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- Comment on "Yeah, yeah, I totally know what a lion looks like, just give me the brush" 2 days ago:
I miss Looney Tunes so much.
- Comment on Make Monday a spuddle Monday! 6 days ago:
What a shpadoinkle word!
- Comment on we have a problem 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I could deal with Adrian’s shenanigans just fine. That whole thing was supposed to be over the top, so they shifted most of his story to non-canonical status. I understood why, at the time. But then, the main storyline moved on to a lot of odd muscle porn stuff that was kinda not important to the story. I was dealing with that when I came across a thread lamenting the fact that the actual Gilgamesh of ancient legend was coming into the story as a living character somehow. I read ahead to confirm, and then I gave up. It was just one ridiculous bridge too far. The beautiful HFY story I’d started reading all the way back with Kevin Jenkins (whose character transformed in some nonsensical ways himself) was just too off the rails for me at that point. Add the dismissive treatment of female characters later on, and it was just another story ruined for me. So many great characters and so much unrealized potential…
There were some seriously emotional stories in the Jenkinsverse, but there were so many side stories that went nowhere. I’ve just been disappointed too many times to continue to sort through it all.
If you liked it all, more power to you. It had some pretty fantastic moments. It just transformed too far away from what I enjoyed about it for me to continue.
- Comment on NEW JOB! 2 weeks ago:
Shiny
- Comment on Woaaaaa 2 weeks ago:
It’s just the ice wall on the edge of the flat earth. Checkmate, globe-lovers!
/s
- Comment on NEW JOB! 2 weeks ago:
I mean, a rocket will get you past the sky, so…
- Comment on NEW JOB! 2 weeks ago:
Nah, dude. Just wait until the deceased field gets oversaturated. All the hordes of people wandering pointlessly, everybody trampling over everyone else trying to eat the organs of the living…it’s a dead end job that’ll get worse with time.
- Comment on we have a problem 2 weeks ago:
God, I’m still so sad that that universe went so off the rails. It’s like the GoT of online fiction.
- Comment on Elder scrolls 1 month ago:
And now I’m blind. Thanks!
- Comment on Public trust 1 month ago:
I tried explaining universal precautions to a pastor of a church I was attending, and pointed out that there is a Christian commandment to love one’s neighbor that overrides one’s personal desires. He could not dispute my points, but he also didn’t do anything to implement safety procedures.
Guess who left the church after the unsurprising COVID outbreak?
I realize a lot of people here aren’t believers, but my point is that even within the context of religion or common wisdom, masks make sense.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about how decades of lead in gasoline, pipes, and in other places likely damaged generations of people’s ability to reason. I’m sincerely beginning to think this is a bigger problem than we’ll ever truly know.
- Comment on Discovery will be the first Star Trek show in half a century to end without a single Jonathan Frakes appearance 1 month ago:
RIP SGU
- Comment on Public trust 1 month ago:
People act like their mamas never told 'em to cover their damned mouths when they cough or sneeze. It’s the same damned thing, only masks work much better at keeping your filthy germs from infecting other people.
Common sense ain’t common, they say, and this anti-mask nonsense is just proof that it’s true.
- Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this 3 months ago:
Does anybody remember the way the floors had a springiness to them and how they squeaked and creaked as you walked across them?
How about the mental kind of threshold-looking strip in the middle of the floor from wall to wall where I believe they had connected two halves together, if I recall?
- Comment on A billionaire wrote this letter to Google a year ago. How likely is that Google's layoffs and actions since then are at least partly because of this? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Anon has memory loss 3 months ago:
This is what happens to my 80-year-old dad as he declines mentally. He starts conversations and then it’s like he forgets what words to use. It’s incredibly frustrating, especially for him. He knows what he wants to say, gets into it, then there’s a “file not found” moment that derails him.
- Comment on What a bargain! 3 months ago:
I read the “your” as singular at first, raising the troubling specter of people having their multiple asses cleaned. If it weren’t for an ancient South Park reference with Dr. Mephisto’s multi-assed mutants, I think I’d be worried about how my mind works. Maybe I should be, anyway.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
Is House Craftsman like the Reynes of Castemere or something?
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