u/BigBadinkyBones5

"Italy.....do you know what happened there? I'm BANNED from entry. They don't like that thing I did"

Jimbo James

A locally-owned Greek restaurant

Russian Mafia

Donny G

Jimmy Big Balls and the Sinaloa Cartel Funny Boys

Patrick Pinkleton and the Paper Towel Cartel

Big Eduardo

Big Berry Bellbottoms

Circle K empire

(Am I missing any?)

but only in that scene where he waltzes into Polyphemus's house and immediately starts eating his cheese

My partner's dad had zero idea that my partner (oldest of three children in their 30s) isn't his biological child, and now my partner's mom (long divorced from Dad) says she won't be coming to our wedding because she doesn't want Dad to beat her up. The younger siblings are very upset, but want to take Mom at her word that they're Dad's bio children. Dad still loves my partner, but is understandably angry and gutted. Mom says she didn't know either, because her encounter with the bio father happened while her and Dad were on a break not long before they got married

Not sure how to proceed in a way that provides everyone with the support they need. Ironically, my partner is handling everything very well, and plans to return to therapy so they can talk about it

I was watching a movie review by Hannah and Jake (formerly The Bible Reloaded) years ago, and I don't remember which movie it was, but it involved bullying somehow. At one point Jake said "you can be a bully and then choose to be a better person, Dr. Kutner taught me that"

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(For those who don't know, there was an episode of House M.D. where Dr. Kutner wasn't reacting well to a patient because of their bullying behavior, and his colleagues assumed it was because Kutner had been bullied as a kid. At the end of the episode, Kutner shows up to a random guy's house, and tells the guy "I'm sorry for bullying you all those years ago")

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I like that brief arc of Kutner's because it showed that it's both possible and necessary to choose to be better moving forward. I also like Jake's comment because it showed how influential media can be when it comes to shaping people's mindsets for the better

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I wanted Jax to be redeemed, not because I like him as a person, but because showing people choosing to be better is important. It's important to show bullies embracing the shame they've been avoiding, making amends toward the people they've hurt, and deliberately working on the virtues of kindness and introspection. Making an actively bad person out to be somewhat sympathetic only for them to double down on their mistakes and die miserably doesn't do anything for me on an emotional or storytelling level. I also hate the fact that his abstraction left poor Gangle without any closure. I was vying for my girl to get her apology

Nobody's changing into different clothes? Or putting on clothes, in Gangle and Zooble's case?

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I just know Pomni would be out of that stupid jester outfit and into some khaki shorts and a plain tee so quick

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What outfits do you think they'd conjure for themselves?

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*Asshole/bad friend character (Red) had some believable rationale motivating their worst action (they sentenced Yellow to die because they genuinely thought the evidence pointed toward Yellow being an imposter)

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*Red was actually confronted with the fact that they fucked over innocent people (Purple, Yellow), and felt genuinely bad

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*The people Red fucked over most were actually allowed to be angry at them

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*Red went out of their way to make amends, and accepted when Purple wasn't ready to grant them full friendship in the end

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*Red lived to learn from their mistakes and be a better person

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne\_Nance

Wayne Nance's life and serial killing career came to an end in 1986 as a result of his attempt on the lives of huband and wife Doug and Kris Wells. He is strongly believed to have murdered at least six people, including two underage girls and another married couple, but was not able to be prosecuted for these crimes for obvious reasons

Hearing how he met his end just warms the cockles of my heart

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Hearing how he met his end just warms the cockles of my heart

The players' actual consciousness had been transferred into the program and somehow killed their human bodies?

Would create a situation where they get depressed because there's nothing to go back to, and the circus avatars are the only versions of them that exist anymore

I didn't dislike the SOMA theory/outcome, but as soon as it came up I was like "oh, same as that Black Mirror episode with Jesse Plemmons." After reading up on the game SOMA, it just didn't feel original

Would've been neat if Scratch's project got shut down and covered up after unintentionally killing the bodies of the original employees, only for it to circle around on the deep web and continue ratcheting up the victim count. With Gangle in particular, maybe she ends up in a persistent vegetative state after being hit by the truck, and someone who loves her uses the transference device on her thinking it's her only chance to "wake up"

"Hey Jax, what happened to the frog who abstracted?"

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"SHE CROAKED"

He should've popped back up and taken everyone to Shrimp Town at the end

It's not the same without that spunky little homophobe

*What happens when Jax holds his breath

*Gangle's "figurine thing"

*People being unpleasant leading up to their abstractions

*What Scratch was trying to accomplish and what went wrong

*Caine tinkering with their brain files

Any others?