Last I checked Israel doesn't look anything like that

Even after a couple of Iranian and Yemeni missiles. But sure, keep "both-sidesing" this issue you fucking ghouls

u/FraterPetraAstrum — 10 days ago

I originally posted this on Facebook in a group called "The goddamn liberals are going to get us all killed" which is why I had to censor it. But y'all get the gist, I assume

u/FraterPetraAstrum — 11 days ago

Unable to reset 2019 push button start Ford Fusion TPMS

And it's driving me nuts. None of the fixes I found on the internet work, even disconnecting the battery. The tires are all a little over the suggested PSI (36) but none of them are under, even the one that isn't showing. It's a push button start so I don't think there is a physical reset button. You go to vehicle settings on the Sync entertainment system and there is no "vehicle info" option. The problem is that the flashing tire pressure light is annoying to the point that it is distracting and if I'm not keeping my eyes on the road bad things could happen. I'm 56 years old. I've never needed to be told to check the air pressure in my tires because that's just common sense car maintenance. I honestly wish I could just disable the TPMS because I don't need it. I'm including screenshots that might help

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 1 month ago

I just realized something about Supernatural and a show that inspired it!

So I was watching X-Files (and an episode with Jim Beaver in it!) and I realized where I've seen the 'believing in all kinds of weird shit but not God or Angels' thing that Sam and Dean are all about in the early seasons before: Fox Mulder. Dude investigates and has cases about vampires, werewolves, aliens, etc, but give him a case about stigmata or angels or anything else tied to Christianity and he just flat refuses to believe it, just like Sam and Dean. I think there's an episode where someone is possessed and he doesn't believe that either because the existence of demons implies the existence of angels? Has anyone else made this connection before?

Also, why don't "fanworks" or news/misc count as flairs? I always have to pick a season and yet this isn't about any particular season

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 2 months ago

This show is fun but it's also maddening

Like, there are these impossibly evil villains and the good guys keep giving them a pass OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. Regina literally mass murdered god knows how many people in in the Enchanted Forest and when Snow White saw that she was enraged and her reaction was the correct reaction: that bitch has to die. There's no forgiving people who do genocide.

But it gets even worse: Snow White kills someone who was determined to murder her and everyone she loves and FEELS GUILTY. I think the correct emotion you should feel after you've killed someone utterly dangerous to you and your loved ones is RELIEF. Regina teaming with Cora was whack: Cora killed your one true love in front of you, you don't become pals with someone like that.

It just makes me scream at the screen every time Henry is all like "There's good in (impossibly evil villain) we should save them!!"

Just one example: King George gets his memory back and literally tells David/Charming to his face he's going to destroy his life. Dude should have cuffed him, drove him to the edge of town in his cruiser, and tossed him onto the other side of the line. The guy would lose his memory and thus be harmless.

Sheesh

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 2 months ago

Most annoying character. Who and why. GO!

Who do you feel is the most annoying character and why? (No single name answers)

I remember some people talking about some know-it-all teenager hunter wannabe but I binge-watched the whole thing in less than 30 days so I'm not sure who that is. The Ghostfacers guys are annoying because they're the bad kind of nerd. (The opposite of Sam or Charlie)

But to me, the most annoying character is Lucifer. The dude is 100,000 years old or something but acts like a petulant child and a clown. He's sardonic and quirky in ways that are unbefitting of an ancient deity. And it's also kind of like Mark Pellegrino just played Paul Bennett (Rita' abusive ex-husband on Dexter) again. Whenever he was onscreen I just wanted to skip that scene.

Of course all this can be said about Chuck, but Lucifer was just not written very well. (I'll add that the only version of Lucifer I've seen that acted their age was on Sandman. The Lucifers from Lucifer and Hazbin Hotel are equally corny but not equally annoying.

Of course this is only my opinion and I don't expect anyone to agree or disagree because that's not what this post is about. I want to hear from YOU. Who is your most annoying character and most importantly, why?

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 2 months ago

So who do you think is the funniest character (other than Sam and Dean themselves)

There are definitely some characters who are put into the show for comedic relief - Ash, Garth, Crowley - but for me it's Crowley's mum Rowena. Every time she's onscreen I'm cracking up.

I would say second place goes to Cass, but it's unintentional humor, like the look on his face when he completely doesn't get a pop culture reference and then when he does he assigns FBI names like "Agents Aguilera and Spears" because Sam and Dean always use rock icons as FBI names - people from Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, etc

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 2 months ago

I'm sure I'm not the first person to ask this...

But how is it that hunters like Sam and Dean are so insistent that things like God or Angels or Heaven don't exist (in the first couple of seasons?)

They literally hunt demons from Hell.

The existence of one clearly implicates the existence of the other.

And I know they don't believe in angels because they've never encountered one before but throughout the show they are introduced to all kinds of things they've never encountered before. That's why they have to "study the lore" sometimes to get a bead on whatever it is they're hunting.

I'm just sayin' - the existence of Hell clearly indicates the existence of Heaven.

EDIT: there is one comment here that has made sense. Demons exist in so many different religions and myths. So "Angels of the Christian God" might not exist. Like, there are thousands of past religions (what we call 'myths') but Christians think their god is the only one that exists?

Cmon, now

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 2 months ago

On season 12 and I just thought of something...

How much shotgun ammo Hunters could save if they just brought in spray bottles or water guns filled with saline (salt water). I mean, definitely still bring the shotguns, but a spray bottle can be squirted across a room dozens of times. Also, same for holy water. I can't believe the writers for this show - seeing as how they love comedy - didn't arm Sam and Dean with little plastic water guns.

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 2 months ago

Who else loves Charlie Bradbury as much as me?

She reminds me of my teenage years as a computer/D&D/LARPing nerd. But more than that, I love that she's basically a womanizing and dirty girl for other girls.

The scene in "LARP and the Real Girl" where Sam tells Dean and Charlie that the dude who died in police holding died from belladonna and Charlie and Dean both say "The porn star?" at the same time is hilarious. (Especially since Belladonna the porn star is kind of a feminist icon to a lot of women in the same way Sasha Grey is, who is also mentioned in season 8)

I really hope she shows up more. She's awesome.

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 2 months ago

These boys have TERRIBLE communications skills.

I'm sure others here can think of many more examples, but I just watched the episode where the fruitcake hunter Martin is so determined to kill Dean's vampire friend Benny, that Martin threatens to kill Benny's (human) great-grand daughter, who Benny loves, so of course Benny has no choice but to take Martin out to save an innocent life.

But when Dean decides to explain this to Sam, instead of telling Sam the full details of what went down, he simply tells Sam that Martin "had it coming." Which does not give Sam any context for the situation. Like, how hard could it have been for Dean to tell Sam "Martin threatened to slit the throat of the waitress and relative Benny cared about. What would YOU have done if Martin did the same thing to Amelia?" (Sam's current love interest)

Also, did Sam have a brain transplant? He was the one who insisted on letting the animal-blood drinking vamps go in a way earlier season, sending Gordon on a psychopathic murder spree. He was OK with letting the videocamera movie werewolf girl go. What is his problem with Benny, of all people?

If DEAN. YES, DEAN WINCHESTER is cool with letting a vamp live, I would think that's about the highest recommendation a vamp could get.

I think Sam is still just pissed about the kitsune Amy Pond - and he has every right to be - but seeing Sam so full of bloodlust, especially for someone who "left the life" seems out of character

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 3 months ago

Why does Meg Masters continue to be called Meg Masters?

Meg Masters was the name of the original host. But probably not the name of the actual demon. After all, Lucifer and Cass didn't go by their host's names. So why isn't Meg called something like Chronozon or Tiamat or Agrat Bat Mahlat? (look that last one up, you won't be disappointed.)

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 3 months ago

Is it just me, or does it seem like Dean has a really low opinion of Sam's strength and abilities?

I'm on Season 6 and Dean seems to be the only one who thinks Sam needs his soul back. Soulless Sam is not only a more effective Hunter, he's actually way funnier, too. The stuff that comes out of his mouth is unintentionally hilarious, especially his rationale for boning the hippie chick in the X-Files episode about the Fae.

Dean is SO invented in getting Sam's soul back, when Sam doesn't want it back, he backs Sam into a corner and Sam tries to do something desperate to "taint" his host body so it won't even hold a soul. THEN Dean has himself killed and makes YET ANOTHER "DEAL" with LITERALLY DEATH HIMSELF. Like, just leave Sam be, amirite?

Secondly, the whole "demon blood" thing. I have to admit Ruby had me fooled, but Azazel giving Sam near godlike powers to exorcize demons with his mind therefore preventing Sam from having to kill countless human hosts, was something Dean should have seen as a GOOD thing. Because the way they usually go about things leaves a trail of dead bodies that would have made serial killers envious. I suppose when you look at it like an addiction it's bad, but if you use the analogy of demons being actual physical pain, then Dean is forcing Sam to get by on aspirin rather than morphine, which is a thousand times for effective.

But all this aside, Dean just seems to have a low opinion of about everybody. Maybe he matures and stops being such a dick in later seasons, but I still remember the episode about the ghost that only targets bullies and Dean winds up being targeted because he's "a dick." I rest my case.

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 3 months ago

I thought all hunters had tats or some other thing to prevent demonic possession...

So how did Bobby get possessed in the first episode of season five "Sympathy For The Devil." I would think a hunter in his 60s would have made sure that was impossible a very long time ago. Dean and Sam have demon-possession-preventing tattoos (and the goth girl who runs the publishing company that puts out the Sam and Dean novels has one tattooed on her ass, which is both funny but also kind of cool) so you'd think a man 30 years their senior would have taken permanent precautions years before they were even born

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 3 months ago

In the episode "Heart" when the boys are being aggressively chased by the FBI

Madison probably had Sam's DNA all over her. And it was completely unnecessary and even cruel.

The boys should have given her advice, not a bullet.

Like, take a lesson from The Vampire Diaries. Get yourself a strong cage and someone you trust. Have them lock you inside. They don't let you out (except during the day) until the full moon has passed.

Easy-peasy.

That pissed me off so much. Especially since the character was played by Emmanuelle Vaugier, who played The Morrigan on the TV show LOST GIRL and is a total smoke show

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u/FraterPetraAstrum — 3 months ago