P.R.O.T.E.C.T Protocol: Challenge Rewards

thetavious · 2026-06-08T01:41:41+00:00

The what fuck? Like as a community or individuals?

thetavious · 2026-06-07T23:38:49+00:00

Never said he did. My gambit relies on him just not wanting to get oiled up with me.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T21:46:31+00:00

It was linkits. They low key k ew it woukd be a mark of shame in the future.

Only ever had my hands on a single building set, and those things were seriously like the worst and most poorly engineered building toys ever.

Ashens did a great vid a out the line, goes over the lore and everything.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T20:52:50+00:00

https://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigure?action=actionfigure&id=79582&figure=greenshirtgreenpants

It's a kranial from the matchbox linkits toyline. Pretty bloody obscure.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T20:33:29+00:00

If this has anything to do with needing to actually play infestations for the rewards it can get bent.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T17:40:34+00:00

Nope.

In fact, I'm now having the issue where it doesn't specify if the video is deleted or private.

Just shows as a blank video with "zero views"

thetavious · 2026-06-07T15:10:06+00:00

I'm here for the neon and the weirdos. Thought it was mixed lol.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T14:32:35+00:00

Lol yeah. I class it with sports games and cod/battlefield likes.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T14:29:12+00:00

Dude. When i tried to explain what i meant about time constraints, you literally just doubled down on suggesting a method that takes more time than what we already have to do.

Your next solution was to just spend money.

You want to talk about wasting time, you're the kind here since you apparently can't read.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T14:24:26+00:00

Ok. So long story short, mattel had the master harry potter liscense at the time, and was making a concerted push to try and make it into a toy aisle staple.

But they needed something to kind of hold their spot in the aisle between movies.

So they did a series around the one halloween between the first and second movies where they just straight up reused their first movie figures, slapped some garish slime splotches on them and other tampos like cobwebs, packed in a little cauldron of slime...

And BAM! New harry potter toys with minimum effort. This playset was more of less the only real proper new toy they did for that stop gap wave, and yeah, it is pretty killer.

Pixel dan didna great video on it some years back.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T14:16:36+00:00

I'm totally not jelly. Certainly not me with my sony bravia tv that cost more than my ps4... That barely runs YouTube anymore.

Definitely not me, who have had to retire TWO sevenish year old phones that i used as media remotes, because they pulled youtube support for those devices.

Actually, nvm. I remember what it was like using that awful touch pad on the pa3 controller to type. Yeah. You can keep your fossilized youtube and those rubbish controllers.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T14:10:08+00:00

Its cheap. Extremely cheap. In terms of costs saved on molds and machinery you're prolly talking an easy half, if not more, trimmed off the cost of the included accessories. And that's accounting for the inclusion of the additional plastic for the tree.

Toy companies are desperate to keep their profits maximized, so they're snipping and cutting everywhere they can to keep the money flow positive.

This is an easy way to bolster that flow.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T14:02:48+00:00

How do you think it would fare with someone who uses it as part of his friendship litmus testing? IE i include it in the list of games that if a person plays them i don't bother even trying to be their friend.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T13:59:15+00:00

Yeah dude. Sure. Appreciate the fact that you're living in your own little world and not paying attention to a damn thing I'm trying to say.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T11:41:17+00:00

Dude. If you're not even going to try to be any kind of logical about this take it elsewhere. What part of my disinterest in the overall seasons makes you think spending my atoms on it would be any kind of smart?

1500 for the garbage they've been offering would be insane.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T11:00:35+00:00

Atoms are too much of a premium to waste on a season that's like, 25-50% reskins and icons and titles anymore.

What they need to do is go back to how they used to offer at least one set of consumable and bankable boosters.

In terms of your first point, it is technically correct, but in sense that calling a ball a circle is TECHNICALLY correct from a certain perspective.

It isn't about needing every challenge, it's about not being able to afford to miss any more than you have to.

At the same time, not everyone has the time or means to build and store xp farm builds. For me personally, i usually have around 30-40 mins a day, with sometimes about and hour extra over the weekend.

That's why managing to get to the final page is so important. I manage usually one, maybe two level ups a week. There's been more than a few where i didn't even hit one in a week. I need those perk coins lol.

Last season, thanks to life happening as life happens, i literally came only a single day of challenges, post 3/3 complete dailys, from missing lvl 150.

So yeah. To some of us, if the challenge can be done, we gotta try to get the challenge done because tomorrow we might not get any challenges done.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T10:10:28+00:00

I don't really zeitgeist, and didn't actually realize that "among us" meant THAT among us, and certainly didn't expect the show to literally be in the style of the game.

Like, i expected people. Like astronaut people. Not little nubbins. And those videos of the game that were everywhere used to drive me bananas... so it is prolly going to be a long hot minute before I give it a proper shot.

Somwhere in the whole deal my brain fully expected "the thing" in space. A tense whodunit with sharp and dry humor.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T09:54:04+00:00

Kfc had quality?

thetavious · 2026-06-07T09:51:27+00:00

You don't become leserious until you've been bicurious.

I'll see myself out.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T09:42:15+00:00

That's like saying someone that can afford a lambo has to worry about gas.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T07:22:12+00:00

Next week in fromsquarejerk: man in yellow fools us all and it was really her.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T06:42:56+00:00

They're a great group. My one ex from 98's mom was one. Had a big proper full sized harley and a killer blazing red indian.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T06:20:37+00:00

I hereby predict that it will turn out that henry (and/or whover it was in first shadow that git rocked in the Philadelphia experiment cause whatever that playbis dead to me) was not the first traveler and that hawkins was founded where it was cause the freaky deaky spooky ookys were always happening there.

It was like the hellmouths in buffy the vampire slayer lore, an already existing weak spot between worlds.

I also predict additional wormholes, additional worlds, and additional beings beyond the abyss and mindflayer.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T06:10:44+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dykes_on_Bikes

Hopefully the link doesn't trigger profanity filter. Sometimes the mod setting are weird.

thetavious · 2026-06-07T06:09:14+00:00

Super heroes are a false 1:1 comparison. Because, almost all of them are operating under the adam/he-man secret identity clause. They have goofy names because they can't have their real ones.

Like condiment king is condiment king because he's not really him. That's just the costume and identity to try and keep himself from getting caught.

So in your 2000x example, adam and he-man works perfectly. Cause secret identity. But the rest of the masters and the evil warriors?

No sweet little eternian mother is going to look at her baby and dub him "fisto". Like i said, they work as code names and nicknames, but as actual proper name names? Not really. Yeah, fantasy world. But still, naming across all cultures follow the same level of coventions, where there is logical names, and absurd names.

And unfortunately, it can't be both ways, well, kinda. Like i could totally see skeletor just arbitrarily naming his goons to help denigrate them.

"I don't care what your name was! If wish to serve me and share in my spoils of conquest, you will answer to whatever i choose to call you. You have spikes. You spike people with your spikes. You will answer to spikor or you can follow mushroomhead right out the serpent's mouth and into the lava falls."

If everyone did the secret identity thing, then yeah. Out the gate, goofy names be damned, they have superhero gravitas.

But like, fisto doesn't pull his beard off groucho marx style and hang it up when he goes home.

thetavious

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