u/SeriouslyLikesCake

Hi everyone,

Have a lovely LG OLED TV. It had an issue a little while back and LG paid for a remedy, which was a repair. A similar issue is now happening again, and this time LG says they will not provide a remedy.

My issue is I accepted a repair last time, potentially to my own detriment? Had I insisted on a replacement, which I believe was my right, I would not be having this issue?

I asked if LG would even pay for it being assessed as I believe it's the same fault again, but they said no and it may be a different fault. I asked how they can verify over the phone that without even assessing and he 'thanked me for patiently waiting' and said they couldn't assist.

My question is, in circumstances that a 'remedy' was offered and the fault occurred not long after, does this not 'restart' period again?

Are we ready to establish the canon? Paulie killed Tony

So, it appears that the canon has now sufficiently been settled. In the last few years, I’ve noticed this sub finally settle on the theory that it was Paulie behind Tony’s hit, or at the very least, that Paulie knew and quietly stepped aside.

The evidence is honestly pretty strong:

- Paulie had already betrayed Tony before.

He fed information to Johnny Sack because he felt underappreciated. This was not some loyal soldier incapable of going behind Tony’s back. Paulie’s loyalty always had limits, especially when his ego or survival was involved.

- The New York sit-down feels way too comfortable.

Paulie’s handshake and general body language with New York do not feel like a man dealing with enemies. It feels like there is already some understanding there.

- The silver scissors are a massive clue.

After the New York meeting, Paulie turns up with the silver scissors. Given the barber/salon imagery around New York, that feels very deliberate. The show does not usually throw in weird little objects like that for no reason.

- Butchie’s line matters: “Decapitate and do business with whatever’s left.”

By the finale, almost everyone is gone. Sil is in a coma, Bobby is dead, Carlo flipped, Christopher is dead. Who is “whatever’s left”? Paulie.

- Paulie’s reaction to Patsy’s name is extremely suspicious.

In the final Satriale’s scene, Tony offers Paulie the Aprile crew. Paulie refuses. Then Tony says he’ll give it to Patsy instead, and suddenly Paulie changes his mind. Why does Patsy’s name immediately affect him like that? There was a risk that Tony offering Patsy that role would perhaps dispel him from being all in one the plan.

- Patsy had motive too.

Tony had his twin brother killed. Patsy once stood outside Tony’s house with a gun. By the end, Patsy is also being pulled closer to the family through Meadow and Patrick, which gives him proximity and a future.

- Paulie and Patsy both benefit from Tony being gone.

New York removes Tony, Patsy gets revenge and protection, Paulie survives and keeps a seat at the table. It is not a grand mastermind plot. It is classic Sopranos self-preservation.

- Paulie is the ultimate survivor.

That final shot of him outside Satriale’s says everything. The old crew is gone. The kingdom is dead. Paulie is still there, sunning himself like the cockroach who somehow outlives the nuclear blast.

So I don’t necessarily think Paulie pulled the trigger or even personally ordered it.

But did he know?

Did he give approval?

Did he shake the right hand, take the scissors, and let Tony walk into Holsten’s with no protection?

I think yes.

Paulie did not have to kill Tony himself.

He just had to survive him to continue laughing at his programs.

Did anyone else attend the UWA Project K.I.D.S program and feel some weird stuff went on?

I recall attending and 'losing time' and the researcher getting really angry with us.

Not necessarily a conspiracy, and may just have been an angry post-grad student, but felt very odd in hindsight as an adult.

I remember windows were boarded up and we would be taken one by one to view these matrix like grids. We were also only allowed to attend once and they were very strict on this. What's odd is there is apparently similar things all over the world, usually in GATE programs (like PEAC here) where kids would have to view computer programs and would lose time.