MelodiousFunk
@MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 16 hours ago:
I can’t speak for everyone, but if I’m not dead in the next 30 years I’m going to be extremely disappointed.
- Comment on Sony reportedly looking to acquire Kadokawa, owner of ELDEN RING dev FromSoftware 3 days ago:
Yep. This is a much, much bigger deal than just a few game studios.
- Comment on never skip 5 days ago:
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
Sir Oscar Meyer
Wipes the Soylent from his hands as the sandwich was made
NO ONE WAS SAVED - Comment on Have you ever had a shit that smelled like a hair salon? 4 weeks ago:
I picked the wrong week to stop huffing hairspray.
- Comment on Technology Connections: MP3 CDs 5 weeks ago:
My car still has one of these, and I just happened to use it yesterday when the battery on my Bluetooth adapter died. Yes, my car is old. Given the state of new cars today, I think I’m gonna keep it as long as I can.
- Comment on Tough Shit 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Look like you belong 1 month ago:
Is it English ivy? I bet it’s English ivy.
- Comment on God is that which is sacred 1 month ago:
That’s what I thought. But the brutal vote ratio had me questioning whether I was missing something.
- Comment on God is that which is sacred 1 month ago:
Tap for spoiler
I think this is what you were going for, either that or anti-gambling. Or both, I dunno.
- Comment on US port workers and operators reach deal to end East Coast strike immediately | Tentative deal includes a 62% wage hike over six years 1 month ago:
Not just union jobs, but traditionally union industries like auto workers. I have a friend that works in a factory in the US south. Not union, but the pay and benefits are close to keep UAW from gaining a foothold. He would complain about them handing out flyers in front of the plant every so often.
After a recent incident that had him sweating bullets over potentially losing his job for something minor (and having to face management and HR alone), I told him to take the leaflet next time. I hope he does.
- Comment on The Warner Archive Collection & Shout! Studios announce a TON of November & December catalog Blu-ray & 4K titles, plus a new Pulp Fiction 4K from Paramount! 1 month ago:
Silent Night and Wallace & Gromit jumped out for me. Haven’t seen the former in 30 years or so.
- Comment on Vinegar 1 month ago:
You’re probably miracle-intolerant.
- Comment on Vinegar 1 month ago:
It’ll cure what ails ya.
Somehow. Doesn’t matter what it is. Miracle cure, yessiree.
- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
The most painful part is when I go to garden centers and see it for sale.
“Buy it for life!”
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- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
I’m playing whack a mole with my own ivy. Fuck the prior house owners for letting it get out of hand. I got all of it from the trees and the side of the house but it always grows back. I’m still finding sprouts from thick woody vines that have been there forever apparently. I tried removing it from the fence but realized very quickly that it’s the only thing holding it together. 😒
And fuck the English for bringing it over (we both know it was them, even their plants are colonizers).
- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
My yard begs to differ.
- Comment on A Nightmare on Elm Street 4K UHD interview with Freddy Krueger 1 month ago:
the latter features eight additional seconds of unrated footage.
Confused about eight seconds of footage being a selling point, but intrigued nonetheless.
- Comment on Intergalactic Planatary 1 month ago:
Rounded, that’s a clean 42 light years.
I bet it’s Golgafrincham.
- Comment on Empires fall 1 month ago:
“Fun” fact: Bain Capital killed both TRU and KayBee Toys.
- Comment on Netflix’s Monsters is ‘murder porn’ at its worst. It comes at a cost to real victims – and the truth. 1 month ago:
Kurzgesagt videos.
This is really the only part of your rant that I was familiar with. So I can confirm: Kurzgesagt really is one of the best things you can spend time watching.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-09-14: Inside Out 2 shines to the top, followed by Horizon and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. 1 month ago:
All valid points. But it’s the streaming thing that gets me. I would have assumed that streaming captured the lions share of the casual market, leaving mostly enthusiasts left buying physical media. Clearly I was wrong lol.
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-09-14: Inside Out 2 shines to the top, followed by Horizon and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. 1 month ago:
It boggles my mind that DVD still dominates physical media in 2024. I can count on one hand the number of DVDs I’ve bought in the past 10+ years, vs hundreds of Blu-ray titles (and a handful of 4k).
- Comment on Cannibal! The Musical Blu-ray from Degausser/Vinegar Syndrome 1 month ago:
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE: Refuse Films announces the Blu-ray debut of Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical! & the TromArchive Collection! 1 month ago:
Makes sense, thanks for the insight. Agreed on the effort needed to restore Cannibal not lining up with the limited nature. Bummer about the film getting lost, but that explains why it’s been DVD-only for so long.
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE: Refuse Films announces the Blu-ray debut of Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical! & the TromArchive Collection! 1 month ago:
Please tell me there’s going to be standard editions that aren’t limited to 3,000 copies. Wtf.
- Comment on Not cognitive behavioural therapy 1 month ago:
It’s two fold.
One is quality of care. I was in a program that technically offered DBT. In a month’s worth of daily sessions (25 hours a week), we got two worksheets that introduced a couple of DBT concepts. Each was discussed for 50 minutes and then never spoken of again. I can count on one finger the number of therapists I’ve had that did active CBT work. And I hadn’t even heard of ACT until recently - one of the group facilitators in the program I’m attending brought it in as a passion project. The information is good but he’s struggling with the group dynamic.
The other is, it’s not that insurance doesn’t cover the techniques, it’s that providers may or may not work with the insurance your employer chose. At my last job, 75% of the in-network list in like a 25 mile radius comprised of one organization that was basically a pill mill with a raft of overwhelmed social workers. It was maddening. And the only options were pay out the ass for out of network, or get a new job and hope it wasn’t more of the same.
The US “health” “care” system no longer exists. Nobody in the pyramid cares about your health except for maybe your doctor. And there’s only so much they can do. It’s purely a “medical services industry,” whose sole purpose extracting profits from misery.
Hail corporate. 🫥
- Comment on Not cognitive behavioural therapy 1 month ago:
I think the joke was that in the US, it’s rare.
- Comment on The mark 2 months ago:
A wristwatch that you can’t take off. With GPS and geofencing.
- Comment on Name generator 2 months ago:
Always nice to find fellow Spoonerism enjoyers in the wild.
