Responsible scientists terminate their cruel experiment once it's not needed anymore.
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We're pretty close to dying from climate change.
Misanthropy is an understandable sentiment, but succumbing to it robs you of the agency to make the world a better place.
This pisses me off. I can't make the world a better place. We can't make it a better place. We are the very reason it's as bad as it is! Squirrels aren't out there with ponzi schemes. Toads aren't building machines that destroy natural resources. Scorpions aren't committing genocide in the name of a made up God so they can take land from other scorpions. We are the only thing on this planet that does not fit into the systems that exist. I know that kind of statement bothers people because you believe yourselves to be good because your aren't X, but everything you and I do causes suffering. Everything.
No no, you can choose to make the world a better place by removing humanity from it.
It's not very cash money of you to do it but you can do it. Unless the humanity we're talking about are just the humans with an awful lot of cash money... That's a different story
Americans after one bad election: "Everyone in the whole history of the world is trash and we should all be exterminated"
Eh, one bad election? Have you been under a rock? Do people forget 2016? And all the smaller elections in between then and now? Millions of us are losing basic human rights for a while now.
Do people forget 2016?
Yes. That's how Trump wins in 2024.
Millions of us are losing basic human rights for a while now.
The eugenists insisting that humanity is failed and we need a grand culling to fix it are at the forefront of that effort.
Wow, you gotta be pretty privilege in one way or more to say that's at the forefront
No I've recognized the virus-like existence of humans for the bulk of my 43 years. We have the capacity to do better, but don't and that's what makes us so fucking awful.
No one thinks they're a bad person, but bad people exist.
No I’ve recognized the virus-like existence of humans for the bulk of my 43 years.
So do most of the people who vote (or don't vote) for this shit. Maybe we should stop focusing so much on how much everyone else sucks and start trying to help each other.
People giving up is what got us into this position.
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No one thinks they're a bad person, but bad people exist.
Person is singular and people is plural.
Just where my head went.
More a series of ongoing failures, whittling away of freedoms, vilification of the "other" (chosen targets periodically changing), and willful ignorance spread over decades. Just seems more focused these days and across more than the US.
Dickheads who lack the media literacy to realise that Agent Smith was, in fact, the bad guy.
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Climate change and nukes baby
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Jim Carrey is da best
Humanity is many concurrent experiments.
Yes, a rather important collection of them have rotted.
The old world is refusing to gracefully build for the new one to grow into its place.
What do we want to build after this wildfire?
Vishnu's defense against the rage of Shiva takes priority now. Vishnu must think and plan to defend what resources to preserve for Brahma to start growing something new.
I'd say that caring for our planet, our planetary neighbors, and our people are more important than any profits, petroleum, plastics, wars, or mass surveillance spyware systems with giant data centers chugging our freshwater to inefficiently do things we had solutions for in the 90s.
I had to fill out an outlook form on my phone for a job fair. Slowed down my phone so much I had to wait for the letters to appear after typing. Scrolling and moving between text fields was also a pain. Crashed once and I had to refresh the page and start over. Why isn't this a simple html webpage? Submitting forms with text fields is basic html. Lightweight, low power use, works everywhere. The page needed nothing else.
Web2.0 (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Web Services) was a scam takeover of a free technology system by oligarchs just as the general public started to use it writ large thanks to smartphones. Everything since has been them using their oligarchic control over our societal brain to take over society itself.
My biggest problem with this movie is that we didn't get Biolizard.
But otherwise it was amazing
But there was the tease of ~~Mecha~~ Metal Sonic!
Edit: Thanks to @[email protected] for the most detailed correction I have ever received. Your response makes the word "pedantry" appear paltry in the presence of what you have presented before us. Thank you.
um ackshually that's Metal Sonic, first appearing in Sonic CD.
Mecha Sonic is a boss from Sonic 2 Game Gear, and is totally different.
Which should never be confused with Mecha Sonic that's one of the final bosses of Sonic 2 Mega Drive/Genesis.
Or Mecha Sonic Mk II from Sonic and Knuckles, who is clearly an upgraded version of Mecha Sonic, not an upgraded version of Mecha Sonic.
Or Super Mecha Sonic, the transformation of Mecha Sonic Mk II, but who has nothing to do with Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic, or Metal Sonic.
And I could never imagine how anyone could be stupid enough to confuse them with Mecha Sonic Mk III, the background decoration from Sonic Adventure, who is clearly an upgrade of Mecha Sonic, not an upgrade of Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic Mk II, or Metal Sonic. (Why do I taste copper?)
But you could be forgiven for mistaking Metal Sonic for his later self-upgraded form Neo Metal Sonic, the antagonist from Sonic Heroes.
Neo Metal Sonic can transform into Metal Madness from Sonic Heroes. Only a fool would think that Metal Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic, Mecha Sonic Mk II, Super Mecha Sonic, or Mecha Sonic Mk III could do that.
Metal Madness can transform into Metal Overlord, of course. I don't know how that could be any more obvious, or how anyone could confuse this for Metal Madness. C'mon they're completely distinct. (Does anyone smell burnt toast?)
And only an idiot wouldn't understand Metal Sonic 3.0 is a completely new robot made as an upgraded version of Metal Sonic, created by an alternate dimension version of Eggman who isn't from an alternate dimension but is from the future, who is a rival to Metal Sonic who is no longer Neo Metal Sonic. It's mind boggling that something so simple could confuse anyone with a basic modicum of intelligence.
And the Metal Sonics from the Archie comics are entirely self explanatory. Why is there this wet red stuff coming out of my ears? I think I'm going to have a lie down.
I wish this comment would just keep going on forever. I played the Sonic Heroes demo once 20ish years ago. I am basically a Sanic myself.
Sonic lore is hilariously messy. It gets absolute batshit when you start getting into the Archie comics. There's more than enough to keep going forever, but at some point you need to address your own brain oozing out your ears and stop.
There's some minor stuff I left out, like how Mecha Sonic (Game Gear) is often called Silver Sonic to differentiate it from Mecha Sonic (Mega Drive/Genesis) when talking about the games, but Mecha Sonic (Mega Drive/Genesis) is canonically named Silver Sonic in the Archie Comics. Both of those are different from Silver the Hedgehog, who is from the future that alternate dimension Nega Eggman (mentioned in the other comment) is from.
And seriously, the Archie comics timeline is insane. This is from the "Metal Sonic Series (Archie Comics)" page on the Sonic Wiki, and it's notably not the only robot doppelgangers-of-characters "team".
Like how do you even start with that? First Robotnik War? Metal Sonic v3.0 is separate from the other versions, but spoiler: he isn't the same 3.0 from Sonic Rivals 2. Mecha Sonic is a separate entity from Silver Sonic?
Also, presented without comment: Psuedo-Sonic from the Archie comics.
People tend to think of the old Star Wars Extended Universe as the classic over-detailed lore, but the Sonic Archie comics are way way up there too. It was the longest running monthly comic book series to never be relauched, with roughly 512 total issues if you count the spinoffs.
Cybershell is an old Something Awful goon who's made plenty of Sonic videos, but I think his Archie Sonic retrospective/postmortem is an entertaining overview, if heavy on using the word removed. Was totally aping some of his attitude for that shitpost of a comment.
This guy Sonics, holy shit
Taking an "um ackschully" to the extreme! You're a legend!
Holy shit this is a quality comment
Bro. I would like to subscribe to your sonic news letter. Also fuck the bosses at the end of sonic 2. I died like 100 times there cuz no rings.
Thank you for your thoroughness. My experience started at the Genesis with "Mecha" and was not aware of the CD variant. Your knowledge is not wasted.
This is a shitpost worthy of the Gods.
Holy shit. Bro.
Doesn't pedantry just mean teaching? I think y'all knocked it out together, because you set him up
Edit My bad wikip says "Pedantry
an excessive concern with formalism, minor details, and rules that are not important.
this is the first line of Lamb of God's Reclamation and boy does that song get more relevant every year
Thanks for the callout.
It's "Reclamation" you festering parasite
nice catch, i hate typing on phones
Yep. Has been ever since the Golgafrinchan B Ark crashed here and killed the native population and broke the computer the size of a planet.
Slartibartfast is devastated.
He did the coast line in that one country. Pretty good work.
Beautiful fjords. No wonder the parrot was pining for them.
Everything Robotnik says is Truth and/or too good for this movie. You will not convince me that Jim Carrey, "artistic consultant", did not write his own lines - nobody was able to tell him no. It was either that or explicit Robotnik/Stone.
Given the grandfather/grandson montage, that sounds about right.
So can we start over?
Sure, but perhaps we could find a means different from what he was suggesting.
Nah, seems like a solid plan.
You could be right.
Pookie!
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