hactar42
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- Comment on Yes 2 days ago:
I’m this old
- Comment on What are some examples of some of the most well-known and watched TV series at the time that been forgotten culturally? 2 weeks ago:
I tried watching ALF not too long ago. It didn’t really hold up. It was just okay. The humor felt flat and one note. I grew up watching it and even the nostalgia vibe didn’t keep me interested. Golden Girls on the other hand will still have me cracking up every episode.
- Comment on What are some examples of some of the most well-known and watched TV series at the time that been forgotten culturally? 2 weeks ago:
I loved HIMYM when it was airing. I feel like people gloss over just how bad the entire last season was. After watching that show from day one I quit halfway through the last season, with the intention of just binging it once it was done. Then I heard about the ending. It was such a guy punch that I will never rewatch it, not even the early seasons. I’m sure that is why it doesn’t have the staying power of shows like the Office and Parks and Rec that you can watch over and over.
- Comment on Moar garlic 5 weeks ago:
I was making salsa and the recipe called for a clove or garlic. I thought the entire bulb was a clove. After I chopped up and added like 5 or 6 of them my wife came in and saw what I was doing and put a stop to it. But seriously, that was the best damn salsa I’ve ever had.
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a really great book that I recommend to even the most casual Superman fan and especially people who think Superman is just an overpowered boy scout. It explores how Superman has evolved over the decades through the influence of different writers and artists and how their personal experiences and cultural shifts helped to evolve the character. He also examines the character’s transformation across other media, including radio, television, and film. Like how the now cheesy sounding, “It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman” originated from the radio broadcasts that had to adapt a comic to a non-visual medium. Or why they didn’t just write a Superman comic in the 40’s where he goes and defeats Hitler, because they didn’t want to take away from the GIs or give kids false hope that Superman could just swoop in and save the day in a real life situation. But they also didn’t want kids to think Superman would ignore what was going on, so that’s when they started introducing a lot of off-world stories.
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 1 month ago:
- Comment on What is Superman's "kryptonite"? 1 month ago:
Per Glen Weldon in his book Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, kryptonite representing the destructive force of nostalgia and survivor’s guilt, reminding us that clinging to the past can undermine the present.
Siegel and Shuster had created the Man of Steel as the ultimate immigrant, the personification of the promise America represented to them. His abilities are metaphors for limitless potential and opportunity, for new horizons stretching out before us: the American Way.
It seems fitting, then, that the only thing capable of harming him would be a reminder of the Old World he left behind, a past that is irrevocably gone. Only the past—our past—can hurt us.
To this day, kryptonite functions in the Superman mythos as the physical manifestation of both survivor’s guilt and a particularly toxic kind of nostalgia, a reminder that when we dwell on what we’ve lost, we can kill what we have. - Comment on Anon watches It 1 month ago:
I worked in munitions in the US Air Force. Anything to do with bombs and missiles in movies is the worst for me. No you can’t outrun a blast. No, a plane cannot just do a barrel roll and have a heat seeking missile fly past it. They also don’t follow your exact path. They use proportional navigation to basically find the shortest path to you.
- Comment on Stephen A. Smith says he would’ve ‘swung on’ LeBron James had he touched him. Lakers star trolls him 1 month ago:
I’d pay to watch that
- Comment on Mavs raise ticket costs, cite 'investments' in team 2 months ago:
I can’t wait for the 30 for 30 on this
- Comment on The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down 3 months ago:
Yeah because fuck kids, especially ones with special needs, I want to keep my $3
/s obviously
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 3 months ago:
Tums or Pepto will give you instant relief, while you wait for the proton pump inhibitors to kick in.
- Comment on Based Red Dead 4 months ago:
I’m going to remember that for my next playthrough. I always just punched him and made him run away.
- Comment on Based Red Dead 4 months ago:
I love the fact that the slave owner is not only the one unarmed person you don’t lose honor for killing, but you actually gain honor for killing him.
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 4 months ago:
I was in the military and we had this big conference table that could fit a good 12 people at. About once a month our boss would give us the key for the weekend and we’d play Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, and Red Alert 2 for 12-18 hours straight while pounding back Mountain Dew Code Red.
- Comment on 21 Star Trek Actors That Died in 2024 | TrekCulture 4 months ago:
And so you don’t have to keep clicking
- Comment on I saw Free Willy in theaters: AMA 4 months ago:
Have you scheduled your colonoscopy yet?
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 4 months ago:
After watching 12tone’s analysis of this solo it gave me an all new appreciation for this cover and Prince. Don’t get me wrong, before I thought Prince was top 10 now I’d consider his in contention for number 1.
- Comment on Which movies have you seen this week? 5 months ago:
The Six Triple Eight - it’s a great story that I can’t believe I never heard before, some of the acting was great, but some characters felt forced. Like the sassy grandma or the mom worried about money. Or the friend with the potty mouth and the preacher’s daughter who always got offended. It really felt like they had a checklist of stereotypical characters to have.
I stopped watching about halfway through. I just couldn’t watch anymore after ::: spoiler spoiler the scene where she gets upset about the dog tags that ends with them just going, we’ll find his letters, then cut to swing dancing. :::
- Comment on NBA announces revamped All-Star tournament 5 months ago:
I always liked the idea of the winning division getting home field advantage in the championship. It would give players a lot more motivation.
- Comment on Which were the worst movies of 2024? 5 months ago:
I just watched it for the first time last night, it was a fun popcorn movie and gave me a few good laughs. My only real complaint is that they shoved too many plot lines into the movie. They could have completely left out Delores, Jeremy, and Rory and it would have been just as good if not a better movie. Each was met with a such unsatisfying ending to their stories it felt like the writers didn’t know what to do with them either.
- Comment on Disney's Snow White | Official Trailer 5 months ago:
The whole thing looks like it was designed by Stable Diffusion
- Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623) 5 months ago:
I found a blog with a bunch of the definitions
- Comment on What's your favorite car to drive and in which game? 5 months ago:
The Panoz Roadster in Midtown Madness 2.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 5 months ago:
“Destroy him, my robots” from Impossible Mission on the C64.
It was the first videogame I ever heard talk. And full disclosure, 5 year old me, thought it said, “destroy him my-rin bolts”. It wasn’t until years later, my dad actually corrected me.
- Comment on "And now for some golden oldies!" 6 months ago:
It sucked the first time music from my teen years made it on to the classic rock station. But it hurt hearing stuff from my 20s on there now.
- Comment on Anon misses his German Sheppy 7 months ago:
Don’t get me wrong it’s a sweet story. But all I can think of is, how long do you wait before throwing away the treat he left there?
- Comment on Tough Shit 7 months ago:
For those of us that pooped before smart phones, there was a book series called Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. I could totally see them have a section dedicated to this.
- Comment on Last channel rule 7 months ago:
I always set the last button to the TV guide channel. It made it less suspicious if they saw the channel change. Or at least that’s what I reasoned.
- Comment on Last channel rule 7 months ago:
I had a similar trick. If I set the VCR to channel 4 and the TV to channel 3, it would shift all the cable channels down one. So Cinemax which was channel 14 and blocked would come in as channel 13 completely clear.
