I would watch a multi-season show called "Civilians", that followed people whom were/are affected by various events throughout the years

This is a concept that probably would never get made, but a guy could dream. At the very least, it would be funny to see how a MCU New Yorker would rationalize living in the city or, more interestingly, which alien invasion was the last straw. Insurance must be insane! Someone like Ashley Johnson's character would be fascinating because that was technically the first major event in New York and look at how many major events have happened since then!

u/Neither_Anteater_904 — 13 days ago
▲ 291 r/theydidthemath+1 crossposts

This just seems like an improbable task

[Off the bat, this isn't really a commentary on the person, but the title of the video and possibly the project as a whole, if it's a real thing they're trying to do.]

I stumbled across this video, and the idea kinda just blew my mind.

let's say this person is being legitimately serious (which I frankly doubt) and decided to go all the way back to the first RECORDED piece of music to present day (presumably) in chronological order. Okay, cool.

How?

It seems like a mathematically impossible feat for a person to accomplish. There's the subjectivity of music ( I guess that doesn't apply since they said that "People call me crazy because I don't listen to music"), there's thousands of genres, there's music not uploaded onto the internet, and then there's the damn internet itself. According to YouTube, 20 million videos get uploaded on the platform daily. SoundCloud alone had nearly 400 million songs on the platform last year. Spotify has 60 thousand every day!

u/Neither_Anteater_904 — 18 days ago
▲ 205 r/batman

Could the general audience resonate with a version of Batman who isn't violent?

It would be really curious to see how the character would be approached if he didn't decide to train himself to fight crime, but instead solely focused on his detective skills? What would that look like? How may this change his character? Would it make Bruce more or less complex? How would this change Gotham? Would the city be in a better state? How would this affect his rouge's gallery? Would he even have one? Is this a foundational aspect of Bruce Wayne that must always be?

A nonviolent Bruce Wayne is an avenue that doesn't get to be explored at all, and the idea of it is very interesting to me.

u/Neither_Anteater_904 — 25 days ago

What is a lesser known game that has a surprisingly amazing soundtrack?

For me, it was Cross Code. I actually got into it recently. It was on my wishlist for so long that I couldn't remember why it was on there other than it had to have been a recommendation.

I can't recall a game soundtrack that has earwormed this quickly into my psyche before. All day at work, I had the Battle 2 theme stuck in my head.

u/Neither_Anteater_904 — 1 month ago

In the latest Sneak Peek episode, Erik mentioned that there would be a Starkiller movie coming out. I haven't heard of any such development for that. I assume that he's referring to Starfighter??

If that's true, where did he get that information from because that would be a huge deal within the Star Wars community?

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u/Neither_Anteater_904 — 2 months ago
▲ 70 r/LiesOfP

I beat the game and I have one thought about this man

My thought was that I never bought into the idea that Geppetto was trustworthy or even remotely cared about Krat.

I already had familiarity with the story of Pinocchio in different interpretations, so Geppetto being an understatedly weird yet talented man is just canon.

I couldn't tell you why, but meeting him off- the-bat, I was just suspicious. Perhaps, it was due to the fact that a lot of people were killed by frenzied puppets. Maybe Geppetto rang of upper class society being safe while most of ordinary citizens were in peril, disease ridden, or dead in the streets struck me immediately. (literally has his own room in Hotel Krat that is massive, Hotel Krat just reeks of opulence)

The distrust began to foster when he would outright instruct P to assassinate key figures that held some form of control or domination of Krat post P's awakening. Sure, Hotel Krat is supposed to be a safe haven, but the man who had a hand at creating all the puppets that have gone into a frenzy is sitting cozy there doing jackshit but ordering me around and detailing locations P will travel to.

Additionally, wouldn't Geppetto want P safe from danger? Wouldn't he want to spend time more time with P as a city in ruin from disease and violence seems like the perfect opportunity to share moments together? Wouldn't someone like him - if he genuinely cared about Krat and its citizens - feel responsible and want to do something about the frenzy?

u/Neither_Anteater_904 — 2 months ago

I spared him. Thirty minutes later, it felt like the wrong choice.

I just finished the main story for the first time. I was thoroughly surprised by the emotionality of the game, the themes of honor, family, and brutal war; and of course, it's persistently ever present environmental beauty.

Throughout the game, I very much embraced the legend of The Ghost. Which often went against the honor code of Lord Shimura. I even agreed with Jin on his ideology that being so honor bound, like his uncle would get no one anywhere in their war against the Mongols. It was up until Jin asked Yukio to make the poison, that I considered his methods were actually extreme.

(I wanted to mention that the clash between gameplay and narrative was apparent in this particular instance because I believed Jin and his party were doing just fine without the poison. However, when I think about the history of various wars and technologies advancing from them, it's not that far of a stretch to see Jin would go in this direction to do anything that meant saving Tsushima since his position on honor was evolving - or devolving, depending on who you ask. Especially since the Mongols were carrying all kinds of weaponry to capture Tsushima.)

One of the many consequences of this decision would end with Jin and Shimura dueling. When given the choice between sparing his uncle/surrogate father or killing him, I chose to save him. My reasoning behind this choice involved the idea that I could not envision Jin killing a family member, and while Jin was already being labeled as a traitor, it would've looked especially bad to kill your politically high positioned uncle and the citizens are looking at you as their savior. His trauma regarding his father's death not only weighed on him but also on me. Oftentimes, I was reminded by the familial tragedies of his allies (except Kenji as I don't even recall him mentioning family at all). His own journey as a samurai is built on the foundations of his father's death and his inability to save him. When confronted with killing or sparing Shimura, I immediately thought of his father.

However, this seemed like the wrong choice. As I mentioned, all of your allies lose or come into the story without family. If you want to go deeper about it, some of them wind up losing themselves. Across Tsushima, families are being torn apart and decimated signaling the cost of war. Jin, by all accounts, has lost almost every family member except for his uncle by this point in the game. Not killing his uncle would not only bring great shame to Shimura, but may possibly put him in a worse off position politically with the shogun and in his position as Tito since Jin/The Ghost was not brought down. To add, we did end up wounding this old man physically and not to mention emotionally, probably for the remainder of his life. Jin, also, goes against Shimura's wishes to be killed in battle. I don't know if that dishonors him, but it feels that way if you sit in Shimura's frame of mind. It honestly felt like I screwed this man.

I can't on the top of my head think of another game that had me conflicted with sparing someone by game's end. Idk when ill play the sequel, but I look forward to it!

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u/Neither_Anteater_904 — 3 months ago