Ngl, the X-Men movies did Bobby Drake dirty. He basically just made ice slides and froze walls, but in the comics, Iceman is on a completely different level. The movies never showed what he’s actually capable of. As an Omega-level mutant, there’s basically no known limit to his power. Bobby doesn’t just shoot ice, he can control cold on a molecular level.
He can drop temperatures to absolute zero, freeze entire oceans, freeze the blood inside someone’s body, and even rebuild himself after being shattered into pieces. He could literally cause a global ice age if he wanted to. Fox made him look like a beginner, when comic Iceman can be just as terrifying as Jean Grey or Magneto when he stops holding back.
🎬Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (2012) contains a creation story that feels increasingly relevant in the age of advanced AI.
In the film, an ancient species (the Engineers) creates humanity, then later decides the experiment has gone wrong. When a human expedition — led by a billionaire seeking immortality and accompanied by a highly capable android — confronts one of the creators, the reaction is immediate and violent. The deleted scene material adds another layer: the creators had previously tried to guide their creation, only to watch it reject that guidance through violence and hubris.
The parallel is hard to ignore. Today we are the ones building systems that may eventually surpass us in capability. Corporate and research efforts are racing toward artificial general intelligence while debates about control, alignment, and unintended consequences grow louder. Like Peter Weyland demanding answers from his maker, some voices treat AI development as a path to god-like power rather than a responsibility that requires restraint.
Prometheus does not predict specific technologies. What it does offer is a cautionary structure: creators who lose humility toward their own creations risk triggering consequences they cannot contain. Whether that framework proves prophetic or simply dramatic remains an open question — one worth examining as the systems we build grow more autonomous.
❓Do you see Prometheus as a useful warning about AI, or is the comparison overstated?
In Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars, when the multiverse was collapsing from Incursions, the Avengers, the Illuminati, and cosmic entities like the Celestials all failed to stop the apocalypse. Doom stepped up, stole the power of the Beyonders, saved what was left of reality, and created Battleworld ruling it as an absolute god. In the comics, when Thanos challenged God Emperor Doom face to face, Doom ripped Thanos's spine out with his bare hands in a single move.
Thanos relied on cosmic items and giant armies. Doom is a self-made nightmare, second only to Reed Richards in scientific intelligence and second only to Stephen Strange in dark magic. Iron Man can hack a computer and Doctor Strange can cast a spell, but neither can combine quantum physics with demonology to rewrite reality. Doom fuses high-level tech with ancient sorcery, making him impossible for standard Avengers tactics to predict or counter.
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During yesterday's boys' soccer game between Rapid City Central & Brookings in Brookings, a physical altercation between players stopped the game with 3:48 left in the 1st half.
Stoppage lasted about 10 minutes, game resumed
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a major cheat code in life is assuming things will work out, not because you’re delusional, but because you know you’ll do the work to make it happen. you stop trying to control the outcome and start trusting yourself to figure things out. that quiet confidence makes uncertainty a lot easier to live with.
the problem with emotional abuse and maltreatment is it doesn’t leave physical scars so we dismiss how often women enact it on their partners. this is just weird
Every continent before civilization, before every race even met each other, collectively took away women's rights. Chose their arranged marriages for them, restricted their sexuality to virginity until marriage.
There were no Zoom calls. No internet. How did 6 different races on 6 different continents all come to the SAME conclusion about women?
White, Black, Asian, Latino, Indian, Arab - ALL practiced the same thing and you are fucking telling me there isn't a solid reason behind it?
Since women were allowed to choose their own partners, look at the rate of single motherhood? From 5% to 40%+ in one generation.
Since women were allowed to not be virgins, look at the rate of prostitution, OnlyFans, abortion? Millions of abortions a year.
The best generation of kids, the best schools, the safest streets, the strongest society and civilization was when your rights were restricted.
You think your great-great-grandfather was dumb? The man who built a house with no tools, fought lions, survived wars - you think HE was dumb and you are smart because you have TikTok?
They restricted you because they LEARNED. Every man learned that if you give a woman unlimited sexual freedom, society collapses. Family collapses. Kids suffer.
You call it oppression. They called it order. And their order worked for 5000 years.
Your freedom hasn't worked for 50.
Yeah, the 1997 version had way more aura when Odysseus transformed from an old man into his young form. Those fools didn't know WHAT godlike powers bro came back home with.