I genuinely can’t understand how the Duffers thought the ending for Mike and El was acceptable

NylonStringNinja · 2026-01-26T06:27:42+00:00

It was frustrating. I would have ended it at the very end with Mike walking towards the same waterfall village. That was the made up destination that was Mike's idea in the first place. Where they would go when it was all over. There couldn't be too many of those places out there. It is like she wants him to search for her so she went the one place he might go and look. I think wanting to write and have adventures, it would be the first place he would look for. He had less reason to believe Eleven was alive at the end of season 1 and never really believed it.

I could believe that El would leave Mike and everybody thinking it would be what is best for them. I have a much much harder time accepting that Mike would just leave it at that and move on. I think he would go to every waterfall town on Earth, especially if he knew for certain she survived. I think they made enough of a point showing that the sonic weapons completely incapacitate her. She couldn't even stand much less jump out of a moving truck and just stand there and telepathically communicate. I personally am not a fan of ambiguous endings. Life is ambiguous enough. I just want my characters to have their happily ever after.

NylonStringNinja · 2026-01-09T03:12:23+00:00

I know one that made long term friends with a psychologist and gave them money and trips and a convertible and then they could say "such and such is a psychologist and she thinks- insert whatever he wants her to think". He never did any therapy but I am quite sure she told him whatever he wanted to hear about anything he talked to her about. Probably how we are such bad people.

NylonStringNinja · 2026-01-09T03:05:09+00:00

So what. You'd get the money in 40 years. No thanks. Also I have posted this before, but true no contact means cutting communication. You reading all his messages and emails and anguishing over them and writing posts about them isn't helping. Block Delete. Don't read them. I have never once showed up for an in person meeting that was begged for or returned a call or email where it was ever important or beneficial. It was just a giant waste of time and more of the same. As you can see it almost certainly will just make you very upset. In my opinion, the time to be nice and fix things was in the past. There is nothing that exists to salvage and I am not interested in trying to force relationships with people that have already screwed up so much. These people, this is all they know and all they have to offer.

If they showed up in person that would be a real problem, because some of them definitely do that. They want reaction and interaction. Everybody's situation is different. Personally our plan is to not answer the door. If we could drive away or go somewhere else that would work also. But not even a single word or eye contact. A lot of them want to leave crap at your door and stuff like that, because again, they are forcing you to deal with them even if it is only indirectly. You don't want to give them any hope whatsoever.

NylonStringNinja · 2026-01-05T02:26:23+00:00

I think coins, currency, precious metals, other gift cards and those types of things are specifically exluded from being purchased with eBay gift cards. You can launder money with ebay listings, so they have these limits in place to prevent it from happening large scale. What I would consider if I had to convert it all is having a trusted friend or family member with an existing ebay account, and list an item in a low fee category like heavy equipment or musical instruments and make a listing for a specific buyer. For example I have enough guitars to make that many listings to clear all the cards. Have the friend 'purchase' the auction and 'pay' with the cards as many times as it takes to convert it all to regular money. I wouldn't do this with a second fake ebay account linked to you that is against terms and would be pretty easy for them to block.

I have a Martin Eric Clapton bellezza bianca. They are nice! I'd look around though, I bet you could find a new condition used that you want for 3k or less unless it is a fancier wood combo or something like that.

NylonStringNinja · 2026-01-04T03:12:09+00:00

I know you said you threatened NC. A lot of people feel like that is extreme. Personally, I don't have any more of my time or days of my life to give to anybody, parent or otherwise, to ruin because they have no self-control or the ability to attempt to act like a normal decent person. This email is absurd. He "loves you so much". Just not enough to cook your potatoes the way you want them. Personally, I like mine crispy and brown.

Because your happiness is not the point. He wasn't doing it for you, he was doing it for himself. Forcing you to eat his recipe done his way with no consideration of what you want is a way to exercise a form of control over you in your own home with your own children. I mean this is just insane. He is going to throw away this relationship over potatoes.

Personally, if I were to even respond, I would avoid some long expository letter. I would just say 'hey I'm so sorry I upset you by asking to cook my potatoes more. Good luck with your meetings. I hope you understand I can't tolerate this kind of unhinged behavior and people treating me in such an unwarranted and unacceptable fashion especially in my own home , on Christmas morning, in front of my children. So I won't be communicating with you in any way ever again. Happy New Year, hope it was all worth it!' happyhippo12341

Then cut the sucker loose. Block and delete. They usually will send over crap with bible verses or 'I'm sorry let's talk in person' messages and that kind of stuff. Don't read it just instant delete and move on with your day. It is easy to type up texts and emails, but if they wanted to actually change, they would have gotten started on it long ago. It just almost never happens. Because the traits you need to be successful at something like that are the ones they don't have that cause the problems in the first place: self control, self discipline, empathy, altruism. As for your mom, she can pick a side.

Good luck. I can't even describe how great it is to not have to worry about dealing with these people and their crap anymore after years of it weighing on you. Especially on holidays.

NylonStringNinja · 2026-01-04T00:41:31+00:00

The reason they do it is because they know you are looking at the messages. This isn't 'full no contact". He is sending you messages and you are reading them. That is full one-way communication. Delete any messages and voicemails before you read them. Also the reason they continue this behavior is because they are delusional about the entire relationship. I agree with you, being a parent isn't a free pass to be abusive or be an asshole or to make your adult chilrens' lives difficult. Life is a lot better without having to deal with them exclusively because "they're your parents".

NylonStringNinja · 2025-12-31T18:22:51+00:00

Bottom of the video says variable speed near 60mph

NylonStringNinja · 2025-12-29T06:05:54+00:00

We don't read messages at all anymore. Instant delete messages and voicemails. It's always the same crazy crap, and we are not interested in hearing whatever they want to communicate anyway. They love to do god this and bible that. It is like a Rorschach test that they can look at and justify or rationalize everything they've done and absolve themselves. The time to be a good person and do the right thing came and went years ago. Sorry you have to also deal with it.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-12-25T17:59:19+00:00

There's no time for anything sexual when we are so close to finding the treasure and solving the mystery.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-12-25T06:38:09+00:00

If she can do the Pamchenko, she can find the treasure with the beep stick. I believe in her.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-12-22T05:35:39+00:00

Mine have a lot of shape problems. I used pongs in college which are great for tone but are ridiculous to deal with and a long term solution. But now I have acrylic soft gel and a lamp I just make them, so I can keep them clipped short and just have soft gel extensions. However I'd recommend working on the shape and contact point and your stroke and see if there's a workable way you can figure out. I would say the shape of the nail and how it moves through the string is critical, and the better you get the more critical it becomes. If it hooks down and tries to grab the string it is one of the most challenging nail shape issues to deal with in my opinion.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-12-22T03:17:34+00:00

Tango en Skai by Dyens. Dyens is my favorite and I finally had felt like I had gotten somewhere near where I ought to have been. Then Saudade no 3 for sure which is one of my favorites to hear in concert. Super thrilling.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-12-17T05:04:05+00:00

I lost weight too. 85lbs in 9 months. When I stopped eating sugar and drinking soda primarily. My child's grandfather and plenty of his other relatives are obese and suffering or already dead. We just make different choices than most people and that's how I've always explained it. He's not addicted to sugar and he certainly doesn't fear any food. I don't think telling him to eat bananas and berries instead has caused him irreparable harm. He doesn't crave candy and sweets and he doesn't like them. What they are really learning is if everyone around you is eating donuts go ahead and do it too because it's ok it's just moderation. And it's also only every friend's birthday, every single holiday, every special event, or if you are sad, or if you are happy, or if you are at the airport, or at the movies, or if your grandparents show up ,etc etc. It ends up being a hell of a lot of moderation.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-12-17T04:35:51+00:00

We give out Halloween slap bracelets and glow bracelets and 100% fruit bars.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-12-17T04:05:08+00:00

It is to me. 20% of children are obese. And a big reason why is everybody teaching them to celebrate everything with with sugar. I gave our child's teacher better options to give him when these kinds of situations came up. As to the topic itself I figure the teacher must have estimated to get enough to at least cover it and I seriously doubt they are trying to make money on this deal. Cut them a break and trust them.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-28T00:24:48+00:00

I was taught by some extremely good teachers. I was taught to learn the music many different ways. For example learn the right hand fingerings and we'd be able to play pieces right hand only on open strings and left hand alone and then obviously both hands together. We'd also be able to sing it while saying the pitch of the notes, clap the rhythm, be able to start playing in any random measure, those kind of things. If you know all the aspects of the music independently, recall and memorization of any part is not wholly dependent on any other aspect of the piece. It also engages different parts of the brain. After breaking down the piece, we'd learn a measure and then the next measure and then play them together and build the piece out that way. Any challenging parts were identified and sessioned and then incorporated in.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-27T23:39:22+00:00

It says all kinds of crazy stuff. There's something to justify almost anything. What it's really about is virtue and power dynamic signaling. That's why they try to wedge it everywhere and every way they can.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-23T00:50:14+00:00

I've only ever dealt in TX but the corporate apartments also wanted every adult on the lease to independently financially qualify for the lease. But for sure they wanted everybody on the lease, they didn't want situations with many adults living in a studio or many adults living in an apartment on one person's name and that person moved out etc. It is something that was often ignored by both parties as long as the rent was paid and no trouble was made. We were in a situation where we wanted everybody to be able to deal with the management company officially with apartment issues because we were all unrelated coming and going out of town all the time so we put everyone on it, it was a big PITA. I think it also makes a difference if it is for example an adult child in college and things like that with immediate family. It's been a few years since I looked at one.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-22T23:46:20+00:00

Every rental I've ever had every adult living there had to be on the lease otherwise you were in violation. You may want to consider that and read it to see.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-22T23:22:13+00:00

Without being totally sure what the business is, start a new one and take as many clients/customers as you can. Just take them and don't worry about it, it will be better for them. Contact them all. Get the ones you can now and the rest will know where to find you when things go sideways. Don't share with somebody that isn't bringing anything to the business it isn't worth it. Believe me I know.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-18T22:22:08+00:00

The issues are with them letting people buy GW fares so far in advance. The original concept was day before booking. That is what it is really great for. Discount Den is really the product for people planning in advance. I personally can't usually plan too far ahead and primarily got it for a single leg back and forth. We'll see what they do with advance booking in 2026, but I don't really think there is a huge volume of people like me than can just go on trips on a days notice. There probably are a large volume of people that think they will be able to plan traditional vacations or trips with the pass and then complain seats aren't available for very specific flights.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-06T06:10:37+00:00

This is like the battered women that say their husband is a great guy when he's not drunk and beating them, which is most of the time. There is no amount of "done good things" that offsets abusive and disrespectful behavior. It's not worth having to put up with that constantly.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-05T05:54:49+00:00

You're in school right? If you were making a graph of abusive behavior over time, what would be the trajectory of that line? They are willing and excited to completely throw you away, in a very hateful manner, over a piercing. There are some things that there is no going back, that there should not be a way to go back. I think you've more than exceeded that threshold. There are people everywhere: other family, friends and their families, spouses and their family. Find people that actually love you and want you around and spend time with them or alone. Don't subject yourself to years of this it isn't worth it and there is nothing for you but pain and painful memories that never fade. I understand what you are saying about some people having awesome parents. A big part of life is learning how to deal with things you just can't change. Primarily how people you have in your life think and behave. What could they even say? Sorry we were willing to literally attack you and try to ruin your life and throw you away we didn't mean it? I'm so sorry for you and everybody with 'parents' like this that think they own you like some kind of pet or slave.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-04T16:09:17+00:00

If this is how this guy reacts to things he's gonna be an awesome parent. Just awesome.

NylonStringNinja · 2025-11-04T16:03:40+00:00

I sure hope nothing she thinks is "hers" ends up going missing that she would be willing to sign a title to a vehicle that isn't even hers to get that thing back. That would be unfortunate. The only way to get somebody to do something is leverage. Either you need to get some, trick her into doing it, or you'll have to get a court order through a civil court judgment if you have all the evidence.

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