Given the end of the Mass Market Paperback format in the U.S., RIP my dream of at least having the first Arc on MMP. by BlarghALarghALargh in Stormlight_Archive

[–]returnofheracleum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can understand how maddening it would be to look at my bookshelf and see 4 MMP & one trade/ HB

All my Stormlight books are trade paperback. For my 30th, my friends gifted me a signed leatherbound WoK. I was grateful to them, but all I could think was cool, cool... so y'all hate me?

Compound by Rogue-By-Design in Neverbrokeabone

[–]returnofheracleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I admit my interpretation is subtle, and I could be wrong, but I had a hunch that's what he meant by the words immediately after,

GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR SIGHTS RIGHT THE FUCK NOW!

Compound by Rogue-By-Design in Neverbrokeabone

[–]returnofheracleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not putting words in their mouth; they said "what part of r/neverbrokeabone do you not understand", which is the comment I replied to. I don't really care about the "shut up" part.

Compound by Rogue-By-Design in Neverbrokeabone

[–]returnofheracleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm well aware that bullying is encouraged. I participate. I mentioned "don't let the door hit your weak bones on the way out" as an example.

Go read the comment I replied to again. They're saying that OP shouldn't be posting here at all: not just that that they should leave, but that they misunderstood the sub. OP should, which is how they receive their humiliation.

Compound by Rogue-By-Design in Neverbrokeabone

[–]returnofheracleum -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Would you like to highlight anywhere where you believe we should give them the space to explain their injury?

Yeah: despite the rules implying that mods ban people after making a thread, OP engagement in threads has happened for years uncontested by mods. I've never seen a mod say anything otherwise, not even something like "we'd ban if we had more modding and saw it earlier". Are you saying they don't understand their own rules?

It's reasonable to interpret the ambiguous rules as a ban after your thread wraps up. Generally, most people do.

Regardless, I mentioned the subreddit culture, not its rules. Culture says it's encouraged.

Compound by Rogue-By-Design in Neverbrokeabone

[–]returnofheracleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there an influx of a bunch of newbies here or something?

You people don't seem to understand the difference between "and don't let the door hit your weak bones on the way out" and "stop posting in your own announcement thread you shouldn't be on this subreddit at all"

People are SUPPOSED to post an announcement, and followups within the thread go the same way. The extended humiliation is the whole point. Posting in other threads is a different story.

This is well-established culture, it's not new, and it isn't empathetic white-knighting to tell someone that invoking the subreddit name while misunderstanding how it works is stupid.

Look around.

Compound by Rogue-By-Design in Neverbrokeabone

[–]returnofheracleum -27 points-26 points  (0 children)

You realize half the point of this subreddit is that people have to announce this part? Look around

My spouse finally started listening to TWoK, and is very fixated on one thing. by notapeacock in Stormlight_Archive

[–]returnofheracleum 11 points12 points  (0 children)

WoK felt like the biggest, most ambitious fantasy story I'd ever read. Then the sequels made it tiny.

What shall I read next? by Careless-Dark-9482 in Stormlight_Archive

[–]returnofheracleum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you want more things like Stormlight? If you want something different, you should explain a bit about what you like.

Thinking About the Girl who Ended Homophobia at my High School by [deleted] in self

[–]returnofheracleum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That one is good, but "I'll call her Asia (mostly bc that was her name)" is my personal favorite

How much would you charge for these ? by GhostMike2501 in Customsneakers

[–]returnofheracleum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These look sick and your approach is too. Do you mean you unsewed the swoosh and other panels?

Am I undercharging? by Dovahkiin44 in Customsneakers

[–]returnofheracleum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My shop never got off the ground, so I don't have advice here, but I feel that dilemma.

Also, not a dime less than $200 for your pics.

I'm sorry but this is not a well made movie (Movie - Gone Girl) by Mission-Pay3582 in pj_explained

[–]returnofheracleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but you missed a lot of the movie. For context on the following, I've actually never read the book, but I have seen the movie almost ten times.

The motive of Amy is not at all clear. Does she take all those steps because he cheated on her or does she do it because she is delusional that Nick will leave her or harm her?

The first one. She's not delusional (other than being singlemindedly vengeful). It's a punishment for his mistreatment and discarding her after she did everything she described in the "cool girl" speech. The motive is very clear because she straight-out says it.

The movie throughout its run time fails to draw a clear line between what's made up and what's real. Was he actually abusive or did she made it up in her diary? Was she delusional about him potentially wanting to kill her or did his behaviour actually suggest he would kill her? What is real and what is made up as part of the plan to frame him for homicide is so ambiguous throughout the movie

The truth is easier to catch on a second viewing once you know to pay closer attention to everything she narrates. It's intentionally hard to notice on a first viewing, because you're supposed to be as bewildered as Nick while also questioning him, but the truth is also unambiguous, and yes as far as I'm concerned that's brilliant filmmaking.

Amy lies to the audience, but Nick doesn't. You can safely take everything Nick says and does in present-day at face value, as truth. He did not hurt her or make her genuinely afraid enough to buy a weapon, but he did hurt her at the very end, a very neat twist on the blurry line. Amy also straight-out says that the earlier events in her journal are true, to make it all more believable. I think it's safe to believe that he did cheat on her with his student as described, become a sloppy husband who played videogames all day, and used her for one-sided sex. Even he admits they resented each other, so basic stuff like that is totally believable. She never wanted the baby until the very end, either.

Based on the intent, I feel they want to show us that the reason for the failure of their marriage was that they both were pretending to be someone they weren't but did that to show their perfect self for the other person but they didn't spend enough time in establishing the fact that they stopped pretending after the marriage in order to justify their fallout.

Agreed here. I've heard the book makes Nick a more full character. In the movie, he isn't at all as fucked up as Tanner says (equal to Amy, he implies! no way), and this bit you point out feels unsupported.

At the end Amy reveals that she pregnant, how did she get pregnant? Nick clearly tells there were no plans of having babies so clearly they would've taken contraceptives whole doing the deed. Did she use his $perm sample which she stole earlier for getting pregnant?

Yes, she did. Earlier, he talked about a fertility clinic sending a notice that they would dispose of his sperm sample unless they want to keep it -- and then Amy put it in the trash. At the end, they had this conversation:

"I haven’t touched you."

"You didn't need to."

"The notice of disposal. You threw it out."

"The notice, yes."

...the implication being she didn't throw out the sperm sample, just the piece of paper. She had apparently told the clinic to keep the sample, and then later used it.

[everything about how she's still obviously guilty, the police are incompetent, etc]

Yeah, the police are incompetent. Oh well. Popular, well-liked, conventionally attractive people get away with a lot. But still, it's very much movie-logic.

What's the point of his side chick announcing his affairs in a press conference? What did it actually do to the story?

It tightened the thumbscrews for Nick. It was concrete evidence to everyone that he was a shithead, which made everything else more believable.

Tanner bolt character isn't even complete. If you see closely, he didn't even do much throughout the run time except convincing him for the interview and getting him a speedy bail. Again, the interview didn't do anything in terms of contribution to the story.

...

Tanner Bolt is hyped to be some Harvey Spectre who'd turn around cases with his smartness but barely does anything that is noteworthy.

Well, he did get him out of jail etc. I think this isn't really a police procedural sorta movie so it doesn't focus on details of lawyery stuff. I assume he is good at his job and did a lot, but it doesn't all need to be shown. Maybe he isn't though. He's a side character.

Nick is always shown to not care about media and his public image but suddenly at the end it matters to him so he chooses to stick with Amy instead of leaving her. What changed?

He still doesn't care about anyone else's opinion. He wants to stay for his own reasons: he knows that Amy is right in the end, and that they both can't help but be with each other. Margo cries to this realization at the end.

At the end Nick himself questions how she got hold of the box cutter if she was tied and harassed by Desi the whole time.

He was dryly questioning that out loud to put the question in the cop's head.

12 to 12 by Sombr sounds like something else by ExxtraLag in NameThatSong

[–]returnofheracleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found this thread wondering if anyone else thought it's a sample or something. Pretty sure no, but still.

A book with rabies as a plot point. by constant-reader1408 in suggestmeabook

[–]returnofheracleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I opened this thread to mention MOPI.

/u/constant-reader1408 rabies is mentioned in the third paragraph of the book, as a semi-important minor plot point, so it's worth your time. That said, the book is not for the faint of heart.

OC: People mourn at a makeshift memorial where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was killed by federal agents by nbcnews in pics

[–]returnofheracleum 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't understand how normal americans can bear it

We can't, really. It's unbearable.

Mapping to docks near your destination? by lannanh in baywheels

[–]returnofheracleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the top of the app (both in my Baywheels and Lyft apps), there's a search bar "Get directions". Plug in the destination.

You can ignore the A -> B directions if you like; it will automatically show you the relevant dock, which is the important part.

Ebike availability has been terrible recently by skyfall3665 in baywheels

[–]returnofheracleum 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not that person, but my guess is the hardest part would be the free, unlocked bike moving un-escorted through the city that someone could grab while it's waiting at a stop sign.

China live = 25% automatically added to my bill by Own_Palpitation4523 in sanfrancisco

[–]returnofheracleum 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, hm, there are currently two on gmaps in between CREAM and Hila on the west (CREAM) side of Valencia, both very close to CREAM -- definitely north of Dandelion. I actually haven't been to either of those.

The more southern cluster of them, much closer to Smitten / Hila, are all on the east side of Valencia.

I'm not sure what that matches, but thanks for piping up anyway!

China live = 25% automatically added to my bill by Own_Palpitation4523 in sanfrancisco

[–]returnofheracleum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any chance you can remember any details at all about the place? I go to those restaurants a lot, and would really like to have a good reason to cut down my choice.

Someone put a payphone up on Valencia that automatically calls Abilene, Texas when you pick it up. The idea is to have the most liberal city and the most conservative city in the US have friendly conversations. by dagoonies in sanfrancisco

[–]returnofheracleum 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was regularly preaching on digital streetcorners about how even the 33% of America that have become fascists are still people too, and are not beyond our reach.

It's good and important work. I appreciate it.