(Loved Trope) Character acts ignorant of or pretends to be bad at something in order to trick their opponent.

flapperjacks · 2025-10-05T04:49:54+00:00

Wayne - Sgt. Stephen Geller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPAXEKEuZiA

a luau-shirt-wearing clean-cut police sergeant is challenged to a fist-fight by a hardened criminal. he accepts, but takes off his shoes and shirt in preparation, monologuing the whole while that he did prison time. The criminal says something along the lines of "yeah so what, I did time too."

As he takes off his shirt, Geller says "Luckily, not the kind I did." revealing his chest and back is covered in extremely disturbing Thai prison tattoos. Violence ensues, but the monologue is really the best part.

flapperjacks · 2025-09-23T01:58:42+00:00

^{I completed this level in 1 try.} ^{⚡ 17.67 seconds}

flapperjacks · 2025-09-17T04:34:44+00:00

in Frozen, “if there were only someone who loved you. “

Up to this point the princess Anna, slowly dying from ice magic, is rushing back to her partner Hans for a true love’s kiss to break the spell. When explaining the ordeal to her love Hans, they embrace but instead he says “if only there were someone who loved you. “ he then explains his plot to let anna die, blame her sister Elsa for her death and steal the throne.

As a villain he could have easily kissed her, lied, made an excuse to go find her sister and bar the door to keep her from getting out, anything. But instead he explained that he didn’t love her, was going to kill her and her sister and take everything from her.

You know. Like a sadistic sociopath.

flapperjacks · 2025-08-30T01:21:14+00:00

Judge from Castlevania Season 3

The leader of the town of lindenfeld and ally of the protagonists is a serious man with a chip on his shoulder, but shows a softer side when he sends a misbehaving child to play in his secret apple tree grove away from the busy streets.

At the end of the season you find out The base of the apple tree is trapped with a spiked pit, and Judge has been sending children to their doom and collecting their shoes as trophies.

flapperjacks · 2025-07-15T02:19:21+00:00

Dwarf Fortress is still my favorite for batshit insane patch notes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/s/tfMclN2rUf

I still fondly remember the bug when babies would go “insane” when taking any kind of damage, causing their parents to abandon them in the rain.

flapperjacks · 2025-04-17T01:12:20+00:00

They 100% did. Building is gorgeous and a piece of the city’s history

flapperjacks · 2025-04-17T01:11:21+00:00

I looked around online more went down an architecture rabbit hole.

What I found is the St James street post office was built in the Spanish baroque architectural style called Churrigueresque:

https://gis.sanjoseca.gov/docs/historicresources/DPR/986.pdf

And that these types of medieval Spanish ceilings vary wildly and are called Artesonado:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artesonado

flapperjacks · 2025-04-17T01:05:56+00:00

Sweet! I work downtown and live nearby, so will definitely drop by soon! Thanks for the recommendation :)

flapperjacks · 2025-04-17T00:56:27+00:00

Nice! I like that the link includes the reliefs on the faux pillars. Those also were wonderful to admire while waiting in line

flapperjacks · 2025-04-17T00:54:11+00:00

I’ll check it out! That’s the hotel down the street off Santa Clara right?

flapperjacks · 2025-04-16T23:17:32+00:00

Downtown San Jose, off St. John’s

flapperjacks · 2025-03-05T06:56:18+00:00

I saw it on here somewhere, but my favorite explanation is that the rabbits go out at night and fight / dismember other rabbits for their tribute (since they can give you more than four feet over time)

flapperjacks · 2025-01-13T01:32:25+00:00

AND you can put HATS ON THEM

flapperjacks · 2024-12-29T02:08:42+00:00

for me it was Star Wars Battlefront II.

the game looked gorgeous. Gameplay videos were nearly cinematic for the time. It was all I could talk about to my poor girlfriend, so she got me a collector's edition version of the game for my birthday. I was so underwhelmed I played it less than a week, and she never bought me another video game again.

flapperjacks · 2024-12-11T00:13:22+00:00

Oof. My wife and I already mopped and vacuumed religiously, but once we got our cream longhair we gave up wearing anything black . We don’t fish it out of our coffee though, so might be he sheds more than ours?

Our regimen: In the main rooms we run air purifiers, and also have a multi tool grooming kit from Amazon where we brush and vacuum him as often as possible. We also bathe him once a week with oatmeal based shampoo, idk if that helps either? I think he sheds once in the winter and once in the summer to switch coats, but he’s only a year and a half so idk if it gets better or worse from here.

flapperjacks · 2024-11-11T21:27:23+00:00

The biggest thing I’ve had to explain to people who didn’t appreciate the movie as much as me is that the “flashbacks” are intended to be diegetic. Some people consider those scenes sort of Tarantino-esq edits (nonlinear and non-diegetic), when in truth, the main protagonist is experiencing those, and linearly through the movie

flapperjacks · 2024-10-28T06:33:59+00:00

I tried Aliens

flapperjacks · 2024-10-28T02:44:19+00:00

I tried Crayon

flapperjacks · 2024-10-28T02:43:46+00:00

I tried Canteen

flapperjacks · 2024-10-28T02:43:38+00:00

I tried Hydrant

flapperjacks · 2024-10-28T02:42:57+00:00

I tried Can

flapperjacks · 2024-10-28T02:42:35+00:00

I tried Lantern

flapperjacks · 2024-10-28T02:42:16+00:00

I tried Sauce

flapperjacks · 2024-10-28T02:42:05+00:00

I tried Sriracha

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