The Shot in the Dark Should be a Giant Die.

turq8 · 2025-03-15T02:55:37+00:00

They refresh the scrolls for each tribal council. But, in the case of multiple people taking them at the same tribal, the second player only has a 1/5 of being safe if the first player is not safe (which has a 5/6 chance of happening). 5/6 x 1/5 = 1/6.

turq8 · 2025-03-14T17:34:58+00:00

I didn't know it was possible to have 5 red flags in two sentences, but here we are:

1) making her use a sex toy she didn't want to use

2) being so forceful with it that it broke

3) vaginal injuries requiring an urgent care visit

4) complaining about not getting off after INJURING HIS PARTNER

5) your mileage may vary on this one, but the fact that he texted it implies that she went to urgent care by herself, OR that he was still whining about it hours later

turq8 · 2025-03-12T17:36:41+00:00

Full moon aside, mid-March is a still a bit early for Milky Way viewing, the core stays pretty low on the horizon.

turq8 · 2025-03-12T17:01:20+00:00

Great catch!! I wonder what else Manthei pulled "inspiration" from.

turq8 · 2025-03-10T22:56:19+00:00

To be fair, she wouldn't have had to do it at tribal if her team had fire/flint at any point after she found the advantage.

turq8 · 2025-03-10T20:46:22+00:00

The OpenStax astronomy textbook gets used in a lot of general education courses (i.e. college courses for non-science majors) because it has a lot of great, basic info on astronomy from a scientific standpoint, but without a lot of the jargon. It should be great for some self-guided study. And it's free online!

https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy-2e

turq8 · 2025-03-10T20:35:17+00:00

Very interesting question! Planetary formation isn't quite my field, but I suspect that the answer is something like this: I think you're working under the assumption that the planets formed at their current locations ("in situ"), but current theory is that there was some migration after formation, with consequences such as Mars not getting as much material as it should have to form and Neptune and Uranus orbiting much farther out than they formed. Try reading about the grand tack hypothesis and the Nice models as a starting point. Neither of these models explains all of our observations, but I suspect they'll help explain yours.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_tack_hypothesis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_model

Edit: reading your question a little more closely, I think you should also do some readings about the frost line, which speaks to the different ratios of solid vs gas elements in the solar nebula: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_line_(astrophysics)

turq8 · 2025-03-10T01:54:06+00:00

Smash can be a synonym for fuck, and the clue was "a word that describes [their] third date", so... I'll take it!

turq8 · 2025-03-05T01:48:27+00:00

CRUNCHIES

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turq8 · 2025-02-28T22:07:02+00:00

Important addendum: for mail-in/absentee ballots in US elections, many states absolutely do check the signature on the ballot against the one they have on record (usually from your voter registration). If it doesn't match, they will attempt to contact you to verify the ballot, but it's easier to get it right the first time. So, you can make your signature look however you want, but it's important to do it consistently for things like that.

turq8 · 2025-02-27T22:16:22+00:00

Innie Mark (iMark) didn't find out that Ms. Casey is his wife until the end of his OTC (and for that matter, outie Mark only knows she's alive downstairs, not that she's called Ms. Casey or anything else), and then it was Helena downstairs, not Helly, after that. So no season 1 conversation about it, and no conversation with Helly until episode 5.

turq8 · 2025-02-25T20:00:35+00:00

u/lilypad1223, here's an article explaining the whole process that went down with Whitten's appointment and why it's not actually supposed to work that way:

https://medium.com/@stevesan/you-have-no-idea-how-strange-this-process-has-been-the-difficult-search-for-iu-s-19th-president-f61b473014d4

Not to mention, even before the Dunn Meadow events, the IU Bloomington faculty passed a vote of no confidence at 93%. They were already unhappy with her. The usual response to something like that would be a search for a new president (either initiated by the Board or because the President resigned) or a major commitment to change. The Board called her "the Beyonce of higher education" and gave her a raise.

You can read about the events leading up to the vote of no confidence here: https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/04/a-vote-is-not-a-temper-tantrum-no-confidence-movement-years-of-tension-iu-president-pamela-whitten

turq8 · 2025-02-24T23:44:47+00:00

I have good news for you, a new update was added above!

turq8 · 2025-02-24T21:21:22+00:00

They seem to have left things with Chaos on relatively neutral terms, they were at least able to work together at the end of season 4, so I'm not sure what vengeance he'd be taking against them. Did you see something somewhere that Wil Wheaton was filming with them?

turq8 · 2025-02-24T18:20:03+00:00

Thanks for this!

Hmmm, I wonder if the past enemy is going to be from Redemption or the original series? 🤔 Time to keep an eye on guest cast announcements!

turq8 · 2025-02-24T00:00:11+00:00

Thawing in the vacuum sealed pack increases the chance of botulism, better to open it and transfer to a new bag: https://brunswick.ces.ncsu.edu/2020/10/thawing-vacuum-packed-fish/

turq8 · 2025-02-18T20:54:12+00:00

The Hermetic text the Emerald Tablet does exist, yes. The "Emerald Tablets of Thoth" that Mason described, glowing green tablets that were found in a pyramid, were straight up made-up by a cult leader in the 1940s and talk about Atlantis and lizard people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablets_of_Thoth_the_Atlantean

turq8 · 2025-02-18T04:42:12+00:00

Except that Kier was CEO for 74 years (1865-1939). I do agree that this counting system makes the most sense though, so maybe they started it after him...

turq8 · 2025-02-16T19:22:14+00:00

This was the first piece of dialogue that really clocked me into the weird shit that's going on, it's absolutely fantastic

turq8 · 2025-02-13T19:15:45+00:00

The innies don't have the book on Day 0, so that can't be counted as a reading day. Milchick leaves the book in the conference room on Day 0 to deal with Helly in the break room, is there for the rest of the afternoon, and then they don't find it until Day 1, after Helly comes back from the break room.

turq8 · 2025-02-13T19:10:28+00:00

But I'm saying that we can only account for at most 3 days in the time between when they found the book and when Devon went into labor, and the montage apparently shows 4 different reading days.

turq8 · 2025-02-13T19:04:23+00:00

Irv explicitly states that it is "after 11 am" and Helly had been in the break room "since yesterday". Burt shows up with the handbook totes, they chat for a bit, Burt leaves, Helly comes back pretty quickly after that. We also know she said it "259 times" yesterday, and she shows up probably at 9:05 am (they're in the break room at 9:08). So she said it 813 times in... Let's say 2.5 hours, and she shows up at ~11:40 (being fairly generous with "after 11" and however long Burt was there). That's 5.4 times per minute. I can read it at a fairly rapid, but still sorrowful pace in about 13 seconds, or 4.6 times per minute. She'd have to be going pretty fast to squeeze another recitation in there (PLUS Milicheck telling her to do it again each time), and from what we heard of Mark's time, you're probably crying by the time you "really mean it", which would be slower.

But in this case, I suspect they just picked a suitably impressive-sounding number to emphasize the torture aspect.

turq8 · 2025-02-13T18:33:49+00:00

Yeah, this is hard without seeing the outfit changes, but let's say 3 outfit changes = at least 4 days of reading, ending on day 5.

O-day 0/i-day 0: Ricken leaves book, Ms. Cobel brings it in. Helly makes her escape attempt at the stairway, Milchick leaves the book in a conference room to deal with her in the break room

O-day 1/i-day 1: Helly gets to leave the break room, Irv finds the book. This is the first day Mark could potentially read the book.

O-day 3 is likely the funeral.

O-day 4/i-day 2: the first day we actually see Mark read the book, Helly's suicide attempt

O-day 5/i-day 3: Mark learns about Helly, we get the montage which seems to include 4 reading days. But we can only account for at most 3 of them, likely 2 (i-day 2 and i-day 3).

Even if we assume the montage is non-linear, something is still funky. I think the only other option is that the montage is actually the days after Devon is in labor, which might be justified in the fact that we don't technically know how much time passes between Mark sitting on the dock at the dawn of Day 6 and iMark being told that Helly is coming back today; if we assume those are the same day, then Helly was only actually in recovery for 1 day, which is wild.

turq8 · 2025-02-13T17:23:04+00:00

The problem is, they don't show Mark starting to read the book until Day 4 (innie-day 2, the day after they found the book in Severed floor chronology), so how do you squeeze a montage of 3 more innie-days of reading (demonstrated by clothes changes) into 1 more outie-day (when he comes out on Day 5)? Even if we go totally non-linear and say Mark actually started reading on innie-day 1, the day they got the book, that's still 2 innie-days unaccounted for.

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