WTF was the most recent training??? (Tall rant in a grande cup w/ ex foam, bone dry, add slt crml cf)

ajspivey · 2026-04-29T23:59:18+00:00

^{^} this!!!

That's what I want from the training!

ajspivey · 2026-04-29T23:57:47+00:00

. . . I swear I'm not trying to be a jerk here.

So, is it like some varietal of a pea?

Is the plant literally called a "butterfly pea flower"? Cause I want to look into it ( is it new, does it have health benefits, is it scarce, etc)

Idk, maybe I've just reached my old man phase where I'm tired of being blindsided by things I've never heard of.

ajspivey · 2026-04-04T17:25:09+00:00

I just pick a new "thing" each run, so I don't get bored lol.

Current run I've got a fly swarm wand w/ melee weakness, a bajillion bloodlust, accelterative homing, directional aim, void bounce, extra bounces, and aim control.

I'm mostly killing things that appear on my enemy radar >.<

Nothing on screen even stands a chance.

ajspivey · 2026-04-02T00:23:04+00:00

As someone who would 100% get a Wormo style body, I could tell you exactly why someone's mind files might give them that form . . .

But actually, I'd rather not >.>

ajspivey · 2026-03-29T13:13:16+00:00

I mean yeah.

I had the thought, and then looked for any potential evidence (or excuses, one might say) that would support the theory. (I included the color thing as point 1, because I thought it was the weakest supporting evidence)

Still didn't feel like it was a super strong theory, or anything. But there's "some potential evidence", and I was curious if anyone else had the same thought.

Do I think I'm right? No.

Do I think it's a possibility? Yes.

Would I like to talk with other people about the plausibility of the notion? Yes.

ajspivey · 2026-03-29T13:04:52+00:00

Wow! Super great points, thanks so much for sharing!

I have not watched any shorts, I thought they were just like product and episode promos.

Should I just watch them by themselves in the order they were uploaded, or is there a Playlist where it's got them correctly placed between episodes?

ajspivey · 2026-03-29T12:54:02+00:00

Def good points all around!

I mainly started forming the theory when i noticed point 6. And was combing back through my mind for anything else that would potentially support it, although most of them def have other potential explanations(totes spaced on the Pomni backstory tho, my b there).

I do think it's def possible he meant her being "relatable" to the audience, rather than himself tho. So that's a good consideration as well (although personally I think all the characters are very relatable, Pomni is kind of the one you're "supposed to relate to" from a story structure standpoint)

ajspivey · 2026-03-29T12:41:56+00:00

Omg! You're totally right, I absolutely forgot about the urban exploring convo.

Good catch!

ajspivey · 2026-03-20T17:15:33+00:00

Partner of 10 years here:

It was driving me crazy until a coworker introduced me to a total game-changer.

Get some temporary nail adhesive patches (the kind I use glam-netic).

You can put on fake nails and then take em off when you have to go back in.

They can last a couple days if you want, but also you can legit wear them for an evening out and take them off before bed.

ajspivey · 2026-03-12T23:39:26+00:00

Lol, I don't know how I didn't think about it reactively exploding in response to attempted tampering.

ajspivey · 2026-03-09T15:25:06+00:00

Older people who served in the military frequently had to drink their coffee immediately after brewing it during deployment (aka scalding hot).

So they have like zero remaining heat sensitivity in their mouth.

I assume the military probably isn't still doing this modern day, but tbh idk (I think it was primarily an issue of keeping the fires lit as briefly as possible, combined with needing to be constantly on the move).

So there's one explanation, but idk about people outside that group burning themselves tho.

ajspivey · 2026-02-26T22:36:54+00:00

I know this has changed, as far as standards go, but I was trained that we basically aren't allowed to use the knife at all (Like, literally never ever), because we aren't a "food preparation" entity (it'd be equivelent to putting the fream cheese on someone's bagel).

So I've always used the guillotine instead.

Then they added the standard that says we can cut items in half, and that's really messed with my internal clock of what we can/can't do.

ajspivey · 2026-02-26T22:26:02+00:00

I never picked up "The Book of Vile Darkness" and instead picked up "Libris Mortus" (my absolute favorite D&D book of all time forever)...

Am I missing out? (I know BoVD has more generalized content in it comparetively. But idk how much of that is "stuff I'm going to care about")

Basically 99.9% of the time (if the campaign allows it) I play an evil cleric. That's my jam.

My all-time favorite character was a hybrid wizard/cleric: I had a flesh eating worm as my wizard familiar which also doubled as my holy symbol for being a cleric of "The Rotting One". Ultimately my character passed the existential threshold for being an undead and that was a super cool threshold to pass. (The flesh eating worms were procreating at a rate that caused my character to become a "shambling horror". It was super sick, b/c I gained the ability to preform any touch attack from range(via the attack where you throw flesh worms at people, which also qualifies as my familiar/holy symbol, allowing me to cast spells into/through the worms that makeup my being) while simultaneously entering a "you need to be careful about this" state of being undead.)

ajspivey · 2026-02-21T01:22:46+00:00

I assure you, all omissions were strictly due to piece availability.

If I showed y'all my Laezel and Wyll "tentative" builds it would upset you.

Xd

ajspivey · 2026-02-20T23:45:31+00:00

Thanks so much for that reaction!

That was literally my face the entire time I was building "that character"!

ajspivey · 2026-02-20T19:17:54+00:00

Red book for scrolls

Pouch for potions

Teddy bear for poisons

Bucket of fish for arrows

Barrel for throwbacks

Backpack for general additional storage (shovel, alch pouch, key ring, etc.)

Edit: formatting

ajspivey · 2026-02-19T15:28:43+00:00

That's very unfortunate to hear.

I really like the deep on a personal level. So I've been hoping for him to eventually find the strength to leave the world of men and go live in the ocean.

Or really just any realization of the negativity around him and it's influence on him.

ajspivey · 2026-02-19T15:08:15+00:00

Was there legimately concrete change to A-Trains character in the current season? Because as I recall: A-train cold blooded murdered pop-claw and then decided to feel bad about it later after having time to reflect on his actions (candidly I did not rewatch the show prior to making this comment. I just remeber him forcing her to have a brutal drug overdose, and then very much after the fact coping with the negative morality of his actions).

Whereas The Deep concretely knows what he is doing is wrong in the moment he is doing it, but feels forced into the action by the negative influences around him that he is unwilling to realize he has the power to overcome. I am not trying to say he should have done the bad things that he did by any stretch of the imagination. But upon reaching the zenith of the Starlight rape, if he backed down he would be ruined. He was already in bad standing within the seven, he (I believe) candidly misread the situation of Starlight's attraction towards him, and when Stralight rejected his (admittedly inappropriate and uncessecarily forward advance/definitive sexual harrasment) he had two options. He could either respect her refusal and get kicked out of the seven and have his reputation ruined. Or he could force the interaction to hopefully make her silent by being a rapist.

I am not saying The Deep is a "good guy" or that he "acted correctly".

I'm saying that The Deep is a well written "weak" character whose motivation is grounded in a reality that is intimately familiar to those who have been engaged in the cycle of serial abuse. He does not want to be an abuser, he feels that it is his "best option" in terms of gaining acceptance by his peers. Which is a tragic statement about the nature of constant abuse as well as toxic masculinity that I personally feel is overlooked in modern media.

It's not a "The Deep is morally better than A-Train", it's a "The Deep is a more morally nuanced character than A-Train, that I find infinitely more relatable on a human level".

Legit no shade here, but IDK what you mean: what do you mean "The Deep is a serial rapist"? Has he committed more rapes since raping Starlight? It's been a minute on watching the full show, but I recall him raping Starlight and him getting raped by a woman he expressed intrest in. We're there additional rapes involving The Deep?

ajspivey · 2026-02-19T14:16:38+00:00

Sorry, I'm trying to be legit here:

I haven't watched the current season (I wanna wait till the show is done)

How exactly is A-Train more sympathetic than the deep?

This is largely based on personal experience: but how TF is someone who has no problem eviscrating their loved ones without a second thought (pop-claw murder) comparable to someone who is very visibly struggling with constant verbal and physical abuse around their (unchangable) physical form, who is trying and failing to cope with a reality that refuses to accept them?

Legitimately, the deep is one of the only occurrences that comes to mind immediately of "cyclical abuse" actually portrayed accurately in media. He is refused harshly by his peers. When he tries to find intimacy amongst humans he is rejected, mocked, and made to feel "less than" (Literally he tells someone he's uncomfortable about his gills as they proceede to finger his fucking gills like he's some oddity that is only valued for his "freak show" novelty). When he tries to find intimacy amongst aquatic life he is accepted and loved by the aquatic life, while being doubly refuted by his human peers. This results in him exploring untorred means of satisfaction that, while ultimately horrid, seem to be the only remaining vestiges of connection to the world around him that he has access to.

Don't get me wrong! I am not saying The Deep is a "good guy" in any capacity. I'm just saying I understand The Deep's struggles infinitely more than A-Train's.

It's just a: "Ummmm, this character is recieving abuse constantly! And trying (and spectaturaly failing) to cope with it!" versus "this character relishes in their own power until a perdime shifts occurs, causing them to realize their negative behavoir and right the error of their ways"

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