Macchi_the_Slime

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[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Depends on the time in which he had to do the deceleration. I did some more looking and I guess that this page comes from Action Comics 1000 from a short bit where the current iteration of Superman is getting deja vu like flashes of things that this iteration of the character has not done but were rather part of the overall character's history.

So this likely came from a very early iteration of Superman that A) wasn't nearly as strong or fast, and B) that the situation most likely began with attempting to stop a runaway train from crashing. Then while attempting to stop the train, a child wandered into the path of the train and Clark couldn't exactly let go of the train to move the kid out of harm's way.

So I did some more looking and it seems like this image is from a... basically a clip show of a "story" that's going through the history of Superman.

So in that context we're likely looking at a significantly less powerful Superman earlier in his history. Which also means that the situation was likely that the train itself was going to crash and he'd been pushing on it for much longer with the kid having wandered into the tracks while he was in the middle of stopping the train.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I personally like "Litigation of Karens" for how often their involvement tends to involve them threatening to sue or press charges on someone.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

The idea is he's straining so hard because he's trying to use the exact amount of force he needs to stop the train without harming anyone inside. Too much force on the train and everyone in the train gets injured or killed, too little and it doesn't stop in time to save the kid, and I believe in this one he didn't have the option of just grabbing the kid because he would have been hurt too badly from the sudden acceleration.

If you've ever tried to assemble something where you've gotta snap together two pretty fragile pieces it's a similar idea. You absolutely can generate way more than the force needed to get the job done, the difficulty is in having the pieces survive the attempt.

I can tell you I have experienced it with models and computer components and you'd absolutely think I was arm wrestling a God with how much I was straining trying to push those parts together without breaking them.

Edit again: I think I found where this is from. I guess it's from Action Comics 1000 with the actual thing that's happening being like a deja vu flashback of Superman's comic history. Like the current canon Superman of the time is seeing flashes of things he personally hasn't done but were part of the history of the character.

So this would have been from a significantly less powerful Superman and was most likely a situation where the train was going to crash so stopping the train without hurting the people was the main goal with the kid wandering into the path of the train while he was already trying to keep the train from crashing

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn't they try to make something like that canon years ago? That Superman has some kind of field he extends to objects he touches that in part dampens some of the physics implications of the movements he's shown to be able to do carrying objects and people that don't immediately rip themselves apart from G forces? Or am I misremembering?

Nonsense is like life, it finds a way.

I see no flaw in the logic. Those are clearly simply flesh automatons animated by neurotransmitters whose Divine Light has been severed.

I've heard it can be a little... hard to pass.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Traffic jam? Well, I've never tasted it.

I know that you're trying to help, and I appreciate the sentiment. But that advice is literally meaningless.

Build a company? Doing what? I've got 3 autistic kids with varying levels of developmental disability, a partner who we just discovered has a pituitary tumor that's causing her to have episodes where she loses large chunks of her memory for hours on end or "just" become so dizzy and disoriented that she can barely walk unassisted, and I've got chronic joint pain which makes it to where I can barely manage to take care of everyone else along with myself.

We live off government assistance and my partner's disability benefits. So we have draconian asset/income limits we have to live within to not lose food/housing money. Like several months ago we got approved for an extra like $300 a month for our oldest because of his disability and we immediately lost roughly $250 dollars a month in benefits. We get in trouble for having more than like $3,000 in assets.

We know a handful of other disabled people in the area and we all try to help each other where we can but "where we can" is very few and far between. We're all barely holding it together out here as it is. We just don't have the resources.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Realistically it's most likely making the "Therapist/The Rapist" joke and is probably meant to be read something like The(cute)Rapist.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That feel when you're disabled and know it's happening but can't do anything about it. You try to find time to at least do something, but it feels like you've dumped one bucket of water out of a boat and in the time it took you to do that two buckets worth of water have leaked into the boat.

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