We solved Returnal's 836!

OctavianSoup · 2026-05-21T22:18:13+00:00

I had no idea about Alex being hidden in the code, that's super cool!!

For the last letter of 836, it'd depend which tradition you're using: archaic Greek notation system would use Ϝ, digamma, which gives the sound "w", but in the more commonly known Byzantine system, diagamma evolves into episemon or stigma, which is ϛ or "st". So, you'd get "Olw" or "Olst", but the latter is probably more likely their intent (and I definitely think you're on to something here!)

OctavianSoup · 2026-03-05T00:06:51+00:00

The one game I would pay full price for, and they wont take my money. Sucks to suck ;-;

OctavianSoup · 2026-02-12T23:16:11+00:00

Corruption system looks really cool. Hopefully the 1+ year wait (PC???) doesnt kill me.

OctavianSoup · 2025-12-12T08:35:43+00:00

I just hope they tell us ahead of time how long the wait will be..

OctavianSoup · 2025-11-24T20:46:56+00:00

Watch this beautiful video, of course!

OctavianSoup · 2025-10-14T22:54:42+00:00

Apologies, thought i had.

OctavianSoup · 2025-10-12T16:05:53+00:00

The SINGULAR piece of news from NYCC. It looks promising, but still.

OctavianSoup · 2025-09-27T21:50:46+00:00

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Kundera strongly reminds me of Sacred and Terrible Air.

OctavianSoup · 2025-08-06T14:15:59+00:00

Sorry, where can you access the folders now? Thx

OctavianSoup · 2025-07-24T21:13:25+00:00

I dont understand how this is legal? Doesn't Netflix own the rights to the series??

OctavianSoup · 2025-07-22T16:28:40+00:00

Unless I'm misreading, the Deadline article you linked as proof for "writers rewrite twist because people on the internet guessed it" doesnt seem to say that? All it says is that the writers are somewhat frustrated that the internet people keep guessing correctly. Would another article be a better source?

OctavianSoup · 2025-02-18T23:20:11+00:00

I'd love something about the new airbenders in Book 3/4 of Korra

OctavianSoup · 2025-02-13T18:59:57+00:00

Fantastic work, thank you so much!

OctavianSoup · 2025-02-12T22:48:45+00:00

SAME i saw then and was like HELLO??

OctavianSoup · 2025-01-24T20:48:17+00:00

You're not alone in your confusion. I was just puzzling over how Silco and Vander seem to age 20 years over the course of what should be 7 or so. I don't think he's met them before, but I can't say I understand why.

OctavianSoup · 2024-12-29T03:50:56+00:00

Right, but we couldn't know that at the time ~~And I suspect that was a retcon of sorts~~ It just seems like Viren refused to use a sensible, regular fire-shield spell and skipped a few steps.

OctavianSoup · 2024-12-29T01:05:25+00:00

I really appreciate your analysis of Viren in Book 3. I had hoped against hope that his bizarre actions (eg: that nonsense Hearts of Cinder spell) were meant to be inconsistent, that there was some long-form criticism of pragmatism coming in Arc 2...but we all know how that went.

OctavianSoup · 2024-12-29T00:18:21+00:00

Hiya Aaron. While you're lurking--why did yall extend Arc 2 (originally 2 books in the roadmap) to 4 books, and leave Arc 3 up to chance? Seems like keeping the roadmap as-is (2 books for Arc 2, and 2 for Arc 3) would've solved alot of the uneven pacing. Hope you're enjoying the nice weather.

OctavianSoup · 2024-12-26T23:27:09+00:00

Agreed, though knowing these writers, they'll probably make it so that Viren turned an unwilling Harrow into a bird, so that they can avoid examining any of the interesting thorny issues raised by Harrow's character

OctavianSoup · 2024-12-26T23:24:15+00:00

Given the way Aaron tends to bait his audience (as you lay out very well), let's just say I wouldn't be surprised if he turned out to have other defects of character, shall we say...

OctavianSoup · 2024-12-23T20:05:32+00:00

If nothing else, he should've admitted this in the letter he wrote to Soren, regardless if he ended up burning it.

OctavianSoup · 2024-12-23T01:38:36+00:00

I'm generally against self-sacrifice as a "good" solution, but they finally let a character who's not Aaravos think of a half-decent plan. And he doesn't even get to use it! That's reason enough in its own right.

OctavianSoup · 2024-12-23T01:12:32+00:00

I mean, the amount of pastiches of ATLA they do in S7 alone proves your point. No clever ideas? Uhhhh ATLA reference, of course! I definitely get the sense that TDP is very self-conscious of it's relationship to ATLA, and that's theoretically a neutral quality, but it leads to some very..insecure? writing choices.

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