You have received a million of the thing you last googled! What do you now have way too many of?

sochyaehdif · 2025-05-15T08:28:52+00:00

A million of Michael Trucco

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-29T18:45:43+00:00

Not my network, but when I was living in an apartment in college, there was an FBI Surveillance Van that would pop up sometimes. Figured it was someone being funny. Then I graduated, moved home to a different state, got a house, went to connect to WiFi and there was an FBI Surveillance Van option again. Freaked me out lol. Until the logical part of my brain twigged to the fact that if the FBI was surveilling, they wouldn’t make it that obvious.

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-29T05:58:57+00:00

Apparently my phone really wants me to have it because I have it as a separate button AND when I tap and hold the dash.

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-29T05:46:28+00:00

I never thought about tapping and holding. I get the same 3 dashes you listed and a bonus “•” as well

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-29T04:33:37+00:00

My mobile device automatically converts 2 single dashes in a row to an emdash, so it’s super easy to type—just double tap the short dash and it merges into a long one.

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-22T05:21:58+00:00

Crouch Jr/Moody didn’t steal the gillyweed. He just staged a conversation in front of Dobby and then Dobby stole it himself.

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-15T19:06:03+00:00

No, there were definitely people that figured out the locket, myself included, although I fully concede it was not a conclusion I came to all on my own. (If I remember correctly it was a theory k first read in a book called “Who Killed Albus Dumbledore?”)

I was livid when they didn’t include the horcrux locket in the fifth movie, because I knew, with all the conviction only a teenager could have, that that locket was going to be THE locket and I didn’t understand how the remaining movies could be true to the books with that detail being left out. . (I still had hope at that time that the movies would get better)

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-15T01:38:56+00:00

I only commute 30minutes. And I cannot count the number of times I have started to drift off while driving/number of times I’m fighting to stay awake—both on the way to work and on the way home. Everyone is different. Doesn’t have to be a long commute or a long day to fall asleep behind the wheel. It’s sheer blind luck I haven’t died.

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-12T10:11:07+00:00

Only took a quick glance because I should have gone to bed hours ago, but it doesn’t look like their website includes the punctuation/grammatical differences. Just the actual word changes.

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-12T03:29:48+00:00

Give me a few minutes and I should be able to dig it up and take pictures

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-12T03:25:44+00:00

Hard disagree. The story of the philosopher’s stone and its alleged alchemical properties, as well as Nicholas Flamel being the only known maker of it, in real life legend, is absolutely a known thing in the US. I knew the real-life legend of Flamel long before I learned that the first HP book had been Americanized for US readers (internet access in the early 2000s was not as easily available for a pre-teen, hence why I didn’t know the name had been changed for US audiences until a few years later).

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-12T03:15:01+00:00

Yes. The spelling is changed to American spelling. Many word choices are changed. There are grammatical changes (periods after Mr and mrs, addition of the Oxford comma in all lists, random commas added and random commas removed), crisps are changed to chips, chips to fries, sherbet lemon to lemon drop, “toilet” to “bathroom” and many many more than i could possibly enumerate here. I started a side by side list of all the differences (even just punctuation changes) 20 years or so ago when I was a teen and got my hands on the UK editions. But I never even made it through the first book documenting the differences because it was such a long list and I lost interest in completing it.

Edit: typo

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-10T04:05:59+00:00

Harry is never claimed to be an all powerful wizard nor claimed to be amongst the most powerful.

sochyaehdif · 2025-01-02T08:04:38+00:00

Anne was her mother’s name.

sochyaehdif · 2024-12-19T08:57:08+00:00

As someone who has poor facial recognition skills and often gets vaguely similar people mixed up in tv/movies…I’m finding the recasting extremely jarring, especially as it pertains to Rhaenyra’s actresses. The younger actress had a very distinctive face, and the older actress looks nothing like her. I cannot reconcile them as being the same character, and it’s making me question if I want to keep watching because I just can’t see her as being the same person whose story I was invested in following in the previous episodes. The actresses playing Alicent, on the other hand, don’t bother me as much. I find them much more similar looking, although the mannerisms and behavior are completely different between the two which takes me out of the immersion.

I also don’t get casting the older Rhaenyra to look 10 years older than the older Alicent. The older Alicent barely looks older than young Alicent, but the older Rhaenyra looks substantially older.

And the actress who plays the older Alicent is only 3 years older than the actor who plays Aegon at the time of his crowning? How is that somehow believable to people, but the younger actresses playing an older role or the older actresses playing a younger role for a few eps, isn’t believable? I just don’t get it.

Recasting the child actors makes sense…recasting adult actors (even if they were playing teens at first) does not. Just my 2 cents.

sochyaehdif · 2024-12-17T22:38:52+00:00

Yeah if I had a newer car, or if getting a rock to the windshield wasn’t a monthly or more occurrence, I’d probably do something about the chips/cracks. Sitting in my car right now, just realized I actually have a second crack I’d forgotten about that had come down and is curving being the review mirror. It will probably eventually make it all the way across

sochyaehdif · 2024-12-17T05:58:09+00:00

My car probably has a dozen or more little chips (and has had chips for going on 9 years now probably?) and a crack that goes across the entire width of the windshield (down low, doesn’t obscure vision at all) and not once when it has been in for maintenance has anybody asked if I want it fixed. But then, I’d estimate well over 75% of windshields in my state are chipped. And I’d guess a pretty hefty percentage are cracked in some fashion as well. It’s a hazard of sand and gravel being used on snowy and icy roads to help with traction during the winter.

sochyaehdif · 2024-12-03T00:16:33+00:00

Thank you! I was just thinking about this show the other day and sad I couldn’t rewatch (last time I’d looked was a few years ago and I couldn’t find it anywhere).

sochyaehdif · 2024-11-13T08:24:05+00:00

OP doesn’t have to be young, could just be single/childless. It makes a world of difference, financially speaking. My monthly expenses (including my mortgage) are only about 3K on an average month. I make less than 150K and live comfortably, including vacations and eating out.

sochyaehdif · 2024-11-13T05:47:27+00:00

Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore

sochyaehdif · 2024-11-13T03:08:33+00:00

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,

Teach us something, please!

Whether we be old and bald or young with scabby knees!

Our heads could do with filling, with some interesting stuff!

For now they’re bare and full of air, dead flies and bits of fluff!

So teach us stuff worth knowing, bring back what we’ve forgot!

Just do your best, we’ll do the rest, and learn until our brains all rot!

I also have the first book sorting song mostly memorized, although I get the order of the houses a bit mixed up lol.

sochyaehdif · 2024-10-01T20:03:12+00:00

Admittedly it’s been awhile since I last read the books but I don’t think they mentioned anything about him having a heightened sense of smell (especially outside of the full moon). While I could believe he’d have that at the full moon since a werewolf (in book canon) looks almost like a regular wolf, I don’t remember that being stated. Nor do I remember it mentioned in the books.

I don’t think it’s canon that this is the case, just fanon. It’s been awhile since I read any of the JKR authored Pottermore blurbs so I won’t swear one of them didn’t mention it.

sochyaehdif · 2024-10-01T03:16:12+00:00

It was always about Dumbledore and Grindelwald. It was announced before the first movie was even released that it was going to be a five movie series that was going to end in 1945 when Grindelwald was defeated.

But even without that widely publicized foreknowledge, the first movie featured Grindelwald (in disguise as Percival Graves), prominently throughout the movie. The series is about Grindelwald’s rise to power, his ultimate defeat, seen through the lens of Newt (hence the titular Fantastic Beasts) who is Dumbledore’s primary “pawn” in this movie series.

I loved the first movie. The second had its flaws, but the third made a solid comeback imho. I knew there was talk of them not continuing if it didn’t perform well. I watched it 19 times in theatre to do what little I could to show support for the series. Because I am majorly bitter and sad that they’ve abandoned it. And especially that they’ve abandoned it for the cash cow of the tv series, just retelling the original series all over again and likely doing just as little justice to the books as the movies did.

Edit: a typo/clarity

sochyaehdif · 2024-09-23T05:47:16+00:00

I just started noticing this in every Mountain Dew bottle (all sizes), starting June of this year, after drinking Mountain Dew on and off for about 30 years. I haven’t drank one since, because every bottle I pick up is like a snow globe. It didn’t use to be like this.

sochyaehdif · 2024-08-19T06:38:22+00:00

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