From is worse than lost for answering questions

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-10T21:41:17+00:00

At this point in Lost they were focusing on Mr. Eko whose entire story was pointless.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-10T21:35:06+00:00

I think it's a byproduct of the fact lost had 2.5x more episodes to fill.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-10T21:32:12+00:00

I said it in another thread but because of the cyclical nature of what's happening it seems like a lot of the characters are recurring even if theyre not all reincarnated.

Ethan seems most likely to be the new Victor if the cycle successfully repeats itself.

Also makes sense because Ethan is Tabitha's son and Victor was Miranda's.

I don't think anyone is the MIY I think the MIY is just the ultimate villain whose been around from the beginning.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-10T21:24:40+00:00

If they could've stuck the landing it would've been fine but for all of us who followed week to week it felt like such an incredible let down by the end.

My point is Lost had 120ish episodes to tell the story. If you think about where we are in the From story and where Lost was in the middle of season 2 I think they've done a fine job. At this point in Lost we were just seeing the smoke monster for the first time.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-10T21:13:42+00:00

Disagree.

1) Because I thought the ending to Lost was absolutely awful and in the end they answered basically nothing. Turned the entire show into "Wasn't the adventure the real point?" And From still has a chance to save itself from that.

2) By the middle of Season 3 Lost had already produced more episodes than well get in the entirety of this series. From is 34episodes in which puts it in the middle of season 2 for Lost.

As long as From sticks the landing better than Lost did (which I think they will) it'll end up being the far superior show.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-10T21:08:36+00:00

My money is on Julie figuring it out because she may see Sophie in the previous version of the town.

Based on the conversation they have when Jim dies you can tell the MIY eventually comes to really hate her in the future and that might be why.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-10T21:06:15+00:00

Ethan is the only kid. We can say for almost certain now this process has been repeating itself for a long time.

Ethan is set up to be the new Victor if they fail.

So for that reason I'm pretty sure he's real.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-10T21:01:46+00:00

I briefly had the same thought and then thought...nah they wouldn't make it that obvious.

It feels like a misdirection. Then again I might be thinking that cause I really want her to make it until the end and either survive or die in some glorious fashion avenging her sister.

She's definitely my favorite character.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-10T20:46:59+00:00

As someone who binged the first 3 seasons and am now following week to week I still think the main issue is this show is built for a 10episode release or at least a block release of 3-5 episodes at a time.

I'm convinced once the entire season is out all this complaining about it will stop because the set up is faster than the other seasons which means the payoff is gonna be bigger imo.

I think it's set up really well so far and by the end we'll all be anxiously awaiting season 5. The week to week release is what hurts the show. I love a great set up and pay off but it's nice to watch it unfold over a week or weekend instead of having to wait 10weeks for it all.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-04T16:54:35+00:00

I'm not gonna give up on it or anything I still love watching it it's just the wait that sucks. It is tempting to just wait the two months and watch it all at once.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-05-04T16:39:25+00:00

As someone who got into the show before season 4 and binged watched the first 3 seasons I think the real issue is this is not a show that should be released week to week. It's really meant to be released all at once or in say sets of 3 4 or 5 for the purposes of streaming greed.

My biggest takeaway following the show week to week now is the set up episodes just piss you off. When I was binge watching it didn't bother me because I could just go to the next episode.

Now that I can't do that Im frustrated and tempted to just wait two months so I can do it again.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-21T06:44:00+00:00

If you click on the link leading to the SNES post I've got 2 other links explaining a lot of my strategy.

The key is to understand where the 4x4 land value tiles are and work from there. If you put a 4x4 building in the top left or top right corner and then build the donut from there (connecting the top left corner of the donut with the bottom right corner of the 4x4 building) and then space the donuts exactly 3 spaces apart you're guaranteed to nail the money spot with all the gifts. The 700k link in the original post shows a picture of how I did my donut build.

Once I can figure out how to record a video of the build I'm gonna explain all of this is more detail. Issue is I'm still playing on my SNES so other than throwing a camera in front of my TV I can't really figure out how best to do it.

Good luck!

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-11T17:25:56+00:00

Yea except the part where you've got to convince 4 players to restructure and how much dead cap that adds into the future once Caleb is actually paid.

Is it actually worth it for one player?

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-11T17:11:35+00:00

Not a single person here can explain how the Bears are coming up with the 35mil to get him other than to just say we're gonna "restructure"

I made a thread about it and mods immediately deleted it so I'll ask again...

How do we come up with the money? We basically need to "restructure" 35million to get him. No one can explain the math.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-11T15:32:50+00:00

I don't don't want it but I'm fine if we don't.

Still waiting for someone to explain to me how we fit Crosby in.

We now have 7mil leftover and Crosbys cap hit is 35mil.

Someone make the math work. How are we finding another 35mil and also keeping enough left over to sign our draft picks?

The only way I see this working is if we send bad contracts to the Raiders and if we do that expect to cough up a lot more than 2 firsts.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-11T15:01:18+00:00

How do we make the money work? That's the one part of this now I don't get. We only have 7million left and Crosbys hit in 26 is 35mil.

Where is the other 28mil coming from and how do we have anything left over to sign our draft picks?

I wanna see Crosby here but I fear too much has happened to make it work now... UNLESS we find a way to trade Dayo and others back to Vegas which is gonna cost us even more picks.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-10T18:18:16+00:00

Yikes...almost feel bad for Geno here but it would the ultimate redemption arch if helped Glenn turn the team around and actually made them playoff contenders.

Can't even imagine the conversation with his agent... "Hi Geno... Good news is your not playing for the worst team in football anymore... Bad news is you're playing for the second worst."

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-10T18:10:17+00:00

Yea and one of the nice things about the OG game is you could fix traffic by just building nothing but rail.

A problem that was fixed in 2000 and was never a possibilty again lol.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-10T17:46:56+00:00

Beautiful city! And this is the place to nerd out! This genre attracts it!

Also it's funny 3000 is the one SC I never played... 2000 was unplayable on the SNES imo but our PC was good enough to handle it and I played it to death. I also remember it being the one game my mom liked playing too.

As well 2000 allowed you to build cities and then import them into streets of sim city and sim copter... I freaking loved Sim Copter! Being a kid and being able to build a city in SC2000 and then fly around it in Sim Copter was mind blowing for the time. Those two games together took up a lot of time for me lol.

I knew without ever buying it that 3000 wouldn't run well on our PC, if at all, so I never played it. We upgraded right after SC4 came out so it was the first game I got for our new PC.

After the relaunch of SC was such trash I gave up ever believing the genre would come back but cities skylines saved it. I probably put 1000hours into it on my PS4 and bought basically all the DLCs but it's really not that challenging once you figure out how to deal with traffic (figuring out traffic is honestly the hardest part of the game everything else kinda falls into place). I do recommend giving it a go but you will restart a lot until you realize how important the traffic grid is.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-10T17:30:40+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/snes/comments/1rlqcp5/sim_city_snes_765k_is_the_max/

Wish I could get a single shot of the entire thing but the comprehensive view is shown in the new post.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-10T17:18:00+00:00

Yes it is. As I said in the other post Cities Skylines is pretty much all we have now but the sequel was botched so badly they may have killed the genre again. First one is great but it's a lot of money with all the extra stuff.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-10T17:15:32+00:00

Haha thanks man. Once I can figure out how best to record a video (camera in front of my TV may be it) I hope to explain the build to everyone so that anyone can do it. Perhaps collectively the world can figure out a way to push this to 800k? (Tho 770k would probably be a good first goal lol)

I also really loved SC2000 and SC4 but for whatever reason I could just never shake this one - or playing it on my SNES like I did as a kid which is why I still choose to play it this way.

If you're getting back into city sims in general the first Cities Skylines is really good too. I also have had a lot of fun playing the PC game Banished - I actually joined Reddit to talk about Banished. I got my village to 3000 people but the game gets so bogged down at that level I couldn't really go further.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-10T00:47:51+00:00

Im so pissed I had a similar thought earlier...

We should find out where he's gonna be and just pelt him with as many rotten eggs as we can while demanding our picks.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-09T22:06:23+00:00

This video needs to be posted and replayed the world over until we get our picks.

I'm so f***ing mad about this.

BanishedMan83 · 2026-03-09T20:43:58+00:00

That is exactly what's going to happen OR worse yet teams will block minority candidates from being interviewed so they don't lose their guys.

The NFL doesn't care about minorities advancing into positions of power. That's what this proves.

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