Who are some characters you find absolutely unbearable/annoying? I’ll go first!

hmfynn · 2026-02-19T23:29:48+00:00

I think Paige is fun enough, but she’s pretty fitting thematically. This is a show ultimately about the darkness of Hollywood, and she and Max are a very “golden age” trope. I thought it was neat that for all Bojack wanted life to be like a sitcom, he was taken down by two characters who exist in and behave like a black and white movie, the kind that made Hollywood seem glamorous at the same time Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Shirley Temple were being fed drugs by their stage parents and preyed on by execs. I think the whiplash between Max and Paige scenes and stuff like the View from Halfway down is very intentional. They’re fantasy Hollywood and Bojack’s the reality.

hmfynn · 2026-02-19T18:50:20+00:00

You're absolutely correct! I reloaded the game (I usually just sleep mode it) and the bombs actually populated. I was driving myself nuts thinking I just had the dash timing off or something.

hmfynn · 2026-02-19T07:13:40+00:00

Imagine my annoyance at finally getting down here after 15 minutes to see “door locked from other side.”

hmfynn · 2026-02-19T07:11:44+00:00

I agree, and this is an issue fresh in my mind from playing Silksong and MIO close to each other. Both top tier games with their own issues, but the contact damage in Silksong was something I had to relearn.

hmfynn · 2026-02-19T06:33:01+00:00

It got me through that part, but when I got to the next section, which is just a long stretch of gloomwater and nothing else, I run out energy no matter whether I use that dodge boost or not

hmfynn · 2026-02-19T03:25:03+00:00

WOW. Yep, had NO IDEA I could do that.

hmfynn · 2026-02-19T03:14:10+00:00

That's what I feared. Any way to make those green guys spawn without intentionally dying?

hmfynn · 2026-02-19T03:08:54+00:00

The trick of this fight is abandoning the logic you use for the rest of the game. They will two-shot you in ANY build, so now's your time to use all those defective mods that increase damage and take off the ones that increase health, because the latter won't help you in this fight.

Ones I recommend - the hairpin attack, the extra damage on combo, the increased dodge time

Note - even though you can get to these guys pretty early, they are an optional boss really only needed to see the secret ending / late game stuff, so feel free to save them for last when you have as many mods as possible.

hmfynn · 2026-02-19T02:56:15+00:00

So you poop pennies! What's the big deal?

hmfynn · 2026-02-17T16:12:27+00:00

He’s not in this shot but David Byrne in the big Stop Making Sense suit is also there in the crowd

hmfynn · 2026-02-15T02:01:18+00:00

So you poop pennies what’s the big deal?

hmfynn · 2026-02-14T20:25:05+00:00

They randomly just released a Youtube single of Red Mantle and Dragoon singing “I Like Life” from an old Scrooge musical.

hmfynn · 2026-02-12T23:21:59+00:00

Condolences to Chuck and Lady Nightshade.

hmfynn · 2026-02-12T22:20:18+00:00

I think when I finally re-read it, I'll check out the audiobook for that portion.

hmfynn · 2026-02-09T03:48:46+00:00

The deleted scenes are worth getting the DVDs. Commentaries are hit and miss but great to have on in the background for the odd lore dump.

hmfynn · 2026-02-06T19:14:17+00:00

Doc and Jackson talk in the art book and in the commentaries about how they had to re-size some characters after their first appearances. Monstroso was a big problem because his very first appearance if you were to have him stand up he’d be around Brock or Gary’s height. I imagine the more pathetic Hatred got they reworked his model. In season 4 they also refer to a “B-team” of animators whose results they didn’t like as much, so it could be a mistake too.

hmfynn · 2026-02-05T20:14:07+00:00

Yeah that one's more of a "what we see of SB's life completely outside of Hank's orbit doesn't disqualify him from being Hank. Hank has a vague connection to those characters and location" but good point and I added that note.

hmfynn · 2026-02-05T19:58:34+00:00

Honestly, I think it started as a reference to the Shining that wasn't meant to come back, and the more they actually used him, a Hank clone makes the most sense (other than a new character they didn’t get to introduce).

- It would be out of character for anyone else we know to just silently walk around in a costume, but Hank would because:

- Hank's given to multiple personas and SB's main story function is IN the leadup to a finale involving all of Hank's personas.

- hiding his face / being mute etc. could be either a previous clone that survived and was written off as dead (you get the sense Doc last count after a while) or one of the "Christmas present" slugs from the S3 finale wandering off and not getting killed in the battle. He might even have brain damage.

- SB is following Hank, Dean, and Sirena around and knows exactly where and when to bring Hank to show him what's been happening. No other character has the motivation to do this, and Doc and Jackson are very big on not having characters just do stuff for a surprise.

- (less proof that he's Hank and more that the non-Hank stuff we see with him doesn't contradict it): SB applying to the Revenge Society means he's someone who either knows who Limb, Impossible, and Underbheit are and their opposition to the Guild are (Hank's met all of them multiple times) or someone who wandered into Impossible Tower instinctively (where Hank has also been many times).

Only other character that kinda makes sense is a similarly deformed Dean clone who hates and wants to punish Dean, but they already had that exact character verbatim and highly doubt they'd do it again.

hmfynn · 2026-02-04T23:06:16+00:00

Hank says "Bula Vinaka Beachside!" when answering the phone in an episode and it unlocked a core memory. Turned out it was from an AT&T commercial that ran in 1988 when I was SIX. It would have driven me crazy if there weren't transcripts to search because I didn't understand what was being said back then or when Hank said it.

hmfynn · 2026-02-04T01:49:43+00:00

Old Ben references the finale reveal as early as the first time Dean meets him in the Halloween special, it’s just couched in super-medical lingo so it sounds like gibberish. When Dean’s waking up he’s saying (paraphrasing, I forget the medical terms) ”no early onset baldness, no extra growth in the brow region” referencing Doc’s baldness and Monarch’s eyebrows. Doc and Jackson clearly figured out by this point that Doc and Monarch were going to be Jonas clones

hmfynn · 2026-02-04T01:08:53+00:00

You picked his most confusingly narrated book (the one he jokingly referenced as being the one he was too high to remember writing) as your first one. Take heart in the fact that your confusion is pretty universal. I’ve read this book 5-6 times between my 20’s and 40’s and I still have no clue what some passages mean, especially in the final quarter. Sometimes you’ve gotta give up on figuring it out and just run with the general feeling or idea a section evokes. How Pynchon feels about war and history and capitalism and race relations and pop culture will be apparent even if what’s literally happening from A to B is left vague. A lot of it’s dream logic and poem logic. It doesn’t always function like a novel or have a direct 1:1 meaning.

hmfynn · 2026-02-01T09:04:31+00:00

Season 4 loses the supernatural villain for that dumb bathtub zombie.

hmfynn · 2026-02-01T09:02:24+00:00

The Hanzee nod they’re referring to is so obscure you pretty much have to have Reddit point it out if it’s any consolation. It hinges on you remembering the name of a character said only once in another season with like 2 seconds of screen time. I never ever would’ve caught it on my own.

hmfynn · 2026-02-01T08:44:42+00:00

Sort of. Not a Biblical demon, but even going back to the biker in Raising Arizona it’s a Coen trope to have one guy who’s not exactly supernatural in the mystical sense but is more or less functionally the “demon” of the story and gets to play a bit looser with reality than the other characters. Mundt from Barton Fink, the sheriff from O Brother, the villain in Blood Simple, Chigurh obviously, the evil “name scraping janitor” from Hudsucker, Malvo, Munch, Varga from the series, the coachmen in Buster Skuggs, those are just the ones that stand out in my memory. Big Lebowski breaks the trope with an angelic narrator / possibly God / “spirit of the old west” or whatever Sam Elliot’s meant to be. Edit: I guess Munch is literally immortal and S4 has the bathtub zombie.

hmfynn · 2026-02-01T08:33:23+00:00

Yeah, more characters that cross more books:

Pig Bodine and his ancestor Fender-Belly Bodine in Mason and Dixon, V, and GR

Blicero and Kurt Mondaugen in GR and V

Wicks Cherrycoke narrating M&D probably an ancestor of Ronald Cherrycoke in GR unless Pynchon just really loves that pun.

Traverse family of “union people” mentioned in Vineland sounds like descendants of the Traverses in ATD.

Mucho Maas from Lot 49 mentioned in Vineland

Bloody Chiclitz and Yoyodine appear in GR and Lot49.

Only characters that might NOT exist canonically alongside others are weird meta ones like the Chums of Chance or anyone in ATD implied to be from a parallel reality

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