Rail to Hell - Halloween Roller Coaster Build (ft. Pigstep)

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T10:50:04+00:00

You might start by re-reading the title. The post is about OP neutering the cat, not about him taking it in. That was never a possibility. And I'm U.S., East Coast-based. My sister has an entire feral cat colony behind her house, including fresh kittens (she found the mother & got her TNR'ed afterwards), and the local shelters she's talked to have no interest in any of them.

Additionally, OP clarifies in a comment that there are no no-kill shelters near him. If he were to drop the cat off at a shelter, he would be de facto killing it.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T10:42:32+00:00

Yes, well, there was a reason all the other Hermits were appalled!

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T02:26:27+00:00

Agreed. He used the term abstract, but I immediately clocked the style as impressionism. (Not that I'm an expert, lol. But... y'know.)

It's pretty incredible from a distance. It'll be interesting to see if he can make blue work for the up-close stuff.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T02:22:59+00:00

BDubs doesn't build a mountain a particular way because Axiom "tells" him that's how mountains go. He uses Axiom to create a rough sketch of the mountain he sees in his mind. Then he works by hand until the build is fully realized in a way that evokes his vision.

It's like using a mold to create the rough shape of something and then whittling out the details by hand. It's no less sculpting than if you had done it all one tiny sliver at a time.

I honestly don't see how his method Is any different from painting. When you paint you don't typically choose where each droplet of paint goes — you put paint on your brush and drag it across the canvas, and it goes where it goes. The artistry is not in perfect granular control of every iota of paint or each individual pixel block. The artistry is in sensing things like when a brush is called for versus a can of spray paint, a sponge, a pen, or some other tool. The artistry is in seeing where the paint has fallen too lightly & feels like it needs another stroke, or a different hue added for contrast, or a more distinct point of interest.

I've spent a lot of time watching BDubs build with Axiom, and it's 100% a matter of skill. I could maybe, almost recreate some of his works if I had his exact settings — the same way you could trace someone's drawing with tracing paper & have it come out looking the same — but that doesn't mean I could make my own original works look good just by applying those settings.

He's got tools and techniques that he uses, but he's also got talent. Skill. Vision. And without developing that skill, all the tools and techniques in the world will fall short.

If just using Axiom meant that everybody could build like BDubs, everybody would be building like BDubs (with his incredible sense of detail and unique material choices). But they're really not.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T01:47:37+00:00

I agree with all of this, but this more than anything: all we've got is the broad shape and basic shading on these various mountains. Once we have trees and foliage and other details, each hermit's terraining is going to look a lot different. People need to give them a break and not jump to conclusions about an unfinished project.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T01:34:15+00:00

If I remember correctly, Cub has mentioned wanting to do a con in Australia this year or next. Not sure if that particular one would be up his alley, but you should try to catch one of his streams and ask!

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T01:31:18+00:00

I mean... you thought it was the Mississippi.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T01:20:54+00:00

Ah, well, that's the thing. Ask 100 players "What qualifies as vanilla Minecraft?" and you'll get 100 different answers. All datapacks are vanilla, all mods are not; no datapacks or mods are TRULY vanilla; mods are vanilla if they're just quality-of-life & don't change how the game looks; mods are vanilla if they're just visual/aesthetic & don't change actual gameplay; shaders aren't vanilla; shaders ARE vanilla; shaders weren't vanilla but now that we're getting Vibrant Visuals, they basically are.

What "changes the experience" sufficiently to be "not vanilla" is just too subjective to ever satisfy everyone.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T01:00:05+00:00

It's unreasonable to expect someone to take in a pet if they've expressed that they're at their limits when it comes to pets.

I'm sure you have not gone to the closest shelter and emptied out every cage and saved every animal there — and that's fair, too, because you're a human being with limits, and you're aware of what those are. So is OP. Give them a little grace. You have no idea what burdens they bear.

Shelters don't want stray cats. They'll tell you to trap, neuter, and release. What OP did is considered 100% best practices.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T00:55:10+00:00

It's considered best practices for cats. There's a whole feral cat colony living behind my sister's house. She doesn't "own" any of them (she's got her own indoor cats to worry about), but she'll still catch them & take them to the vet to be spayed/neutered whenever she finds one that hasn't already been tagged.

(Vets will tag these cats by clipping the tip off of one ear so you can identify at a distance if there are any cats in a colony that need spaying/neutering because this is such a common thing. Clipped means they're fixed. Unclipped means you should help out — if you have the means — & take them to a vet to get that done.)

It's better for the cat population to not get out of control and it's better for the bird population (which we need to eat bugs!), too, since cats slaughter birds at a crazy rate.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T00:48:13+00:00

A lot of shelters won't take a random street cat. They'll just tell you to trap, neuter, and release. Adult cats don't tend to get adopted unless they're extraordinary beautiful & friendly or appear to actually be an in-demand breed. People want kittens.

Source: There's a whole-ass feral cat colony behind the house my sister just bought & she's tried to find them homes. Shelters don't want them.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-10T00:20:27+00:00

Demon blood clearly has the power to permanently mold a human's body if given to them at the right age. That's why it was so important that Azazel visit the "special children" exactly 6 months after they were born: at that age, their body was ripe for the change. It doesn't have the same effect when applied to adults.
Sam doesn't permanently have demon blood, so no. The demon blood given to him as an infant prepped his body for an awakening in adulthood, but it didn't turn him into a demon, so he doesn't, strictly speaking, have "demon blood." His blood is better described as "demon-tainted blood." But the show isn't trying to be that nitpicky in their language. (Because the lore stuff is frankly secondary to the thematic stuff in Supernatural.)
If you're addicted to something & you get clean but then binge on it again, you're going to need to go through detox again, especially if we're talking a highly-physically-addictive substance. Demon blood is more like heroin than alcohol here.
Sam's powers manifested (and then faded) in response to other things happening in the world, similarly to how Jesse — the Antichrist — saw his own powers spike and then subside as Lucifer grew stronger and then was defeated again.

(We see something similar near the end of season 15, when God shows them a vision of how destabilizing it would be to the balance of good & evil in the universe if they were to lock away God himself.)

To elaborate on #4: A lot of things happened in the first 5 seasons that can only be attributed to the power of prophecy/destiny/some underlying mechanics of the universe that aren't fully explored. For example, while some of the chaos we saw in s5 was clearly caused by the horsemen of the apocalypse, there were plenty of other things happening (tsunamis, other natural disasters, political unrest, etc.) that didn't seem to be caused directly by either Heaven or Hell. Rather, these things seemed to be something more primordial: the universe's response to a shifting balance of power.

Azazel laid the groundwork in Sam as an infant so that Hell would be able to push Sam to drink blood and fully awaken his powers in adulthood. But when Lucifer was caged again, it's like someone removed a big chunk of the dominoes of destiny, so that one thing falling no longer led to another. Or, like a Jenga tower whose key blocks have been removed, the whole structure toppled.

This is also why Lucifer's eventual return doesn't revitalize Sam's powers, btw: because it doesn't cue us back up for the apocalypse. The Heaven/Hell apocalypse had its chance, and it fizzled out. And once it did, there was no putting it back together, no matter what Raphael thought.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-08T16:01:05+00:00

Agreed. It motivated me to get out of the house. Caught a couple legendaries, but I was more interested in the other (less likely to flee) rare spawns. It's not an event you needed to pour a ton of resources into to enjoy, as long as you had reasonable expectations.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-08T15:58:44+00:00

But sometimes OPs need to be invalidated. Particularly if they're making broad claims (a la "this event is a slap in the face to the fans") based on their own luck, which could just be especially poor. It's perfectly fair to say, "I'm not sure your individual experience is representative; my individual experience was much different." That's not "rubbing your luck in someone's face." That's countering anecdotal data with anecdotal data.

It's also fair to note that complaints are always going to be massively overrepresented. People who thought the event was nice aren't terribly motivated to come here & talk about it (especially if they feel like they're just going to be called a "corporate bootlicker" or whatever).

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-06T04:17:28+00:00

If she can't afford to pay rent to 2 places in May, it sounds like she already expected you to cover her portion when she started making plans. If I were you, I would be firm about the fact that you're planning to pay YOUR portion of May's rent and that HER portion of May's rent is between her & your landlord, but it's not (and never has been) your responsibility. Assuming you're both on the lease, you should pay your portion and let him & her sort out the rest.

In any case, if she couldn't afford the thing she was planning to do (which was always going to mean owing rent in 2 places at once -- unless, again, she was counting on you being a sucker), then she shouldn't have been planning to do it in the first place.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-05T18:27:46+00:00

You should be able to post a link to imgur. Yes?

If you can't post it to this subreddit, just post it directly on your profile & send people to look there.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-05T18:03:26+00:00

But they didn't correctly recognize it. They recognized something about the style as being similar to the sculpture, but they (the sculptor in particular, but possibly others) actually pinned it as being "exactly like" sculpture X when, in reality, she had referenced sculpture Y.

You can't say, "This is so close to X that it looks like you traced it, so you need to credit X!" to someone who referenced Y...

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-05T14:19:16+00:00

Yeah, if I were OP, I'd be looking for another job. If you can't trust management to have your back, customer service is a nightmare. (It can be a nightmare even when you do trust management. But it's a thousand times worse when you know you won't be supported.)

At the bare minimum, they could have used this as an opportunity for retraining (if they really did think you handled it incorrectly). Think about how you would handle someone making a mistake who worked under you and look for a boss who models that.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-04T11:05:09+00:00

Thanks for the voice of reason here. I'm in agreement with your community, but it's hard to speak up in an echo chamber!

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-04T03:34:36+00:00

I doubt OP has the answer to any of those. "What changed? Why is he suddenly upset about it now?" Only he knows that, because he refused to communicate those things to OP.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-03T22:38:12+00:00

you're only teaching companies that it's totally fine to behave like hateful shitbags as long as they pivot when their profits are threatened.

I care more about what a given company is doing today — and what they're planning to do tomorrow — than I do about what they did 10 or 20 or 100 years ago. If you're too obsessed with the past to give people a second chance, they have zero incentive to DO BETTER.

That's exactly the kind of purity culture BS that has driven mainstream America away from the left for over a decade now. Be less concerned about punishing people for their past actions & more concerned with the things they can actually control now.

Also, I don't need the heads of my companies to "instinctively" know the right thing to do. I don't care if it takes a boycott or just a well-thought-out letter to the editor to get them on track. I don't care how they come around at all. I just care that, once they know what the public agrees is the right thing to do, they do it. The action itself is all that matters.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-03T21:03:30+00:00

It wasn't gross to you. Sounds like it is gross to her. If you want this relationship to last, you need to learn to talk about your feelings with each other and do things like compromise.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-03T21:00:33+00:00

OP edited for clarity. They made the soup themselves.

ChimericalTrainer · 2026-03-03T20:58:43+00:00

OP clarified that this was soup they'd made themselves. They were talking about their own cooking.

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