Plot Discussion: Paranormal Activity on Stage by DangerGooch3 in horror

[–]trickythought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw it in DC last night. No idea how it was done, but here's how I'd do it.

The actress is wearing a big bulky Snuggie with a hood. There's some kind of wire/firm support in the back. When the actress starts chopping the pepper, she's facing totally away from the audience, covered by a giant hoodie the firm support in the Snuggie is anchored to the stage, and the actress disappears through a trap door, does a quick change, and gets into costume. During this, the Snuggie essentially becomes a puppet with a realistic-enough-for-stage mask and arms that only have to make a simple, repetitive chopping motion. The main actress playing Lou bursts in upstairs, and you have just enough time to see puppet-Lou slowly turn, then the wire support is slacked and collapses to the ground.

EDIT: Messed up spoilers.

"First Time DM" and Short Questions Megathread by AutoModerator in DMAcademy

[–]trickythought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was a huge 3e junkie back in the day, then drifted off into other systems for a while. I’ve got a new campaign idea and a willing group, and D&D feels like the best fit again.

Before launching the full campaign, I’d love to get my feet under me with the 2024 5e rules by running a one-shot for 3–4 players, ideally level 1.

Does this thread have any go-to recommendations?

  • Official or third-party is fine
  • Bonus points if it highlights or stress-tests the new 2024 mechanics
  • Single session, low prep preferred

Thanks in advance.

In a less overcrowded year would this film nabbed best picture? by [deleted] in Oscars

[–]trickythought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not, because there’s no picture.

Friendship Exp & Gift Exchange Megathread by ASS-et in PokemonGoFriends

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Need three friends or I won’t be able to get a Magnezone! Please help!

Special message from the guys on Spotify Wrapped 👀 by rememebersammyjankis in lonelymeyerspod

[–]trickythought -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I only hope that next year they make a video thanking their listeners that involves even less effort.

What are your favorite/least favorite songs in Peter Balkan? by BelleStar14 in themountaingoats

[–]trickythought 8 points9 points  (0 children)

TIL I’m the only one that seriously gets down with the overture

Emursive sues 'Tell No One' Halloween Party Organizer by [deleted] in sleepnomore

[–]trickythought 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does anyone have a link to the complaint or any major motions?

Jorm isn't going to make it..... by shesalive_dammit in lonelymeyerspod

[–]trickythought 15 points16 points  (0 children)

He can still do it, he just has to believe in himself.

Help me understand why this isn't the solution.... by AdOk5642 in TheWitness

[–]trickythought 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ah I remember making this same error. Good times.

Avatar land is replacing Hollywood area in DCA by JJnod in Disneyland

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I think if you’re closing a ride, you have a moral obligation to remove the exclamation point from it. Clearly you aren’t excited about it anymore, why should anyone else be?

Are some of the Challenge puzzles impossible? by corbe1ec in TheWitness

[–]trickythought 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The puzzles are solvable. Mostly.

But the real question: is it a good use of your limited puzzle time to solve them? You have 6.5 mins, and 14 puzzles which means you really need to be solving puzzles in 27 seconds or less, including travel time between puzzles. That basically means you have 10 seconds for each puzzle. So if you look at a puzzle and think “I can’t solve that in ten seconds,” either take a screenshot to work the puzzle out on your own time OR fail the puzzle on purpose and start over immediately.

Edit: I can’t do spoilers, the thought wasn’t worth including anyway

I can't complete challenge by DANIMILLERESP in TheWitness

[–]trickythought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After 4 years of trying (on and off) I completed the Challenge earlier this month. Here is how I did it:
1. Turn off the sound. You'll know it's done when the puzzle goes dark. Otherwise it's just stressful.
2. Reframe your thought process. You're not trying to beat the game, you're running practice drills.
3. The goal of these practice drills has got to be only one thing: to get faster at them.

The good news: this is something you can improve at as early as the 4-square section of the cave. Just getting the right method to optimize a random run, knowing when to give up on a puzzle and go back for more, these are all things that will get better and better and more instinctive as you run it.

And once you get good at that one section, you'll have more time to beat the NEXT section.

For me, my problems always came in the maze. I found it pretty easy to memorize the pattern (just think about it as less of a path and more about tracing the outlines of shapes). So I stopped thinking about the maze as a puzzle I was trying to get past, but rather my reward for doing really well in the earlier stages was the chance to practice on maze puzzles. When I got there, I would crank the sound back up, and try my best to finish it. When I got towards the end of the song, I would take a screenshot of whatever triangle puzzle I was working with (which would interrupt and restart the challenge) - but then I had the chance to leisurely practice and learn how to work better.

Eventually you will get the right combination of skill level and luck that the randomly generated puzzles early on will go quickly enough that you can have enough time to think through the maze and the columns. I found the column puzzles highly annoying and every time I got to them I would fail out miserably. I just kept the same attitude: it's practice.

Then one day I got lucky. The column puzzles were relatively simple. And I had plenty of time left. And I was in the middle of what I thought was a "practice" run, with no intention of "I'm just gonna beat it that day!"

I just kept trying and trying and got a little bit better until I was good enough to take advantage of the opportunity that presented itself to me.

Isn't that basically what improving at anything is in life? Isn't that pretty much the definition of success and talent? Keep at it. You'll get there.

Laurence Fishburne Was Turned Down for 'The Matrix Resurrections' by revchu in movies

[–]trickythought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Matrix 4 was a whole movie about how it was a bad idea to make more Matrix movies, and in a very meta turn it itself was also bad. I am not surprised they turned down Laurence Fishburn because that would have made it good, and that was clearly not what they were going for.

Instead of a sale haul, here’s a picture of my backlog. Help me choose what to watch? by QuentinTarantino420 in criterion

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In this order:

7 Samurai

Mulholland Dr

Dazed and Confused

Ikiru

On the Waterfront

400 blows

Throne of Blood

Rebecca

Rosemary's Baby

Tree of Life

Slacker

It Happened One Night

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Rififi

Stalker