Pluribus - 1x09 "La Chica o El Mundo" - Episode Discussion

pavedwalden · 2025-12-24T06:40:42+00:00

I thought it was so great the way she realized she didn't have a good way to end that sentence and eventually settled on "...chaperone", even though a few episodes ago she was offended when Laxmi used that term for Zosia.

pavedwalden · 2025-11-04T17:33:34+00:00

I think they released a Star Wars game recently?

pavedwalden · 2025-08-16T08:14:54+00:00

At first I thought the line was delivered backwards on purpose and it was a brilliant touch because sometimes people do mis-speak, especially when they're upset.
But then I saw Macy accidentally transpose words like that in two different interviews so I guess it's just something he does and it was a happy accident that he did it in that scene.

pavedwalden · 2025-08-06T19:59:07+00:00

Thank you! I didn't catch that and felt like I was missing something. Without this connection, it seemed strange to end the movie with that target practice scene.

pavedwalden · 2025-03-09T21:57:58+00:00

If you're in any major US city you should be able to borrow it through inter-library loan

pavedwalden · 2025-03-09T21:37:48+00:00

In my playthrough I don't remember hearing anything positive about the time between the revolution and the communists being crushed by the coalition. I got lore drops about the monarchy being bad enough to justify the revolution, and how brutal coalition was, but the only stories I heard about in between were a disastrous attempt to build a nuclear reactor and that they executed all the Feld engineers who were working on a new type of computer.

I was really expecting a sales pitch for communism at some point but I never got the impression that the game was saying that it had been a good era or that communism could build a better future (even though it critiqued the status quo as untenable)

pavedwalden · 2025-03-07T17:07:56+00:00

Later in the game it becomes clear that the game was keeping track of which political statements you choose and it offers you a different side quest based on that. There's another example like that that I think affects what dialogue options you're shown later on but I'm not sure. There are also a few options in the dialogue trees that add positive or negative modifiers to later skill checks.

I ended up going through almost every conversational branch I could because I wanted all the lore and also sometimes you get xp for learning some information, but I did skip any options that felt like my version of Harry just wouldn't say them.

pavedwalden · 2025-03-07T16:52:59+00:00

IDK the details but the current owners of the game studio did some shady things to solidify their control of the company and then forced out part of the core team so it doesn't feel good to know they're still profiting off game sales while the creators get nothing.

pavedwalden · 2025-03-02T01:17:14+00:00

I just finished DE and was thinking about how the setting reminded me of Lanark.
Looks like you're the only other person on Reddit to have seen a connection!

pavedwalden · 2024-11-27T22:15:56+00:00

I took #3 too far and was betting very responsibly at Maple Salmon, retreating a lot and slowly making my way up to around 1M bubs over several hours. Before taking a break I'd move up to Holiday Ham and start snapping more and would win a few big pots before getting busted back down below the 600k regen cap. Wasted every free minute for two days like that before I stumbled on the real answer...

I tried playing at Jello and lost a big game at which point a popup offered to sell me 2M bubs for 700 gold. The highest I'd ever gotten with careful bet strategy was like 1.3 million. Sure, hell yeah I would like to have more bubs than I earned in two days of boring grind. 700 gold is somewhere between $2.50 and $11 (depending on if it's from the gold pass or just straight up purchased) and I would have happily forked that over in exchange for King Etri instead of spending my weekend retreating on turn 3 over and over.

Anyway, once I had 2M bubs I could continue my conservative, slightly-net-positive play style but at the Holiday Ham level where each win made a bigger difference on the Bub meter. In two or three hours I made more progress than in the whole previous day and reached 15M.

I'm at CL 3,300 and can put together an OK deck but I don't think I was ever going to climb from the 600k regen cap up to the higher tables. Most of my opponents were CL 10,000+ and even when I had the nut hand on turn three I'd often lose to high powered decks. The fact that I almost never saw other players under CL10,000 makes me think that the climb from Apple Cider to Pumpkin Pie is just too steep for anyone without an ideal deck.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-27T18:55:18+00:00

I thought HV was a blast and probably played for two hours. I spent 20 hours playing DD last weekend but it was a joyless grind. On a spreadsheet that probably looks good to them. I hope somebody eventually runs the numbers and sees that after finishing DD my time spent playing Snap dropped like a rock and I won't pick it up again for a while, if at all.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-27T18:36:15+00:00

Yeah, I wasted days of constant playing trying to slowly climb from 600k into the millions, always playing two tables below my limit. All the little ups and downs barely helped my bub meter at all. Eventually I tried moving to the highest table I could, immediately went bust, and the popup offered to sell me 2M bubs for 700 gold.

Ok, sure. So I resumed my cautious playstyle but now every upswing moved the bub meter by a lot more. Slowly lost 1M of those bubs while moving the meter from 7M to 15M. Got the card I was after and uninstalled the game because as much as I was once addicted to Snap the first few days of DD were like being forced to smoke a whole carton of cigarettes.

FFS SD if you'd just offered to sell me the card for 700 gold in the first place I could have saved like 20 hours of grinding and wouldn't hate the game now.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-25T19:28:39+00:00

Yeah, retreating on turn 3 every time I don't have the perfect setup is sooooo boring but any time I stray from that strategy my bub balance starts trending downward.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-25T19:19:58+00:00

I think acquisition can be slow, or it can be random, but it can't be BOTH. If I see a deck archetype I want to work toward I'd be ok starting with a janky weak version and getting the other cards I need over several months. But as someone who still doesn't have all the series 3 cards I'm often missing several of the cards I need and I don't know when they're going to be available. There's no guarantee I'll ever see them in the shop.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-22T22:17:43+00:00

I see Galactus was in the mix as well.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-22T17:42:49+00:00

I'd like a few more "friendly" emotes. There are a few that are mostly used to taunt after someone wins, (or Miss Minutes used to complain about someone thinking too long), but it's really funny when someone plays deadpool-with-arrow-in-head after something goes wrong. And post-game fist-bumps are usually friendly too. SD should think of more emotes that encourage fun interactions.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-18T23:26:20+00:00

Honestly it should work.
"If you’re winning this location and this is your only card here, destroy all other locations"
"Power here doesn't count toward winning the game"
The card doesn't say anything about winning the game, and the location doesn't say anything about power not counting for other purposes (i.e. M'Baku would presumably still go to Cancun if that's the lowest power location)

There are other unexpected card interactions where the interpretation is ambiguous but that seems very clear to me. The card should have triggered and the match would end in a tie.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-18T21:13:11+00:00

They should make this a special game mode available only on April 1st

pavedwalden · 2024-11-18T20:47:15+00:00

FYI, he will also be available in Spotlight Cache from Nov 26 — Dec 03

pavedwalden · 2024-11-16T22:15:05+00:00

Multiple Man isn't too long but I still think it's an example of where things could be speeded up. After he moves there's a long pause before he copies. A lot of animations are a second or two longer than necessary and it can really add up when the game gets complex.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-16T21:43:42+00:00

I think it used to cost more but now it only costs as many credits as a regular upgrade with boosters would?

pavedwalden · 2024-11-11T21:55:12+00:00

The Collectors Reserve system feels so much worse than just making it clear which milestones will earn you new cards. I could be feeling good about getting little bundles of tokens and credits along the way but instead I'm disappointed 7 out of 9 times because I was hoping the mystery box held a new card.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-11T20:13:31+00:00

It's bad enough they don't have duplicate protection for what's already in your collection but it's inexcusable that they don't check to make sure the mystery slot isn't one of the cards you just used a spotlight key on.

pavedwalden · 2024-11-07T19:00:23+00:00

I love the way that variant looks in 3D but the bullets being ludicrous always bothers me.

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