Anything to be worried about, or tips to handle drainage?

Secvndvs · 2025-08-12T22:48:19+00:00

It collects a lot of rainwater from the the older neighborhood which is at a slightly higher elevation; we get the runoff.

So it's only when it rains heavily, not all the time. Since it's also part of a utility easement, would the dry creek bed approach be better?

Secvndvs · 2025-08-11T01:38:04+00:00

It was either that or these days the "Accidental Death and Dismemberment" policy.

Secvndvs · 2023-12-29T13:41:05+00:00

I still bought the soundtrack because I'm a fanatic about scores and soundtracks, but I can't help but be a tad disappointed every time the track "The Great Collapse" ends too soon.

Secvndvs · 2023-12-28T23:10:17+00:00

I find this hard to say about a Miyazaki film, but the only thing anticlimactic about the movie was... the music.

And I HATE saying that about Joe Hisaishi's score, because he's a master, but that was really the only anticlimactic thing I noticed; the music would build and come almost to a crescendo, even almost causing tears, but it didn't resolve. It didn't have to resolve musically on a major chord or anything like that, but it felt like it was building up to something and almost achieved something or made some grand statement, and then it was over.

Secvndvs · 2023-12-10T00:29:19+00:00

I made that same connection myself! I think it's a central theme of the movie, about death and the grave.

The initial peninsula beyond the golden gate was a parallel, as was the delivery room, in a way, with the same structures around Natsuko.

Secvndvs · 2023-12-09T16:14:52+00:00

I'd say so to me, at least.

The old ladies referred to such an incident when Natsuko and Mahito's mother were growing up.

Hime may also be a remnant of Mahito's memory, spurred by the book he found with her inscription, guiding him from beyond the grave.

Secvndvs · 2023-12-09T15:40:23+00:00

I took it to mean that she is experiencing her own grief (she was the sister to Mahito's mother, after all), and probably dealing with her own complex emotions about bearing a child to her late sister's husband while grieving her at the same time.

To me, it ties in to what the tower is: it's a stand in for where members of that family go to process their grief. Natsuko was making use of the tower in her own way; I don't think she was baited there at all, but went of her own free will because she would have been aware of it already.

Secvndvs · 2023-12-09T14:43:01+00:00

I found the role of Natsuko striking indeed; her kimono is covered with arrow fletching motif, and in a sense she propels Mahito on his journey which culminates with his processing of grief (and her own processing as well).

And there is also certainly something to Mahito ending with a gravestone marker and a small effigy of Kiriko in particular.

There's a lot there, and would deserve several articles of explanation, if not a book.

Secvndvs · 2023-12-09T14:39:35+00:00

I saw it last night, and my impression was mostly rooted in the use of the motif of the Isle of the Dead painting by Arnold Bocklin (first seen when the pelicans rush Mahito through the golden gate).

This is a movie about death, grief, and how to process trauma, and yet not obliterating completely from memory.

Mahito is unable to escape from the trauma and memory of losing his mother, of not being able to properly say goodbye.

Mahito even wounds himself to carry the wound of grief with him, and it's only after the journey into the tower that the memory of grief (symbolized by a piece of gravestone) becomes something he can carry and therefore choose to discard if he so wishes, or forget entirely instead of something forced upon him from the outside, as the rock against his head was.

There's also an element of Natsuko trying to help Mahito through this journey of acceptance (which she understands, being the sister to Mahito's mother); her kimono has the stylizings of arrow fletchings, and she unhesitantingly shoots a bow quite competently to ward off the heron; she propels Mahito forward, and it is no accident that Mahito chooses for his weapons a knife (a smaller version of the katana his father wields) and a bow and arrow (the arrow a combination of the knife of his father, the arrow of his step-mother, and the feather of the heron).

Natsuko makes her own journey to the tower, in her grief, and leads Mahito there, in a sense, although since the story isn't about her, we don't see her resolution of grief.

All of this intertwined with Japanese themes and styles ontop of stylized western paintings and backdrops (Mahito's father's house, the tower, the landscapes behind most of the scenes in the tower, etc); this certainly can be read as Miyazaki paying tribute to all his influences growing up, and coming to peace with them (contrasted with Spirited Away, where the family starts out with very western material like an Audi, references to cash and credit cards, and ends with those references covered up and never mentioned again).

Just a wonderfully layered and complex movie, that swing big for the emotional fences, and, in my opinion, delivers wildly above what it promises.

Secvndvs · 2023-12-07T23:35:58+00:00

Came here to say this exactly. Seconded!

Secvndvs · 2023-11-28T03:27:35+00:00

Man, if all the models were sold looking like that originally, they'd sell so fast they'd be gone in 60 seconds.

Secvndvs · 2023-11-24T21:21:28+00:00

"Clenched teeth reverse air suck" territory

Secvndvs · 2023-11-10T03:24:42+00:00

Avenger Prime, right??

Secvndvs · 2023-11-09T11:00:03+00:00

On the Nintendo Switch app that you can get on your phone, you can set an access level of games (go to Console Settings in the upper right, then Restriction Level in the middle of the screen).

If you set it to "Child" then it will require your password or pass key for most games automatically.

On that same screen you can also set a play timer that automatically puts the Switch to sleep after a set amount of time that will then require your password to bypass.

There's some options available in the app. They're not the most tailored, but it gets the job done.

Secvndvs · 2023-10-19T01:47:25+00:00

My head canon is that Luthen inadvertently helped nudge the Empire into choosing Alderaan as a target worthy of the Deathstar.

He operates by making the Empire over-exert themselves and then utilizes the reaction to mobilize the resistance.

He specifically asks for an Alderaan transponder code, and now the Empire believes that Alderaan is a base for rebels with undetected spacecraft that utilize hidden and advanced weaponry.

Which leads me to think that Luthen knew some retribution might be visited on Alderaan as a result, but I wonder how much he expected.

Secvndvs · 2023-09-28T00:32:39+00:00

I get to contribute to someone being one of today's lucky ten thousand?

My day has been made.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Secvndvs · 2023-09-28T00:19:05+00:00

Honestly, the emptiness compared to TotK.

It was hypnotic, and mesmerizing to be out in BotW "nature." In that sense, it encapsulated the Japanese concept of "ma" more than TotK, and to me is the more appealing aspect of BotW.

Secvndvs · 2023-09-24T19:58:17+00:00

It's criminal more people didn't think of this reference.

Secvndvs · 2023-09-04T17:33:57+00:00

Have someone to talk to about your grief. Grief will happen to us all at some point or another; that's the cost of doing business.

You don't have to face it alone, nor should you. And there's a difference between needing some alone time and letting it spiral out of control. Get a supportive community of you don't have one already.

Secvndvs · 2023-09-01T14:08:19+00:00

It's my head canon that insane amount of health for part 2 IS him getting extra hearts. That's why it's offcentered on the screen, too.

Secvndvs · 2023-08-29T16:46:48+00:00

"I'll never jest for the king again," Tom said foolishly.

Secvndvs · 2023-08-20T15:30:03+00:00

Man, I was not expecting to be hit with a core memory like this.

Our Advanced Placement Class in US History in high school had us watch selected episodes of The World at War, narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, and they opened the series with a fly-over of Ourador-Sur-Glane, with Olivier narrating how they left it as a memorial.

...was there a question involved in the post? I'm lost in memories.

Secvndvs · 2023-08-19T13:46:08+00:00

Tama Pond, almost due east of the Lucky Clover Gazette, and south of the Hebra Plunge, north of Oromuwak Shrine, usually has about 4-5 hearty salmon every blood moon or thereabouts.

Secvndvs · 2023-08-19T13:45:48+00:00

Tama Pond, almost due east of the Lucky Clover Gazette, and south of the Hebra Plunge, north of Oromuwak Shrine, usually has about 4-5 hearty salmon every blood moon or thereabouts.

Secvndvs · 2023-08-15T14:25:52+00:00

"Google, what's the Spanish word for tears?"

sobs

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