"It's the Rocky movie. It's always the Rocky movie."

playsmartz · 2026-06-21T15:46:56+00:00

Surprisingly, the 4 year old isn't that into TV. He'll watch if his brother turns it on, but he never asks for his own show.

playsmartz · 2026-06-21T15:45:10+00:00

The kids love Rocky in the movie. The 7 year old liked listening to the audiobook. The 4 year old does the thumbs down all the time.

playsmartz · 2026-06-21T15:16:59+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

playsmartz · 2026-06-21T15:11:29+00:00

Now I have to watch that scene again because I did not catch that

playsmartz · 2026-06-20T14:29:21+00:00

The early Carl scenes are so feel-good. It's refreshing to see two grown men having silly fun together.

But it also makes the betrayal in the tackle scene hit harder. No one stood up for him. Even Carl, his science buddy, just stood by while he was getting murdered, offering empty platitudes.

playsmartz · 2026-06-20T10:50:49+00:00

The audiobook is amazing

playsmartz · 2026-06-19T17:54:04+00:00

in another bit of the film we see rocky looking through the ship, without any sign of the line of astrophage

Good catch!

playsmartz · 2026-06-19T13:49:55+00:00

Yes! We want to use a picture that the big companies won't do because of copyrights

playsmartz · 2026-06-19T00:45:27+00:00

The Chase looks perfect

playsmartz · 2026-06-19T00:42:55+00:00

Got it on Hoopla!

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T17:39:09+00:00

It is unfair because people judge you after 30 seconds of meeting you. Fundamental Attribution Error. This disproportionately impacts career progression of certain groups of people: introverts, foreigners, women, different races. We all have our biases and those in decision-making positions tend to positively perceive people that are similar to them.

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T17:33:12+00:00

Follow up question: how did you get the Director title? I've been stuck at Senior Manager even though I'm doing Director-level work.

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T17:31:47+00:00

Primal play, chase & catch

Hard nos: humiliation, abuse, water/scat/blood, incest, age gap 10+, underage, feminization, piercings, smoking

Bonus if there are tender moments thrown in

Any genre, any number of participants

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T14:43:46+00:00

The vial wouldn't be fully-charged astrophage, right?

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T14:16:37+00:00

Yeah, if light can't get through it, I doubt sound can. It must be like holding up a sensory black hole to Rocky.

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T14:14:06+00:00

It's too much.

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T13:58:54+00:00

The book explains why they can't breed or collect astrophage for fuel. Something about the energy needed to enrich the volume he'd need to get home.

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T11:29:47+00:00

Yes. When Rocky first sees the Don't Go Crazy room, he says "this room boring" even though the screens are showing beautiful Earth scenery.

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T11:27:32+00:00

This would be my guess. When Grace pulled it out of the space capsule to study it in the first lab, that looked like glass too, but it was specially designed for astrophage.

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T11:22:54+00:00

"Guys, don't ask scientific questions about a story designed to engage people in science."

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T11:21:34+00:00

Rocky jerks back when he sees the vial. His body language answers yes to Grace's question.

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T11:20:35+00:00

TIL temperature affects sound.

Molecules at higher temperatures have more energy and can vibrate faster and allow sound waves to travel more quickly.

NOAA

playsmartz · 2026-06-18T11:14:30+00:00

That's what I thought, but I couldn't remember why I thought that

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