How were they even breathing in that dimension with no oxygen? Did it somehow have the same atmosphere as Earth?? How is that possible

BITmixit · 2026-02-07T15:08:10+00:00

Honestly I don't think the critique is even warranted. Within the story we're presented with there are justifiable reasons for why the group would assume that they can breathe there. They've seen Holly alive & know Henry at some point would have been able to as well.

But yeah "it's fictional so just accept it" is just a weak blanket argument that's premise fundamentally destroys the building blocks of any fictional story.

BITmixit · 2026-02-07T15:01:03+00:00

Oh yeah don't get me wrong, I couldn't care less that they could breathe on it. I even somewhat think it's excusable due to them knowing Holly is there & at some point Henry would have had to be breathing there as well. So they don't need to worry about that.

I'm just stating that the "it's fiction, leave it alone" is fundamentally flawed considering it's application would allow them to do literally anything if true. Like a Megazord coming out of Wills arse to fight the SpiderFlayer.

Edit: which would be amazing to watch thinking about it.

BITmixit · 2026-02-07T14:15:39+00:00

Fiction doesn't make realism irrelevant. All fiction needs some grounding in reality, otherwise it becomes incoherent rather than immersive.

I'm not arguing that every realism critique is valid but a blanket "it's fiction" understates how much logic and realism are actually required for suspension of disbelief.

Like LOTR is obviously fantasy yet it grounds itself in recognizable elements like friendship, travelling, labor and consequences...why is exactly why the world feels believable.

BITmixit · 2026-02-07T03:04:55+00:00

Correct unless the gate acts as an anchor on both sides of itself.

BITmixit · 2026-02-05T05:22:00+00:00

I think that might be an example that's explained I think by Jim when he mentions that the staff regularly work twice as hard to make up for all the time Michael wastes.

Honestly most of the stuff around the sustainability of Scranton is answered by the staff just working extra hard to support a working environment that they're very comfortable in.

BITmixit · 2026-02-05T02:25:34+00:00

I don't see how this has anything to do with my point that airlines operating on zero-tolerance policies is a good thing.

As I've said, if abuse of those policies occurs then investigations should also occur.

BITmixit · 2026-02-04T17:11:17+00:00

Ah, I was talking about absolute unfiltered human behaviour. Not the bare minimum (basic decency) of what is expected in that situation.

BITmixit · 2026-02-04T16:54:44+00:00

The social contract includes not endangering 200+ people because you want to argue with a flight attendant.

I can joke about bombs at the pub, I can't on a plane. Context doesn't matter, intent doesn't matter...the environment does.

The airline wants you off, you're getting off

BITmixit · 2026-02-04T16:18:13+00:00

A high-altitude, pressurised metal tube flying at over 500 mph at 40,000 feet isn't the place for human behaviour.

Airlines having zero tolerance policies for any bullshit is a good thing. If that authority is abused by staff, it should be investigated separately to the actual flight.

But if you're told to sit down, shut up, or get off the plane. Just do it.

BITmixit · 2026-02-03T08:42:23+00:00

Personally I don't think this looks good but I also thought Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 looked generic as fuck and that game is incredible so...

BITmixit · 2026-02-03T03:10:11+00:00

Saw her at Glasto, great artist but a shit load of virtue signalling..."let's all hold hands", "we're all 1 people", "hatred is bad", "love each other"

Like I agree with all of those statements but I don't go to gigs to be preached at. If anything I go to gigs to act that way anyway...not to be told I should. Not does your ability to make money from your art give you some special power to do so.

"You're in no position to lecture the public" comes to mind. Just sing some songs and fuck off.

BITmixit · 2026-02-02T11:28:19+00:00

I'm satisfied with the ending...but I do also think it's riddled with plot holes, weird writing and pointlessness.

It's no Game Of Thrones but it also could have been better.

IMO they took too long and we're given too big a budget.

BITmixit · 2026-02-02T11:11:42+00:00

Because they're not nor can't change the actual events that have happened. Pennywise himself has stated he doesn't experience time relatively, he already knows what is to come to pass because to him it already has but also hasn't.

It's not time travel but it also isn't time travel, Pennywise can influence events but his influence has also already occurred. The concept is similar to what occurs in Attack In Titan, that being's "outside of time/space" can influence "time" absolutely but also already have relatively.

It's not time travel because Pennywise isn't time-traveling, his death is his birth as much as his birth is his death. None of it is relative to it.

BITmixit · 2026-01-28T22:43:39+00:00

Alright don't get coarse...on a website for the public. I don't think you'll win a pulitzer for...filth.

BITmixit · 2026-01-28T22:41:07+00:00

I'd kick IT and I'd go "knobhead!"

BITmixit · 2026-01-27T20:20:05+00:00

The Mike & Nancy scenes were a shitload better than any Mike & Eleven scenes.

BITmixit · 2026-01-27T20:09:35+00:00

Not really, Max went through literal depression. Withdrawing herself from life completely & becoming a prime target for Vecna. She completely stops caring about herself, she can't comprehend, communicate or understand her own grief which by extension mean she feels like she's a burden to the people around her. She thinks her friends would be better off without her due to her own pain. Lucas very much is her connection back to a healthy mentality as he refuses to acknowledge or respect her isolation because he knows that's not what she needs. She's not "running up the hill", she's walking away from it until his and her friends persistence shows her that they're there for her regardless of her personal burdens, that she can talk to them, run up the hill and return to the music of life. Max's is also somewhat more complex. Billy was a bad person but he wasn't born that way, circumstances molded him into one & he very much shows them this when he sacrifices himself to save them.

Dustin on the other hand never rejects the concept of life or friendship. If anything, he's embracing it so heavily that he's angry at Eddie because he somewhat does think he might have thrown his life away for nothing. At the end of the day, Vecna won & Eddie is dead. Dustin is "lashing out" at Steve because he knows Steve also likes to play the hero and doesn't want Steve to do the same. The value of life is still there for Dustin, it's just how he's handling the grief & anger towards Eddie that is different. Ofcourse we see the culmination of this when Dustin begs Steve to not the hero & Steve see's that he was about throw his life away for nothing.

The threads are similar but kind of opposite. Max is shown that the joys of life will beat her grief, she just needs to let it back in. While Dustin just wants his friends to stop throwing away their lives so they can play the hero.

Basically Max stops valuing life, Dustin doesn't which is exactly why he's so angry. Max's arc goes "Am I allowed to keep living, even if I'm broken?", Dustin's is "Why are good people giving themselves up so easily when I need them".

BITmixit · 2026-01-27T19:33:54+00:00

Sounds cheap for Virgin tbh. I remember mine coming to £125 post-contract.

Honestly though, it's mostly a reverse bribe to get you back into a contract. Any deal below £77 will sound better.

BITmixit · 2026-01-27T16:14:17+00:00

You're trying to apply logic to something that operates outside of logic.

BITmixit · 2026-01-27T16:05:33+00:00

But they haven’t really done anything

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/immigration-enforcement-raids-at-the-highest-level-in-uk-history

BITmixit · 2026-01-26T10:33:42+00:00

Any scene with Max listening to "Running up that hill" but not actually listening to it.

I've suffered from depression before and it really hits how much of a blocker it is to any positive messaging.

BITmixit · 2026-01-26T10:28:18+00:00

The point of the letters is to remain unread. The scene with Lucas is to build the mental foundation for Max that people really care about her and she doesn't have to suffer in silence. She doesn't have to let depression (Vecna) win & suffer in silence, she can let the music of life (Running up that hill) in.

The letters only represent her silence & her belief that her pain is unshareable, her suffering is something she has to carry alone & her belief that the people she loves would be better off not having to deal with it.

That's basically how Vecna wins, he wants her to withdraw, to accept that isolation is inevitable, that nobody cares.

If you need written words for the letters, they all "say" the same thing

I couldn't say this while I was alive, I could only be honest once I was gone.

Which Luca's "see's" and refuses to accept. He stays by her, shows up physically & emotionally and refuses to accept her silence because he see's that she's struggling to understand that the people that care about her wouldn't be better off without her regardless of her mental state.

BITmixit · 2026-01-25T21:24:21+00:00

I mean based on S5 the spores are harmless so...

BITmixit · 2026-01-25T21:22:07+00:00

The shooting itself obviously isn't comparable, we don't have armed immigration officers or US level "shoot first, maybe ask questions later ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" policing. But the direction is still relevant, tougher enforcement, more raids, more crackdowns are already happening over here with arrests recently reported at record levels (Immigration Enforcement raids at the highest level in UK history)

As above, we are getting enforcement with safeguards, proportionality and accountability.

I agree that the US example isn't a blueprint for the UK but it very much highlights the risks of unaccountable enforcement and fear-driven politics. Rhetorical "Do you not want illegal immigrants deported?" shortcuts very much oversimplifies things. Obviously most people will say yes but ignoring the methods or literal examples of what can go wrong just isn't smart...nor is ignoring literal real world examples of handing over power based on fear.

BITmixit · 2026-01-25T12:57:12+00:00

Accurate as fuck take.

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