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@arkandel

Wrong thread my dude.

@rucket said in The Wheel of Time:

A lot of that was theorizing by Ishamael

It's not theorizing by Ishamael. Ish remembers as many lives as Rand does. It's part of the reason why he's so freaking insane. He wants off this ride, and the only way he can do it is to break the wheel.

He remembered lives, hundreds of them, thousands of them, stretching to infinity. He remembered love, and peace, and joy, and hope.

• VoG

@rucket said in The Wheel of Time:

Also an excerpt from the books:

"And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was as blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World.
And him they named Dragon."
— From Aleth nin Taerin alta Camora, The Breaking of the World. Author unknown, the Fourth Age

Note, however, that this excerpt explicitly marks it as being from the Fourth Age. Not that it would matter. Naming someone Dragon doesn't exclude the idea they could be the Dragon Reborn. Naming them dragon at all would be a necessary prerequisite to this.

@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

I really wanted to like The Matrix Resurrections. But I am not sure it was even better than the original sequels.

I enjoyed this one, too!

Well, I enjoyed it for what it is, through the whole ride.

@horrorhound

These are really pretty! Thanks for sharing!

@rucket said in The Wheel of Time:

Why the hell did that Aes Sedai call Lews Therin 'the dragon reborn'? He's not, he's The Dragon.

No, he's the Dragon Reborn. Always has been. Part of the opening of the Eye of the World is Ishamael reminding him that they've already done this a million times and will do it a million times more, and Ish is already tired of having that conversation. It's a big cycle, just goes on and on and on.

@arkandel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Do I have a worst work/life balance sometimes since it sometimes feel I'm never quite off the clock? Yes.

I don't even mind this part. I don't mind never quite feeling off the clock because I also know that, at the end of the day, I'm expected to produce eight hours of work. And if that means that I'm never off the clock, I get to do it at whatever pace I damn well please.

@aria said in The Work Thread:

The first comment, the very first one, was an employee who felt the need to lambast us for making the celebration "secular and superficial" instead of "creating a safe space dedicated to the real meaning behind the holiday."

Dear Sir,

While we certainly respect your sentiments, that is not our role at Company. Here at Company, it is our job to create safe, welcoming environments for a diversity of faiths, nationalities, and traditions, in accordance with our company's ideals and various laws.

Religious observance is, we feel, best left to professionals trained for such measures. We would recommend that you research religious leaders that specialize in your specific situation and seek their services. We believe in the value of professional expertise and would not want to infringe on the hard work of others by attempting to reproduce the quality and quantity of their work product.

At Company, we believe in staying in our lane. We find, as a general rule, that it produces quite a bit of employee satisfaction, and heartily suggest that you consider taking up this practice as well.

However, Company believes in a strong culture of professional development and career advancement. If you feel that your expertise in various religious traditions is being wasted at Company, we fully support a transition to Religious Leader, and are happy to write you a letter of recommendation upon request.

Sincerely,

Everyone Else

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

The wind is CRAZY right now.

No outdoor recess because it's so strong we're worried about debris. The building itself is groaning (and I'm sitting in a rom not attached to the outdoor walls!).

It's fine, totally fine. Just turn up the music and hope it doesn't get to Tornado levels cuz then we have to evacuate and walk outside to go to the high school that has a tornado shelter.

Ya’ll need a tunnel!

@runescryer

Luhan would not at all be the same. A mentor as opposed to a lover with a rocky relationship you are attempting to fix who may or may not be having your kid? No contest.

People keep saying this is fridging. It’s not. This was, so far as I can tell, an important plot point and departure from the standard timeline to show the true weight and cost of battle against someone you care for intimately in a show that already passes the Bechdel test by leaps and bounds.

Bad things happen to people. It is not problematic because the sacrificial character was a woman. If you want to talk campy tropes, let’s talk ‘man strapped to table and tortured so another can hear his screams as leverage’. Because that one is overdone too. To a person of color, even, by a literally whitewashes black man.

Guys. Luhan would not have been just as good. Of
You’re gonna nitpick on stuff, do it for all of it.

@arkandel

...why?

I mean -- really. Why? If that were to happen, why would you leave behind a show that is otherwise doing very well at tellign an entertaining story to hear a story that you've already heard?

That would be like someone just giving up on G. R. R. M. if he writes something in his books different from what the HBO series went into, assuming that we ever get the others. That would be kind of silly, IMO.

I mean, YMMV and all, but that seems a rather strange path to take, to me, and I'm curious what the reasoning there is.

***Episode 6 Spoiler Content in Here***

My guess that I am stealing wholesale from a friend and is in no way my original work goes as follows:

***=Predictions About the Rest of the Season Here***

@silverfox said in Critters!:

My lord, these two babies could not be more different!

Cinderella does NOT like Play-doh, or ANY other cat like my Calypso (who just desperately wants to be friends with her), but she freaking loves people. She wants to be with me or my husband 110% of the time.

Play-doh on the other hand ADORES Calypso and my other cats (including Cinder) but isn't a fan of us people.

Can't have that much cute in one cat. They have to be pieces of the perfect cat. Like Voltron.

@dvoraen said in The Wheel of Time:

This thread makes me want WoT MU*s to be a fad again.

Soon. Sooooon.

@arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Double post! I'm just gonna leave this here.

I saw most of those!

So, Shang-Chi is getting a sequel. Just leaving this here for all ya'll that liked it! (Me included!)

@silverfox said in Brandon Sanderson:

@rucket Yeah. Considering how some people here feel about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints I was avoiding saying it.

I really don't think it's anything particular to LDS. The same criticisms could be levied against pretty much any modern organized religion, and have been, by the same people.

If you replace "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" with just "Church" it would probably be more accurate. Catholics and evangelicals have taking way more of a bruising here for basically the same criticism. So I wouldn't take it too personally. There is a LOT to be said both in favor of and against most modern religions.

But that's likely a topic for another thread. Just wanted to put that out there real quick because -- yeah. It sucks feeling singled out, or personally attacked. But I don't think that's what's really happening there.

@kestrel said in RL things I love:

I actually hate the boots but I guess now I have to keep them forever.

You have to put them in a glass case with a placard that marks them as existentially important and necessary for preservation.

Then you can never wear them again.

Double win!

@snackness said in Critters!:

@derp Awww my heeeeearrrrt

I know right? I just wanna cuddle him.

The good boy let me get his picture! He would come to about 5 feet away. Cut up some hot dogs and tossed him the pieces. Poor guy is super skittish still.