Walrus Aurelius

People forget that Walter went into that gang den with the gun set up, ready to kill all of them, including Jesse. The only reason he grabbed Jesse was because he realized that Jesse was imprisoned, not their friend. There's no grand plan, and once Jesse ran off he probably didn't think about him again.

But his motive for killing Jack’s gang wasn’t actually to rescue Jesse, it was revenge, and rescuing Jesse was sort of incidental. I think on some level he probably did love Jesse, just like on some level he loved Hank, but this love was always self-serving (e.g. the regular refrain of “me…I mean me and Jesse!”) and Jesse came to rightly hate him for it It wasn’t Jesse that put that last smile on his face, it was the meth lab

“Masculinity is the end goal of Walter White’s character development” is a shallow, middlebrow take that only even makes sense if one takes it as given that masculinity is inherently perverse, violent, narcissistic, impulsive (as I suspect this person exactly does), i.e. that it is synonymous with the “bad” that is “broken” so to speak. Hank is not only a paragon of manhood, but also morally and physically superior to Walt in every way; indeed the contrast between Hank’s authentic and Walter’s counterfeit masculinity is emphasized constantly, and Walt’s seething resentment of Hank is a signpost of his incipient self-destruction. Breaking Bad is doing something far more interesting than “interrogating” or “deconstructing” masculinity Walter White is so compelling a character precisely because he does not evolve to fit any “construct” at all, but rather overcomes all constructs through radical self-affirmation and eventual immolation on the altar of his ego (Mike always read Walter like a book). He does not become “masculine”; he becomes wholly Other and alone, a man disowned and cast out, an enemy of his family and friends, a desert Ozymandias ruling over a ruined empire, a hunted fugitive with nothing left to avenge and no one left to live for but himself—yet finally, if only in his own eyes, himself is enough. He dies in hell, yet he dies with a smile, because at least there he reigns Try having a “nuanced take” that isn’t painfully predictable MFAslop

@PlebeuOcioso @bvrakvs Yes. Hence the syncretism.

@Walrusaurelius @bvrakvs Both were gods of lightning and were depicted wielding a lightning bolt.

Tired of this silly meme about Romans "stealing" myths and gods from the Greeks. In reality, most of the similarities come from a common Proto-Indo-European belief system that created these parallels from India to Persia to Germania to Britannia. Many other similarities were the result of syncretization, which was common in polytheistic religions. The Romans weren't the only ones who did this, every culture did. For example, the Greeks adopted Anatolian, Near Eastern, and Egyptian concepts and made them their own, often merging foreign gods with similar local versions to create new syncretized deities. Egyptians, Anatolians, and Near Eastern cultures did the same. Everyone did this. When will this meme finally become stale?

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Cool. You will never be a woman.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater I’m not mad about that. I don’t concern myself with Homo sapiens’ arbitrary societal traditions. And if these norms were so solid, and everlasting, would you be so quick to defend them against one like me who challenges them? Regie Satanas. Ave Satanas. Hail Satan!

Just tell me how tall the hallways were

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Cool. Sorry you're mad that you aren't actually a woman.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Yeah yeah, get outta here with your bedtime stories and plothole-ridden book. In 2 billion years, when this planet becomes completely inhospitable, no one will remember. No one will care. No one will pray. From dust we came, and from dust we will return, all by ourselves, no God.

@DrierMyGoat @spaceshark23 It's the perfect image. Vostroyans are the goodest guys

@spaceshark23 Im not sure artwork showing the Imperium killing people who strive towards "the greater good" is the best to use for this opinion.

The Imperium are the good guys.

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Cool.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Well, personally, I think the flood water came from beyond the ice wall surrounding Flat Earth, in fact, pre-flood, there was NO water within the ice walls!

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater No, Hare-krishnas. At least on night shift.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater I thought 7/11 was Buddhist scripture.

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Genesis 1:7, Genesis 7:11. So you could say that Seven-Eleven supplied the water...

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 @dasaniwater Ok but do you think @dasaniwater supplied the water for the flood?

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 Well sorry to tell you you should scroll up more then. Might wanna try @dasaniwater

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 I thought this was a discussion about the Dasani water bottle company

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 We're literally discussing a Biblical narrative and what's contained in it. What did you think this was about?

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 Passages from what book? If it’s anything but the Bible I don’t want to hear about it.

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 I can refer you to the passages that talk about this if you're just confused. If you're being deliberately obtuse I can't help you.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 All water is in the water cycle, that’s why it’s called the water cycle. Otherwise we’d call it the some-water cycle.

This attempt to shift the narrative would be funny if it weren't tiresome. For reference, the old map had the 12th district look like this.

@KiwiTheGoob @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 x.com/Walrusaurelius…

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 So.. it was raining. Exactly what the original post is talking about.

@GwenPhalan @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 Of water from outside the normal water cycle. That's the difference.

@Walrusaurelius @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 You mean rain

@FCopernicium @YOpapete2 @revenant_MMXX Fair. I never played it. I guess all those sorting games I get advertised playing Gun Sprint are all puzzlers then

Candy Crush is actually the most prominent example of a Match 3 game (any game where the goal is to put 3 or more similar objects in a group). Casual puzzle games would be like... Wordle or 2048. I'd say that "Match 3" games are ALSO casual Puzzle games, but that one specific subgenre is SO HUGE that it's worth splitting it up, much the same way they split up Japanese and western RPGs.

Hello, please consult The Line

@Steven1513314 @MagnumOpus5head @Seabassthebest @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 The Tarasque is probably my favorite of those, since we're on the subject. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque

@Walrusaurelius @MagnumOpus5head @Seabassthebest @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 Well you’re consistent I’ll give you that

@MagnumOpus5head @Steven1513314 @Seabassthebest @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 Sorry you think you know me cause I remind you of like, your dad or something man. Might wanna log off for a bit.

@Steven1513314 @Walrusaurelius @Seabassthebest @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 His entire worldview isn't emotionally attached to the existence of dragons so he's not gonna defend that one unfortunately lol. It's a distinction they make in advance, not based on evidential merit

@Steven1513314 @MagnumOpus5head @Seabassthebest @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 Well, St George killed one. Several saints encountered and defeated dragons. They weren't HUGE, based on those stories, but they were nasty.

@Walrusaurelius @MagnumOpus5head @Seabassthebest @freemanBEAR596 @Wendigoon8 So dragons were real too, since they show up in so many ancient myth, right?

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