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House Judiciary GOP account posts 'Rickroll' instead of Epstein files link, sparking backlash in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 23 points 2 hours ago

The interesting part isn't anything about Epstein, it's who his clients were. The people who diddled kids and are walking free.

Severance - 2x07 "Chikhai Bardo" - Episode Discussion in c/severance@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

100% I disagree with this comment. You are guessing what you think the answers are. You don’t know the purpose of sending her into a room where she exists only to write Christmas thank you cards.

But the subtext explains this! First Gemma says that she hates writing "thank you" cards, then we see a severed version of her being forced to write the cards. The purpose is to force her into a situation she hates.

From this arises the question: why are they doing this to her? The doctor keeps asking her how she felt after each room. The episode also happens to bring up the severed birthing center. This implies that they are testing how strongly her outie version is affected by her innie versions being forced into situations she hates.

Now my second answer is only speculation, but they've set up the other "twists"/reveals in similar ways. But that's also why I'm sure we'll learn more about this in the next episodes.

Procrastination in a nutshell in c/invincible@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Legit one of the funniest scenes of the show, along with Mark pulling Oliver out of the air last time.

Severance - 2x07 "Chikhai Bardo" - Episode Discussion in c/severance@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

When mark mentioned earlier that he saw the body, he didn’t mention it was burned and couldn’t tell it was her. It seemed like he knew it was her.

Sorry, I went through the transcripts again, and I made that "charred remains" thing up. Mark indeed identified her body. My assumption is that they pronounced Gemma dead, even though she was only knocked out/in a coma. Mark identified her, and at the morgue they replaced her with an actual corpse, and she went to a Lumon hospital or something. We saw in this episode that the cops came to Marks house - more than enough time to pull a Romeo and Juliet maneuver if necessary.

As for the others, you are just guessing the answers to the questions. Fact is, the show created more questions than it answered.

Most of it isn't guessing, it's just reading the subtext. There are still questions left open (season's not done yet), but so many questions are either fully answered or have only a couple of remaining possible answers. Not everything has to be explicit!

For instance, telling us there is more staff on the Lumon back end is not answering a question we previously had, it is creating new questions.

"Are there more employees watching over/controlling the severed floor" was one of the biggest questions in the community, and we now have an answer (which also answered questions like "who were the twins in Woe's Hollow?", or "who pressed the OTC buttons while Milchick talked to Dylan"). Soooooo many small questions have been answered like this throughout the season.

Who, what and why are these people? That’s 3 questions.

Why do you expect to know all the details of the mystery at this point? We're now asking questions that result from the answers to our previous questions. This is how good shows are supposed to work.

Severance - 2x07 "Chikhai Bardo" - Episode Discussion in c/severance@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (5 children)

Who are the people watching the computers?

While we don't know their identities, it clears up who the "twins" were in Woe's Hollow. They seem to be individuals that are deliberately similar to our refiners, basically "shadows".

And this tells us a lot about the severed floor! Now we definitely know that there's more staff on the Lumon back-end, and all their actions are being analyzed.

What do the rooms mean?

The episode implied that the rooms are scenarios that Gemma strongly dislikes, with each room having a separate severed version.

Why do they have the same name as the files?

The implication is that MDR is responsible for something in relation to the room - they probably either "uncover" the scenarios the test person hates, or they prepare/change the innie versions in some ways. I'm thinking it's the earlier since Cold Harbor isn't done yet, and Mark is still working on the file.

We know Cold Harbor is important, but now it’s a room also, what’s in it?

It's going to be a scenario like the other rooms, and the episode foreshadowed that it will involve drowning (or suffocating).

Somebody said the doctor is going to have to let Gemma go, why? And go where?

Presumably this will be the topic of the next few episodes.

Also, we know now she’s still alive, but Mark said he saw her dead body. What did he look at?

Rhegabi explained that Lumon has people at the morgue. They found a corpse that looks similar to Gemma, and burned it (Mark mentioned something about identifying her charred remains).

Severance - 2x07 "Chikhai Bardo" - Episode Discussion in c/severance@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Oh god... what if they are "growing" personalities that can perfectly handle these chores, so they can copy them onto Severance chips? So these versions of Gemma would be waking up in every person that buys one of these chips for convenience.

What if, unknowingly, Mark is condemning all these versions of Gemma to an infinitely copied, never-ending hell?

Severance - 2x07 "Chikhai Bardo" - Episode Discussion in c/severance@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

I'm surprised, it felt like they revealed much more than I would have expected to ever get this season, without opening too many new questions. Any in particular?

wake up babe, new shrek 5 teaser dropped in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
A Comic Wherein I Would Rather Be Playing Slay the Spire in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I'm not a pro, but I can certainly give some tips!

Inscryption is an amazing game, but I find it hard to understand what's going on a lot of the time. Slay the Spire is much better in that regard. You can hover over any status effect, keyword and so on to get a tooltip that explains things pretty well. Most artifacts etc. are also easy to understand, and the tutorial is a good introduction.

Some tips (most are good for all such card games):

  • The most important thing after immediate survival is synergies. Find cards and artifacts that work together. Focusing on individual cards is usually harder to bring to a win.
  • To be able to reliably draw your synergies, try to keep your deck lean. Focus on removing cards that you can "replace" with better versions (e.g. basic attacks/defends). Also don't add willy-nilly if you have a good thing going, try to think about what you're lacking.
  • Focus on getting cards/artifacts/synergies that allow you to draw more cards & generate extra action points.
  • Sometimes, taking a bit of extra damage early can save a lot of extra damage later.
GIMP 3.0 Release Planned for 2025-03-09 in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That sounds really cool, thanks for letting us know!

A Comic Wherein I Would Rather Be Playing Slay the Spire in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As in, understanding the appeal, or understanding how to properly play? StS is what taught me the latter, it might be a good fit (with some beginners tips if you'd like).

At what point in the relationship should I move in with my girlfriend? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

This may be good advice if your goal is to keep your relationship as long as possible, but that shouldn't be your goal. It should be to be happy.

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How to change language? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by FooBarrington@lemmy.world to c/summit@lemmy.world
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Hey! I'm looking for an alternative to Sync, and Summit looks great.

Unfortunately it defaults to German, and (as is usually the case) the translation isn't great, e.g. the font names are translated (and the translations aren't correct). So I'd like to use English.

But I can't find the setting. I searched for "lang" as well as the German word in the settings, but it seems there's no language selection.

Is there really no way to change your selected language, except for changing your phone language? That would be a bummer.

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Severance - 2x06 "Attila" - Episode Discussion (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by FooBarrington@lemmy.world to c/severance@lemmy.world
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Season 2 Episode 6: Attila

Aired: February 21, 2025

Synopsis: Bonds are tested. Mark continues on his path of discovery.

Directed by: Uta Briesewitz

Written by: Erin Wagoner

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Where did the story told by Milchick in Woe's Hollow come from? (lemmy.world)
 

Since I've seen the episode, I've been thinking about the story he told, and I don't think it's "canonical" like the handbook. I'm almost certain that it's either:

  • a Lumon "fairy tale", either only for use in team building exercises like the ORTBO, or possibly also told outside (did Helena know it?)
  • or a story made by Milchick specifically for our group, possibly AI generated (since "Dieter Eagan" is an anagram for "AI generated")

It felt very much like a scavenger hunt for a child's birthday or something similar, only in corporate form. Milchick thought that he could fulfill the groups desire for "adventure", and thus make them focus on work once more.

What do you think?

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Please give Sync a bad rating on the Play Store (lemmy.world)
 

Let's face it: the app has been abandoned for longer than is acceptable, especially at this price level. It's no longer working correctly on newer Lemmy versions, and there's no indication the dev is still active.

Yes, he worked similarly during Reddit times, but a) Sync was much cheaper back then, and b) Reddit didn't change as much.

Right now, to unsuspecting users Sync seems great given the 4.9 star rating on the Play Store. They'll possibly buy this app before noticing that it's subtly broken.

Please consider giving Sync a bad rating, but if you do so, explain why. Write about the broken functionality, so others don't fall into the same trap.

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[VaatiVidya] I Played Elden Ring: Nightreign for 6 Hours (www.youtube.com)
 

Hey! Wanted to share this to fan up some discussions about Nightreign.

After the initial announcement, I saw a lot of pessimistic posts about Nightreign being a cash grab. I'm really happy with what I've seen so far from the network test, what about you?

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[DISCUSSION HUB] Season 3 (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by FooBarrington@lemmy.world to c/invincible@lemmy.world
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Use these links to get to the individual episode discussions:

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ARISE YE LORE HUNTERS! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FooBarrington@lemmy.world to c/eldenring@lemmy.world
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Hey there! After some requests, I've opened up a community around Elden Ring Lore: !eldenringlore@lemmy.world

If you're interested, please join! Can't wait to hear all your ideas and thoughts :)

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Theory: The Fell Twins boss fight happens inside the shadow veil (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FooBarrington@lemmy.world to c/eldenringlore@lemmy.world
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Okay, title might sound a bit crazy, but hear me out.

When you cross the bridge to the Divine Tower of East Altus, you're pulled into a boss fight with two Omens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVuAtY6Lq8M

I think that this fight happens inside the veil which separates the Shadow Lands from the Lands Between. There are a bunch of reasons for this:

  1. We know that Omen blood is needed to cross into the Shadow Lands, as Miquella uses Mogh's accursed blood to allow himself and his followers to cross the boundary
  2. There are very few examples of similar visual effects - I can only really think of the fight against Rennala (the transition to the second phase), and the fight against the Elden Beast (also transition to second phase). Nowhere else do we see shadows appearing like this, and both these cases can be linked to Marika (through Ranni and Radagon respectively)
  3. The Omen don't have the kind of magic you'd need to do something like this. They have some magical properties, but those are mostly out of their control. Maybe they aren't even doing this on purpose - the Fell Twins could simply be stuck inside the veil, unable to progress further
  4. When overlaying the DLC and basegame maps, we can be sure the Divine Towers would be close to the borders. Even though the maps don't fit when looking at all details, we can be certain the veil must run somewhere along the area of the divine bridges
  5. The fight ends once we kill both Omen. It's reasonable to assume that the hand which transports us to the Shadow Lands also would cease working if all the Omen blood were removed

All of this leads me to believe that this fight happens inside the veil! What do you think?

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Welcome to Elden Ring Lore & Discussions! (lemmy.world)
 

Hey there! This is a new community for all those who enjoy the lore and worldbuilding of Elden Ring, an incredible game developed by FromSoftware and published in 2022. Feel free to post any theories, questions and ideas you have!

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Totally missed this lore drop in my playthrough! (lemmy.world)
 

All credit goes to @Newbuild@lemmy.nz: https://lemmy.world/comment/14619924

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I think we all have the same question after watching the first episode of season 2 of Severance (lemmy.world)
 

Amazing episode! But I'm not sure how to feel about this decision yet, guess we'll have to see which theories are correct.

When the short animated movie starts, we clearly see a projector with three separate projection sources, one with a lens for each base color:

Since they are each positioned with a slight offset and angled, the projected pictures can't work well for all distances. The further you get from the actual "perfect" distance, the more the different color channels will be offset visually. And yet, what do we see when Mr. Milchick steps in front of the screen?

Obviously the whole fandom has been intensely discussing multiple theories:

  • Lumon has developed projector technology lightyears ahead of our own
  • Most of the production cost for this season went into growing such a talented child actress, so Apple saved money on set design
  • Mr. Milchick is actually a flat surface that merely looks like a 3D person due to optical trickery

I'm not sure which one I agree with the most. What do you guys think?

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Was ist auf dieser TK-Tonno-Pizza genau drauf? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by FooBarrington@lemmy.world to c/fragfeddit@feddit.org
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Freunde, ich wende mich an euch aus tiefster Verzweiflung heraus. Das hier ist keine Werbung, sondern ein Hilfeschrei.

Warum genau schmeckt mir die Tiefkühl-Tonno-Pizza von Dr. Oetker so gut? Was ist da genau drauf? Ich habe endlose TK-Tonnos durchprobiert und selbst viele gemacht, aber irgendwas ist auf der Dr. Oetker-Pizza drauf, das ich nicht reproduziert bekomme. Aber auch nur auf der! Es sind Klekse aus einer undefinierbaren Masse, die mein Ambrosia sind - vermutlich eine Mischung aus Thunfisch-Ersatz und Gewürzen, aber jeder Versuch es zu erforschen hat ins Nichts geführt.

Hat hier jemand Zugriff auf die geheimen Rezepte und wäre bereit für ein kleines bisschen Industriespionage? Meine aktuelle Vermutung geht in Richtung Koks oder Heroin o.Ä., anders kann ich mir meine körperliche und psychische Abhängigkeit nicht erklären - doch der rationale Teil meines Hirns widerspricht vehement, weil man das bestimmt rausschmecken würde.

Versteht jemand, was ich meine? Oder bin ich gefangen in einem sisyphosischen Kreis, verdammt dazu stets zum Supermarkt gehen zu müssen um das High erneut zu erleben?

Falls ihr das lest und die TK-Tonno noch nie probiert habt, bitte ich euch: tut es nicht. Es war schwer genug, die Kommentare von dem einen Reddit-Account durchzulesen, der nur Mal Heroin probieren wollte. Ich möchte für ähnliche Abstürze keine Verantwortung tragen.

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