u/MythicalSplash

I’m thinking of chocolate and cheese in particular. There are others as well, though. My theory is that in melted form, the already delicious components, fat and sugar activate the taste buds more quickly and easily than if you were to eat them in solid form and have to wait a bit longer for chewing and saliva to dissolve them so you can taste them. I’m far from certain about that, though. Any other thoughts?

The screams Hank makes when he’s seriously hurt are some of the most realistic voice acting of all time. I’m thinking in particular of the pain he’s in from his Diminished Gluteal Syndrome as well as when Bobby kicks him in the nuts. There’s something so realistic about those screams of pain that the sound gets to me in a way that nothing else can, making me cringe and shudder - no matter how many times I see those episodes!

Pain is one of the hardest things to capture realistically in either cartoon or live-action form, along with genuine sadness/sobbing. I’ve always thought that both of these things sound faked even when it comes from an otherwise competent actor. But Judge as Hank is one of the extremely few talented people who are able to pull it off. What do you all think?

You know, something that actually does world building that gets into the real details of what’s going on, how and why.

For anyone who doesn’t know, that’s the one off Chilcotin at the top of the cliff, and that overlooks much of the city - downtown included. I always knew that it would be a relatively decent place to watch if one wants to avoid the crazy crowds and parking downtown, but I went there yesterday for the very first time (for that purpose, I mean).

I was actually quite shocked; it was so busy, there was no parking at all in the lot (of course) but also on the local streets! It was jam-packed with vehicles, and I had to go a significant distance away from the park to get a spot. There must have been a couple hundred people there at LEAST, including dozens of children and families.

Many people chose to sit in the long grass and set up a little camp there as though it were an outdoor theater! More were standing along the fencing despite waiting 20 minutes or more for the show to start. Throngs of people crowded the pathways to the parking lot when the show was over, and trying to drive out of my spot was very difficult with dozens of people on all sides walking back to their own cars.

I don’t know exactly what I expected, but I suppose I thought very roughly that there could be anywhere from just a handful of people wanting to avoid downtown, to maybe two or three dozen at its busiest. That made me wonder if that particular spot has been growing in popularity or if it was always well-known as a good viewing location when wanting to see the show, but being unwilling to brave the thousands of people downtown.

Did anyone else see them from a distance at a different location and if so, how busy would you say it was there?

Edit: I forgot to mention that it was so windy up there, I thought the fireworks would be cancelled for sure. They did that a couple years ago for less wind than what we saw last night. Maybe it was just that one spot since it’s higher up and very open looking toward the west? If it was that windy downtown by the lake, I’m amazed that they actually went ahead with it.

Please hear me out!

For one thing, it’s a very good movie in its own right; it sticks relatively close to the source material and captures it exceptionally well in my opinion. The scary parts are genuinely quite scary, and helps keep the movie from feeling too much like a kiddie G-rated affair. The voice acting is quite good - particularly Dakota Fanning. But above all, despite it being an adaptation of a young adult horror story, I somehow find it incredibly cozy!

Maybe it’s the endearing art style (another triumph of the film) as well as the very real and down to earth way Fanning played Coraline. In short, she actually FEELS like she’s a child - with acting and mannerisms believable for that age. So many movies miss the mark when it comes to child actors; I find they often end up feeling either like adult characters, or simply not believable. Coraline is a big exception to this trend.

The dynamic between Coraline and her family is another area they got bang on. Their relationship was a loving one, but had some fairly serious problems as well. Just as one would expect in a real life family. Her parents don’t often have time for her, they don’t understand her child’s imagination, they work hard and are often too tired to play, and in a similar way, tend to only cook basic or relatively unappealing meals likely due to this lack of time. It’s easy to see what draws Caroline into the other world initially.

Yet when she eventually experiences character growth enough to fully understand that her parents DO love her dearly, she almost immediately repudiates the other family despite the delicious food and attention they lavish upon her. Of course the prospect of having buttons sewn into her eyes obviously played a major factor in this, I really think she would make the same choice even if this ghastly ritual weren’t required.

All of this may be true, but I still don’t know if I really pinpointed the essence of what makes the movie work so well. What do you guys think?

For example, I might get it into my head that because a friend isn’t texting me back and that’s unusual, I must have said something offensive or whatever and ruined the friendship. Then I can’t stop thinking about it the rest of the day, feeling more and more anxious as time goes by with no reply. But then not wanting to send another because it would only strengthen the anxiety if there were no reply to that.

That’s just one of many examples of what I’m talking about, I can’t stop thinking about certain things. But the very worst of all is anxiety about getting anxiety. What it often comes down to is that I am so scared of the horrible physical and mental symptoms that come with severe anxiety or panic attacks that so much of my initial anxiety is worrying about this, and how anxious I’ll get, how bad it will get, before something occurs that either negates my original rumination, or I start focussing on something else… usually just as bad.

It’s really, really, really, really horrific having to live this way, constantly feeling that just being alive is too much for me to handle and nothing but suffering with anxiety like this. That’s particularly the case since my anxiety gives me severe insomnia. More often than not, I’m alone with my thoughts eating me alive, and without even the prospect of sleep as short-term relief. Even if I CAN manage to sleep for a few hours, the anxiety often pervades even my dreams, so I feel anxious and upset even while asleep. It’s a cruel, cruel joke. Even though I’m not anxious all the time, I keep getting periods like this that can last for hours to days.

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone else? For some reason, I don’t often see people discussing it in this way and it makes me think that maybe it’s just me, or at least it’s relatively rare for me to have gotten myself into a hole so deep and full of suffering like this.

Or any kind of business similar to MegaLo Mart?

4 separate soul pieces:

1. ⁠Harry himself
2. ⁠Voldemort
3. ⁠Nagini
4. ⁠Slytherin’s locket

Nobody likes you, nobody thinks you’re cool or rebellious, and there’s a certain episode of South Park relating to you that you really should see.

Get lost.

You know that point where finally, after dozens of hours and 90 levels, you finally find the right gear so everything just clicks in place?? You notice you stop dying, at least relatively often. You stop needing potions and see your belt filling with full rejuvenation potions. Your resistances are maxed, then over-maxed with your gear. You start finding even rarer gear and high level runes because you’re able to waste so many monsters at once. It’s great.

I was getting skeptical that it would ever happen because I’d always end up getting killed whenever I finally neared the next level. I always had to compromise with my gear - FCR or resistances? Maximum magic find? Defense? But at the singularity, it all finally comes together….and then it all becomes one. You’re simply a killing machine, and nothing and nobody short of the Ubers is ever going to touch you again ❤️.

I even found my second Lo rune. I already found a Sur weeks ago, cubed up my Los to make another one, and am finally only one flawless amethyst from my first Ber!

In my opinion, she’s one of the most unsung heroes in the entire series. Simply being able to put up with her husband’s shenanigans without becoming extremely bitter and joining the Farson conspiracy makes her heroic enough, but she explicitly moves to outright heroism when she helps Sheemie and attempts to rescue Susan. The girl her beloved husband ogled at every opportunity.

Here we have someone who mostly keeps to herself and is repeatedly sinned against (actively by Hart and passively by most of the town), yet I can’t really recall her being discussed very much on this sub.

He’s often explicitly compared to Cuthbert, and it’s even implied that he may actually BE him in some way, reincarnated (Ka is a wheel, you must ken). That could be why the very first thing he saw in the branch of wood and whittled was a slingshot - Cuthbert’s signature weapon.

Hammerdin, lvl 87 (almost 88), original LOD. I just got all my Hell resistances maxed out, but wearing this brings Fire Resist down to 62. On the other hand, it absorbs fire 15%. What exactly does that mean? Is it roughly better to have fire resist maxed, or to wear this? My other ring is too important to replace because it gives the last 10% FCR needed for me to reach the set point of 75%.

Whenever I get a unique ring, I’m like: come on, come on, come ON….shit.

Edit: oh, and I play the CS a lot to level up and find gear, and fire is highly prevalent there.

Probably 5 or 6. She’d be in bed watching it and I’d be curled up on top of the bed next to her, while my dad was still up, watching the news in the other room. So wholesome yet unwholesome at the same time lol but still a very happy memory for me ❤️.

I have very good parents, but they were always rather permissive when it came to television, clearly!

It’s talked about quite a lot in the books, 4 in particular and a bit in 5, but I’ve never heard of it. Yet it’s the only plant I can think of without a Keystone twin (like the animals Lobstrosities and Billy Bumblers).

I mean, he’s a terrible person, but he’s so damn great to watch. The episode where he makes Bobby his caddy is gold.

“I don’t know if you’ve ridden a block of ice before, but…”

“Well, I married Miz Liz, didn’t I??”

I’m playing the original LOD and found the Ohm in a chest in the Durance, level 2. Offline, no terror zones or anything, and always single player. I know the odds of the drops and I know how many people here say it’s so unlikely to happen during a normal playthrough of the game, but I was told the Sur would be the last high level rune I’d ever find, yet I got the Ohm and Lo within a couple weeks of that comment.

I suppose my question is, is it actually all that rare in practice to get these runes once in awhile and more often than it’s stated here, or am I just very lucky? Although I haven’t found any Ber or Jah which is what I’m really after, of course. I’ve also found 2 Mal, 2 Fal and 1 Pul.