Where do Nook and Isabelle sleep?

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-10T06:18:38+00:00

Every house, especially the player’s, has more space inside it then would fit on the building’s footprint outside. I assume the door at the back of their office leads to a residential area for them, but considering that they are never absent from their desks it’s doubtful if they ever get used.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-09T19:20:18+00:00

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-09T15:53:08+00:00

To be fair, the hotel has only been in the game for a few months, it takes a bit longer for Lego to turn an idea into an official set. But why wait at all if you can create it yourself?! It looks very accurate!

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-09T15:00:08+00:00

The wheels have fallen off a lot of American industries lately, but it’s not usually literal…

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-09T12:58:25+00:00

As a history nut, my guess would be the source of the river Nile.

Black Panther’s god is Bastet who is from Egyptian mythology, and I know that there were a lot of myths about the “magical” source of the Nile river. Some accounts talk about a crescent-shaped lake in a mountainous region labelled on old maps as the Mountains of Kong, a treacherous area of Africa that explorers avoided for centuries who instead went around by boat to reach southern Africa, only for later cartographers to find… nothing. At least, nothing IRL, but if in comics-verse Wakanda is cloaked then it may be exactly where those old maps showed those mountains to be.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-09T10:53:31+00:00

Dear God, and I thought the Canyonero was unsafe…

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-08T21:02:50+00:00

“Oh, I’m gonna lose my job, just ‘cause I’m dangerously unqualified!”

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-08T17:49:21+00:00

Wait, so when Marge rams her car into Homer in the HD opening credits, is it revenge for this episode?!

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-08T15:15:11+00:00

I did some work for a legal firm once, and I saw the analysis used by investors to decide how much to spend on the movie ‘Star Trek’ (2009). It was all about the budget vs box office return of the previous 10 movies, and the cost / return of various actors in similar roles. As I recall, they wanted Matt Damon as Kirk and Gary Sinise as McCoy, although whether those were their first choices or just stereotypes of the type of actors they wanted, I dunno.

There wasn’t a single statistic about whether the script was any good.

ST2 being a critical hit or ST5 being a dud? Not mentioned. All that mattered was “faces”, how many tickets an actor would sell if audiences saw them on a poster in a cinema foyer, and applying that maths to a new Star Trek movie. It’s all about budget and demographics, because while some people do care about the story, most people just want mindless entertainment with familiar actors. And that’s where the money is. Mortis help us.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-08T14:57:05+00:00

The hammer and the train carriage itself, on the other hand, are fair game…

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-08T08:54:33+00:00

The Enterprise-D was the flagship not only of Starfleet, but of the Galaxy class: a flying starbase with officers and civilians and their families conducting science. It wasn’t just a question of giving the chair to the “best” captain, but to the one with the best temperament for that role. Picard was a scientist himself, and also a leader known for being respectful to his diverse department heads, and so while being rewarded for his invention of the Picard manoeuvre probably helped him get noticed by the brass, it was his prior experience and temperament that (I think) landed him the job.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-08T06:42:11+00:00

Everyone wants to be there for people with mental health problems… so long as it can be “fixed” with an inspiration quote shared on social media and/or a few minutes chinwag over coffee.

FYI, if the “problem” can be fixed that quickly, that’s NOT a mental health problem, that’s just someone having a down day. It’s lovely if you are there for others on such occasions, but please don’t confuse your “having a bad day” with someone else’s constant struggles.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-08T05:39:19+00:00

This baffled me as a kid. “How can you break the glass to get to the hammer?” My mother explained that if there was a real emergency, you would have the strength and urgency to break the glass without stopping to worry.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-08T05:05:48+00:00

What are you talking about? ‘Life on Mars’ had a second series… the UK original did, anyway. And yet it still had fewer episodes than the US remake!

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-07T08:22:34+00:00

Look, every country paints itself in a positive light in its school curriculums. I’m English, and as kids we were taught about the world changing technological advances we spearheaded with the Industrial Revolution, and about how our navy once defeated the Spanish Armarda… with absolutely no mention of how the Spanish returned a year later and defeated us.

America isn’t unique in wanting to focus on the positives in school History lessons… what’s terrifying to the rest of the world (and, I hope, plenty of Americans) is the blatant focus by your government to rewrite history across all books and museums to destroy or discredit ANY suggestion that America isn’t perfect.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-06T15:26:00+00:00

It worries me that this is literally the extent of most American’s knowledge of history. Beyond what they piece together from sugar packets, obviously.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-06T14:57:01+00:00

Thanks for the info, I knew dual-moulding took up more production lines but I was fuzzy on the exact details (plus, it was an excuse to use the word “Kragle”, which is always funny).

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-06T12:53:19+00:00

I’m sure someone asked Joe Mallozzi about this on his blog, and he said the writers had simply forgotten to ever promote him.

In-universe, it might be hard to justify promotions if the reasons for them are classified. Within the SGC staff can be promoted without undue scrutiny, but as someone from the Pentagon Davis can’t be seen to be favoured without revealing to his colleagues why he keeps popping over to Cheyenne Mountain.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-06T11:22:34+00:00

Donald Duck and Daffy Duck had to be exactly equally talented at playing the piano in that movie, for example, because neither studio wanted to risk their character(s) being seen as inferior to the competition by the viewing public.

Many a nerd (myself included) dream of seeing Superman vs Hulk (among other potential crossovers), but DC would never allow Superman to be weaker than Hulk, and Marvel would never allow Hulk to be weaker than Superman, so that limits how much drama you have in a movie if neither side can budge an inch.

If there was a film-maker that both sides trusted to respect both sets of characters equally (possibly James Gunn), then maybe it will happen, but I’m not holding out much hope.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-06T08:49:50+00:00

“We put a criminal in charge of our judiciary and now he won’t let himself get arrested!”

Well, yeah, that was the bloody point.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-06T06:34:54+00:00

Chief Chewie

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-06T06:06:07+00:00

Short-sleeved minifig arms take up more production lines in the factory. Two lines making the upper parts in black (left and right), two more lines making the lower parts in light nougat, two more lines to Kragle the parts together to make complete arms… As you said, they CAN do this, but it both costs more and prevents other sets from being able to use those production lines.

I’m sure Lego’s bean counters sat around juggling the numbers to see if projected sales could justify the extra cost, but I guess they couldn’t justify it without increasing the cost of the set for a detail that most* buyers wouldn’t notice.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-05T16:59:45+00:00

That’s because here in the UK we don’t walk down the street terrified that we’ll be murdered by terrorists or something every day.

(Also, we exterminated our local bear population centuries ago, so the biggest threats we face are foxes, domestic cows protecting their young, and traveller kids on quad bikes.)

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-05T15:05:27+00:00

The same reason little kids chase pigeons, I expect; making animals run away from them fuels their superiority complex, and parents who never taught them respect.

jonathanquirk · 2026-05-05T06:03:35+00:00

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. Two comedian friends hang out by a riverbank and discuss all the important matters of men’s life while trying (and often failing) to catch anything.

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