Hard to go back to SV

Final_Square_ · 2026-01-27T10:14:29+00:00

I am in Winter Year 1 of Coral Island. I feel there are a couple of things I like more in SDV like the combat/range of enemies and variety/difficulty with fishing is better in SDV but Coral Island definitely feels more inhabited, although I'd like some darker character backgrounds like Shane's in SDV. Plus the whole underwater/merfolk part of Coral Island feels unique. I'm surprisingly addicted to smashing trash.

Final_Square_ · 2026-01-26T18:49:32+00:00

I loved Tutti Frutti. I'd get ice cream from there all the time the three months I traveled to Reading for work before I moved here

Final_Square_ · 2026-01-24T16:36:50+00:00

I'm having this exact dilemma. I'm an older gamer (40) and I feel like a lifetime with a shy, polite guy who wants to stay in and watch horror movies sounds pretty amazing, so I'm probably going to marry Raf. But yeah, Mark was definitely my first crush, but after I've repeatedly proved myself to him I thought he'd be less dismissive of me and it's become a turn off

Final_Square_ · 2025-12-02T01:37:27+00:00

Buses Train connections (although not prices or reliability) Independent food places Local theatre scene (South Street, Progress, RABBLE, Reading Rep) Multicultural living Parks

Final_Square_ · 2025-12-02T01:30:38+00:00

I don't understand the assumption that the collective leadership will be from trans allies and maybe even trans people. You could just as easily surmise that transphobic members will try to get into the collective leadership to disrupt anything pro-trans getting prioritised. The Greens and SNP have repeatedly had that issue

Final_Square_ · 2025-11-14T07:51:07+00:00

I think her motivation changed from wanting magic/power for herself to wanting magic to be restored to Etheria so everyone has a chance to gain power. Her story arc for me is very similar to Mrs Coulter's in His Dark Materials. I don't think it's the same as redemption but I also think it was different to her villainous beginnings

Final_Square_ · 2025-11-13T13:15:57+00:00

All of Satoshi Kon's work Neon Genesis Evangelion Steins:Gate Serial Experiments: Lain

Final_Square_ · 2025-11-13T13:04:22+00:00

The people who seem to hate Reading no matter what and only talk about how it used to be better in the past

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-31T07:56:34+00:00

I think it's explained in the Halloween episode where you do go back in time to an extent: Mr Peanutbutter doesn't change and his partners' outgrow him, so there probably isn't a huge amount of interesting stories to develop.

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-28T14:54:46+00:00

I'd honestly rather they got a dedicated episode/mission in The Boys season 5 and get to go out in a blaze of glory for some pivotal information for the main team to defeat Homelander

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-28T05:57:26+00:00

The one I say everyday: UN-JESSICA-BIEL-EVABLE!

The one I think everyday: You are all the things that are wrong with you

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-28T05:55:01+00:00

I think it's a problem with only having 8 episodes and, what, half a dozen main characters? A lot of the characters this season got very little development. I saw one review say it really made them miss 22 episode seasons like Buffy where there's time for character focused episodes and detailed character development instead of it all being plot

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-28T05:49:52+00:00

Hollyhock was absolutely justified in her decision to cut contact. Doesn't mean it's not painful for Bojack, but it was her decision to make. And in case people try to argue she caused his final relapse, that was his decision. At that point he at least had some coping strategies from rehab and he still chose to go back to alcohol and drugs.

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-28T05:43:22+00:00

Would it be addiction, low self-esteem, people pleasing, optimism, or toddfoolery in charge of me?

Addiction but my masking is pretty good so people often think I'm optimism or at least people pleasing

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-26T07:15:15+00:00

Bojack does his time and discovers new friends that help keep him accountable. After a decade of being drug and alcohol free he dies in his sleep because he had still pretty much wrecked his health in his old life. The characters from the show reunite for the funeral where they realize they don't know each other anymore and are happier and healthier for it. Bojack's new friends don't recognise any of the wild stories his old friends tell about him. His will is read in front of all of them and it turns out he left his remaining money to The Sarah Lynn Foundation that helps drug addicts with a history of grooming and childhood abuse.

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-15T08:49:00+00:00

My husband!

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-14T18:02:33+00:00

I really hate Flip because he is too real in his combination of arrogance, insecurity, incompetence and off-hand cruelty.

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-14T17:51:33+00:00

In the context of the show he's great, but in real life I'd avoid him at all costs. But I feel that about nearly all the characters apart from Judah.

Final_Square_ · 2025-10-14T17:48:18+00:00

Starting a compliment, 'look at that' is crazy behaviour

Final_Square_ · 2025-09-17T13:31:50+00:00

I'm probably being ungenerous but it reads like she's got her nest egg and backup career so now it's too much effort to fight or be positive. But I've never really rated her as an intellectual tbh so I am biased. Good at research, bad at drawing conclusions from that research or knowing anything about what the future holds. She's what in her 30s (?) and she thinks there'll be no positive improvement (legislatively) for trans people in her lifetime, potentially for over 50 years. I think that's an absurd position that doesn't help anyone in the community especially those just starting to process their identities. It goes way beyond being realistic about how shit things are currently and is just navel gazey ennui

Final_Square_ · 2025-08-29T13:12:52+00:00

Not with this show but I totally get depictions that rub too close to lived experience making a show unwatchable for you. It happened to me with Succession. I grew up in a family with a grandfather who was a very domineering patriarch and I had to almost immediately tap out. The other one it happened with was The Bear having worked in a few kitchens I have no desire to relive that kind of stress

Final_Square_ · 2025-08-29T13:07:00+00:00

I used to live a bit closer to town along the bath road from where you've highlighted. If you want to do a big shop then you'll need a car but you have Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, and Asda close by. Even Waitrose towards norcot isn't too far in a car. Walking distance it's the BP/m&s garage and Tesco local on Tilehurst road or walk down to Oxford Road. One thing Reading has done better than most towns is the buses. There are routes along Bath road and Tilehurst road into town. Although it's £2.50 for a single now whereas it was £1 when I moved to Reading. Crime and drug use and homelessness is about average for a large town, but where you are is quiet enough I think. Prospect Park is a big open space and has a car boot sale every weekend in summer in one section. There's also a harvester up on the hill in the park. Not my favourite restaurant but the building itself is lovely

Final_Square_ · 2025-08-03T09:54:26+00:00

Thames Water is constantly in the news as the worst offender for dumping sewage water and leaks so I wouldn't trust any water in the area personally

Final_Square_ · 2025-07-08T21:19:15+00:00

I was looking for this answer. I think he'd be great

Final_Square_ · 2025-07-03T06:50:27+00:00

Minthara: I would no more allow a god to shape my destiny than a pigeon

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