u/DetectiveDracula

Every year or few I replay Wind Waker, I'm just wondering if any of you have ideas on how to make this next playthrough fresh? Things like challenge runs, different playstyles, etc are all welcome!

I'd also be interested if you've played any games that capture the same vibe as Wind Waker, I've never really played something that's close to capturing the same feeling I get when sailing around the Great Sea and doing random side quests and checking out islands.

Thank you and have a nice day!

I've been using Gillette Mach 3 razors for a few years and Cremo shaving cream, but i figured I'd ask and see if there's any cheaper options that are just as good. So far I haven't found any, but I haven't tried a ton.

Not that Gillette and Cremo are crazy expensive, but there's definitely cheaper options out there and I'm trying to be more frugal, so I figured it couldn't hurt to ask. Thanks!

I recently listened to their episode on eating disorders and I'd like to learn more, all recommendations are welcome! Do they have other episodes that look deeply into eating disorders and people's experiences with them?

I kind of want to confront my own biases a bit, as for me weight loss has been motivated significantly by wanting to be more conventionally attractive, though health concerns also played a major factor. I hadn't considered that a lot of the things I would think about as motivation are the same kinds of things that can lead people to having eating disorders. Before listening to this podcast I also hadn't really considered that certain conversations about weight loss could be triggering to people who weight more, so now if a coworker or friend starts asking me about what worked for me or whatever I'm trying to be a lot more mindful about not triggering any eating disorder or bringing them down.

Thank you and have a nice day!

After the new trailer for Until Dawn 2 came out I checked out the new post credits scene for the remake of the first game (never played the remake). In it, Sam wakes up with a wound that seems to be bleeding weird and isn't related to the Wendigo from the first game as far as I know. Plus she has a book on Creature Myths of the Great Plains. The Wendigo isn't a myth of any groups from the Great Plains, so maybe that indicates Sam is researching or hunting something new.

Finally, Dr. Hill says Sam's voice at the end, so clearly they must be interacting in some way. Maybe after the events of the game they end up talking about Josh and investigating things from there. Or maybe, since Josh survives in the new best ending, Josh introduces them.

However, I also remember Dr. Hill was in the movie and if I remember right his role in the movie was kind of antagonistic and he (if I remember right?) kind of involved with the supernatural stuff going on. Which would be weird if that's canon to the games, since he never actually physically appears in the first game, so in the games at least he doesn't seem to be tied to that mountain or anything except Josh. So I have no idea what his role will be.

But if Sam (and maybe others) are hunting monsters, that provides an easy way to incorporate them into the plot of Until Dawn 2. Maybe they were already investigating supernatural stuff going on in the area. I have a strong hunch that's what's going on. Without spoiling anything about The Quarry, The Quarry was originally planned to be Until Dawn 2 and there's a "heroic" character who joins the gang later in the plot and with very little rewriting, their role could have very easily been an older Sam who is more experienced with fighting the supernatural. Just a wild guess, but that character could have been Sam in the original draft before Supermassive and Sony cut ties and it stopped being related to the Until Dawn IP.

If Sam is hunting monsters, she probably has others with her. In the remake's new post credits scene, she wakes up because of a "work" alarm at 6am and shortly after somebody urgently knocks on her door to make sure she's awake. I'd guess it's somebody who is involved in her work in some way (not necessarily hunting the supernatural, but maybe). It could be Dr Hill, but his voice when he says "Sam" sounds kind of like it's a hallucination or something. I think if she's hunting monsters with others, there's a decent chance we could see other returning characters. In my opinion Dr. Hill is the most likely to be working with her, along with maybe Josh since they gave him an ending where he survived in the remake. I could definitely see some of the other main cast members being involved too.

Let me know what you think! I'd love to hear your thoughts

I've been listening to this podcast for a bit and I think I've learned a lot, but I keep having issues with some of their claims. From looking at some of the studies they mention, it does feel like they're letting their own biases lead them away from acknowledging the potential for weight loss and health impacts associated with having an "unhealthy" BMI. I know BMI is a flawed system, but it's the one used in the studies they cite.

TRIGGER WARNING: I'll probably use the terms that are used in the BMI scale. I'm not American so in my experience, at least when I was fat, it was more common to say "overweight" or "unhealthy weight" than fat. I would have thought "fat" was a more negative word but this podcast seems to show that at least some people prefer the word fat, so figured I should warn.

1. the hosts seem to dismiss the consensus that being overweight as heavily linked to many negative health outcomes. What episodes do they talk more about this? I'm willing to accept I might be wrong but it seems like all studies agree on this. Even though there are overweight people who are metabolically healthy, it's uncommon and they have significantly higher chances than the general population of developing negative health outcomes over the next five years.

I tried to cite a Harvard Health article here but one of the words in the title is banned by this subreddit. You can find it or look further into it if you'd like.

2. they are very dismissive of weight loss as being good and achievable for a lot of people. Of course, nobody is obligated to lose weight or be healthy. I understand that lots of things can be triggering to people with eating disorders, and that as a society we need to be more accepting of fat people. But it's not as impossible as they seem to think. There is a study they repeatedly mention in their podcast where about 95% of participants who tried fad diets ended up regaining the weight over the next several years. Even without considering anything else, that means 1 in 20 attempts succeeded. There are over 200 million overweight Americans, so roughly 10 million people in America alone would have better health outcomes from following these. However, I'm not trying to promote fad diets. The specific diets there aren't necessarily good for you, and generally it's better to make changes you can stick to over time. I think instead of critiquing the idea of weight loss as unattainable, it might be better for a lot of people to talk about research on how to make sustainable positive lifestyle changes that people can stick to for long time frames.

Like personally, when I was trying to lose weight, I found it helped to make gradual changes, like going from 12 subway cookies a day to 6, and eventually 2, and currently I don't usually eat candy outside of Cliff protein bars, fruit, and I guess Popcorners chips sometimes. There are tons of other changes, but I found it helped to make really gradual changes to your existing diet and be more focused on improving health (e.g. eating healthier foods, moving more, finding activity that I enjoyed. PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS AS GUIDANCE, because if you're not careful you might not get enough protein and other nutrients, and if you're in too much of a calorie deficit at one time, this can cause muscle loss.). I recognize this isn't achievable for everyone and I think we should all love ourselves in our current body, but it feels disingenuous for the hosts to repeatedly refer to sustained weight loss as "almost impossible". Again, I'm not saying it's something anybody should feel obligated to do and I think people should be cautious about triggering eating disorders, and of course not everybody is able to do some of the things I said. I'm not a nutritionist or personal trainer, my experiences are just anecdotal. I hope everybody is able to feel as good as is reasonably possible based on their own lives.

But yeah, am I missing something? I am open to the possibility that I'm wrong about something. I've been looking through the podcast episodes and Aubrey's blog posts because I want to learn more about the health data and if I'm wrong about some of this, or if there's things I'm not considering. I apologize if any of this is triggering and if you have any suggestions on things to rephrase, I'll gladly do so and post again with those changes.

Thank you and have a nice day!

What ethics would you consider when watching leaked movies or TV?

I don't really pay for movies or TV much currently, I just watch whatever is included with Prime Video or Roku or is on YouTube. But I've watched leaked movies before and kinda felt bad, even if it's something I wouldn't have actually paid to see in theatres.

Right now there's some show on YouTube that I watched called The Amazing Digital Circus and it's pretty okay, and apparently the final episode was leaked online early. And I was gonna watch it for free on YouTube anyways, so I don't know if there's anything ethically wrong with watching the leaked episode. What do you think?

For any further context in case that matters, I usually ignore ads and just walk away from my phone or the TV when ads are playing, or do something else until the ads are over. I think I've maybe clicked on a single YouTube ad in the past 20 years and generally try not to support any companies I see advertised to me.

Thanks! :)

Over the past month or so I think I've gone through most of the episodes of this show, so I'm looking for other podcasts that might be fun to listen to. I like Ologies with Allie Ward a lot too, so I think that's my recommendation to you.

All podcast suggestions are welcome, they don't need to be the same kind of lightly humourous takes on popular books or whatever. I just enjoyed this podcast so I figure some others who liked it might have similar taste in podcasts to me. Have a nice day!