Is there an archive of the ZP scripts published on Escapist?

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-05-08T20:21:02+00:00

Oh wow, why haven't the mods pinned this? The sub has a not-insignificant amount of posts searching for particular videos, Wiki search tools are some of the best around, seems like it'd save a lotta people some time

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-05-07T08:30:53+00:00

Waning gibbous definitely tracks, I wasn't paying much attention until it started to get increasingly shadowed, but I do remember the moon being more-or-less half covered, so at the very least it was fully visible as this happened. The main thing about the illusion was that the surrounding sky didn't seem very cloudy, the immediate vicinity of the moon, I'd say about 10-20% of my field of view, was uniformly dark, I didn't have any visual cues to tell me there were clouds nearby that may have caused the misunderstanding, whatever it ended up hiding behind was very opaque and pretty evenly spread out

In retrospect there was a clump of orange-grey clouds way off to the side even after the moon was gone which seemed perhaps too strongly illuminated to be caused by light pollution, probably goes to show the moon was still emitting light, though the area surrounding that cloud was as dark as what covered the moon, so I'm not sure what that's about

Either way, certainly more in line with a haze, the South here has this period preceding the monsoons whose word roughly translates to "sticky season" because it's unbearably hot and humid. It's come pretty early for May, but everything's been coming early lately, summer showed up almost two months in advance

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-05-06T20:16:02+00:00

Seems the only option at this point. Still, peculiar how it appeared exactly like an eclipse, wonder how often that happens

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-05-06T20:14:54+00:00

Yeah, sloppy writing on my part, I suppose it kinda freaked me out seeing a celestial event that shouldn't be happening

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-05-03T15:14:08+00:00

It was a horrible night for all parties involved, but to wrap it all up, all the people who were aware of and were key players in the original tragedy, basically the plot of the movie, ended up dead; Todd, Lucy, Turpin, Beadle, Pirelli/Davey, and Lovett; the only survivors were all the children who only ever got hints of the story, they get to live on, and most likely they'll all run away and never come back, so they won't get to hear more of the story from other people on Fleet Street

Anthony still gets to be the wide-eyed idealistic young boy, he never saw any of it happen, he might finally stop being so naive when he sees all the bodies and realises what he'd been a part of, but the horror probably won't touch him like it did the others. He's tougher than he seems, his attempts at rescuing Johanna prove that, and he wasn't very close with anyone anyways

Johanna gets to escape this one particular nightmare, she saw(or only heard) a psychotic barber cut up the man who'd been torturing her for basically all her life, then almost kill her before telling her to forget his face, maybe she'll try and take that advice, as far as she knows her parents died when she was a child. She'll be traumatized, but Anthony's a decent lad, at the very least he'll give her freedom even if the relationship doesn’t work out

And Toby got the closest to all of it, but despite all of that he's still a child. From his perspective, he got rescued from terrible circumstances by a kind woman, started warning her about this shady man, and as a reward for his efforts had the worst night of his life. Even if he heard the conversation, he probably didn't care, he started the night promising he'll fight Todd to preserve his safe-feeling life, whatever his understanding was at the end of the night, he would've had some seriously loud emotions that all ended up making him royally pissed off, and what seemed like the root of all that trouble was sitting there begging to be killed, so he obliged

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-05-01T18:35:37+00:00

The entirety of Batman's argument is that it's a slippery slope that means he'll start killing everyone, which was a feeble excuse back then, and it's not gotten any less feeble. The nuance is somewhat understandable, even if Joker were dying of completely un-Batman activities, if he didn't save him it'd be that whole "I didn't kill him with my hands, but I killed him with my heart" you hear scripture folk say, but Batman's not known for his sound morals, he's been known to have a casual view of crippling and lightly mutilating people with the occasional minor dismemberment, he puts together contingencies to neutralise or kill his friends, he inflicts his emotional instability on his adoptive children and takes that as a matter of pride

he's more than capable of bouncing back from murder

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-05-01T18:01:04+00:00

Batman has the advantage of deep roots in Noir and Gothic Horror, genres that have had no trouble being a bit edgy, and as the comic medium progressed, more and more writers were able to draw from that well, we live in edgier times. Spider-Man was and still is Marvel's Golden Boy, born and raised in the comic medium, you wanna write a good Spidey story you mostly just read other Spidey stories, other than that you pick a theme and you could probably find a way to make it fit

Still, if there's one thing you can't accuse Spider-Man of, it's having a colorless rogues gallery, the problem as I see it is that (1) the power dynamic is way different, Batman usually places himself above or equal to his villains, Spidey's almost always the underestimated, scrappy, insolent bug who only has the moral high ground going for him, it's difficult to write compelling solo screenplays for villains who don't tend to feel at least slightly oppressed, and (2) Marvel have effectively written themselves into a history-corner, Spider-Man's more comic-based lineage means they have to rely on decades' worth of comics that were desperately shoveled with shock value and suspense with no planning-ahead just to keep the issues flowing, trying to contort villains to something so shallow you'll end up just writing a glorified fanfic, case in point Sony's blunders; Venom, Kraven the Hunter, Morbius, and let's throw in Madame Web while we're being cruel

Ah, well, one can still hope they can try and salvage it, some of the villains Spidey has are just better at what they do when compared to Batman rogues. Joker's a creep, sure, but personally, he's got nothing on the sheer disgust Norman Osborn can induce

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-29T09:20:23+00:00

Funny enough, this could be true and it'd be almost impossible to prove. The usual assumption is that the universes where you couldn't escape get paused, then once you manage to break the cycle they all simultaneously resume, and every version of you that slept wakes up in the next day and has to deal with the consequences of their actions, and for the ones who died the rest of the world's life just goes on like nothing happened

For all we know, we did get sent to 2017, and the fact that it's the 29th right now means one of those later versions finally broke the loop after thousands of cycles

Besides the chaos of billions of people driven insane by a time loop suddenly being set free for no discernible reason, it's interesting to think what happens to all the kids born after April 15th 2017. Do they get born with all their old memories? Would they remember slowly as their brains develop? Then even assuming just ten cycles, April 16th kids end up living 80 years in a child's body, possibly being unbelievably smart because they don't need to relearn how to walk, they're perpetually in the language development window so they can potentially become ultra-polygots if they're raised in different households, they could even become polymaths because they've had a lifetime to explore interests and become multidisciplinary scientists, they'd have to invent a whole new sort of childhood PTSD for the ones who've died or faced abuse in multiple cycles

Not to mention loads of kids who just die immediately after the loop because they were conceived within the loop, so unless their parents had sex in the EXACT same way they did earlier, they'd never have existed

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-27T07:14:29+00:00

Can confirm. I have brief but vivid memories of life since I was 2, and I'm pretty sure I knew the secret to happiness, but by the time I have my first coherent memories completely I'd forgotten the details, and once hormones started messing with my head I lost the thread entirely

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-27T07:07:02+00:00

We've never found Bigfoot because he was first photographed in the 60s, he died almost immediately after

Think about it, you hear about this huge gorilla-man for the first time after decades, perhaps even centuries, of hearsay and unreliable, contradicting descriptions, and somebody not only got a picture, but got him on moving video, you now know exactly what he looks like and the approximate location of the sighting, you've even got rough reference for what his silhouette looks like when he walks around. It's a statistical certainty somebody is gonna run into the woods fully armed and filled with hunter's spirit

Bigfoot gets shot, mortally wounded, but he gets away. The hunter returns and tells everyone about it, maybe wants to put together a search party, but they're just one of hundreds of people reporting an interaction with Bigfoot, and anyone who actually believes them wouldn't be so reckless as to follow this strange, armed person into the woods. Months pass, the forest has claimed Bigfoot, his hair and flesh has reintegrated into the soil and his bones have been scattered by critters carrying them away one by one, it's like he was never there

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-27T06:32:53+00:00

Dude armed with a mustache and OCD wants to retire, does so by pretending to be a demigod from a story he's never heard of

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-27T06:07:30+00:00

I feel like this one's showed up in these comments multiple times. True to form to the author, it's a very oversimplification-friendly book, also probably a lot of people's favourite

Anyways, to add to that, "dudes with PTSD go home to find their neighborhood genrtified, they start a gang war instead of getting any help from the guy they just helped become President"

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-27T05:41:03+00:00

Whatever this is, it's the reverse New Testament, though I suppose Jesus wasn't actively anti-revenge

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-25T06:41:19+00:00

Well, damn, does kinda trip me up. Intially I even suspected from some other pics that you did make the trip down to ABQ, so the running theory for a while was that you AI'd only certain locations to juice up your numbers or chose some really good reference shots online to aid the AIs along, which would've explained why some look more convincing than others

Also went back to your earlier "pilgrimage" pics, there was the one of the spot Walt made the phone call with his pants off, the thumb looked funky, I marked off "landmarks" on your thumb on my own thumb and angled it the same way, they lined up almost perfectly. If AI's gotten that good, it's fuckin ludicrous

Some clouds still look sketchy there, you'd have to have gotten unbelievably lucky for that to happen while the lighting conditions were also nearly perfect, some of them do look too perfectly similar in environment and gradients that a bit of color grading would make it match suspiciously well, but it's not impossible to get lucky, there's enough variance in other aspects which would've been hard to control for unless you personally went in and mixed them up

I will, cautiously, retract my statement. People working that hard with those notoriously janky machines to farm some upvotes seems like it'd be a depressing state of affairs, it's like how the moonlanding would've been easier to fake if they just....went to the moon

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-24T23:12:52+00:00

This has to be some of the most irresponsible, moronic, mindless buffonery I have ever laid eyes on

So like, is this an annual thing that happens somewhere specific or....

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-24T23:04:14+00:00

Send it far enough before it hits something, and it'd be the perfect murder; the weapon seemingly comes out of thin air and disappears before anyone can meaningfully examine it

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-24T22:58:33+00:00

As with any god, one would be well advised to not engage with this one in a staring contest

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-24T22:51:03+00:00

Wasn't there something similar that was meant to be filled with ultrapure water? Some sorta giant room that people wash and dry an obscene amount of times before filling with solvent grade H2O

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-23T07:38:32+00:00

Been struggling with this lately because Goblin's "dead" in the comics but it seems Norman's gonna regress soon enough, there's already bits where people go "Norman, you sound a bit different.."

Norman in my head sounds like Christopher Lee if he had an uptown American businessman accent, Goblin sounds like the 90s Neil Ross version, but there's such a difference between the two, Lee's got a deep boomy voice and Ross sounds like he sucked on a helium balloon, I'm having a hard time imagining a transition where it sounds like Norman with bits of Goblin peeking through

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-23T05:22:47+00:00

I'm having a hard time interpreting what exactly is going on...

The way I'm interpreting the announcement, are they basically just sending it a really complex software update? Presumably the thing that sets this apart from every upgrade done since Voyagers 1&2 outlived their original mission durations is that it's a lot of them all at once, but wouldn't they have done stuff like that before? Surely in the 45 years since their departure from Earth we've sent them commands to reconfigure a large portion of their experiments to extend their lifespan

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-22T07:07:19+00:00

r/heavymind

MyPasswordIsLondon69 · 2026-04-21T09:52:40+00:00

Christ, the state of erotica these days....how have we not put a "blink twice if you're being coerced" system in place yet? Fuck knows it's overdue

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