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ConstipatedWatson

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  • What is a well structured origin story (or super power) for a comic book super hero?

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  • I really like this. It has a similar (but different) feel than the answer involving Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze (which at the end I was abstracting as "believable experiments gone wrong with unexpected but somehow credible outcomes").

    In the case of para humans you're saying, powers are well constructed within the limits of the world they live in and are related to something traumatic (and not necessarily reversible) which gives them abilities related to the event.

    I admit ignorance in their respect and will look more into it. Thanks!

  • What is a well structured origin story (or super power) for a comic book super hero?

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  • Hawkeye and Black Widow are examples of what I was looking for, thanks! They are normal people with extremely good training.

    Daredevil is one I was kind of ruling out in my original post since he gets his powers from chemicals spilled on him, so it feels a bit like a "deus ex machina" plot device, like being a mutant or an alien or touching something radioactive. EDIT: on second thought, you're right that it's known that if you (unfortunately) go blind your other senses somehow help you make up for the loss of sight and so it may be believable that by chance the chemicals he was wetted with could somehow heighten his senses, so actually Daredevil is more in line with what I was looking for than I initially thought!

    Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze are amazing answers! Poison Ivy is "believable" in that she's grown immune to poison because the mix of herbs she's taken "could" have an unexpected effect and Mr Freeze too is awesome in that he's a scientist trying to save his terminally ill wife with cryogenics and somehow the experiment goes wrong.

    Now you're also making me think about the very first episode of the Batman animated series where a scientist researching bats is turned into one.

    Your answer suggests that a source of "believable" origin stories are experiments gone wrong, if the experiments are somehow well thought and resembling actual science

    Edit: updated my thoughts on Daredevil after reading another answer on para humans in this thread.

  • What is a well structured origin story (or super power) for a comic book super hero?

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  • Ahahahah! Great answer and a great comic. Being a parody comic, no one (not even the characters of the comic book) believe he can be real since he's grown to become a god like creature simply by doing a fairly normal workout. Genus is so pissed off when he learns about the source of Saitama's power

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  • That's right! Moon Knight is a former mercenary (so believable training) with split personality. Then he also receives power from a god. This is also "believable" in that he is bestowed power after making a pact.

    Of course, the Punisher also fits the bill. He has no powers (like Batman) just lots of training and motivation

  • Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse

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  • Fascinating read about a horrible tragedy by a complete idiot. I also learned such a way of scamming is called pig butchering.

    I'm not making fun of scammed people and feel for them, but I'm stunned how person X from NYC could believe that person Y from Hong Kong would want to marry them by never having met them. I mean, I can't understand why you'd trust someone who you've never met and only been chatting to.

    For example, if a real friend of yours had been a victim of email spoofing and the scammer started trading emails as your friend, then you'd be interacting with a "trusted" party and I can see it would be easier to fall for it, but these are random numbers from a country you've never visited (which no one can even certify even is the one they claim to be) and you start trusting them for no good reason.

    There are tons and tons of scams, some much more subtle and/or targeted than others, but this stuns me in how generic and random it is (and how successfully it works)

  • Bom dia!

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  • Onde se pode ver? Aqui nesse post só se vê o nome da capivara

    Edit: sou um idiota agora a vi no símbolo da instância Lemmy. Gostei

  • What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"?

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  • True, but the feeling is that in general Voyager was hard to watch.

    I rewatched TNG and DS9 several times from start to finish and almost skipped no episodes (though in later rewatches of DS9 I'm skipping the alternate universe ones since I can't bear them). I tried rewatching VOY and I just can't. Sure I can rewatch some of the awesome episodes from the show, but I can't watch it from start to finish since I find most episodes to be cringey (even if I like most of the actors and their characters, but something doesn't work when watching entire episodes).

    Unrelated: I watched DIS until it was on Netflix (and deemed it an action TV series that's got nothing to do with Star Trek) and watched only a few episodes of PIC until it turned into the "fellowship of the ring" with the introduction of a sword wielding elf. Should I squeeze my nose and dive into it again and try to finish it?

    I'll watch SNW as soon as I can. Still haven't gotten around it

  • A.I. Artist

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  • The horror, the horror... I embrace it...

  • What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024?

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  • Day of the Tentacle (1993). Admittedly, it was the remastered version from 2016 which has more modern controls, but the game is exactly the same as the old one.

    It was fascinating to look at it again with more mature eyes: besides the fact that it feels a bit dated as a whole, it was funny to me to notice how much humanity loves time travel stories.

    It's not that this game is doing anything different in that regard, it's just that I thought about how much media exists on the subject (and has been very successful).

    Anyhow, although dated, the game is brilliant and wholesome and made me wonder which are the best (and recent) graphic adventure games

  • New🤓Paper

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  • Laughs in posting on the arXiv 😜

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

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  • We should all probably start donating to Firefox. Isn't Google their main source of income?

    There might come a time when they prefer to gut Firefox, forcing Mozilla to either reject uBlock Origin or die (or they could simply pull the plug on funding knowing they'll earn more when people go back to Chrome-based browsers)

  • Meanwhile in Russia...

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  • This dude rocks! Not only are they good and dressed like a toon, but they have no shame and keep one-upping themselves going faster and faster!

  • Logan Paul Sued Me - Coffeezilla

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  • This is very distressing, but not unexpected... Trying to silence Coffeezilla is the only endgame here, despite claims of his poor reputation being smeared by a thorough investigation

  • Payphone [OC]

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  • This time is as good as any to cite Maroon 5's "payphone" and link to its gloriously dumb video, which I contend being in the top 10 dumbest videos ever (I don't want to claim it's got the top spot, since maybe there are other gems I am ignoring)

    Edit: grammar

  • Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics

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  • Crap, this is terrible news.

    I wonder if anyone around here has the medical or biological knowledge to say whether or not dengue can spread wildly in Europe or give reasons as to why it's not likely.

    I found this Nature article here but it's paywalled.

    The BBC has an accessible article here

  • Death Valley heat melts skin off a man's feet after he lost his flip-flops in the dunes

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  • While I fully agree with you, for a second there I wondered what could have been proper clothing and footwear for this type of trip. I normally wear Chaco sandals in the Summer and they seem to be sturdier and more appropriate footwear for this walk and then I thought they could melt too, so... Hiking boots? Those would possibly not melt, so maybe they would have been appropriate, but I'm not sure...

    A strange game, the only winning move is not to play... You don't go to Death Valley in the boiling hot summer (I myself have been in June of many years ago and it was a chillier day)

  • AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data

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  • You don't say, Sherlock

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    Don't Upvote but I came from reddit. So use to doing r whatever what is the equivalent on lemmy?

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  • Da real MVP

  • Crocs (The shoe, not the animal) 🐊

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  • Off topic shout out: why not Chaco sandals for home and/or for going out?

    It's off topic, but OP mentioned having used sandals, so he can maybe consider them a good option