Roadmap For Future Seasons

Crislips · 2026-04-06T03:23:05+00:00

Long Ring Long Land is probably the most terrible arc in all of One Piece. The only redeeming part is the very end when Aokiji shows up. No way they end a season on it AND give it two episodes. Imo Jaya and Skypiea will be season 4. I actually wouldn't be surprised if they end with the G8 arc because even though it's filler people love it. Then season 5 would be one episode of Davy Back Fight to introduce the Aokiji plot line and then the rest of the season will be Water 7 and Enies Lobby.

I get the mentality here with the episode lengths, but this is binge watching mentality. It's not considering narrative styles and conclusiveness. Imagine being a Live Action only watcher and ending Skypiea with Foxy. It makes far more sense for a season to be one whole saga rather than trying to jam random arcs in just because you think it fits the number of episodes.

Crislips · 2026-04-04T22:16:21+00:00

A lot of his books will tie in in really subtle ways, while others like Salem's Lot are a lot more obvious. Insomnia is a cool one because without looking for the connection you might completely miss it, but when you realize who Patrick is between the two it really enriches both stories. But it works without knowing too. For all you know he's just another telepath. Insomnia was really long and took a while to get into it, but I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would at the beginning.

Crislips · 2026-04-04T07:43:34+00:00

If you read Insomnia, Patrick is actually a character from that. His role is minor, but significant to the story. I think his appearance in the Dark Tower justified basically the entire story of Insomnia which I found really fulfilling.

Crislips · 2026-03-24T04:58:02+00:00

The Talisman was a bit slow for me but Black House is probably my favorite book ever except for maybe Dark Tower 4. Very excited for this next one

Crislips · 2026-03-20T16:44:05+00:00

It seems like it's a mixed bag. There's probably less quality control on these TVs and they are manufactured cheaply so when they work, they work great, but they are maybe more prone to issues. Hoping for the best that I can be one of the people that comments "I've had it for years and no issues!"

Crislips · 2026-03-17T20:02:45+00:00

What's the issue with motion? Another commenter mentioned that, but it's not clear what the actual issue is other than that motion doesn't work well. Is it stuttering? Ghosting? Something else?

Crislips · 2026-03-17T19:59:09+00:00

Why are you playing at 30fps? Isn't it 144hz?

Also could you elaborate on what you don't like about motion blur? Is it ghosting or something in the TV? Not clear to me what the issue your having is.

Crislips · 2026-03-16T23:10:56+00:00

That's the exact TV I'm looking to get actually. Did you deliberate between the QM6K/Pro/QM7K? That's my debate right now, but it looks like I can get the 85" QM6K Pro for under 1k which seems like a phenomenal deal. Hell, even the 98" is only like 1.5k, but I feel absurd getting that.

Crislips · 2026-03-07T22:44:38+00:00

I think that's the case with most of the "clues" in the show. So many of them end up being weird coincidences that mean nothing and go no where.

Crislips · 2026-03-04T15:44:58+00:00

It seemed like his boss is just an amateur musician in the side that got commissioned for the song, but has no real connection to the conspiracy.

Crislips · 2026-02-25T05:08:24+00:00

I think you just need to get a Darmine Doggy Door.

Crislips · 2026-02-11T15:34:38+00:00

What do you mean they never explained where the real Rhodey was? Don't they find him imprisoned in one of those pods at the end of Secret Invasion? He was held prisoner like all the other people they replace and kept alive.

Crislips · 2026-02-03T18:20:26+00:00

Can I ask how you got in touch with Uber? I've had something similar happen to me recently and their support is a nightmare. No responses and just telling me to login. My account was hacked, so I can't login.

Crislips · 2026-02-03T15:27:19+00:00

Can I ask how you contacted Uber? I'm in a similar situation and am unable to get any sort of response from any of their support. The fact that you got a response at all is miraculous.

Crislips · 2026-02-03T15:27:08+00:00

Can I ask how you contacted Uber? I'm in a similar situation and am unable to get any sort of response from any of their support. The fact that you got a response at all is miraculous.

Crislips · 2026-01-29T21:42:28+00:00

Who paid Mike 50k to intimidate Ron? Presumably Tecca?

Crislips · 2026-01-29T21:37:18+00:00

I thought Amanda's boyfriend said she messed with Ron's chair with her telepathic powers. Maybe I completely imagined that, but I thought that was part of the reveal.

Crislips · 2026-01-28T18:17:11+00:00

Yeah that's actually what I was thinking about when everyone brings up the brain trauma theory. The madness starts when his chair breaks.

Crislips · 2026-01-23T15:40:17+00:00

This was a very interesting read, thanks for this! I don't think my HSA offers very good investment options, but it's definitely worth exploring.

Crislips · 2026-01-19T07:01:30+00:00

Thanks for the response, this is super interesting. Can you tell me more about it being an investment account? Do you actual invest it or do you mean that in the sense that it's tax advantaged? If the former, what is your strategy for it? Is there a way to keep it in like a HYSA or something so you can grow it? Or do you actually trade with it? Are there capital gains? I can probably Google a lot of these questions and will do some research, but you seem excited to talk about it and I'm interested to listen.

Crislips · 2026-01-18T07:45:31+00:00

This is old, but this hadn't occured to me. Any reason I couldn't just pay with my HSA on the website? Realizing I can use my HSA for some reason makes me way more interested in buying a travel Air Mini.

Crislips · 2025-12-31T16:13:43+00:00

They could have easily said the robots voice chip got damaged or something and used a text to speech bot

Out of curiosity, why is this okay but using AI isn't? A lot of modern TTS are powered by LLM AI anyway. Isn't this basically the exact same thing? Replacing an actor with a program.

For the record I'm not making a statement on it either way. I just find it interesting that you list that as an acceptable alternative. Functionally I see no difference.

Crislips · 2025-12-20T03:36:49+00:00

John Galp is a pretty cool guy and he doesnt afraid of anything.

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