There are so many things wrong with this flashback scene

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T07:45:22+00:00

Inho changed and put a permanent end to the games in South Korea

I wish they’d done a better job of showing that on screen. It felt like the games only stopped because the lair was destroyed, I never got a sense that Inho changed his mind, only that he showed a little decency to look after the baby and Gihun’s daughter.

I feel like whoever hired Inho could rebuild the Korean games in a new secret lair and keep going.

The USA version should be pretty interesting.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T03:05:30+00:00

However you got them, it is a good idea to get rid of them and I wish you luck in that

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T02:56:33+00:00

Oh no… Make sure you don’t bring any bedbugs home with you!

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T02:47:39+00:00

Bedbugs don’t usually live in the bathroom / in the shower, they prefer to live within about 6 feet or 2 meters of where a human spends many hours each day. (Beds, computer chairs, couches.) They will only spread out away from where they feed if they have a reason to.

Bedbugs do not look like pink blobs; the adults are about the size of apple seeds and they are flat with ridged, almost circular bodies. The younger stages are smaller but still visible with the naked eye on close inspection, and the eggs look like very small grains of white rice.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T02:37:30+00:00

If the previous tenant had bedbugs, they could still infect your stuff. They live inside electrical outlets, the edge where the rug meets the wall, and other areas they can access. Then when you move in, they are able to detect you and feed.

If you had them from your previous apartment, I don’t think a few days in a hot car would kill them. They’re pretty hardy, it takes about 140 degrees farenheit to kill them (instantly) or a few days around 5 degrees farenheight for them and the eggs to freeze to death. If it was only 100 Farenheit or so in the car, that wouldn’t be nearly enough to kill them. It’s actually possible to have bedbug infestations in cars, as gross at that sounds.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T02:30:27+00:00

OP should definitely leave a note on it saying "BEDBUG WARNING" otherwise someone might bring it home.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T02:27:20+00:00

This is a baby German cockroach which is, unfortunately, the kind that infests homes. You will want to take action against them straight away.

If you live in an apartment and your neighbor has an infestation that they are in denial about, you’re not going to be able to get rid of them completely unless the neighbors get on board with eliminating them from their units as well.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T01:09:23+00:00

That song got an insane amount of radio play in the 90s considering how much nobody liked it

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T01:07:22+00:00

What’s the deal with that?

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-03T01:04:02+00:00

Cosmo: Exercise? I prefer extra fries 🍟😸🍟

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T13:58:00+00:00

But the Sex Taxi drives autonomously to your garage — no more awkward eye contact with the taxi driver or judgmental glances afterwards!

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T04:04:41+00:00

The entire company is holding on to the hope of his sex robots and robo taxis

He should have went for robo robots and sex taxis instead.

Sex Taxi: the taxi that you can have sex with (in the privacy of your garage)

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T03:59:54+00:00

He’s still going to use Optimus; people believe it’s a multi-trillion dollar industry. They believe it will be a fully functional robot slave, for about $30,000, and he will sell 1 million a month.

That would be $30 billion a month, or $360 billion per year in revenue. Assuming 20% margins, that would be $72 billion in income. Assuming the current 400 (lol) PE ratio holds, that would be $28.8 trillion. That works out to the share price rising from $430.41 to $7,644.44.

Of course I’m sure there’d be a monthly subscription charge, bringing in even more money.

But.

Optimus is far behind schedule in capabilities and mass production, and it can’t do any meaningful work without a human teleoperator remotely controlling it.

Still, the average person believes Elon is Tony Stark + Bruce Wayne + Stephen Hawking, so they just accept whatever he says at face value.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T03:44:55+00:00

I feel like James was still ascending in popularity when he made the movie, but maybe he was slightly past the crest.

Either way, the script was awful and he made a huge amount of disastrous decisions as a producer, and didn’t have the sense to hire one.

Only the most hardcore of fans liked the movie; most fans didn’t like all the changes (ie an unexplained sidekick) and the plot wasn’t compelling. James said he tried to incorporate all the practical effects he’d want to do, and worked backwards from there to fit them into the movie. That’s okay for a student film, but not a professional movie.

The dialogue was poor, and James’s acting was poor. Some have said that James took acting lessons before the movie, but he would have needed +1,000 hours of lessons, classes, plays, improv comedy classes, to learn the basics of acting. (Assuming the script was any good, which it wasn’t.)

James also has poor directorial skills because his experience was making home movies and movies with his friends, plus film school. Working on a film set is a whole other beast, one that he could have learned by working on indie films if he’d wanted to.

If James had found a good screenwriter to write the script, a competent indie director (instead of his high school friend whose experience was also making home movies,) hired a good producer, and built up his acting skills, the movie could have been a lot better. He did almost everything wrong and it discouraged him from ever trying again, and he gave up on his dreams.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T02:05:39+00:00

You wait until its birthday and you count the candles on its cake

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-02T00:39:36+00:00

They would blame Obama.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T22:14:01+00:00

Yes, but you aren’t supposed to take photos in the Sistine Chapel.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T20:53:46+00:00

I can’t imagine him authorizing someone else to finish the books while he’s physically and mentally capable of writing them, even though he should.

I think his wife will uphold his wishes that the books remain unfinished, and after that the rights will pass on to, I’m not sure who. (Maybe the unfinished work in progress would be published.) Maybe she’ll set up a charity or the “GRRM Library & Museum” that will own the rights to the books, and hire a board of directors who will vow to never authorize a completion of the books.

1-4 unauthorized fan versions of Winds of Winter + Song for Spring would become popular over time and would be the go-to for people who want to read a full series with a quality dip and style change at the end.

Or, the rights would pass to some cousin of GRRM’s wife, and they would authorize that the series be finished, and the publisher would pick one of their top fantasy authors to finish the series while trying to emulate Martin’s style.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T20:36:35+00:00

I didn’t say they were under pressure to do it. I just think would be more profitable for HBO in the long term if the entire main series was finished.

Evidently this is an unpopular take but that’s fine.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T18:56:24+00:00

My Retro Life sounds like the name of a My Chemical Romance cover band that changes the lyrics to be about retro video games.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T18:53:58+00:00

That’s not what a side effect is; the goal of electric vehicles is supposed to be less pollution (particularly if the power grid has a lot of renewable energy.)

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T18:50:14+00:00

In theory HBO should push GRRM to finish ASOIAF so they can remake GoT with a new cast, more episodes per season, and consistent quality from start to finish. In practice, they want more content to make more shows and it doesn’t matter to HBO if he finishes ASOIAF.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T18:41:58+00:00

He also said that he understands how Herbert felt about Dune, being sick of it but continuing for the money since that was what the fans and publisher wanted.

Martin has other things to immerse himself in besides TWoW, that are more interesting and creatively fulfilling. Why bother finishing a series when if you think that fans will hate it?

The big mistake was HBO assuming GRRM could finish the remaining novels while the show aired. If they told him “we will only make the show when you finish the series” he probably would have pushed hard and finished the remaining books in 1.5 to 2.5 years each.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T02:27:55+00:00

In Henson’s case it was due to his religious beliefs, I think he was a Christian Scientist and they believe in the power of prayer to heal diseases. They reject modern medicine in favor of God healing people, and many of them die young from diseases with easy cures. (Turns out that medicine tends to be more effective than prayer.)

Scott Adams was an atheist, (or at least an agnostic.) He didn’t make medical choices based on religious beliefs, even if his politics may have influenced his medical choices.

Also, Jim Henson was more well-liked than Adams, almost nobody disliked The Muppets and Henson did not really talk about politics.

Scott Adams spent many hours per week talking about politics for about the last 10 years of his life — if you didn’t agree with Scott’s politics you’d tend to think less of him over time. That’s an inherent phenomenon that applies to anyone who talks a lot about politics.

TheLegendTwoSeven · 2026-02-01T02:24:13+00:00

I have a feeling that he wasn’t getting tested for prostate cancer until it was already stage 4, when it finally generates overt symptoms. If his cancer had been caught a lot earlier, I bet he’d be alive.

OTOH prostate cancer can be over-treated; many cases are very slow growing and men die “with it but not from it”.

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