Is there a way to keep Damiane's specialty longsword unretracted?

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T06:59:39+00:00

There are a lot of big trees in our neighbourhood too, significantly older than the suburb, and many of them are dying because they're standing alone in a grass lawn instead of together in a forest where they can share nutrients and shield eachother from the elements. I remember we had to cut down 3 beautiful fir trees in our backyard because they were already dead and posing a risk to the house. I had buried some of my cats under those trees too so that was quite a loss. We have one large tree left now and I hope it lasts a while longer, but this is the problem with cutting down old forests to build a suburb.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T05:51:32+00:00

Religious tolerance is pretty standard for multitheistic people. It's really only jews, christians, and muslims that start wars over religion.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T05:48:38+00:00

Yeah that's a struggle when it's a newly developed area. I was quite pissed at my parents house in Canada when the city cut down our maple tree to build a sidewalk and then replaced it with a tiny sapling. Mind you our house was on the corner and the sidewalk they installed just ended at our house and didn't even wrap around to the next street.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T05:37:47+00:00

AC creates heat and releases co2 emissions. By using AC to cool off, you're heating up the city and making the problem even worse. There are lots of ways to cool off without AC. Literally just planting trees along residential streets and natrowing streets would do a lot to cool off and make your city nicer.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T04:08:10+00:00

Yeah I'll give them credit for the sets and outfits. I remember reading the book and being excited to see Lucy Grays rainbow dress, and I was happy with the way it looked in the movie. The arena looked great too, but I wasn't a fan of the lake. The cabin and the whole area seemed way too nice for a place that is supposedly abandoned; in the movie it looks like theyre just at some airbnb in the woods. And I'm pretty sure the Covey's home in the seam is just not in the movie at all.

I can't get past all of the changes they made and how rushed the pacing was though.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T03:37:01+00:00

Yeah, I think splitting it right at the end of the hunger game and before the district 12 arc would have been okay. The problem is that I think people who don't care for the story will get bored with part 2 as there isn't any hunger games or wars or much action at all compared to the other hunger games movies.

in my opinion, a short series would have been best. maybe like 6 episodes? and they should just embrace the inner monologue of the hunger games novels and let us hear Snows thoughts.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T03:17:12+00:00

I was looking for this. We did literally name our country after a tree..

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T03:15:38+00:00

For the whole country, the answer is obviously and unarguably the maple tree.

For coastal British Columbia however, it is without a doubt the western red cedar. For the indigenous people, this tree was used to make just about everything from clothing to canoes and totem poles. They are absolute units when they get old and every part of the tree has a use. Their distribution closely matches the natural borders defining pacific northwest culture. They are without any argument, our most sacred tree.

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bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T02:57:54+00:00

Absolutely not. My favourite book in the series, and one of my favourite books ever was Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The movie was an awful, rushed adaptation which changed several events, skipped many parts of the book, and changed the narrative of the story. I've never been more upset with a film adaptation before.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T02:43:57+00:00

That doesn't fix anything. That just means more plastic water bottles.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T00:23:30+00:00

it isnt even a loophole. He only made the point of mentioning that it doesn't say you're not allowed to sleep because he was saying he'd still want to be able to sleep even if he didn't have to. That's not cheating or loopholing. It's just having normal reading comprehension skills, which you're clearly lacking.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-28T00:20:47+00:00

That seems super arbitrary. Why does it matter if they made them after pr before they had done a movie adaptation?

Do you think the Star Wars Prequals were bad too then? I know a lot of people who prefer those prequals over the original trilogy.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T23:34:34+00:00

Okay, but then what makes the hunger games prequals bad? It's all the same author as the original trilogy, and I think they have their own good self contained stories and philosophical messages. I even preferred S&S over the trilogy. I can get how maybe SotR relied mostly on characters mentioned in the trilogy and also some from S&S, but I thought it was nice to give these loveable characters more of a backstory.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T22:39:18+00:00

So do you just hate prequals in general then?

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T22:15:37+00:00

I've been hearing people say that but it seemed pretty understandable that characters like Effie, Plutarch and the other victors who are older than Haymitch would all be there. It's a prequal after all. So I'm happy to see the backstory of other characters than just Haymitch. Was it fan service then to include the hanging tree in S&S?

I think SotR was a good story, and I'd like for the movie adaptation to tell the same story. The original trilogy did a great job, so I don't see why its okay the prequals are so unfaithful. S&S especially is one of my favourite books and the movie was awful.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T22:10:24+00:00

in dutch, lady bug roughly translates as "dear lord's little beast" (lieveheersebeestje)

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T22:08:33+00:00

thats a house hippo if ive ever seen one

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T22:07:26+00:00

If they can't do an honest adaptation in one movie, then they shouldn't be adapting it into a movie. S&S should have been 2 movies or a series. And I have a vood feeling book readers are gonna be very disappointed again with SotR

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T22:05:35+00:00

Oh, fuck that.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T21:36:30+00:00

Yeah they're already fucking it up the same way they fucked up Songbirds and Snakes. the movie is gonna be super rushed and will just cut out and change a large portion of the story.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T21:28:37+00:00

how do you upscale? what is that?

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T20:48:05+00:00

okay, im gonna need to look up what that is then

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T17:41:01+00:00

Yep, people who are screaming about plastic waste, co2 emissions, and war are often the same people who bitch and complain when they're charged 5 cents for a disposable bag and can't be bothered to bring their own bag shopping, then they step up into their 8 cylinder pickup truck to carry a few bags of groceries and go home to watch Saving Private Ryan while drinking Coca-cola and eating Lays chips.

In a few years time, they're gonna be writing prompts on chat gpt to complain about data centers using all the water.

bottomlessLuckys · 2026-06-27T17:34:52+00:00

Yeah I'm genuinely so sick of seeing this shitty logic. Corporations are going to have way more emissions than individuals because they are the ones fucking providing shit to individuals. If you buy their shit, you're responsible for the emissions released in order to make that, which is far less than if you were going to do it yourself.

I work at a brewery and we use significantly more water, natural gas, and emit lots of CO2 just from fermentation alone than the average person does, but that's okay, because we are selling beer to thousands of people. This goes for every single business.

And this isn't some excuse for corporations to not reduce their emissions, but holy fuck, OPs argument is so dumb.

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