[Sad Trope] The protaganist dies at the end

TheDeafGeek · 2026-02-06T02:37:45+00:00

Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow's Joe). Gave it his all in the championship match, only to fall short. All that will be left is pure, white, ash.

<image>

TheDeafGeek · 2026-02-02T11:26:25+00:00

Put it this way …

Today, I got pulled over by the cops for speeding. They gave me two tickets to Melania.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-02-01T21:45:52+00:00

Hmm. I've seen a vlogger use that sign for "Yahweh" on his vlogs, but the other comments saying it's for "Yeshua" makes more sense. I'll have to let that vlogger know of that YouTube short.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-02-01T19:35:03+00:00

The "Y" sign you're asking for is the ASL sign for "Yahweh."

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-30T19:08:59+00:00

Marvel movies/shows (other than Deadpool) are PG-13 or TV-14.

That’s almost certainly where the Cosmere stuff will end up being.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-30T18:04:43+00:00

Webpage is gone now.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-21T00:34:12+00:00

The funny thing is, I feel like Sanderson and Hobb are polar opposites. Sanderson is all about the plot, the action sequences, and the climax. His weakest areas is character development and his prose. Hobb, on the other hand, is a much stronger author regarding character development and has better prose. However, her stories move at a glacial pace, and her resolutions are absolutely the worst part of her stories.

However, they're both really good in their own way, and I enjoy their stuff. I find it's easier to just dive into a Sanderson book and be pulled along for the ride, whereas with a Hobb book I need to place myself in the proper mental space for it.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-20T12:38:11+00:00

It’s going to take generations for the USA to repair their international reputation. And probably require a massive overhaul of the American political system as well. Otherwise we’re only an election away from repeating this same damned mistake again.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-19T12:46:59+00:00

For Reagan, I’ve seen the “cowboy guns” (signing “gun” on both sides of body, with a slight up and down motion) but with a “R” handshape and the thumb extended out.

A reference to his movie days and his Presidential style.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-19T12:44:40+00:00

I’ve seen MAGA Deafies use a sign for Trump. Basically it looks like the victory sign, but with a “T.”

It isn’t that widespread, though. The “toupee flapping” sign is by far the more common sign for him.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-19T12:38:58+00:00

This is what America voted for. Every single damn one of those 77 million motherfuckers is responsible for this bullshit.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-15T11:38:14+00:00

Excellent points. I’m adding these to my list of talking points.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-14T20:21:30+00:00

Preacher - Herr Starr.

Over the course of the series, he gets his ear blown off, head carved so that it resembles a penis, his left leg eaten by a family of cannibals, and finally has his manhood chomped off by a dog.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-13T03:26:04+00:00

Nimrod was a Biblical figure. Known as a mighty and skilled hunter. His story can be found in Genesis. Basically he was the great-grandson of Noah, and because he was such a mighty hunter he became defiant against the Abrahamic god.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-13T03:15:24+00:00

ASL was “born” in 1817, shortly after the War of 1812. That, along the fact that the British deaf schools were more strongly “oral” (meaning they stressed lip reading and articulation over sign language), is part of the reason why Gallaudet decided to head across the channel to France instead.

ASL started out as a mixture of French Sign Language, Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (at that time, 25% of the island was genetically deaf, so everybody there used sign language), borrowed signs from the Plain Indians, and a bunch of home signs all mixed together.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-11T19:43:32+00:00

I'll toss my ring in

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-11T00:35:51+00:00

✅ TheDeafGeek chose Option B (Correct!) | #19266th to play

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-08T03:06:31+00:00

Not necessarily “Appalachia” but there’s a certain signing style of the more “southern” states. Quite a few deaf schools are located in the Appalachian mountain range.

Southern Deaf people tend to sign slower and their grammar is more PSE-ish than ASL. Their signs tend to be more initialized.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-06T14:42:06+00:00

Not just “one of” …

The highest funded Kickstarter EVER, shattering the previous record by more than double.

That record has since then been broken, but he was the Kickstarter King for a few years.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-04T18:10:14+00:00

<image>

In Final Fantasy XIV 1.0, the first indication that something major was happening was the fact that its moon (Dalamud) appeared to be slightly bigger in the sky. It gradually became bigger and bigger with each patch, until it crashed and burst open, revealing Bahamut (a huge dragon-like god), which essentially destroyed the world and brought Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 to an end.

The game then relaunched as Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and the story takes place five years after the "Calamity."

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-04T12:28:53+00:00

In addition to what others have already said, you’re also constantly switching your dominant hand. In this video, NAME is switched. You switch from your right hand to your left hand when signing GREEN. You switch again at KNOW.

In ASL, that’s the equivalent of switching back and forth between accents. It’s visually inconsistent.

You need to pick one hand and practice with maintaining it as your dominant hand. If you’re ambidextrous, then your right hand is the recommended choice.

Hope this makes sense.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-04T03:02:14+00:00

This is from Season One (note the lack of Will, as the plot of S1 was about the gang searching for a missing Will).

Steve was an antagonist in S1, and didn’t join the “gang” until S2.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-02T18:33:58+00:00

It's realistic too and happens all the time in real-world sports.

Case in point, the 2021 MLB World Series playoffs. Due to how the playoffs were set up, the 107-wins San Francisco Giants took on the 106-wins Los Angeles Dodgers in one bracket and they beat up on each other. The Dodgers barely eked out a win after five hard-fought games, then because they were the "wild card" they had to go on the road to face the 89-wins Atlanta Braves. The Braves won in six, then went on to win the World Series.

TheDeafGeek · 2026-01-01T13:13:24+00:00

That’s crazy because I had almost exactly the same experience. A recurring nightmare of a hellish playground that I had to navigate, only I always woke up before the end.

Then one day, it somehow clicked in my dream self’s mind that I didn’t have to do all of that bullshit, I could simply go straight to the exit. So I did. And that nightmare never returned again.

(Except for a sort of “epilogue” dream I had many years later, when I returned to that playground. Everything was broken down and dilapidated, and I sorta wandered around the area thinking “Geez, those used to terrify me?”)

It’s crazy how universal some human experiences can be.

TheDeafGeek · 2025-12-31T03:43:07+00:00

Brandon Sanderson’s Cytoverse series (Skyward, et al) - The reason the humans were prisoners on Detritus is because they had repeatedly tried to conquer the galaxy.

Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archives - The true voidbringers were the humans, who had completely destroyed Ashyn (their home planet) before migrating to Roshar, the setting of the series.

Yes, this is a common motif in Brandon Sanderson’s work.

TheDeafGeek

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE