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Like lately it feels those games have always had at least one drawing where the numbers rather shockingly tied into something going on, I personally played a couple box with relevant numbers hoping to win something but was surprised that neither really did

Like ocean points out at the end that Karnak pretty much knew how the entire thing was going to end. That he would have known ocean and the others wouldn’t have been able to actually choose themselves at the end of the day.

So like there’s a bit of a logic thread that stands that he knew they would have chosen Jane and he would know more about her just by seeing that future.

I don’t know why but this logic threat has been sitting in my mind for a while

So, drafting something out based on a small prompt and discussion from another thread the other day

More in specific this thread and line of thoughts with it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wicked/s/3ZwnOxMUbH

It occurred to me, until recently it was just booksical for fics that combined elements of the books with that of the musical, but now the movies have happened so there’s now a new portmanteau that can basically be cracked onto a fic if you so desired

I’d make this a poll but there aren’t too many options I can think of for the three way portmanteau

I don’t know why this just popped into my head but I was thinking about the war games and the fates bestowed on our big bads during it, and it then remembered shada, which is essentially a supermax prison for timelord criminals who are so dangerous they essentially need to be removed from the universe. Where they bring em and chuck em into cryosleep for eternity.

But like…when you consider the lore, and the aforementioned fates…the question becomes why not just do that to all your super high threat criminals? We see time and time again in classic that gallifrey itself isn’t as impenetrable as the timelords seem to think it is and literally all someone needs to do is get someone with even the smallest amount of access to get to the highest security stuff with minimal to no great effort, skagra would have literally succeeded in his universal mind goal had the doctor not gotten a copy of his mind into the sphere.

Like plot wise I know salyavin/chronotis wiped timelord society’s memory of Shada so that could be used to explain why they didnt build another prison and started using other methods.

My theory is that they wanted to keep these criminals on ice so that like the master and the doctor they could potentially use them again at future times should the need ever arise. To have an army of the most dangerous timelord minds should it ever come down to it.

They could easily calculate wiping a whole timelord out of the timeline and do it without having a catastrophic knock on effect, but they straight up don’t

I think it’s another demonstration of their hubris, they say they’re doing something that’s for the benefit of the universe and gallifreyan society at large whilst really they’re just creating more or less a recruitment board of people they can use should the need ever arise.

Tori of the ozvlog recently gave their two cents on the matter and they’re some of the points that get made incredibly often, like MGM would have 100% reshot

And like assuming they didn’t, mgm and Warner bros would more likely splice the section it’s visible for out rather than super impose a bird over it. Which for vhs media released honestly would have been more effort than it were worth

It’s an annoying myth, but I kinda think that even regardless of the state of media literacy the hanging munchkin myth will always manage to persist

Like the book definitely portrays wonka more as a man child who does in fact know when to take things seriously, aaand ya know, not a borderline psychopath like the gene wilder version is generally looked back on as

There’s also the stuff with wonkavite and Charlie voicing his reservations because of “the gum he gave violet” with wonka reminding us that he NEVER gave violet the gum, and did everything short of manhandling violet to get her to spit out the gum. And then when things go wrong as they were bound to do with Josephine getting minus’d he basically goes into a “why don’t people listen to me properly” mood and shows that he does indeed care

Okay, so I learned in another post yesterday that dressers actually have a practical function, I thought they were just another furniture decoration with no real function. What’s your favorite mechanic that the game doesn’t outright broadcast to the player?

For me it’s two iridium bands, one fused with slime charmer and the other, if I’m able to get it, fused with a lucky ring

I was thinking because I know most stagings of the wiz keep his backstory from the book, and throw in a line in that respect “and after the second time did it at no point occur to you to get another axe?”

But the thought occurred to me that enchantment not withstanding nick was either remarkably strong in his axe strikes, or his axe was hideously sharp considering it was capable of cleaving off body parts

Like, we get explicitly told several times that in the game that everything that occurred in x and y were only 5 years previous. And like, I know that for all intents and purposes the Pokémon universe doesn’t HAVE to line up with our worlds timeline…and doesn’t considering I was in high school when x and y came out, it’s been well over a decade. But I don’t recall society using phrases like massive W or L before like 2020-21

It’s not like the worst thing but for me for some reason it just kinda sticks out

Like first time I watched episode one, after being pointed in the direction of the show by a friend of mine in Scotland, for context I’m American, I assumed based on the premise of the show that the reason Rodney was consistently in situations with del was because he was by and large an idiot

But pretty much five minutes in we see him immediately starting to do the sums to figure out how much del is likely losing to yet another deal he made

They were recently added to kindle unlimited noticed earlier this week, so I finally got a chance to read lion of oz

Till now I had only read Dorothy of oz and the Oz enigma, and like idk if it’s nostalgia for the animated special talking or just I’m an adult reading something generally meant for children. But like so far my opinion of lion of oz is that the story feels…for me at least like it’s trying to do too much, and the flow of the story suffers for it

The oz enigma falls under the same issue but it atleast feels more entertaining