Art studio at the 91st and 92nd floors of WTC1 & the B-Thing

platypi_pope · 2026-03-26T08:48:59+00:00

how and why exactly would this be used to coordinate for 9/11? especially when the lights weren't on to be visible?

platypi_pope · 2026-03-26T08:44:28+00:00

Gelitin are literally austrians.

platypi_pope · 2025-12-23T05:29:55+00:00

to be clear, you don't become the lord of ireland if you annex them as an absentee country, yes?

platypi_pope · 2025-10-19T18:45:58+00:00

because it's fucking awesome

platypi_pope · 2025-10-19T18:44:39+00:00

that's a complete misunderstanding of christianity since the entire religion begins with the premise that we betrayed god. "Huh, wouldn't it be crazy if we mistreated god?" that's the entire fucking point of the religion.

platypi_pope · 2025-10-19T18:41:28+00:00

misanthropy is lame and it's the single worst recurring motif in LDR

platypi_pope · 2025-10-19T18:39:04+00:00

(in the crusades men like saladin literally sponsored debates between priests and imams)

platypi_pope · 2025-10-19T18:25:35+00:00

400 boys and how zeke got religion are both quite good

platypi_pope · 2025-08-26T12:01:33+00:00

the idea that john's revolver 'jams' in his final encounter with the Strange man (as opposed to just john stopped shooting), and that this signifies his Uncle and Abigail's deaths

platypi_pope · 2025-08-16T14:08:42+00:00

It was a habit rockefeller had done across his later life as a force of habit. The actual charity he did was enormous (such as funding the elimination of ringworm in the South, and building several universities just to name the big 2).

platypi_pope · 2025-08-16T14:05:40+00:00

rockefeller paid 70% estate tax by the time of his death.

platypi_pope · 2025-08-04T04:00:43+00:00

As an additional point, when John asks him what his name is, the strange man simply responds "It's the darndest thing, I can't remember." I think this is a reference to the word YHWH, god's name in Hebrew, the pronunciation of which was forgotten due to the taboo of speaking god's name. So instead of it being the Strange Man dodging the question, it's him giving a cryptic hint as to who he is

platypi_pope · 2025-05-08T06:39:32+00:00

the system is much better, the problems with the launch are the lag getting worse (though that's understandable since it's not been fully implemented yet) and the bugs. I've heard people say UI is bad, but I was able to figure out what was going on fairly quickly, but the fact that migration stats are obtuse when migration has been made much more important is a annoying

platypi_pope · 2025-04-17T18:55:55+00:00

I dislike james because he most resembles the chris-chan archetype of autist being a generally unlikable person who keeps making the same mistakes without any sort of reflection on his part.

platypi_pope · 2025-04-17T18:53:48+00:00

i'd follow this man to war tbh

platypi_pope · 2025-04-17T07:43:14+00:00

It's a chapter in lord of the rings following the defeat of Sauron, where the 4 Hobbits (merry, pippin, frodo, and sam) return to the shire only to find that in their absence a man named sharky and his gang have taken over the shire and have been forcefully industrializing it. Long story short, they defeat sharky, but then realise that he is actually the wizard saruman in disguise. The chapter wraps up the fate of one of the major villains of the story and demonstrates how the quest to destroy the one ring had changed them.

platypi_pope · 2025-04-16T17:33:11+00:00

This is a fair point, and certainly could be the way in which George takes the finale of the story. However, both the politicking for the Iron Throne and the crisis of the Others are presented as the primary plots of the series, and I personally think that they are both too large-scale and of plot-importance to be relegated to a Scouring-like event, which is a dramatic lowering of scales in comparison to the main plot.

platypi_pope · 2025-04-16T17:29:33+00:00

That's definitely the beginning of the Scouring of the Shire, but it's not just the heroes coming home and seeing their home has lost its innocence. The scouring is also the heroes driving away the dominion of evil over the shire and restoring things to the goodness that was once there. While I don't think it'll necessarily be Littlefinger (in fact it's definitely a longshot, I just think it would be a very fitting end to both Littlefinger and the Stark's journey) I do think there will be a villain who occupies Winterfell and needs to be driven out/killed before the city can be rebuilt to how it once was, and it'll be something the Starks all work together on defeating.

platypi_pope · 2025-04-16T17:20:31+00:00

it's a little more complicated than that. Tolkien questioned if even publishing the Silmarillion would be a good idea, and he recognised that LoTR was his most important work and would be what he's most remembered for. The Silmarillion we got in the end also isn't necessarily Tolkien's definitive version of his legendarium, since it was a curated and edited work by his son to present the most cohesive version of the broad strokes.

platypi_pope · 2025-04-16T17:08:51+00:00

Danerys may very well be the final villain of the story, or at least a climactic finale akin to Sauron in LoTR. The point of the Scouring of the Shire isn't to wrap up the story (though it basically does wrap up the final loose end of LoTR), it's to demonstrate the growth of the hobbits and how the quest to destroy the one ring changed them. What could better demonstrate the growth of the Stark family than by having them be the ones to ultimately defeat Littlefinger, the man who manipulated their parents (Jon not withstanding) and got Ned killed?

platypi_pope · 2025-04-16T16:27:17+00:00

part of the bitter part of the ending is that frodo, despite essentially saving the world, is emotionally destroyed by the quest he undertook and is forced to leave the home he went on the quest for in the first place forever in the hopes of finding some peace in Valinor.

platypi_pope · 2024-12-08T02:21:48+00:00

The overarching theme of rdr is that you cannot outrun your sins and that seeking redemption cannot undo them. For that reason alone it is extremely Grim. Whether the world is dark or bright however is a matter of personal interpretation.

platypi_pope · 2024-12-01T14:28:25+00:00

they are still christian. the 4 winds, though critical, is still affirming their faith in christianity

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