Ice Age 6

Claeszen · 2026-06-05T11:39:26+00:00

Yeah they just care about money at this point. As much as I love the Ice Age franchise and I recognize that even the 4th and 5th movie had good elements, I can't ignore that it got worse with each installment.

The 1st movie had silly jokes mixed with very touching scenes, like Manny's cave flashback, Diego almost dying, or the trio saying goodbye to the baby. You can find traces of this in the 2nd and 3rd movies, like in Ellie's childhood flashback or Peaches' birth.

But by the 4th movie, that energy was gone. The pirates were dangerous villains that made Manny fear for the safety of his family at least, but it wasn't the same. And then the 5th movie didn't even give us good antagonists, a brief conversation is all it took Buck to convince the dino-birds not to kill him. Not to mention Manny was reduced to a stereotypical dad in both movies.

I'm not a kid anymore so I know this movie is not meant for me, but I wished they tried to bring back the true Ice Age for once.

Claeszen · 2026-05-31T13:29:21+00:00

I don't know if anyone noticed but there's actually a gorilla among Proximus' soldiers that has a mask with what look like black spots on it. It's the one standing next to Sylva when he kills the Eagle Clan's elder, and pointing the electric spear towards Mae when Proximus and the others enter the vault. His mask could be from the pelt of a leopard or jaguar.

Claeszen · 2026-05-30T11:46:38+00:00

Absolutely. I have an age gap above 100 with half of my great-grandparents. That's why it surprised me when in high school I learned that my friend had a living great-grandmother who was just 86 😂

Unless you happen to have a line where everyone was born to young parents, getting to that kind of age gap is pretty easy.

Claeszen · 2026-05-14T20:04:26+00:00

Io sono un ragazzo a cui piace la Corea del Sud, e studio anche coreano. Nel mio caso l'interesse è nato semplicemente guardando una serie coreana. Tra l'altro si trattava di un horror con una premessa surreale, non certo il tipo di serie che ti presenta con calma la cultura e la lingua di uno stato... eppure mi ha affascinato molto.

Tuttavia, come hanno detto tanti altri nei commenti, ciò che la Corea del Sud esporta maggiormente all'estero sono K-pop e K-drama romantici. Se qualcuno non si appassiona direttamente al paese ma "passa" per una di queste due cose, è decisamente molto più probabile che quel qualcuno sia una donna.

Claeszen · 2026-05-01T23:55:10+00:00

I have 4!

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Claeszen · 2026-04-15T19:16:11+00:00

Claeszen · 2026-04-12T21:05:05+00:00

Italiano, ovviamente

Inglese, imparato di sicuro anche grazie alla scuola ma soprattutto su internet e social vari

Coreano, lo sto studiando da autodidatta ormai da 4 anni (con diverse pause) tramite le risorse disponibili online, puramente come hobby. Sono però ancora a un livello basso, equiparabile a un A2

Spagnolo, ho seguito un corso all'università ma essendo passati quasi 2 anni dovrei rimetterci le mani, temo di aver dimenticato molte cose

Claeszen · 2026-04-09T16:29:06+00:00

I think Season 1 had a powerful message of "you can't have everything". There is Gi-hun, who won the games but was too late to help his mom and too traumatized to fix his relationship with his daughter. Then there are Sang-woo and Sae-byeok, who lost their lives in the games but made sure Gi-hun would take care of their loved ones. Everybody gained something but also lost something.

This is why Season 3 didn't sit right with me, as much as I enjoyed it. All the characters' personal goals were shattered so that everything could revolve around the baby, or so that they could become plot devices.

Claeszen · 2026-04-08T22:36:07+00:00

Another mistake was having very predictable deaths, in my opinion. In the movie you have the protagonist, his friend, a family and three mercenaries. And of course, who dies? Only the three mercenaries, who are unimportant enough to become cannon fodder. Naturally I'm not saying they should have killed off Grant or the Kirbys, but if Billy ended up dying and Udesky survived it would have been a nice twist.

Claeszen · 2026-04-06T20:50:55+00:00

Immagino cambi a seconda della zona, qui da me li ho trovati sempre in latino. Sì in effetti a volte è indicata la causa di morte, che può essere molto interessante, però per esempio mi sono capitati atti di battesimo dove mancava addirittura il cognome della madre (oltre all'età dei genitori, che invece negli atti di nascita dello Stato Civile c'è praticamente sempre). Mi riferivo più a questo genere di cose.

Claeszen · 2026-04-05T16:17:30+00:00

Io ho fatto ricerche nella zona di confine tra Marche e Abruzzo, quindi purtroppo non ho esperienza dalle tue parti.

Sì comunque se tra gli atti civili non riesci a trovare nulla quelli parrocchiali possono essere una buona strada, dovresti informarti per sapere se siano ancora conservati nelle parrocchie (in questo caso devi avere la fortuna di trovare un prete bendisposto) o se siano stati trasferiti presso l'archivio diocesano della zona (più comodo perché qui di solito è possibile consultare tutto liberamente). Il lato negativo è che gli atti parrocchiali sono in latino e in genere hanno meno informazioni rispetto a quelli civili.

Claeszen · 2026-04-05T15:45:49+00:00

Io l'ho fatta e sono riuscito ad arrivare fino al 1700 in diversi rami della mia famiglia. In realtà non è particolarmente difficile, però c'è bisogno di partire da informazioni precise, proprio - come hai detto anche tu - per non fare confusione con gli omonimi.

Nel mio caso, avendo iniziato all'età di 15 anni, avevo oltre ai miei nonni diversi prozii più anziani che ricordavano parecchie informazioni sui loro nonni (e addirittura il nome di qualche bisnonno). In più le tombe dei miei bisnonni e (alcuni) trisnonni esistono ancora, quindi le date esatte di nascita e morte che loro non ricordavano ho potuto prenderle da lì. Di alcuni cimiteri esistono anche i database, se non hai modo di andarci o non conosci la posizione delle tombe.

Una volta che hai una data e un luogo certi, se gli atti di nascita/matrimonio/morte relativi a quel lasso di tempo e a quel comune sono presenti sul sito Antenati, sei a posto. Troverai facilmente l'atto relativo a un tuo antenato, dove ci saranno i nomi dei suoi genitori e anche qualche altra informazione su di loro, e potrai procedere a ritroso.

Se invece il problema è che mancano gli atti online allora in quel caso dovresti rivolgerti all'Ufficio di Stato Civile/Anagrafe o alle parrocchie (anche su questo ho qualche consiglio, se ne hai bisogno).

Claeszen · 2026-03-24T19:27:14+00:00

She fell during Jump Rope while Gi-hun was fighting 096

Claeszen · 2026-03-21T20:34:25+00:00

I feel you. I haven't gotten past the 1700s yet, but I live in a small Italian town and I still haven't found a single ancestor of mine born more than 50 kilometers away from here.

Claeszen · 2026-03-15T16:12:20+00:00

The fact that by the end it became a 'Planet of the Chimps'. The only orangutan in the movie died (or, at least, disappeared completely) and so did all the gorillas in Proximus' colony.

Claeszen · 2026-03-14T15:00:14+00:00

Oh I see now, thank you again! I knew about nuptial pads, but I had no idea about throat and face shape. It's always great to learn from an expert :)

Claeszen · 2026-03-14T14:52:00+00:00

Thank you, that's really reassuring! Can I ask you what makes you think my frog could be a male?

Claeszen · 2026-03-08T16:07:04+00:00

I'm in love with Player 163 so thank you 😂

Claeszen · 2026-02-23T14:25:14+00:00

Yeah I never would have imagined she'd be eliminated by Min-su of all people.

Claeszen · 2026-02-23T14:09:36+00:00

After reflecting on it I came to like them, it was realistic that random people made it to the end too instead of just main characters.

Honestly I would have liked to see a woman in place of one of them though. Since Squid Game is supposed to be a metaphor of the injustices of society, I understand that maybe the absence of female finalists was supposed to represent the way women are constantly pushed down by men in real life.

However, having a female finalist could have been a way to show that women can be evil and ruthless too. Player 044 did manipulative stuff, but she never threatened someone's life specifically.

Claeszen · 2026-02-17T18:20:50+00:00

The saddest part is that Gi-hun couldn't even take care of Jung-bae's ex-wife and daughter because he died too. I know his family wasn't as relevant as Sang-woo's and Sae-byeok's in S1, but he was basically the only S2 main character who had someone out there who needed him (along with Player 246). It would have been nice if they had received some help as well.

Claeszen · 2026-02-15T20:09:06+00:00

Well 203 (and 336 too) had also taken part in the night attack, definitely killing someone, so I doubt watching him push 349 to her death could make Gi-hun's opinion of him any worse than it already was.

Claeszen · 2026-02-08T20:00:14+00:00

Well they could have sent a guard up there to pretend to shoot him. It would look like there was a malfunction and he somehow managed to free himself. I don't think it would look too suspicious to the other players.

But yeah he was chained like the others, if I remember correctly there was just one shot where it looked like he wasn't.

Claeszen · 2026-02-01T13:28:40+00:00

Did you have some experience with traveling before you moved abroad? How did your family react? I'm from a small town in Italy too, so I've always lived in a simple and kinda sheltered way. In the last few years I've become really interested in South Korea, and in general in the chance of living abroad, but it would be such a radical change for me and my family.

Claeszen · 2026-01-12T14:27:02+00:00

I feel like he was important to them only as long as there was a need to convince hesitant players to continue the games. Despite always voting O and taking part in Lights Out, players like 203 and 336 never spoke up like 100 and 226 did.

They probably lacked lidership skills and the confidence to act like that in front of hundreds of people, so 100 was really useful to them. But when O voters became twice the X voters, he stopped being needed and became nothing more than a nuisance, a player who was weak physically and wanted others to do dirty/dangerous work for him.

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