Hello, I hope everyone's having a nice night! Anyways im feeling a little bored and pretty lonely, so I figured I'd try and meet some new people. So Iv usually been the quiet shy type, the one that tends to sit in the back of class and hope i don't get noticed. People tend to judge you before they get to actually know you, so its always been kinda hard meeting new people for me. I am trying to work on being less introverted and more social, plus lately iv been feeling kinda lonely so I would like to find a chat buddy. Short-term chat is fine but preferably id like a long term friend. I would like someone that wants to talk about both serious topics and silly topics. Also if you have anything on your mind and need to vent i dont mind listening.
So a bit about me im about 5'10 with brown eyes and long dark brown hair. I have 2 cats with plenty of pictures! Im a pretty big geek, I love comic books some of my favorites would be The walking dead, Spawn, Invincible, Batman, HellblazeConstantine, Spiderman, Old man logan to name a few. I also enjoy reading books like The expanse, ready player one, Lord of the rings. I am currently reading The witcher series. i also enjoy hiking, sleeping, going to the movies,mall,bars, concerts.
I Also enjoy video games and I usually just play on my xbox. Some of my favorites would be Red dead redemption 1&2, Fallout New Vegas&4, Assassins creed 2 and origins, Pubg, skyrim, Bioshock, mass effect, i have plenty of more
If you would like to know my music tastes i am very much a punk,metal, classic rock type of guy but that doesn't mean I won't listen to other stuff. If you enjoy bands like Greenday, The adicts, The misfits, Ramones, Weezer, Foo fighters will get along.
For Movies and Tv i like scifi fantasy but ill watch anything. Some of my likes would be , a good amount of marvel and dc shows and movies.
As for who im looking for age, ethnicity,location dont matter just be fun and nice! Of course it would be great to find someone with common interests but its not a deal breaker im willing and want to learn about new hobbies. So if you think we might make great friends lets chat, we can chat on reddit or whatever app you might use.

I went on a little trip with my friends, nothing much, just a trip to a nearby theme park. We stopped for lunch and I saw this absolutely gorgeous woman. Black and red hime-style hair, a kind of punk, maybe rocker style outfit, amazing makeup!
Y'know that meme of "not sure if I want to be her or be with her"? It was both, I very clearly felt both in full force at that one moment, lol.
I legit had a dysphoria and gender envy fueled breakdown, over probably the prettiest girl I've seen in a while. I was talking to my friends when I noticed her and my friends seriously had to snap me back to the conversation.
Is that weird? Has anyone else ever had an experience like this?

Hello, I hope everyone's having a nice day! Anyways im feeling a little bored and pretty lonely, so I figured I'd try and meet some new people. So Iv usually been the quiet shy type, the one that tends to sit in the back of class and hope i don't get noticed. People tend to judge you before they get to actually know you, so its always been kinda hard meeting new people for me. I am trying to work on being less introverted and more social, plus lately iv been feeling kinda lonely so I would like to find a chat buddy. Short-term chat is fine but preferably id like a long term friend. I would like someone that wants to talk about both serious topics and silly topics. Also if you have anything on your mind and need to vent i dont mind listening.
So a bit about me im about 5'10 with brown eyes and long dark brown hair. I have 2 cats with plenty of pictures! Im a pretty big geek, I love comic books some of my favorites would be The walking dead, Spawn, Invincible, Batman, HellblazeConstantine, Spiderman, Old man logan to name a few. I also enjoy reading books like The expanse, ready player one, Lord of the rings. I am currently reading The witcher series. i also enjoy hiking, sleeping, going to the movies,mall,bars, concerts.
I Also enjoy video games and I usually just play on my xbox. Some of my favorites would be Red dead redemption 1&2, Fallout New Vegas&4, Assassins creed 2 and origins, Pubg, skyrim, Bioshock, mass effect, i have plenty of more
If you would like to know my music tastes i am very much a punk,metal, classic rock type of guy but that doesn't mean I won't listen to other stuff. If you enjoy bands like Greenday, The adicts, The misfits, Ramones, Weezer, Foo fighters will get along.
For Movies and Tv i like scifi fantasy but ill watch anything. Some of my likes would be , a good amount of marvel and dc shows and movies.
As for who im looking for age, ethnicity,location dont matter just be fun and nice! Of course it would be great to find someone with common interests but its not a deal breaker im willing and want to learn about new hobbies. So if you think we might make great friends lets chat, we can chat on reddit or whatever app you might use.

Hello, I hope everyone's having a nice day! Anyways im feeling a little bored and pretty lonely, so I figured I'd try and meet some new people. So Iv usually been the quiet shy type, the one that tends to sit in the back of class and hope i don't get noticed. People tend to judge you before they get to actually know you, so its always been kinda hard meeting new people for me. I am trying to work on being less introverted and more social, plus lately iv been feeling kinda lonely so I would like to find a chat buddy. Short-term chat is fine but preferably id like a long term friend. I would like someone that wants to talk about both serious topics and silly topics. Also if you have anything on your mind and need to vent i dont mind listening.
So a bit about me im about 5'10 with brown eyes and long dark brown hair. I have 2 cats with plenty of pictures! Im a pretty big geek, I love comic books some of my favorites would be The walking dead, Spawn, Invincible, Batman, HellblazeConstantine, Spiderman, Old man logan to name a few. I also enjoy reading books like The expanse, ready player one, Lord of the rings. I am currently reading The witcher series. i also enjoy hiking, sleeping, going to the movies,mall,bars, concerts.
I Also enjoy video games and I usually just play on my xbox. Some of my favorites would be Red dead redemption 1&2, Fallout New Vegas&4, Assassins creed 2 and origins, Pubg, skyrim, Bioshock, mass effect, i have plenty of more
If you would like to know my music tastes i am very much a punk,metal, classic rock type of guy but that doesn't mean I won't listen to other stuff. If you enjoy bands like Greenday, The adicts, The misfits, Ramones, Weezer, Foo fighters will get along.
For Movies and Tv i like scifi fantasy but ill watch anything. Some of my likes would be , a good amount of marvel and dc shows and movies.
As for who im looking for age, ethnicity,location dont matter just be fun and nice! Of course it would be great to find someone with common interests but its not a deal breaker im willing and want to learn about new hobbies. So if you think we might make great friends lets chat, we can chat on reddit or whatever app you might use.

My friend Ahmed and I met through geocaching. We used to joke that we couldn’t have been more opposite if we tried, our worlds so different it was like a bird from the sky talking to a fish from the sea (who was the bird, and who the fish, changed depending on context). We bonded over a particularly difficult cache—it turned out to have been washed away by a storm—and soon our expeditions together were the highlight of my week. But our lives got busy. He had kids. I had my career. Once a week became once a month, then only an occasional thing. And we dropped out of touch.
Once COVID hit, I got laid off. Messaged Ahmed to see if he’d be up for geocaching since it’s one of the activities one can do outdoors during the pandemic. He went geocaching a couple times with me, wearing his little daughter Ayaan on his back. Adorable, but it did limit how long he and I could be out hiking.
And then life got busy again.
Anyway, the reason I’m writing this post is that recently, I hit another hard point in my life. I came out to my girlfriend’s family. Thought they’d be accepting, only to be bombarded with snide remarks about my pronouns. Not to mention the constant misgendering. My girl kept telling me to stop acting like it’s such a big deal.
So I went back to my old escape. Pulled up the app. Started walking. Looking for caches. Letting my mind drift and my legs carry me. Anything not to have to think. Going more and more remote after I found all the geocaches in my area.
I even messaged Ahmed, though he didn’t respond. (Bitterly, I thought perhaps he wouldn’t accept me now. Which is unfair of me. He was deeply religious and a conspiracy theorist and I’m a pink-haired punk atheist, but we talked deeply and always found common ground. Anytime I jumped to assumptions about him, he’d prove me wrong. He said the same about me.)
I tried making new friends in the geocaching community. I went with a group once, went another time with some gal named Debbie and her daughter. But just didn’t feel that connection. Maybe it’s the place I am in life.
There was one name that kept showing up on the logs. Ahmed’s. And at first I was excited. My old friend, back in the game! But when I messaged, his reply disappointed me:
HIM: Sorry Blake, can’t. Life, you know.
And then, a few minutes later:
HIM: Try this one.
He sent me a link to a specific cache. It was marked with the highest difficulty. I went out there but couldn’t find it. This seemed another “washed away in a storm” scenario, and I told him so in messages. He told me to keep looking. I finally asked if he could give me a hint, anything, but all he said was to keep on. And after an hour, frustrated, I called it quits.
After that, I tried reaching out again to ask him to come geocaching with me, but he had the same excuse. “Life, you know.” But I kept seeing his name on the logbooks. I became obsessed. Told myself I would get to a cache before him. He’d been to every single one that I found, even as I was going to more remote locations from our usual stomping grounds.
ME: How are you doing this? Have you hit EVERY single cache?
HIM: Keep looking
ME: Are there any you haven’t found?
HIM: Keep looking
HIM: Keep on, friend.
ME: How about I come with you on the next one you do? It’s been too long. Honestly, I could use your advice.
HIM: Sorry Blake, can’t. Life, you know.
ME: Kids keeping you busy? How is Ayaan doing?
HIM: Walking now! Daddy’s so proud.
I stared at the text, puzzled. Feeling a slight chill.
She learned to walk during the pandemic. In 2020. Four years ago.
ME: All right, for real, what’s going on man?
HIM: Keep looking.
So I went out. Opened the app, and searched for some caches I hadn’t been to yet. Ones further out. Found one on a hike deep into the woods, so remote it wasn’t the sort Ahmed would usually go for now that he had kids. Still, my old friend had already marked it. This time though, I took notice of the date: 5/20/2024
I went for another one nearby, this one an easy find in a picnic area. It was the same. Ahmed had marked it for exactly the same date.
The next one, too.
In fact, all the caches I found, even the ones I’d found back in our city where we lived, all had the same date. I know because I went and double checked. All the 20^th of May of this year. The same day he’d started messaging me after ghosting me for weeks. But he couldn’t have found them all in a single day. Impossible. No matter how much he trekked around, that was just too many to mark. I was deeply chilled now, terrified. And then my phone pinged with another message. It was Ahmed again.
HIM: Keep looking.
What else could I do? In some ways it was like old times. A treasure hunt. There was something I had to find. A cache. The only cache he hadn’t found first. There had to be one. And then I remembered the impossible cache. The one he’d sent me the link to that I hadn’t been able to find. I went back there. Messaged him:
ME: Is this the one?
HIM: Keep looking.
Again, I hunted up and down. The sun was sinking lower in the sky. I couldn’t find anything out here in these woods. It should have been right here by the trail, shouldn’t it? I threw my hands up in surrender, and since the sun was looking beautiful over the rocky bluffs, I went ahead and started climbing the rocks upwards, thinking to clear my head a bit.
HIM: Keep looking.
The hairs on my arms prickled as I stared at that message. I climbed further, but got nothing, so then I hiked downwards along the slope, deeper into the wooded undergrowth.
Ping!
HIM: Keep looking.
Deeper still. The sun had lowered enough that the long shadows stretched like skeletal fingers had now become a blanket of shadow, and there was a chill in the air. And the smell of wet earth, leaves, that fetid reek of damp earth, and… something else. Every now and again. A faint unpleasant undertone.
Ahmed didn’t do social media. One of his conspiracy theories was about how much data those companies collect on you to use for nefarious purposes (actually that’s less conspiracy theory than truth I suppose, but one I ignored whereas he angrily sought to thwart their efforts to “spy on” him.) But he had family members on Facebook or Snapchat or Instagram, surely. I should reach out, I thought. Should search for them. Maybe they’d posted some of what’s going on. He’d mentioned a sister once, Sahra. I searched for her and found her on Facebook.
My phone pinged as I slowly stepped further down the slope.
HIM: Keep looking.
The earthy smell was stronger now. I opened Sahra’s page. Unlike her brother, she posted often online. I had to scroll, but not too far, before I started seeing the posts: My brother is still missing! Please pray for him to be found—
Ping!
HIM: Keep looking.
From the posts on Sahra’s page, it looked like he’d been struggling. There’d been a lot he hadn’t shared with me recently. We’d hardly seen each other, after all. Apparently he and his wife were separated. Wow. His sister worried he’d done something, maybe. That he might hurt himself. The Ahmed I knew would never have considered it. But how much did I really know him? We were geocaching buddies, that was all. And yet in my heart, I couldn’t believe he’d do something like that. Not while his daughter was still alive. Not while—
Ping!
HIM: friend.
HIM: Sorry Blake
I stopped as my boot crunched on something. Looked down with a gasp. Just a plastic bottle. My heart relaxed. But then I noticed something else. In the dim light of dusk, I turned on my phone’s flashlight to see better and swept along the shaded undergrowth and there—there was a flash of blue from a jacket, hidden now by leaves and the undergrowth. A jacket, an arm… a hand… And now again I noticed the smell.
***
When I tried later to show Ahmed’s family the messages on my phone, I couldn’t find any. Nor did any of the caches still have Ahmed’s name in the logbook. It was like I’d hallucinated all of it. But based on the state in which he was found, authorities believe Ahmed was hiking the trail, went climbing along the rocky cliffs and fell. Hit his head. Lost his phone. Injured and disoriented, he didn’t make it back to the trail.
Crucially, their findings showed that he had NOT taken his own life. He’d just been doing what I was doing. Out in the woods, sorting out his shit, geocaching. And then when he wanted to keep climbing, to work off some of that frustration and uncertainty—he slipped.
He needed his family to know what happened to him. That he hadn’t intentionally left them. Hadn’t intentionally left her—his daughter. He needed her to know.
***
There’s one more thing. I gave up geocaching after that. Got back to life. But after I broke up with my girlfriend, I finally opened the app again because… I was just feeling so low. Trying to run from the world. And when I opened it, I saw he sent me one more message, urging me away from the dark thoughts bubbling in my brain:
HIM: Keep on, friend.

My friend Ahmed and I met through geocaching. We used to joke that we couldn’t have been more opposite if we tried, our worlds so different it was like a bird from the sky talking to a fish from the sea (who was the bird, and who the fish, changed depending on context). We bonded over a particularly difficult cache—it turned out to have been washed away by a storm—and soon our expeditions together were the highlight of my week. But our lives got busy. He had kids. I had my career. Once a week became once a month, then only an occasional thing. And we dropped out of touch.
Once COVID hit, I got laid off. Messaged Ahmed to see if he’d be up for geocaching since it’s one of the activities one can do outdoors during the pandemic. He went geocaching a couple times with me, wearing his little daughter Ayaan on his back. Adorable, but it did limit how long he and I could be out hiking.
And then life got busy again.
Anyway, the reason I’m writing this post is that recently, I hit another hard point in my life. I came out to my girlfriend’s family. Thought they’d be accepting, only to be bombarded with snide remarks about my pronouns. Not to mention the constant misgendering. My girl kept telling me to stop acting like it’s such a big deal.
So I went back to my old escape. Pulled up the app. Started walking. Looking for caches. Letting my mind drift and my legs carry me. Anything not to have to think. Going more and more remote after I found all the geocaches in my area.
I even messaged Ahmed, though he didn’t respond. (Bitterly, I thought perhaps he wouldn’t accept me now. Which is unfair of me. He was deeply religious and a conspiracy theorist and I’m a pink-haired punk atheist, but we talked deeply and always found common ground. Anytime I jumped to assumptions about him, he’d prove me wrong. He said the same about me.)
I tried making new friends in the geocaching community. I went with a group once, went another time with some gal named Debbie and her daughter. But just didn’t feel that connection. Maybe it’s the place I am in life.
There was one name that kept showing up on the logs. Ahmed’s. And at first I was excited. My old friend, back in the game! But when I messaged, his reply disappointed me:
HIM: Sorry Blake, can’t. Life, you know.
And then, a few minutes later:
HIM: Try this one.
He sent me a link to a specific cache. It was marked with the highest difficulty. I went out there but couldn’t find it. This seemed another “washed away in a storm” scenario, and I told him so in messages. He told me to keep looking. I finally asked if he could give me a hint, anything, but all he said was to keep on. And after an hour, frustrated, I called it quits.
After that, I tried reaching out again to ask him to come geocaching with me, but he had the same excuse. “Life, you know.” But I kept seeing his name on the log sheets. I became obsessed. Told myself I would get to a cache before him. He’d been to every single one that I found, even as I was going to more remote locations from our usual stomping grounds.
ME: How are you doing this? Have you hit EVERY single cache?
HIM: Keep looking
ME: Are there any you haven’t found?
HIM: Keep looking
HIM: Keep on, friend.
ME: How about I come with you on the next one you do? It’s been too long. Honestly, I could use your advice.
HIM: Sorry Blake, can’t. Life, you know.
ME: Kids keeping you busy? How is Ayaan doing?
HIM: Walking now! Daddy’s so proud.
I stared at the text, puzzled. Feeling a slight chill.
She learned to walk during the pandemic. In 2020. Four years ago.
ME: All right, for real, what’s going on man?
HIM: Keep looking.
So I went out. Opened the app, and searched for some caches I hadn’t been to yet. Ones further out. Found one on a hike deep into the woods, so remote it wasn’t the sort Ahmed would usually go for now that he had kids. Still, my old friend had already marked it. This time though, I took notice of the date: 5/20/2024
I went for another one nearby, this one an easy find in a picnic area. It was the same. Ahmed had marked it for exactly the same date.
The next one, too.
In fact, all the caches I found, even the ones I’d found back in our city where we lived, all had the same date. I know because I went and double checked. All the 20^th of May of this year. The same day he’d started messaging me after ghosting me for weeks. But he couldn’t have found them all in a single day. Impossible. No matter how much he trekked around, that was just too many to mark. I was deeply chilled now, terrified. And then my phone pinged with another message. It was Ahmed again.
HIM: Keep looking.
What else could I do? In some ways it was like old times. A treasure hunt. There was something I had to find. A cache. The only cache he hadn’t found first. There had to be one. And then I remembered the impossible cache. The one he’d sent me the link to that I hadn’t been able to find. I went back there. Messaged him:
ME: Is this the one?
HIM: Keep looking.
Again, I hunted up and down. The sun was sinking lower in the sky. I couldn’t find anything out here in these woods. It should have been right here by the trail, shouldn’t it? I threw my hands up in surrender, and since the sun was looking beautiful over the rocky bluffs, I went ahead and started climbing the rocks upwards, thinking to clear my head a bit.
HIM: Keep looking.
The hairs on my arms prickled as I stared at that message. I climbed further, but got nothing, so then I hiked downwards along the slope, deeper into the wooded undergrowth.
Ping!
HIM: Keep looking.
Deeper still. The sun had lowered enough that the long shadows stretched like skeletal fingers had now become a blanket of shadow, and there was a chill in the air. And the smell of wet earth, leaves, that fetid reek of damp earth, and… something else. Every now and again. A faint unpleasant undertone.
Ahmed didn’t do social media. One of his conspiracy theories was about how much data those companies collect on you to use for nefarious purposes (actually that’s less conspiracy theory than truth I suppose, but one I ignored whereas he angrily sought to thwart their efforts to “spy on” him.) But he had family members on Facebook or Snapchat or Instagram, surely. I should reach out, I thought. Should search for them. Maybe they’d posted some of what’s going on. He’d mentioned a sister once, Sahra. I searched for her and found her on Facebook.
My phone pinged as I slowly stepped further down the slope.
HIM: Keep looking.
The earthy smell was stronger now. I opened Sahra’s page. Unlike her brother, she posted often online. I had to scroll, but not too far, before I started seeing the posts: My brother is still missing! Please pray for him to be found—
Ping!
HIM: Keep looking.
From the posts on Sahra’s page, it looked like he’d been struggling. There’d been a lot he hadn’t shared with me recently. We’d hardly seen each other, after all. Apparently he and his wife were separated. Wow. His sister worried he’d done something, maybe. That he might hurt himself. The Ahmed I knew would never have considered it. But how much did I really know him? We were geocaching buddies, that was all. And yet in my heart, I couldn’t believe he’d do something like that. Not while his daughter was still alive. Not while—
Ping!
HIM: friend.
HIM: Sorry Blake
I stopped as my boot crunched on something. Looked down with a gasp. Just a plastic bottle. My heart relaxed. But then I noticed something else. In the dim light of dusk, I turned on my phone’s flashlight to see better and swept along the shaded undergrowth and there—there was a flash of blue from a jacket, hidden now by leaves and the undergrowth. A jacket, an arm… a hand… And now again I noticed the smell.
***
When I tried later to show Ahmed’s family the messages on my phone, I couldn’t find any. Nor did any of the caches still have Ahmed’s name in the logbook. It was like I’d hallucinated all of it. But based on the state in which he was found, authorities believe Ahmed was hiking the trail, went climbing along the rocky cliffs and fell. Hit his head. Lost his phone. Injured and disoriented, he didn’t make it back to the trail.
Crucially, their findings showed that he had NOT taken his own life. He’d just been doing what I was doing. Out in the woods, sorting out his shit, geocaching. And then when he wanted to keep climbing, to work off some of that frustration and uncertainty—he slipped.
He needed his family to know what happened to him. That he hadn’t intentionally left them. Hadn’t intentionally left her—his daughter. He needed her to know.
***
There’s one more thing. I gave up geocaching after that. Got back to life. But after I broke up with my girlfriend, I finally opened the app again because… I was just feeling so low. Trying to run from the world. And when I opened it, I saw he sent me one more message, urging me away from the dark thoughts bubbling in my brain:
HIM: Keep on, friend.

Looking for the Leeta to my Rom.
I'm 5'3", white, with an average build, green eyes, brown hair (currently shaved), and a mustache. I'm shy, nerdy, and goofy, with a touch of the 'tism. Leftist. Agnostic.
Primarily a metalhead and punk, but also enjoy synth and folk music, with a healthy respect for jazz and classical. A few of my favorite artists include Blind Guardian, Candlemass, Judas Priest, Testament, Anaal Nathrakh, Darkthrone, Skeletonwitch, and Gulch. Occasional concert promoter
Sci-fi and fantasy nerd. Tolkienite. D&D. Video games. Animation. Manga/graphic novels. Love learning about history, culture, science, and religion. I listen to a lot of media criticism as I'm teaching myself screenwriting.
Here for the goths, goofs, and geeks. I love women who are smart, funny, passionate, affectionate, empathetic, and curious. Open to different aesthetics, but I'm definitely a boob guy. Bonus points if you're tall, muscular, or share similar interests.
Let's talk. Tell me about the things that make you happy!

Hey there! I'm a 27M from US, I am hoping to find someone I can talk to with ease, throughout the day about anything and everything, someone who likes to share and have meaningful conversations. I'm kind of a hopeless romantic, hoping to meet my person but I am also open to completely platonic friendships too!
I am an ambivert, I love a nice cozy night in or a fun night out. I love to play PC games, anything from rpgs/mmos to cozy crafters to survival or fps. I also enjoy game development, art, music, movies, cartoons and shows. On the other hand, I love to get outside, go workout, enjoy a nice hike in nature or go exploring around town.
I love music and finding new music, some of my favorite genres are indie, alt, rock, pop, punk, pop punk, rap, hiphop, elctro swing and more.
Normalcy is overrated, I take pride in my weird goofiness, and you should too! I'm alt, 420 friendly. I love life and new experiences. I am extremely open-minded, ambitious, optimistic, non-judgmental, caring, kind and love deep conversations. I'm an animal and nature lover.
Looks-wise I am 6ft, light brown medium length hair, nose piercing, hazel eyes, husky/thick body type (but workout frequently) and I want to get a tattoo at some point. I am open to swapping pictures as well.
As for my own preferences, I'm really not picky but I would prefer someone who enjoys being pretty active but is also down to chill out and lounge. Bonus points if you have an indie/alt/grunge/soft/y2k/pastel aesthetic!
If you made it to the end hopefully you found something interesting, shoot me a dm, tell me a bit about yourself. P.S. I will send you a picture of my cat! (or my isopods 😳)

Machine Man was the last of a group of robots built by the US military for a secret weapons project. Raised like a son by one of the project leads, Dr. Abel Stack, Machine Man was thrust into a world not ready to accept him when Abel sacrificed his life to remove a built-in self destruct chip meant as a failsafe. Despite the government's persecution of his existence, he would become a superhero and honorary member of the Avengers, saving the lives of people no matter if they viewed him as a man or merely a machine.

Notes

• Source key and scaling threads can be found here
• This RT does not cover Machine Man’s feats from after his original body was destroyed and he was reuploaded into a new one, reactivating Sentinel programming Bastion left in him. An RT for this form can be found here
• This RT only covers the original incarnation) of Machine Man. Starting with Nextwave, Machine Man was given an altered design and personality that would later be retconned into being an “imposter” Machine Man in 2019's Marvel Comics #1001. This fact was referenced by the “imposter” himself in a later comic
• This RT doesn't cover Machine Man's 1984 run and related comics, as they take place in a possible future timeline (and thus, an alternate universe).
• To see feats for X-50, the X model robot immediately previous to X-51, go to this RT

Robotic Physiology

General

Body

• Weighs 850 pounds^MM19
• Claims to not feel pain in the same way a human does, even when parts of his body are being engineered or welded on^SO8
• His body can be disassembled, this doesn't appear to put him in any significant pain/distress^SO10
  • He can take his body parts off himself should the need arise^MM6 and of course reattach them with ease^IH236
  • Takes off part of his leg to use as a wedge underneath a large and heavy beam^MM15
  • Still functional even in a heavily disassembled maintenance state, though obviously can't do much^TB29
• His "brain unit" is able to be pulled out of his head, and he's still functional so long as it's not disengaged^MM4
  • Pulls out part of his leg to repair some damaged circuitry^IH235
• As a robot, he is unaffected by things like "breathing" in methane,^MM10 tear gas,^MM11 or sleeping gas^MM19
  • Seems to be unaffected by Ultron-10's hypnotic eyes^MTO93
  • Was unaffected by the Psycho-Prism until a specialized "refractory disc" was attached to him, the Psycho-Prism being a crystal powered by a strand of hair from the Purple Man that emits a pheromone used to control a person's will^ED
• His metallic body conducts electricity very well, which he commonly makes use of to harness nearby power sources^MM14 for subduing opponents^MTU99
• Can store his civilian clothes in his right thigh, and his collapsible helmet in his left leg^{MTU A3}
• Emits "unique bio-radiations" that can be detected by specialized equipment^MM18
• Has a considerable memory storage in his head, limbs, and upper abdomen^AWC83
• Can turn just his head fully around^{A3 1}
• Is apparently susceptible to corrosion in water^UXM371
• Had a fix to the Y2K bug installed in him^{X51 3}
• Runs on MS-DOS^DBB1

Mechanisms

• He "sleeps" by turning his power to low and setting a time on his internal clock to reactivate himself^MM7
• Can deactivate his weapon systems by taking off his facemask and pressing down on the model number on his forehead^MM9
• After he was downgraded to remove his overload failsafe, a hologram of Abel Stack appears to inform him that his internal programming could never be tampered with again^MM10
  • Despite this, after Bastion's nanotech repaired his body,^MMB he was reprogrammed to kill mutants like a Sentinel, though Cable was able to free him from this state^MMB
• Has an internal fail-safe mechanism that deactivates his non-essential power when he's heavily damaged, including his gravity negating abilities^MM15
• Can loosen his waist couplings, allowing the top half of his body to spin freely independent of his bottom half^MM16
  • Loosens every joint coupling on his body to spin in "thousands of different directions" at once^MM19
• Releases his head so it can fly around while his body is incapacitated^MM18
  • Pops out his head and hands to avoid and attack the Black Knight^A288
• Programmed all of his parts with a "boomerang effect", causing them to return to his body if they're taken off and thrown away^IM168

Extendable Limbs

Reach

• Extends his arm down a cliffside to grab a man, with bars on the side to act as a ladder^MM1
• Quickly extends both his arms upward and pulls himself up into a tree^MM4
• Extends up his arms to grab onto a helicopter, pulling himself up to it^MM4
• Pulls himself from a rooftop through a window in the building next to him^MM5
• Pulled himself up to through a ceiling, then grabs the edge of the building next to him to vault himself across its rooftop^MM6
• Stretches his arm out over a crowd of people to bonk a pickpocket's head^MM6
• Reaches high in the air to catch a baseball, then extends his arm out to tag a player before he can steal a base^MM9
• Reaches up to hold a collapsing ceiling^IH237
• Grabs a man as he's about to fall off a skyscraper^IH237
• Extends out his legs and arms to carry a group of people from ground level to the top of a cliff^MM10
• Grabs a hook attached to a helicopter and uses it to swing his body into said helicopter^MM16
• Grabs a man off the ground while holding himself up by the ceiling^MM18
• Uses his extended limbs to cross buildings^MM19
• Is shown walking over the Hudson River with extended legs^CoC1
• Extends his legs up to the third story of a building^IM168
• While being shot out of a cabin by his sole jets, and being in shock, extends his arm to grab Jocasta's head before he flies too far away^{IM A11}
• Extends his head hundreds of feet into the air^TB29
• Extends himself hundreds of feet into the air via his legs to grab onto a helicarrier and have his body act as a makeshift zipline, though holding this position for a prolonged period strains him significantly^XM
  • A flashback shows this as being much more impressive, showing his legs wrapped around a large rock, and his arms and neck extending to the helicarrier^{X51 2}

Fine Control

• Steadies himself on a cliff face using his legs and arms, and reaches out to a jet to open its cockpit before catching its pilot once he ejects and bringing him to the top of the cliff^MM10
• Slams a trash can over a man's head as he tries to run away, then flips him upside down^MM12
• While being pinned to the ground, reaches out and grabs a microphone from a man's hand^MM14
• After detaching his arm, throws it up to a woman falling from a helicopter and wraps it around her, then has it activate its gravity negation to bring her to the ground safely^MM16
• Lassos the Super-Adaptoid (disguised as the Fixer) over to him^A287

Offensive Usage

• Will extend his fist out^MM15 to increase his punching reach,^MM16 as a go-to tactic^MTU99 in combat^MM18
  • Trips a man with an extended kick^MM11
  • Smacks three goons simultaneously with one extended punch^MM16
  • Does a sweeping kick against a group of goons as he falls from the ceiling, then continues extending his limbs to attack^MM18
• Extends his body up via his legs forcefully enough to demolish a flying pod^SO9
• Wraps a detached arm around Hulk's neck^IH236
• Grabs a man and extends him high up with his arm as a threat^MM18
• While being struck away by Sasquatch, grabs his shoulders mid-flight and is able to launch an extended kick with both of his legs in retaliation^MM18
• Reaches under and around Sasquatch to grab him by the neck^MM18
• Quickly descends from the air by extending an arm to grab a roof, then retracting the arm bringing him down with it^IM168
• Cocoons a man by wrapping his arm around him^{X51 0}
• Wraps his arms around Hulk's body^{X51 1}
  • Shown again^{X51 12}

Gravity Negation

• Is capable of flight by "canceling the gravity equation" via anti-gravity technology. Here he uses a special grid to begin flying, but he's able to do it all by himself even within the same issue^SO8
• Cancels gravity around him after being thrown out of a building so that he floats in the air while his assailant falls to the ground^MM14
• Runs up a wall by negating gravity^MM16
• Just one of his arms is used to break a woman's fall from a helicopter and allow her to land safely^MM16
  • Machine Man is likewise able to fly just fine without this arm^MM16
• Can fly around as just a head^MM18
• Activates anti-gravity around his arms at max power within a nanosecond in order to halt Iron Man's fall, though the strain of doing so burns out three "anti-grav pods"^IM168
• Makes armbands from his body that use his anti-grav tech to make the wearer immune to Graviton's powers,^TB29 though they would burn out eventually in the fight^TB30
  • Seven of these armbands coming into contact with Graviton causes him to be depowered and collapse in on himself^TB30

Weaponry

• Fires his finger like a .357 magnum, then uses a miniature flamethrower built into his knuckles^{IM A11}
• Rapid fires bursts of energy(?)^{A A19}
• Shoots lasers from his fingers^DBB1

Electricity

• After taking some time to generate the attack, releases an electrical discharge that downs Ten-For, claiming it had enough power to light up a city for a week^MM6
• Causes a current of 1000 volts to go through a chainlink fence^MM12
• In anger, releases a burst of electricity that spreads outward, penetrating through a building and combining with lab chemicals that cause it to transform the five people it touches into powerful beings that would later be called "the Ethicals"^MM12
• Fires electrical blasts from his hand^MM12
• After connecting one hand to the power source of a street lamp, fires out a beam from his other hand to disrupt Ion's magnetic field, though he notes he can't do it for long^MM15
• Siphons energy from a helicopter's battery to electrocute the entire helicopter by being in direct contact with its hull, rendering Baron Brimstone unconscious^MM16
• Uses his own electrical current to blow every fuse in a bar after grabbing one of its lightbulbs^MM17

Magnetism

On Objects

• Can magnetize his boots, allowing him to walk right down a cliffside^MM1 or the side of a building^MM4
• Magnetizes his foot after kicking Ten-For to pull him away from a crowd of people, claiming that its magnetic enough to "pull him overseas"^MM5
• After being beaten into pieces by the Hulk, magnetizes his body back together, though the process was partially inhibited by the beating he took^IH235/236
• Charges a manhole cover with electrical energy and throws it, causing the metal on a man's belt to magnetize to the cover and leave him stuck to it as it flies back to Machine Man^MM12
• Magnetizes a bullet out of a man's chest^MM12
• After tapping into the generator controlling an elevator, surrounds the elevator in a positive charge and projects the same charge from his hands, causing the elevator to be pushed up away from him^MM13
• Magnetizes his hand to the roof of a car so he can hitch a ride and float behind it^MM19

Magnetic Fields

• Generates a magnetic field between his hands that traps Sasquatch in place, though it dissipates once Sasquatch makes him lose his balance^MM18
• Encases Jack O'Lantern in a magnetic field, which causes a grenade to explode inward due to not being insulated^MM19
• Generates an intense field of magnetic energy to fire out a powerful blast at Ultron-10 that launches him into another room^MTO93
• Diverts Iron Man Model 4's repulsor beams by covering himself in a magnetic field^IM168

Temperature Systems

• Turns some small rocks into diamonds by applying an extremely high amount of heat and pressure, then flash freezes his arm to cool them down^MM2
• Attempts to crumble away a cave-in of coal by focusing his temperature controls onto the rocks, freezing them and then heating it back up. However, he's forced to melt some coal to plug up a hole and prevent gas from leaking in^MM10
• While being engulfed by the Human Torch's flames, freezes his right arm to absolute zero (encasing it in ice) and delivers a punch that KOs him^MM15
• Melts Spider-Man's webs that had wrapped around his wrists^MTU99

Hacking Implements

• Uses a finger attachment to link himself to the computer system of an embassy, and with incredible strain causes it to overload and shut off^MM19
• Hacks into the Thing's Sky-Cycle^MTO93
• Shuts off Iron Man, believing him to be a robot, causing Tony to be unable to control or move the Model 4 suit. Upon realizing his mistake, Machine Man reverses his override and reactivates the suit^IM168

Senses and Sensors

Vision

• Scans a photo and stores it in his memory^SO8
• His right eye can function as a sniper scope^SO9
• Sees a house over a thousand yards away as if he was right next to it^MM1
• Pops his eyes out like telescopes to view the appearance of an alien space fleet at the edge of our solar system^MM6
• Picks out a pickpocket stealing a man's wallet in the middle of a large crowd of people^MM7
• Switches to infra-red vision to see footprints left behind by a group of people^MM8
  • Uses infra-red scanners to see in the dark^IM168
• Zooms in on two people at the top of a skyscraper while being outside of the city its in^IH237

Hearing

• Determines that some gunshots were .22 caliber and originated less than a mile away by the echo they make^MM12
• Is able to tell that a man is still alive by noticing his breathing, despite it being imperceptible to humans^MM12
• [Limit] Even with his audio circuits bolstered he's unable to hear inside an athletic center from on the roof^MM19

Object/Emission Detection

• Has "hidden circuits" that detect the arrival of a nearby military helicopter^SO8
• His hidden sensor units pick up "indications of mechanisms" in some nearby walls, which turn out to be closed circuit TV screens^MM7
• His sensors warn him that a nearby atomic bomb reached critical mass and is about to fission^MM8
• Detects an odd piece of metal in a man's pocket, which turns out to be a sonic handgun. However he was unable to detect a plastic belt around the man's chest designed to release an electric shock^MM9
• Determines that he's buried under several tons of coal via his hand sensors^MM10
• His fingers have monitors on them that can be used to locate people throughout a building. His sensors also determine the composition of an entity he finds, noting she's made entirely of ionized hydrogen gas and are surrounded by an electromagnetic field^MM15
• Uses his finger sensors to locate a helicopter's battery^MM16
• Is able to track where the Hulk went by reading for the gamma radiation he emits, being able to detect exactly what house he's in after he releases a large burst of energy while turning back into Bruce Banner^{MTU A3}
• Was able to follow the "heat trail" of Nightshade's aircraft^{MTU A3}
• Determines a warehouse is mostly empty with his finger sensors^MM18
• Uses his finger sensor to determine where Northstar is even when he and Aurora attempt to use their power to blind him^MM18
• Despite being in New York City, his electro-magnetic sensors are able to lead him to Jocasta, who was on her way to Ultron's base on Neville Island, Pennsylvania^MTO92
• Traces some faint energy residue from a robot to a secret military base^MCP10
• His thermal sensors detect a plasma radiation leak through a ceiling^XM

Signal Detection/Transmission

• Picks up an interstellar transmission (being broadcast from a patient in the sanitorium he was in)^MM2/3
• Detects a nearby high frequency radio transmission,^IH236 then later detects the same transmission while in a different location, allowing him to triangulate where its coming from^IH237
• Pops out a small radio mic from the side of his head and sends a message to an army radio frequency^IH237
• Has an internal radio receiver that can tune to police bands^MM15
  • Can tune his internal monitors to news feeds^MTU99
• Picks up a signal that an explosive on a ship had been primed, and finds it via his finger sensors (though it goes off immediately after)^MM17
• Calls a landline telephone by radiating the proper frequency tone underneath a phone line^{MTU A3}
• Communicates with a jeep's radio^MTU A3)
• Analyzes the frequency of one of Spider-Man's tracers, and amplifies it to reach at least 30 miles out^MTU99
• Analyzes a homing device's frequency so he can trace it back to its source^MM18

Measurement Systems

• Senses that a man is lying by the increase in his heartbeat and respiration^MM11
  • Knows a man was too terrified to lie by his pulse^MM18
• Analyzes a car's speed and weight to determine how best to bring it to a stop^MM12
• Calculates the falling speed and weight of an elevator^MM13
• Gauges Sasquatch's weight and mass to know how long he could shock him for to render him unconscious but not dead^MM18

Vocal Replication

• Has a recorder in his throat, which can record a person's voice and scramble the sound of their speech to play back something completely different spoken in their voice^SO9
• Alters his own voice to replicate a man who he only briefly spoke with^IH236
• Replicates the voice of a coworker's bookie, whose voice he had only heard once before^{MTU A3}

Temporary Modifications

• After he was given access to an automobile workshop, he turns himself into a three-wheeled vehicle. When he's done with the transformation, he uses a powerful burst of compressed air to launch all the added parts off of him^MM2
• Gears Garvin is able to replace his damaged legs with a single wheel^MM15
• By using a "bypass relay" device, is able to communicate directly with a computer's main data bank^MM16
• After losing an arm, Gears makes a replacement implement that boosts Machine Man's ability to track where his arm went via signal^MM17
• Gears once attached an additional power source to his back and a large propeller to his head to increase his flight speed and maneuverability, allowing him to travel thirty miles in twenty-minutes while carrying Spider-Man^MTU99

Other Abilities

• By putting two of his fingers in both of his legs, he can use their power to activate jets on the soles of his feet to launch himself like a rocket^MM8
  • While Machine Man is unconscious, a man is able to manually activate the sole jets and shoot him away at speeds comparable to a slow missile^{IM A11}
• Scans through a computer's data in seconds^MM11
• Reverses the polarity of a machine intended to swap his mind with another man's, causing it to not work and instead explode^MM13
  • After being clamped into a neutralizing apparatus, he directs energy into the clamps to overload and release him^MCP10
• Pops out wheels on his feet, so he can move around while crouched and covering his exposed chest^MM16
  • Rides up the side of a cathedral (it's not stated if gravity negation was used here or not)^MM16

Sentinel Abilities

During the events of Machine Man/Bastion '98, Machine Man's main body was taken over by Bastion and given access to some of Bastion's Sentinel abilities as a result.^MMB This section is only for the feats he demonstrated in his original body, and not the Sentinel form he took beginning in X-51 #1.

Nanotech

• After being hit by an energy blast^CMM that blows a hole in his chest and renders him inert, microscopic nanotech begins repairing the damage^MMB and returns him to a functional state^MMB
• Quickly repairs his head after a hole is blasted into it by Cable's gun^MMB
• Repairs the damage to his body done by a blast from a plasma cannon and from "disruptor rods"^{X51 0}

Offensive Abilities

• Creates an energy shield that blocks a small TV telekinetically thrown by Cable, then enlarges it to completely envelop both of them in an attempt to suffocate Cable^MMB
• Seems to telekinetically throw several large TVs^MMB
• Shoots a beam of fire from his hand that clashes against Cable's eye blast^MMB
  • Fires from both hands at once^MMB
• Blasts away some goons^{X51 0}

Hacking

• Taps into a base's weapon systems to make it target Bastion, then causes the entire base to self-destruct^MMB
• Overloads the circuits in a set of disruptor rods designed to disable him^{X51 0}
• Interfaces with the battlesuits of some goons, making them fire their guns at each other and turning off their cameras^{X51 0}

Misc

• Quickly transforms from his civilian identity to his robotic form^{X51 0}
• Has a failsafe to auto-repair himself after suffering significant damage. When there wasn't enough of his body left to fix, he instead uploaded his memory to a nearby LMD^{X51 2}

Former Abilities

Following Machine Man's first encounter with the Hulk, extraneous parts of his machinery, including his laser, flame, and stun abilities, had to be removed in order to keep him from self-destructing.^MM10 To see the abilities he demonstrated before this downgrade, see here.

Strength

Striking

Objective

• Sends a metal door flying off its hinges across a room, then floors some guards^SO9
• Pulverizes this flying pod^SO9
• Flies through a brick wall^SO10
• Flies through the roof of a bunker complex^SO10
• Slams through some metal rubble^MM8
• Smashes a table with an extended punch^MM9
• Kicks Hulk out of the air, causing him to fall to the ground with enough force to trigger a brief magnitude 3.5 earthquake across Central City and burying Hulk in a deep hole (though Machine Man notes he must have hit a weak section of pavement)^IH236
• Busts into a steel zeppelin^MM13
• Punches through walls of a building while extending his fists throughout it^MM15
• Swings his body using a hook hanging from a helicopter and busts a hole into it^MM16
• Punches a small hole into a helicopter's hull^MM16
• Launches a man across a bar^MM17
• Strikes an electromagnetic generator (and the man behind it) through a wooden wall^MM18
• Punches through a roof while extending his arm^MM18
• Punches a hole in the ceiling to use its debris to hit a goon^MM18
• Hits Ultron-10 with blows that could crush an army tank^MTO92
• Punches a hole into a wall made of reinforced concrete^MTO93
• Busts up through a wooden floor^AWC83
• Busts through a metal wall with Colossus^XM

Scaling

• Stops Hulk's leap away from him by jumping on him and stomping him into the road^IH236
• [Limit] A full force kick from his extended legs is unable to faze Barry Witherspoon^MM14
• After freezing his right hand to absolute zero (encasing it in ice), KOs the Human Torch with a punch^MM15
• Whacks Spider-Man, and sends him flying across a room with another punch^MTU99
• [Limit] Seems to stagger Sasquatch by kicking with both of his extended legs, however his regular strikes don't seem to damage him much^MM18
• While enraged, savagely beats Sasquatch down to the ground. Also harms Northstar with a punch^MM18
• [Limit] Admits he wouldn't be able to subdue Iron Man Model 4 through physical strength^IM168
• Smacks around the Black Knight with detached fists^A288
• [Limit] The stage 2 Termini is unfazed by his attacks^{IM A11}
• Sends Cable to the ground with a punch^CMM

Lifting

• Easily lifts up a car with one hand^SO9
• Picks up and moves a gigantic oak tree^MM1
• Flips a car back over^MM7
• Holds the Hulk while flying^IH237
• Holds up a collapsing ceiling with extended arms^IH237
• [Limit] Would not be able to stop an elevator falling at 55 mph from crushing him^MM13
• Uses a wrecking ball to destroy the crane holding it, then uses the wire to wrap up and throw around several flying junkyard cars^MM13
• Holds up part of a broken bridge with a school bus full of children on it with extended arms^MM14
• Holds a large girder above his head before putting it back into place^MM14
• Flips a large van on its side^MM14
• Holds up a large beam after putting a wedge under the other side of it^MM15
• Grabs the Thing by the legs and flips him on his back^MM15
• Lifts a large wooden desk off of him^MM16
• Pulls out a section of a chimney large enough to entrap a man^MM16
• Grabs Sasquatch by the neck and tosses him over a boardwalk, then pulls him out of the sea^MM18
• Carries Dr. Druid and the Black Knight while flying^A288
• Gets a large piece of machinery off of him while pinned to the ground^CMM
• Holds up Cable by the neck with one hand^MMB

Throwing

• Throws a warped lamppost at Ten-For hard enough to knock him on his back^MM5
• Throws a man a few blocks across a neighborhood^IH236
• Throws a manhole cover like a frisbee^MM12
• Flings Spider-Man into a wall after he webs his wrists, then wraps an arm around him and slams him into the floor hard enough to crater it a bit^MTU99
• Tosses a man across a room^MM18
• Flips a large generator at Iron Man^IM168
• Tosses Deadpool into the air^DBB1

Grip

• Tears through a thick metal sheet like it was cardboard, then twists and bends a sonic gun^SO9
• Applies a few tons of pressure to Ten-For's face^MM6
• Rips a hole through a metal wall^MM8
• Crushes a handgun^IH237
• Grabs into a cliffside to stop his fall using an extended arm^MM10
• Twists a metallic folding chair into being arm-shaped^MM17
• Crushes a sonic rifle^MM18
• Rips away a section of plaster wall^MM19
• Grabs a wad of cables Ultron-10 was using as a whip, and rips it away from him^MTO93
• Sticks his hand down Ultron-10's throat and rips out most of his internal circuitry^MTO93
• Rips off a robot's head^MCP10

Pushing

• After being buried under several tons of coal, pushes against the rocks with extended legs hard enough that he can create a small opening to let air in^MM10
• While being suspended in place by two powerful magnets, extends an arm and a leg against each of them and pushes on the walls they're on until they break^MM17
• While trapped in an indestructible cube, pushes on it with his anti-grav flight to move him and four Avengers (also in cubes) forward^A290
• While weakened and being held by a robot, uses extended limbs to push out and repeatedly shove it into walls hard enough to crater them^MCP10
• Shoves a small crashed plane off a highway^AWC83

Restraining

• Wraps both of his extended arms around Spider-Man, restraining him^MTU99
• While copying his strength, the Super-Adaptoid is able to restrain Dr. Druid^A288
• Restrains Cable by wrapping his arms around him^CMM
• Pulls Deadpool to him by the neck and holds him in place, though he breaks free with help from the Venom symbiote^DBB1

Full-Body

• After his strength is returned to him by the Monolith, breaks free from the metal binds that kept his entire body strapped to a table^SO8
• Throws a group of guards off of him all at once, then lunges at a man with enough force that the narration states that "only a missile at maximum speed could match [his] forward thrust"^SO9
• After digging his feet into the ground, extends his body upwards forcefully enough to completely demolish a flying pod^SO9
• Tackles Ten-For through a pile of building rubble^MM6

Spinning

• Spins around fast enough to use his body like a drill and burrow through the ground (which was made of mud and gravel)^MM13
• Spins the upper half of his body fast enough to cause a contortionist (Snake Marston) that was wrapped around him to fly off, knocking over two other men he was launched into^MM16
• Spins a squad of goons off of him^MM17
• Breaks out of being constrained by Sandman by spinning his upper body and blowing him away like a fan^MTU99
• Drills himself out of an underground base^MM18
• Spins his arm fast to dissipate a smoke cloud, then loosens every joint coupling in his body to spin his body around and become ungrabable^MM19

Other

• A detached arm slams a man into some machinery hard enough to destroy it^SO10
• Casually flips a man over^MM5
• Using a baseball bat, strikes a baseball hard enough that it shatters into powder^MM9
• Grabs the front of a car from behind with an extended arm and lifts it up, while at the same time standing on its back end and crushing it, bringing it to a stop^MM12
• Grabs a chain link fence and wobbles it to make contact with a man^MM12
• Has strength fifty times that of a normal man^MM13
• Bashes a large sonic disruptor with his detached head until its destroyed, though this disfigures his face^MM18
• Holds himself up with one extended arm as his entire body spins in place^ED

Durability

General

• His skin/body is made of steel^MM13
• His left arm (and presumably other parts of his body) are made of a titanium alloy^{IM A11}
  • A later comic states his "entire outer shell" is made of a finely-tessellated titanium alloy^CMM
• [Limit] Admits that Iron Man Model 4 is more durable than him^IM168

Physical

Objective

• Drives his body straight through a brick wall^MM2
• Is unbothered falling from the height of a helicopter^MM4
• Is fine taking hits from a big robot^MM7
• Takes a 300 foot fall without injury^MM7
• [Limit] After being shot by a sonic gun, falls all the way down a cliff, causing him to shut down. He's revived later after being powered back on by someone else, seemingly fine^MM10
• Is whacked by a wrecking ball and is struck by several lasers that were strong enough to destroy said wrecking ball without taking any damage^MM13
• Falls from a great height after suddenly losing the ability to negate gravity, bouncing off of some cars as he lands. Due to previous injuries he's unable to get back up, but he remains conscious^MM15
• Intentionally falls from the air through the roof of a house and lands fully prepared to fight Hulk^{MTU A3}
• Takes a rest while a group of normal goons attack his body^MM18
• Falls through the roof of an athletic center^MM19
• [Limit] Is KOed for seven minutes after being buried under a three foot thick wall of reinforced concrete^MTO93

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Long post so get your popcorn...
So this weekend I learned of a rapidly developing and very sad situation in my family that has been ongoing with my cousin. Going to call said cousin 'Mary' for anonymity purposes and her husband 'Michael'.
So for the last year or so my cousin has seemed a little off kilter to me so when I last saw her, we agreed to 'catch-up' but life has been busy so alas we have not been able to since April this year, which I am now sad about.
She recently quit her job recently at the beginning of the year and her in-laws were very upset. She's a doctor in the NHS in the UK stand also tops up that salary with private sector work. Anyway that money train recently ended and the in-laws are big mad. I have never seen them this angry and it really made my blood run cold and realise that educated African women are often just cash cows to their in-laws.
Mary married Michael about 7/8 years ago just after she qualified and completed her junior doctor rotations. They had been together for @ 6 years before that. Michael is in IT and specifically cyber security, and as we know IT has taken a hit recently. Michael was made redundant last year and has been doing contract IT work, which whilst very lucrative also lacks stability. He also had a period where he clearly had some sort of depression but it was never addressed, but worse still I think his mother capitalised on it to drive a wedge between her son and his wife.
Anyway all the above put pressure on Mary as the main breadwinner, which is compounded by the fact that they have 2 children under 5. Both families are problematic in origin with their own dysfunctional dynamics and it has been a struggle for them at times but I had no idea how toxic things had got....
So my understanding is that last August Michael's mum came to the UK (she is a British citizen who is now retired having lived and worked in the UK for over 30+ years) for some medical treatment, as the NHS waiting lists are so backed up she started pressuring her son to pay for private treatment so she could return home more quickly. Michael then made all sorts of promises to his mother and tried to put her as a dependant under his work private insurance but that was a no-no and soon after he was laid off anyway. He got a good severance package, which he should have banked to keep the family going i.e. pay mortgage, bills etc for at lest 1 year....but we know how this goes.
Anyway Michael uses the money to secure medical care privately instead of just waiting and pushing under the NHS and despite Mary using all her contacts to try and work the system to move things along faster or supplement with some private care in the meantime. The mother starts being unreasonable and putting pressure on her son despite knowing that he is not a permanent employee at his job. Michael has always been a mummy's boy so eventually he breaks down and uses the severance money for private care - despite the wait on the NHS being just another 3-6 months MAX and the condition not being life-threatening. In fact she came to the Uk as she usually does every summer and had been living with the condition in Africa for over a year and was even dancing and dashing money at a family wedding when I saw her last summer.
Anyway Michael spends about half of his cash severance money on this treatment along with a HUGE chunk of THEIR savings, and setting the other half aside for tax (which the mother would then manage to sequester from him also for extended family). Mary goes nuts, especially as she knows MIL's condition is in NO WAY life threatening and her husband is technically out of work and it all falls on her shoulders. Bear in mind also that his severance money was paid gross so there is still tax to be paid on some of it.
The mother then decides she wants to stop with them 'for a while' so ends up staying in London from August to new year this year, goes home and THEN COMES BACK AGAIN. This puts incredible strain on my cousin as her MIL is a menace. She essentially treats her like a slave and accuses her of neglecting her responsibilities, not cooking for her son, not taking care of her family and not greeting her correctly when she comes in the house, not being respectful enough and just a whole heap for nonsense. Medical staff work shift patterns which means Mary typically works 3x shifts a week and then an extra one in the private sector. That last private shift is an over-nighter and pulls in a whole lot of moola - basically increases her salary by another 40-50% which as a young family is helpful for childcare.
MIL is not incapacitated in anyway but refuses to help with the kids and instead just picks at my cousin all day every day in the cruelest way. She also blames her for Michael's depression and says she's not doing her job as a wife to 'lift up her husband' whilst he is down after having lost his job. My cousin is respectful and just sucks it up - never answers back and always politely responds back 'yes Ma'.
Then MIL ups the game and starts deciding to piss off the Nanny who leaves after being spoken to harshly and insulted African style (just a fucking NO with these euro nannies). The live in au-pair follows suit and the MIL states that my cousin is so lazy and why does she need so much childcare anyway? One of the kids is also in Nursey semi-full time and MIL will some days just take them him early or refuse to take that kid in for the day full stop putting pressure on the au pair which is why she eventually left (the school is 10 minute walk from the house).
On once occasion older kid had a stomach ache and my cousin begs the MIL to go and pick him up as she is still on shift. MIL loses her shit and refuses to be cooperative but instead takes the opportunity to start insulting her over the phone, in the end the Nursery start blowing up my cousins phone and my cousin has to leave work and pick up her little man before they call the social on her (they do that in the UK). This pattern continues apparently for months with my cousin having to rope in various family members, contract nannies and friends to help including myself - so I got a front row seat to the shit-fuckery. She is also now on the radar of social services given the various little incidents of MIL refusing or forgetting to pick up the oldest child. Also she slaps the older kid one day and he goes to school with the marks which is a HUGE no no in their posh white area of leafy London. My aunt also intervenes and says WTF - why are you treating my kid and grand-kids like that - don't you have daughters of your own? MIL is becoming a fucking tyrant.
One thing I am noticing is that Michael is not speaking up for his wife or even his own children and it's fucking concerning. Then one day she messages me and says she's worked out that his mother is instigating him to talk to her like crap and demand 'traditional man' treatment. Anyway after 5-6+ months of back to forth and struggling with childcare, just being fucking exhausted and just beaten down my cousin has 'taken a sabbatical for mental health reasons'. Her boss actually demanded it as her BP was through the roof and she looked like she was really not coping. So effectively she was on sick leave for the first few weeks and then thereafter her boss who is a huge supporter and mentor helped her hatch a plan - she would basically take some time out until the youngest is Nursery age. She manages to wrangle @ 3 months in sick pay, study leave and holiday pay and thereafter she was effectively on sabbatical. So he last NHS pay cheque was @ April this year and she now only has the 1 day a week private shift work money coming in.
However, my cousin has told her MIL that she has quit to 'take care of her husband and the family' as she has been telling her to do so. As stated above she just the private overnight shift work coming in. This means that she now has the kids at home with her 24-7 (which she is actually enjoying) and can now be a 'proper wife'.
You would think the in-laws would be over the moon.....but the strangest thing about all of this is that the MIL and Michael's father are BIG mad. Like very BIG Mag. My cousin and her husband have joint accounts for everything and he has always subsidised his family back home with money from their accounts and my cousin has never complained (even though they are not poor), whilst my aunt lives in the UK and still works and actually helped my cousin financially when they first got married. So now only her private shift money is coming in and Michael is on a slightly less lucrative contract at the moment, which although is due to run for a while does not pay as much. They have enough to cover the mortgage, bills etc live comfortably and even save a little but not enough to have the lifestyle they had before and support NUMEROUS family members. Michael was supposed to contribute to his youngest sisters wedding in Dubai this summer and also his youngest brothers UK university school fees. BUT there is no money in the kitty so his family like I said are BIG mad and calling her a useless, bad, evil, spoilt woman, and asking how can she just sit at home and watch her husband kill himself when she is a whole qualified medical doctor?
Bear in mind this same women did everything in her power to disrupt and spoil my cousins job and make her life a real struggle - like really peppered her. My cousin DGAF she is living her best SAHM life with her 1 shift a week, taking her babies for days out and really getting to know them and crying for all the time she missed with them, hanging out with her other mummy friends, getting her hair and nails done, finishing DIY projects around the house (has a fairly decent growing insta home account with a few small sponsorships LMAO) and has no intent to go back to work until the youngest is 3 years old next year so she doesn't go crazy again. She also now has a creative outlet and seems much happier.
Meanwhile in march this year Michael panics as it's time to pay the tax man. Michael miscalculated thinking that the first £50k of his severance is tax free when it's actually only the first £30k. My cousin has pre-empted this shit show so she had stopped paying her private shift salary into the joint account and opened a separate account. Their agreement being that as she now effectively earns about 30% of her previous salary that she she would pay for food, emergency childcare and anything around the house and he took care of the mortgage, bills and car. She is also earning a small but decent amount from Insta and he hasn't twigged that is how she is funding her DIY projects and even new washing machine and coffee machine, but he is too disinterested to notice. So anyway the taxman wants @ £20k and this idiot does not have it and the MIL is now insulting my cousin and telling her she should go back to work to help earn it as the fines are starting to build up. My cousin remains steadfast stating that she is taking care of her children and husband and herself and she will go back when the youngest is 3 and qualifies for (almost) free full time school and reminds her MIL that she nearly had a nervous breakdown.
Michael is now begging her also to go back to work and she reminds him of how he used to gang up on her with his mother and how mentally low she was and why she had to stop working because of the lack of support. Anyway MIL has now decided that she is going back to Nigeria after SIL's wedding and will not be coming back.
BUT and here is the big but - I do not see my cousins marriage surviving this because it's a BIG mess. On the surface she doesn't seem that bothered and in fact looks to be very over it and I don't think Michael has worked that out yet. In fact I think things were so bad last year that when my cousin planned the sabbatical that she was also taking an emotional break from her husband - but now she has realised she wants out. My cousin is a very kind and loving person but also very practical and forensic and I now realise that the point of this sabbatical was also partly financial to start creating some distance from Michael after how his family have treated her. After working for 10+ years she has no real savings to show for it as his family have effectively leeched off them for a decade and he has continuously allowed it. All the while she worked those extra shifts to effectively subsidise them and they treated her life trash at the first sign of instability and her MIL showed incredible cruelty.
So in less than one year my cousins MIL completely drove my cousin a very sane, stable and kind person to the end of her sanity and dismantled her marriage. When the money ran out and she senses my cousin is emotionally detached from her son and her son is now blaming her, she now plans to bounce.
I am just shocked having witnessed this fuckery over the last year. What TF was MIL trying to achieve by driving a young mother to the end of her wits like this. On one occasion she actually cancelled the nanny my cousin booked as an emergency measure when she heard my cousin speaking to the agency about the cost, which meant that I had to save the day. Luckily I able to take a short notice holiday that day and was able to go and take care of her kids because I knew how important that shift was for specialisation purposes. On one occasion she called everyone in the family to complain that my cousin did not greet her properly. My cousin had just finished a very stressful overnight shift and even picked up some shopping on the way home at 7/8am in the morning then when she came home started cleaning the house which was a mess. The MIL then came downstairs expecting her to start kneeling to her. It was a mess and my aunt cleared her ass.
I am still in shock at how utterly evil and contemptible some African parents can be.

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Whatsup Dhmis subreddit
i think Baker Terry (voice actor from the puppets and actor) is extrem underrated (everyone just talks about becky and joe but not baker terry even though he's a big part of it :( )
That's why I'm gushing about him here now :3 (and I think that many dhmis fans don't know that much about him)
Baker Terry is so cool, he is definitely my favorite actor / voice actor (HIS PINK HAIR WAS SO COOL!?)
He did a music video named "im not a punk anymore" where he had pink hair and was a punk :3
He also was Craig in "Craigs big day" a short film from baker terry, joe pelling and becky sloan (i dont know the meaning behind that)
and he did a short film named "BIN"
i also noticed 3 references

1. in the car Episode where duck talks about that he stuck pictures on his window he says "it looks pretty good to meee" anf craig in craigs big day says the same thing at the end
   
2. In the unreleast pilot of dhmis (which only aired at the Sundance Film Festival on January 29th) Yellowguy was a punk and he wore exactly the same clothes as Baker Terry in "Im Not a Punk Anymore"
   
3. Dan Britt the animator from dhmis with joe (Dan Britt is also very very underrated) did a Animation named "I Decided to Leave" at "1:23" you can her the voices from yellow guy, red guy, and duck laughing :D
   

I ALSO LOVE THE ANIMATION "im dead inside"
i wish the songs "im dead inside" "im not a punk anymore" and "craigs big day Song" would be on Spotify :(
(dhmis is litteraly my hyperfixation)
okay byee :D

I've been thinking about this since that post about wishing Nobu punched Takumi during Trapnest's party. So I was curious which characters you think are most to least likely to win in a fight?
For me, males: 1(Takumi): We see this man punch two people in the manga and leave their noses bleeding afterwards. And all it took was a singular punch at that. We know he basically grew up poor and was a delinquent in high school, busting windows out the building. He is also one of the tallest guys in the cast, second to only Yasu, I believe. Not only that, but I know for a fact he does not fight fair. He will fight dirty and sometimes, that's what you need. The man is winning, respectfully.
2 (Yasu): Yasu just gives off that vibe. We saw him punch a paparazzi, but it didn't seem like he put all his strength into that. He gives off the vibe of someone who knows they can lay you out, but is choosing not to for your sake. He also kicked Takumi's shin in the manga, but it didn't seem to have that much of an impact as Takumi bounced back up like it was nothing.
3 (Ren): He grew up on the streets, I know he had to get scrappy at some point. I forgot to mention this with Yasu and Takumi, but he plays guitar and that gives a motherfucker some callouses. So I know if Ren smacks someone, they feeling it. We know that he can probably choke someone into unconsciousness too. The only thing that can hold him back is the drugs and withdrawals.
4 (Shin): Respectfully, if Shin and Nobu ever got into a physical fight, imma bet on Shin. He ain't a punk (as in, he's not a coward), so even if he does lose, I feel like he's gonna go down fighting.
5 (Nobu): I'm sorry, but he should just be the friend on the sidelines filming the fight, cause he's not gonna make it. Arms? Weak. Upbringing? Spoiled. Height? Short. Sorry. Yes, he has callouses and he did work at the construction spot, but I think even he knows it's a loss. But he has heart.
For females: 1 (Nana): The only reason is because we see she's not afraid to get physical. She punches and kicks Nobu multiple times, grabs at Shin and Ren on a few occasions, and she probably has a high pain tolerance. She also worked at a construction spot too and she made the table at 707, so she has some strength there. She has a lot of energy too and her hair ain't long, so don't gotta worry about no one pulling it. I also think she's the tallest of the girls, but I could be wrong.
2 (Misato, the fake one): She's a crazy groupie. That's enough of a reason.
3 (Hachi): Lemme explain. She can cook and bake. And if you've ever met someone who cooks and bakes, without using a machine, you know their arms got some strength to them. Not only that, but she was pregnant and climbed up seven flights of stairs multiple times throughout the manga in heels, so she got some leg strength there too. The only thing is, she's very emotional and I feel like she'd be the type to start crying when angry and you can't fight with tears in your eyes.
4 (Asami/Yuri): She just gives off the vibe of a girl who pulls hair, scratches, and throws things in a fight. Do I think she will punch someone? No. But will she slap and scratch them? Yes.
5 (Reira): Has to have energy to perform all those songs during a tour. Yasu also mentions her abs are strong, so she got some good core muscles. But I don't think she can fight. Homegirl was sheltered and spoiled by Takumi. She never had to fight a day in her life.
I left out Junko, Kyosuke, and a few other cast members just cause I don't have strong opinions on whether or not they can fight. But what's your list?

As the title states, received a fry with a hair cooked into it. I alerted the waitress. She seemed concerned and asked if I wanted a new meal, and also suggested replacing the fries. I told her the sandwich was fine, and a fresh order of fries would be sufficient. It seemed like the easiest solution, considering I didn't want to derail the other two people's lunch, I was with. So, off to the kitchen she goes. A couple minutes later she returns with an empty plate and asks me to put my sandwich on the plate and she will remove the fries. OK, kind of odd, since I already had removed the contaminated fry, which she had taken. Anyway, a couple minutes passes and she returns with what appear to be the same fries, just put back in the grease and completely overcooked. I thought it odd the way the thing was handled, so I filled out the customer feedback, on their website. Here is their response
"Thank you for your patience while we investigated this matter. We have visited with the team members that were involved with your experience and thoroughly reviewed the details. Under closer inspection in the kitchen, the "hair" was determined to be a thin piece of cheese that had been pulled off the sandwich when plating. All the team members in the back of the house(3), where the lighting is brighter than in the dining room, concurred that it was cheese. The team member in the kitchen then dropped a new set of wedge fries and plated them for service, which is our standard when replacing any side item. We make a new one. We did not "redrop" the existing wedge fries. We never put item, of any type, back in the fryer once it has been prepared. Your original fries were placed directly in the trash by the server. Wedge fries are a freshly prepared item in house, from whole potatoes, and can look very similar and have varying colors to them based on starch/sugar content. So, perhaps, your fresh second order was from a potato that had more starch in it when cooked, thus darker. I hope this clears up any misunderstanding of what occurred and how it was handled. Thank you for your support of our restaurant and team. brett's
That is some true revisionist history. There were two other people, at the table, who witnessed it. Additionally, the waitress confirmed what I saw, as she saw it. Four people were standing there looking at it, yet no one said it was cheese. But... it was the bad lighting.
How would the cheese get between the coating, of the fry, and the potato, if it just fell off the sandwich? Since it was fried into the coating, had it been cheese it would have cooked away.
All Brett's responses are bunk and classless, to blame me, and my companions, as not being able to see what was clearly right in front of us. The attempt to gaslight is rich. "Don't believe your lying eyes". The whole way it was handled and their obvious willingness, to absolutely lie and libel their customers, says a lot about what a garbage restaurant it is. 0/10 Would not recommend.

I'm a pretty open-minded person in terms of my music taste. Enjoy everything from 80s hair metal to 90s, 2000s pop punk to modern trap. But one genre which I can really not get into is the "indie" music of today- bands like Bon Iver, Tame Impala Arcade Fire, Cigarettes After Sex or solo artists like Girl In Red, Mac De Marco and Clairo
It seems to be popular amongst a lot of people in my friend circle and is probably the most acclaimed genre in many online music communities. But personally, I think its more of a genre that is meant to be elevator, background music for depressing, nostalgia-themed Instagram reels. All the songs are pretty slow, touch upon the same subjects and the artists do not have a distinctive sound whatsoever according to me. It is pretty dull and boring.
So for the fans of this genre, what attracts you towards it? I am open to suggestions but this was my unpopular opinion about indie music of today.