I think technically it’s a parody of Poe’s story?

I think power-scaling can be fun, but I also think it’s like trying to divine oracular messages from an absent-minded fool.

Using your example: when the characters in the show say Big Dick One can lift five trucks, are they exact? Is it hyperbole? Is it even a useful example? Do the showrunners even bother keeping track of that sort of thing?

Now for that last one, that’s a pain point for a lot of power scaling. After all, if you go through all the trouble to mathematically determine that Rex Sciencefist can hold his breath for at least three minutes, but the next episode has a plot point where he can only hold his breath for two? Is there a flaw? Is there some explanation? No, it’s just that you’re looking for consistency in a place that the people making the media just do not give a shit about.

You can be angry with the showrunners for their inconsistency, or you can accept that the people making the show just don’t care as much about the power scaling and are fine with making the characters as powerful as they need to be for the plot to happen.

Because at the end of the day, power scaling is all about trying to determine the limits of a bunch of make-believe characters whose limits exist solely at the whims of the author trying to make neat stories out of them.

If you think about it, a spacecraft only really needs to handle about 1 atm of pressure, which isn’t much compared to something like a deep sea submersible that needs to handle 100+.

There’s an answer right there.

I’d like to remake Darkest of Days and let it live up to its potential.

This is because racism is dumb, illogical, and inconsistent.

Don’t forget everyone was also drunk and suffering from lead poisoning

I sometimes use nitter.poast.org, it works fine for me.

If your own neurotransmitters aren’t working right, store-bought is fine.

Not political

Disagree: if you start at the top and work down, then the wet spots don’t drip down onto the parts you’ve already dried.

So with adjustment:

If the goal is to make a living wring a serial comic, success would be having C>=A so you can afford to keep making and publishing more comics.

In fact, you can copy and paste this for pretty much any business large enough to have shareholders.

Basically liberalism tends to be capitalist, whereas leftism tends to be anticapitalist. Historically, there’s been a pattern of centrists and capitalist allying with authoritarians and fascists against leftists, so the insult boils down to “you’d support a fascist before you went against capitalism”

The other misogynistic element is the Madonna/Whore complex, in my opinion.

Mothers are often classically viewed as the Madonna (it’s in the name), so they’re good and kind and virtuous.

However, I’ve insinuated that I fucked your mom, and if your mom has fucked, that means she’s a Whore because a Good Woman^tm doesn’t have a sexuality. By claiming that I’ve fucked your mom, I’m claiming to have defiled the sacred Madonna and turned her into a profane Whore.

In other words, saying “I fucked your mom” is basically saying “your mom’s a slut”, and in a worldview where women wanting to fuck is a sign of evil, that’s an insult.

Re: #6 prior to the invasions of the Angles/Saxons England was invaded by the Romans and a number of cities sprung up in the south populated by latin-speaking peoples. When Western Rome collapsed, the state capacity needed to maintain large urban centers went with it. The Roman inhabitants didn’t leave, though, but instead mixed with the local culture and the language dispersed into the general population of England.

At the same time the only thing left of Western Rome’s larger institutions was the Church, whose organization was inherited from Roman civic structures and who were the ones preserving written knowledge, which would be written in Latin.

Irish isn’t a race

Well, not any more, anyways.

Do you think objectification is good and healthy?

Here’s exactly what you want: a feminist forum that’s specifically for discussing men’s issues (including sexuality) in a constructive and healthy manner.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MensLib/

See, that’s really interesting to me! The mainstream feminist spaces I’ve interacted with have been very sex-positive, so I’m curious how you’ve experienced this demonization.

Christianity I can understand, but would you mind explaining why you think feminism demonizes masturbation?