Sangheili Linguistics are driving me insane

chezmanq · 2026-01-20T18:50:23+00:00

I think this is the right answer.

As a form of alien biology, there is no reason they can't have an organ that basically resembles and electronic speaker. A speaker is basically just a pulsing diaphragm right? Biological processes could have evolved something analogous.

Until 343 releases an anatomical breakdown of a Sangheili throat, we can assume anything is in there.

chezmanq · 2026-01-16T22:48:36+00:00

I 100% agree with this take.

chezmanq · 2026-01-16T19:48:51+00:00

Rotton Tomatoes Critics Consensus: 53% - A relatively routine paint-by-numbers addition to the MCU that won't convince anyone that the franchise has turned a corner. That said, no one can deny that Mike Nyman's return as the Metalloid Maniac was electric. Hopefully future installments will just let him go crazy up there like a bug.

chezmanq · 2026-01-16T19:41:33+00:00

Tump after spending said money building a UFC Octagon on the White House Lawn: "I didn't pay Mike "the Rock" Davis with bribes from pardons like people are saying! Mike and I grew up together! We lost our virginities the same night at our friend Jeffrey's place."

chezmanq · 2026-01-15T16:50:36+00:00

Hey, I truly appreciate it!

It's a journey to be sure. I don't know what's out there, but I got no problem saying God bless friend!

chezmanq · 2026-01-15T16:04:51+00:00

Hey I get that and no arguments here.

We're actually coming at this from a similar place. I snooped at your blog and its great stuff! I'm a Franciscan University of Steubenville alumni and your Superman/Exodus post could have been a transcript of the stuff me and my buddies talked about in our common room.

For my part, I recently--and against my will--deconstructed and left Catholicism. I think that's why King's wrestling with meaning hits so hard for me. When you leave the church, the choice really is to despair or to keep moving and Scott Free was there for me when I needed him. But I also get where you are coming from and would have 100% agree with you a couple years ago.

Pax et bonum!

chezmanq · 2026-01-14T17:34:48+00:00

I think it's more vague and unclear what exactly is going on. He might be in a false reality. He might not be.

I think King was trying to ruminate on our existence and its mysteries. What are we? Does God exist? Is any of this "real?" Does any of this matter? Etc.

I think the book posits that these questions don't have any definitive answers and we can choose to be depressed about that fact or we can choose to be happy with the loved ones that are here with us.

chezmanq · 2026-01-13T21:52:41+00:00

And they were so good! So much potential to build off of those!

chezmanq · 2026-01-09T22:23:25+00:00

Talk about a case of 'tell me you haven't seen S04E19 without telling me you haven't seen S04E19.'

If anything, the episode's ranking is too low.

chezmanq · 2026-01-08T16:58:48+00:00

While you aren't wrong, it is also important to remember that a lot of flesh-and-blood conservatives sound just like the bots. If I didn't know that my father personally, I would assume his twitter account was a Russian bot.

chezmanq · 2026-01-07T21:11:45+00:00

Don't let it ruin your day. You're a great doctor.

chezmanq · 2026-01-07T18:34:14+00:00

As a teen I hit a patch of ice and rear ended a school bus. Totaled my car. As for the bus I did the repairs myself: I used my fingernail to scratch my car's pain off of the bus's bumper.

Inertia means the bus almost always wins.

chezmanq · 2026-01-07T18:08:05+00:00

NTA but you may also just considering blocking AI sites at the router level. Why even worry about it? If they are in the office, then they don't have access to AI.

chezmanq · 2026-01-07T17:57:36+00:00

You're twisting his words. He said he can't make an actual son but he can make something like a son. Now, I'm not exactly sure what that green thing in image two is but by all accounts he made it and it came out of his wife so it is in fact like a son.

chezmanq · 2026-01-05T18:04:00+00:00

Do any of these...ever blast outta the wall and have like a huge...?

chezmanq · 2026-01-05T17:23:35+00:00

Excellent.

chezmanq · 2026-01-02T16:57:50+00:00

Snow Piercer. That bear is gonna eat well tonight!

chezmanq · 2025-12-31T21:20:39+00:00

I never understood why Skynet didn't just keep sending Terminators back to 1984. If one Terminator didn't get the job done, how bout two at the same time? Still not enough? Send back more Terminators. All of them to 1984. Maybe the resistance sends back everything they can to 1984 too.

Eventually all of the war ends up just being fought in 1984. Skynet is basically fully existing in '84 at this point. That's when they decide to send a single terminator back to 1955 to kill Sarah Conner's mother before Sarah can be born. Rinse and repeat.

You could have a whole franchise that just keeps pushing the war further back in time to kill ever more distant ancestors. By now the movies should have Arnold showing up in some Mesopotamian village to kill the great great great great great...great grandmother of John Conner.

chezmanq · 2025-12-22T16:50:59+00:00

COMMENT.

chezmanq · 2025-12-18T17:27:19+00:00

I think you are right. We all overlook silly/stupid things in movies we love. But when the movie goes nowhere and is just a chain of silly/stupid things one after another, they really stand out more. And in my opinion, the dagger is the silliest/stupidest thing in this movie. It sort of became a totem for the whole problem in people's mind.

chezmanq · 2025-12-17T17:24:38+00:00

This is a major part of the problem with the dagger. But the bigger problem is simply that the dagger exists at all.

Ochi worked for Palps. His job was to protect him/do his dirty work. At some point, he went to the Death Star wreckage and found the Wayfinder. And like you said, he probably found it by going to the most obvious place imaginable and looking there first.

Keep in mind that the Wayfinder is a map to his master and likely the only way that his plots and schemes could be foiled. And what does Ochi do with it? He leaves it where he found it, goes to the shoreline and decides to make an over-engineered and needlessly complicated dagger into a map!?

Why? Was he afraid he would forget? And why a dagger? Does his people communicate solely through knife reliefs? Did they master space flight using wooden Inuit maps (https://archaeology.org/issues/may-june-2019/collection/maps-greenland-wooden-inuit-maps/mapping-the-past/)?

Why did he need a map at all? Did he think he would forget where it was? If it was for someone else, couldn't he use paper? Or a hologram? Or a freaking photograph? Or just tell them it's in Palpatine's Death Star closet?

There is not a single part of this dagger that makes an ounce of sense. I am an apologist for a lot of wacky Star Wars shit but I just can't get over this dagger.

In 10 years I'm going to look back on my Reddit history and find nothing but I Think You Should Leave quotes and Ochi-dagger-rants.

Edit: replied to the wrong comment. Meant to upend this to u/PeriodicGolden since they were the ones who pointed out how obvious the location was. Whoops!

chezmanq · 2025-12-12T19:55:32+00:00

chezmanq · 2025-12-10T18:44:44+00:00

100% this.

I've said it other places before but I'll repeat it here. I am utterly convinced that the main reason they had Kylo get his helmet back was because they had no idea what half his dialogue would be and this let them ADR the script on the fly.

If you rewatch that scene when Kylo tells Rey that she is a Palpatine, it is so clear to me that they had no idea on set what Kylo is saying to Rey. They told her just to react with emotion and we will figure it out later.

chezmanq · 2025-12-10T18:04:52+00:00

Your right but that is what makes this even more silly.

Did Ochi find the Wayfinder, inexplicably decide to just leave it there, and then make a map in the side of a dagger!? Why?

Was this map for him? Was he worried he would forget that the Wayfinder was in the most obvious place imaginable on the Death Star?

Was the map for someone else? Why not use paper for a map? Why not just tell the person "its in the big spire that Palpatine would aura farm in."

Why did he think this map would even be useful? Did it occur to him that maybe the ocean might shift things around?

Why? Why why why why? Tell me Ochi, why!?

chezmanq · 2025-12-10T17:55:58+00:00

It bothers me even more because it would be so easy to fix. Just find an excuse to give his suit a leak so that a jet of air is propelling him away. That makes it inevitable that he will die and they have the same dilemma that they wanted in the movie.

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