S5E1, why was the meth switched out?

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?

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u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 7 hours ago

Any music that you feel has a similar vibe as "Homies Over Hoes" from The Boondocks?

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

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u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 11 days ago

In this wide shot, I don't need to see anyone's mouth moving, how can I tell which guys are talking?

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

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u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 13 days ago

[Comic Excerpt] Do we ever get later confirmation on whether that one time Batman finally broke, his trauma was offloaded onto Superman? (Action Comics #770)

This is from the end of the Emperor Joker storyline, once everything's been fixed, Hal Jordan as Spectre says someone needs to be more than mortal to handle the kinds of things Batman was put through. On the one hand it seems clear that Supes is saying he's gonna take on the load, but at the end of the comic it seems to be a slight implication it was sent back to the Joker

There's a grand total of two times this was discussed, that I could find on reddit at least, and both times the conclusion seems to have been that it was Superman who took on the load, citations for solid proof of that pretty much start and end at a reference to the Kyle Rayner Ion saga in the Green Lantern series, plus the observation from u/TotallyNotSuperman(Sorry for dragging ya back into this ancient argument, saying "some guy" felt more disrespectful) that Spectre said one has to WILLINGLY take on the load, which likely rules out Joker, and it makes sense for the rest of the scene because if Spectre could've given it to the Joker he would've just done it rather than stress the magnitude of the price

On the other hand, I've scoured the Ion saga in the GL series from that time, and Supes seems to have had only one appearance, wherein he cautions Kyle on overstepping by taking on too much responsibility now that he has godly powers. No mention of Emperor Joker, if anything he's suggesting the opposite of what he did. For every comic series the Emperor Joker storyline happened in, the comics immediately after those issues have Supes seeming pretty alright for someone who just absorbed something heavy enough to break the Batman. Plus, Spectre's all about poetic justice, most of the sins committed by the Joker in that storyline seem reversed except for Batman's trauma, it would've been fitting that Joker's punishment was to bear the weight of all of it on Batman's behalf

Easiest way to resolve this is to find just ONE panel in any other comic that confirms it, does anyone know anywhere that can be found?

u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 19 days ago
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Was this just an easter egg or are there in-universe Avengers databases that sorta break the fourth wall?

For those without context, Avengers vol.1 #224 back in the 80s was when Tony Stark and Janet Van Dyne first started a relationship, and here we see Jocasta, Ultron's ex-wife, accessing "Avengers files 224" to see where Tony's memories are coming from (image from Tony Stark: Iron Man #4)

u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 22 days ago

How do I make my dog wary of someone he's made a good impression on again?

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

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u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 25 days ago

Does this even qualify as a Rondo or is it a Fugue? Can something be both?

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

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u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 26 days ago

Anyone know what this Fugue is called?

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

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u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 26 days ago

How do you suppose Zemo and Cap found out about Bucky's involvement in the Starks' murder?

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

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u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 27 days ago

Shazam recognises the song itself but not a clip, so it isn't a microphone issue, but what could be causing the confusion?

So this song by Comanche, when played by itself, is recognised within less than a second, but this clip it couldn't comprehend, starting at that timestamp in particular

I could say that perhaps it's because it's pitched up or down or distorted in some way, but Shazam's been able to recognise a song playing at low volume through mall speakers during rush hour when there's a minimum of five people shouting their heads off at any given time, I myself could barely tell if music was playing at all. It's never had issues with music playing out of ancient earphones that sound like music being played through a mile-long tin can, or an ancient car radio which was similarly janky

It also stumped SoundHound, though that's pretty hit-or-miss in general

So what could be the issue? Even if the issue is known, can anything be done about it?

u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 2 months ago

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

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u/MyPasswordIsLondon69 — 2 months ago