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I like city building games and puzzles. I like other things as well, but that's not important right now.
There was a 00-10s trend, for example the grand budapest hotel style. Seeing the fine lines combine to create depth speaks to detail and perfection.
Oh yeah! Maybe that's why i'm so into them then
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People who used to be writers or tried to become but failed, why did you quit writing?
So many people still publish books though. They must be selling to to some people. Or do they just buy things that look good on their shelf?
I hope that wasn't too much of a torturous experience. I would go like 3-4 days without pooping as a kid and even that caused rather bad constipation
No, everyone around the world poos once every day or every 2 days, if they're healthy.
I don’t really remember what happens
- When he was a boy, lived in Hell's Kitchen. 70s or 80s. It was rough, because most people there were poor.
- His dad, Bill, was an abusive lunatic who took money from the mob to fund a campaign for the city council. He beat Wilson Fisk and his mom.
- One day Bill Fisk, frustrated with how Wilson was treated by other kids, attacks a teenager who bullied him. He brought Wilson along for this and insists that Wilson kicks the shit out of this teenager when he's on the ground.
- They go home, Bill Fisk is yelling at and attacking his wife. Wilson kills him with a hammer. Keeps hitting him, yelling "Keep kicking him!" To himself, just as he was ordered earlier.
- Wilson and his mom cut up the body to dump it in the river, then leave New York to evade mafia.
Cut to 2014
- Fisk is now a financier funneling money into fake companies to hide criminal profits
- works with 3 armed criminal groups in an alliance, basically managing their united business interests
- Completely non-public figure, you get the impression he prefers controlling things from the shadows - commanding other organisations and other individuals to do his will.
- These groups are into really shady things. The Russian mob kidnaps and trafficks people, the chinese mob has brainwashed slaves that process opium(?) for distribution across New York/the USA
Kingpin, the big heartless bastard, meets a woman. He falls in love.
- They both love fine things
- he's trying to hide his criminal life from her
- in a devation from the source material, fisk is forced to admit to her (Vanessa) that he's a gangster.
- Now, because the criminaks groups are being hounded by Daredevil, they're starting to rebel against Kingpin. So he chooses to turn on them, one after another.
- He presents this to Vanessa from a moral high ground, citing that he ia destroying the Russian mob because they kidnapped a child.
- She thinks this is reasonable, and stays with him.
So eventually Fisk is thwarted by Daredevil, even though he has an intricate system in place with many failsafes, and kills anyone who might release the truth about him.
He goes to jail.
Fisk finds himself in a corrupt Jail where different gangs rule different cell blocks. After being threatened by the "Kingpin" of his block, he uses his (very liquefied) financial assets to do favours for a number of people who aren't out to kill him, eventually buying himself a prison gang. Fisk uses them to kill the Kingpin of his cell block, and eventually becomes the new Kingpin of the entire prison, even controlling some, roughly half, of the guards there.
- Kingpin, from prison, still has enough people employed outside of prison that he can blackmail members of the FBI in new york.
- He pays someome to stab him, then negotiates with the FBI that he needs enhanced protrction and will rat on various criminals
- This allows him to clear out organised criminal competition in New York and live in... a penthouse, for some reason. Not enough new yorkers question why he gets such nice digs. It's because he took control of the local FBI branch
- he expands his control over the remaining agents and is getting ready to marry Vanessa in the hotel where he is "incarcerated."
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bribedcoerced FBI agent who went against Kingpin's wishes creates a confession tape, listing all of Kingpin's crimes, before he gets killed. This dying confession is strong evidence in court because "a dying person has no reason to lie." (Real legal mechanic for new york or america, apparently) - Fisk goes to prison... this time, for GOOD
- Kingpin is now out of jail for good, as if ray nadeem's sacrifice wasn't worth anything (unrealistic)
I would not have even minded his presence in Echo and Hawkeye, if they'd just explained that there was a prison break and he was completely in hiding now. Taking control of prisons is literally what he does best and why he has the nickname "Kingpin" in the MCU
- Fisk for 2 more seasons? Going through the same old motions as before? With not a singlee daredevil season with other characters as pallate cleanser? Nah. It doesn't work.
- He's publically a criminal and people still vote for him. You've got to understand this is way more significant than Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, various real world figures. Fisk took over the police and the FBI and is associsted with opium pushers and human traffickers. Why would anyone vote for him?
What really makes kingpin special is just, all the littke things though. It's an amazingly cohesive and poetic narrative. Nowadays villains are rarely treated as poetic characters, like heroes are.
Tbh, really neat architectural renderings best scratch the itch for me. And I therefore prefer photography and digital drawings more than paintings.
Sorry for such a "capeslop" answer, but:
He definitely gets a mention. I wish they actually explored what Kingpin wanting to "change the city" meant, though, because the disney+ shows make it seem like he just wants to sell weapons and be rich. They really took a crap on his character after endgame / season3 of Daredevil.
All the netflix DD villains were just golden. What a ride.
Aaron Stampler, and his defence attorney Martin Vail.
I agree with what you're getting at and i know which story you're alluding to, but it was in Republic of Ireland rather than the UK. Their autonomy is important to them.
Also some canals are deeper than others, e.g one in a capital city like Dublin would be deeper than this countryside one because it woukd be designed to handle increased run-off from high urbanisation (tarmac and concrete are not permeable, et cetera).
Still - valid thoughts. Just need to work on the argument. Also, might be more effective presenting it to facebook or local people of that city rather than lemmy.
How do you find new podcasts to listen to,
I honestly have only been selecting ones that come up on my yt feed, e.g by clips or entire episodes, and that has given me enough to chew on.
What are 1 or 2 podcasts that you would recommend to others?
Heh. They're all boring!!
Well, the only one that's both high prod value and i can be confident anyone will enjoy is The Rest Is History by 2 british historians, but content warning because it describes horribly violent things sometimes.
I've listened to a few about interviewing actors or celebrities, like *inside of you *by Michael Rosenbaum and Rob Brydon's podcast, but you see those kinds of podcast don't make you want to tune in for every episode. Because it would be superfluous.
I looked at a few and there's some nice designs for <£100 (~110$), but then i realised I'm already too attached to reading the time on my digital watch so i'd never really use it.
I've never sesn a post that made me so ready to spend money before
Based. What are some examples of such things?
Now, i’ve had some interesting talks yesterday with a close friend about what “morality” really means. They very certainly assured me that morality is simply the construct and the set of rules that society uses to organize itself to make itself more successful.
When one says, like your friend does, that morality exists to serve some puepose rather than just that "morality is," you are assigning conditions which will skew what is considered moral or not in the immediate future.
On morality being skewed by greater purpose: We have examples of this actually happening. E.g humans in most/all societies used to think that marriage and child bearing at 14 was okay - or even good - but this was influenced by the fact that lifespans were shorter and child mortality higher.
I personally don't believe that morality is a human invention (if it was, then why follow it?). It's something that innately feels good to most people, because there exists innate "force" of goodness. C.S Lewis has the best argument for this in "Mere Christianity," and you can probably find the full relevant prose online for free easily. It's quite convincing.
In other words, morality aids the fitness of the group, but not necessarily of the individual. Do you agree with this view?
Problem with this framing - morality is so much more than decisions in a teamwork context. Sometimes the moral choice would be something completely counter to the goals of your group, e.g don't rob or attack that person.
Okay, so you did say the group in question is the wider human race. But that's focusing on utlitarian tribal ethics rather than morality. Morality includes questions of how we effect the world around us, outside of humans; to declare otherwise would be an immoral decision.
I'd dare say that Morality is also questions like "do i go for a walk or do i bedrot today?" It is both decisions good for others and good for yourself, but it has to be decisions good for the universe.
Now, we don't decide what's good for the unuverse. When we did merely decide, we engaged in deforeststion and unheakthy farming practices. Nowadays we discover what's good for the world around us; humans didn't decide it. Humans also didn't decide how human beings will respond to actions or stimuli, and it is from that (among other things), from our reactions to actions, that we determine what is right to do to another human or not. "Do to others as you would do to yourself."
Oh and animals have some sort of morality as well. I've seen a video of a lion/cheetah refuse to eat a newborn something after trying to eat its mother. Animals care for each others young and share food when possible.
And if so, would that entail that the beneficial effects to the group can overwrite the wellbeing of a single individual
Overwrite would mean that the individual comes well as long as the group is well, which isn't usually the case. The phrasing you want is "benefits to the group take precedence over benefits to the individual."
And yeah, I feel it's true and is the moral thing to believe - it's also the basis for a great deal of law and is called Utilitarianism, philosophically speaking.
Like if some republicans claim that some women cannot decide themselves who they are/should be in a relationship with … does that derive from that view of morality?
It would be dishonest framing in their part if they said "we're doing it for the greater good, utilitarian-speaking" because the only person "made happy" from each unhappy woman is the person they're married off to; wider public who support the ruling wouldn't actually be deriving any pleasure from the marriage. It's kind of a happiness from within themselves, that they're releasing due to believing they got their own way. Or, if it's a happiness about people being unhappy, then they could achieve that from many other sources so it's invalid in the calculus/sum-up of "was this the most utilitarian choice"
How can you find certainty in what’s morally acceptable and what is not?
You have to trust yourself. And if you don't trust yourself... go to church (or similar. It's a metaphor.)
It sould simply be a matter of opinion, so i would not accept their argument
E.g "i think well implemented communism and well implemented capitalism would be equally as effective at running society, but i prefer cyberpunk aesthetics so i'm voting money til i die."
Hmm.. bad example. That person just sounds stupid and a danger to themselves.
Chocolate cake versus cheesecake. I might feel strongky about my answer (cheesecake) but it's just opinion
Okay i kind of dodged your question there. Even if someone batters me in a debate, I might assume that i just haven't landed upon the right argument to win that debate yet. Sometimes the opponent is so sure they're winning when they're really not... we should focus more on rhetoric in schools.
We need actual human programmed things as alternative to the AI wastelands, so please keep at it.
Every time something you like sells out to AI, make a clone of it or find an AI free clone version already made.
As a kid I felt so frustrated with how bored I got that I had tantrums, on one or two occasions.
But nowadays I don't get bored at all - phone, video games and work/study mean there's always something to do, and not enough time in the day.
Boredom can be useful. Use it for self reflection, exercise, et cetera. I would credit how bored I was as a kid with how smart i was as a kid.
Addressing underlying problems is the best cure for problems. You need to push yourself to explore the world more, maybe visit somewhere new, or take on new life projects like a job, volunteering or study.
I didn't poop for like 2 or 3 days of a camp trip in elementary school and man did i pay the price.