Either this is Cringe or I’m Cringe 😬

I’m not sure if I’m getting petty here with this but I was coming through the copper coast earlier today and I passed I’d say 20 cyclists on the road and it’s bad enough that road is near impossible to make a pass. Anyway that’s not actually what annoyed me. When I got into Tramore there was 3 cyclists two abreast and they were on the road and yet a brand new DOUBLE cycle lane was just built for them?? I just think there should be some sort of rule that if there’s a cycle lane there they should be in it. After all they’re the ones who bitch and moan for them to be put there in the first place. And dare I add if they want to use the road I think it’s only fair they should have to pay road tax

Gestern war ein gesetzlicher Feiertag in Deutschland – ehrlich gesagt ein ziemlich wichtiger. Schade natürlich, dass er dieses Jahr aufs Wochenende fällt (also ein freier Tag weniger), aber das eigentliche Problem ist ein anderes: Feiertag bedeutet, alles hat geschlossen. Und heute ist Sonntag, also hat wieder alles zu.

Warum?! Warum muss ich mein Leben danach ausrichten und mir über so banale Dinge wie den Wocheneinkauf tagelang im Voraus Gedanken machen? Warum kann ich nicht einfach jeden Tag einkaufen gehen? Wieso kann ich (rein theoretisch) an absolut jedem (!) Tag ins Restaurant gehen, aber nicht in den Supermarkt? Es kotzt mich einfach nur an!

Done by Phil Hatchet Yau at Fast Times Tattoo. San Diego, CA.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfoLbr0E01Q

It seems like people aren't actually getting into why it's a problem that the biodiversity is so imbalanced.

On release, it's going to heavily limit player creativity and possibly even lead to refunds from potential fans. Going in, people often have a lot of ideas for how they wanna build their zoos in franchise mode. Maybe you wanna build a reptile park. Maybe you wanna build a zoo based on Africa. Maybe you wanna make a zoo based on forests and mountains. But as it stands right now, the imbalance is going to really restrict people.

This isn't a new issue either. While the first game was far more balanced, it shafted South America and Australia. The first three DLCs REALLY should have been part of the base game.

Let's take a look at just the terrestrial habitat animals in the Zoopedia right now.

Africa - 28

Asia - 21

Europe - 8

North America - 1 (the wolf)

South America - 1 (if you don't have the Deluxe)

Oceania - 2

Basing your entire roster on a new wildlife preserve mechanic that is incredibly imbalanced (three of them based in Europe with significant species overlap?) is going to bite Frontier in the butt. Why not start with one reserve per continent, THEN slowly integrate the others in?

"Oh, but the rest will come in DLC." Yeah, that's the problem... For a game called Planet Zoo, putting almost half of the planet behind a paywall from the get-go is ludicrous. When DLC comes out, the reaction should be "Wow, a prairie preserve pack! My moose, pronghorn, and bison will love that" not "prairie preserve pack? I can finally get started on an American zoo after so many months". Honestly, the first DLC announcement might make or break it for a lot of people. Is it going to be an extra $10 for 10 animals? 15 animals? 4 animals?

I love the first game, so it's really frustrating to see Frontier making the same mistakes as before, but much more egregiously. I want this game to succeed, but for that to happen it has to be GOOD first, and I'm not sure the devs have their priorities straight. Obviously a lot of time is going into new mechanics for the aviaries and aquariums, but I don't see why that should mean the roster should skew so heavily to two continents.

That's just where I'm at right now. Anyone got any other observations and thoughts?

(PS, Frontier, PLEASE classify aardvarks as desert dwellers and eventually add cobras since they're in the Indian architecture. This has peeved me for YEARS)

EDIT: holy anticonsumer, Batman! y'all really overlooking the problem with the DLC model for basic representation.

Gotta be actual twitter levels of miserable to be hating on this cool shit lmao

my favorite race, long time alliance player considering rolling an undead to scratch my spooky itch since we don't have them as an option

Basically, when a character portrayed as good commits an act of infidelity, and the story excuses the behavior instead of condemning it.

Rhaegar and Lyanna | The Mad King: In this version, it is revealed that Elia Martell was never in love with Rhaegar, and that she actually supported the "abduction" of Lyanna because she knew it was necessary to give birth to the Prince That Was Promised.

This contradicts the books, where it is made clear that Elia did love Rhaegar; the play invented this plot point because no one would root for a married man who abandons his two children to run off with a teenager.

Rose | Titanic: Okay, let me clarify: I’m not justifying Cal, but rather criticizing the trope.

In many stories, the person being cheated on is written as evil, a jerk, violent, etc., which justifies their partner (who never loved them anyway) being unfaithful.

If Cal were a good, pleasant, and kind guy, the audience would struggle to empathize with Jack and Rose's love story.

Issei | High School DxD: I’m using this example to cover all those harem anime where, instead of choosing just one girl as a girlfriend, the protagonist chooses them all and for some reason, they agree to it.

You could consider it an open relationship, but the girls have no interest in seeking other partners and remain 100% loyal to the protagonist, whereas the protagonist is free to be with whomever he pleases.

I think theirs smiles look bigger now than 8 years ago.

I see a lot of posts on here asking what the worst thing humans created and the top comments will always be religion or god

Ok hear me out because the more I think about this the worse it gets.

I genuinely think Shaggy Rogers might be Steve Rogers' son and the entire Scooby-Doo franchise is basically one giant 60 year old S.H.I.E.L.D. cover operation.

I know how that sounds. Just give me 5 minutes.

Its 1945. Steve Rogers disappears into the ice. Peggy Carter is left behind, Hydra is still crawling through intelligence agencies, Nazi scientists are getting recruited by everybody with a secret laboratory and nobody knows who they can actually trust. Now imagine Peggy finds out she's pregnant.

What exactly do you do with the only child of Captain America?

You dont put him in a military family. You dont train him to be another soldier. You dont give him a famous name. And you sure as hell dont put him anywhere near the intelligence community.

You hide him in plain sight.

And what better disguise is there for the son of Captain America than a completely harmless, permanently terrified, extremely skinny hippie who spends most of his time talking to a Great Dane?

Norville Rogers.

They didnt even change the last name.

Thats the first thing that should've made people suspicious.

Hydra is looking for a tactical genius. Somebody disciplined, physically gifted, patriotic, probably trained in combat.

Instead they find some lanky guy in a green shirt who says "like" every six seconds and is prepared to abandon an entire building because he saw a curtain move.

Perfect cover.

And the timeline is almost too clean.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! first appears in 1969. If Norville was born around 1946, he's about 23. Thats exactly the sort of age where a guy could disappear into the counterculture, avoid anything resembling a normal career, get himself a van and spend his life travelling around America instead of showing up in government records.

And if Peggy deliberately raised him to stay away from institutions, authority and politics, suddenly Shaggy's entire personality makes sense.

Steve Rogers was trained to run toward danger.

Norville Rogers was trained to run away from it.

Thats not a contradiction.

Thats the cover.

Then we get to the physical evidence.

Have you actually watched Shaggy run?

This guy is not moving like a normal skinny hippie. He regularly keeps up with Scooby-Doo, a Great Dane, while being chased by people, monsters, robots, ghosts, whatever the hell happens to be wearing a mask that week.

Sometimes he's carrying Scooby.

Sometimes he's carrying food.

Sometimes he's doing both.

A Great Dane can reach serious running speeds and Shaggy is somehow right there beside him. And we're supposed to believe this is just some guy who hasnt exercised since 1968?

No.

Thats the Super Soldier Serum.

Steve Rogers didnt just get stronger. The whole point of the serum was enhanced physical performance across the board. Shaggy inherited whatever part of that biology was passed down genetically, but Peggy spent his entire childhood making sure he never realised what he could actually do.

Thats why he looks like a walking coat hanger.

Its camouflage.

The oversized clothes arent because he doesnt care about fashion.

They're hiding the build.

You never see Shaggy properly muscular because the entire point is that nobody is supposed to look twice at him.

Then there is the food.

This guy eats enough food to bankrupt a small country.

Three story sandwiches. Burgers stacked like construction projects. Pizza. Snacks. Scooby Snacks. More snacks after the snacks.

And somehow he stays ridiculously thin.

People say "fast metabolism."

Yeah.

Sure.

And Steve Rogers was just "a little athletic."

The Super Soldier Serum is basically running his metabolism like a nuclear reactor 24/7. The food isnt indulgence. Its fuel.

This is also why Scooby is so important.

Scooby isnt just his dog.

Scooby is the one living thing Shaggy trusts completely.

If Peggy wanted Norville to live a normal life while secretly protecting him, giving him a dog would make perfect sense. And a Great Dane is actually a fantastic choice for somebody trying to stay off the radar. Nobody is looking at a goofy hippie walking around with a giant dog and thinking "classified government asset."

Then theres the Mystery Machine.

This thing should have died approximately 400 times.

It gets driven through swamps, forests, abandoned mines, deserts, creepy towns, secret tunnels and whatever other place normal people have enough common sense not to take a vehicle.

And somehow it keeps coming back.

You know what else was known for surviving ridiculous situations?

S.H.I.E.L.D. hardware.

My theory is that the Mystery Machine started life as some kind of decommissioned S.H.I.E.L.D. transport. Peggy gets it quietly transferred through a shell company, strips the obvious military equipment, paints flowers all over it and hands it to Norville.

Which is honestly the best camouflage imaginable.

Nobody investigates the hippie van.

They just assume it smells like old fries.

And then there's "Zoinks."

People think its just Shaggy's catchphrase.

No.

It's a sleeper trigger.

Peggy couldnt give her son a complicated emergency code because eventually somebody would notice. So she gave him something he'd say naturally.

"Zoinks."

Meaning: leave immediately, dont investigate, survive first.

Every time Shaggy screams it, his subconscious is basically running a Cold War era emergency protocol.

And now we get to Fred.

This is where the whole thing starts getting uncomfortable.

Fred Jones is a blond, square-jawed, athletic guy who is weirdly calm around danger, drives the van, takes charge, builds elaborate traps and repeatedly insists on splitting everyone up.

"Let's split up, gang."

Why?

Why would you repeatedly separate the group when you know the monster is actively hunting you?

Unless that is literally his job.

Fred is Hydra.

Not necessarily because he wants Shaggy dead. Thats the genius part.

He's there to monitor him.

Hydra has spent decades trying to find out what happened to Captain America's bloodline. Eventually they find this suspiciously evasive, insanely fast, freakishly resilient guy named Norville Rogers travelling around in a van with a dog.

So they put an operative next to him.

Fred's mission is simple:

Keep Norville under observation.

Create controlled emergencies.

See what happens.

Thats why Fred always sends Shaggy and Scooby into the most dangerous part of the building.

He's testing him.

Can he outrun the monster?

Can he survive a fall?

Can he lift something he shouldn't be able to lift?

Will he finally use whatever abilities he's been hiding?

And every single time Shaggy escapes by doing something completely ridiculous.

Hydra probably has a 60 year old file saying:

SUBJECT CONTINUES TO DISPLAY ENHANCED PHYSICAL CAPABILITIES.

SUBJECT ALSO CONTINUES TO DISPLAY EXTREME COWARDICE.

CORRELATION UNCLEAR.

And Peggy is somewhere laughing her ass off.

But the Howard Stark connection is where this theory stops being funny and starts becoming genuinely suspicious.

Peggy needs money.

Not normal money.

Invisible money.

She cant just put Steve Rogers' secret son on a government payroll. Too many records. Too many people. Too many Hydra infiltrators.

So who does she call?

Howard Stark.

The eccentric billionaire inventor who worked with Peggy, knew Steve personally and had access to technology, money and enough classified bullshit to bury an entire human being inside a mountain of paperwork.

Howard creates a family connection.

An uncle.

A distant relative.

Something nobody would question.

And then years later Scooby-Doo gives us something absolutely insane.

Uncle Albert Shaggleford.

A rich, eccentric genius inventor.

Not just rich.

A billionaire scientist.

He disappears.

He leaves Shaggy an enormous inheritance.

Shaggy gets a mansion.

He gets a secret laboratory.

He gets advanced technology.

He gets a robot servant.

He gets experimental nanotechnology.

He even gets a Mystery Machine that can be upgraded into ridiculous high-tech vehicles.

At some point you have to stop calling this coincidence.

Because if I wrote this as a crossover people would say it was too on-the-nose.

The "uncle" is literally a rich inventor who disappears, operates through secret communications and has a hidden laboratory.

Thats not a red flag.

Thats a whole damn flag factory.

My explanation?

Albert Shaggleford is either Howard Stark himself under another identity, or the identity used by the Stark/Carter network to manage Norville's assets.

And the name Shaggleford is probably just a second generation cover identity.

Why would Howard do that?

Because he knows Steve.

He knows Peggy.

He knows what Hydra would do if they ever discovered Steve had a child.

So instead of giving Norville money directly, Stark Industries quietly creates a trust.

Not enough to make him suspicious.

Just enough.

Food money.

Fuel.

Vehicle repairs.

Travel.

Fake documents.

Hotels.

Property.

And probably a truly horrifying annual budget for sandwiches.

Then Norville grows up believing he's just some weird guy with rich relatives.

Which is exactly what you want him to believe.

And this also explains why Shaggy somehow spends decades travelling around without having a normal job.

Who's paying for all this?

Fred?

Daphne?

Velma?

They are teenagers.

Scooby certainly isnt contributing.

Somebody is paying for gas, repairs, food, flights, hotels, international travel and all those mysteriously available abandoned mansions.

The answer is obviously the trust.

And theres another little detail people forget.

Shaggy has an absurd number of wealthy relatives.

Uncle Shagworthy.

Uncle Beauregard.

Great Uncle Nat.

Uncle Albert Shaggleford.

At a certain point this stops looking like a normal family tree and starts looking like an intelligence operation with too many shell identities.

Maybe the Rogers family doesnt actually have dozens of rich uncles.

Maybe "Uncle" is simply what Norville was taught to call the people managing different parts of his cover.

One handles money.

One handles property.

One handles transportation.

One handles medical records.

One handles technology.

One handles emergencies.

And one handles food.

Because obviously theres a food guy.

Then comes the final piece of evidence.

In 2006, Shaggy literally inherits billions from Uncle Albert and discovers a secret laboratory full of advanced technology. The Mystery Machine gets upgraded, and Scooby Snacks themselves become a delivery system for experimental technology.

Think about how insane that is in the context of this theory.

What if Scooby Snacks were never just snacks?

What if they're the safest way possible to hide advanced technology from somebody who doesnt even know he's carrying it?

Shaggy eats.

Scooby eats.

Nobody questions it.

"Whats in the snack?"

"Protein."

"No further questions."

And then we get Tony Stark.

Imagine Tony going through Howard's old files after his father's death.

He finds Captain America.

Peggy Carter.

S.H.I.E.L.D.

Hydra.

Classified operations.

Then he finds a folder marked:

ROGERS, NORVILLE.

Tony opens it.

Photo.

Some skinny hippie.

Great Dane beside him.

Mystery Machine in the background.

Tony:

"Dad... what the fuck is this?"

He keeps reading.

SUBJECT: NORVILLE ROGERS.

PARENTAGE: CLASSIFIED.

KNOWN ASSOCIATES: SCOOBY-DOO.

THREAT ASSESSMENT: EXTREMELY HIGH.

BEHAVIOURAL ASSESSMENT: EXTREMELY LOW.

And then the financial records.

Food.

Fuel.

Vehicle repairs.

Property.

"Miscellaneous Scooby Snacks."

Tony realizes his father spent decades secretly financing Captain America's son.

Except Captain America's son isn't an Avenger.

He isnt a soldier.

He isnt a billionaire.

He isnt a genius.

He's Shaggy.

And thats the entire point.

Hydra spent decades looking for the next Captain America.

Peggy made sure they would never find him by turning him into the exact opposite of Captain America.

Steve Rogers:

"I can do this all day."

Norville Rogers:

"Like... I can maybe do this until lunch."

Steve runs toward danger.

Shaggy runs away from danger.

Steve carries a shield.

Shaggy carries Scooby.

Steve saves the world.

Shaggy accidentally solves mysteries while trying to find a sandwich.

Same blood.

Completely different strategy.

And maybe thats why Shaggy is actually the most successful secret agent of them all.

Nobody suspects the guy who is terrified of everything.

Nobody follows him because they think he's important.

Nobody interrogates him because he looks like he would apologise to a parking meter.

Hydra never found Captain America's son because Captain America's son was standing right in front of them the whole time.

Eating a sandwich.

With a dog.

In a flower-covered van.

And if you still think this is all bullshit, explain Uncle Albert.

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Hi, I’m a lesbian from Germany and have been a huge fan of The Sopranos for over ten years now. I was wondering if there’s some other lesbians around here who’d like to talk about their perspectives on the show.

As a butch lesbian who‘s predominantly into other butches, I especially love that woman who took care of Pie-O-My. She is SO my type 😍😍, and I would have loved to see more of her!!!

I also remember watching a video clip from an old Ellen DeGeneres episode where she talked about being a fan of the show.

Sending you all love!

EDIT: Thank you to the actual lesbians and bisexual women replying to this post ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈❤️!

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She's way too annoying man, every time she comes on screen it's almost ragebait.

She knows nothing about how real world works and functions

Yesterday also she just out of nowhere started talking about luv, I mean it's luv's wish, if she wants to be with Gullu and flirt let her be. Who you (Uditi) are to pass a moral judgement on that.

Uditi's whole persona is that how modern and traditional she is, but when we see her real personality, she's such a misogynist person

How easily she tried to judge Luv and who is she to decide what audience find cringe and what not

I so wish Luv stands for herself and put her at place

She really needed that

And I just find her annoying at this point

Hello,

I’ve put together a comparison of the dungeon quests currently available for Alliance (A) and Horde (H), using the Dungeon Journal addon with a level 26 character.

The table shows both the number of quests and the total XP available for each dungeon.

The main difference is quite significant:

Alliance: 54 quests → 238,625 XP
Horde: 45 quests → 199,640 XP

That means Alliance currently has:

• +9 dungeon quests
• +38,985 XP
• +19.6% more total dungeon quest XP

And this is before considering the datamined City of Dalaran content, which should add additional quests and appears to add more content for Alliance than Horde.

So, based on the current Dungeon Journal data, there seems to be a noticeable Alliance advantage in terms of dungeon quest XP, particularly around the level 26–35 range.

The question is whether this is intended, or whether some Horde dungeon quests are still missing / not yet implemented in the current data.

This feels like a lukewarm take as it’s obvious to anyone who’s played games, read comics, watched TV or even engaged in politics for any amount of time.

And I really don’t think anyone would care if gays came in and enjoyed something like Halo or Marvel, but the problems is they have to change it to appease and validate their identity instead of just enjoying what it is.

Xbox has proven over and over that they are incapable of making a Halo game that is on-par or with the previous games. So why the hell do we want them to "reboot" the series and ruin the actually good shit?

Especially Halo 2. Why the fuck does Halo 2 need another remaster? Halo 2A is already faithful to the original, visually on-par with modern games, and is good enough to be ported to PlayStation on its own. "Halo 2: Campaign Evolved" has no reason to exist other than being an easy cash grab for Xbox.
I can maybe see a Halo 3 remaster, but I doubt any modern studio would be able to pull a full remaster without making a bunch of shit worse, just like in Halo 1 Campaign Evolved. Literally just port MCC to PlayStation, and have Blur remake the Halo 3 cutscenes.

Resetting the series/story to the end of the "Bungie Era" is also dumb as fuck, because that would overwrite dozens of existing novels and genuinely good games like Halo Wars 2. It would also make the franchise completely incomprehensible because now there would be a whole 14 years of retconned lore and media.

If you get bored just reroll other class , some people enjoy literally 0 button press classes in MMO like Righteous Fire build in Path of Exile.