The Nerd Thread (comics, movies, anime, cartoons, video games, lore, fun stuff, ect.)

@Dustcan
Can the Marvel comics please stop trying to turn things to be more like the MCU? Especially something as controversial as to how the MCU handled Kamala Khan

@Dustcan
Was just gonna say Somebody is probably already gathering the Dragon Balls.

Smother BBQ all over dat stuff.

@SleepySteve
they don’t tho from what i hear.

Saw The Little Mermaid today. I was surprised by how good it actually was.

@Holofan4life
Tell us more, because I probs wouldn’t be watching it. I haven’t watched any of the live action remakes, come to think of it. Not Aladdin not Lion King.

The two action sequences, the shipwreck scene and the Ariel/Ursula fight scene was really well done. And I thought Melissa McCarthy was amazing as Ursula. Also, the musical sequences for the most part was really well done as well (I agree with people that the rap number felt out of place, but I didn’t hate it like other people did).

Is it better than the animated one? No, of course not. But for a remake that’s almost an hour longer than the original, I thought it flew by.

I also feel that the ending to the live action Little Mermaid was more impactful than the ending to the animated version. Seeing all the human characters and the mermaids stand side by side, united for the first time, it was honestly moving.

@Holofan4life
An HOUR longer? Well ok then.

Issa good thing it isn’t the absolute flop that ppl myself included, expected it to be.

May God have mercy on those who sin. Because Jesus sure does not.

@Dustcan
Religion is one hell of a torture device.

@Goku Black
I think you should move this to a new thread. Like The stupid stuff thread.

@Dustcan
When even Jesus doesn’t blame the victim, what’s some people’s excuse?

@Holofan4life
Set the bar low so people will be ecstatic when you trip over it.

Transmorphers fans help me out.
What in-universe reason is there for Arcee and the other female bots to look the way they do?
Is gender even a thing with these cybertronians? Why humanoid form? Do these sentient robot species predate humans? Were they designed or an accident like earthians lifeforms?

If the reasoning is that they adapt and reconstruct themselves to suit the planet they live in, sure I can understand why they’d take humanoid form.

But weren’t they always humanoid even back in their home planet?

My point is: Arcee coulda taken any form but she why she gotta be thicc?

It’s well established that poison immunity cancels out alcohol, does it it work on more traditional medicines?

As in, render them useless?

@tehwatever
the answer is “because”.
that’s a simple an answer as your going to get.

@Angrybrony
Is nobody in-universe ever stop for two seconds and be asking that question tho, like “Is it just me or is Arcee kinda bad?”

Like in Shingeki no Kyojin there is one black person and somebody legit be asking why you black tho? and the black person, after a moment of contemplation be like cuz…I’m made that way…

@tehwatever
it is infact a kid show.
so like…no you fucking weirdo.

@Lord WyrmSpawN
People with large amounts of drug digesting enzymes can have a hard time with medicine, yes. However if you’re just resistant to the hypoxic effects of alcohol and cyanide the medicine you take might be less effected. However alcoholics and mithrildates can be resistant to the hypoxia, and have a heavy drug metabolism at the same time, which has led to failed assassination attempts before.

For fun I’m going to assume the resistance is usually to weaponized poisons. Such things usually interrupt your oxygen supply, or disrupting the function of Mitochondrion and its production of heat or ATP. One can gain a resistance to these types of poisonings by adapting and growing more mitochondria in their cells.

Being resistant to hypoxic conditions will make it easier to tolerate alcohol, and many poisons. This is before drug digesting enzymes and other mechanics of resistance are considered.

There is real life cases of alcoholics surviving multiple poisoning attempts. Including Michael Malloy, and Grigori Rasputin.

Conclusion: if you’re resistant to hypoxia, you can be more resistant to alcohol and traditional poisons. But the effects of medicine would be more effected by drug digesting enzymes. So an astounding ‘maybe’.

Disclaimer:
Alcoholics don’t always develop resistance to alcohol or other poisons. If you do nothing but drink with no space in between or care for your body, you won’t bounce back resistant, you’ll just slowly die.

Mithridiatism is paranoia induced self harm.

Exercise is the correct way to become resistant to hypoxia.

Anyone ever play Tunic? it looks like a fun game. Maybe i’ll check it out.

Although having to learn another writing system from scratch sounds difficult.