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The plot of this adaptation in Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities is mostly an in-name-only revision of the story, but that's somewhat understandable given its unusual POV.

However, what is not okay is failing in every way to communicate the horror of the unexplained. In THIS story, the main character sees demons everywhere in connection to a depiction of a witch's coven. This refocuses the story onto her, completely, and optically diverts the definition of reality away from the story's true revelation: this subject is REAL.

From this version, there is no way to know that the demon in the basement is real because we've been hallucinating weird creatures the whole time, nor is there much reason to think that's significant. This version might as well be called "Pickman's Paintings" or "Legacy of the Witch" or something.

The entire premise of capturing the liminality of great evil in the crevice of the world and that being almost too horrifying to bear, is TOTALLY undermined by the narrative of these paintings turning people into "demons." I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but I'm shocked it's THIS far off on a comprehension level.

The plot of this adaptation in Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities is mostly an in-name-only revision of the story, but that's somewhat understandable given its unusual POV.

However, what is not okay is failing in every way to communicate the horror of the unexplained. In THIS story, the main character sees demons everywhere in connection to a depiction of a witch's coven. This refocuses the story onto her, completely, and optically diverts the definition of reality away from the story's true revelation: this subject is REAL.

From this version, there is no way to know that the demon in the basement is real because we've been hallucinating weird creatures the whole time, nor is there much reason to think that's significant. This version might as well be called "Pickman's Paintings" or "Legacy of the Witch" or something.

The entire premise of capturing the liminality of great evil in the crevice of the world and that being almost too horrifying to bear, is TOTALLY undermined by the narrative of these paintings turning people into "demons." I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, but I'm shocked it's THIS far off on a comprehension level.

Despite despising Season 2, my family wanted to watch Season 3, so I obliged. Last one for me though. Light but ambiguous barely-spoilers below.

Was it better than Season 2? Yes, though watching Ritchson fart into a paper bag for 10 hours would have been as well. Season 3 actually started strong, but like all the seasons, it has two major issues that I can no longer tolerate: poor "third act" pacing and the forced inclusion of Neegly.

S3 was paced very methodically up until about 2/3 in, where just like the other seasons, everything is RUSHED to the shootout at the end. In the process, the writers make dumb mistakes by overlooking contingencies. The most obvious was when they couldn't snipe a guy "because of the noise" then fired a literal unmounted 50 .cal without anyone hearing. I laughed out loud.

There's a general confusion from the writers about what we care about seeing, which is accentuated by forcing Neegly into stories she wasn't originally in, thus revealing the quality of these writers vs. the original author. In this case, the entire season was ruined for me when, to get her caught up, she did her smug-invincible plot armor spiel to ONE dude and gets every bit of information Reacher and co. just spent the ENTIRE season figuring out. I was so done at that point.

For some reason, despite being able to make good character moments (I loved every scene with Duffy or Beck), these writers just cannot get a handle on the overall pacing of information and action on a full-season level, and I'm not giving them another chance to figure it out. Such a shame.

I have JP cartridge. I'd like to save SD card space by playing the game from the cart and just putting the patch on my SD, but the only files I've found online are the full patched game. Thanks!

I'm not even really interested in discussing "whether" it was bad because I don't know how anyone could think otherwise. Disclosure: I really enjoyed Season 1. Each episode was a nice setup for another piece of the puzzle and Ritchson really embodies this character (literally). I didn't love the finale, but I was fine with continuing.

Season 2 is a dumpster fire. It's like every episode the writers find new ways to be idiots. The character and this world are ruined now as far as I'm concerned.

My favorite part is how they continually repeat trite isms like "In an investigation, details matter" like actual twelve-year-olds writing a school essay, and meanwhile the fight choreography and plot logic is some of the worst on TV. I just got to the fight on the bus. One of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

Reacher would be shot dead by now like 50 times, and the villains are idiots too. Neely is insufferable, like literally every line was written by a smug 50-year-old dude trying to get street cred with Nintendo kids. The show literally will not stop repeating that she's a "genius" for noticing the simplest friggin' things.

It's beyond mind-numbing and robs Reacher himself of all depth and believability. My favorite part so far is when he "deduces" that a guy wasn't lying because he was a fire fighter and "those guys have honor" or something like that. Actually wtf.

The ONLY decent character is Detective Russo. Even if the writing staff was the same, this could have been ten times better if you got rid of the team of smug twelve-year-old adults and just had Reacher and Russo running around this whole time.

Even if Season 3-4 are better, I may not even care. The drop-off from S1 to S2 is THAT huge. All I really want to know is if someone has an autopsy report for me. What happened? What writer/showrunner is making this like, bottom of the barrel action slop for geezers? This is like the quality of the movies my Grandpa gets from Redbox after picking up his prescription, only this takes 8 hours to finish and it used to be something good.

I was so excited to finally sit down and play this. There MUST be a way to turn 3D on, no? I'm hoping because that would be so brutal if not. Why on earth would I play the Mario Kart built for 3D in 2D?

This is an amazing community, and as much as I enjoy the effort put to random ports, I'm always wondering if there's any ongoing effort in getting Nuclear Throne to work properly, with skins and crowns debugged and stable framerate if possible. I know there was a homebrewer some time ago working on it.

This was always one of the worst oversights in the official Vita catalog because the game just screams Vita and it's such a shame we never got this game for real.

So I thought the lead-up to SpaceX IPO was a great time to research some stock names and put some money in for the first time (I usually just do MFs). My gambles on space sector names were all green (+25%) for 2 weeks and then they all slid. I'm now down (-25%) on everything, and I'm really upset that I bought on a run and didn't trim any of my profits or sell high-risk rises completely.

My picks were like, MNTS, RDW, SIDU, etc., and they're all down 30-50% from when I bought in. I'm $15.5 average on MNTS for example. I'm not sure what to do now, and I'm just upset at myself, especially since now's a good time to buy into dips, and I'm just praying for green.

any advice on how to process this, if not what to "do about it?" Probably been asked a million times, but I'd just appreciate some personalized advice; I'm kind of struggling with this.

When I heard about the home program, I was so excited, but it still costs thousands of dollars and is the only way to get the wand, other than the in-person clinic. Has anyone tried it? Do you think it was worth it?

I'm aware everyone's situation is different. I'm just not rich. My former pelvic PT wishes the cost was lower so it could be more of a "try and see if it works thing," but it's not.

Any insight would be great. I've been stuck with issues for 8+ years after doing kegs, which turned me from feeling fine into this, though I guess there were underlying issues I didn't know about.