SuperBiasedMan

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  1. It's hard to explain but I'm wondering if it was there specifically to be dropped. A lot of this show has created unease in so many ways, this is certainly one of them.
  2. The thing is, I don't think a plot has to be resolved or relevant to not be pointless. Audrey's scant scenes still had an effect, and underlined the themes of cycles and being lost. I think leaving them out would be to the detriment of the show, even if it doesn't 'go anywhere'. EDIT: My read was that she thought things would be different with the "real" Cooper back, but then his flat emotionless face just brought her back to memories of Bad Coop and realising she couldn't just separate them.
  3. To me, I take the sheer number of these questions as evidence that this is an intentional choice rather than sloppy or meandering story telling. I think the show has been withholding throughout. Audrey's absence, then teaser appearance and unsettling reveal without a conclusion is one of the more obvious ones. Though I haven't yet concluded why it would be the case, I'm pretty convinced Frost and Lynch didn't just let a whole load of threads drop accidentally.
  4. Good luck! I've been following along reading and the game looks interesting so I hope you find success with the Kickstarter, I'm rooting for ya.
  5. My logic at the moment is that BadCoop had something he wanted at a certain set of co-ordinates. He knew a lot of people would act against him, so he tried to confirm the co-ordinates by asking for multiple sources to provide them. Having gotten 3 sets, he did indeed discover that one of them did not match and suspected that there was a trap waiting, but at which point? Since he happened upon Richard, he decided to test out the more likely co-ordinates on him, just in case. But I expect that he would have had other means to test it if he had not already found Richard.
  6. I don't think it's bargain basement style, but I don't see anything in the choices thus far to justify using rape in this way when other things could've been just as effective. The original series and FWWM I found very good at that, so I'd be all on board with it again if I saw depth to it like those had. I would like to be proven wrong though, what was it that made you feel the depictions were of trauma and psychological damage were in-depth? I can see that with Dougie and it may be going that way with Audrey but it is a bit early to call that.
  7. Cooper could have gone after the FBI and the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department. Truman and Cole would be prime targets, would they not? He could destroy the town of Twin Peaks itself, undermine the safe haven Cooper thought he had found. Specifically targeting the women Cooper cared about and enacting gendered violence onto them is just one of the options they could have taken, and one of the less interesting ones to me. I didn't have a specific picture of what evil Cooper could do, but rape as the go to is just something normalised by TV as a tropey way to show how horrible a villain is with little thought to their victims. Twin Peaks has been good about this in the past, and hopefully the finale will fare better than the rest of the season has thus far. It's not the worst, but it certainly has left something to be desired when compared to Fire Walk With Me.
  8. I feel largely the same. My one thought is that there could be something interesting there if the acknowledge Bad Coop as part of Cooper. His actions expressions of Cooper's desires that he would normally hold in check, if he was not let loose as Mr. C has been for 25 years. If it is just bad man does bad things to vulnerable women, see how bad he is, I'll be quite disappointed. Especially because the real horror of Laura's murder was how much the surreal was tied to real life horror that people actually go through. If Mr. C's actions are viewed through a lens of what a 'good man' could do, or something more poignant than that. I've only been thinking about this today but I'm sure Frost and Lynch have had thoughts for a long time. Very much looking forward to the finale.
  9. Important If True 26: Get Hype

    You may stay spicy, but you will always be a dentist.
  10. No Man's Sky

    Has anyone played Creative mode? Whenever I play that's what I intend to do because I'm not interested in the game 'challenging' me, I'd rather just explore and play it out in whatever way I'd like. But is creative just a sandbox mode with minimal interactions or is it like a cheat mode where you never have to worry about resources? I'd much prefer that it's the latter, rather than a mode where they remove certain functionality that's kept for the "real" game.
  11. I wouldn't even say that. To me, Bad Coop is Cooper. The dark side of Cooper that has fully taken control uncontested. I think that might be what Jeffries was implying.
  12. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    Tumbleseed is great. I definitely recommend it to everyone after a big update they did that allows new players to ease into it more.
  13. Masculinity

    What's weird is that the most visible concepts of masculinity to me are toxic aspects. Dominance in a bad light, a lack of empathy or emotional intelligence and a focus on competition over collaboration in many areas (including sex as a conquest). I don't think masculinity is inherently toxic or wholly bad, but I really don't have a big picture of what good or pure masculinity is. I don't feel as though this is a crisis, I don't have a strong urge to distance myself from it or find a definition that feels good. But it is a strange thing to feel like I don't have a roadmap for what a good man should be, I mostly just try to think in terms of what a good person should be.
  14. FUCK OFF SEAN CONNERY

    Oh good! I was hoping that'd be my post. (I didn't really enjoy Raiders)
  15. I Had A Random Thought...

    It has a sense of "runs" rather than matches that are permadeath adjacent. Most of the time in PUBG, you think of it as going for an attempt at winning. You're hoping for good random loot and favourable circles. Preparing for what type of run it will be. Am I going to the military base to gather supplies and then boating up to settle in the far North? In a multiplayer game where it's just matches, there's a lot more known knowns, compared to the known unknowns of PUBG that make it feel closer to a permadeath game even if it's just a match of a multiplayer game you're doing.
  16. He's a fan of Idle Thumbs and I believe he has also used "hoisted".
  17. I Had A Random Thought...

    @Bjorn whether intentional or not, I like reading your "Great Axe of Social Justice" user group as "Great Acts of Social Justice"
  18. I think Steve would be Chewbacca, seemed pretty obvious to me. And Danielle would be Wash.
  19. I find LostInTheMovies's posts very informative and fascinating to read, because he's so well read on the series and Lynch's work as a whole and reveals information and speculation that I would've never known otherwise as a casual viewer.
  20. Splatoon is Ink-redible

    Agreed on both those points!
  21. Splatoon is Ink-redible

    Oh well yes that is true. I'm not sure how special the events are going to be though? I've heard the main purpose is just to limit a player's access to the highly valuable rewards it offers. So I wouldn't think that'd make it too rare (and the window so far has been a whole day, rather than 2-4 hours).
  22. Splatoon is Ink-redible

    It's not, you can do it online (solo or with friends) by going to a shack to the left of the... uh main central elevator lookin thing where you do versus matches.
  23. Modest Tech: The NX Generation (Nintendo Switch)

    The voice stuff is a total shambles, but I actually quite like the Spa2n companion app so I hope they focus more on that stuff. I don't even know if a good voice program would've been a great voice chat experience since you'd just have to use your phone?
  24. I think there's an assumption here you're forgetting. The annihilation is never claimed to be instantaneous. Cooper in a sense is still confronting the Black Lodge and his doppelganger, so his test is not over. Depending on how strictly you're taking the definition of "imperfect", I would say he may not have failed yet.
  25. I don't think Richard Horne's action lack context in that sense that we don't understand why he did what he did. But we know him so little that I lack context on who he is as a person. That to me makes the scenes more distressing (in a good, effective way) because this monster of a man is just letting loose on people and that's all we've ever seen of him. Why did he become like this, is there a 'reason' even if it's not a good one? The unknown makes it more unsettling than if he had just been set up as "here's this villain rich kid who does whatever he wants and doesn't care."