Thank You, It’s Been Nice But I Got It On My Own From Here

today in "google AI is fucking useless because it hallucinates things that never happened", i bought a couple CVS thermometers that have both been acting up, tried to search if there had been a problem with the whole product line:

there is no record of this product recall. it did not happen. the date "feb 8 2024" is the date someone listed a thermometer for sale on ebay.

Guilty!

i knew haolin would come in clutch

that episode 2 adds the implication that nice committed suicide out of treeman forcing him into a straight showmance, on top of all the other pressures, adds an undeniably tragic twist. to dig a little deeper, though, I can’t help but think of a few things:

1) that we have heard absolutely nothing from nice’s family (or wreck’s, for that matter).

2) that nice & wreck wanted to be heroes together — and the company forced them into this position.

from these, i do draw the conclusion that Nice wasn’t closeted in his personal life. The lack of a family contacting Nice after weeks of silence; there’s a distance, if they’re alive, that I think many gay people can relate to.

I draw the follow up implication, then, that Nice wasn’t just forced to remain closeted; he was forced back in.

the love he had hoped to maintain even through it was being devalued by the company as they began working to push Nice into the top ten. He had a “true love” show scheduled with a woman who loathed him — and had just seen a promo (sent by Lin Ling) indicating that the company planned for him to begin pushing for the top spot. In short, the closet doors were not just closed, but locking shut, with no room for Nice behind them and no path of escape.

If Treeman wanted take Nice’s life from him, then he would take Nice from them.

just your regular sibling fight

brb gotta go commune with god

"they're twins but the cat genes are recessive so lyney is a normal human and Lynette is a cat girl"

no. cowards. lyney is a catboy but Differently

what do u mean the nemesis immediately knew his rival had been replaced and is intensely jealous to nice's girlfriend and apparently was set off by nice not replying to his messages and then has a complete breakdown when he learns what happened to the original....

Hmmm ep 3 didn't hit as hard for me ngl. Like don't get me wrong, absolutely fucked how badly the public's perception can screw you over, poor man couldn't shit or sleep properly, that's some body horror right there. I like how this episode reinforced how you have to be careful with your image or stuff like that can happen, but also that was already shown pretty well with Moon only teleporting to Nice and Lin Ling developing OCD (or pre exising ocd getting worse idk). I guess it was showing the physical effects rather than powers and mental effects as well as commenting on toxic masculinity, but something about it just didn't really hit me.

Again though, something didn't feel right to me. Perhaps that was due to this feeling more like a stop gap between ep2 and ep4 as well as getting Nice/Lin Ling to the top ten. (but also like him not already being top ten didn't need to happen sooooo) Overall the episode did not feel bad, just not at the same level. Which I can't expect tbhx to be constantly going actually insane, so that's on me. (not a dis on the show, I just set the bar at Pluto after the first 2 episodes, need to bring that back down to like, maybe the moon, which is still insane, but i have faith) I also maybe just need to rewatch ep3, i could've missed a detail that would make me lose it. The facial expression on that one guy's face in the Firmman backstory segment was hilarious tho. 10/10 background character