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This guy doesn’t know about second midnight

Anyone who says that phrase in my presence at any point for the rest of my life is getting punched right in the mouth.

I personally know at least three people that would also just adopt the raccoon if they came up to the door

I mean, for someone whose primary way of expressing themselves to the world is via webcomics, I think that drawing a webcomic about your trauma is a reasonable response to the grief. Everyone grieves in their own way, and Loss in particular was a stand out because it’s so very different to the rest of CAD. There’s no dialogue. There’s no silly joke. It is obvious to the reader that something awful has happened here. Using art to cope with grief is a tradition as old as art.

The rest of it though, yeah, fuck Tim Buckley. I just don’t really agree with the internet-wide dunking that the original Loss comic was given. It was obvious to me at the time that the man was grieving, and I kind of feel bad that that expression of genuine grief was turned into a meme that people still joke about 16 years later.

Based on the existing Spider-Man’s power compared to that of an actual spider, Wolf-Spider-Man would just be an actual xenomorph.

You’re giving them money and engagement with which to continue. Having your eyes on that content and then returning the next day to see more is explicit approval of that content. And having those ads served to you makes Elon money which he then uses to serve more ads to everyone.

Essentially, visiting X is paying Elon real dollars directly and telling him thank you for the propaganda, may I please have another

This is news to me, thank you

Genuinely curious how long you could continue getting people to sink advertising dollars into the bot playground. If he played it smart I bet he could get a solid decade or so of people paying to show ads to AIs without telling them all the people are gone. Maybe longer, if he’s really smart and actually tells them for real that there’s no people in there but that their marketing materials will be incorporated into the AI in/output.

Damn I gotta get my numbers up. I don’t really post a lot of content but I’m pretty prolific in the comments. Gotta spice up my memes to get some kind of respect around here.

If only the people pushing the new software had complete control over their old software, the new software, and the new hardware. Oh well. Clearly there’s no way to preserve backwards compatibility here, it’s not like Google controls every detail of their manufacturing lineup.

Sure they do, I’ve revoked my consent by installing an adblocker I haven’t watched a video ad in probably 8 years.

Because when you get pissed off at one shitty video and click off it to find a better one, that’s free real estate in which to double your ads.

And what are you gonna do? Go to Peertube? YouTube is too gigantic to have a real competitor no matter how much we try. It is a beast so massive and bloated at this point that we just can’t kill it without legislative interference. And Google knows damn well that they’re basically the only game in town so they aren’t afraid of significant user backlash.

The internet

[This](https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?166459-(3-5\)What-is-it-that-makes-the-Hulking-Hurler-War-Hulk-so-powerful) seems to be the thread in question. This was a very fun read. With just a little bit of cheese, not even that much honestly, a War Hulk/Hulking Hurler can be brought up to the point of throwing entire galaxies. Several Gurren Lagann references abound.

In short, the build courtesy of Halae in that thread:

Progression

Race: Centaur

This build uses the elite ability score array: Str 15, Dex 14, Con 13, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 8. All ability score increases are dumped into Str.

ECL Class/HD/LA Feats Special

1st monstrous humanoid Power Attack

2nd monstrous humanoid +2 Str (17)

3rd LA +2 Str (19)

4th monstrous humanoid Cleave +2 Str (21)

5th LA +2 Str (23)

6th monstrous humanoid Large size

7th Lolth-touchedMM4 template LA +6 Str (29)

8th barbarian rage (33 str)

9th war hulkMH Point Blank Shot +2 Str (31/35)

10th war hulkMH +2 Str (33/39)

11th war hulkMH +2 Str, ability score increase (36/40)

12th war hulkMH Weapon Focus (50-lb rock) +2 Str (38/42)

13th hulking hurlerCW really throw anythingCW

14th war hulkMH +2 Str (40/44)

15th war hulkMH Brutal ThrowCAd +2 Str, ability score increase (43/47)

16th war hulkMH +2 Str (45/49)

17th war hulkMH +2 Str (47/51)

18th war hulkMH Natural HeavyweightPlH +2 Str (49/55)

19th war hulkMH +2 Str, ability score increase (52/56)

20th hulking hurlerCW overburdened heaveCW

Munchkin-Size Me

You can use the standard point buy to max out strength instead of getting the elite ability score array. (+3 = 59)

Belt of giant strength +6 (= 65)

Manual of gainful exercise +5 (= 70)

A runePGtF FRCS of righteous might will give a +4 size bonus to strength and increases your size to huge. (= 74)

A runePGtF FRCS of divine power will increase your BAB by 10. (It, also, gives a +6 enhancement bonus to Strength—which overlaps with the belt of giant strength—and at least 7 temporary hit points.)

At this point 2,863,104 lbs is a light load. So you can throw an improvised weapon doing 14319d6+32 points of damage (50148.5 average; damage reduction? What’s that?), and your attack bonus is (+17 BAB, +32 Str, −2 size, −2 improvised thrown weapon =) +45. Anything with an AC less than 48 can only be missed on a natural 1.

Overburdened heave: 28635d6+32 (100254.5 average)

add iron golem arm +12 ac d2 25/+2 +4 con and +12 str ( 92str (when raging)) 4 a +3 lv adust (can be taken at amy time)(give a gauntlet of rust to immune to rusting)

Change your ram

Nearly every DragonBall character is named after food, actually. Like, a huge majority of them are.

Yep. Spin up your own website and throw a couple YouTube ads out into the world. We’ll have legislation drafted making this illegal before your first server bill comes due.

I mean, yeah it might have been, not because that makes it okay but because of a lack of attention on the subject. Then again he also might have gotten sued after the fact like Trump with his campaign trail music he keeps using without permission.

However, Elon did ask first, and was met with the response of “no, we absolutely do not want our product associated with you or your business in any fashion.” So he then carried on to create a barely legally distinct derivative which easily calls to mind the iconic scene in question, and then name drop Blade Runner in the accompanying speech.

Imagine for a moment, you write Bill Gates and ask him if you can use his likeness for advertisement. He tells you no, absolutely not, go kick rocks. So instead you have your local AI whip you up a character - Bull Gotes, a thin, white haired, elderly, bespectacled Caucasian man who made a lot of money on his computers, which he calls Macrosoft. This might be permissible as parody, but I don’t think you’re going to win a court case if you use it in business advertising and Bill decides he has something to say about it.

This is a real picture released by his own press team