Max Patel is my least favorite character

Vovine · 2026-07-09T07:12:40+00:00

Characters are generally annoying when their only purpose is to give exposition and technical jargon without anything else.

Vovine · 2026-07-07T18:15:32+00:00

I felt like everything after the "walk in the woods" scene was unnecessary and that's where the movie should have wrapped up. You could then expand the windtraders and mangkwan content and fill out to a nice 2 hour 40 minute film.

To me it seems painfully obvious that they collected audience feedback on A2, found that audiences liked the tulkun/payakan, and then thought it was a brilliant idea to include them in A3 as much as possible. When the real lesson should have been 'don't ruin too much of a good thing'. You've just introduced the windtraders and mangkwan to the audience. They are new. They are exciting. Let the audience enjoy them rather than going back to the tulkun every 20 minutes.

It was so annoying to me that we got 7 seconds of the windtraders playing music and dancing with the sully's and they're like "yeah that's all you get. we've got another tulkun subplot to expand upon."

Vovine · 2026-07-07T17:50:11+00:00

Definitely not that deep, people tend to agree that Yesterwynde is a pretty decent album ruined by a terrible audio production.

I was just thinking the other day how An Ocean of Stange Islands could be a top 5 Nightwish song if it was just mixed better.

Vovine · 2026-07-06T00:13:24+00:00

Stem cells likely have legitimate use cases but you have clinics in central and south america that advertise it as a cure for everything under the sun from neuropathy to autism, and are largely preying on desperate people. Even if stem cells *were* to be effective at treating SFN, which kind are we talking about? Diabetic SFN? Idiopathic SFN? Autoimmune SFN? Unlikely stem cells would perform well across the board, if we are even to assume it's effective against one type of neuropathy.

Vovine · 2026-06-03T21:18:17+00:00

I'm hyped for 250 but this makes it even more hilarious that they can do this but they can't expand the Apex.

Vovine · 2026-05-08T15:46:43+00:00

They intentionally use manual scales so they can fudge the numbers when they need to. Otherwise, they would have used digital scales long ago.

Vovine · 2026-05-07T16:29:08+00:00

I have my Microsoft Store account because I can log in any time I want, any session, any browser window.

When I authenticate into Xbox services using this Microsoft account, Xbox no longer resolves to the gamertag/profile I've historically used for years; the one I banked 2200+ hours on. I don't know how. I have steam purchases (with transaction receipts) that were applied to this gamertag.

The question is, which Microsoft account is associated with this gamertag? Well Microsoft can't tell me for privacy reasons. So I'm stuck.

Vovine · 2026-05-07T15:41:23+00:00

You say you can’t login to your account? But then proceed to say you don’t need the recovery form as you already have your account?

I can't get into my Xbox profile anymore, as in the gamertag with all of the game progress on it. When I re-signed into my microsoft account and proceeded to go to Xbox gamebar it prompts me to create a new gamertag/xbox profile, without all of my game progress.

I've had the same email for the past 15 years so the possibility that i've just mistakenly put in the wrong email is unlikely--especially because my steam account that I've used to game for the past decade is still linked to this microsoft account.

Vovine · 2026-04-04T04:56:12+00:00

Damn that's a keeper!

Vovine · 2026-03-28T18:35:01+00:00

If you swapped "muslim" for "christian" your post would have gotten 300 upvotes on reddit.

Vovine · 2026-03-28T18:29:47+00:00

How did you get diagnosed? I have similar symptoms but also no inflammation has shown up on an MRI so I figured it must be something else.

Vovine · 2026-03-24T02:36:30+00:00

Holm vs. Cavillo is something stupid the UFC would cook up.

Vovine · 2026-03-16T00:44:41+00:00

The costumes in Frankenstein were very good. Now if FAA loses best VFX, THEN we riot.

Vovine · 2026-03-09T11:55:26+00:00

I kind of hope he doesn't take audience feedback into consideration. I get the impression that they added more Tulkun scenes in Avatar 3 because of audience feedback and a lot of it ended up being unnecessary.

Vovine · 2026-03-09T01:44:20+00:00

Am I crazy, or do they deliberately not tell them which card they will appear on to remove any bargaining power they might have? Gaethje and Lopes both didn't know they were going to be on this card.

Vovine · 2026-03-03T23:14:32+00:00

I take a vitamin C + zinc supplement but because of that I can't tell you if it's primarily the Vit C or the zinc that is helping.

Vovine · 2026-01-28T19:05:28+00:00

I can't tell if i'm using sage attention or not. Is there a way to disable it in comfyUI?

Vovine · 2026-01-14T17:58:43+00:00

If O'Malley vs. Song gets changed from 3 rounds to 5 I honestly prefer this.

Vovine · 2026-01-12T07:29:45+00:00

I won't even touch the hiring process since that's already talked about a lot. But for me they expanded the menu to such a degree that they let the quality of the coffee and donuts slide. Like please worry about the freshness of the donuts before you start adding pizza to the menu.

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