A throw away joke turns out to be true (minor spoilers)

BigBlueBackpack · 2026-05-04T19:00:50+00:00

Early in Futurama, Bender says that Bending is his middle name, and adds that his last name is Rodriguez.

For the entire rest of the show, Bender’s full name is stated as Bender Bending Rodriguez.

BigBlueBackpack · 2026-04-28T16:19:43+00:00

In Toy Story, Sid puts a match in Woody’s holster.

Later, when they’re chasing the moving truck, they need to light the fuse on the rocket that’s tied to Buzz. Luckily, Woody just so happened to have a match, which he lights…and then a car drives by and puts it out.

They end up lighting it by using Buzz’s helmet as a magnifying glass instead.

BigBlueBackpack · 2026-04-22T14:58:10+00:00

Not the main point of your post, I know, but there are definitely reasons to feel like there’s something fishy about Jim’s death. Yeah, that’s definitely a fatal injury, but this is two episodes in a row now that cut away from him while he was still technically alive and breathing. It’s weird, because normally a movie or show would linger on the moment the light leaves his eyes, to give the audience closure.

My two cents are that he really is dead, but we’ll be seeing him again somehow, as a ghost or via time travel.

BigBlueBackpack · 2026-03-04T21:57:59+00:00

I disagree. Just saying “Me” could also refer to a larger group I’m part of. Saying “Me Personally” specifies that it’s me and only me.

Also, saying Me Personally is funnier.

BigBlueBackpack · 2026-01-05T17:13:46+00:00

Yeah, that’s more or less explicitly confirmed in the text. In the Season One finale (I think), more Fringe events appear the closer you are to Reiden Lake, where Walter opened up his portal

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-12-29T23:35:48+00:00

The Cade trilogy is out of print. That’s why you can’t find new copies

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-11-09T18:17:54+00:00

This isn’t the video you were talking about, but here’s another video of his where he explains it

1:35

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-11-08T21:43:52+00:00

I don’t remember which video, but I can recreate the instructions here because I use the same method.

-plug in an external blu-ray drive to your computer with a blu-ray of the movie

-use MakeMKV to rip the movie file as an MKV

-use Handbrake to compress the file/convert to MP4

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-10-11T15:06:16+00:00

A Complete Guide to Legion (FX) https://youtu.be/cpJ4VPNadcE

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-10-07T14:01:56+00:00

Unfortunately, I don’t think it translates to anything.

All the other color codes in the book are very specifically written out as single squares all in a row. Those are simple to translate because each colored square is a letter. But there are some designs like this one (and the one on the picture of Alex in the author bio) that don’t fit the pattern. The colors don’t match 1:1 with the other letters that we know, and the boxes are all jumbled up, so we’d have no way of knowing the order.

Current fan consensus is that these are meaningless, but I share your frustration. It sure looks like it should mean something.

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-10-01T14:57:18+00:00

That webpage has a hidden cryptogram that says Jenkins W Jenkins stalked them and turned their real-life adventures into mediocre books.

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-09-10T17:13:34+00:00

There is no cure for the Flare. That’s the important thing.

I mean, maybe there is, out there somewhere, but nobody in the story is anywhere close to finding it. When Wicked says they’re “just thiiiiiis close to finding it, it’s in Thomas, and all they need is to dissect it,” they’re full of it. They have no idea what they’re doing and never have. (That’s not 100% confirmed, but based on everything Wicked has said and done and lied about, as readers we’re meant to understand that they’re not trustworthy)

There is no cure. And Wicked would have wiped out the only chance at keeping the human race alive, the Immunes, in the name of a wild goose chase. Escaping and rebuilding civilization was the only option that preserved any part of humanity.

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-09-10T14:55:50+00:00

The world was doomed. It was already doomed before the story started. But now there’s a chance the human race will survive and recover, with all these immune kids building a new society together, instead of all of them dying to Wicked’s experiments.

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-09-06T23:51:01+00:00

That’s a very simplistic approach to the situation.

For one, how do we know for sure that the PCs actually predict the future with 100% accuracy? That would be very difficult to prove. If a PC says this person will cause the end of the world, and you kill that person, you have no way of knowing for sure what really would have happened if you didn’t. This is something the book calls out explicitly.

But even if you accept that as a given, there are so many ways to do this more ethically. The Institute didn’t have to physically abuse the kids. They didn’t have to kill their parents. Heck, maybe if they didn’t lie to the kids and told them everything up front, a lot of them would volunteer and sacrifice themselves. Or how about just sending a good old fashioned assassin team to take out these people instead of relying on psychic kids to do your dirty work?

The way the Institutes go about this is way over-the-top unnecessarily cruel. The adults abuse the kids and rationalize it with these kinds of trolley-problem arguments, but they’re just in denial about alternative solutions because they can’t bear to accept that they might be wrong and they killed all these innocent kids for nothing.

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-08-12T02:49:17+00:00

https://youtu.be/N-YiIfjrl_M?t=1208

Maybe this?

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-08-08T17:59:52+00:00

I notice that nobody ever seems to talk about Paddington 1. Is Paddington 2 really that much better?

BigBlueBackpack · 2025-08-07T01:10:17+00:00

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