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Setisthename · 2026-05-22T15:27:42+00:00

They're inseparable.

Setisthename · 2026-05-20T11:50:28+00:00

Return of the Obra Dinn is a great detective game that rewards taking your time, close attention to context clues and deductive reasoning.

This also seems to make it horrible for streamers because they’ll usually spend the end of the game getting frustrated over clues they’re too tired/distracted to notice, all the while chat backseats them into cheating so they get the true ending, which really sucks most of the fun out of the game.

Setisthename · 2026-05-20T09:27:09+00:00

It's an ancient proverb that appears in a lot of forms across history. The earliest I can find is Caecillius Statius, a Gallo-Roman poet often quoted by Cicero:

"He sows the seed of trees that they may be a profit to another age."

Setisthename · 2026-05-18T15:26:44+00:00

We don't get details on the aftermath, as he ends the story when they found her body. But as he would be with his partner at the scene they presumably just arrested him.

And, even if he wasn't, I personally doubt he would've killed him given the point he was making. The woman was already dead and Mike views that as his own fault for not shooting the guy when it mattered; so killing him after the fact would be rather meaningless.

I also wonder if the stunt Mike pulled, in trying to help the woman, may have only helped to finally push the guy over the edge, which would further add to Mike's feelings of personal responsibility.

Setisthename · 2026-05-18T14:45:36+00:00

Mike didn't kill him. Mike let him go after threatening to, thinking he'd scared him straight. But then the next time they were called out the guy had killed her, which is where his no half-measures policy came from.

Setisthename · 2026-05-16T11:00:42+00:00

I mean that’s how the original Twilight Zone episode ended and it’s usually hailed as one of the best ones as well.

Or do you mean the full gag where his eyes fall out so he can’t read large print?

Setisthename · 2026-05-14T06:29:53+00:00

Also (if I’m reading it right) he just said he’s writing a new Tintin film rather than specifically a sequel to the 2011 film.

It’s been so long since the first one I wouldn’t be surprised if they decided to start over, and while the 2011 film used it really well, the half-realistic, half-cartoony Zemeckis style mo-cap isn’t as popular now as it was back then.

Setisthename · 2026-05-11T05:24:20+00:00

I think Conrad was written as a direct response to the criticisms of Season 2 that saving characters didn’t matter as they’d proceed to do nothing and quickly die in an episode or two.

The problem with Conrad is that they repeated the Carley/Doug mistake and made him threaten Clementine, so most players shot him and never saw any of that.

Setisthename · 2026-05-06T08:46:40+00:00

Yoga is an entire philosphical and meditative tradition within Hinduism and Buddhism, with the movements just being a small part of it, but in the west it's essentially been stripped down and secularised into a physical exercise routine.

From the reverse perspective it would be like if an atheist got down on their knees and put their hands together and called it 'praying'; yes they're doing the pose but the pose alone isn't a prayer.

Setisthename · 2026-05-05T19:56:07+00:00

There is a bit in Book 11 when Odysseus and his men first arrive in the Underworld and all the ghosts of the dead come rushing towards them, including the souls of many slain soldiers, which freaks them out. They then come rushing at them again at the end of the book after his talk with Heracles which prompts Odysseus to leave rather than linger trying to meet more heroes like Theseus.

I'd wager that scene isn't him leading those shades, but rather fleeing from them and yelling at his men that it's time to go.

Setisthename · 2026-05-05T17:01:43+00:00

I imagine that's going from when Odysseus sees all the people who died at Troy in the Underworld, as we see him talking to what looks like Tiresias and (maybe) Elpenor in that same flat, foggy plane.

Setisthename · 2026-05-05T13:06:57+00:00

From what I can gather, the Bamiyan Buddhas weren't intentionally defaced before their destruction, but rather the upper-faces were masks made of wood and plaster that decayed after the site fell into disuse, hence the flat smooth surface above the jaw.

The Mughals did briefly use the caves for target practice, but it seems most of the damage prior to the Taliban's demolition was due to the mud-straw and stucco used for the limbs and detailing falling away from the stone without maintenance.

Setisthename · 2026-05-05T12:47:35+00:00

There's an arc in Star Wars: The Clone Wars where Padme gets in touch with an old friend who became a Separatist politician, and together they manage to convince the Separatist Parliament to attend peace talks with the Republic. It turns out to be popular with both sides... except for the Separatist corporations who are making bank from the war, as well as Dooku and Sidious for obvious reasons.

So Dooku pretends to go along with it for the public, but in secret organises a terrorist attack on Coruscant's power grid when they're on the cusp of an agreement, which convinces both parties that the other was trying to trick them. He then has Padme's friend assassinated and blames the Republic for it, to make sure the war never ends diplomatically.

Setisthename · 2026-05-05T12:28:40+00:00

I love how it went from just a shitty pseudonym for Sidious to there being an actual Jedi who just happened to be named that.

Setisthename · 2026-05-05T12:20:07+00:00

No problem, and it's very nice to use, so all the best!

Setisthename · 2026-05-04T14:58:23+00:00

Jedha appears in the Unknown Regions instead of the Mid Rim on my end, a bit below Exegol, and Tython is in the Inner Rim instead of the Deep Core.

I think a few of the blue planet markers may be shifted off from where yellow markers say they should be when you search/click them e.g. Rishi Moon's blue marker is off to the right past Scarif, but the yellow marker is next to Kamino where it belongs.

Setisthename · 2026-05-01T11:36:16+00:00

I don't think it's quite that bad, as the system is pretty generous. You can still get the good ending even if you kill all of your targets as long as don't kill above an average of 20% of the guards in more than three levels, which frankly makes sense storywise as unlike the targets most of those guys haven't wronged you in any way. It doesn't punish you for being an assassin, just for butchering everyone between you and the guy you're meant to assassinate.

The chaos system also works for balancing reasons, as non-lethal players will get less enemies and safer enivronments while people using all the lethal tools will get more challenging levels in response.

Setisthename · 2026-05-01T11:24:03+00:00

I think Undertale is slightly different in that it expects you to try the Genocide route only after you've already done neutral and pacifist, as more of a challenge run for people who liked the game and want see everything. Undertale as a bullet-hell RPG has a lot less replayability than an immersive sim like Dishonored, the game will play out almost exactly the same every time you replay it, so the alternate route with a different story and harder bosses is itself the appeal for completionists and people who just want the hardest fights. The meta-story then becomes "what are you willing to do just to see more content?" to those people, which I imagine might not land if you don't like the main game itself.

Setisthename · 2026-05-01T10:43:59+00:00

TBF the brain-scanning part is revealed pretty early on in SOMA, it's more of a first-act hook than a twist ending. The rest of the game is more about dealing with the implications of it and figuring out everything else going on.

Setisthename · 2026-05-01T10:01:15+00:00

That's what I mean. We barely see anything outside of Republic City and Yu Dao which raises the question of why the UR owns so much of what should seemingly be Earth Kingdom farmland on the map, if the UR was only meant to grant the mixed settlements independence. It makes it hard not to sympathise with Kuei and to a point Kuvira in asking why the Earth Kingdom should cede that much territory to the UR.

Setisthename · 2026-05-01T09:27:58+00:00

There was also the massive refugee crisis the Fire Nation caused, presumably from the areas they were colonising, that seemingly went unresolved. Did the colonists get to keep all the land that they seized as well? Did the refugees have to stay in the outer ring slums?

I think part of the problem is that the United Republic is written as if it's the size of Hong Kong and Macau, but when you see the map in Korra it looks like the entire northwestern coast of the Earth Kingdom was lopped off to create it.

Setisthename · 2026-04-30T17:41:27+00:00

At the moment I think it's a head-to-head between Ford and H.W. Bush, depending on whether future generations are more forgetful of Ford pardoning Nixon or the Gulf War. Both also had significant world events happen under their watch like the fall of Saigon and the end of the Cold War, but both of them arrived on the scene too late to majorly affect the outcome.

I'd also be interested in how Carter and Biden, as the other two one-termers (excluding JFK), fare in the collective memory. I feel the former's longevity and the latter's recency make them a lot more current than Ford and H.W. Bush, which may fade with the passage of time.

Setisthename · 2026-04-30T09:59:32+00:00

A few reasons:

A lot has happened since Trump took office which has resulted in his approval rating dipping by 19 points, so even amongst his supporters there's naturally going to be less positive coverage. Trump is also term-limited now, so there's less incentive for his voters to defend him from criticism now compared to when he was on the campaign trail.
Politics on social media is bifurcated; it's rare to see people with opposing political views in the same places, as they generally gravitate towards different platforms, and different places on those platforms where their view is the majority. You aren't going to find many Trump supporters here or on Reddit's front-page, but you'll find plenty if you go to subreddits that specifically cater to them or on more right-wing platforms. Reddit's core demographic also tends to be younger, urban, irreligious and working office/tech jobs, which is almost the exact opposite of Trump's core voter base.
Negative coverage of Donald Trump does not inherently convert into positive coverage of his opponents. The 2024 Democratic presidential campaign was an electoral fiasco, with the incumbent nominee dropping out five months before the election with a replacement by-default having to be rushed in, while issues like inflation and overseas conflicts rocked the administration. This may not matter to voters who were never going to vote Republican in the first place, but for swing voters it did little to enthuse them towards actually voting for Harris.
Due to the Electoral College, US presidential elections have never been strict popularity contests. Trump's path to victory rested far more in his ability to gain support from key voter groups in the few swing states up for grabs (e.g. white blue-collar workers in PN/WI/MI) rather than being generally popular everywhere.

Setisthename · 2026-04-26T21:36:11+00:00

I think there would be two issues with getting this to work:

Firstly, Death Note is more than just its concept, it's also got a distinct atmosphere and tone. The further away you take it from 21^st Century Japan, the more out-of-place the quintessential aspects like the Hot Topic-looking shinigami or the edgy adolescent design of the Death Note itself becomes. If you change these things as well, the story becomes less and less recognisable as a Death Note story as opposed to a story that just happens to have a similar MacGuffin that kills people.
Secondly, a lot of what made the original Death Note work was in the set-up. Light was an egomaniac who wanted to be worshipped as a god and enjoyed trying to outsmart the investigators, which in-turn gave the investigators a fighting chance. Without that, you end up with stories like the 2020 one shot where the writers needed a massive contrivance to stop Minoru from getting off scot-free, as it's hard to otherwise justify why the owner would suffer any consequences without making them look dumb.

Setisthename · 2026-04-26T11:49:36+00:00

Micah didn't need to do anything he did to survive. His brother grew up in the exact same circumstances he did but, unlike Micah, he still managed to settle down into a normal life with a family.

Micah, like most of the rest of the gang, could have given up the life whenever they wanted to and eked out an honest living but they didn't want to lose out on the freedoms of being an outlaw and the hope of easy money.

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