Patrick Sean Tomlinson / @stealthygeek / "Torque Wheeler" / @RealAutomanic / Kempesh / Padawan v2.5 - "Conservative" sci-fi author with TDS, armed "drunk with anger management issues" and terminated parental rights, actual tough guy, obese, paid Quasi, paid thousands to be repeatedly unbanned from Twitter

[Nig🞗A🞗Roni]

I wondered why she'd been storing all those facts.
I don't think you can breath methane though.

Pat likes to huff his own farts and look where it's gotten him.

Also he's fat.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

By the way, if people are worried the Netflix version will suck, there is already a 30-episode Chinese adaptation of the first book (with English subtitles). It's very faithful to the book, perhaps excessively so, but it's pretty good if you're a fan of the novels. Personally, I'm looking forward to the Netflix series as well, it will be fun to see a different take with a huge budget.

There's also an animated series of the first book and an official Minecraft machinima that covers the first and second books.

Spoilers for The Dark Forest:

Spoiler

The Minecraft machinima actually did the climax scene of the second book where luo ji holds earth, himself, and trisolaris hostage incredibly well. I doubt Netflix can match that level of soul.

 

[I'mThePatMan!]

Brotherman Fricklefrackle with an important development regarding Eric Hilderman's sister's job:

Spoiler: NSFW

It's the little things that get me.

 

[Haloperidol]

Now the second one is a normal joke you could make, but CRINK? He clearly lifted it and turned it into a thread.

Too bad Russia’s included because I prefer CHINK.

 

[JustStopDude]

>dude let's just do a terraforming megaproject on a massive scale, on a remote planet that we haven't even managed to get a single person to visit yet
really makes you think

but for real, i remember reading explorations of this topic a while ago, they concluded that the total amount of gas that could possibly released from glaciers and ice caps on mars would still leave us with an extremely thin atmosphere several orders of magnitude below what would be necessary to sustain any form of life. and also if i recall correctly the proposed method for delivering the insane amounts of energy needed to turn all that frozen solid material into gas was a series of nuclear explosion, so the whole idea is a total meme to begin with

Not only would the atmosphere be thin, but the lack of a consistent and sufficiently strong electromagnetic sphere would result in the solar wind just stripping it off to space like original atmosphere.

 

[Alabama Gamer]

A big problem even if you could find enough gas for a workable atmosphere (by harvesting comets from the Oort Cloud, for instance, all stuff that are way beyond our tech level and would need the fucking Martian Mechanicum to accomplish in the first place) is the lack of a magnetosphere.
Without it Solar winds are just going to strip away the atmosphere again, which is why Mars is already fucked to begin with.
Unless you can somehow restart the core, or otherwise generate a global megnetic field, you can forget Terraforming.
We'd be better off building domes.
That at least is something accomplishable at our current tech level and doesn't require ungodly amounts of resources, power, and time. Terraforming may be feasible for Kardashev Level 1 Civilizations, easy for Level 2 and upward, we aren't even Level 1 yet.
Pats thinks Disney Star Wars is good Sci Fi.
He's a fucking idiot.

The lack of a magnetosphere isn't as big a deal as it's made out to be, at least in this context. The atmosphere loss due to solar wind would have to be measured in centuries, if not millennia. We'd have to top it up occasionally, but on those time scales we'd probably have a solution before it became an issue in the first place. (The simplest solution is probably just to park a giant electromagnet at Mars's L1 Lagrange point.) To be fair, there's plenty of other problems with not having a magnetosphere.

 

[FinnSven]

43 year old man legally not allowed to be near his own daughter bragging that he got a few likes telling liberals what they want to hear. Very sad.

Is he actually not allowed near her?

I thought he just signed away parental rights, which doesn’t automatically mean he can’t go near her, but as far as he is concerned she is now someone else’s child so he should treat her as such.

Nothing stopping him talking to her if he sees her, but if she walks away, refuses to engage, generally behaves as she should when a strange man tries to talk to her, then should he press the issue, he would find himself harassing a child legally speaking.

 

[AnOminous]

Posting on the second, better app to tell people to go read his thread on the dead app.

"Look at me, I'm pointing at a fat faggot!"

 

[AeroGavin Rossdale]

I read the first one, (don't recommend), and the footnotes were mostly about how the Cultural Revolution is viewed in the mainland today as that what's set the plot in motion. You could make the argument that the actual structure is gonna be way off kilter to the average westerner because it's Chinese. I'm not that familiar but it tracks with what I have seen. It may just be weird and bad though.

Fuck, forgot this part in time to edit. There are more foot notes on historical Chinese philosophers. It won't pull you out of it, but it won't resonate in the same way like Galileo being brought up does to a Westerner. Without spoiling I don't think it's a huge issue, as the notes give a quick over view of their approach to the natural philosophies in relation to what's happening. But that entire part of the novel doesn't really hit for me, so ymmv.

 

[Plaintiff had a 1.7 gpa]

 

[JustSomeDong]

Goodness! You zoomer.

Think that you get PTSD from going to school and everyone not being super nice to you?

You need a clip round the ear, then taken to a barber to cut off that silly bright dye job, and given a short back and sides.

Then you need to be thrown into a proper boot camp which standards of “Don’t ask don’t tell” are that no matter how much your bunk mates beat you with soap you don’t rat them out, while an angry drill sergeant constantly berates you and questions your sexual orientation.

Followed by a few tours in Nam, which your only RnR will be attempting to surf during a pitched helicopter battle, maybe a ten dorrar sucky fucky, before going back into the shit to fight Charlie, kill civilians and burn villages.

By the time you are demobbed you will be expected to be so used to harrowing chaos you will relish the chance to gamble with your own life on Russian roulette games, until you eventually return to civvy street to argue with traffic and accuse unseen aliens of stealing your thoughts.

Maybe Fatrick is a fat cowardly tub of shit who would fail basic training and be ineligible for the draft on the basis of being too much of an intolerable risk.
But this doesn’t give you the right to blame boomers for wars!

I disagree. Every war throughout all of human history has been young men fighting over the disputes of old men. This was just as true for the Boomers when they were young as it is today. Like so many "toxic" patterns of human behavior, it has to be recognized, and a choice must be made to change it. Maybe when the young start sending the old to war, I'll agree.

But I sure laughed reading it. And whatever else, we can still agree Patrick is fat.

 

[Boys Club Rhetoric]

Pat doesn't have one, because he's no Augustus.

But if I had to guess which Roman Emperor he emulates, it would be Nero, no doubt:

- Fat and ugly.
- Takes pleasure in finding little slave boys and doing sexually unspeakable things to them at home (the pepperoni was invented in Italy for a reason).
- Was seen ducking between alleys as his home (Hoolies) burned to the ground. Pat had to stick to the alleys because he was too heavy to watch Hoolies burn while on top of a roof.

- cheats at sporting events (Nero entering the Olympic 4-horse chariot race with a 10-horse chariot/Fat cheating the half marathon)

 

[FinnSven]

I disagree. Every war throughout all of human history has been young men fighting over the disputes of old men. This was just as true for the Boomers when they were young as it is today. Like so many "toxic" patterns of human behavior, it has to be recognized, and a choice must be made to change it. Maybe when the young start sending the old to war, I'll agree.

But I sure laughed reading it. And whatever else, we can still agree Patrick is fat.

It is more nuanced than just simply old men sending the youth to die. There have been many wars and struggles in which one side at least was fighting for its very existence.

While there are many disputes which at their core are old men having arguments, there are just as many which originated out of preservation of a way of life for the culture as a whole.
Europe fighting off ottoman invasion, the mongol incursions, WW2, are some major examples of having to go to war, rather than an escalation of a squabble.

Young men tend to be the ones dying as young men tend to be the best at fighting. Even in todays world of assault rifles and great fighting machines, overall, men can handle the stresses of campaign due to being more tolerant of specific hardship.

Physically, if not mentally.

Old men tend to be the ones in charge as with age comes wisdom and understanding, combined with wealth and influence.
Many zoomers may think that old people are incapable of understanding todays world, and perhaps they are right on a micro cultural level, but they still understand how economics and resource distribution works, which is far far more critical to how society functions and holds together than pronouns.

The only way for this toxic system to change is for the whole population to unilaterally decide upon a way of life in which everyone is happy with their circumstances.

In the west of course, “everyone” thinks that a liberal democracy provides infrastructure and means for the population to live life in family units having modest luxury is the best way.

Other regions, the prevailing thought maybe has more emphasis on spirituality, wider communities, different standards of belief and control.

While most of the time this generally means that most differing cultures can bump along nicely without having to interfere with each other, the competition for resources is normally the main root cause for conflict.

I am still oversimplifying, but my point is that until enough people in the world are happy enough, then war will always be a possibility.

Fatrick is still fat of course, and he is directly responsible for much shortage due to his gluttonous nature and general hatefulness.

His existence is poison.

 

[AGPinochet]

I was a child when Bush was president

Did you Enjoy the Global War on Terror, former child?

 

[I'mThePatMan!]

Brotherman Fricklefrackle with an important development regarding Eric Hilderman's sister's job:

Despite Friclefrackle's attempts at mocking Heidi, Eric has a compelling argument for not being ashamed of his sister's sexual expression:

Spoiler

 

[Smithfield Ham]

Despite Friclefrackle's attempts at mocking Heidi, Eric has a compelling argument for not being ashamed of his sister's sexual expression:

Spoiler

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Didn't need to see that. I hope you suffer a mild inconvenience today that makes you feel slightly bad.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

Despite Friclefrackle's attempts at mocking Heidi, Eric has a compelling argument for not being ashamed of his sister's sexual expression:

Spoiler

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May you have an itch and no fingernails to scratch it with.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

Some are floating the theory that Eric Hildeman arranged at least some of the SWAT calls on Pat in order to make Pat more sympathetic in people’s eyes. Now I know that sounds fucking stupid, but not as stupid as picking a fight with people you claim are “online terrorists” when you have so many skeletons in your closet. Between the calls to his wife and his sister being outed as a convicted fraudster and whore, the only people suffering from Eric’s meddling are the women in his life. He’s fine with that.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

Some are floating the theory that Eric Hildeman arranged at least some of the SWAT calls on Pat in order to make Pat more sympathetic in people’s eyes. Now I know that sounds fucking stupid, but not as stupid as picking a fight with people you claim are “online terrorists” when you have so many skeletons in your closet. Between the calls to his wife and his sister being outed as a convicted fraudster and whore, the only people suffering from Eric’s meddling are the women in his life. He’s fine with that.

Based on everything I've seen from him, Eric isn't smart enough to pull off a false-flag op like that without implicating himself somehow. This is, after all, a guy who openly states that online trolling is worse than being a "virtuous" pedo and got caught socking on Xitter to defend notorious SFWA pedo Samuel Delany, couldn't figure out how to post GIFs to the other, better forum or query an SQL database, and is a literal fedora-tipping atheist who acts like he's somehow morally/mentally superior to religion enjoyers despite all of the above.

 

[I'mThePatMan!]

May you have an itch and no fingernails to scratch it with.

Can I still access my wallet? For a 100 bucks, I know a 43 year old gal that would scratch it for me.

hope you suffer a mild inconvenience today

My brother saw me browsing the Ona thread where I got that. A form of the phrasing "beyond disappointing, but expected" may have been uttered.