u/Pietin11

Deciding that he's not optimal in his child killing, William Afton (FNAF) decides to collaborate with the US military. How many Freddy Fazbears does it take for the US to decisively win the war in Afghanistan?

In this scenario, the Fazbears have been assembled in bulk in the years leading up to 9/11. They are unveiled and deployed at the beginning of the war in October 2001. How many murderbots will need to have been made and shipped out to turn the tide of the war in America's favor.

Round 1: The Fazbears are identical to the in-game counterparts. They can only wield whatever weapons can fit around their thick fingers. Per Afton's contract, all the fazbear units must be made out of the souls of deceased children. They may be trained and drilled by the army only after possessing the animatronics.

Round 2: The Fazbears are properly camo painted, they can be outfitted to wield any weapons weighing less than 30 kg at the army's discretion, and they're possessed by the spirit of deceased soldiers.

Bonus Round: Instead of Afghanistan, the Fazbears have to win the Vietnam war.

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u/Pietin11 — 17 hours ago

[r/nokingpins] Ya'll are so stupid. We had Fisk cornered, but you just had to try lynching him.

We had him on the books for perjury, gun smuggling, and attempting to assassinate the Governor of New York. Daredevil sacrificed his identity to get him for that shit. Then, you just had to put on your larp gear and raid the courthouse yelling "Kill Fisk!".

You idiots made the most open and shut case imaginable a PR quagmire. Yes, he brutalized and killed a lot of people that day, but those are probably the most legally justifiable murders Fisk has ever committed in his entire life. It is unquestionably self defense. You also realize that if even one of you managed to kill him, literally everyone who trespassed would be on the books for felony murder? Did you think about that? Of course not. You just wanted to play pretend vigilante and kill the bad guy. Guess what? You didn't, and a lot of you got hurt or died.

Had you all been reasonable adults, then he would have puffed up his chest, refused to flee the city, and gotten charged in federal court for the crimes he practically confessed to under oath. He may be able to get out of Rykers, but I would like to see him try to pull that shit on the raft. Instead you tried to murder him, failed, and got him to run away to retire on whatever Epstein Hydra luxury island villa he wants to.

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u/Pietin11 — 3 days ago

What if Osama Bin Laden died of natural causes?

Bin Laden was not exactly a shining beacon of health when he was finally caught and killed. He had spent 10 years on the run with diabetes and kidney issues which only progressed in severity with time and stress. He may have been only 54 at the time of his death in OTL, but he likely didn't have long left.

On May 1st 2012, Osama Bin Laden dies in his sleep. He's buried in a private compound which is discovered by a British special air service raid later that month. How does this development change how the war is viewed in American culture?

The killing of Bin Laden was one of the few definitive "wins" of the war in Afghanistan. Obama's address following it was one of the defining moments of his presidency. Without that moment, how does the war in Afghanistan develop? How is Obama's legacy changed? Would it have any impact on the 2012 election (either in the presidency or congress)?

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u/Pietin11 — 4 days ago

[r/AVTF] Let's never forget what those masked monsters took from us. We are all Vanessa!

u/Pietin11 — 5 days ago

This is a question that has bugged me for years now. One could make the argument that it is simply to make the actors look more like their comic counterparts when in their marketable superhero forms. This is almost certainly the reason. However, I would like to indulge within the age old tradition of overcomplicated a simple problem with a far too convoluted answer.

That answer being that I don't actually think the length of their hair changes. Or rather, the degree to which it changes does not nearly scale with the rest of their body. MCU Hulk is 8'2", while Mark Ruffalo is 5'8". That is a size increase of 44%. If his hair stayed the same constant length this whole time, then Mark Ruffalo's ≈3 inch hair would look more like ≈2 inch hair with the size of his larger head.

Now let's look. Jen. MCU She-Hulk is 6'7" while Tatiana Maslany is 5'4". That's only a 23% increase in height. While that would explain if her hair only got *slightly* shorter, it still doesn't explain how it gets LONGER. That is of course if you don't account for just how curly Jen's hair is. Jen's hair straightens out considerably after transforming (likely as a consequence of her hair weighing more and the curls being less able to support themselves). For tight curls like Jen's, straightening can increase apparent length by up to 50%! So even if her hair would now be 23% shorter in proportion to the rest of her body, the added length from straightening would still make it APPEAR 21% longer overall.

Ross's hair in the film similarly shrinks down as Banner's does. They even have him shave his moustache beforehand so it doesn't just disappear like in the comics.

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u/Pietin11 — 16 days ago

During his brief presidential term, Quentin Trembly "Appointed 6 babies to the supreme court". What I've seen nobody talk about is how long they would have served.

These babies were still well... babies during his impeachment. That implies that they were picked right before Trembly's replacement in the history books with William Henry Harrison in 1841. Since one of them was capable of saying "mama" then I'll assume they were born 1 year earlier in 1840. Given that the average lifespan for a supreme court justice in the 1800s was 74.6 years old, that means that whichever ones survived to adulthood would remain in office until 1914.

We must also account for the high infant and child mortality of the 1800s. Around 1 in 5 American (non enslaved) children died before the age of 5. That means that probably one of them won't reach adulthood. Even then, they would still have a 5/4 majority over the court for over 70 years!

u/Pietin11 — 22 days ago