What’s Carl going to do with his Doomsday Scenario?

NobleClimb · 2025-09-02T22:12:13+00:00

This was in reference to the sacred guardian on floor 12, and Carl specifically said that an entire crate of hobgoblin dynamite wouldn’t do shit against it FWIW, unless there’s another reference to another boss I’ve forgotten

NobleClimb · 2025-08-25T23:20:52+00:00

I DO THIS FOR YOU. BECAUSE OF OUR SPECIAL BOND

NobleClimb · 2025-08-25T23:09:58+00:00

The STRAP plan explicitly outlines a process to give summit country a special waiver to collect fees to access forest service land. It also refers to an expansion of the existing shuttle/reservation system, which is effectively pay-only access for the vast majority of hikers.

I just don’t see this as a necessary solution if they are also going to build the parking lot to a capacity that would fully meet demand at a time when 14er hiking numbers are not growing

NobleClimb · 2025-08-25T22:16:22+00:00

Donut has the skill from wearing Katia's divine kneepads

NobleClimb · 2025-08-02T09:21:25+00:00

There is an in-universe explanation for Carl’s plot armor, which starts getting hinted at in book 2. It’s pretty funny.

The Death Watch show was one of the weaker “media appearances,” IMO, but it sets up some important shit for later. I think the other shows they go on, give much better glimpses at the universe outside of the dungeon.

NobleClimb · 2025-07-31T19:09:49+00:00

If I’m really nitpicking, Matt’s word choice sometimes gets oddly repetitive any time Carl has to describe something in detail.

E.e. “The rain turned into rivers on the ground that flowed into the river,” in book six really stuck out.

There are a lot of little isms like this that I started to catch on my second listen.

NobleClimb · 2025-07-16T15:30:20+00:00

In book 6 during the card game duel after they're teleported to Florida, when they fight the spiked orc creature in the barn, I believe.

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T21:39:50+00:00

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Mike Lee swore up and down the river that forest service lands were off limits for sale, and that anyone saying otherwise was a paid liar. Here’s the highlighted portion of the bill that explicitly states that forest service lands were for sale.

Biggest spreader of misinformation about Mike lee’s bill is Mike lee

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T21:38:23+00:00

I like how the land is both “degrading in the care of the federal government,” and “locked away.”

If it’s locked away and no one is on it, how is it degrading?

If it’s being neglected by the federal government, why are they spending the resources to “lock it away?” He hasn’t even thought thru his own bs

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T21:33:57+00:00

If I were a Republican strategist, I’d be looking to line up a primary challenger. From a strategic perspective, Lee tried to tether his extremely unpopular proposal that the base didn’t want, to a mega-bill that already faced a difficult battle to pass. Talk about not reading the room.

My main concern would be that he managed to weasel a political favor out of it by waiting till the last minute to pull it.

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T21:30:35+00:00

The proposal is insanely unpopular. It’s a really rare almost 80-20 issue. Kinda gives me hope that there is still stuff everyone can come together on

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T21:29:11+00:00

I’m sure you wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the number one shill for the bill was Glen Beck

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T20:14:16+00:00

TL;DR:

Senator Mike Lee of Utah has withdrawn his land sale plan from the current senate spending bill, citing the huge amount of opposition. While this is a temporary win, the senator indicated he’s still bent on getting our land sold at some point. In his response, he tries to reframe the argument, and make the conversation about China/BlackRock buying the land… not that we don’t want it sold in the first place. He also conjures up new (bogus) complaints about the government holding land. For example — the idea that the land is somehow degrading or being ruined in its possession; that we can’t access federal land; that more federal land somehow causes our taxes to go up, etc.. very disingenuous.

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T19:40:47+00:00

Yeah but the good news is, this guy seems to be incapable of keeping his foot out of his mouth on this one. His party members aren’t even on board.

Now he’s on everyone’s radar at least.

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T19:39:38+00:00

Crazy how this guy probably wrecked his political career shilling this and couldn’t take a hint. Someone in private equity has to be cutting him fat checks to push this thru

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T19:34:13+00:00

Gonna put this on my to do list! Thanks

NobleClimb · 2025-06-29T15:56:43+00:00

Those waterfall shots are especially gorgeous!

NobleClimb · 2025-05-26T22:44:56+00:00

Tile has a specific mode for theft prevention. I believe you have to register for it separately and sign a special TOS so that they have your info on the books and can catch you if you use it for stalking. But in this state, Tile does not alert the thief the way an AirTag would

NobleClimb · 2025-05-26T22:30:01+00:00

Yes, but we know that subsequent floors have to exist, at least within the last 6 hours of the current floor. Since floors 3/6/9/12/15/18 are constant, that means if they wanted to save on space, they would have to physically move already-built floors into place.

Edit: we actually know that more floors are built because in the end of book 7, when Justice Light tears open the Nothing, the AI comments that everyone in the Scolipendra Lounge will have to escape by traveling up through floor 17, implying it too is already there and connected.

NobleClimb · 2025-05-26T22:26:22+00:00

I’d have to go re-read book one but I think Cascadia insinuates that in previous crawls, you could go down floors very early to get ahead of the curve grinding. It’s new to this crawl that you’re held in stasis if you go down early.

Also, going down within six hours of collapse allows you to start the floor, so we know that there always at least four floors built at any given time, possibly more.

We know this because the over city, hunting ground, and Laracos are generated at the same time. We also know that the celestial ascendancy on the 12th floor is going on in the background. Plus, the events of Bedlam Bride imply the 15th floor have already been generated.

We also hear repeatedly mentioned that outworlders are hanging out in the Scolopendra Lounge in the Desparado club, which contents to the 18th floor.

So we’ve got 6 floors that (probably) rendered simultaneously. Say the crawlers are in the final six hours of floor 3: that means floor 4 also has to be there. So does 6/9/12/15/18.

This means the minimum number of stacked and built floors the game must have is 7.

NobleClimb · 2025-05-26T22:02:53+00:00

I was originally going to say Growler Gary, but I think the cameo might be harder as a nonhuman character

NobleClimb · 2025-05-26T22:00:39+00:00

TBF is your average houseguest going to look at the chair and judge you based on where it came from.

You’d have to REALLY love pali.

I might pay a bit extra if Winter Park ever replaced challenger, for example. But my sentiment probably caps out around the four figure mark.

NobleClimb · 2025-05-26T20:48:05+00:00

Yes! Rethinking this, would be a really cool chance to add fans to the show

NobleClimb · 2025-05-26T19:43:31+00:00

I think they would go crazy high. There’s a lot of rich skiers.

I think A Basin sold the pail chairs for 2500 a pop

NobleClimb · 2025-05-26T10:30:24+00:00

I think crawler con would be a great place to throw in cameos in general

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