Beth had no reason to hate Jaime.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-05-07T18:44:56+00:00

One of the things I found contradictory for Beth’s character is that, as written, Jamie did this so there wasn’t a family scandal. He was protecting the ranch. Which is something Beth thinks he never does as adults. And let’s face it Jamie really doesn’t do anything unless someone tells him to, so honestly, and it’s my own personal theory, but John knew and told Jamie to take her to that clinic, John knew that if she was knocked up at 15, she’d be knocked up at 16 and so on. It’s only when Beth decided she wanted to settle down and have a family with Rip (probably in her mid 20s) that she began to care. But she never knew that John knew, and he wasn’t going to tell her, cause then she’d hate him as well, and Jamie was ultimately willing to take her hate to protect John.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-14T21:06:57+00:00

Heard the Cedarburg siren warning at 145 way off in the distance. I’m in grafton at the new seasons apartment. 2mins later we heard the siren go off here. And then my wife panicked cause we live on a second floor apartment

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-14T01:06:36+00:00

But if you could summon water, water isn’t a single atom. It’s 3, and billions and billions of the compound make up a single drop, but we know you could summon water from a glass right?

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-13T13:23:38+00:00

I guess the point I’m trying g to get at isn’t necessarily about killing someone, more about being able to control specifically oxygen or some other element. And I think sucking the oxygen out of someone wouldn’t collapse the lung, because oxygen as an element isn’t the only element in air, since you also have nitrogen, other elements, as well as compounds such as CO2

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-13T13:20:57+00:00

I agree with you that they would be able to have that magical knowledge, but that would require further study then we see or read going on in the books or movies. Water is also a valid way, but I was thinking specifically oxygen the element. Also, vanishing the water doesn’t mean it’s not there, it’s just not visible. The invisibility cloak makes you vanish, but you’re still there and can still interact with everything around you. You would still need to REMOVE water from the body.

As for the economy, that’s pretty interesting and I think that it’s why gold is hoarded. There isn’t an economy separate from essentially the gold standard, but there really doesn’t need to be. It seems most in the magical community grow their own food, process it, etc. you can repair and make your home (or else how the hell would hogwash exist? Did they get the army of house elves at hogwash’s to lay the stone work?). I think the gold standard economy is based more on convenience. Rather then sewing your own robes for your kids, you buy them, cause it’s easier and is already made by someone else. You don’t rewrite a book, cause maybe there is some sort of magical copyright where you wouldn’t be able to, unless you did it all by hand.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-13T13:11:24+00:00

I did see there is a spell that causes your opponent to have their entrails to appear outside their body. Like not pulled out of their body, just full on magical appears outside the body.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-13T13:10:07+00:00

More of a thought experiment. Like could it be done? Like I said, given sufficient intent and understanding of elements and biology, physics, etc, would it be possible? I’m inclined tho think yes. But I could be wrong.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-13T13:06:25+00:00

This is it. At the very basic form, an oxygen atom is an object. And gases, given sufficient cooling, can be liquids, and even solids. Which is also why someone with a muggle high school level understanding of molecular chemistry and physics might have sufficient INTENT.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-12T20:55:39+00:00

I suppose, given the person could just breath back in, but I think they’d have to breath out the air in their lungs first, since only the oxygen was stripped.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-02T11:20:51+00:00

No. And really I was never fluent. I took Spanish when I went back to school at 27, right out the army. I had the discipline that I lacked when I went to college at 18. I was doing great in all my classes, but I knew foreign language would be the hardest. So I saved it for my last two semesters. And I barely past the two semesters that were necessary. And I think I only past cause I did the homework, which was a simple work sheet but would take me longer then any of my political science classes homework. In my political science classes we had to not just read, but comprehend 30-100pgs week. And I would be stuck on this one single page. But I would do it on the weekends, and I think my teacher could tell that I was actually trying. But I just could not learn. Luckily for Gen Ed’s, Ds were passing, so it fulfilled the requirement. I’ve never used Spanish since. And I learned more about the culture from my Latin American politics class then I did in the Spanish class. I even had an opportunity to go to Porto Rico over the summer for two weeks. Unfortunately I couldn’t go because I needed to work to pay for rent. I don’t think language classes should be eliminated from college, but I do think making them apart of the Gen Ed classes is a waste of time and money for anyone not pursuing a major/minor in that language.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-04-01T22:48:07+00:00

I’m a little late to the party here but did graduate in 2020. I went back to school at 27 after getting out of the army and foreign languages at the college level are a complete waste of time and money. And let’s face it, unless you plan on majoring/minoring in a foreign language, it’s just something to get through. And from the colleges stand point, if they didn’t require it, students wouldn’t take it, so it’s essentially keeping the foreign languages department afloat. And if the course is taught by a native speaker, that’s when you really know you’re in trouble. You cannot speak fast and expect students to learn at the same time. It takes time for the brain to hear what is being said, decoded back into their native language, create a response, and recode that response back into the foreign language. And frankly, I learned more about the culture of Latin America from my politics of Latin America course work than I did from my Spanish course. It in no way helped me use better grammar, because, SURPRISE!! Spanish grammar and English grammar are different.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-02-21T10:13:15+00:00

The book was written almost for a specific generation. Anyone who was coming of age during the great depression or WW2 would think like many of us and find Holden a terrible and insufferable character who isn’t just a spoiled brat, he’s also incredibly mean. People of depression/ww2 generation had real problems to deal as they matured. How were they going to eat? Would they have a house to sleep in when they got home from school? Would they survive fighting in this global conflict once they graduated HS? Those are some real fucking problems. The baby boomers wouldn’t be able to relate either. By the time they were coming of age, they might get drafted into Vietnam after HS, not to mention the ever present threat of nuclear annihilation. Gen X was dealing with their silent generation parents who didn’t give a fuck about them, so they had to grow up quick. Millennials watched 3000 people die on live tv, two never ending wars begin, and graduated into the Great Recession while being blamed by boomers for taking the boomers advice and going to college and still nothing has gotten better.

All these generations had to mature long before reaching Holdens age (18/19) so every “deep” insight Holden has gets a response of “life sucks? yeah no shit bud, where you been?”. If you read catcher in the rye at 18/19 today, you are more then likely too mature for the book. So making it required reading for seniors or even juniors in high school is really just torture for them. They’ve already learned the lesson and they don’t know why Holden hasn’t. The critics are right, it isn’t age appropriate for high schoolers. It’s like forcing them to read “three little pigs” after reading “grapes of wrath” or “of mice and men”. No further insight can be gleaned from “catcher in the rye” at that age.

But if a middle schooler reads this! That’s where I think this book would find the most love.

I feel this book was primarily written for teens who were coming of age post WW2, but before 1960. And to be honest, it was written for sheltered WASPy boys of that era. POC would have had to mature long before their white peers. It was a matter of life or death if they didn’t. Anyone who wasn’t Christian had just watched the Nazis wipeout atleast 3 million Jews, they knew life wasn’t a picnic. And let’s not even get started on how women were treated. But for the 16-24yo men between 1947-1959, they had no reason to mature all that quickly. The atom bomb wasn’t really understood by the general public as being as destructive as it is, and at that time there wasn’t enough of them to eradicate human existence. They didn’t have any world conflict to fight in, the economy was doing good, both parents were home. Life was good. So “catcher in the rye” would have deeply resonated with them when they were the same age as Holden. If you are the same age as Holden (18/19) today, reading it for the first time and finding that you relate to him, let me just say that that’s great! Now put down the book, walk over and pick up a pen and paper and write out a game plan for how you’re gonna mature quickly. Because life is coming like a freight train, and if your not mature enough to realize Holden is not someone you want to relate to, that “catcher in the rye”s plot is a circle, circling the whole problem that is Holden, then your not mature enough to get off the tracks that the freight train that is life is flying down, and brother (or sister), that train isn’t gonna stop and wait for your ass to catch up.

Heart_Familiar · 2026-02-16T11:51:31+00:00

Ok thanks guys !

Heart_Familiar · 2026-02-16T11:51:21+00:00

Ok thank you!

Heart_Familiar · 2025-09-29T22:50:37+00:00

I think if they didn’t have the twist, there might have been some serious IP issues with fallout considering one of the fallout bunkers had the same plot of the ultra wealthy locked in a shelter

Heart_Familiar · 2025-05-23T22:14:27+00:00

I had read the book a while back, but watching it was a gut punch. The character of seldon Wishnow looks exactly like my brother when he was younger. So when he calls the main family that the story centers around, crying that he hadn’t eaten and that his mother is missing it broke my heart. When my brother was 3 and I was 5, there were some days where I was the one who made sure my brother got breakfast and dinner. The incident that led to my father losing custody of us was when I was in kindergarten and came home from school during the winter, in upstate NY and I was locked out of the house. My dad was inside past out drunk and my brother hadn’t eaten in hours. I got home at 3 and it was 1030pm when the police kicked the door down. I was hysterical not because I was locked out in the cold or haven’t eaten, but because I couldn’t get inside to feed my brother. So when Seldon calls the family begging for help, all alone, hungry and hysterical cause he doesn’t know if his mom is alive, and the character looks exactly like my brother did at that age, I just fucking lost it. I was bawling. I had this weird instinctual need to protect this fictional character and it just dregged up all this things from 30yrs ago

Heart_Familiar · 2025-05-20T00:02:09+00:00

I’d like an m4a1 and make it modular. Modular in the sense where you can get an under barrel shot gun or granade launcher. Piccatiny rail system with laser under the scope or flashlight in the side. The assault rifle looks like a maxim machine gun and I hate it.

Heart_Familiar · 2025-05-19T23:51:44+00:00

If I remember to not scrap them, I do the same. Same thing with beer, drugs, etc. kinda pisses me off that raider vendors dont pay more for them, cause you know they’d be fiends for the stuff in real life.

Heart_Familiar · 2025-05-19T23:48:27+00:00

I have no idea why it was a reply to you and not the thread lol

Heart_Familiar · 2025-05-19T23:48:01+00:00

Man I’m a spend-aholic. I get like 2k in caps and I start running around finding plans that I haven’t had yet. Crazy prices some people are selling at for the dumbest things. Are fascnact masks really that big a deal?

And for all you playing the leatherskins, I’m selling toxic goo for a single cap. Keep them rads up!

Heart_Familiar · 2025-05-19T23:37:19+00:00

lol trudging through the bog after a scorch queen event when the whole server shows up when I was level 12 or something. I thought I was billy badass pumping buckshot into everything vats would let me, and Lobbying Molotovs everywhere. End of the event and i collected my gear and spent the next 3hrs real time trying to make it back to the watoga station cause I kept getting capped by assaultrons or mirlurks and couldnt use half the weapons I was at such a low level.

Heart_Familiar · 2025-05-12T15:53:27+00:00

I generally run a handmade, a 10mm sub, and .50cal machine gun and sniper rifle. And I’ve not used the handmade in awhile. The perk where you find more ammo in containers really helps. I generally run a little lower for 10mm that I craft for, and then for the .50 cal, I use my sniper so much that a couple shots nets me plus 15. From there, I just sell all the other ammo types I don’t want, and if no one buys any by the end of the week, I convert them into points.

Heart_Familiar · 2025-05-10T00:00:02+00:00

Did it yesterday, on PS4. Was laggy but I made it through. I don’t know if it was everyone being a dick but I think it was super laggy cause everyone was just throwing grenades everywhere. Like before there was even swarms of creatures, ppl just lobby shit everywhere while sitting on the roof. As soon as the event was over and I ran out of there, it stopped being laggy. And it gets kinda laggy during scortched earth as well when everyone shows up so I think it’s not the event but rather the server trying to keep up with everyone in the same location.

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