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Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My head cannon is that it’s being interpreted by Mouth who is adding his own artistic flair to the text. So the “ye” this and that are just him playing around with the words.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Him playing around makes sense the first time he's translating the Spanish in the attic. It makes less sense when he keeps doing it after they're running for their lives from the Fratelli's, dodging booby traps and are facing yet another trap that is a full pipe organ made of human bones. And he's clearly scared when he translates it. But, maybe he just has weird defense mechanisms, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe he was just committed to the bit by that point.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We've all been guilty of carrying the bit too long before

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, nobody likes it when the bit finishes prematurely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah... memories of me as a preteen pretending to choke in front of my siblings. Still feel a pang of guilt from that one every now and then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was "drowning" for me, seeing how long I could float face down and completely limp in the pool. I could go for around a minute. And that's too long when nobody else is in on the game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

lol what's wrong with us?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Is your head cannon a front-loader?