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Y'know the feeling, yer reading a book, maybe it's been taking up the majority of your afternoon, suddenly the author goes off on a tangent meticulously detailing this epic feast spread out for the characters, and it almost bums you out cuz now you've got an appetite worked up, but you've only got last night's Chinese takeout to try and abate it. How well do you reckon you can torture your reader?

Details surrounding your meal can be as sparse or elaborate as you'd like, maybe you wanna set the stage a bit to really drive home how satisfying the food's gonna be, maybe you wanna get right to the meat and potatoes of it, so to speak

In Dead Man's Chest, Jack's compass was malfunctioning, and he's indecisive, Tia Dalma correctly guesses that Jack Sparrow either doesn't know what he wants, or knows, but is loath to claim it as his own. Given he was looking for the key to the dead man's chest, he'd probably been thinking about his impending deadline with Davy Jones, which is probably what got him indecisive, but how did that happen? He seems pretty decisive once he gets the black spot; get to land as quick as possible, forget the hat that fell in the water, there's no time to retrieve it

The prevalent theory I see posed online is that he wanted Elizabeth Swann and couldn't claim her because she's Will Turner's, but the compass was malfunctioning well before Will and Elizabeth re-entered the picture, before which he seemed to view them as friends, not particularly pining for Elizabeth as we see with "it would've never worked out between us" and "I want you to know, mate, I was rooting for you", and the compass was working just fine right after that in the first movie. It was already malfunctioning at the start of the second movie, presumably immediately before or after he stole the drawing of the key from that dungeon-prison, my guess is after, right after the compass led him to the drawing, and the crew saying "Has Captain Jack been acting strange....-er?" either indicates he's been tense the whole time leading up to it or was already indecisive for a while by then

The next theory I see tossed around, though rightfully dismissed pretty much immediately, is that he wants to be the Flying Dutchman's captain but couldn't quite decide if he wanted to sacrifice his life on land, but he didn't seem to show any interest in that, nor any knowledge that such a thing would happen, until he was resurrected and broken out of the Locker, see "death has a way of rearranging one's priorities". An argument could be made he was indecisive, and dying finally made him choose, but the compass started to work again once he was about to find the chest, so its contents don't seem to influence the indecisiveness, and pretty much everyone who was looking for the chest planned on using it to threaten Jones rather than replace him

Another answer I've seen is that he desires to sail the seas a free man, continuing to be a pirate, captain of the Black Pearl, and.....yeah, that's probably exactly what he wants, but that's way too broad, the compass points to specific things that work to fulfill your overall desires. It doesn't point to bottles of rum because for a moment Jack's desire for freedom is overridden by his alcoholism, he wants to be a free man and as a free man he wants to drink rum

It's also my pet theory that this is why it points to Jack when Elisabeth uses it, not because she has any repressed romantic feelings towards Jack, she probably likes him a lot but he isn't her ideal man by any stretch of the imagination, it's just that he's good company and has his own sort of charm, similar reasons as anyone else who likes him. And more to the point, he's probably the only person who can reunite her with Will, so the compass is basically saying "stick with Jack, you'll get to Will eventually", which is also why Jack correctly guesses instantly that the chest is buried where Elizabeth is sitting when it points towards her, even if he liked her in that way the compass is pointing towards something useful rather than just broadly gesturing at his desires

The most immediate for me is a visual one, probably not a widely-accepted visual anyways, but I always imagine comic Wade's skin to constantly be changing, reddening, opening sores, then closing them, not really like boiling, more like Rorshach's mask, just with asymmetric fleshy-bloody wounds instead of ink. One thing I think of is how people described his fingerprints, like someone went back to every individual fingerprint and smudged them differently, a single finger doesn't look the same twice, so they can't even log any for evidence as just a weird-looking fingerprint. Also the fact that he can't write anything inside his mask because permanent marker can't stand up to all the pus and blood. Basically, he's said to be a continuously healing living tumor, I tend to imagine that being visible even when he isn't injured. I figure they don't depict him like that in moving media because (1) that adds an extra animation step, which sucks for everyone, and (2) despite being unsightly, he's still the overly chatty hero, he can't be absolutely repulsive, and diseased skin constantly moving around would turn some stomachs

Another thing that doesn't usually translate is his tactical approach to problems, which is to say, with no tactic at all. Part of what tells us Deadpool's insane is that he'll just come up with a ridiculous and usually immensely violent scheme on the spot that somehow has a chance of working. Even skilled tacticians like Wolverine and Cable get slightly worried when Wade's coming after them because he can't be predicted; Logan took a gamble and went specifically to Wade when he was up against an enemy who anticipated his every move. The Deadpool Corps started because an Elder of the universe saw that a group of Deadpools egging each other on and validating each other's ideas would be unstoppable just from their sheer chaos. In the movies he does scheme, and it does feel like improv Deadpool chaos sometimes, but the rest of the time they're framed as goofy and juvenile, which is still accurate, but you don't get the sense of "holy shit, we're all gonna die" that people around him seem to get when he has an idea. The video games do a much better job at this, it's kinda part of the main experience of the game itself; you're Deadpool trying to do something, and you manage that in the most ridiculous possible way, but if ya ask me they haven't matched the comics until you get a God of War Kratos level of insanity at minimum

There's also his tendency to improvise song parodies which........y'know, I'm fine with not having to hear that

Badger drove Skinny's car to the border to throw the cops off, but later Jesse calls his parents to come pick him up at the park, which emptied the house and sent the cops to follow the Pinkmans, so Mexico's seemingly going to be ruled out unless the cops think he had the impulse to prank call his parents while on the run, and given it's such a big manhunt, his remaining misdirects were severely limited, down to zero as it turned out

The definite point where he dropped off the radar was when he arrived at Ed's place with the money, but where would the cops have hit the brick wall? We know from deleted scenes and trailers that Skinny Pete got interrogated, but he doesn't seem to have given them any information of value

I often see comments on S1 clips about how Nacho used to be terrifying till Hector, Gus, and Lalo turned him into a pussycat, but I usually retort that he was terrifying all the way until his death, we just got to see his more private moments in later seasons and came to realise that the high functioning criminal is also a terrified young man who grew even more terrified when every step he took away from cartel activities only dragged him closer

One example I cite is how while he scared Jimmy into thinking he'd kill him at the drop of a hat, every time we see him actually move to kill someone he agonises over it and sweats bullets, but of course those murders were either high ranking cartel members or people trying to kill him. Being close to the Salamanca operation, not to mention Tuco's right hand man, he'd probably seen more than his fair share of brutal murders, but was he a willing and active participant? He calls the Salamancas "psycho sacks of shit", so he definitely wasn't alright with what prolific murderers they were

So if Nacho's not a cold blooded murderer, maybe he's taken some lives in self defense, but how large is the scope of "self defense" with the path he chose? Did he participate in gang warfare actively as a soldier? If he did he certainly wasn't on the front lines, the one time we see him do that it's another agonized decision that he bites the bullet on to gain Salamanca trust

Then did he plan to kill other people he felt threatened by? He certainly gave Jimmy that impression, but taking his attitude towards death when it didn't come to cartel members, he seems a bit passive. Jimmy's fears about him hurting the Kettleman children seem to have been misplaced, Nacho was sloppy, but he was pretty confident in his burglary abilities, and while we don't see him interact with kids much, he doesn't strike me someone who'd hurt them if a robbery goes wrong. The time Mike brings up how they're all in trouble if Pryce takes matters to the cops, Nacho wants to wash his hands of the matter, killing Pryce is the farthest thing from his mind, which Mike seems to accurately clock. When hearing Jimmy' own anxieties when Lalo enlists him, he tells him he's in whether he likes it or not in an almost sympathetic tone, but that may just come from his own frustration of being unable to leave

For the uninitiated, Narnia from the C.S.Lewis books was created from Aslan's song in The Magician's Nephew, and in its early days the song was still in the air, so the land was like, über-fertile

Jadis, the White Witch, threw a bar of metal she ripped from a London lamp post on the ground, and it grew into a full lamp post with a light that would never go out. Gold and silver coins that fell on the floor grew living trees of solid gold and silver. Later a piece of toffee was buried, and it grew into a tree that had white, papery leaves, presumably like the stuff you wrapped toffee in, extremely dark wood, and small brown fruits that weren't exactly toffee, since they were soft and juicy, but the fruit reminded you of toffee, so I'm guessing stuff like flavour, mouth-feel, aftertaste, so on and so forth, more like the VIBE of a toffee

There were also the silver apple trees, the first one seems to have always existed in Narnia, it had apples that smelled incredible and were shiny, but had surprisingly dark juice, and if you ate them selfishly they'd grant your heart's desire but make you miserable, so because Jadis was already a bitter person when she ate it, she got immortality and infinite stamina but also now had to live with herself forever. A silver apple from this tree grew another one, which also had silver apples, and smelled awesome to everyone but Jadis, who kinda got PTSD from it

In a way, it does seem like Narnia itself at this point in time was slightly sentient, which is hard to fully explain unless you've read the book(which I do recommend, it's not very long). So it's more in the realm of "how does biodiversity manifest in early Narnia?" as well as "what would Narnia decide to grow here?"

The question spawned from a discussion on what would happen, given Narnia's already a kinda trippy story, if The Magician's Nephew took place in the 70s not long after Woodcrest, and a hippie buried a tab of acid in the ground. In case you want the tab of acid as a starting point to build your idea on, let's say it's just your generic tab of acid; small square of blotter paper with psychedelic art on it(pop culture inspired, maybe), dosed for maybe 150-170μg, a heavy trip but relatively not too extreme. It felt a bit too easy to just say it ended up an apple-type tree with fruits that made you trip balls, that doesn't seem in keeping with the spirit of the story, at the very least it'd have a bunch more quirks. Other items could be a metal Coca-Cola bottlecap, a loaded revolver, pharmaceutical aspirin(specifically because aspirin was originally from white willow bark extract), a cigarette, a AAA battery, two plastic Vegas dice, any whole dead creature vs just a body part, and a cutting-edge CPU microchip. This assumes the item just fell down randomly with no intent, or failing that, that the people burying this stuff are chill with Aslan, well-intentioned protagonists who have no malicious intent burying these things

So Lalo's on the scene and pretty quickly finds parts of Fring's operation that don't add up, and the first bit of compelling evidence he finds is the meth Nacho picks up from the chicken farm being mixed in with other meth, which he verifies by inspecting it thoroughly and taking a few quick bumps

We know from earlier that Gus has finally started mixing cartel batches with locally sourced meth after secretly sabotaging their smuggling operation and having Gale test some samples, so it's fairly clear WHERE the meth is from, but WHY is it there?

Presumably Gus is positioning himself so he can make money free of cartel supply without seeming too suspicious, but it wouldn't make any sense for Bolsa to hide supply chain issues that reflect poorly on the Salamancas while also making less cash, and in any case that can't be his excuse for this particular batch of meth being switched because when he's asked to explain himself, he lies to Bolsa and Lalo that the missing Salamanca meth was stolen by Werner, and Gus' admission says that the meth was inferior in quality, which seems to be verified by Lalo's nose

So what's the real reason he gave them inferior meth? Given the elaborate lie he told, it's clearly part of his wider plans against the cartel, but how does giving the Salamancas inferior meth, which goes to dealers and gets mixed in with cartel meth anyways, further his agenda?

Basically songs that have a focus on something, that if you scrutinize closer and choose a particular perspective on, seems to be revealing an embarassing truth about the musician

For those unaware, an episode of the Boondocks has a gangsta rapper, revealed to be secretly gay in the previous season, dropping a new hit "Homies Over Hoes" which catches on like wildfire even though for those who know the subtext it's just straight up gay, which is later reinforced by having said rapper start a fashion trend that everyone trying to be gangsta thinks goes hard as hell, but the people not plugged in to the media just see young guys turning into twinks

The song itself is presented as a mix of bros-before-hoes and too-busy-making-money-to-chase-women attitudes, and I was wondering if similar songs exist for hardcore rap or other music genres where the musicians want to project a particular image of themselves, stuff that seems like bravado typical to the genre, but due to the narrowing and doubling down on one specific perspective, if you recontextualise them, they seem to be revealing a funny truth about the musician

Of course, I say "you feel has a similar vibe" in the question because it can be quite subjective, just any song that comes to mind which you can assign an entertaining subtext to

More than that, at the start of the timestamp I could also kinda tell at which points on screen the sounds were supposed to be coming from

Obviously to some degree it's just clever framing and pacing, directing my eyes to where I oughta expect the sound to be coming from, but even for that I'm not sure what cues I'm following

Can't be left and right audio tracks either, I was watching this through a phone speaker, I also ran a stereo test with closed eyes in case they've somehow made the left speaker used for quieter phone calls try and pull double duty, and I'm fairly certain I can't differentiate left from right by audio alone

My dog's a very anxious sort, and it's a big problem with him, but he's the sweetest thing ever once you've made a proper introduction, and while most times I want him to get along with everyone, the single thing I like about his difficulty with people is he's got a rudimentary sense of stranger danger, given the amount of people in my location who either steal dogs away or build relationships with them so they don't raise the alarm when they burgle a house, I'm more than okay with that inconvenience

There's been this guy who helps my upstairs neighbors out with cleaning, he sees the dog often and they have a very basic rapport, the dog gets excited seeing someone he recognises who he's allowed to pet him before, but I wouldn't say they're friends, heard the dog growling at him one of the days he was here cleaning, I'm guessing he was trying to do something with the crate(it's a large cage with a door 6x7ft profile, 5ft tall), maybe nothing overtly shady but just resting his hands on the crate would've done it. Overall I think the guy's a bit of a creep who can't entirely be trusted, and I think my dog's picked up on that vibe from me before, so he mirrors my wariness to some degree

He's been bugging me lately every time he sees me while we're on a walk about letting him walk my dog as a side gig, and maybe he's not a criminal but he's unnervingly over-eager to say the least. The first time he pitched it, it seemed benign, he just floated it as an idea, presumably because he's strapped for cash, and I lied about "I'll think about it"(my dog's difficult in many ways but I like walking him myself, and as I said, someone so eager to handle him when his default is somewhat abrasive raises some red flags), but as I said, most times I want my dog to get along with people, so on that same walk he asked if he could hold the leash for a moment, and I obliged, I was also running an errand while on that walk and was happy to have the free hand, but then I asked him to hand it back and he fought me over it, had to yank the leash away from him, he followed with a sheepish apology and we went our separate ways. Best case scenario, he's desperate for cash and really wanted to prove he had the chops, worst case scenario he values building rapport with this dog for something shady

Lately my mother has taken to walking the dog in the early mornings, and she ran into the guy, and he pitched it again. I dunno if mom's more trusting of folks or he lied about the activity having precedent, (maybe she was just relieved the dog was getting along with someone, remember he's problematically anxious by default) whatever the case he got his wish and he walked the dog a decent way before I caught wind of this and marched out to grab him

But the damage has been done, so to speak, they're friends now, with or without our permission he could try and get him to do something or go somewhere with him, and the dog's gonna play along happily. Is there any way to de-introduce them? If not, how might I go about making sure the dog's not susceptible to being charmed by shady characters? All this time I've been working on the exact opposite, to try and make it so he warms up to anyone he meets, nobody wants to be the owner of a "yes, he bites, so sorry, keep a distance" dog

I've been hunting for this clip of music titled "Rondo in D Minor" for a while, a secondary task to finding the name of a brief music piece, and after coming up empty handed in searches I took it upon myself to put at least one copy out on the interwebs, but I'm unsure if I've made a mistake during my archival

It's odd that the music seems so absent, it was composed for a relatively popular series, and the rest of the soundtrack from that particular episode has been uploaded online numerous times

So I'm like, 90% sure this is the actual name of the clip, but I'm not sure why it's being called a Rondo, it's not like any Rondo I've ever heard, but then again I've not got a decent intuition as to what constitutes a Rondo. If it isn't a Rondo, however, then it's odd that they named it as such, shakes my confidence a bit that I've put the proper music and name together, perhaps it's already been uploaded numerous times under its proper name

I'm not even entirely certain it qualifies as a Fugue, I notice polyphony but for all I know the criteria for a Fugue requires a more specific kind of polyphony

Hell, I've not even got a good enough ear to confidently say it's in D Minor

As for credits: in any case, both the song, "Rondo in D Minor" and whatever this music is were composed by Brian Reitzell and possibly Dave Palmer(Palmer had a hand in "Rondo in D Minor", if this isn't the same music then I'm not sure if he had a hand in it), composed particularly for the Hannibal TV series, second season, sixth episode, episode title "Futamono"

Preemptively I'll say here I did go through the larger original piece composed for that episode, also titled Futamono, which I believe has been explicitly called a Fugue, and I welcome anyone to try and find this 40-second clip somewhere in its 9-minute entirety, but I sure haven't been able to do so

From Futamono, 13:34 minutes in, presumably a Brian Reitzell original, but I can't find it anywhere in the 9-minute Futamono released for the soundtrack, maybe someone here who has a more discerning ear would wanna go through it, but I've gone through it a few times and if it's in there it's pretty damn well-hidden

So if it ain't here....where is it? A transcription of an existing piece? Maybe just unrecognised in the credits, but that seems an odd thing to do

The question stems from the fact that both they and Tony would've had access to the same information; the leaked S.H.I.E.L.D files alongside the Hydra files. Zemo because he patiently decrypted them, Cap and Tony because Tony would've decrypted those himself for the Hydra-busting spree in Age of Ultron, all of them would've come across the information

Zemo spent the first half of the movie looking for the mission report from that day, which probably means it wasn't in the leaked files, he killed that Hydra guy at the start because he was looking for conclusive evidence, so his own would've been extrapolated evidence, which might also be how Cap knew

I'm guessing they extrapolated that Bucky killed the Starks based on the fact that S.H.I.E.L.D definitely knew it was at least an assassination based on the missing super soldier serum, and the missing pieces to the puzzle were that (1)despite the serum being of importance to Hydra, the case was never in their leaked files, (2)because the Winter Soldier was their top operative at the time, he was likely the assassin, (3)despite being among their most valuable assets, Bucky's missions weren't in the files, suggesting they were mostly analog and tucked away somewhere, which turned out to be the bunker

But there's loads of assumptions in that idea. Was the serum even on Hydra's agenda? How could they be so sure Bucky was the go-to for this stuff? To fly under Tony's radar this had to be really fragmented evidence that Cap was able to put together purely because he focused on Bucky, and Zemo put together looking for points of conflict, but at the very least surely Tony found out it wasn't an accident, that alone would've set him off and maybe attract his focus

Presently around 12 in the morning where I'm at, 7th May

I was riding home and the moon seemed to be in a weird phase where it was a crescent, but from the top-down instead of more side-to-side, and as I kept irresponsibly staring at it while driving at highway speeds, the giant circle that was turning it into a crescent consumed it whole and left not a sliver behind, left the sky absolutely moonless. Unsure if it popped back out, I spent the rest of my ride home with eyes on the road, but at least for three minutes the sky was moonless

To add to that, it was a strong red fading into orange(and presumably orange into white if I'd noticed it earlier), and got redder before it disappeared

And I'm less sure of this detail, but it seemed bigger than usual too

I'm in South India , if that makes any difference, ~78N 17E, I was facing eastward, maybe slightly southeast

So what happened? Am I just missing reports of a lunar eclipse due to poor searching or did some funky clouds pull a fast one on me? Because if it's the latter, they pulled off a masterful performance. Was it even the moon at all? For all I know the actual moon was behind me and I was staring at a giant luminescent weather balloon