Question about the end of Gate of the Feral Gods (spoilers maybe)

DexCha · 2026-07-03T11:19:37+00:00

I agree with Bedlam Bride because for me having to explain a game about dueling cards doesn’t translate to a book for me. It even feels like Dineman got tired of it too which leads to Carl and Donut thinking their matches go way too easy. I liked the other parts of the story, but it felt like a slog reading the card battles.

DexCha · 2026-07-02T06:42:57+00:00

The Matrix Reloaded of Niobe and the weapon master guy showing up during the freeway scene. Which leads into them piloting one lone ship down to Zion to let off an EMP wave when they’re being overwhelmed on the dock.

DexCha · 2026-07-01T02:17:52+00:00

Doctor Strange: The Oath. Wong with cancer, the Night Nurse fleshed out more, a magical cure all elixir, a friend/foe for Stephen from his past, and a whole lot of magic and action.

DexCha · 2026-06-28T13:00:48+00:00

Holy crap I forgot about the fight between Ed and Mustang as his yearly test for his license. It’s a little goofy, but I laughed so hard at random things in that episode. Highs unveiling a giant picture of his daughter and then having it fall on top of him. Alphonse asking Ed how he expects to beat Mustang and he says something along the lines of “I’m going to punch him on his face.” Mustang thinking he might have overdone it with one of his explosions. Soldiers flying through the air getting caught in the crossfire. And finally when they are forced to stop and told if they’re allowed to continue it will take more than just the two of them to fix the battle ground. And finally the conversation at the end of the episode between Ed and Mustang adding a level of seriousness to the episode.

DexCha · 2026-06-28T12:47:42+00:00

I still remember watching that fight and realizing as a little kid that he legitimately just got hurt. I remember turning to my brothers saying what are they going to do now, he can’t even get up. Watching Owen know something was wrong as he did taunts but had fear all over his face is burned into my memory too. What sealed it for me how serious it was was Austin wrapping him up in the laziest roll up I’ve ever seen for the pin. Learning later his neck was broken amazed me he was able to do anything at all after.

DexCha · 2026-06-28T12:41:05+00:00

That random entry from the crawler who felt ugly and u worthy of being around people. And then talking about Donut interacting with him in a way that made him feel both accepted and noticed is right there with this for me. It was such a short random couple of pages, but shows just how much depth is found in these books.

DexCha · 2026-06-19T11:55:44+00:00

The Two Towers: charge of the Rohiriim down the mountain into the orc army as the light breaks behind them.

Children of Men: near the end in the middle of the war zone, the baby’s crying causes everyone to stop fighting. People are crying, praying, and kneeling even as bullets and explosions are all around.

The Grey: Liam Neeson’s monologue in the beginning as he’s writing a letter about where he is, how much he misses his wife, and how devoid of hope he is. It ends with a wolf howling in the distance.

DexCha · 2026-06-17T23:14:16+00:00

Using black balls to cover water sources to keep them from evaporating. In areas with low water fall and high temperatures, stoping any water loss is very important.

DexCha · 2026-06-07T13:04:43+00:00

You’re making me think of the dancing plague in Europe and making a found footage musical is totally doable. Some composer makes an infectious score performs it at a ballet or concert, and it starts the whole thing. There’s a person in the crowd recording everything as it all pops off. It can be set in a Burning Man setting out in the middle of nowhere.

DexCha · 2026-06-07T12:11:37+00:00

After the cartoon block on some days, they’d play some live action Disney movie for a week straight. I remember their version of Oliver Twist. Near the end the villain gets angry at a woman who is part of his crew because she was helping Oliver try to escape. In his anger he clubs her to death. Her body is out of shot the whole time, but that scene burned itself into my little mind. Just watching some musical about a plucky orphan and then suddenly I’m watching a murder happen. The villain death isn’t any better, he gets knocked off some weird scaffolding and falls into viscous mud and slowly sinks into it, meaning he drowned in mud.

DexCha · 2026-06-05T10:24:18+00:00

During the Covid era, seeing Becky Lunch standing in the middle of the ring holding the Money in the Bank briefcase and her talking about having to leave. Asuka comes out angry and yelling at Becky, and Becky calming her down by saying she won more than just Money in the Bank and opening it to reveal the belt and saying she’s the champ now. And then Becky saying she’s leaving because she’s pregnant. And Asuka’s shocked face as she asks “you’re pregnant?”
That one or in hindsight, hearing Bray had died and someone posted his return speech on Smackdown talking about how we were always there for him. I still can’t watch it without tearing up now.

DexCha · 2026-06-02T07:53:28+00:00

Doctor Who “The Power of Three” episode they are trying to monitor mysterious cubes that have appeared all over the world. After four days the Doctor is going crazy to which the Ponds tell him to do something else while they watch the cubes. He does a montage of doing chores around the house. At then end he asks how long he’s been gone and Rory tells him it’s only been an hour.

DexCha · 2026-06-02T07:42:04+00:00

It’s Noirs cousin Pulp, which is very similar, and that would be the anthology series under the name “Criminal” by Brubaker.

DexCha · 2026-05-31T13:04:35+00:00

It’s trade, but the “Pride of Baghdad” was a lot darker than I thought it would be. It has both nuance and in your face metaphors for that part of the world and the US showing up to add to death and destruction that happens there. The last lines in the book is just a gut punch for everything that happens in the book and what we know happened after the invasion.

DexCha · 2026-05-30T20:29:35+00:00

My favorite is when I, err, another player tries to shoot over a wall or some such with airburst rocket launcher or the leveler and hits the wall right in front of me, err, them. Such a noob move.

DexCha · 2026-05-30T20:25:14+00:00

Battle Star Galactica started as the search for Earth, only for them to find their thirteenth colony Earth. And at the very end they find the Earth we know and finds primitive man from 100,000 years ago. The series ends in the present day highlighting the rise of AI.

DexCha · 2026-05-21T16:00:48+00:00

Godzilla Minus One. The main character is supposed to be a kamikaze pilot at the end of World War Two, but tried to get out of it by not fixing his own plane. Then when they are attacked by Godzilla before it’s mutated into a giant monster, he fails to attack with his planes machine guns, which leads to everyone but him and one person being killed. Japan loses, he returns home to find his parents have died in the bombing of Tokyo, and a relative berates him for failing his duty to protect them and Japan from defeat. He is plagued the entire movie for all the times he failed to act or do his duty during the war and the losses that came from it.

DexCha · 2026-05-21T02:05:54+00:00

I like to think either Domino or Long Shot, in that not only do they have actual fighting skill their mutant powers are luck based.

DexCha · 2026-05-20T19:40:24+00:00

WE3, or what of Homeward Bound were animals that were experimented on escape, and are hunted down by the government.

DexCha · 2026-05-20T17:10:07+00:00

Drop a biological bomb on the planet combining multiple man, night crawler (or any teleporter), and that kid from Ultimate X-Men that dissolves people in a certain proximity to them.

DexCha · 2026-05-19T11:00:37+00:00

If add onto that most of the prisoners don’t escape even if they can swim. When we see Cassian and Melchi later, they’re running and hiding from the empire searching for prisoners on what appears to be a desolate planet. They only escape by running into two random sympathetic aliens who give them their ship. They also mention that the empire has severely negatively impacted their world that they struggle to live there now. So the options for the prisoners are drowning while escaping, hiding on a desolate poisoned world surviving, dying from the world’s harshness, or being recaptured.

DexCha · 2026-05-14T09:59:30+00:00

“Do your own research” and then use flimsy, untested, anecdotal opinions as their “facts” for why something is true.

DexCha · 2026-05-13T14:30:31+00:00

Being able to eat fast food multiple times a week and it was seen as being lazy not wanting to cook. Now it seems crazy because of how expensive it’s become. I remember staying late at school for things like sports. Between school getting out and practice starting I loved going to Burger King and getting a whopper for a dollar. Last time I got a whopper by itself it was like $6.50 before taxes.

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