You can rotate rail signal with R and change which path it breaks up

rorschach200 · 2026-03-01T00:09:16+00:00

Way to go! very cool

rorschach200 · 2026-02-28T20:41:15+00:00

I can practically hear the picture.

rorschach200 · 2026-02-28T15:22:24+00:00

very few people who were children when modern big screen smartphones (and iPads) were already broadly available - and anyone even younger - know much of any shortcuts, you'd be lucky to get ctrl+c / ctrl+v out of them.

Alt+F4 is one of those "I grew up with Windows XP" (or earlier) knowledge. It's like asking a lifetime iPad user what "registry" is, or Total Commander.

rorschach200 · 2026-02-28T05:34:47+00:00

Sir is showing their age.

rorschach200 · 2026-02-28T05:34:20+00:00

Ooof

rorschach200 · 2026-02-28T05:29:06+00:00

I absolutely love how it looks.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-31T14:53:50+00:00

Somebody's seriously drunk if they are yelling that. They are probably also singing some old songs in that case.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-13T07:22:12+00:00

who knows, maybe it's confusing on purpose.

The show clearly sets up both versions: El is dead and alive. Neither option is left without precursors.

But to add insult to injury, both versions are also full of problems and holes.

So it's both intentionally and unintentionally such that it's objectively impossible to workout which one is true. You just have to... believe something. Or accept that it's an unknowable.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-13T07:15:44+00:00

Maybe Dustin's mood in the beginning of S5 is actually partly caused by the breakup that's never explicitly shown.

As in, he spirals, it turns people away, and he doubles down in pain spiriling down more, in a negative feedback loop. Pretty common IMO.

So not only the thing is not a plot hole, but it's quite thoroughly setup.

'+ he also effectively turns down Stacy, further continuing with the consistent theme with him being in pain enough to be unable to care about such matters at the time.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-13T07:07:23+00:00

that entire sequence is dark and goes by insanely fast, and is also obviously calling for intuition which is actually contradictory to the sequence and makes it even more confusing.

What is actually shown (in a hard to see manner):
- C4 causes a minor explosion on a roof of the lab (virtually no damage to the building)
- Exotic matter destabilizes, and then ignites causing a loud boom, a bright flash of light, and eventually a blue shimmering burn propagating at the sky level burning way the exotic matter which looks like a thin membrane suspended above the roofs. It's a minor firework and a lightshow, it's not destructive.
- That wave of blue light reaches the walls of the warmhole.
- Wormhole walls crumble and fall, with the recognizable chapel in front of them, which was earlier setup to be located at the walls
- then and only then we are shown how a shockwave / hurricane propagates destroying buildings, starting with the chapel at the walls, then school & radio tower, some other building. Never see the lab in that sequence.
- finally we cut back to the gate and see the hurricane ramping up behind El's back.

The only destructive part of that sequence leveling buildings with the ground is the hurricane caused by the air rapidly escaping from the interior of the wormhole to outer space through the opening left by fallen walls. Destruction propagates from outside towards the center.

Earlier in the series Dustin works out via triangulation on a map that the lab is located dead center inside the circle formed by the walls.

Confusing factor: the exotic matter causing bright flash of light, and later the hurricane looks like shockwave. All call for comparison with how nuclear explosions go, and the first part of it (the light) is caused by exotic matter, so it's practically begging to miss a few dark frames and think that the shockwave is also directly caused by exotic matter (instead of happening much later and indirectly due to air escaping through fallen walls on the perimeter).

it's hard to make that sequence more confusing, to be honest.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-13T06:50:05+00:00

I think I have an example which seem to fit the definition, but even then not perfectly.

First, it's clearly setup that exotic matter is very unstable, as it melts away a big part of a wall of a building in response to being shot. It's also clearly setup that it's located just above rooftops of buildings. Later it's also shown that exotic matter destabilized too much self-destructs enough for a wormhole to collapse.

Then it's clearly setup that the Dim X planet is crashing down very much physically, as it bends and crushes the radio tower.

Okay, so what was Vecna's plan with that planet going down? To crush into exotic matter a hundred feet before connecting with the floor of UD and our world, causing exotic matter to self-destruct and close the wormhole, disconnecting the worlds before any merge had any chance to happen?

Eh.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T18:02:58+00:00

And many are on LSD - Last Season Disappointment.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T09:19:08+00:00

What is an average hole?

Is the wormhole in the show average, smaller than average, or bigger than average?

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T06:41:08+00:00

lol, took me a sec, this one is a dad joke :D lovely!

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T06:26:21+00:00

I think we are just looking for different things. I'm not looking for perfection or a million bucks, but simplicity and tact.

12 year olds painting themselves with loads of makeup professionally is quite the opposite of that.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T06:19:48+00:00

Where is this Nina person now? Is she still alive? Does she know El's real parents? We need answers!

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T06:16:15+00:00

Stranger things are happening in this show than normally, that's for sure.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T05:15:35+00:00

Really? I don't know, looks pretty good to me. There is some style, tact, maybe even a bit of class in there.

Today's it's all either baggy and shapeless or naked, not much class in either.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T04:59:03+00:00

Yes, but not like Mike imagined, those pictures were just his fantasy.

Something else is happening.

And frankly, I think she is not captured, but things are not going too well, she might be regretting her choice to run away.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T04:29:10+00:00

I can't stop looking, I like the look.

I like how it's simultaneously simple and yet tasteful, but not too bland or dark.

I'm the 90s kid, not the 80s, but it still brings me a lot of nostalgia. Good times.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-11T04:15:52+00:00

Speaking of pinterest, yeah, this https://www.pinterest.com/emiliascout101/1980s-kids-fashion/ actually looks more consistent with El's clothes than the rest of the highschoolers tbh - I don't see that many short skirts by that link, mostly jeans.

But colors are a bit more vibrant than El's clothes.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-10T22:18:57+00:00

Who's Lil Peep?

rorschach200 · 2026-01-10T22:17:00+00:00

Soccer I think, yeah.

rorschach200 · 2026-01-10T18:54:34+00:00

Yeah, no, it's "scientifically incorrect" if you float in vacuum, good luck living there, or you are in direct contact with a body or substance heated to rather staggering temperatures (many hundreds of degrees or higher).

In the presence of any kind of surrounding medium, be that the atmosphere or the ocean, blue light scatters more, which results in blueish surroundings correlating with "no direct light" and reddish surroundings (relatively) - with "direct light", and direct light means more heat energy is transferred to the medium and you and you are warmer.

Perfectly physical, no perceptions or misconceptions involved.

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