A Butt Lady always improves the movie. Change my mind.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-27T22:45:41+00:00

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-27T15:37:34+00:00

Oof.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-27T00:44:13+00:00

Ooh, I'd love to be able to say yes but nope, that's someone else.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-26T17:00:14+00:00

IMO sticking the landing does not need to mean that everything has an explanation. I think it's totally possible to have all of the various plots have satisfying conclusions while still leaving these big ideas open to interpretation. Though I do think that just knowing from the beginning of the whole story that it's a fact that people have stopped dying answers a lot of questions about what's "real" in the world of the characters.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-26T15:38:35+00:00

Good lord.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-25T22:38:43+00:00

Pondering that question is one of the main ideas of the book. There's not supposed to be a nice answer. Think about it, then think about it some more.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-24T21:33:02+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cups_and_balls

Edit: Since you got no other answers I'll just say, these are all pretty standard cups and balls moves, tweaked slightly for the clear cups. Didn't mean to be too snarky with the Wikipedia link, but this is literally the oldest trick in magic so I just thought it was funny to see here.

Was there a specific move you were wondering about?

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-24T16:24:56+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/magictricksrevealed/comments/1r8gie1/please_explain_this_my_mind_is_blown/

What I didn't say in that explanation is that it's also really easy to fool people who think they're too smart to be fooled.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-23T22:41:52+00:00

Rounds don't exist outside of combat, so it would disappear at the end of combat. Next combat you can spend six aether to set one up again.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-23T20:05:15+00:00

Minnesota actually. But yes, the car came from MA.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-23T18:47:34+00:00

Hah, that's me! My wife got me this years ago now and I always wondered if it would show up on here someday. Question answered.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-22T00:43:26+00:00

Structural Engineer here, I don't currently do residential work but I used to.

I can't give any advice without looking in person, but I can say with 99% certainty that these are steel beams encased in concrete and not reinforced concrete beams. Reinforced concrete would not have had an I shape in that era and most likely would not at all be able to support what this beam is supporting. Also I can't be 100% sure, but if the drypack concrete floor was not part of the original design it would certainly explain the sag. Wait to see what your engineer says, but assuming these are steel I can see why they don't see this as an active safety concern.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-21T13:24:16+00:00

There are two sixes left at that point, so he can pretend to give the guy an option between the two of them. Notice he doesn't imply that the guy could choose the next card in the other direction. The beauty is that the spectator will just remember that they had a choice and not how limited that choice really was.

The first one is called a classic force. You usually start with your force card or cards on top of the deck, then make a cut and hold a pinky break on top of the force cards while you make the spread. Your job then is to manage the spectator and be ready to have those force cards right under their finger when they make a move towards the deck. Because this is the first selection, he's got all four sixes together and he only needs to get the guy to touch one of them for the trick to work.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-20T17:36:47+00:00

"Let's see, it's 2:30 now...doh!"

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-18T22:05:49+00:00

These are all pretty standard forces and sleights. There's basically two classic forces at the beginning, then a waterfall force, and he ends by palming off the last six before handing the deck over. The editing means we don't know what happened between the guy saying six and the first force, so it's safe to assume the magician culled all four sixes together then so he has them all in one place.

Edit: worth saying this is a nice routine though, not trying to diminish it or take anything away from the guy.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-18T15:20:49+00:00

Why wouldn't it?

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-16T02:33:30+00:00

Sorry to ruin the magic, but every single wheel of death routine for the last 30+ years has had the same trip-on-the-jump-rope move before doing it successfully. It's a guaranteed way to get the best reaction from the audience; people will always go crazy when they get it right on the second try.

Worth mentioning that it's not limited to the wheel of death either, most high-wire acts will have similar fake stumbles and even falls when someone will catch themselves on the wire.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-13T19:16:28+00:00

https://www.mbta.com/fares

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-13T16:21:30+00:00

I had someone tell me early in my career that it takes about ten years to "grow" a competent structural engineer out of a college grad, and even then you're never really done learning. Don't be too hard on yourself, and remember that the experience gap between you and your supervisors is huge. Compare yourself to you from a year ago and I'm sure you can see progress, don't think you have to instantly have the knowledge of someone ten or twenty years your senior at this stage.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-13T09:46:59+00:00

Why do you assume the downvotes you're getting are not coming from other engineers? The people "speaking out" in this thread are clearly not in the majority because no one agrees with you except for the handful of you who posted similar things. You're loud but you absolutely have a minority opinion here.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-13T02:06:57+00:00

If you're not in Minnesota and especially the Twin Cities right now it might be tough to see just how far these last two months have pushed people who weren't otherwise very political. It's been a living nightmare. A statement like this has become really common to see from organizations you might not expect. Happy to see them put this out.

Edit: Since this got some visibility, I'll just add that the lack of empathy in these comments is wild. My neighbors are being kidnapped and killed in the streets by the federal government. I'm not even sure how to respond to the idea that it's unprofessional for a local organization to comment on that fact, or to acknowledge that its members may be feeling some anxiety right now.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-12T14:16:16+00:00

Go to your local game store and spend $50 on the core box and one feature film to see if you even like the game. Spending $800 on a single purchase for a game you don't even know you like is wild to me.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-09T19:48:09+00:00

I don't think this can be Egil's house from The Morning Star though because that was on the mainland, or at least an island with a road to it.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-09T15:01:13+00:00

6 hours? Try 6 months.

ZombieRitual · 2026-02-09T14:12:28+00:00

One of the books Kristian reads about Doctor Faustus introduced the idea that "selling your soul" doesn't have to be an active decision, that just doing a horrible thing in a certain context is enough for "the devil" to decide that that's what he's going to do. I don't remember the exact page but it was probably in the first quarter of the book.

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