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[limejack]

Something people tend to forget about Gregory House is that saying he’s good at his job is like saying a bullet to the gut would hurt. Like yes but

If he’s bored he can walk into a room and diagnose everyone in it at a glance, and he’s done this several times. Not just “oh a cough that’s a cold” he’ll also tell what drugs to stop taking, when your boyfriend is cheating on you and all that. If there’s more than a thousand people on the planet with your condition House *knows* it instantly. That’s why hes allowed his team of experts.

People forget that the patient he nearly kills in every episode is only the focus of the episode because a patient that house spends more than a minute on has a story. In the first season when they try to fire house it’s brought up that he essentially does mercenary work, if you have money and your doctor can’t cure you, you go to house.l

[limejack]

Haven’t seen this talked about enough so here goes.

Iroh acted as the interim avatar, keeping the balance between the nations as much as he could physically, and with the spiritual realm.

The white lotus existed to keep peace while they waited for the avatar or at least something to move, letting them seize power to restore the balance again. Iroh’s spiritual pilgrimage after his son’s death was his way of bringing balance to the spirits as well, and whereever he could he helped although, given he wasn’t actually the avatar he had limited power. But, for example, when Zhao thearens to kill the moon spirit, Iroh threatens his life, and when Zhao carries out his threat Iroh immediately and without hesitation or a second thought goes for the kill. And when he actually gets power he immediately uses it to free the city if ba sing se.

Additionally, Iroh mastered the bending philosophies. He couldn’t actually use the bending styles, but when needed he would turn his opponents weapons against them(lightning redirection), stand his ground(his escape from prison is just neutral Jin), go on the offensive(ba sing se) or plead peace. The breath of fire is *literally* an airbending move, it’s how they stay warm in the mountains. Fire benders can just use the ki manipulation to also make fire with it.

Katara is really the only other character to use the variety of styles like that before pro bending started to make every bending style fire. The classic example of course is Katara standing her ground against Hama instead of dodging, but she also makes liberal use of Ice in a very earth bendy way, instead of using it as projectiles or temporary platforms like you’re supposed to.

[limejack]

I absolutely adore Kagurabachi’s current flashback war arc because of how unique it is. We get introduced to a ton of new characters, and pieces of worldbuilding, which is straightforward and cool and all but like, 20 years later we see none of this. We see 4 characters still alive total, one of whom is a war criminal and the other 3 have ptsd. The government we see no longer exists, the ruling clan is composed of 1 war criminal.

The war necessitated violence on a scale never before seen, and we get a snapshot of how vast the destruction will be

[limejack]

My favorite thing is when humanity produces someone so good at *thing* that second place becomes more interesting to follow. Like, Tom Brady has won 10% of every Super Bowl. He retired, got bored, came back and won it for a mid team. Magnus Carlson had to step down for someone else to take the title of world champion.

[badjokesbyjeff]

My grandad told me he’s never committed six of the seven deadly sins. 

He’s just too lazy to tell us which ones."

[xmossheartedx]

Eating too much cake is a sin of gluttony, but eating too much pie is okay, because the sin of pi is always zero.

[limejack]

Calling your self the greatest guitar player in the world in July is a sin of pride, but doing so in October is fine, because pride comes before the fall

[limejack]

Hello from the magic tavern is weird on lore because it tries to keep it consistent but also will add jokes at the drop of a hat, but the wizard lore is top notch.

Wizards of Foon(portal fantasy setting) are their own species, brought into the world by the very elements, drawing insane power from the balances of the universe(light and darkness, truth and lies, space and time), and imbued with some purpose. There’s essentially nothing a wizard can’t do unless the plot steps in, and they can only die from one of a very select few magical items, or by completing that purpose imbued in them, the reason for their existence. It’s a drive in their bones but they know it’ll kill them, and they each grapple with that differently, from deciding it’s an ascension to a better place to desperately searching for a way to survive it.

And to reiterate, this is the setting where a dude put on a costume and pretended to be a series of bats in the woods for a few months to avoid the law and it actually worked.

[limejack]

Making the sound track for a movie must have been so easy in the 80s. As far as I can tell you just mailed John Williams an envelope stuffed with cash and he sends you the music. He then gets nominated for an Oscar.

Just for the record he’s been nominated for 54 Oscars over a 56 year period. That’s not counting the 20 something Grammies or the emmies he’s won

[limejack]

A pro gamer, a dude with the wiki open and a rival game dev decide to livestream an Ironman permadeath run of a massive video game. Every viewer ships the wiki dude and the gamer.

As they go on they discover many things about themselves and the game. For example the gamer is smurfing on an alt, the rival game dev is also just the dev, and the wiki dude is arguably a deity.

God I love this book, can’t say the title because massive spoilers but hey

[limejack]

Chainsaw man is so funny because this random panel is the biggest piece of evidence against possibly the largest fan theory. This is a baby falling. It’s the background of a random panel

[limejack]

The princess bride is one of the greatest books and one of the greatest movies of all time, with it being a near perfect adaptation. That being said, the movie and the book give inigo, fezzik and vizzini slightly different vibes.

In the movie, Inigo is a great swordsman with an awesome backstory, fezzik is a giant and Vizzini is smart. They’re good at their jobs, and they’re mercenaries.

In the book Inigo is the single greatest swordsman on the planet. After the count murdered his father he began training and, at some point, ran out of people to fight and things to learn which is part of the whole drunken stupor thing. He’s second to none. Wesley is beyond brilliant with the sword but only actually better at it than Inigo on flat terrain, because he learned to fight on a ship. Basically he’s poured all of his stat points into one spot. If Inigo hadn’t messed around and in the end gotten himself stuck on flat ground Inigo wins the fight.

Fezzik is a giant. When he was younger he fought professionally, for sport. He stopped doing this because every match was over in a few seconds. That’s how he got depressed and ended up broke and homeless in Greenland. If he had gone for the kill immediately with the rock, if he hadn’t been rusty, he wins the fight.

Individually these 2 literally ran out of worthy adversaries. With vizzini in charge, they weren’t just good mercenaries, they were legendary. There’s a reason they got hired by a nation to start a war, there’s a reason why they managed to invade the fully on alert castle of a monarch, assassinate a count and nearly assassinate the to be king and kidnap his fiancée.

The book still did the whole “true love conquers all” thing, but even with Wesley having this behind his actions he nearly lost his life to those 2.

[limejack]

I really want to make a movie one of these days that’s a comedy. It’s set in high school, where a friend group saves a new kid from being bullied. Over the course of the movie each tries to push their own agenda/ideology onto him, climax of the movie, he gets into a big fight with everyone confronting them about it.

The entire point is that each is just pushing their own stuff, not caring about him. When they deny it, the camera zooms in on his face. He looks the camera straight on, right at the audience, and asks a simple question: “What’s my name?”

[limejack]

Ever just say something? Something no one else will ever hear? A bottle into the ocean, a shout into the void.

[limejack]

If you are reading this you have scrolled far. Stop traveller and rest. Drink some hot beverage, revel in the sensation of being alive. Your quest to kill the kingdom of procrast is a Nobel one, but unnecessary. Borh’dum is a fsr more dangerous and present threat. I hope you have rested and sharpened your wit and weapons. Godspeed traveler, your quest is almost over.

[limejack]

Hello from the Magic Tavern is such a strange podcast to explain, because yes it is just a bunch of dudes sitting around and making butt jokes and Hamilton references but like also the characters assassinate a dictator, manipulate his heirs to prevent a succession crisis, conquer the town they live in and generally sow chaos where ever they go, whilst leaving the tavern only a half dozen times

[limejack]

Chaos is whatever you want it to be! And also everything else but you can safely ignore those

[limejack]

Tumblr? I hardly know ‘er!