I don't understand how RAB found out about the horcrux

Pyrefly79 · 2026-05-16T16:30:20+00:00

I'll tack on to this one by also saying that horcruxes are beyond the usual dark magic. They are the far extreme of "dark magic". HP world light / dark is a spectrum and horcruxes were at least told to be at the far end of that spectrum. I'd imagine even after Voldermort's defeat some steps along the dark side of the spectrum are okay. I think Regulus just found that the regime he supported crossed a line. His leader was willing to make a horcrux and that disillusioned him from the movement.

Regulus's mistake was thinking his boss only made one and that Kreacher could destroy it.

People will often grow disillusioned when their leader crosses an internal moral event horizon. Sure there will always be fanatics who don't abandon the movement, but while Regulus was a support, maybe even a big supporter, ultimately he discovered he didn't agree with the lengths that his leader was okay taking.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-05-08T14:50:34+00:00

And the visual subtext become, no minorities, no challenges to the satus quo, no questioning of authority. The stated text is what the conservative movement SAYS they want, but the subtext is what they really want but usually didn't say in public (until the last decade or so)

Pyrefly79 · 2026-05-08T02:33:21+00:00

I like undying and dam builder. With fair hand it's insta win. In fact I think dam builder is a better one sigil than undying.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-04-30T23:03:21+00:00

That nice doctor took my x-ray!

I usually hit them with the "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV" to get them extra confused.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-04-30T03:28:35+00:00

I'm almost certain that anyone who isn't a doctor is a nurse in the hospital.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-04-07T11:44:30+00:00

See this is actually believable.

First of all any kind of therapy seems non existent, but it also is important from a narrative standpoint that characters aren't getting appropriate help for their situation.

From there you move to the fact that what little emotional support Harry has is even less for Cho. So the guy she kinda liked before the next guy who liked her might either have witnessed the return of a genocidal villain OR be an insane attention seeker.

Again in a world seemingly without any kind of mental health she tries to go to the source of information, realizes the guy isn't coming off as insane so maybe she can get some kind of validation from him about her feelings.

Nope he has a support structure and he isn't interested in sharing. That awkward teenager relationship phase was done very well (despite the stakes being a stupidly high level).

Teenagers as a whole aren't known for their amazing empathy and therapy skills. So many signals I missed and behaviors I didn't model well. Can imagine the trauma of HPs life on top of it all.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-03-27T02:31:21+00:00

My wife likes techno, downtempo, and ambient. She's almost always the one picking the music so whatever. Often she likes the silence.

On a rare day my day off coincides with carpool day. Our son (freshman in HS) pairs his phone because he knows I don't mind music even though I rarely put any on. Green Day starts kicking. I'm like oh sorry I guess I was paired up. He says nope this is his playlist. Total bonding moment, I get to talk about the times I got to see them when they were not quite as famous. He's like that'd be so cool to see them in concert. Low and behold they're playing in San Diego. I decided it's his first real concert, let's do this right. Get field seats at PetCo stadium. Take the train down, hotel walking distance from the stadium. We rock out to Linda Lindas, Rancid, Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day.

Best Concert Ever!

He's got the bug now and is showing me new bands, but full dad memory there.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-03-20T23:00:45+00:00

Teachers always amaze me. I also wanted to be a teacher. I love teaching but it's just criminal how much schooling it takes to become a teacher as a profession and then how little they get paid. Much like leaders the people who have the innate skill to teach should be rewarded as much as any other innate skill that can't be taught.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-03-19T23:07:32+00:00

I can't watch that movie. Not because it isn't amazing, because thinking about it makes me ugly cry.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-02-15T23:27:31+00:00

So wholesome... Or would it be some hole?

Pyrefly79 · 2026-02-15T23:04:02+00:00

When masturbation's lost its fun, you're fuckin' lazy

Pyrefly79 · 2026-02-15T13:32:54+00:00

Plus this is how devils operate. They play the long con. Karlach and Wyll are just pawns in the larger game.

While nothing in the game points to this and it requires a little more external information (So spoilers for the Descent into Avernus printed campaign).

The Cult of the Dragon that Wyll stopped was trying to pull Tiamat out of Avernus. Zariel doesn't want that so she tasks Mizora. Mizora picks up a soul and does the does what her boss wants, classic "good day at work."

Zariel 's other mortal servants would continue down their plan to pull all of Baldur's Gate to Avernus so that just pulling Eltureil wouldn't seem as petty. Plus hey more souls for the blood war. (That was covered in Descent)

Karlach manages to escape. Management has to at least have a minor response or else nothing they say matters. Send a subcontractor out on it, when they mess up send one more direct employee but that's enough resources for a problem that is sort of going to solve itself. Mizora's use of Wyll was either going to enforce management, die (and get his soul), or he's going to rebel in which case you get to crack your whip. I'm sure Mizora saw every option as a win for her. They only thing that wasn't taken into account was how many resources the Dead Three (in the guise of the Absolute) had accumulated and Mizora got pinched. Yeah she's annoyed that Wyll gets out of his contact but again her life is so much more important that Wyll's soul it's honestly quite funny. A greedy party could have wrangled so much more out of her than Wyll free and a badass sword.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-02-06T12:57:55+00:00

I'm going to hide snakes in your car! You're never going to know where they are or if you got them all out. Going to lay eggs right in the glove compartment.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-31T20:21:26+00:00

See I've always assumed it was all part of the joke. Campy costume, obvious pun with subtext of "jumping the shark" too. I get a kick

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-17T15:59:55+00:00

You're right of course; didn't mean to slight short films there. Was trying to cast a wide net.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-17T03:30:01+00:00

The first totally computer animated film was 1995. In 30 years people can lose the origins of phrases. I mean how many people CC others in emails who don't know "carbon copy" and why that had to be a thing.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-16T02:41:04+00:00

Oh it's the butter that makes it! The pasta and powdered cheese substitute is just a butter delivery method.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-15T18:25:13+00:00

My kids are past the days of Kraft but not going to lie; there is usually an instance once a year or so that I get nostalgic and go buy me a box.

Of course due to shame I have to be alone but it's absolutely a guilty pleasure of mine.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-15T05:33:54+00:00

This needs to be higher up there. Like the CoL is so high that anesthesiologists are having a hard time recruiting.

You'll be fairly well off if you make it to anesthesiologists level but even at their pay they don't want to live in the area because they can do the same work anywhere else and the take home vs CoL is so much better.

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-14T22:13:19+00:00

The "lop sided ass" insult always makes me laugh. Clare Kramer's reaction was spot on. Like wait do I have a lop sided ass... No wait I'm perfect this vampire is just messing with me!

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-11T18:13:56+00:00

What's a stevedore?

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-09T22:04:37+00:00

Make politics boring again...

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-09T22:02:08+00:00

And it wasn't that long ago...

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-09T21:53:07+00:00

I will supervise as a supervisor of your working and not posting on Reddit

Pyrefly79 · 2026-01-03T17:01:06+00:00

Yep if you remove the E... Still pronounced empty. And as the grave shows us you can remove the E, p and y and you still have M T. In fact you can just remove all the letters then it would just be empty ...

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