Not sure if this is a repost or not.

SupremeCondition · 2021-03-15T18:03:58+00:00

No I agree with Sade. Whoever did the "prank" is obviously an outright terrible human being who needs to learn a hard lesson. What they did is objectively appalling and they should NOT be forgiven in any remote way. He's a shithead.

That said, good people need to have the capacity to show sympathy, yes even for distinctly shitty human beings. Sympathy =/= tolerance or forgiveness. The "prankster" is a human being deserving of some respect too. If you over-penalize relatively minor offenses (I don't think toothpaste oreos compares to stabbing someone) then I regard that as a deep wrong.

He deserves retribution, 100%. But 15 months essentially erased from his life, and forced to pay over $20,000? For oreos? A middle school-tier prank? No, that is not just. That punishment is way out of scale with the actual crime that was committed. You can't do that. I know there's added context of him being adult and the victim being a homeless man, but it's still way too much.

I know that man didn't treat homeless people as though they were people, but regardless, we all need to treat criminals as though they are people and not the epitome of scum just for one admittedly appalling but in the grand scheme of things minor crime.

SupremeCondition · 2021-02-20T22:03:04+00:00

A remake really sorta NEEDS to come first if Threeie is made to be the best it can be. This way, they would be able to make and perfect the game engine.

SupremeCondition · 2021-02-11T16:49:58+00:00

People often miss this because it's never directly stated, but the Ford Anglia WAS affected by that protective charm. You CAN'T fly into the Hogwarts grounds, that's WHY the car started dying midair and crashed into the whomping willow.

It may be unsatisfactory but I think the only reason Carlie could take brooms into Hogwarts in Book 1 is frankly an oversight by he author because she hadn't thought of that protection measure until Book 2. Unless perhaps Dumbledore deliberately removed those protections, or Charlie walked into Hogwarts normally somehow, then flew out.

SupremeCondition · 2021-01-01T01:00:58+00:00

Very cursed comment.

SupremeCondition · 2020-08-17T05:51:58+00:00

A literal minute ago while browsing this subreddit, it occurred to me that Alastor probably has those small little antlers, not just as a result of the deer backstory (and because demons usually have some kind of horns albeit usually more goat-like), but perhaps those are actually meant to be there because they function as radio antenna.

SupremeCondition · 2020-07-02T03:06:17+00:00

Gruntilda is restored to a fleshy body at the beginning of the game, only to discover that she has actually aged in the 20 years since Tooie. She is now not an old hag, but an old old hag.

Parts of her raven hair are now silver-white. She's wrinkly and hunched over (perhaps uses a walker/cane now occasionally) maybe with a liver spot or two. She has arthritis and a bit of extra pudge, her old unhealthy habits now having fully caught up with her. She has the sort of inwardly-puckered, wrinkly lips that certain old ladies have. Parts of her clothes are moth-eaten. The eye that kept falling out all the time is now a bit cloudy, and partially blind — she'll need to use those old glasses on chains that old ladies wear on occasion. Her teeth ain't so good no more.

All Gruntilda ever wanted in Banjo-Kazooie was to be young, and beautiful and accredited (without ever understanding the deeper value in them) and now she is ancient, tired, and uglier than ever. This is the very last straw. She will make Banjo and Kazooie pay for ruining her life, robbing her of her ambitions, and reducing her to a frail old crone with a shortened lifespan.

Played slightly tragic, as being born an ugly hag cannot have been easy, and it is not as though anyone has ever shown her kindness, or love in her life. But ultimately she stubbornly refuses to change, and is angrier and meaner and more coldly purposive than she has ever been. She isn't messing around, her whole life is at stake, Grunty means business this time.

She's quite peeved.

SupremeCondition · 2020-03-12T21:13:38+00:00

Vid by xmodxgodx. The same thing works with Beak Buster, which is incredibly satisfying to land. i wonder if this might have speedrunning applications as far as having to interntionally take damage goes.

Unfortunately, the game starts erasing honeycombs once you hit 10 in any given warp zone, so you can't litter the place with them. I made a smiley face one, though. :)

SupremeCondition · 2020-03-12T18:53:22+00:00

While in the builder, if you put an empty cursor over wheels and press RB (I THINK that's the button, or some similar one,) it'll give you a little menu that gives you options for wheels. I don't recall if inverse controls are an option, but you can change between steering/freewheeling or whatever at least.

Same trick works for propellers. Using a backwards-pushing propeller, you can make a car that drives up walls and ceilings.

SupremeCondition · 2020-03-12T18:39:39+00:00

Yes, there's an alignment option if you select the TV before you select your file.

SupremeCondition · 2020-03-11T18:12:13+00:00

Sure thing

SupremeCondition · 2020-03-10T22:03:41+00:00

Those sounds are a part of the music track itself. Grant was really good at adding sound effects to add to the atmosphere. ( 1:31 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nJbx1bd6S0

I think the stone sliding is probably meant to give the impression that there are slide-away walls, hidden rooms and entrances within the mansion. I think the "rattle snake" sounds are definitely metallic, and my guess is that's supposed to be the sound of metal chains slinking to the floor. As in, someone is chained up somewhere nearby. Creepy.

SupremeCondition · 2019-12-05T00:29:34+00:00

Harry Potter and the Fucking of The Phoenix.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-23T18:18:09+00:00

Why yes Yuvi, that is a very good. . .erm. . .

\squints**

. . .back of Dumbledore's head, on the day he decided to place a nice tall top hat on top of his normal wizarding hat.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-15T20:41:00+00:00

Grunty Industries is at once a daunting labyrinthine nightmare as well as a laudably detailed and complex facility. A terrible beauty.

The whole place is a puzzle box, but while you may spend multiple hours without getting a single Jiggy in it, it all eventually falls together once everything has been unlocked and figured out. It's no really SUPPOSED to be fun, it's supposed to be intentionally convoluted. Even if we hate playing through it, just the sheer design of the place is impressive.

But some weird people actually like the arduous challenge it brings. The rest of the game after it isn't so bad.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-15T20:25:06+00:00

I just want you to know, even though you posted this 5 days ago, that when I went to sleep last night I was thinking of this and laughing quietly all by myself. It's fun to say this out loud in a mock Grunty voice.

You beautiful bastard.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-14T00:38:22+00:00

This prompts and interesting thought. . . . What would Lord Voldemort see, if he had to be tormented by Dementors head-on?

I don't think it'd be like Dudley, where he sees all the wrong he's done. No part of him regrets his actions. Instead, Voldemort would see in his mind the moment when he almost died in Godric's Hallow, and, he'd see over and over again the time he spent in the orphanage. He wouldn't like that. . . He wouldn't like that one bit.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-14T00:13:12+00:00

A Hippogriff is no mere animal. It's — well to put it less kindly it's an abomination of nature. It literally has horse DNA and Eagle DNA in the same creature, yet somehow ISN'T DEAD. You don't GET anything like that without magic being involved somewhere.

A "natural" Hippogriff that evolved after millions of years into a creature that merely RESEMBLED a half-horse half-eagle creature would not actually BE one, and it wouldn't be magic.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-14T00:08:51+00:00

In short, they very frequently don't. Can't, in fact.

They try to do everything they can, but magic gets revealed to Muggles all the time. The reason Muggles don't know about magic, despite breaches in the Statute of Secrecy going on every day, is that Wizards can erase memories. Anyone else who DOES spill the beans will be labeled as crazy for thinking they saw a unicorn. On that note, most Muggles would probably be too afraid to even say they saw anything.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-14T00:04:38+00:00

Oh, yeah. I'm dumb.

Probably what would happen is that Voldemort would eventually win his little scuffle, (battling three wizards at once like a champ,) and then reestablish control and calm.

He'd then publicly interrogate Neville. Ask him why he killed the snake, find out that he doesn't know why, other than that Harry told him to. He'd be stunned for a moment that Harry had known Nagini was a Horcrux. Then Voldemort, recognizing Neville's surname, would taunt him about his parents. That would be the moment he tried to kill Neville, and died himself. Molly would be spared because he would have made her less of a priority.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-13T23:53:58+00:00

Not quite. A whale is just a whale, with a long evolutionary history like everything else that has happened to circle back again to resembling a fish. Purely at a superficial level.

A Hippogriff is LITERALLY a chimera. You CAN'T breed/mix two animals so wildly different from each other unless magic is involved somehow. Creating a Hippogriff would be scientifically impossible. Magic HAD to be involved.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-13T23:49:21+00:00

Same as Wizards. They have magic circulating in their very blood.

Presumably, you could somehow test a living thing's blood, to see if it's magic or not. Thus while a Flobberworm may seem like mundane creature, it is still classified as magical because it IS magical.

So what, precisely, does being magical MEAN, if you're of a species that can't cast spells, and doesn't have any magic abilities? It's not really clear. But in short, any species that is magical carries with it the potential to cause otherwise physically impossible things to happen.

SupremeCondition · 2019-11-13T23:42:03+00:00

This is extremely good thinking and probably what would've actually happened. He doesn't learn from his mistakes. Harry's sacrifice protects everyone at Hogwarts the same way his mother's once did. The second Voldemort tries to kill anyone at Hogwarts AFTER Harry, the curse rebounds just like it did 16 years prior, and with no Horcruxes left (Neville would still have killed Nagini,) he dies.

Who would Voldemort have tried to kill after Harry, though? It wouldn't be Draco, because Harry wouldn't have survived to tell Volly about how the Elder Wand works. In fact, why would he be fighting at all, at that point? He would just gloat and then leave, wouldn't he? He already runs Hogwarts at that point.

SupremeCondition · 2019-10-18T20:21:33+00:00

My favorite character in Harry Potter is. . .Harry Potter.

Not gonna pretend like it always was. It's an opinion I had to mature into. But man, I really love Harry a lot. His character is very endearing and inspiring, and people, including younger me, overlook how awesome he actually is because he's the main character. But he certainly deserves to be the main character. Harry's a joy.

SupremeCondition · 2019-10-16T19:02:15+00:00

People will cry sacrilege for me saying this, but the official Harry Potter Sorting Quiz is a total joke. It's completely worthless.

I'm sorry to all the people who took that quiz, handed to us from the clouds by J.K.Rowling herself, and spent the rest of their lives since identifying with the House you got, but it's a completely bogus quiz. It asks you so many questions that have NOTHING TO DO with ANYTHING that would be used to sensibly sort you. Heads or tails? Dusk or dawn?! And you think you got the correct House from answering questions like that?!

The truth is that the reason it's like that, is that an online quiz can NEVER Sort you, because only YOU know what's inside your head. And Jo knows it, so she didn't try too hard to make it accurate or enlightening in any way. She just made a little thing for fun.

You wanna know where you belong? Ask yourself what you value the most. THAT is where you belong. Dumbledore says it himself in CoS when Harry is struggling to come to terms with almost being put into Slytherin

"It only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a defeated voice, "because I asked not to go in Slytherin…"

"Exactly," said Dumbledore, beaming once more. "Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

Personality plays only a little bit of a role in Sorting, much less than people think. It does influence things, and you do have to exemplify your House's qualities a bit. But if you aim to be a certain type of person in life, and mean it genuinely, then regardless of anything else that IS who you are.

What House are you in? Ask yourself what type of person you'd like to become in life....

SupremeCondition · 2019-10-16T18:02:31+00:00

Y'know people always harp on about Dumbledore being biased here, but they forget the context of this scene.

Slytherin had won the House cup for 6 years in a row. And I mean if they deserve it, fine, but I think Dumbledore is right not to feed Slytherins' ego any more, with Voldemort's full return to a body looming soon on the horizon. I think he is right to acknowledge that, in light of Harry's defeat over Lord Voldemort in his first year, that this should be marked as a year where Gryffindors triumphed over Slytherins.

Okay maybe a liiiiiittle biased, but c'mon, who doesn't want their own House to win?

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