Random Rants LXXII - What is wrong with us?

[Synobun]

Eagle Food, Fox food, around here at least...

Snerk food...

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Eagle Food, Fox food, around here at least...

We don't have either of those around here.

 

[Synobun]

Installed a bunch of Banished mods and was wondering why everything seemed to be exactly the same as vanilla.

Found out after 5 playthroughs that you need to manually enable them in-game. Oopsies!

Also, I strongly dislike contract writing.

 

[Ajidica]

Also, I strongly dislike contract writing.

Easy solution - find some one-eyed sorcerer and have him make the parties swear blood-oaths.

 

[Lexicus]

A cup of wine with your bloods mixed into it is a strong magic.

 

[Synobun]

You're a strong magic.

 

[Ajidica]

You're a strong magic.

I know I am a strong magic.

 

[sophie]

Ugggggh. Steven Universe stuff went DOWN and I don't have any friends (who watch the show) to talk about it with.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Intriguing. Care to share?

 

[sophie]

Intriguing. Care to share?

lol. I mean, do you know anything about the series?

In vague terms: a long-running fan theory, often written off by much of the fanbase as outlandish¹, of which I was a pretty serious advocate, has been confirmed as true.

¹Like "jet fuel can't melt steel beams"-level outlandish

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I've never heard of the series. That's really cool that you called it

 

[choxorn]

I'm also a fan, and I was in the crowd that tended to write off that theory and yeah, it was pretty big. Jet Fuel and Steel Beams outlandish seems like an appropriate way of describing the levels of outlandish it was, as long as you also combine it with "Bush did 9/11 and everything is a big coverup, wake up sheeple" to fully reach the full levels of outlandish it was.

 

[Traitorfish]

I looked up this grand reveal out of curiosity, but the explanation began with " After Ronaldo accidentally spots Steven’s old barn lodged in a crater on the moon," and I immediately realised I don't have a slither of a shadow of the context to make sense of this.

 

[JohannaK]

I personally also believed in that theory, Owain. Thou art not alone. It was a big reveal, but there was plenty of sketchy stuff that didn't add up. YOU FOOLS! WHO IS RIGHT NOW?!

 

[rah]

It not been around a week and a half and still no heat in the house. Hopefully they'll finish the installation of the new furnace today. It's been around 50 inside the house. I'm tired of being cold.

 

[sophie]

I actually wasn't convinced by much of the "foreshadowing" imagery that people point to. The show's artwork is so wildly inconsistent, that it's hard to know what to ascribe to "brilliant foreshadowing" and what to ascribe to "different storyboard artists". Plus a lot of the arguments people tended to use on reddit and tumblr ended up, well, sounding like Truther-level conspiracy theories. It's odd in retrospect though, that nobody picked up on the "Pearl covering her mouth" motif.

Rather, I was a big proponent of it because it made a TON of sense narratively and thematically. Something which, even post-reveal, people don't seem to be talking about. Like at all. For example, I think the Zoo arc may be the most important set of episodes explaining the theory, from a thematic standpoint. This also includes "The New Crystal Gems", with "Storm in the Room" serving as a bookend, simultaneously summarizing and pointing back to that explanation.

 

[JohannaK]

I didnt follow people arguing about it, but I didnt pick it up from any artwork. It is something that I could not argue or explain but the feeling grew on me that it just made sense. As you said, the Zoo had a significant part to play in this.

Another strong pointer was the whole shattering business. Bismuth was perhaps the most interesting bit in that sense.

 

[Takhisis]

The only woman I need is a woman who recognizes Etruscan dominance.

Will she wear mascara?

What's the deal with Southern Europe and numeral small balconies? Up here you either make single balcony (or grammatically correct equivalent) big enough for a solid bbq session, or you don't make one at all.

But you can stand in there and look down at/on (the people on) the street! It's called a social life.

Ugggggh. Steven Universe stuff went DOWN and I don't have any friends (who watch the show) to talk about it with.

Thanks to Cartoon Network's insane schedules I stopped watching it (as well as Regular Show and Adventure Time) ages ago. Is it worth following?

 

[Synobun]

Will she wear mascara?

She'll wear you.

I'll admit, people-watching is fun, but I really only find it acceptable in tourist areas. Not so jazzed about it in the local neighbourhood.

 

[JohannaK]

Steven Universe is one of the best shows out there. It is not you can afford to not follow.