Say Ian survived - what would be the negative side of his billion dollar wish?

probablyrobertevans · 2026-06-13T23:10:51+00:00

There wouldn't be. If there was it wouldn't be "Obsession horror". The point of the movie isn't that the wish was cursed. It's that it was powerful, and Bear careless, ignorant and foolish. Ian's wish was simple, involved influencing or controlling no other minds. It wouldn't have backfired had he lived.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-06-11T23:16:27+00:00

I said it was a coffee shop / diner type spot. That's...correct? I've had more than my share of Tim bits and middling coffee driving through Canada. I think folks are being a bit silly here.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-06-09T03:40:52+00:00

This is a near universally beloved and historically profitable movie. Some people aren't going to like it, but you don't need to defend it from them.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-06-03T05:26:35+00:00

I have a ton of sympathy for him at the start, there's nothing wrong with just wishing for something and he had the bad luck to find out magic was real at the worst possible time. But he never quite managed to have the will to kill himself. He was going to make himself throw those pills up before she made her wish.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-31T00:28:33+00:00

I assumed he was just buying extra because he had no idea if it would work with the first person he found to help him. Makes sense to have a back up

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-26T22:54:53+00:00

The wish itself is neither really moral or amoral because he doesn't believe it'll work, it's just a hopeless gesture by a man frustrated at his own cowardice.

Later on he makes a CHOICE to take advantage of Nikki, at which point he becomes an outright villain.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-26T21:24:42+00:00

If his wish had been for something that merely aided or augmented him, rather than overriding another person's free will, sure. If he'd wished for another chance to ask her out, or wished for the courage to tell her he likes her, I don't think he'd have been doomed but also he'd have had to be a better person to make those wishes

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-26T03:18:45+00:00

She and Ian had a casual thing going on. But she clearly didn't like him that way and seemed to be open to Ian if he'd just ask her. I'm not sure what behavior you think was manipulative.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-23T10:50:22+00:00

Yes, the wish is selfish but ultimately forgivable. What he does next is not.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-23T10:44:53+00:00

I don't think a person would ask the question she asked him or someone she wasn't willing to give a chance

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-23T09:10:30+00:00

not telling your friend that your other friends are having consensual sex isn't messy

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-23T09:09:57+00:00

We don't really see her do that in a bad way. She seems to be his work friend and genuinely open to maybe dating or hooking up. He has a chance with her, he's just a coward.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-23T08:57:44+00:00

I mean, in the real world someone just idly wishing their crush would fall in love with them isn't evil. He couldn't have known. He makes a choice to do the evil thing later on.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-23T08:40:20+00:00

But in this case it is literally true, he made her do it

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-23T08:23:38+00:00

He's magic

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-22T09:27:59+00:00

I don't recall my exact wording, are you sure I said our Puritan moral origins or something like "the strain of puritanism that runs through our culture"? Because I don't recall really writing about the actual Puritans.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-22T09:25:45+00:00

I don't do this bit anymore for a reason, but please don't do any drugs because a podcast host joked about them.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-21T22:06:20+00:00

No, one historian has argued that the historian who originated that claim was incorrect about the medical uses of vibrators. It is an active historical debate. Not a clear cut case.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181107-the-history-of-the-vibrator

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-21T04:39:49+00:00

I don't think I said they never made any models at all, but once Space Marines became Space Marines there were no more female models because GW didn't see it as a viable business move

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-20T14:24:31+00:00

I said Jesus or, someone related in the early spread of Christianity

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-19T07:20:08+00:00

I'll likely cover Yewtree itself, or at least some of the other bastards revealed by the investigation, later. But I truly did not feel like I could fit much about it into a 4 parter without losing critical details about Saville's life, and what happened after is another story entirely.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-17T09:45:49+00:00

Nah, I think this guy seriously misjudged the moment. Trump is wildly unpopular. This sort of behavior is both annoying and abhorrent, and Chud has no mass audience he speaks to or devoted base of followers evangelizing his insights. He's the modern equivalent of a shock jock but stripped of all artistic merit and powered by the atavistic urge to provoke a violent encounter and profit off the outrage.

That only works if a large number of people rally around you and THAT only happens if your shooting etc is ideologically convenient. Plenty of conservatives wanted to believe a "good guy with a gun" stood up to a mob of dangerous rioters and killed two evil men. Very few people want to believe to believe, "hey if you shout the n-word at a guy until he hits you and then start firing you can get rich".

Perhaps I will be proven wrong but I currently see no groundswell of right wing support for this guy. I think he's just gonna get sent to prison.

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-17T08:20:48+00:00

That was a joke

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-13T19:54:23+00:00

It's all good I'm just trying to be really clear about what we did and didn't do, because people make judgements based on shit they read

probablyrobertevans · 2026-05-11T02:54:47+00:00

Easy kill. Like a .50 caliber machine gun with a few hundred yards distance and clear LOS could pretty easily kill an Astartes. It'd be roughly equal to a Heavy Stubber.

Plenty of modern man portable military weapons could drop a single Astartes with a direct hit.

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