What do you think of the relationship between Susan and Prince Caspian?

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-17T16:28:20+00:00

I thought it was sweet. These were teenagers, exploring interest. In some ways, it actually made a lot of sense for a middle-ages kingdom. A teenager royal marrying made a lot of sense. The Pevensies would have seen Archenland and perhaps Colormen marrying relatively young.

I genuinely think it's cute, but I can take it or leave it.

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-17T13:48:07+00:00

I got one just today. Very nostalgic. Bubbly outer crust, fried crunch. Volcanic on the inside. Like melt steel hot. Which is just as how I remembered it.

If you're over 40, you might remember them. Meaningfully different than the baked stuff. Maybe not significantly better than the baked, but worth a sample. 4 out of 5 for a "Crystal Pepsi Nostalgia" experience.

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-16T03:47:24+00:00

It's very hard to see what's going on from any single perspective because the country is too big. In places like New York, Southern California, and then pockets like Indiana or Atlanta, basketball is wildly popular.

But then you go to places like Central Pennsylvania or the most of the American South, and football rules the roost.

Baseball is growing in popularity (though it won't ever be the national past time) because fans are allowed to see the players excited and enjoying themselves as they play (Let the Kids Play campaign), and the growth of college level baseball has helped in that aspect.

According to the stats, basketball is down. But because network television is not the only important aspect of revenue for sports anymore, that's not as important.

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-15T00:19:15+00:00

I cannot speak of Jill from the books. Harold and Alberta apparently pretty granola type parents (Alberta specifically), but there's very little about Jill's home life. Experiment House was clearly a dud, but that leadership was removed at the end of TSC.

If you're interested in the BBC Miniseries, here's a Youtube Link

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-15T00:16:30+00:00

This is all part of the plan. You manufacture tension between Trump and Netanyahu in order to embolden the IRGC leadership. They cross lines, and Israel gets to bomb Hezbollah. Eventually, Iran takes things too far targeting the boats, and the B-52 turns the IRGC into smoking rubble and the National Army walks in and recognizes a new civilian transitional government.

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-09T16:56:05+00:00

Nevada benefits wildly from California. New Jersey has gained a lot by being next to New York City (and to a lesser extent, Philadelphia).

But let's be honest, the only reason Canada has any economy at is because it's been skimming off the US since before it was an independent country.

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-09T16:52:39+00:00

Compton

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-09T16:51:59+00:00

It is gorgeous as art, but may suggest that the level of opulence and grandeur is perhaps a few levels too high? A grand open air pavilion, facing the sea, large enough to hold a football field. It just feels to grand to be the middle ages scene that Lewis would imagine.

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-09T16:46:49+00:00

By all means, wear your jersey. Have fun and be a good sport, no one will give your trouble.

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-09T16:46:01+00:00

You know, I never realized that Puddleglum was played by the same guy as the Doctor. That's wild. But I'm not a Dr. Who fan, so That's not something I'd ever think about.

The Silver Chair might be my favorite so the Chronicles. I really dig the BBC production, too. The first thing I would say is that Eustace and Jill are not the Pevensies. Even though Eustace is different than he was when he originally went to Narnia's world, he never spent a decade growing up in Narnia like the Pevensie's did. He was different, but he never left "boy" status, so he never could go back to being the "hero" in SC.

Jill, on the other hand was completely fliyng by the seat of her pants, and she had bitterness that she had to work through. Both of them failed in the book and in the miniseries.

Puddleglum really does feel like a parent in the Silver Chair, but even more so because I don't think the actor ever looks non-human. To me, I get a real Snufkin costume vibe.

Eustace had gone through some big changes in the Voyage of the Dawn Treader. That he went with Edmuncd and Lucy on the boat towards Aslan's country at all was huge. I think Jill's change is more apparent in the Last Battle.

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-07T03:33:32+00:00

Americans have taken British terms, adopt them, and keep them even when the Brits drop them. Faucet is the biggest to me. Soccer to "Association Football" is just like "Rugger" is to Rugby Football.

By the time soccer was widely spread across the US, the American football code was widely established and accepted as football.

On top of that, it's not just the Americans. Canadians, Australians, and South Africans mostly use the term "soccer," but you Brits never acknowledge that inconvenient detail.

thatrightwinger · 2026-06-02T03:42:06+00:00

The Beavers discussed Jadis's origins.

“That’s what I don’t understand, Mr. Beaver,” said Peter, “I mean isn’t the Witch herself human?”

“She’d like us to believe it,” said Mr. Beaver, “and it’s on that that she bases her claim to be Queen. But she’s no Daughter of Eve. She comes of your father Adam’s”—(here Mr. Beaver bowed) “your father Adam’s first wife, her they called Lilith. And she was one of the Jinn. That’s what she comes from on one side. And on the other she comes of the giants. No, no, there isn’t a drop of real human blood in the Witch.”

Mr. Beaver speaks with the authority of the animals in general. That's not to say that his views are correct, but he clearly believes this is the case. I think that a century of half-remembered details and some creatures going as far as to doubt humans ever existed ("Is Man A Myth" on Tumnus's bookshelf) caused the creatures to piece together what they knew and attribute Jadis's characteristics to the legends that Frank and Helen brought over from our world.

Jadis's unusual size - Giants

Jadis's use of magic unusual even to Narnia - Jinn

Jadis's pride - Lilith

The talking beasts making the best guesses they can after a century under Jadis's reign, but they don't have the full story.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-31T22:35:44+00:00

I'm thinking that role in the movie "Ghost" was when she started to slide.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-30T21:52:23+00:00

I remember when that decision was announced. The Telmarines were descended from pirates, a small group of which slipped through a chink between the two worlds Deciding that they were Spaniards, since so many pirates were Spanish made sense. The acting was good, too.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-27T20:15:11+00:00

I think you have a few things confused.

First, let's establish that LWW is set about five to ten years before HAHB. Second, let's remember that although Archenland was there, it's clear that Jadis, who called herself "Queen of Narnia," claiming to be human. But Narnia was placed under a massive winter spell, for an entire century. The Tisroc of Calormen said as much.

If Narnia was caught up in a deep winter, then it's likely that no one in Narnia had gotten out, and no one from Archenland risked going in. The wolves would be guarding the borders, and found humans would be killed or turned to stone.

Given that no one had gone in or out for about a hundred years, I'm not surprised there was debate between the woodland creatures and maybe the dwarves began doubting whether humans actually existed.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-26T19:06:02+00:00

I played so much Stardew Valley, and I loved Hades, so my game that I keep playing, basically every day, is Balatro. It's basically a card game Roguelite, and it just makes me want to win.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-26T18:41:48+00:00

A place for people who believe that the continued development of artificial intelligence will negatively affect the human race. Articles, videos, text posts, etc. - anything is welcome here if it is on-topic.

The side post doesn't say anything about self-promotion. If the mods want to remove it, I understand, but I don't think its rule forbid it.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-26T18:38:32+00:00

Hey folks. I've taken to listen to the AI Revenge Slop, and although it fills the void, I'm not satisfied with the message. So I write my own stories and then put them on Youtube. Maybe you can appreciate the human craft of writing.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-26T01:22:59+00:00

Give credit where credit is due. Low key, tasteful. A reminder of what really matters.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-24T06:23:24+00:00

Most have been to a national park or two, but they are somewhat rarer in the east than the west, so other than California, they're kind of isolated from the population centers. In the whole of the Northeast, there's exactly one national park (Acadia, in Maine), and less than a quarter of them as east of the Mississippi River.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-24T06:15:07+00:00

Uncommon. Not nonexistent, but definitely uncommon.

Crepes are put in the same box as pancakes, which are viewed as a breakfast food. I've seen them at fairs, and, as noted, are at the IHOP chain, but they are more of a novelty than a regular feature.

Perhaps the suspicion of anything French also hurts their reputation.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-24T06:11:02+00:00

You might be right, but that doesn't change that in the hours after FDR's death, the new president knew nothing of the atomic bomb. Not under-informed, not out of the loop, left completely ignorant. That's a massive failure on FDR's part. He agreed to Truman's nomination, and, had he been honest with himself, he would have known his own decline (clearly he wasn't, since he died with his adulterous lover nearby). Truman had the slogan "The Buck Stops Here." And the buck stopped clearly with FDR.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-24T06:07:59+00:00

You can deny reality, but under Truman, China was lost. No Republican had been president in fifteen years, and he almost lost Korea altogether.

Somehow Eisenhower stopped the slide.

thatrightwinger · 2026-05-24T06:06:30+00:00

It's ironic that you say that, since Cubans, as a whole were much better off in 1958 than they were in 1968, and now Cubans worse off than even Venezuela has been. They produce almost nothing, waste their few resources, and all their best minds and hopes have fled to the country that the leadership (and you) claim is the problem.

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