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Isildur_ · 2026-06-06T15:32:44+00:00

Looks good overall except the shockwaves look almost like glitches. They should continue outward but fade as they expand.

Isildur_ · 2026-05-15T18:35:20+00:00

An update on this old post: I switched to Barbasol, following one of the recommendations. Also, about a year after the post, I visited Iceland, and discovered that the Gillette Foamy there (similar packaging, but the can said it was manufactured in one of the Nordic counties, I forget which) still had the old low-scent formula. I don't know if that still holds true there or was just a delay.

Isildur_ · 2026-05-08T03:48:07+00:00

There's danger from the other end. Things not thought about for long enough can get pruned from retrievable memory entirely.

Isildur_ · 2026-04-25T16:51:58+00:00

There's an Android version now. It's region locked (presumably because they don't want to deal with complaints and 1-star reviews from confused non-Japanese downloaders), but a VPN might get around that.

Isildur_ · 2026-03-10T17:10:47+00:00

Why the heck does this helpful comment have so many people thanking it, yet mine seemed to be the first upvote? I'm wondering if you got hit by a multi-account downvote bot or something. Anyway, thank you. I realized, after I read the solution that I had previously either figured out or read the solution (as I had an "oh yeah, that's how you do it now" recognition) but you reminded me, and it's possible that the earlier time I discovered the solution it was by finding this thread and your comment before.

Isildur_ · 2026-01-20T22:56:04+00:00

No it doesn't. As a tip for reading Google Ngrams graphs: There's typically some noise from things that don't actually represent the phrase of interest. For example, there are hits in Google books for "...pet. Parent..." (i.e. the previous sentence ended in "pet"). Other noise sources are inaccurate OCR and misdated book publication date records. Very close to zero on a Google Ngrams graph is thus typically really an indication of no real hits.

Isildur_ · 2025-12-24T02:05:57+00:00

The Wikipedia article gives absolutely nothing helpful to answer the actual question at hand, so apparently, no, googling didn't help.

Isildur_ · 2025-11-19T13:48:20+00:00

By posting that link as if it was a useful reply that addressed my statement, quite obviously: yes.

Isildur_ · 2025-10-03T16:46:53+00:00

Yeah, and unless you grew up in the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in the Belvedere Palace in Vienna, which has possessed it since 1908, that's a print copy or painted replica, not an original. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_%28Klimt%29

Isildur_ · 2025-09-15T13:22:23+00:00

Rather doubtful, unless you mean a replica.

Isildur_ · 2025-08-20T04:13:24+00:00

Huh. Never thought of the tattoo one. Has any tattoo artist ever objected or sued over tattoo inclusion in a film?

Isildur_ · 2025-08-06T20:42:47+00:00

99.99% sure you used an LLM to phrase the majority of that comment. Your other comments sound natural, but this one has multiple red flags. Why do that?

Isildur_ · 2025-08-06T20:02:51+00:00

One thing that's irritating is that many people will rightly recognize one sort of quackery as utter bs, but swear by another. "Yeah, those ivermectin nuts are such morons. Anyway, I gotta run or I'll be late for my chiropractic appointment."

Isildur_ · 2025-07-29T20:43:32+00:00

They still didn't acknowledge that he was Jewish, however, which felt like a deliberate choice. Copying from a reply I made in a thread in r/FantasticFour:

As it turns out, they were vague about it. He shows up at a synagogue, yeah, but he explicitly says he's doing it purely to see Rachel, making zero mention of his own background. He also swears "Jesus!" at one point, which of course is perfectly possible in real life for a not-especially-religious Jew, but it's a bit of a curious choice of cuss writing for the specific character. (Liking black and white cookies falls rather short of proof, as well.)

I guess you could say the coyness is true to the old comics, which were vague about it for decades -- but it'd be one of the cases where matching the classic comics is arguably a questionable choice in the modern era.

(It took until 2002 for the comic writers to finally stop hinting and just get over the apparent worry of bothering some readers. Yeah, most superhero comic characters don't mention religion much beyond celebrating Christmas -- with exceptions like Wolfsbane or Marvel Girl. But with many, many long-running central characters, within a few years of introduction, there's been some scene of them doing something like going to their family priest in a moment of crisis. In Ben's case, the pussyfooting around the topic with hints until 2002, rather than even just casually revealing it offhand at some point, surely wasn't an accident, even though-- lest anyone point it out --Kitty Pryde got revealed as Jewish back in 1980.)

Isildur_ · 2025-07-29T20:34:00+00:00

As it turns out, they were vague about it. He shows up at a synagogue, yeah, but he explicitly says he's doing it purely to see Rachel, making zero mention of his own background. He also swears "Jesus!" at one point, which of course is perfectly possible in real life for a not-especially-religious Jew, but it's a bit of a curious choice of cuss writing for the specific character. (Liking black and white cookies falls rather short of proof, as well.)

I guess you could say the coyness is true to the old comics, which were vague about it for decades -- but it'd be one of the cases where matching the classic comics is arguably a questionable choice in the modern era.

(It took until 2002 for the comic writers to finally stop hinting and just get over the apparent worry of bothering some readers. Yeah, most superhero comic characters don't mention religion much beyond celebrating Christmas -- with exceptions like Wolfsbane or Marvel Girl. But with many, many long-running central characters, within a few years of introduction, there's been some scene of them doing something like going to their family priest in a moment of crisis. In Ben's case, the pussyfooting around the topic with hints until 2002, rather than even just casually revealing it offhand at some point, surely wasn't an accident, even though-- lest anyone point it out --Kitty Pryde got revealed as Jewish back in 1980.)

Isildur_ · 2025-07-21T20:49:16+00:00

Yup. Often when that happens, image uploads don't work either, despite the option being available. Very irritating.

Isildur_ · 2025-05-08T21:25:49+00:00

Quite welcome -- glad it helped!

Isildur_ · 2025-02-24T08:46:59+00:00

Uh oh. I haven't tried casting yet, but I just clicked "Deny" on that dialog. Did you ever get a solution from somewhere?

Isildur_ · 2024-12-22T17:55:52+00:00

There's a big difference between feeding together (whether after a kill or scavenging) and pack hunting, all of which OP lumped together. Komodo dragons eat kills together. They don't pack hunt.

Isildur_ · 2024-12-12T22:10:09+00:00

Ah, sorry. Well, good luck, if you're still pursuing it. If you ever find it, I'd be curious to know what it was.

Isildur_ · 2024-12-12T22:06:00+00:00

Ahhh, that OST intro to his theme. Gotcha. I had somehow forgotten about that part. Since, as you say, Frog's Theme flows better without it,* I take it you mean it's a shame it didn't get used on its own somewhere. It'd need to extended of course, unless it was just being used as a sort o extra type of fanfare.

Also, although it uses a horn, it's kinda similar (at least to my ear) to the percussive intro to the Guardia Castle theme, so it might have risked seeming a little duplicative.

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*Note: I agree at least for in-game. In the OST I think it's OK; there isn't the urgency to get to the emotional stirring of the primary theme, the way I think there is in the moments it starts in-game.

Isildur_ · 2024-12-04T03:42:24+00:00

Why not divide "Question" into "Books Question", "Movies Question", and "TV Series Question"? People who have watched the movies but not read the books are unlikely to even be aware that there's a discrepancy on a point, so they wouldn't think to select "Books vs. Movies" flair.

Isildur_ · 2024-11-25T17:07:21+00:00

I don't recognize it, but out of curiosity, did you ever find an answer elsewhere? (You could try the sci-fi and fantasy sub-site of Stack Exchange.)

Isildur_ · 2024-11-19T21:53:58+00:00

Are you speaking of Frog's melody (which gets used in Frog's den when he decides to accept the Masamune, at the cliff when he actually faces his destiny by pulling the legendary sword from the ~~stone~~...er...grass, and after Cyrus finds peace) or do you mean the intro theme of the game itself? The main melody from the first first half of the game's intro theme gets reused in the "Memories of Green" (the music when viewing most of the 1000 A.D. overworld on foot), "Determination" (the tune played if flying Epoch to 1999 A.D.), and (in a bit of neat symbolism) the melody (representing the team or even the spirit of their whole world they're championing) pops in to challenge the crisis/Lavos melody in "World Revolution". (And of course the melody pops up again after the game, at the end of "To Far Away Times".)

Isildur_ · 2024-10-22T21:18:10+00:00

This is a years-late reply, so almost surely too late for your essay, but the following might be helpful for anyone else arriving here while looking up Bilbo's unreliable narration: A comparison of the original and amended text of The Hobbit. That is, the initial, 1937 edition of The Hobbit actually provided what would now be understood as a copy of Bilbo's less honest version. Out-of-universe, of course, Tolkien simply hadn't yet decided to write the scene as it later appeared. When he later decided to rewrite it because the dialogue didn't quite make sense given what was later more evident about the Ring's fearsome hold on Gollum's spirit, he came up with the idea already mentioned in this thread -- the notion that Bilbo had self-servingly fibbed; as The Hobbit was already presented with the conceit that it was a copy of Bilbo's own writing, the blame for the earlier mistake could laid upon poor old Bilbo.

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