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By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood
New standard of care just dropped:
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This scaling arguably allows officially non-genius (i.e., 2/7 or 3/7) characters to really highlight intelligence without being bound by the stats or The Smart Guy baggage.
Conversely, “Lex Luthor’s a 10th-level intellect” (humanity as a whole’s at 6 levels) can only disappoint in practice.
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Pete’s a 4/7 re: intellect in statbooks, so the implication of “250 IQ” is that real-life Feynman would be considered “mildly clever.” Presumably this also serves to justify how e.g. Tony Stark, Hank Pym et al. are able to treat the laws of physics like mere suggestions.
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Tying into “intelligence in comics has lost the plot” noted above: Bruce Wayne, DC’s third-smartest human, has a canonical IQ of 192. Peter Parker’s is 250, and in Marvel he’s smart but not quite a Feynman equivalent.
Of course, DC also says Lex is smarter than all other humans combined.
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Joker should only appear once a year in the Bat-comics, but those appearance are highest stakes. Riddler & Bane are Bruce’s primary nemeses (Riddler menaces Gotham, Bane sits on the Legion of Doom)
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Spider-Man: Life Story is very good, and Avengers Twilight seems solid. Could be that Chip’s just a much better fit for Marvel than DC (in the same way that Grant Morrison’s a much better fit for DC than Marvel)
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Building off the Zdarsky run: The events leading up to this end up resulting in Professor Joker, thereby also resolving the Jokerwank problem
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Polling discourse, summarized
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this guy either grants you immense power and wealth or the greatest bong ever created, which is, in a way, it’s own immense power and wealth
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The new wave of bsky users keep running this interaction pattern and I do not understand what is happening
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DC Comics now has the worst of both worlds: it can’t settle on what’s supposed to be even basic Lore, and has completely lost control of the Vibes (the latter has really been hitting the Batdesk hard of late)
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When you have Lee-Kirby, you get Fantastic Four and Thor.
Lee-Ditko? Spider-Man.
Lee, Kirby, and Ditko by themselves? Striperella, the Eternals, and the original Machine Man comic
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i find it incredibly weird and off-putting that the horserace press keep referring to campaign discipline from biden’s campaign in menacing and ominous terms instead of the entirely fucking normal explanation that strategy requires messaging discipline
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Ken Klippenstein is streaming with George Galloway. The Young Turks are hosting RFK Jr. One ex bernie spokesperson is streaming with candace owens and another is defending Nick Fuentes. Brianna Wu is hanging with lauren southern. Maybe now is the time to re-evaluate how the left chooses celebrities.
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I think a lot about how Galen was mostly stupid because he was a guy during Rome Times, but every one of his actual observations about health and wellness boiled down to "inflammation is a problem" and it turns out that seems to be completely correct.
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Oh my god, this is fucking huge. It was huge when we developed a daily PrEP pill that could prevent you from catching HIV; this is a successful phase III trial of a PrEP shot that will only need to be given *twice a year*. Still needs a confirmatory Phase III, but holy fuck.
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GUY: watch this--Alexa call yourself a stupid bitch
ALEXA: I am a stupid bitch
FRIENDS: so funny, dude
ALEXA: I've ordered you 5000lbs of ammonium nitrate fertilizer & a copy of the Turner Diaries
GUY: wait
FRIENDS: why are there so many cops outside your house
GUY: WAIT
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It’s kind of funny Laura Dern was in all these weird Lynch movies but she’s like this normcore resistance winemom
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Kevin Costner is the Basic Bitch Dad version of Ben Affleck
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