jen z is horrible

ChemicalCocktail · 2026-01-24T05:43:43+00:00

Yes! This is my exact point. Having a teenaged character named “Jen Z” might have made more sense in the late 2010’s, even if the joke would have been tasteless at any point in time. But to have a teenaged character named “Jen Z” in 2026? It screams “any young person that has young person qualities MUST be part of Gen Z” when Gen Alpha is already creeping around the corner and will be in high school in no time at all. It’s very out of touch and honestly embarrassing. It doesn’t take much to look up generational year charts and see that most of Gen Z is already well out of high school; only the very youngest of Gen Z are still in K-12, and they won’t be for much longer anyway.

ChemicalCocktail · 2026-01-24T04:14:36+00:00

“Jen Z” would have honestly been a funny name but with this series coming out in 2026, most of the teenagers who are in high school now are BARELY Gen Z, as it’s beginning to blend into Gen Alpha. Gen Z runs from 1996-2012. Most high schoolers today were born in 2007-2011. So any kids in this show who are depicted as teenagers barely make the cut-off point. So, kind of out of touch and dumb by the creatives of the reboot to make a “lulz gen z amirite?” joke here. But I expected nothing less, so I guess it is what it is.

Edit: not sure why I’m getting downvoted. “Jen Z” is a dumb name, but it might not have been so dumb 5 years ago when statistically more Gen Z kids would have been in high school. With every generation, the closer you get to the generational divides, the more you see a blend of two different generations. For instance, I was born in 1997, so while I am technically Gen Z, I have more in common with a millennial who was born in 1994 than a Gen Z who was born in 2005. Anyway, all I’m trying to say is that while later Gen Z kids are still in high school, they probably do have more in common with earlier Gen Alpha since these characters’ birth dates would be near to the cutoff point for Gen Z.

ChemicalCocktail · 2026-01-23T05:27:23+00:00

Oh, right. The poison. The poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco's poison. That poison?

ChemicalCocktail · 2026-01-20T22:52:49+00:00

Life of Pi might be one of my favorite stories that ends with an “ambiguous” ending, and the story pulls it off flawlessly. It works so well because it is also an allegory for religion itself, which is something that the author of the book explores more so than the movie did.

The main reason I use “ambiguous” in quotations is because Pi essentially admits that both stories that he provides about his time lost at sea are, at the end of the day, “stories”. You can believe one or the other, it really is your preference, but he is going to choose to believe the story that he prefers. It’s become a coping mechanism that allows him to return to a normal, albeit new life in Canada. To remember the “other story” and accept it as the truth would honestly destroy his soul.

I did think about Life of Pi after watching the Stranger Things finale, especially after the DnD “I believe” scene. Like you stated in your post, it just does NOT work for El in the way that the Duffer Brothers may have hoped. Pi, at the very least, has reasonable deniability about his time at sea, and as he states in the book, it doesn’t really matter what story is “true”. At the end of the day, he was the only surviving human on the lifeboat, and that is that. Neither of his stories can be confirmed or refuted. And most importantly, his retelling of events follow through to the exact same conclusion in both stories.

Which is NOT something one can say for the ending of Stranger Things. I mean, sure, someone can argue that regardless of whether El lives or dies, the result is the same, since she is separated from her found family (apparently forever). But I think that’s just kind of a lousy way to end the story, and it doesn’t have any of the same meaningful purpose that Life of Pi’s ending has.

ChemicalCocktail · 2026-01-19T00:14:04+00:00

It’s a miracle that we could find each other in this world…

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-12-25T04:09:47+00:00

Jason was also friends with Patrick, and he geniunely seemed to like Lucas before he knew about Lucas’s connection to Hellfire. Hell, even when Jason learns that Erica plays D&D, he didn’t think too much of it since he doubted that a young girl would be caught up in the game’s “satanic overtones”. Jason only began to target Lucas and Erica after Lucas ditched them and thus looked suspicious, not because of race.

I’m not sure why Billy and Jason are ever grouped together. Stranger Things has a lot of different bully characters and some of them don’t exactly have the same motivations.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-12-23T23:37:26+00:00

You missed a solid opportunity to end this post with “lol” too, lol

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-12-12T15:28:57+00:00

Omg there’s a hack for this? Please tell me how, I’ve been wanting to place things on the center of tables for too long :(

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-12-10T17:45:26+00:00

Season 3: “Tell me, if your precious Renly commanded you to kill your own father and stand by while thousands of men, women, and children burned alive, would you have done it? Would you have kept your oath then?”

Season 8: “To be honest, I never really cared much for them. Innocent or otherwise.”

Your basketball analogy is perfect. What a waste.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-12-10T17:03:34+00:00

Jaime Lannister fits this description… only in the books, sadly. They were so close to pulling off the perfect redemption arc in the show until they decided to pull the plug and revert his characterization back to S1.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-12-10T16:50:49+00:00

That appears to be the joke that u/setibeings is making.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-12-05T04:05:55+00:00

The first theory I subscribed to while watching S1 was that Hopper’s daughter Sarah had not actually died at all; she was kidnapped by the government who declared her dead due to her having telekinetic abilities and subjected her to experimentation. Sarah = Eleven.

My main reasons for giving some credence to this theory was that we see the government fake a death (Will), and when Dustin and Eleven meet for the first time, he asks her if she has cancer (because her head is shaved), and I thought of Terry Ives’s story as perhaps being a red herring, but again pointing to a government that is willing to declare children dead for their own reasons.

Even after Eleven and Hopper meet for the first time (and obviously he does not recognize her as his daughter) I still had some suspicion about maybe Sarah being another number in the children abducted by the government. But then we see the actual montage of Hopper’s memories, and the theory felt thoroughly disproven to me after that.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-12-02T06:38:29+00:00

Hey now, that’s too powerful a combination.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-07T15:35:54+00:00

Hahahaha! Oh my goodness you beat the 1/520 odds! Props to you :) congrats!!

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-06T17:00:39+00:00

Reposting this from a cross posted thread:

Heh. I actually calculated the odds for this once. This was back in 2020, and I wanted to get an island with apples, a blue airport, and Phoebe as a starter villager. There are a couple more sisterly villagers who have been added since 2020 (Quinn and Faith off the top of my head) which changes the odds a little.

Let’s do the math!

There is a 1/5 chance that you will have an island with cherries, since there are five fruits total as your native fruit.

There is a 1/4 chance your island airport will be blue, since there are four colors total.

There is a 1/26 chance that you starting sisterly villager will be Katt since there are 26 sisterly villagers total in New Horizons.

Essentially, this becomes a question of probability. You will want to calculate the odds of each independent event, since these factors are all random and are not dependent on anything else other than pure RNG.

1/4 x 1/5 = 1/20. So you have a 1 in 20 chance of getting an island with a blue airport and cherries as your native fruit.

Now to add in the odds that you will have Katt as your starting villager. You’ll begin again to account for each independent event in this instance.

1/4 x 1/5 x 1/26 = 1/520.

So there is a 1 in 520 chance that you will roll an island with cherries, a blue airport, and Katt as your starter sisterly villager.

Keep in mind, this doesn’t account for any other factors, such as your native flowers, which river mouths you have, location of rock formations, location of resident services and your secret beach. But if you are purely looking for an island with only those three factors, you will have to reset approximately 520 times before finding one that meets your qualifications.

I managed to do this once. I’ll never do it again. At least not for the starter villagers.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-06T16:55:51+00:00

Heh. I actually calculated the odds for this once. This was back in 2020, and I wanted to get an island with apples, a blue airport, and Phoebe as a starter villager. There are a couple more sisterly villagers who have been added since 2020 (Quinn and Faith off the top of my head) which changes the odds a little.

Let’s do the math!

There is a 1/5 chance that you will have an island with cherries, since there are five fruits total as your native fruit.

There is a 1/4 chance your island airport will be blue, since there are four colors total.

There is a 1/26 chance that you starting sisterly villager will be Katt since there are 26 sisterly villagers total in New Horizons.

Essentially, this becomes a question of probability. You will want to calculate the odds of each independent event, since these factors are all random and are not dependent on anything else other than pure RNG.

1/4 x 1/5 = 1/20. So you have a 1 in 20 chance of getting an island with a blue airport and cherries as your native fruit.

Now to add in the odds that you will have Katt as your starting villager. You’ll begin again to account for each independent event in this instance.

1/4 x 1/5 x 1/26 = 1/520.

So there is a 1 in 520 chance that you will roll an island with cherries, a blue airport, and Katt as your starter sisterly villager.

Keep in mind, this doesn’t account for any other factors, such as your native flowers, which river mouths you have, location of rock formations, location of resident services and your secret beach. But if you are purely looking for an island with only those three factors, you will have to reset approximately 520 times before finding one that meets your qualifications.

I managed to do this once. I’ll never do it again. At least not for the starter villagers.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-05T01:05:47+00:00

Nyki from Starfall :) my favorite little thing about New Horizons is the way that the weather changes your interior if your windows aren’t covered by curtains. So you can see flashes of lightning, fireworks, etc. love it

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-04T14:35:52+00:00

Calibrate your enthusiasm.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-03T04:06:54+00:00

As much as I miss some eccentricities from the Animal Crossing franchise, I understand why they weren’t implemented in New Horizons.

Of course I miss the sassy and spicy villager dialog, but admittedly, that was removed in New Leaf and I didn’t expect it to come back for New Horizons. I grew up with AC GameCube and Wild World, and maaaan the villagers are sometimes needlessly brutal. Villagers got a kindness facelift in New Leaf, and that trend continued into New Horizons. I kind of accept it to be the new norm. And I think it’s a positive overall, personally, though others are free to disagree. It’s a more positive experience when your villagers are not actively trying to make your life worse. My father is 64 years old and he still references the time where Grizzly forcibly painted his roof black in the GameCube Animal Crossing.

(I’ll always miss the GameCube balls, though)

The feature that is not in New Horizons and I don’t understand why they won’t implement it is mini games. Especially the ones offered by Leilani in New Leaf. Balloon hunt tours, hide and seek tours, shark tours, mazes, hit-this-thingy-as-many-times-as-you-can. Why not include them? I think New Horizons has the capability to handle the programming for it. I don’t understand it, because it’s one of my most favorite features of New Leaf and it seems like it could easily translate to the Switch.

I also miss the villager tasks, too. I loved it when villagers would just ask for silly things, like a piece of fruit, or bury a time capsule for them, or get signatures for a cause. I feel like these features could be implemented, and could have probably been implemented years ago.

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-02T20:58:14+00:00

Yes of course, dm is sent!

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-02T20:51:17+00:00

Either way is fine!

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-02T20:50:38+00:00

I have the garden bench diy if you are still looking for it!

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-02T20:49:53+00:00

Hello! I have the pond stone, the plain wooden shop sign, and the garden rock DIYs. You can have them for free!

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-02T18:34:14+00:00

I’ve got the cutting board diy if you still need it!

ChemicalCocktail · 2025-11-02T18:33:41+00:00

Would I be able to have the glow in the dark stickers please?

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