u/FabledFrost

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Nothing. Well actually two, we put a baby latch for the cabinet under the sink with the chemicals and added suspension on the tv so it doesn't fall forward

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How come they are so bad?

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Just a question of curiosity, if you decide not to put them to sleep and ask them to play instead, do they beg to put to sleep instead?

Just want to know if being a difficult sleeper means they are ignoring any other activity, wanting to sleep but still fighting sleep or if they are fighting it because they want to do something other than sleep.

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They didn't immediately send him back though. Bio MJ looked to be be about a year old during the fair scene when adopted MJ stabbed bio MJ with the fork. 

I'm assuming that's when they sent him back. 

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I mean everyone is pretty bad. MJ starting a schoolfire, rumours that drove a girl to suicide, stealing yu min's life's work. Just did not care for anybody, which is he did not create a connection with anybody. Yu min for killing... so many people after his life was ruined.

MJ's accountant buddy might be one of the lightest criminal there. All he did was steal from Noja and then got caught by Yu Min. Honestly his crime compared to everyoen else wasn't that bad if he didn't get caught by Yu Min. He only took 10% from MJ for the crime he thought up, created, and made happen. MJ only executed it and MJ still had to be supported by accountant buddy throughout every part of it.

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I felt like the answers were there but they were outside of the realm of believability for some. You're right about Noja getting out of that grave. Quite unbelievable. Also, them naming their new bio son after their adopted son? They were shown to be terrible parents but that's quite unbelievable for them to do. I discussed in this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/kdramas/comments/1w0l7o7/mousetrap_episode_10/p6y7nou/ They just kept calling them both MJ? It was their explanation for why they both have the same flashback memory to the fair. Even if they renamed the adopted son and had the bio son take the new name and the uncle only called for "MJ" when adopted MJ ran away is because he had Alzheimer's; that would also be far out of belief. Really it would be easier to go through the effort to rename your adopted kid to give your bio kid that name than to just.. think up a new name?

Other than that, I did enjoy the drama though even though the last two episodes had a ton of events randomly thrown in. It was fun ride.

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Im surprised a lot of people felt that questions were piling up. I actually felt it was answering them and pretty directly. Whether they are good answers is a different story.

Why wouldn’t his batchmates recognize him as Je Moon jae when he literally had the same face all along, especially if the replacement happened when they were around six?

He didn't replace the older MJ literally. The parents couldn't have kids so they adopted MJ. They ended up having a biological kid so they ended up naming the actual biological kid MJ instead. Which... seems like an entirely asshole thing to do. Throughout the series, we see that his parents are very much not good parents. We saw that MJ hated his father, and hated her mother more. Her mother hating MJ's father enough to do a murder suicide. They have a lot of flashback scenes to the fairgrounds about this. Where Su Yong is stabs his biological MJ, saying "I'm the real MJ, I'm the real MJ". After Su Yong (adopted MJ) stabs baby MJ, he runs away, and his uncle keeps searching for adopted MJ by calling for MJ). Which is why both Su Yong and MJ both individually flashed back to uncle calling out MJ's name at the fair. The series does constantly foretell Su Yong have impulsive anger issues that he takes out physically, by punching through walls and etc. So this question is answered and is foreshadowed but quite out of the realm of belief? Sure, you're bad parents, but like you're going to have a new kid and name him the same name and you just call them both MJ, what??? I mean I guess it could be explained that they ended up changing adopted MJ's name to something else after bio MJ was born which is why adopted MJ was mad enough to stab baby MJ but that wasn't explicitly stated or implied so it seems so far reaching.

How exactly were the first Moon-jae we know and the detective brothers?

Explained as above. Su Yong as Adopted MJ also explains that he saw his uncle (bio MJ's b uncle) as practically his father. I would guess that they gave up adopted MJ after he stabbed baby MJ. A whole that Im filling is that the uncle probably got Alzheimer's and dropped out of MJ's parent's lives and MJ's parents die in an accident so that personal connection became severed from bio son MJ.

What was the actual significance of starting the fire during the school trip?

MJ explained this to Noja. He had a conversation pretending to be another kid. And he explained why he wanted to be someone else. Because ever since he was born, he was always compared to the "old MJ". He felt like he was never himself. He always had to become the "best MJ". He even tried to register as "Park Chan-U" instead because of the pressures and disappoints of himself. So this MJ grew up very hateful of the world, his parents, himself, everything. We see this in how he views other people, his parents, his crush, his classmates, his "rival", everything.

Noja’s character was just there to be his savior?

This was explained much earlier on by Yu min. Noja was supposed to act like a Cat with MJ being the mouse. He comments that the Cat and Mouse aren't supposed to team up. But Noja was supposed to be the Cat that gives him the karmic retribution and helplessness of facing who he really is and not being able to prove it. It ends up backfiring and they team up instead. With some digging, The original korean folklore is that the Cat is the only way to figure out who the rat really is. It's really Yu min trying to set as many traps onto MJ. (Detective, Noja, the 2nd volume of "The Rat" which he gave to the editor and also placed into his room). One thing I'm confused at is why the editor just pushes MJ to finish the second volume rather than releasing the one she has? That's a loophole I see that is not explained. The other answers could just be outside of the realm of belief but this one seemed entirely missed.

Also, that whole fight between the two police divisions??

At this point, the major crimes unit believed that the regional(?) police were cooperating with the suspect. Which they were, they literally smuggled him out. The fighting is probably more about it being a webtoon source and adding extra fight scenes. Action comic book sources are always over the top.


My only open question that I have is: They announce and release a book. That's when Yu min goes public as MJ. When Bio MJ confronts editor, editor says she's read all of MJ's works, and The Rat is definitely of MJ's work, it can't be faked. 4 episodes later, Yu min explains who he actually is, that he's not MJ but he's the real writer and hands a new manuscript and says it should be fast tracked. Editor says it hasn't been edited yet. Yu min says there's no time. So I inferred that the book release announcement referred to The Rat volume 1, and when confronted by bio MJ, she says she's already read The Rat and it's definitely MJ's work. So she's already read The Rat, that must be volume one. She's handed a new manuscript that she hasn't read yet but she told bio MJ that she has read The Rat (maybe the rough draft). That's I inferred it's volume two. After the events in the show, Volume 1 is a massive success and she keeps bugging MJ to finish Volume 2.

Edit: It could also be that the first one was just an announcement but she only read a partial draft and the manuscript that Yu min hands to the editor at the end is actually the final full Volume 1. Which makes sense since Yu min says the ending is already written after handing the manuscript. Meaning that volume 2 is back at his place already having been written?

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Is this what dotagentsprotocol tries to solve? Is dotagentsprotocol unsuccessful?

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This is what Possums Approach actually says. It states that there is little evidence in neuroscience to suggest that overtiredness actually exists. 

We tend to believe that lack of sleep causes cortisol levels to rise preventing sleep but it's possible that it may be the opposite, that stress over the lack of sleep or other stressors is causing adults to not easily sleep, not the lack of sleep itself.

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They are still the third wealthiest country (by total wealth) so that still counts for something. 

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Same, they never did but I think I would've dreaded if they came. In my case, it's more relief they never did

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I can't believe how good this is. I so want this as a painting 

Edit: found your etsy shop!! https://www.etsy.com/listing/1766799075/the-installation-art-print

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Omg, Battlestar Galactica, I miss you so much

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Honestly, it makes sense. The community just don't think it's worth paying for. We vote with our wallet and our votes are speaking for themselves.

It has nothing to do with AI, there were already very few games being developed before the AI boom and people aren't willing to pay for it and when monetization is added, people complain. This is the result.

And yes, I'm part of the problem too, I got into it when A Dark Room was released and have been playing incremental games for a decade and I've probably spent less than $100 on all incremental games combined.

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If your community is that fine with moving, Telegram has a 200,000 member limit which should be quite hard to reach

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Wow I never even thought about just putting it on the keyboard. I was struggling with getting portable monitor stands and everything. Genius!

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I love misunderstandings Manhwa/Manga. Mangas like One Piece and Spy x Family are just so fun to read.

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Nice work!

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I've used the costco card in google wallet ever since they switched to using scanners at the door. It's just a barcode, so scanning with self check out or the door scanner is perfectly fine

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Season one of Killing Eve was so amazing

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I usually have to freeze things individually in a tray and then put them into a bag afterwards. It takes more space so it's definitely harder to do. Companies usually flash freeze their products and then package them which is why frozen products aren't just one clump.

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Have you looked about how it compared to Spark? I'm in that same journey myself

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https://www.reddit.com/r/tomorrow/comments/ovl2mz/hey_guys_send_us_your_favorite_zelda_songs_just/ Nintendo asked people to post their favorite Zelda music and then struck down every single video 

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Peach's untold tale