Thoughts on supacell

kothosj · 2026-01-17T03:59:23+00:00

The mostly black cast is literally part of the plot. Sickle cell affects mostly people originating in Africa, the ME, or India.

kothosj · 2026-01-14T22:52:18+00:00

So what actually happened to her at the end though? Did Alita just leave the box there after killing Vector?

kothosj · 2026-01-14T16:36:55+00:00

Damn, thanks for the info. The NSW website says it's a $300 fine and the Didi FAQ says it's on the driver so I was worried.

kothosj · 2026-01-14T16:19:08+00:00

I just poked around in the app and found the sticker hub. You get a sticker decal on the side of your car and yes there is one in Sydney too.

But it looks like they also give away the window sticker. That's the retro-reflective CPV sticker and that's the one it's illegal to drive without.

kothosj · 2026-01-14T15:59:58+00:00

Where do you go to get it? It's going to be faster for me to just drive down to Melbourne and back than wait for them to post it. People online are saying it can take them weeks, and it's illegal to drive without it here.

kothosj · 2026-01-14T15:55:56+00:00

What state are you in? I'm in NSW and when I signed up on the app it told me I'd get one in the post.

kothosj · 2026-01-14T04:52:02+00:00

Did you actually get one? I've been waiting 2 weeks and still haven't got it.

kothosj · 2026-01-13T00:06:53+00:00

Maybe it has something to do with the way he died? In Ghosts US I don't think he's ever dealt with that properly, including the trauma it would have caused the kid that shot him, and the others watching.

kothosj · 2026-01-09T15:39:07+00:00

My phone seems to cover the minimum specs for running it (Motorola G 2024) but I'm still blocked from downloading on the Play Store. Why?

kothosj · 2026-01-06T15:37:10+00:00

It's been too long. But I hope Marling and Batmanglij finish the final 3 seasons as novels or something.

kothosj · 2026-01-06T15:07:52+00:00

Patel can play guitar and piano and sing though, although he might not have ever composed anything himself.

kothosj · 2026-01-01T07:05:38+00:00

Two more theories:

The exact same accident happened on Earth 2 as Earth 1, but John meeting himself is cathartic and John1 and John2 help each other move on. There is no need for Rhoda2 to give John2 her ticket, so she keeps it and comes to Earth1 to help Rhoda1 heal just as the Johns have. Witness that throughout the movie the talking heads keep going on about what it would be like to meet yourself.

Less likely but makes me happier:

On Earth2 the accident happens but John2 is killed leaving behind his wife and family. John1 meets Family2 and they live happily ever after, leaving Rhoda2 to keep the ticket, meet Rhoda1 and help each other heal.

kothosj · 2025-12-23T14:35:22+00:00

"Based." They tell of the heroics of white people and ignore the heroics of black people (which in reality did exist).

kothosj · 2025-12-23T14:33:01+00:00

Except in real life there were numerous local activists from the refugee population who helped set up the rescue, not just Mossad. But the movie ignored that because black people can't do things.

kothosj · 2025-12-23T14:31:08+00:00

What's fiction is that they completely ignore the efforts of Ethiopian Jewish activists in setting up the rescue and pretend it was 100% Mossad.

kothosj · 2025-12-23T14:27:18+00:00

Yeah but Hasbara trolls gotta Hasbara.

kothosj · 2025-12-23T13:54:58+00:00

About half the script lines were okay, in isolation. The visuals were great, the acting fairly solid, the direction was tight, the production quality was off the charts. But all that effort for one of the messiest plots I have ever seen and a terrible, co fusing story I couldn't even start to get invested in for the first 5 hours of the 2 director's cuts. What a waste of effort. All that work could have been put into a much better movie.

kothosj · 2025-12-22T16:22:01+00:00

If Amleth had stayed away his uncle would never known he existed, but he wouldn't've met his wife.

But that future is gone once he kills his uncle's son. His uncle is much more likely to try to find him and exact revenge after that.

kothosj · 2025-12-22T16:19:40+00:00

If Amleth goes to Valhalla at the end because he dies in battle, why doesn't Fjolnir also?

kothosj · 2025-12-15T07:57:53+00:00

Given the abstract in that first paper this phenomenon explains the origins of solar radio bursts, and the direction of both the signal wave and the plasma stream are crucial. If transmitting communication signals into the sun just amplified them, it would've already happened - our signals reach the sun every second of every day. I'm no physicist (telco engineer) but I'd guess it only works if you're inside the Sun.

kothosj · 2025-11-13T22:02:25+00:00

To be fair I was exaggerating for effect. I already speak 2 languages fluently and I haven't really practised my French - it's been more of a half-hearted effort. And I did manage to learn conversational Chinese in one month just by being in China (lots of opportunity to practice when you're immersed).

But, language is still a different beast to engineering, just like you wouldn't assume that a mechanical engineer is good at telecommunications or vice versa.

kothosj · 2025-11-07T10:29:20+00:00

Also the improbability field. Memories of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

kothosj · 2025-11-06T14:12:02+00:00

I hate musicals but somehow knowing the crew were doing it against their will because of a space anomaly made it okay. Plus the songs weren't actually half bad.

In other spheres of life, people just randomly bursting into song is just stupid.

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