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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Sherlock Holmes is a drug addict in the books.

So yeah. You’re right: he just looks like someone not falling apart

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My man was just self-medicating his migraines and his ADHD.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Columbo is just like me frfr

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Columbo is all four corners at once. He always looks like he's doing rough, but he never quite looks like he's falling apart. He's just happy where he is. And he does use vibes in addition to algorithmic logic. He usually knows who the murderer is after his first time meeting them. He just has to prove it using the proper rigour

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holmes was a mess.

He was unpopular at school; hung out with the lower classes; used cocaine; once shot the letters 'V R' into his living room wall; was a member of a club where no member was supposed to speak to another; only survived as long as he did because his brother was a major government official.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sherlock was not a club member, that was Mycroft (I vaguely remember him being one of the founders, too).

The rest is true though. With the addition of Sherlock having major bouts of depression where he would not leave him rooms for days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It's true that Doyle never mentioned it, but it's logical that Holmes would want a place he could duck into for a quick meal; or a nap; or to put on a new disguise. Watson does say that Holmes had bolt holes around London, so it would have been foolish for him not to have a membership.

I remember reading about his membership in a non canon work.

If you're a fan look up 'The 7% Solution.' It's available as a novel and a movie; Holmes meets the only doctor capable of curing his cocaine addiction, Sigmund Freud.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'll never forget my first playthrough of Disco.

Spent an hour attempting to build a character I thought would make a good detective.

Wake up... oh god this is really bad hrm...

Well ok... lets get my tie.

Heart Attack. Dead. Game Over.

Possibly the greatest single player rpg ever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Flirts with a car

Dies

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Chair too uncomfy :(

Dies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, this was my exact experience as well. Then I restarted and leaned into being a drug-fueled maniac superstar detective who may have dabbled lightly in communism and completely crushed solving the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I think Holmes belongs on the bottom right. He is a mess of a human being, and he makes intuitive leaps that are borderline magical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

All the way to the right, but almost perfectly center on the vertical scale.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Fuckin nailed Columbo though lmao mans always seemed like he was one flight of stairs away from the end of existence... but he perseveres.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Somewhere in the middle is sam vimes with just blind stubborness getting him through most of his work

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Screaming "THAT IS NOT MY COW! WHERE IS MY COW?" while on a rampage is a big falling apart vibe though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Ya it's bit of a pendulum or even a circling motion for him

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ah, Coop. Operating entirely on vibes and damn fine coffee.

Keep throwing Tibetan rocks at glass bottles, you absolute maniac.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Holmes does not, in fact, have his shit together

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

And yet Colombo does in fact have all his shit together just messily stacked in a pile.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I see Rapaël Ambrosius Costeau, I upvote

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

I'll have to be the one who asks who those people are.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Correct answers only.

  • Top left: Tony Starks Dad from the iron man movies
  • Top Right: Hawkeye from M.A.S.H.
  • Bottom left: Ben Shapiros manlier cousin
  • Bottom right: rat man from portal 2
[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Upper left: Sherlock Holmes Upper right: Inspector Columbo Lower right: The Detective of the video game „Disco Elyseum“

I don’t know who‘s the guy on lower left.

If you don’t know Columbo or the game, I recommend both. Best go in without much knowledge about them. It will be fun.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

He's FBI agent Dale Cooper from real life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lower left is the detective from Twin Peaks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~Lower left is Ace Ventura, no?~~

Ah wait, I'm really wrong - it's Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

On the lower left is FBI agent Dale Cooper from the "Twin Peaks" TV series.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Highly recommend watching the original show just a lil high. Not too much, you'll lose the thread. But if you keep in the zone, it's a wild wild ride.

Still cannot believe that show was on primetime broadcast television in the 90s, it's the perfect marriage of art and commercial filmmaking. And the whole country was OBSESSED with it. Really wish we had more weird, beautiful stuff like it Twin Peaks =\

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And the whole thing was David Lynch taking the piss out of other primetime shows.

I understand it was a big hit in Japan. Which seems weird, but alongside their apparent appreciation for King Of The Hill, it makes sense: these shows are Americans exaggerating Americana. Cooper is even enough of an outsider to appreciate it in-universe. With aggressive sincerity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

thank you mr jackpots

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

D‘oh!

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Lower left is Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Lower left is the detective from Twin Peaks.

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