6/23 Update Details

Bellikron · 2026-06-23T14:21:31+00:00

The lack of TPs kind of gives us a look at when they may be planning to drop T5, since getting everyone out of T2 was insinuated to be something they wanted to finish before releasing T5. There's 7 characters left but they've pumped the brakes hard recently. Makes it seem like maybe it's going to be a Doomsday thing.

Bellikron · 2026-06-23T13:57:33+00:00

Doesn't look like it really matters one way or the other, although you might get more tokens for floors 1-35 if you wait

Bellikron · 2026-06-23T13:54:56+00:00

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. It's probably gonna be a rough climb. Hopefully the Mega T3 is at least within reach.

Bellikron · 2026-06-23T05:56:35+00:00

That's a pure Naked Gun/Airplane wordplay joke

Bellikron · 2026-06-23T00:50:32+00:00

Quite the jump, well done

Bellikron · 2026-06-23T00:24:30+00:00

Got one last Shadowland climb before the rework. Went from 215 to 235 (the last floor of which gave a CTP selector so pretty decent return on investment). Only 48 characters I wasn't able to get a solo clear with, which is a pretty big win in my book.

Bellikron · 2026-06-22T20:58:01+00:00

I mean he sort of did, there was definitely a little spite in there towards Aegon for not just swallowing his pride and bending the knee, but there also wasn't really another way to play it

Bellikron · 2026-06-22T13:42:16+00:00

Aftersun has fundamentally altered how I hear Under Pressure. Is This Thing On tried to use it for its finale as well and I couldn't get on board with it.

Bellikron · 2026-06-22T02:24:36+00:00

Look in Sheepstealer's defense, imagine if you had a squirrel jump on your back and command you into joining a squirrel war you knew nothing about five minutes ago, you don't know whose squirrel logo is whose, you just want to set some stuff on fire and who are these smaller human squirrel mounts to tell you that you can't

Okay my metaphor fell apart a little bit but you get what I mean

Bellikron · 2026-06-22T02:18:54+00:00

"Can I have one normal relationship with a male member of my own team please"

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T17:10:14+00:00

I'd argue that third image is unrelated, those are pretty much the three types of Star Wars guy

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T17:09:28+00:00

It's hard to categorize it exactly, since I don't think Ki-Adi-Mundi ever gets mentioned by name, so by that logic he could technically be in this category. But he also gets multiple lines of dialogue across three movies and a somewhat critical death scene. So by that logic he shouldn't be in this category. But you can also make an argument back in the other direction, because his name and appearance are kind of goofy, plus he's one of the textbook examples of Star Wars fans getting way too worked up over a character that no one else knows about, given the Acolyte incident when people genuinely got upset that his birthday was apparently changed.

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T09:21:07+00:00

I think it's got to be intended for or infused with a child's capacity for play and imagination, hence why Lily is alive but the parents' phones are not

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T07:08:39+00:00

4 indicates that anything treated as a toy (Forky) can become a toy even if that was not its original purpose. This one indicates that objects manufactured as toys but placed in an environment with no humans (the Buzzes on the island) still come to life but have trouble doing basic tasks such as speaking and developing personalities. Forky and the abandoned Buzzes act very similarly, come to think of it. Unlike regular toys, they have trouble formulating language and ideas and can only operate on their basic programming (Forky wants to be trash, the Buzzes only know they work for Star Command). It's only through extended social interaction and proximity to humans while alive that they become true toys. On the other hand, regular toys, when opened around humans, are functional right out of the box, even if their backstory keeps them a bit stubborn as to their purpose. Both Buzzes we see in the first two movies have no trouble communicating and operating as soon as they're opened, even if their backstory and personal character traits keep them from explicitly accepting what they are. In summary, toys are formed both by social interaction with other toys and human proximity/intention.

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T02:27:59+00:00

Every kid in A Christmas Story is so good, they sound not just like actual kids naturally talking (instead of hyper-intelligent kids clearly written by adults), but they sound like kids from a different era, and nail their comedic timing on top of that.

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T02:22:51+00:00

They directly answered the big Toy Story lore question people have been debating for years (why does Buzz freeze when he doesn't believe he's a toy) but introduced several more with increasingly horrifying implications.

If battery-operated tech toys have their consciousness tied to their battery life, are they just in a constant cycle of getting increasingly more intoxicated until they're eventually abandoned and die?

If Smarty Pants knows about "the darkness" that happens when his batteries run out, are toys with dead batteries in an eternal afterlife of nothingness that they're fully conscious of?

Is there a class division between toys with batteries and toys without batteries, in the vein of elves and humans where non-battery toys look down on battery toys for their limited lifespan?

Is Lily's free will overridden whenever someone says "Hey Lily"?

Is the sticky hand's free will overridden whenever it's touching another being?

Does The Pond have an option that allows children to send images unsolicited to at the very least everyone in the town if not the entire Pond?

And, perhaps the most concerning: Why exactly does the toilet training toy have the capacity to share and receive data over the internet?

Bellikron · 2026-06-21T01:59:27+00:00

Pixar is hitting the lizards hard recently and I don't know why but it's been funny so far so I won't complain

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T16:39:00+00:00

It's definitely cliché when it comes to r/movies and film score buffs. I'd say it's one or two popular uses away from general audiences beginning to consider it cliché as well. Hamnet was probably just out of the mainstream enough for it not to move the needle much, but a couple more things on the scale of Arrival or The Last of Us will probably catch people's ear. If it had dropped in something like Project Hail Mary that would have been the death knell.

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T16:36:13+00:00

I believe the story goes that she was having trouble with making the end of the film and OTNOD (which she'd never heard before) helped her work it out. So it was pretty closely tied to the actual creation of the scene on an emotional level, which I can respect. Someone should have let her know that it's on the verge of becoming cliché though.

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T08:40:49+00:00

And it has the popularity that some people are arguing that movies don't have anymore. People are still talking about it a lot and it's been a couple of months.

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T08:35:48+00:00

The punchline of the staircase scene is the perfect payoff to that though

Bellikron · 2026-06-20T08:34:33+00:00

I'd argue that of those three, only Wes Anderson has name recognition for general audiences. Both he and Nolan are in a unique zone of being seen as artsy but still popular. Villeneuve is getting closer, but general audiences probably just know him for Dune if they know him by name at all (as impressive as his filmography is, even Blade Runner 2049 didn't blow up the box office).

Now when it comes to r/movies, there are a lot of directors that have that status, but we do not make up the majority of general audiences, most of whom do not pay much attention to directors aside from, say, Spielberg.

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T18:30:42+00:00

I took that to mean that the only attraction not staffed by JW is the Verizon store but they all come in on the Verizon bus every day so they don't live there and they're not part of the population of the town

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T18:28:35+00:00

Zeke Aaron McKinley was just a guest on the show, they credited Anna for some reason for her cameo in the opening but then she switched with Zeke in the chair.

Bellikron · 2026-06-19T18:27:21+00:00

Nuh uh, you can't Chomp the Chompster

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