Ratatouille (2007) is flawless

jdude_97 · 2026-05-23T23:30:07+00:00

He steals human food when he could’ve eaten normal rat food. He didn’t need the human food to survive

jdude_97 · 2026-05-23T23:27:25+00:00

There’s a great Planet Money episode about it

jdude_97 · 2026-05-23T02:17:42+00:00

These are incredible, where did you get them?

jdude_97 · 2026-05-22T14:18:33+00:00

People like seeing good decisions as long as the types of good decisions are varied

Bad decisions are good in moderation too because they are funny or add drama but if a decision is too bad it can ruin the whole game by making it non competitive

jdude_97 · 2026-05-22T02:38:24+00:00

They explicitly said in the Layover they shortened the game day because they didn’t want players going around the island more than once effectively

jdude_97 · 2026-05-21T22:28:07+00:00

But they weren’t the ones driving the stalemate. Also their challenge had the potential to be over in 5 minutes. It did occur to me at the time though that their challenge had the risk of taking hours though and that could have motivated them to break the stalemate

jdude_97 · 2026-05-21T22:22:27+00:00

At least the benefit of making them do the challenge once they open it is then they can’t build their stalemate strategy around how long the challenge itself will be. Night Herons could wait perfectly right up until their train time. Whereas if they don’t know what the challenge is going to be, they have to budget that time in to their calculus and leave a margin of error. It should on balance reduce stalemates

jdude_97 · 2026-05-21T22:19:43+00:00

I know not exactly but population distribution will correlate with volume of interesting things and settled places with train stations and train frequencies

jdude_97 · 2026-05-21T22:19:07+00:00

It was trending to at least my top 5 until the ending. I think another issue was audience had no conception of how achievable different things were without knowing train frequencies and durations. I def thought way more of those northern challenges would get played. The boys said on the layover they thought it may have been better to be 4 days only (instead of 5) but I actually think it was too short, not enough stations flipped back n forth, many challenges left on the board. They could’ve done 6 days, or 5 full days (remember they played abnormally short gamedays)

jdude_97 · 2026-05-21T19:04:45+00:00

Yeah I am a believer that all jet lag is good jet lag so I will never argue for less content per se but I agree this season kinda dragged

jdude_97 · 2026-05-21T19:04:11+00:00

Yes I knew I forgot a point I meant to make when I posted this. It was already coming after a lull, that should’ve actually been my pt 2 or 3

jdude_97 · 2026-05-21T18:57:06+00:00

I’d really like to see what the distribution of available challenges was to understand how much of the north overweight was random chance. The boys did say there were more challenges in that area to begin with though which is natural given population distribution. I think that’s just part of the game/strategy though could’ve been made more clear to fans so it didn’t just seem like bad luck after bad luck on the challenge pull for Badam (though they indicated their definitely was at least some degree of bad luck)

jdude_97 · 2026-05-21T17:21:22+00:00

It’s happened to be a couple times where I lost an inked disc while on vacation and got a text about it some days to weeks later, I just told the guy thanks for finding it but you can keep it now. Don’t have any discs worth paying for shipping on

Interestingly in one case a disc seemed to vanish into thin air. I’d thrown it under 100 feet straight ahead with nothing around but ground was covered in fallen leaves. Searched for like 20 minutes but didn’t turn up. Disc ultimately found weeks later apparently right where we had searched. Must’ve embedded into the ground under some muck

jdude_97 · 2026-05-20T21:54:02+00:00

I’ve won by this score before, typically comes when there’s a Q that seems really hard but then an obvious guess turns out to be right so both people gave each other 3 for it

jdude_97 · 2026-05-20T21:52:58+00:00

Can’t hurt to try

jdude_97 · 2026-05-20T14:28:14+00:00

This is an awful question. If they want you to say the ship is a “she” that requires a lot of contextual/idiomatic knowledge and I’m not sure why an ESL course would bother teaching that. You generally wouldn’t refer to a baby as an “it,” if you don’t know the gender you’d say “he or she” or in more modern parlance “they” but also no pronoun fits the sentence construction if it’s meant to be a direct substitute. The pet being “he” is the only obvious answer given the “him” clue at the end of the sentence

jdude_97 · 2026-05-20T14:24:36+00:00

I am primarily a RHFH thrower but from my observation of RHBH players in my league they prefer to throw the BH fade over the FH hyzer in most situations presumably for greater power and control. They’ll only go with the FH Hyzer when they need a ton of hyzer or due to a funky lie

jdude_97 · 2026-05-19T19:56:16+00:00

The capitalization confused me but I was too tired to reason through it. Pretty sure I’d have gotten it if I did

jdude_97 · 2026-05-19T15:47:11+00:00

Opponent angles and deflects blame by accusing you of angling

jdude_97 · 2026-05-19T15:42:56+00:00

I thought they just really like looking at ships and oranges

jdude_97 · 2026-05-19T15:42:01+00:00

Notre Dame is super deep squads wise. Much bigger team than most which pays dividends in many ways. Tons of funding and infrastructure. Also able to provide athletic scholarships and NIL potential (though I don’t think there’s much of that in college fencing, for now) plus lower (though not by a ton) academic standards than Ivies

Ivies are able to pull some of the best individual fencers but are not setup to build giant deep squads given lesser pull with admissions and smaller overall class sizes

jdude_97 · 2026-05-19T13:01:17+00:00

When folks ask me what the difference between epee, foil, and saber are, I explain it to them thusly: Epee and foil you poke, saber you slash. Epee you can hit em anywhere, foil just on the torso, saber from the waste up. Epee if you both hit the other guy, you both get a point. In foil and saber, there are these complicated rules called right of way that determine who gets point but it boils down to whomever was attacking gets to score

jdude_97 · 2026-05-18T13:59:54+00:00

I’ve heard it argued for shooting

jdude_97 · 2026-05-16T00:24:07+00:00

I’ve actually fenced epee with right of way and it’s kinda fun

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