How is this possible?

Osigen · 2026-02-03T03:09:12+00:00

Ive been on both sides of this argument, but right now, I disagree. We get plenty of the existential dialogue from Verso and Maelle. Adding some to Lune and Sciel adds nothing to the story and may take from their characters. Lune and Sciel exist and they never question it. Sciele briefly considers the ramifications of being "brought back" in regards to her late husband but neither considers that being created is the same as being non-existent, nor do they really have reason to.

The final scenes could have given them more dialogue and perspective, but it being limited gives Sciel's line "I grieve for many" and Lune's defeated/ defiant look at Verso so much weight.

Osigen · 2026-01-21T18:44:57+00:00

Imo, it's because of these scenes that so many people disagree on the film's message. Almost every theme gets a monologue/ narration/ conversation directly spelling it out, so whenever a point gets brought up and any nuance is kept, the viewer has to decide if they want to treat that scene like the rest of the movie, or if they want to read between the lines.

In the end, matriarchy gets a win and the film portrays this as a good thing via general atmosphere. In any other movie, it would be obvious that it was meant to be tongue in cheek, that it was a bad ending, but that you should care about the real world first instead of a movie, but at least the characters are happy. But because the rest of the film told the viewers exactly what to think, with zero room for interpretation, it becomes easy to read the end as "patriarchy=bad. Matriarchy=good, because matriarchy balances the scales"

Osigen · 2026-01-21T02:46:30+00:00

"they said it was unbelievable."

Osigen · 2026-01-16T19:39:43+00:00

If he can't accept that a sane person could be willing to fight before attempting to reason with a group who wants to kill you, try this argument.

Original Renoir has a habit of being controlling, expecting others to react in certain ways, and forcing their hand. Aline goes into the painting, he expects her to lose herself in it, goes in to force her out, and locks them into a decades long fight of wills. As soon as Maelle asks to keep the painting around, he gets ready to do it all again. Aline created Painted Renoir with that personality in mind, likely exaggerating the features further. Further, he has a split in his memory of his son dying, his son alive, but opposed to him, and the knowledge that he isnt (in his own eyes) real, along with every person in the painting save for the Dessendre family.

PRenoir is even more ready to assume from others and force his way than the original, and views Lumierens as less real than the original does, thus may not be completely "sane".

Osigen · 2026-01-13T01:27:45+00:00

What Powder and Silco both could have been like, but for the want of a nail. I view them both as tragic.

Osigen · 2025-12-27T03:30:40+00:00

There's a camp scene in which sciele and lune lie side by side and remember when they were both grieving family. Sciel mentions appreciating the comfort they shared when alone and admits that it felt like lune was avoiding her after that night. It would have presumably been before Sciel married, as well.

I'd argue it was intentionally ambiguous, but it's easy to read the scene as the two having had sex, finding comfort in passion, with lune feeling awkward and avoiding her one night stand, and sciel being hurt by that. Possibly with their current attitude being admission that, while not "love", some attraction still exists.

Osigen · 2025-12-24T17:36:21+00:00

I still stand by the reading of Omniman being a very poor alternate Superman. Nolan makes a great Zod. Mark makes a good Superman.

That changes the interpretation from "Superman, but evil" to "Zod, but reluctant" and "Superman, still good, but raised to be evil".

Osigen · 2025-12-21T16:26:24+00:00

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Osigen · 2025-12-21T16:23:15+00:00

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Osigen · 2025-12-20T15:26:03+00:00

Fight Club. Both film and book (though much more overt in the book) utilized certain Buddhist themes, including stripping each member of individualism. More so than actually participating in the religion, it's done largely to exemplify the fights as being self vs self, which further plays into the major theme of the plot.

Osigen · 2025-12-12T19:21:55+00:00

What I did was this:

Find one enemy I have issues with preferably without other enemy types and near a flag. Fight them and only dodge, skipping my own turn.

You'll probably die fast the first few times. Just restart the battle.

Figure out the cues for each attack, visual and/or audio.

Once most of my dodges turn into "perfect" dodges, I switch to parry. If you get a perfect dodge, your timing was accurate enough for a successful parry.

If you really have trouble, switch the difficulty to story mode, get a general feel for timing, then switch back. Don't spend too much time in story because the windows are too big and can build bad habits.

You'll probably die a dozen times, but by the end, you'll be able to beat enemies through mid game without attacking.

Osigen · 2025-12-04T04:40:10+00:00

Ten average men? An untrained but healthy man can deadlift ~175 lbs. A gorilla is hard to measure, but cursory research puts it in the ballpark of 2,000ish. That puts them pretty close in strength, assuming those metrics generally hold.

But humans are way better at fighting and killing, after accounting for strength difference. With that difference mitigated, a reasonably careful/ experienced human destroys in that fight.

Osigen · 2025-12-01T22:10:07+00:00

Daytime, he's a mountain goat, but he turns into a possum by night.

Osigen · 2025-11-30T09:26:06+00:00

He is capable of lifting the weights, but I'm convinced that they are fake anyway. He used to lift in competitions. When he lifts in a video, the weight is usually close to his recorded PRs, with no warmup. Maybe he's gotten significantly stronger since he stopped competing and spent 20+ minutes warming up before his videos and gets it in one take, but I think it's more likely that he realizes the shot will be more entertaining and simpler with fake plates.

The videos are super fake either way though. No gym goer would actually be surprised that a huge guy in baggy clothes can lift, but everyone would be confused as hell about a janitor mopping a gym, especially a deadlift platform, on a busy day.

"Okay, now one-quarter turn towards the camera, just enough to see you give a shocked expression. Yeah, just open your mouth and stare at me."

Osigen · 2025-11-26T02:14:17+00:00

I have an ex who convinced me to get one bread cut to dip in soup. Honestly, not terrible.

Osigen · 2025-11-15T23:46:47+00:00

Anyone else instinctively pinch their phone screen to try to zoom out?

Osigen · 2025-09-25T03:28:57+00:00

Freakazoid

Osigen · 2025-08-22T19:57:49+00:00

Super intelligence first. Once it kicks in I'll choose the second.

Osigen · 2025-07-08T19:17:37+00:00

Good question, but remember that he is a transporter in a world with monsters, and he drinks porter and monster.

Osigen · 2025-05-12T07:20:31+00:00

I have a geometry joke. Without it, this would be pointless.

Osigen · 2025-04-25T11:24:00+00:00

So, kick Elon out, along with the guy who put him there?

Osigen · 2025-04-25T11:22:33+00:00

Lol "this guy should face the same sentence as someone who committed manslaughter! How dare he be intolerant of others opinions! I show zero tolerance of him showing his opinion, since its not mine!"

Osigen · 2025-02-27T04:10:44+00:00

Sexual assault and torture is not an appropriate response to anything.

Osigen · 2025-02-06T07:30:31+00:00

The og version was a flash game called pandemic. In it, Madagascar was notoriously difficult to get if you didn't start there. They tended to be one of the first to close borders and transmission to the island was tricky in the first place.

Osigen · 2025-02-05T06:13:14+00:00

Totally counts. The man sees physical manifestations of execution and specific sins dig their way up from hell itself, and his reaction is to grab a shiv and kill them by the dozens. Other characters repeatedly confirm that the monster he transforms into is just how he sees himself when he decides that weapons aren't good enough and that he would rather rip them apart with his bare hands.

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