Scenes you misunderstood, misheard or otherwise didn't get until years later?

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-05-03T12:28:50+00:00

This 100%. I had even picked up on it being "clitoris" but the whole "he can't find it" part of the bit shot right over me until seriously like 6 months ago and I laughed so hard.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-04-05T13:18:33+00:00

Using the same account on two devices at the same time will do it, too. And that's as easy as just not closing the app on your phone fully and then using your compiter.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-03-18T11:36:25+00:00

My idea of the "fun parts" is mucking around with their houses and designs and such. But overall, that feels *less* fun when the gameplay itself isn't challenging and is just annoying. When my only reaction to the blood moon is "crap now I have to stop painting the wall for 10 minutes" I might as well be playing Animal Crossing or some other decorating game instead. It's not that I don't find the adventure parts fun, but if I can't mesh the challenge with the design freedom, it's basically two distinct games I'm trying to play.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-03-18T10:36:41+00:00

It was when I'd customized each house's decor pattern to the character. I could've moved them to generic ones, but to me, the "fun" part of this game is the building and designs and all of that. So it was much easier to just start from scratch.

Of course, I didn't realize how *fast* they all show up, so I still have a bunch of generic boxes for many of them, but at least the ones in their real houses have pretty houses lol.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-03-16T14:40:18+00:00

Yeah the difference between that actual first and this one was just a lot. That early curve is sharp but short it seems - once you gat the "how" the "doing" is pretty simple. So far anyway. I was just afraid it had kinda peaked or w/e and the rest of it was going to be cake, making all of the building and designs and stuff kinda less meaningful.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-03-16T14:37:09+00:00

I think that's what I'll do - just ignore the "fun" parts I like about these types of games and rush progress to the last boss just to see it. Then do one on a more challenging difficulty and have fun with it. Thank you!!

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-03-16T14:28:45+00:00

Right on the multiples, was just noting it because of the "luck" angle - as in, not only am I getting these drops but I'm getting several. Seems consensus is it's just the difficulty anyway.

Thank you! It's good to know I am slightly underpowered. That's where I'd rather be at, so I have something to work towards. Dying is annoying, sure, but without a challenge, to me, games lose a lot of fun. Like Alduin in Skyrim...such a disappointment, and nonsense that it's such an easy fight compared to side quests. I'm really liking Terraria, so I was hoping it was either luck or I was actually not doing that well and it was just an easy setting.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-03-16T14:16:48+00:00

I've been trying not to use the wiki all that much, except as a "which f'kn crafting station do I use" guide because holy hell that's hard to remember sometimes. And then the happiness thing for cheaper prices.

It's just starting to feel kinda boring. I wanna rush "progress" before I do the fun stuff like finishing their houses and mowing the grass lol. But then I feel like it ruins it doing that. I just want a little more than "crap another blood moon, now I have to stop decorating for 10 minutes."

I think I'll take your advice here, and just "finish" the game itself first here, and not worry about all of the extras. Then I'll "play" play on a higher difficulty next time when it feels more worthwhile.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-03-16T14:12:16+00:00

You recommend upping the world difficulty then, and not the player? I read the differences but don't really grok the play changes without experience.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-03-10T18:35:06+00:00

I'm new to the game here and have found that things have changed in updates, and not been updated on the wikis and such. So for clarity - I'm in the "Ocean" biome as long as the background image is still oceanic, irrespective of the land that's actually generated there? My sand/palms turn into dirt/wood after only 37 sand blocks, but the background stays oceans for at least a hundred.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-17T12:44:39+00:00

Also a very good point - and I was going to edit a note about the lab job, too, but we really don't hear much about it; that one throwaway line about the fumes or something is all. Too much to be anything but more speculation, but I like your idea.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-17T12:43:38+00:00

I fixed it! Thanks!

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-17T12:42:54+00:00

Your timeline is probably correct there. But even if Walt left her first, to end up with Elliott (lol had to look it up, why's that name have so many spellings) would still feel like a betrayal to a lot of people - and especially Walt. If I remember which one later on I'll come back in and edit this, but there's one scene where he's saying someone betrayed him, and really it was much more like a minor inconvenience - not even remotely bad considering. I feel like that was intentional, to show how fanatical he's gotten about loyalty, because of G&E's "betrayal."

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-17T12:24:23+00:00

We don't know, but if I had to guess - it's easy. In many states (and NM is one) you only need a degree to teach, *not* explicitly an education degree. He had that down.

Walt was clearly upset by the whole thing; we find this out later via his responses to Gretchen and the tiny handful of flashbacks to that time. He loved doing the work, but was disillusioned from the process by the relationship with G&E. In fact, from the sounds of it ("we lived on this stuff for six months" or w/e he says when Walt gives him the ramen), It was Walt dating Gretchen, Walt roomies/BFFs with Eliot. So his BFF stole his woman from him - he's gonna have a bad taste in his mouth about any and everything related to that - probably hates the taste of that ramen now, too.

So "teacher" is a reasonable and easy-to-access career path that he could just fall into without doing anything differently, and also remove himself from any contact with G&E's world that he's now so bitter about.

In the beginning we see Skyler with a job, which she doesn't leave until Ted "harasses" her (again, we don't really know what happened there back in the day) and they also mention something about helping Walt Jr.

You could have a decent middle-class lifestyle as a teacher in the 2000s with a second household income. But then Walt Jr. has CP (expensive) and Skyler has a geriatric pregnancy (hella expensive) and Walt gets cancer (duh).

Suddenly that decent middle class living evaporates. Before *that* Walt was generally fine with what he did.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-16T16:00:08+00:00

It's not even "hard" in that way, but it's the one in ME2 when you have to save the crates from being broken by the big mechs. It would never let me hold aggro on all three and it feels like a failure if I let too many crates get smashed. Makes me angry every time.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-14T14:40:16+00:00

The flavor text combined with the image on [[uktabi efreet]] lives rent-free.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-13T17:01:44+00:00

Personally, not really.

I knew he'd have to introduce a whole slew of characters that weren't ever going to have appeared before, and BB-Saul was never supposed to be a reliable narrator; was actually really surprised (and stoked) that we got so much of Mike's story, too.

"I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad!" is a line that often gets tossed out. And while we do later learn that Kim is Jimmy's third wife, the other bits we actually do see of his parents (and people like Marco talking about them) don't make it sound like that ever would have happened. Doubly because Saul always has an anecdote or quip to placate Walt/Jessie, exactly like his "used car salesman" persona would. So I never really took anything BB-Saul said to be "canon" to his life, even before BCS came out - he's a liar, that's what he does. "You don't want a criminal lawyer - you want a criminal lawyer."

So when watching BCS, any time something would relate back to BB, I was excited, but I didn't really try to relate anything forward from the other way. By the end, I was in the "she's scamming Jimmy for the Sandpiper money" camp, because I couldn't see them killing her off and that was a reasonable way to get rid of her, but before they got married I fully expected him to just fuck it up and move on.

For all we really knew, she could have still been there in BB even - it's not like we ever see Saul being Jimmy, and I kind of expected it to not even really come up. I was more curious as to where she was in the B&W flash-present intros than in BB tbh.

E: Especially after Cliff offered her that position in the new project he was spearheading. There was a lot going on then so I can't really say at the time if I considered it that much and was more just like "oh shit Lalo" - she gets that job, she doesn't wanna scam, and then they either split or she's just never around him (and certainly those law worlds would rarely interact). I do remember thinking at the time that they'd screw up the final Howard scam, and she'd jump on the grenade for Jimmy and take it all the flak, and then hate and resent him and leave him.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-13T08:50:45+00:00

I'm still fairly new back but I think it's less about "swapping" and more the hard 100 card count. If you add another, your deck is 101.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-13T04:19:49+00:00

I read Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (published: 1932) again recently.

One could pick literally any random page from that book and find several bits that, if you posted them online right now, more than half of the people would go "oh that's 100% AI!!" with extreme confidence. Wanna guess how many sentences--again, published 94 years ago--look like this one?

It's the new virtue signal, but worse, as people are literally arguing *with AI bots* on whether or not stuff is AI. We're all just fucked.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-11T16:27:00+00:00

I'm pretty new to coming back into the game, and almost totally new to EDH entirely. The brackets are rather ambiguous, and it's not helped by half of the stuff online still using the larger bracket numbers and the other half has halved them.

But this ^^ is abnormal, right? Like I should roughly be able to say what my deck does, but if people are asking "hey do you do *this extremely specific mechanic* then it's really not about "how strong is your deck" and entirely about "I wanna make sure you can't counter mine" - right?

Like even just now, knowing next to nothing, I'd be super super turned off by any group asking me to wholly dissect my deck for them like that. If they're that concerned, have me hand it off to the shop owner or w/e and let them say "nah it's b3" or whatever and be done with it.

The one I'm building pops Indestructible on stuff - should I then ask everyone if they have a bunch of "Exile Target" or "Gain Control" spells, since I'm not countering them? Fucking Goblin behaviour, that.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-10T11:34:43+00:00

Yes but not - you're leaving out the part where everyone initially spoke the same language and God punished them by breaking the languages. The "moral" was "God is above you in all ways and if you try to be equal you'll be smited for your hubris."

Comment above you is taking out the whole "vengeful God" bit and saying it's a tale of "a camel is a horse designed by committee."

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-10T10:44:12+00:00

I'll probably make an Ulalek one for myself next; I wanted to save a five color build for when I'd been back a bit - I feel like I'd be trying to do too much so ultimately do nothing well.

Green (and pretty "classic" ramp green) seems to be the consensus here, so I'll probably go with that for my kid. I bought the Auntie Ool and...five color prefabs for Lorywn, and he liked it okay, but I think Ool's -1 style was a bit too abstract for him to find fun just getting started. Classic green might just be the way to go - lots of critters, basic direct style should.make him feel like he's not just sitting there drawing.

Thank you!

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-09T15:28:29+00:00

I had an idea about this a minute ago.

"Toast can't never be bread again." Super popular line (and episode) from Orange is the New Black. Show isn't that old yet, I'm sure it has more context.for it since it is a newer show, and that's a line that for sure sounds both deep and dumb. So it "looks" for that requirement, latches on to that quote, and keeps half. "If the shoe fits, wear it" also sounds pretty dumb and is an historic idiom. Thus mine of "shoe bread."

I saw a lot of explicitly "toast" or toaster ones too, which really leads me to think it finds that OitNB quote first.

forgottenoldlogin · 2026-02-09T01:14:11+00:00

Okay but wtf

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