No, just an ambiguous waterslide collapse, nothing as notorious as Action Park
On a writing note: the waterslide collapse being a couple super gnarly cases (“that sounds like consent to me!”) rather than a reprise mass casualty event was good, very much a death-by-a-thousand-cuts season
I don’t know that I have a conclusion to that thought except that when Becca first showed up as a character I was a bit shocked and these are some thoughts I had while confronting that reaction.
A thing I’m mulling on is that Becca’s mannerisms used to be common in pop culture, albeit usually performed by non-disabled actors. We rightly stopped doing that, but instead disappeared characters like Becca entirely and moved into the Bazinga era of autism as a quirky superpower.
This was a great episode about Strong Personalities, both with the regular cast getting stood up to by their peers for their behaviour and also for The Shark coming in to show what a *real* "I'm a surgeon and thus better than you" asshole looks like.
Pitt S2E10 invisible thread
I know he’s aware it exists but I doubt he’s seen it
Huh, that would make it easier to get a very specific type of shot
The amount of time I spent sanding, this is the definition of bespoke.
We had a huge shoot this week, rented a studio and everything, and I feel like I owe James a $200 commission for inspiring me to make this, I continue to use it so much.
What are your hotel life hacks?
Mine is using towels to fine tune the height of their awful pillows.
To make it clear, this is the ambiguity. It's not *actually* about order of operations, it just looks like it is. It's actually about the grammar of math. It's like saying "Jim and Keith went to the store where he bought a bag of chips."
I haven't heard about that at all. I assume it's largely a "I bought this on Amazon" issue, like fake SanDisk memory cards?
Yeah, whenever I need to do math in LUA I go overload with parenthesis, I don't care how messy it ends up looking.
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I have bad news about calculators
That's the crux of what makes it engagement bait: is it written as 2(1+2) to imply the whole expression is the denominator, or is the writer just trying to trick you into making a mistake and thinking "well, that's attached to parenthesis so it goes first, even though it's just multiplication"
The thing I find fascinating about these engagement bait math "puzzles" is that they exploit a familiarity with better structured questions: if you actually do more algebra you're more likely to read 2(1+2) as the implied denominator because that's how it'd be structured in a proper equation.
The only correct answer to "what's 6÷2(1+2)?"
I think she holds it together for at least an hour and a half
Unfortunately the fireworks story is very distressing
Pitt episode 9 thread
Fireworks amputation!
I will say: the stuff I re-wrote in bed at 2am last night is 🔥
I am hitting the stress threshold where I have so much to do that doing any of it is a Herculean feat, but at least there’s a coherent end time and end goal, god what a week.
Released? What? Shadow drop?!
A little cringe, but boy I’m developing a soft spot for Joy.
Sound design in the final scene was stellar
Someone needs to put Ogilvie down like an injured horse.
