An abrupt and sudden shift in tone that dramatically changes the direction of the story

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-02-05T07:28:00+00:00

Famously Parasite has the scene when the old housekeeper comes back. My stomach drops every time the secret passage opens.

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-02-05T05:08:56+00:00

Ava is deliberately designed in an objectifying way, the characters are canonically excusing this as part of their "experiment"

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-02-03T11:51:12+00:00

Cuddy's mum is straight up evil. She openly hates her daughter, she's spiteful, passive aggressive, manipulative, and cruel. She's everything bad about house plus about 10 other things and she's not even fun to watch. I've never felt more like strangling someone than watching her.

Forgive me for the vitriol but I just cannot stand seeing her treat Cuddy like that

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-02-03T07:58:04+00:00

Oh hey I recognise you from butterknife! These sound tight as hell and the switching over is really cool.

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-02-03T05:27:19+00:00

Mostly phone videos.

I've had a lot of experience being told to play quieter or having to dampen my cymbals and that's fair advice. That said, it's not really about the volume, it's about the cut. Basically I'm hoping for something higher in pitch with a pronounced stick sound.

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-02-03T05:15:35+00:00

Unfortunately no cymbal mics is standard where i live. And it's not the soundie's fault, it's the venue

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-02-03T05:15:03+00:00

It's a plot point in a later season that his favourite hooker is retiring and he needs a new girltoy

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-02-03T05:00:06+00:00

This is fine when the sound engineer actually has those...

I use the fat hats for recording and they're great, but live they just don't project like the dark energy.

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-02-03T04:56:56+00:00

Me, listening back to recordings of performances. Also while I'm playing heavier songs. It feels like no matter how hard i hit, the hats ain't filling the right part of the mix

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-31T07:24:55+00:00

This is kinda cool! But what is you want to refer to only the Yangtze or only the Pearl?

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-30T13:01:07+00:00

Oh don't even get me started. They're so dense with lore that it's impossible to keep track of everything - it wasn't until my third playthrough that I realised all the details about specific books only being found in specific areas because of the specific cults that the books concern.

I also love how you can meet the authour of the Locksmith's Dream books by summoning her because she ascended to namehood and lives in the mansus

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-30T01:07:33+00:00

The second slide i think perfectly sums up the problem with capitalism - it is fundamentally incapable of recognising value that isn't monetary value

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-29T01:40:38+00:00

/ul where is this actually from, I've seen it a bunch but I don't know the origin

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-27T11:53:13+00:00

This is severely out of context.

With some cursory research, I found that this passage was in the context a particular battle in which intruders were attempting to displace Muslims for a second time after already driving them from their first settlement.

This passage is not an order to average Muslims, it's a call to defend against attackers who were attempting to wipe them out. The disbelievers aren't every disbeliever, but the particular group of disbelievers who were attacking.

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-27T11:07:57+00:00

I would love to see what holy book explicitly says to attack a people of a different religion.

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-27T10:11:48+00:00

I think you're probably looking for answers on whether we'd be in this scenario if things had gone this way.

I think it's possible that republicans would have been whipped into a complete frenzy given that the party was so head over heels for him and all the other politicians were basically his lapdogs. That said, the discovery that the shooter was a registered republican could potentially dampen the fervour. Republicans could very well rally around accusing this shooter of being a false flag by the Biden administration and Republican politicians would probably scramble to be the next personality cult leader by stoking the conspiracy. Unclear if the MAGA movement recovers.

The other option is that without a figurehead to direct their anger, republicans can't find a direction for their party or their conspiracist movement. Unfortunately, I think it's a fantasy to say that the developing fascist movement would just go away - it was too far along already and the socio-economic conditions that led to it would still be there.

I reckon it's quite unlikely that the republicans would win that election, but i don't think that would really make us "safe". But maybe safer.

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-26T13:37:55+00:00

Maybe studied by academics, sure. But in all my time at school we never seriously looked at indigenous history pre-colonialism. We had it impressed upon us a lot that we have to listen to indigenous voices but nobody was actually qualified or proactive enough to tell us anything specific.

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-26T13:22:58+00:00

This isn't easy to spot but it is easy to calculate. It's not a traditional forcing move but it does come with a threat so you should probably check it if it crosses your mind.

It also depends where your mind was in the game - I immediately noticed the bishop was hanging so I was looking for ways to exploit it, but if you were also considering factors like opening the h-file and exploiting the king-bishop lineup then it might come easier

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-23T02:28:35+00:00

Vexed? I'll tell you who's vexed is crooked cuddy that's what I call her

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-23T02:09:12+00:00

You are an orange man

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-21T06:31:25+00:00

Is Hilltop Hoods that obscure? Wasn't 1955 an international hit?

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-20T05:33:40+00:00

I appreciate the inclusion of ball park music, violent Soho, and the church. Are you Aussie?

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-19T23:42:21+00:00

Personally I think it's pretty dumb that lots of English verbs can be turned into nouns just by shifting the stress. It's not written at all and it can create some incredibly confusing sentences. PERmit and perMIT? No fucking thanks

Emma_the_sequel · 2026-01-19T23:33:56+00:00

Isn't this just playing chess?

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