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And brilliant, incredible people have worked on this without achieving the final goal of reliable, consistent accuracy to the same degree as a person would have.

And yet the human brain does that casually, constantly, instantaneously, and, for the most part, without error.

He’s a 900+ year old Time Lord. He’s living as much as he possibly can, and he feels like it’s nowhere near enough, and far too much, all at the same time.

This SAME MAN, same face and all, is the person who said “Sometimes I think a Time Lord lives too long”

He’s the man who, literally in his NEXT regeneration, spends a third of his series depressed because he can’t find an ounce of joy in the universe himself and NEEDS humans to show around so he can catch a hint of it through them.

The Doctor even states that humans “look like giants” to him, specifically BECAUSE of the fact that they live so much in such a short time.

This isn’t a show about an awesome, nigh-immortal time-traveling alien.

It’s a show about the pains and soul-crushing responsibilities that come with time travel and immortality.

And, of course, you’re all forgetting the glaring fact of this episode, entirely separate from the quotes you’re so eagerly judging:

THE MAN THE DOCTOR IS TALKING TO HAS TO EAT PEOPLE TO STAY YOUNG.

He literally KILLS PEOPLE to survive. The Doctor, talking him out of eternal life, is not just doing so because “long life bad”, he’s doing so because “eating people to live forever is an awful way to be” as well.

You’re also disregarding his point entirely in favor of giving bad-faith analysis of the show.

His point is that whether you have 10 years or 20, how you spend that time is what matters, not the amount of time you have to spend.

He has eternity, and it’s not worth it. He knows it isn’t, and he’s trying to stop anyone else from making that mistake. He’s living for so long, and has lived so much, but it just isn’t worth it anymore.

Lucy Lacemaker, from Satellite City (or, more officially, The August Few: Amygdala, though she never says this in there) puts it very well:

“Billions of years we’ve been about. And life’s not worth much once the rest is gone. You get bored of the wind and the birds and the sound of laughter and the smell of pine. Life is like a piece of paper. And the writing is our lives. Our stories. When you only have 90 years, the ink turns to gold. So valuable are the words, the days you live. Cause soon, the story will end. But what if you have a never-ending page? A bottomless inkwell? The more you write, the less it all means. That’s our curse. We live so long that it’s not even life anymore. We’re not living forever, we’re dying forever.”

@another-normal-anomaly said that if they kicked ass for 80 years, got saved, and kicked ass another 80, that’s twice as much as they would have done. But that’s still only 160 years, and it reinforces the Doctor’s point; it’s not the time that matters, it’s the person, because others may spend that 160 years doing nothing, and some may spend that 160 years doing everything.

But they would still only have 160 years. Not forever. What the Doctor is warning against is eternity. Eternity is pointless.

@dagny-hashtaggart said the show is hypocritical in it’s transhumanist stance for featuring an “awesome, nigh-immortal, time-traveling alien”, but that just tells me they’ve either never watched the show or they have and 100% missed the point of the character of the Doctor.

Because the Doctor is not happy with his long life. He’s not content or pleased about it. He’s miserable. The only worth he finds in it is giving other, shorter-lived life forms the pleasure of seeing things they never could otherwise, and protecting the lives of those more fragile than him because he, at his core, has two values above all others:

If it kills me, I can put an end to this opera of my life, and I can finally rest

If it doesn’t kill me, it means I’ve stopped it and other, more meaningful lives will be spared.

The Doctor is not some happy, positive character. He’s a victim of a tragedy, and that tragedy is, quite painfully obviously, the fact he lives so long. His lifespan, his regeneration, is a curse to him, not a blessing. The fact you can call the show hypocritical for that tells me you’ve never seen it, or you’ve never understood it.

@argumate made a crude joke about a man with a big dick, named after having a big dick, saying that life wasn’t about having a big dick.

Well, fun fact. If your dick were, say, 14 inches, as a human (which is a real condition that has happened), you would have heart problems every time you got erect, be entirely unable to enjoy penetrative sex (aside from the heart problems, you’d be unable to get more than a small fraction of your length in without hurting them), and if you ever tried to get a little more out of it, you’d seriously injure your partner.

Not only that, but you’d have social problems as well. Try hiding the outline when your flaccid length still reaches down past your knee. You’d be a laughing stock early on, and if you had frequent erections (say during puberty, post-growth spurt, pre-calming of the hormones), you’d be unable to hide it no matter how hard you tried.

It would cause more issues than that, too, believe me. And yet you’re saying if a man who suffered from all of these problems told you “it’s not all fun and games, having a big dick”, you’d mock him for not loving the “gift” he’s been “blessed” with?

All of you missed the point of the show, the character, and even the point of the scene you’re remarking on.

Maybe! Hard to say. Ask me in 10,000 years, maybe I’ll have an answer then.

More generally:

I don’t blame the Doctor for being low-key suicidal. Everyone is allowed to be however suicidal they want and the Doctor in particular has had a hard life and deserves so much better.

I don’t blame the doctor for killing Richard Lazarus, because he had turned into a giant man-eating werescorpion and needed to be taken out for the safety of the general public. If that ever happens to me, and you don’t have any better options, go ahead and kill me too. I do not support the man-eating werescorpion lifestyle.

My objection to the Doctor’s behaviour in this episode is entirely about his objections to human life-extension research. I haven’t watched this episode in, what ten years? But I got the impression that he objects to life-extension research even if it’s conducted safely in accordance with werescorpion prevention best practices. And that’s bogus, because a lot of people die at 60 who would prefer to be healthy until 80 and a lot of people die at 80 who would prefer to be healthy until 100 and a lot of people die at 100 who would prefer to be healthy until 1000. I believe everyone–humans, aliens, humans with medically problematic dick sizes, vegetarian werescorpions who can participate in society, etc–deserves to live as long as they want and die when they decide they’re done.

But

By taking away that the Doctor is opposed to human life-extension research, you DID fail to comprehend the episode.

The Doctor was directly opposed to Lazarus being willing to step on others to achieve immortality, and was warning against immortality in general, but he’s not against humans extending their life.

9 knew Cassandra, and he didn’t hold it against her at all that she had extended her life so much. What he held against her was that she was trying to hurt others.

11 met Liz-10. He had no issues with her having her life artificially extended so much either, in fact he quite liked her.

12 MADE Ashildr immortal to save her life.

The Doctor is not, and has never been, opposed to increasing human lifespan.

He’s never been opposed to scientific advancements or artificial evolution. He’s met and befriended cyborgs, immortals, and more, and whether artificial or cybernetic or genetically modified or not, his only concern is whether or not they’re hurting others for the sake of it.

The only person he had any issues with SPECIFICALLY because of the immortality is Jack Harkness, and that is less to do with “you’ll never stay dead” and EVERYTHING to do with the fact that Jack Is™

He Is, in the sense that he can never be anything else.

He’s a fact of time and space, ripped out of his proper existence and now exists as a being untouchable by time or space in any way that matters.

Jack shouldn’t exist, in time or space, anymore. But he does. And the Doctor’s Time Lord nature makes it hard to ignore that, but he -did- ignore it anyway when faced with him.

Because he doesn’t take issue with Jack’s immortality. He takes issue with the fact he’s a blot in Time, he exists perpetually as a fact of reality and no living thing is supposed to be that, but through the power of Bad Wolf Rose, he was forced into being that.

He’s a 900+ year old Time Lord. He’s living as much as he possibly can, and he feels like it’s nowhere near enough, and far too much, all at the same time.

This SAME MAN, same face and all, is the person who said “Sometimes I think a Time Lord lives too long”

He’s the man who, literally in his NEXT regeneration, spends a third of his series depressed because he can’t find an ounce of joy in the universe himself and NEEDS humans to show around so he can catch a hint of it through them.

The Doctor even states that humans “look like giants” to him, specifically BECAUSE of the fact that they live so much in such a short time.

This isn’t a show about an awesome, nigh-immortal time-traveling alien.

It’s a show about the pains and soul-crushing responsibilities that come with time travel and immortality.

And, of course, you’re all forgetting the glaring fact of this episode, entirely separate from the quotes you’re so eagerly judging:

THE MAN THE DOCTOR IS TALKING TO HAS TO EAT PEOPLE TO STAY YOUNG.

He literally KILLS PEOPLE to survive. The Doctor, talking him out of eternal life, is not just doing so because “long life bad”, he’s doing so because “eating people to live forever is an awful way to be” as well.

You’re also disregarding his point entirely in favor of giving bad-faith analysis of the show.

His point is that whether you have 10 years or 20, how you spend that time is what matters, not the amount of time you have to spend.

He has eternity, and it’s not worth it. He knows it isn’t, and he’s trying to stop anyone else from making that mistake. He’s living for so long, and has lived so much, but it just isn’t worth it anymore.

Lucy Lacemaker, from Satellite City (or, more officially, The August Few: Amygdala, though she never says this in there) puts it very well:

“Billions of years we’ve been about. And life’s not worth much once the rest is gone. You get bored of the wind and the birds and the sound of laughter and the smell of pine. Life is like a piece of paper. And the writing is our lives. Our stories. When you only have 90 years, the ink turns to gold. So valuable are the words, the days you live. Cause soon, the story will end. But what if you have a never-ending page? A bottomless inkwell? The more you write, the less it all means. That’s our curse. We live so long that it’s not even life anymore. We’re not living forever, we’re dying forever.”

@another-normal-anomaly said that if they kicked ass for 80 years, got saved, and kicked ass another 80, that’s twice as much as they would have done. But that’s still only 160 years, and it reinforces the Doctor’s point; it’s not the time that matters, it’s the person, because others may spend that 160 years doing nothing, and some may spend that 160 years doing everything.

But they would still only have 160 years. Not forever. What the Doctor is warning against is eternity. Eternity is pointless.

@dagny-hashtaggart said the show is hypocritical in it’s transhumanist stance for featuring an “awesome, nigh-immortal, time-traveling alien”, but that just tells me they’ve either never watched the show or they have and 100% missed the point of the character of the Doctor.

Because the Doctor is not happy with his long life. He’s not content or pleased about it. He’s miserable. The only worth he finds in it is giving other, shorter-lived life forms the pleasure of seeing things they never could otherwise, and protecting the lives of those more fragile than him because he, at his core, has two values above all others:

If it kills me, I can put an end to this opera of my life, and I can finally rest

If it doesn’t kill me, it means I’ve stopped it and other, more meaningful lives will be spared.

The Doctor is not some happy, positive character. He’s a victim of a tragedy, and that tragedy is, quite painfully obviously, the fact he lives so long. His lifespan, his regeneration, is a curse to him, not a blessing. The fact you can call the show hypocritical for that tells me you’ve never seen it, or you’ve never understood it.

@argumate made a crude joke about a man with a big dick, named after having a big dick, saying that life wasn’t about having a big dick.

Well, fun fact. If your dick were, say, 14 inches, as a human (which is a real condition that has happened), you would have heart problems every time you got erect, be entirely unable to enjoy penetrative sex (aside from the heart problems, you’d be unable to get more than a small fraction of your length in without hurting them), and if you ever tried to get a little more out of it, you’d seriously injure your partner.

Not only that, but you’d have social problems as well. Try hiding the outline when your flaccid length still reaches down past your knee. You’d be a laughing stock early on, and if you had frequent erections (say during puberty, post-growth spurt, pre-calming of the hormones), you’d be unable to hide it no matter how hard you tried.

It would cause more issues than that, too, believe me. And yet you’re saying if a man who suffered from all of these problems told you “it’s not all fun and games, having a big dick”, you’d mock him for not loving the “gift” he’s been “blessed” with?

All of you missed the point of the show, the character, and even the point of the scene you’re remarking on.

Maybe! Hard to say. Ask me in 10,000 years, maybe I’ll have an answer then.

More generally:

I don’t blame the Doctor for being low-key suicidal. Everyone is allowed to be however suicidal they want and the Doctor in particular has had a hard life and deserves so much better.

I don’t blame the doctor for killing Richard Lazarus, because he had turned into a giant man-eating werescorpion and needed to be taken out for the safety of the general public. If that ever happens to me, and you don’t have any better options, go ahead and kill me too. I do not support the man-eating werescorpion lifestyle.

My objection to the Doctor’s behaviour in this episode is entirely about his objections to human life-extension research. I haven’t watched this episode in, what ten years? But I got the impression that he objects to life-extension research even if it’s conducted safely in accordance with werescorpion prevention best practices. And that’s bogus, because a lot of people die at 60 who would prefer to be healthy until 80 and a lot of people die at 80 who would prefer to be healthy until 100 and a lot of people die at 100 who would prefer to be healthy until 1000. I believe everyone–humans, aliens, humans with medically problematic dick sizes, vegetarian werescorpions who can participate in society, etc–deserves to live as long as they want and die when they decide they’re done.

But

By taking away that the Doctor is opposed to human life-extension research, you DID fail to comprehend the episode.

The Doctor was directly opposed to Lazarus being willing to step on others to achieve immortality, and was warning against immortality in general, but he's not against humans extending their life.

9 knew Cassandra, and he didn't hold it against her at all that she had extended her life so much. What he held against her was that she was trying to hurt others.

11 met Liz-10. He had no issues with her having her life artificially extended so much either, in fact he quite liked her.

12 MADE Ashildr immortal to save her life.

The Doctor is not, and has never been, opposed to increasing human lifespan.

He's never been opposed to scientific advancements or artificial evolution. He's met and befriended cyborgs, immortals, and more, and whether artificial or cybernetic or genetically modified or not, his only concern is whether or not they're hurting others for the sake of it.

The only person he had any issues with SPECIFICALLY because of the immortality is Jack Harkness, and that is less to do with "you'll never stay dead" and EVERYTHING to do with the fact that Jack Is™

He Is, in the sense that he can never be anything else.

He's a fact of time and space, ripped out of his proper existence and now exists as a being untouchable by time or space in any way that matters.

Jack shouldn't exist, in time or space, anymore. But he does. And the Doctor's Time Lord nature makes it hard to ignore that, but he -did- ignore it anyway when faced with him.

Because he doesn't take issue with Jack's immortality. He takes issue with the fact he's a blot in Time, he exists perpetually as a fact of reality and no living thing is supposed to be that, but through the power of Bad Wolf Rose, he was forced into being that.

YAHOO IT'S @ecto-implosion TIME!!

And the art on this is so absolutely amazing, too!!!

Gah, I can never get enough Danny in my life.

On a side note...idc how powerful that sludge monster is, PLAYFUL Danny is a threat.

And the house? The money you don’t even have to pay unless you want HIM to expand your house for you?

18,400 bells

For reference a single apple sells for 100 bells

Which means you pay for a house (really you are paying for the upgrade) for the same price as 15 dozen apples.

You are literally buying a house for the same price as 15. Dozen. Apples

Let’s put that in perspective to say. America. A honeycrisp apple at Kroger costs 1.70 each on average meaning a dozen costs around 20 dollars. Meaning the price of a house in Tom Nooks store (that once again you never even have to pay back) is equivalent to a whopping 306 dollars.

That’s it. To pay off a house and let you get renovations you have to pay less than a single months rent at any apartment.

I immediately had to go put it in Objection Maker.

Why?

Because they want to support him and those he helps, just like Tom does, and do so by buying whatever random junk you have lying around.

And the three of them are environmentally friendly! They pay you for junk not because it has any real value to them, or even because you took the time to bring it in.

They pay you for it because every bit of junk you sell to them is one less bit of junk on the streets, in the fields, everywhere. Buying junk so they can dispose of it properly keeps their towns clean of litter.

So, to recap;

You get a house AND the land it’s on, for free, and if you decide to upgrade it you can do so for the equivalent of $306 USD.

You get free lessons on crafting all sorts of items

You’re given free reign to scavenge, forage, and collect from the natural world all you like, so long as you leave enough for others and enough for nature to not feel the loss

You’re given personal check-ins by Tom and his nephews on a regular basis for the sole purpose of making sure everything is working out okay and ensuring you’re happy

AND on top of that, you get paid for keeping the streets clean, simply as a thank you for doing so.

Name me ONE landlord with that big of a heart. Name ONE town that well-run. You can’t. Know why?

Because unfortunately, Tom Nook isn’t real, and if he were, he’d be killed by the US Government for daring to prove that safe, universally affordable living is 100% possible, and that good will CAN triumph over greed if allowed to by those in charge.

And the house? The money you don’t even have to pay unless you want HIM to expand your house for you?

18,400 bells

For reference a single apple sells for 100 bells

Which means you pay for a house (really you are paying for the upgrade) for the same price as 15 dozen apples.

You are literally buying a house for the same price as 15. Dozen. Apples

Let’s put that in perspective to say. America. A honeycrisp apple at Kroger costs 1.70 each on average meaning a dozen costs around 20 dollars. Meaning the price of a house in Tom Nooks store (that once again you never even have to pay back) is equivalent to a whopping 306 dollars.

That’s it. To pay off a house and let you get renovations you have to pay less than a single months rent at any apartment.

I immediately had to go put it in Objection Maker.

Why?

Because they want to support him and those he helps, just like Tom does, and do so by buying whatever random junk you have lying around.

And the three of them are environmentally friendly! They pay you for junk not because it has any real value to them, or even because you took the time to bring it in.

They pay you for it because every bit of junk you sell to them is one less bit of junk on the streets, in the fields, everywhere. Buying junk so they can dispose of it properly keeps their towns clean of litter.

So, to recap;

You get a house AND the land it's on, for free, and if you decide to upgrade it you can do so for the equivalent of $306 USD.

You get free lessons on crafting all sorts of items

You're given free reign to scavenge, forage, and collect from the natural world all you like, so long as you leave enough for others and enough for nature to not feel the loss

You're given personal check-ins by Tom and his nephews on a regular basis for the sole purpose of making sure everything is working out okay and ensuring you're happy

AND on top of that, you get paid for keeping the streets clean, simply as a thank you for doing so.

Name me ONE landlord with that big of a heart. Name ONE town that well-run. You can't. Know why?

Because unfortunately, Tom Nook isn't real, and if he were, he'd be killed by the US Government for daring to prove that safe, universally affordable living is 100% possible, and that good will CAN triumph over greed if allowed to by those in charge.

Not because he's stronger, Sportacus right after an apple is roughly on par with Goku's base form, so in a no-transformations fight, they're evenly matched.

But they'd never fight. Sportacus doesn't fight for fun, and Goku is the type who respects that sort of thing. He'd beg and plead, but unless Sportacus agreed (which he wouldn't), they'd never fight.

Instead, they'd have sports matches. Baseball, races, that sort of thing.

Sportacus would respect the hell out of Goku and see him as a great workout partner, and Goku would see Sportacus as someone worthy of respect and a solid training partner in his own way.