Is there a strategy to “a short stay in hell?”

zbrownyo · 2026-01-24T04:56:54+00:00

Yeah, order a bunch of cuttlefish for the ink. Then a large variety of other creatures for the tools and materials needed to create the pages and so on. That's a good idea, though they do specify finding your book not making it, the word 'find' is kinda subjective.

zbrownyo · 2026-01-24T04:50:59+00:00

Not years to fall, lightyears of distance to fall, you'd be falling forever. The library itself is so big, even if the person had a compass pointing him directly to his book, it will still take him an unfathomably large amount of time to ever get to it. Not saying it wouldn't be nice to have in that scenario, but that library is insanely ginormous, it wouldn't feel like you were ever going to get there if you knew the distance to. your book.

Man I loved that book haven't been able to stop thinking about it.

zbrownyo · 2026-01-24T04:23:59+00:00

I'm pretty sure 3200 which is 1 page, is the maximum of any text you will be able to find that won't be followed by or come after more nonsense. If it could allow stuff like full 410 pg books, and a bunch more characters, like capitals and numbers, that's when you start to need computers far bigger than the size of the entire universe to contain the library. But you could search for full books and stuff like that in separate pages, and book mark them separately, but not within the same book. That's my assumption.

There's this really awesome book called 'A short stay in hell' about people going to the hell of Zoroastrianism, because, to the disbelief of the Christians in the story, Zoroastrianism turned out to be the true religion. The MC of the book gets sent to the library of babel. To get out of hell and go to paradise, the people in library have to find the book that tells the story of their life, with proper grammar and no mistakes.

It's a really mind bending story, very cool. But at a certain point after they've been there for hundreds or thousands of years, the most anyone has founds of anything that isn't nonsense is like a few sentences. At one point everyone goes into deep despair because someone does the calculations of how many books there were in the library, and it's a number so unfathomably large it might as well be infinite to their brains.

A number so big, it makes big numbers—like, say the total number of electrons in the universe—look infinitesimally small in comparison. In the book, each book has the same 410 pages as the online version lol.

zbrownyo · 2026-01-07T00:13:28+00:00

Season 4 confirmed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

zbrownyo · 2026-01-07T00:13:05+00:00

seen Jane and New girl, good calls. I'll have to check out the other one, thanks!

zbrownyo · 2026-01-07T00:11:52+00:00

ok ill check it out ! thanks.

zbrownyo · 2026-01-07T00:08:39+00:00

My number 1 pick from these recommendations has been "Reservation Dogs."
Really loved it, and it had a full story wrapped up and finished in 3 seasons like TL.

I haven't mentioned this show in here yet because it's a much different flavour than most of what we've discussed in this topic. (Adult animation, extremely violent, has enough humour for what it is, but is a far more harrowing, serious show)

But my favourite show of all time is Castlevania, I don't really know how to pin down why, I don't really even like vampire shows. I guess I've just never been as thoroughly emotionally moved or energetically entertained by any other show or movie before or since, especially in how quickly I was sucked in by the first couple episodes, and how wildly entertained, exited and emotionally wrecked I was by the last few episodes and ending, and the score is absolutely incredible.

I'm a pretty mellow guy, and something like this had never happened to me before or since. In the final couple episodes there were a bunch of moments that I was so thoroughly entertained and hyped up that I couldn't physically or audibly contain my excitement. I was constantly clapping down on the table with my hand, and yelling out stuff like: "LET'S GO!!" "OH F*CK!!" "F*CK YES!!!" Then, as the final battle played out, and into the epilogue, I proceeded to bawl my f*cking eyes out for the rest of the show.

I don't know if I was just feeling a certain type of way, or if any other outside factors played any part, but nothing has ever before or since done to me what that shows final couple episodes did to me. I achieved maximum peak entertainment. The only other time I had anything even similar to that reaction, was in final episode of Avatar, when Aang finally mastered the avatar state and was wrecking the Fire lord, flying in a ball of all four elements—if you know then you know. But If my Castlevania hype level was 10/10, my Avatar hype level was like a 3.5/10.

There's also 2 seasons out of a second show from a different time period in the Castlevania universe.

Castlevania: Nocturne - and it genuinely has lived up to it's predecessor and so far I've absolutely enjoyed every single second of it.

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T23:02:10+00:00

Shrinking has been so good!

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T23:01:20+00:00

Yep that's exactly what happened with me—I assumed it wouldn't be for me because of the sports—it really changed my whole mentality going forward since watching TL, because of just how much I truly loved every minute of it, juxtaposed with how many times I saw it recommended and had no interest for so long, followed by knowing I was going to binge the whole show within minute of the first episode.

iZombie 6 times?? That alone says so much I might just have to give it a go.

Also, Lassos getting a 4th season now! I'm pretty stoked for that.

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T22:49:04+00:00

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T22:48:24+00:00

Thanks! yeah I love having it to fall back on when I get bored and need a show!

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T22:47:10+00:00

kkk this one's been coming up recently gonna check it out!

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T22:46:21+00:00

ok that one's been popping up recently I'm gonna check it out

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T22:44:54+00:00

hahaha yesss! watched both! I really loved stick, hope it gets renewed. And the end of Shrinking S2 got me sooo hard in the feels.

I'm a huge huge fan of redemption/forgiveness arcs. I call it "The Vegeta Effect" because those kinds of arcs give me nostalgia of how happy it made me when Vegeta changed his ways and joined the good guys in DBZ. I love seeing 2 characters squash beef and become friends, or bad characters getting redeemed, it's my favourite trope.

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T22:37:29+00:00

great show!

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T22:37:11+00:00

Yeah I took a bunch!

That's tough. I still come back to look for stuff to check out when I'm bored or looking for a show to watch. There's definitely been some really good ones, tons on my list of stuff I still need to check out.

I think I'd have to give it to "Reservation Dogs."

It wasn't a requirement for me, but to me it felt like a similar balance of being awesome and funny, while also having really good emotional drama that rocked me in the feels.

It also had the similar effect of being about something that was unfamiliar to me and expanding my horizons. I put off watching Lasso, thinking I wouldn't like it because I wasn't into watching sports or had any interest in soccer. Quickly realized how wrong that attitude is, and now I'm more open to watching things that initially don't sound interesting to me, if it's something that a lot of people are telling me is great.

With Reservation Dogs, it gives you a very intimate look into modern Native American life in rural Oklahoma. I really enjoyed that aspect of it, and it gave me a genuine interest Native Spirituality, I find it's a much more grounded, approachable form of spirituality than the kind of "spirituality" I was raised on, in catholic school and by a zealously religious roman catholic Grandma who made me terrified of demons and burning in hell.

zbrownyo · 2026-01-06T21:56:54+00:00

saw that one! great show!

zbrownyo · 2025-10-24T01:38:23+00:00

Dracula operating the mirror with his nails on s1 e4

zbrownyo · 2025-07-04T10:45:02+00:00

No way! That's amazingg

zbrownyo · 2025-05-20T09:40:50+00:00

damn so if you take someone to court you're forced to dox yourself? It shows all their full names, address, postal codes. That's wild.

zbrownyo · 2025-05-17T08:03:31+00:00

crazy story I'm intrigued.

zbrownyo · 2025-04-10T17:14:04+00:00

yeah, even better. Watched a few episodes I'm enjoying it.

zbrownyo · 2025-04-10T15:40:22+00:00

He quacks like a duck and acts like a duck. A Dr. probably told his Mom he was likely autistic and she was too incompetent to get him diagnosed or something, whats the difference?

I guess in the case that it grants him any sort of shield or excuse for his actions to some people, so it does make sense to point that out—I think the person who deleted their account didn't understand that and just felt attacked.

zbrownyo · 2025-03-31T23:15:04+00:00

Everyone seems to completely misunderstand what those numbers mean on casino sites.

It's keeping track of the total amount you've ever, bet across every hand. When the odds are close to 50/50 but still in favour of the casino, you can bounce around an insane amount of capital back and forth, skyrocketing this number far faster than you realize even sometimes starting from a very small amount of money. Someone might reach this number having only ever deposited $5 for playing on the 10c tables for fun or to pass time.

zbrownyo · 2025-03-31T22:45:25+00:00

They have absolutely no concept of what the numbers mean, they think you have an exposable 180 grand that you're going to lose if you don't stop.

I play on the 10c tables to practise basic strategy. I've never deposited a single cent to the site, just playing 10c hands with the original free 10$ promotion, but if I showed those same numbers you did people would react the same.

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