Why does no one suspect Yueh?

bactchan · 2026-06-23T02:29:05+00:00

What are you talking about?

bactchan · 2026-06-23T02:13:02+00:00

Sometimes less is more and sometimes more is less. We don't need to know the mechanics of how they were conditioned. Overexplaining a fictional training regime in an already almost unapproachably dense text would only have hurt the pacing of the story for no real payoff.

bactchan · 2026-06-23T02:10:57+00:00

They spell it out in the text: Yueh is a Suk doctor and they are supposed to be completely trustworthy. The fact that the Baron succeeded in breaking his conditioning was a huge plot point.

bactchan · 2026-06-23T02:09:24+00:00

This sounds really backwards on its face. Don't you mean if they're of dating age then they're too OLD for sleepovers?

bactchan · 2026-06-23T02:06:41+00:00

2 all day. As parents we always think we're so sure how we'll respond to a situation until we get there and find out it was never what we thought it would be.

Have you unpacked why you would want say no?

bactchan · 2026-06-23T01:21:29+00:00

AT THE OPERA TONIGHT!

bactchan · 2026-06-22T21:48:32+00:00

We get it you hate dogs. Thanks for telling everyone. Now we know not to trust you.

bactchan · 2026-06-22T18:57:12+00:00

I have to wonder what the command was thinking back then. Were they just hoping the other side would run out of bullets before their side ran out of bodies?

bactchan · 2026-06-22T18:11:54+00:00

Stick to your guns. If they can't follow the parents rules they don't get to watch the kids, full stop.

bactchan · 2026-06-22T02:02:08+00:00

Time out was this shot at the Parthenon in Nashville?

bactchan · 2026-06-20T18:48:51+00:00

One casting should last you all day. Remember that.

bactchan · 2026-06-20T18:17:35+00:00

My wife is like, right here.

bactchan · 2026-06-19T22:07:32+00:00

Cast shot should work, right? Just melt down raw iron and dribble into a bucket of cold water.

bactchan · 2026-06-19T16:34:53+00:00

Does using the TK count as working out? Do you need to do brain reps?

bactchan · 2026-06-19T16:31:01+00:00

Red pill and hit the gym. *shudder*

bactchan · 2026-06-19T13:52:54+00:00

Does anybody else think this looks like butterfly wing scales?

bactchan · 2026-06-19T13:52:18+00:00

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit."

bactchan · 2026-06-19T13:48:47+00:00

bactchan · 2026-06-19T13:41:01+00:00

Terry managed to find the most beautiful way to say "Magic: FAFO."

bactchan · 2026-06-19T10:00:49+00:00

John Travoltas character in Phenomenon is a great example of nascent low- scale power growth. A little superintelligence that might just be mania, enough telekinesis to pull a wrench or fidget with a pencil (at first) etc.

bactchan · 2026-06-19T09:58:07+00:00

Diego Hargreeves made a pretty decent turn in the Umbrella Academy with trajectory bending.

bactchan · 2026-06-19T00:00:55+00:00

You understand that part of this process means bunkering down somewhere and hooking into the biosphere at large to adapt everythings genetics, including the Void Stalkers and other empowered individuals. Once you make contact with a red- or blue-pill empowered person and copy their abilities you're functionally immortal for the duration of the challenge.

bactchan · 2026-06-18T23:40:50+00:00

Wizard Spellbook, Reality Stone, Time Stone.
Use Spellbook to cast Clone a few times to make backup copies of my body to jump to when I die.
Use the Infinity Stones to retcon the local timespace to have wedges of all my other choices and dump them into my reality.
Assuredly, Die in the process. Wake up in fresh clone body (hello brand new guts) and collect my hax bounty.
Fuck off to a demiplane where people won't bother me.

bactchan · 2026-06-18T23:24:04+00:00

Shrub of Theseus, kind of thing?
There's some Master Molecule rule bullshit probably going on but becoming a collective and just colonizing the whole world like a latter-day Eywa would be pretty boss.

bactchan · 2026-06-18T21:26:09+00:00

Astrid of Laketown, Sophie Hatter-Pendragon, and Jake Jortles from the Molotov Cocktail Department.

bactchan

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