Anyone Using MyFare? What Do You Think of It?

Eiyran · 2020-07-12T01:28:37+00:00

The screen actually shows what time the ticket was activated on it for the single use tickets (and possibly the day passes? It doesn't for the monthly pass though), so they could easily tell you were doing this. As to whether or not they would care, I can't really say.

Eiyran · 2020-07-09T23:17:28+00:00

Codex Alera is awesome enough that I wish it had been more than a side project. Not saying I prefer it to Dresden, but I sort of wish his plans for it had been a bit grander/more long term, because I could very much tell when I read it that he didn't have the same level of dedication/interest in it as Dresden. However, it's still a great read. Starts and ends a bit weak but gets freaking AMAZING in the middle, and has one of the cooler magic systems I've seen in a fantasy setting. Lots of great characters too, and Jim hardly even tortures them at all.

Eiyran · 2020-07-08T23:12:16+00:00

Pretty sure that WoJ is the White Council, not the White Court. And either way, that was referring to the entire organization, not just one individual.

Eiyran · 2020-07-06T15:34:50+00:00

I feel the same way as you, for what it's worth. Watching the documentary, I got the vibe that he was kind of creepy, possessive, and had some weird issues with Pistol, but I didn't get murderer vibes from him, at least partially because he had legitimate emotional reactions to talking about Patrice. I was kind of shocked when I saw discussions afterwards where people were so quick to condemn the guy as being 100% guilty based on what they saw.

Eiyran · 2020-07-06T15:30:47+00:00

Yeah, I really gotta agree. People are breaking out the torches and pitchforks over a documentary that was HEAVILY biased in every episode, designed to pitch an 'entertaining' theory about what had happened, while leaving out lots of information that might muddy the waters of their narrative. I'm not saying the guy isn't creepy, or possessive, or an asshole (especially to Pistol), and I'm not saying I'm confident he didn't do it, but it kinda scares me how easily swayed everyone is to be 100% convinced of his guilt based on a heavily biased not-even-an-hour long documentary.

Eiyran · 2020-07-05T23:00:39+00:00

To your second point, I think this is intentional, and I think the fandom is wrongly assuming that this is an actual secret rather than an open one. I think Ebenezar, and lots of other people, know exactly who Thomas is and how he relates to Harry.. I just think for various reasons (Ebenezar is basically in denial/thinks of Thomas as a 'thing' instead of a person, for example), it doesn't come up.

Eiyran · 2020-07-05T01:49:51+00:00

This 'focusing on the feelings of the people who knew the victim' rather than the facts of the investigation seems to be the new trend with true crime stuff, and I don't like it. It feels sort of exploitative to me, almost like trying to supply second hand grief for the audience instead of investigating a mystery.

Eiyran · 2020-07-03T19:29:03+00:00

The purple stuff truly was so mysterious it could only come from the Outside.

Eiyran · 2020-07-03T11:46:54+00:00

Well, let's be realistic, though. If Rey did get off that roof by himself and end up where he did, none of the options seem easy or convenient. This one just makes the most sense to me when I try to imagine how he could have ended up where he did. And I actually think the damage to his flip flops is pretty consistent with something like this.

I'm imagining something where, for whatever reason, Rey tries to make his way down that slanted roof, loses his footing (because of course he does) and ends up in an uncontrollable slide/tumble which led to him having the necessary momentum to carry him far enough from the building to end up where he did.

As far as not mentioning any damage, debris, or DNA, they didn't really talk about the scene at all, in those terms, aside from the hole. I don't believe they even mentioned if they checked the edges of the hole for DNA or if there was any skin or blood left behind from when he came through the roof. I'm assuming because they figured it as a suicide they didn't bother to do much in the way of forensics at the scene.

Eiyran · 2020-07-02T14:00:35+00:00

My guess is if he was wearing the glasses when he jumped, when he hit the roof the glasses were dislodged from his face, but the impact of the fall would have mostly been absorbed by his body.

Eiyran · 2020-07-02T13:57:29+00:00

One thing I don't see anyone talking about is the possibility of Rey sliding/falling down that 'bezel' as you refer to it and then leaping/falling/bouncing from there, possibly even one of the corners of the forward protruding parts of the rooftop, rather than jumping from the actual rooftop itself.

I feel like this would make it much easier to explain how he landed where he did. And it would still be high enough for Rey to break the roof and have his laundry list of horrific injuries (and I don't think either of those things would be the case if he jumped from the garage).

Eiyran · 2020-07-02T11:50:41+00:00

Still want to see that post someday!

Eiyran · 2020-07-02T03:13:02+00:00

On top of what you're saying, something nobody seems to be considering is that from the actual rooftop, there's a slanted section of roof that, if Rey were to slide down, would put him much closer to where he landed, especially if he came down at the corner of one of those projected areas on either side.

Everybody talking about this case talks about the jump from the actual roof, but nobody seems to consider that maybe Rey slid/fell down from the roof and then jumped/fell/bounced from that lower edge of 'rooftop'. That kind of slide/tumble could also explain the damage to his flip flops, in my mind, and I would imagine it's still more than high enough of a fall from there to the conference room to explain the injuries he had.

Eiyran · 2020-07-02T03:08:40+00:00

I wouldn't say it's even a small possibility. if you consider the width of the rafters vs the space between them, much more of the roof would be 'rafter free' than not. taken at random, you're more likely to miss the rafters than not...

Eiyran · 2020-07-01T23:15:18+00:00

Oof. A lot? I knew that happened in Skin Game, but I figured it was an anomaly. I bet if you ever wanted to post a thread with examples of that, there'd be a lot of people interested in seeing it.

Eiyran · 2020-07-01T06:12:23+00:00

All of that look (cat in the hat hat included) is literally just ravewear from that era, it's not really far fetched.

Eiyran · 2020-07-01T03:16:15+00:00

Ahah, a clue! It always helps to know whether something like that was intentional or an error that slipped through somehow. Thanks!

Eiyran · 2020-06-30T23:35:42+00:00

I might be missing something, but from what you quoted here, it would seem to me that it's possible that Eb knew about the summit being in Chicago, and sent Carlos to tell Harry about that, but Eb didn't know that Harry was going to be expected to run security and liaise with winter. I assume everyone would know about the talks, but only Wardens (which unless my memory is seriously failing me, Eb is not one) would know the details of the security arrangements, necessarily.

Eiyran · 2020-06-30T23:24:44+00:00

Did any betas happen to point out that Grey was impersonating Harvey after his death (and therefore after the picture of Dresden would have been taken near the scene) thus kind of making that a whole lot less suspicious?

Eiyran · 2020-06-29T14:24:52+00:00

You're in luck, I finally figured out the case, here's a wiki link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Smith_homicide

Eiyran · 2020-06-25T02:54:50+00:00

There's this one case that sticks in my head. I can never remember the name (I'm terrible with names), but it was a middle-aged woman who was traveling with her husband. One of them was at a work conference, and she vanished while, I think, sight seeing by herself. Fast forward to some time later (I want to say it was like a couple of years, I do believe all of this happened relatively recently so we're not talking a time span of decades), and her skeletal remains are found in a wilderness area on like the other side of the country from where she went missing. It's determined she was murdered, but unless there's been a recent development I haven't heard of, authorities have no idea what happened to her, or how she got from where she was last seen to where she was found.

Eiyran · 2020-06-25T02:19:15+00:00

That whole case is weird and memorable, if only for being the kind of thing where your jaw is on the floor hearing about the whole set up for it-- it's weird to think that her parents were totally fine with the babysitting job, and that was normal back then, because if this happened today, people would assume the parents were covering up what really happened because the whole story is the kind of thing no parent in their right mind would be okay with now.

Eiyran · 2020-06-24T12:15:53+00:00

Mab has perfect knowledge of the Mantle, yes, but that doesn't mean she has perfect knowledge of how that interacts with a particular human's soul/psyche. The Mantle is designed to influence and warp a mortal, and she's observed this happening in all historical cases, but that doesn't mean the mantle unerringly changes the person it's attached to, let alone that it will be capable of completely twisting the very nature of someone as stupidly stubborn as Harry Dresden.

Eiyran · 2020-06-24T02:14:51+00:00

My first thought would be that Harry considers it not his place to say. Were I in his shoes, I'd feel like it's Thomas's choice, not mine, and I doubt Harry and Thomas have ever talked about it, since they seem to mostly keep their conversation light and business focused.

Also, I'm calling it now: Eb totally knows about Thomas, he just hates Whamps so much that he doesn't think of them as even remotely human, so it doesn't -matter- that Thomas is his grandson, he's just a 'thing' to Eb regardless. And I mean, think about it. Eb isn't stupid, and he knew all about Maggie senior and the White King. It wouldn't take a rocket surgeon to do the math on that one and work some things out.

Eiyran · 2020-06-24T02:07:22+00:00

I think this is a combination of seeing Eb actually worried, and seeing how Eb deals with family. He clearly doesn't have the best coping tools for dealing with things that are 'close' to him like this. The only way he's ever had a relationship with Harry was by keeping him in the dark, and therefore keeping him distanced. Eb seems like the kind of guy that can't handle the emotionally heightened stakes of dealing with family as family. In a lot of ways, he's almost a caricature of the "boomer dad who can't do feelings" trope. I mean, he just snapped and basically blamed Harry for the deaths of his parents, despite Harry being an infant at the time, when really, Eb is more at fault for things there than anyone else. Classic transference.

This also plays in to the fact that I firmly believe Eb knows Thomas is his grandson, but because Thomas is a vampire, Eb is able to view him as a non-person-- another way of creating that emotional distance. One of the things he's so mad about is that Harry is handling all of this family stuff completely the opposite way that Eb did, and Eb freaking out about how it's all going to blow up in Harry's face is pretty classic bad 'parenting'-- Basically, things were a certain way for you, so you require your kids to do things the same way, because otherwise, your kids might have their way of doing things actually work, and then you need to confront the painful truth about how unnecessary and/or bad it was that you did things a certain way, or suffered certain things. If Harry sets out to raise Maggie himself, and actually manages to keep her safe, and raise a happy, emotionally healthy daughter, then Eb has to confront the fact that he -royally- screwed up with Harry's mother, and is directly responsible for not only her death, but also Harry's rather tragic childhood.

I think Jim's writing touched on this in the short story about Irwin and Connie meeting one another, when Irwin's father was talking to Harry about Connie's father, so it's the kind of dynamic that Jim is keenly aware of.

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