WeirdAlex03

WeirdAlex03, 5 days ago

It will leave you wishing there was a full third season, but in a good way

Even though the writers/producers were dealt a bad hand, that didn’t stop them from making an excellent finale. If you felt the pacing pick up a bit in the latter half of season 2, you’ll still feel that here, and they didn’t get to neatly wrap up all the storylines, but it was a brilliant result imo. You should definitely watch it!

(also take note of the first word of the three episodes 😉)

WeirdAlex03, 6 days ago

Uh oh, I think the Lemmy communities are collapsing in on themselves! I just left !digital_circus, but it’s still here!

The tall one (don’t think they have names, right?) gives me more Zooble vibes than Jax though. But they’re also a bit harder to do a cosplay of, so I guess matching-tall-with-tall it is

WeirdAlex03, 7 days ago

Welp, it was nice knowing you, Skiney! Good thing you left enough DNA behind on your palisman staffs for the grimwalkers

(Seriously curious how Mark’s gonna have them get out of this though. This ain’t no simple puppetry, this is the stuff that made Luz say “Mama Eda, I don’t feel so good.” Heck, even The Collector struggled against it. And it doesn’t seem like anyone came through for them last second…)

WeirdAlex03, 8 days ago

Hey! Hunter might not be a leading runway model, but you do not mess with the wolf pants!

WeirdAlex03, 10 days ago

Giraffes were banished to the Human Realm for their untold crimes on the Isles. Platypuses just went for vacation and found such a nice spot they decided to settle down permanently

WeirdAlex03, 10 days ago

Witch Among Humans fans: “First time?”

WeirdAlex03, 13 days ago

GIF of Spy from the TF2 video “Meet the Spy” saying “He could be in this very room. It could be you. It could be me.”

WeirdAlex03, 14 days ago

Well, this just got interesting. Looks like our rescue party will need a rescue party for their own

WeirdAlex03, 16 days ago

Honestly not reading a lot off of the community posts, a few small hints yeah, but nothing really significant to look forward to. I’m much more interested in the teaser and music preview (linked above). Going into the episode, I still stand by my thoughts I shared on the music preview post

WeirdAlex03, 13 days ago

After watching:

• Called it! I misplaced the music cue from the preview, but I’m giving myself a pat on the back for putting Pomni abstracting as just a dream/nightmare used to open the episode
• A little surprised there was no opening theme here though, I was looking forward to seeing how the original was going to be revised to replace Kaufmo with Pomni
• Interesting that Bubble (and by extension probably also Caine and all the other NPCs/AIs) can swear normally; only the human characters have that diegetic filter
• I take it Gangle is destined to immediately have her comedy mask broken at the start of every episode, and for Ragatha to be injured in some way?
  • And Jax throws an aside glance to the camera and Pomni gets separated from the others in the climax
  • And apparently the theme will be remixed for the final emotional moment of the episode
• Wow Jax is just an absolute asshole this episode! I wonder if this was meant to counter all the Jax love from Episode 1?
  • Though we do see at the end of the episode he was sad for Kaufmo for just a split second before catching himself and acting annoyed again – it’s clear this whole thing was just supposed to be a distraction for him and it obviously wasn’t distracting enough.
• On that note: overall a much different tone to the pilot here, really putting the “psychological dark” in “psychological dark comedy” here
• Really nice how Pomni got some character development here, being able to open up more with Gummigoo and seeing from the funeral that the other cast members actually care about each other and revising the abstraction nightmare to have them all reach out and grab her
• RIP Gummigoo 😭
  • So Caine absolutely confused a human for an NPC at one point and brutally murdered them in such a terrible way that even he feels remorse … such emotion with so little face…
• Almost no Zooble at all this episode! We could guess from the teasers that they were skipping the adventure again, but I expected at least a B plot with them “hanging out” with Caine in the circus
• I will say there were a few times where the voice acting felt just a little off, but overall it was still very good, especially in the more emotional scenes

In the end: looking forward to episode 3! (and rewatching this plenty more times along the way)

WeirdAlex03, 16 days ago

What wholesome magic sweethearts

WeirdAlex03, 17 days ago

So it’s the ancient Roman blacksmith’s version of Benchy. Got it

WeirdAlex03, 18 days ago

I would gladly watch/read a full series of this!

WeirdAlex03, 19 days ago

Hey wait a minute, this isn’t !theowlhouse!

(image source)

WeirdAlex03, 20 days ago

The TLD TL;DR is basically that domains don’t come out of nowhere. Just like how you need a lemmy.zip domain to be able to have the subdomains next.lemmy.zip or old.lemmy.zip, in order to have the domain lemmy.zip you must first have someone to run the .zip top-level domain (in this case, Google)

Like Forester mentioned in the other comment, you can have any combination of letters you want as a TLD, you just have to set up and manage all the infra for it (or find somebody else to do it for you)

WeirdAlex03, 19 days ago

Well Kikimora, at least you deserve something for your efforts:

Clipart of a gold star with text in the font Comic Sans reading “you tried” (in lowercase)

WeirdAlex03, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

:::spoiler Discussion

It’s interesting how it’s so similar yet so different to the final product. A lot more interesting and engaging, too, this would’ve hooked me in a lot earlier than the actual show did

• BI as a travel hub? What are all those other dimensions about?
• I wonder if that first demon Luz meets was an inspiration for Kikimora. Obviously it became the fairy and guard in ep 1, but idk, still getting some slight Kiki vibes from it too
• Imo much more convincing reason for Luz to want to stay in the Isles
• Hints of Lumity from episode 1? I wonder how the people would’ve reacted to Luz’s “questing in all the right ways” comment from 1x02 Witches Before Wizards if that happened after this (obviously by “the people” I mean “Twitter” and by “I wonder” I mean "accusations of queerbaiting thrown left and right, bisexuality be damned)
• I wonder if Amity was already planned to be Lilith’s protégé? That would’ve been an interesting conflict as they warmed up to each other
• But Eda secretly working for the Emperor‽‽‽ Certainly doesn’t seem like she was very happy about the arrangement. Really curious about how that was going to play out, especially w.r.t. her relation to Lilith

:::

(edit: broke paragraph into bullet points)