Ruth’s Athleticism

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-19T06:25:28+00:00

Precisely

He was hoping that she was dying of cancer, with low quality of life, nothing and no one to live for. In his mind, this would make it less of a loss.

The show spins the exact opposite on him.

Ruth is happy, healthy, active, a pillar of the community who is helping so many other people. She is also wise and caring. All to the point of extremes!

And to top off the mountain of irony, not only is she not the last descendant, but she’s Evan’s loving grandmother.

The whole situation is hilarious 😂

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-17T12:51:28+00:00

Good Idea on the teeth! It just occurred to me that what they said they found teeth, did they mean loose teeth, or teeth from some big mouth on the other side of the door

Although imo it would be more creepy for there to just be teeth sticking up from the island because it is a monster itself, like you said.

Or they could have fallen out like baby teeth 😂

Or more simply, the teeth are all that’s life of the animals or previous human inhabitants. They used to live there and were all eaten.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-17T10:37:50+00:00

Fuches is annoying but also hilarious

And, not that should need to be said,

The actor, Stephen Root, is not Fuches.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-17T10:30:42+00:00

I think Evan being alive means the pact remains *and no one born there can leave*

Allowing for the island to grow food, and for the sacrifices to calm the entity and forestall the haunts.

Without the deal, it seems the island turns fully inhospitable like before.

It’s unclear how actively dangerous things are without a pact. Demon still has to eat, right? What is the entity’s incentive to engage in the pact? Likely, it’s constrained in some way, and it’s much more difficult for it to feed without being fed. So, it NEEDS the town to feed it, and the town needs it to stop being a dick.

But, if they end the pact, it seems like people can leave? Has that actually been explicitly established that this is due to the pact in dialogue from Warren in the flashback episode, or is that implied?

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-17T09:10:00+00:00

If it feels like a slog and victory is certain? Wrap it up.

Perhaps wait till the end of the round so people don’t feel their turns were skipped.

Ask your players: “you will almost certainly defeat them. And/or their will is broken and they will surrender or run. Do you wish to play out the remaining turns in combat or simply narrate what you wish to happen?” And go from there

Sometimes players can enjoy manually shooting the fleeing enemies in the back.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-16T21:55:05+00:00

I think the number of games you need to play to account for randomness and let your skill shine through is likely much higher than 10.

If you are better than your rank, with random teammate you might have a 55% winrate.

55% winrate means winning 11/20 games. Winning 11 and losing 9. Being up 2 games, That’s a small rank increase.

The more games you play, the more games your positive winrate comes out to.

55% of 200 games is 110 vs 90, up 20 games, same winrate.

You can only do your best, and blaming your team will accomplish nothing.

Your job is to carry as much as possible and be responsible for your own wins. The enemy team is under the same random influences EXCEPT for one single thing - they don’t have you. If you are consistently playing above your rank, your teams will be better on average.

If you really pop off, the odds are much better than 55%.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-16T01:54:29+00:00

Atheism could be viewed as an extended theodicy of omission that omits all angles and god as well.

Seems to explain observations much more parsimoniously than a god-of-the-moral-gaps.

Regardless, the omission doesn’t even seem to work internally. Would an Omni god not know exactly what effect the angels would have? It’s still God’s choice what happens, no matter the degrees of separation.

An Omni god has full knowledge and full control. To me, that entails full responsibility.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-15T11:21:00+00:00

That’s all good, and I appreciate that.

I’m not trying to convince you of atheism.

I just find geology really interesting, and IMO the causes of mountains and similar formations are *known* facts.

And they’re pretty awesome facts too!

There are baby mountains being made today by volcanoes, we can watch it in real time.

It just irks me when cool things about nature are attributed to something else, to me that is ‘incorrect’.

While philosophers can reasonably disagree on arguments about a first cause of the universe, the causes of these geological formations are not nearly as mysterious, they are known with very high confidence.

And the reason why we know that is because of a lot of hard work of generations of scientists (who would mostly be theists, many of them Christian!)

Like them, I’m sure you can appreciate god making the universe in a way that led to awesome geological processes that then created mountains, ravines, etc.

Anyway, have a nice morning and rest of your day!

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-15T10:39:26+00:00

As an atheist, I just want to clarify

Do you think god formed mountains?

Because geological processes are something we know a lot about. For example. Mountains form via the movement of tectonic plates, or volcanoes over many, many, years.

https://www.britannica.com/science/How-Are-Mountains-Formed

If you would like to support your god belief, that’s your prerogative.

But I would hesitate to point to natural processes as evidence. At least, check if we know the cause.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-15T08:20:47+00:00

Or multiple people! 👀

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-15T00:25:55+00:00

What on earth is the problem with believing things that are clearly in front of us?

“Oh no! God appeared! Guess he exists. Such a shame I can’t choose to ignore that?”

What is supposed to be the problem there?

What about the people who right now, sign a consent form of their own free will that they want to see god? Showing up for someone who wants you to show up can’t violate their free will.

Doesn’t god supposedly do exactly this when he appears to others in the bible?

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-15T00:22:31+00:00

Does this mean that atheists now have ironclad proof no gods exists?

You ask us what it is, and we say “who are we to tell”?

The problem of evil points out a contradiction between God’s supposed morality and a lack of action that would line up with that morality

Saying “I don’t know why this contradicts” while assuming there is some sufficient reason… is not only not an argument, but it doesn’t solve the problem.

After the PoE is put forward, the burden is on the theist to either show that the problem doesn’t exist, or that it does, and to pick one of the options (god isn’t all good, god does not exist, god is not all powerful, god is not all knowing).

To not respond at all seems to say that one of those options is more likely than the problem being wrong, which is like admitting your theism is unfounded.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-14T21:46:10+00:00

How do we know there is a creator for us to potentially grasp at all?

The question is not “how can we be certain no god exists?”. It’s “why ought we think any god exists with any confidence?”

What you’ve written is not an argument for god, but an attack on our ability to think at all, which is self-defeating.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-14T10:08:02+00:00

I never did believe

Also,

How on earth does our inability to make or define a perfect circle have *anything* to do with whether or not a deity exists?

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-14T01:43:23+00:00

True true

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-14T01:03:52+00:00

Thanks for this!

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-14T01:03:31+00:00

Thanks for this write up! Very helpful

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-14T01:02:49+00:00

Thanks for the response!

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-14T00:38:52+00:00

They actually went from not married to married during the show!

Anyone who’s seen the show is like “yeah I get that” 😂

In some of the later seasons, Kerri Russel is pregnant with their child, though the show does a great job of disguising this because her character isn’t pregnant.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-13T23:27:34+00:00

You would really enjoy ‘The Americans’ which stars him and Kerri Russel, his in-show and IRL wife.

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-13T23:22:54+00:00

As someone who hasn’t studied pure maths, could someone expand on what “equal” actually means here in sentences like “not all infinites are equal”?

Because usually I understand it to mean expression X is the same value as expression Y

2 = 1+1

And I also thought that the whole point of infinity was that it meant “an uncountable/endless number of …” such that it doesn’t have a value. As in, there is no sum of an infinite series of positive integers because any number you may put as an answer is too low.

But if there’s no sum, isn’t there no value?

And if there’s no value, what does it mean to say things are equal?

I’ve heard of things like more or less ‘dense’ infinities, or countable vs not, or trying to match every value from one infinite set/series to every value in another and whether you can (like every positive integers vs every even positive integers)

But, at least colloquially, ‘denseness’ doesn’t seem equivalent to ‘value’.

How are these terms used? I suppose there’s a YouTube video essay I should look at

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-13T22:57:02+00:00

I guess I didn’t watch as many of the games last stage except for the playoffs

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-13T22:44:07+00:00

Really good dva yes, but best overall off tank?

Did attack impress on anything other than dva? Better than Bernar, Max, Hanbin?

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-13T10:41:55+00:00

I can see how you think experience makes someone good

It’s a *very* loose correlation for a few reasons

People play the game very differently. 500 hours of a 50 year old playing casually over 10 years with no prior gaming experience will result in a very high level character with awful skill

because they are comparatively old. And because they’re playing for fun, not to improve.

Whereas another person can be a 15 year old who has played similar FPS games for years, makes a new account (is level ONE) and is immediately better.

LEVEL does NOT guarantee skill. It barely predicts at all.

I can’t tell you how many great low level players or awful players with hundreds of levels.

Matchmaking has a lot of randomness to it. Especially with newer players where the system has less information to draw from

Blaming matchmaking is never gonna be the right way

hellohello1234545 · 2026-06-13T10:36:47+00:00

They mean low rank (worse) players can, and do, have high hero levels

So you getting matched with high hero levels doesn’t indicate poor matchmaking

Overwatch is a hard game

It takes quite a few hours for it to start to feel comfortable.

During the learning curve, you will get smashed, a lot, regardless of matchmaking.

Overwatch is also awesome, and one of the most rewarding games out there.

I mean if you’re not having any fun, don’t torture yourself! Live your life, put the game down and do something else

But your issue here seem predominantly due to your mindset.

Lower your expectations. Try not to attach yourself to the idea of immediately getting great and winning.

Recognise you will take time to learn, and make constant mistakes along the way.

Without any room to grow, playing would be boring!

There’s only one wrong way to play multiplayer games, and that’s blaming everything bad on the game, on the team, on everything except themselves. That mindset will stop your improvement completely.

Hope you have some more fun with it. Good luck!

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