the inserts, and just have the std shrapnel vest.
https://reservilainen.fi/maenpaan-vinkit-nain-kaytat-suojaliivia-oikein/
Here’s what the Finnish one looks like with the inserts. Although this is a newer model than the one I had while serving.
GameFAQs zelda valktroug walktrough walkthrough ctrl-p
He’s a shit person and a shitty looking person.
I acknowledge one doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the other, but he’s still both.
Cleaning a disposable bazooka?