u/sexyimmigrant1998

Hello, all. I'm looking for apartments in or around Sugar Land, as I'm moving there soon for work. Does anyone have any recommendations for good places?

Taking a look at Google Reviews and past posts on this sub about apartments, I made a shortlist of apartment complexes that seem well reviewed, I'm looking to hear if anyone has any insight on these places in particular (and if there are good alternatives I don't have listed here).

• Fairmont First Colony
• Lakeland Estates
• Imperial Lofts
• The Addison

My priorities are available parking, a washer & dryer in unit, central A/C, and good soundproofed walls. My maximum budget is $1800 for 1.5-2 bedroom apartments.

Thank you in advance!

I'm still genuinely confused about the roles of Sayaka and Nagisa at the end of the main series and in Rebellion, despite perusing through this sub. Love love love the movie but I'm still baffled by those two girls:

1. Why did Madoka choose to make Sayaka her uhhh secretary or whatever position? At the end of the main series, they're talking at Kyosuke's concert as Sayaka gives a tearful goodbye, but can't Madoka just let Sayaka live her life there like all the other girls across centuries?

2. Why did Madoka choose Nagisa for this same role? To her, she's just another magical girl who turned into a witch, with her only significance being that she was the witch who killed Mami.

3. So Madoka had Sayaka and Nagisa enter Homura's world as a backup plan to ensure they successfully rescued Homura? Why did Madoka lose her memories but Sayaka and Nagisa didn't?

4. What was the plan exactly? Sayaka and Nagisa (as Bebe) just pose as part of the Quintet and act their roles until Homura finally woke up? Why not just tell Homura everything once she starts to question things?

Thank you for your wisdom!

Genuinely curious what people thought about it.

I kept hearing it hyped as one of the best dark psychological dramas (or even horror, to some), and I found it very compelling, but I'm rather disappointed because some people were calling it peak anime. It feels like an incomplete story to me, but a darn good one. Idk I'm getting Wonder Egg Priority vibes, except that show kept opening up new plot threads, while Takopi's tried to just quickly end everything. It felt like it needed another 6 episodes to flesh everything out.

(I've heard how hard it was for them to finish those 6 episodes, so I'm happy we got anything all.)

Hello, new-ish Ys fan here. I only ever played Ys VIII a few years ago and started up NG+ recently to dive back into it.

I love the story. I love the characters. And I loooove the combat, it's so fun and fast and satisfying. Also, Dana is best girl. I loved the game overall.

My only real gripe with the game is the structure of the world. I ABHOR this kind of world where there are invisible walls everywhere even if you can visibly see a path or platform to jump to, if the game says no, you can't reach it. It just feels so restricting. And I hate how confusing they made the map, idk what's up with that.

I used to play a ton of open world games, but I'm not even asking necessarily for that (and I don't think Ys even has those). But are any of the other Ys games more "open" to a degree like Xenoblade or Super Mario Odyssey? Also, are any more linear than VIII where I won't feel like I'm lost for the hundredth time in winding maze and backtracking the same paths again and again? Or even just better map systems?

Exploration is one of my favorite parts about gaming and the Isle of Seiren is beautiful, I just struggle to enjoy exploring it with this map and world structure.

Thank you for any insight!

I think it's fairly well known that the quints actually get roughly equal amounts of screentime (with Nino getting a bit more in season 2), but it certainly doesn't FEEL very equal. Does anyone else feel this way?

Miku surprisingly got the least amount of screentime, but her developments and narrative importance feel MASSIVE, and unsurprisingly she's the most popular quint, with Nino probably right on her heels in terms of popularity.

Even more surprising to me is that Yotsuba has a bit more screentime than Miku, but Yotsuba feels extremely underused despite being the winner. Was all of Yotsuba's screentime primarily her acting as emotional support and comic relief? That's what I felt (which would make sense why Futaro chose her), but it made the anime's ending rather unsatisfying if the winner doesn't get her proper developments. Yotsuba felt like she and Futaro evolved together the least compared to him with the other quints, and I'm saying this as someone who likes her and acknowledges that Futaro clearly has the best time with her.

I received a job offer at an oil and gas company as a chemist, and I'm terrified at the thought of failing a drug test and having my offer rescinded just for having smoked THC, which is legal in the state I currently live in.

I was initially going to ask this to r/oilandgasworkers, but they remove drug-related posts and are very hostile to anyone who appears favorable to substances. So I wanted to ask y'all here, specifically for science in oil and gas but also broadly throughout the state of Texas, how stringent are these drug tests?

Thank you so much for any insight!

Which field would you say has more opportunities, stability, and upward mobility? Especially for those with a PhD?

I've been doing medicinal chemistry and am about to get my PhD and got offered a principal chemist role in the oil and gas industry. I'm really leaning in favor of accepting the offer but I just wanted to know if anyone had any information on the industries and their prospects.

Thanks for any insight!

Hi, absolute football noob here who only watches casually here and there throughout the years.

I'm just kind of surprised at so many people considering Spain boring to watch. When I actually watched them playing during the World Cup, I thought it was beautiful to watch, it just felt like they were playing so optimally like a well-oiled machine, fully understanding how to retain possession, move and coordinate with passes to slowly push the ball deeper and deeper into their opponent's half, and go in at the right time for the kill. They just seemed so tactically superior to all the other teams and were suffocating everyone they played against. Even France could barely get any momentum.

Is there something I'm missing? Or is it just that Spain's play isn't particularly "explosive" with goal-scoring that people complain over? Because I don't know much about football but I found them so damn fun to watch.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love anime, it's my favorite medium (or tied for #1 alongside video games).

But like uhhh lol I kinda wanted to see writing from all kinds of media being compared, but it feels like everything is about anime here. Like in my mind, this is just "analyzing the narrative writing in anime" at this point, not something that encompasses all media like it seems was intended. Sorry if this has been talked about to death, I'm new here and was like damn. The weeb in me is happy. The pretentious cosmopolitan connoisseur in me is not.

Excluding Love Is War, Your Name, and Weathering With You, which I've seen already (and love them all).

Thank you!