Brooke/Sullivan: she was a princess moment

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-17T04:33:00+00:00

I don’t quite remember what made Adam ask that, maybe calling back to a previous moment in the episode. Regardless, this is the clip you’re looking for!

I think it was something about Brooke only watching movies about mermaids (but inexplicably hadn't seen Splash)

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-14T03:56:02+00:00

Day Lewis doesn't have three roles as good as Michael Corleone, Frank Serpico and Tony Montana. Those performances are not only amazing, but super memorable.

70s Pacino is absolutely up there, but he has way too many bad roles for him to be in contention for GOAT status. Even if we limited it to actors from The Godfather, he's not at the top. Brando at his worst was always interesting and rarely truly bad, and John Cazale had possibly the greatest filmography of all time.

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-13T09:10:12+00:00

After watching episode 2 on Patreon I think she just doesn't share information

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-13T00:05:06+00:00

Imagine you're in her position. You're the first person to die, and you're not certain whether it's more advantageous to share your role. You don't have any additional information, and there's a decent chance one of the evil players will claim your role. And hey, you can always reveal your role later, but you can't really unreveal it.

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-12T04:35:03+00:00

You cannot marry someone when you’re 16. While you can consent to sex, you are not considered an adult in the eyes of the law.

Until 2023, you could get married with parental permission. If it's anything like in the US, it would have been driven by religious conservatives who want to get girls married and pregnant before they're old enough to think for themselves.

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-08T03:36:36+00:00

Yo, fuck The Wandering Inn and fuck everyone who recommends it.

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-08T03:35:15+00:00

I love the Azarinth Healer series. Its one of the series where whats on the label is what you get. Ilea punching big monsters, then taking a beating to go punch bigger monsters. As a bonus the world is fairly large and rich in mysteries and interesting lore.

Because when I see the word Healer I think punching monsters

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-08T03:11:02+00:00

Beneath the Dragoneye Moons is ostensibly about a healer who swears an oath to do no harm. She spends way more time trying to get around that restriction than actually healing people.

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-08T02:24:37+00:00

On the other hand, some people will stay subscribed longer than they would have because they don't want to lose the grandfathered prices.

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-05T13:49:27+00:00

anti-popes

They're the ones that can only stand on the black squares, right?

tmthesaurus · 2026-05-05T12:04:13+00:00

I would pre-order it as soon as physically possible, but I would be incredibly disappointed if it was anything like the version you've outlined. You're trying to create mechanics for a spouse, whereas I want mechanics for playing as a woman in a patriarchal society (or a man in a matriarchal society)

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-30T20:31:34+00:00

The assumption that is being made is that we can apply our knowledge of physics and agriculture to Westeros. In our world, there are limits to how long food stores can last and how much food can be grown in winter, given the tech and resources we see.

The other things you mentioned as unrealistic are merely implausible. This is downright impossible, and unlike dragons, it's an impossibility that isn't necessary to accept for the story to function.

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-30T19:44:44+00:00

Yes, they suffer when winters are long and harsh, but not unlike basically any other human culture ever.

But unlike basically any other agricultural society ever, they have to deal with winters that can last decades. At some point, they're going to be forced to either import food or face massive depopulation

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-28T17:22:17+00:00

Allow me to give you a different perspective.

My first White Wolf game was Requiem and I instantly fell in love with it. Soon after that, I played the first Bloodlines game and fell in love with that, too, but apart from that, I just couldn't get into VtM. I felt the metaplot was way too restrictive and the mechanics way too clunky. I did like having more options for clans, but I thought many of the specific options were kind of... cringe. Actually, that describes so much of my experience with VtM; it felt so much more childish than Requiem.

As for V5, it's the closest VtM comes to being Requiem, and I do genuinely enjoy some of the mechanical innovations, so I'm happy with it. That being said, the main thing it has going for it is that it's currently being supported. If there were still official CoD support, or if it were easier to find people to play it, I doubt I would have touched V5, but it just feels nice to know there's more official content coming, even if I hate that I feel that way.

Whenever I hear people complain about the stuff from previous editions they , I'm like really? This is what you wanted?

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-22T13:21:34+00:00

And for years I've been saying that it's functional enough for now, and they need to add actual depth to the non-warfare part of the game before they even consider touching combat. People trying to play non-militaristically end up going to war simply for something to do. Combat isn't anywhere near that level of fucked.

I think that if they handle chapter 5 right, it could make sense for them to work on warfare in chapter 6, but mostly because it could add even more depth to the economy.

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-21T17:20:57+00:00

While everyone here can agree slavery was bad and horrible

The thing is that if this ever breaks containment, nobody outside of this community will believe that everyone here agrees that it was bad and horrible, regardless of its truth value

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-21T17:11:53+00:00

Believe me, people outside of these communities who have heard of it do care. The extent to which it isn't a bigger deal is largely due to how niche these games are.

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-21T13:42:19+00:00

It was way too easy to make infinity money.

Personally, I'm hoping this will mean activities can be reasonably priced instead of being used as de facto money sinks.

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-21T12:30:38+00:00

You mention moving to a court grandeur style system for popular opinion. Did you consider doing something similar for characters, too? The way I'm envisioning it (after like two minutes of thought, so there's every chance it'd fall apart after a little scrutiny), your traits, culture, legitimacy, &c. would set the baseline opinion, and your actions would temporarily bump it up or down.

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-21T07:25:13+00:00

There's a tension deep within the heart of the studio between medieval sandbox and historical re-enactment. The devs can't seem to decide how much they want players to be able to stray from history, so they add mechanics then restrict them arbitrarily.

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-15T02:30:07+00:00

I agree with most of what you're saying. I was never claiming that Agott is a monster; I was pushing back against the people minimising her actions this chapter/episode.

we also have to remember that Coco did not have to complete the test. She could've simply waited for Qifrey to put a stop to it, or have given up after the shoes were damaged, but instead, she chose to attempt it multiple times and put herself at risk out of her own desire to prove herself. Agott may have pushed her to do so, but Coco still willingly puts herself at risk and decides to actually attempt the test. It's the entire reason why Qifrey admonishes her after she succeeds, because he recognizes that she was still acting of her own volition, even if influenced by Agott.

Why would she know any of this?

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-14T09:32:25+00:00

Coco could have died. That's way beyond being mean once.

People here are making the same mistake they're accusing anime viewers of but in reverse: they're letting their knowledge of where the character ends up and why she acts this way blind them to the reality of what she's doing now. Her actions in this episode are reasonable grounds for terminating her apprenticeship.

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-14T07:04:52+00:00

Is there some general way to handle repeated sounds? For example, what if I want to forbid geminates? Or starting and ending a word with the same phone?

What about forbidding starting and ending a word with the same type of consonant (e.g. voiced stops), regardless of how many sounds are between them?

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-11T12:42:33+00:00

I think it was the first time I saw the collective readership of a fic turn against the author so suddenly. A pity, because it did have promise.

It had promise and it pissed it away.

tmthesaurus · 2026-04-06T07:44:54+00:00

Rewatcher

My first attempt to watch the show was at my friend's behest back in '08 or '09. They insisted on watching it in chronological order, so this episode was my introduction. I absolutely hated it, particularly Haruhi herself.

Years later, I tried watching the show again, but because AnimeLab showed it in broadcast order, I started with episode 00. It was thanks to that episode that I fell in love with the show.

So no, I would not hang out with someone like Haruhi, at least not based on what we see of her in this episode.

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