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raised Catholic🇮🇪✝️ dead inside🪦
recognizing genocide🍉
ain't British but I'll say "you lot"🖕🇬🇧
I fear not ghosts, I fear them not🫣
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I have strong memories of my brother and I spending an entire summer (if not longer) on this game on the PS1.
The head games? The strategies? Using mines to set traps for the Jeeps? So epic.
I'd give anything for them to re-release this on modern consoles (or as a phone game).
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I'm jealous. I started a new playthrough way back in March specifically aiming to finally 100% it and get all trophies. I'm still 3 or 4 trophies away, I think.
Somehow haven't skinned & studied all the animals even though almost all my time's spent hunting & exploring the wilderness and wildlife.
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I'm embarrassed by how many hours I've put into it.
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The feature has mostly done a good job for me of keeping away MAGA trash. I also use a list to block cops & their sycophants. And Crypto scammers. And AI scammers. And the manosphere of incels and pickup artists and all those kinds of creeps. And porn bots.
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If you go to Settings, then Moderation, then Moderation Lists, you can manage your blocklists.
I found most of mine in a helpful post someone made welcoming new users after the election who realized they couldn't kid themselves anymore that it was okay to stay in Musk's Twitter.
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Didn't even have to. One of the many block lists I subscribed to on the day I signed up here automatically took care of it for me.
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For some reason I read it and my brain only went to that song "Zou Bisou Bisou."
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I remember hearing about dudes getting calf implants. I assume if it actually helped with women, it would've caught on instead of being roundly mocked.
My calves are weirdly muscular. Usually just men remark on them. The one exception was a lady who was into powerlifting, with muscles on her brain.
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I'm a fan of movies including a random line of dialogue acknowledging a weird casting choice.
Like in JINGLE ALL THE WAY when Phil Hartman tells Schwarzenegger, "You can't bench press your way out of this," suddenly acknowledging that Arnold's everyman character is weirdly jacked for a salesman.
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This is kinda true. But I have to say, I have an aunt who is a nightmare to eat out with because clearly she spent 1 summer waiting tables in college, so now she nitpicks and lectures and asks to talk to managers to narc about every little thing where a server doesn't do it how she was taught.
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Pallets are light.
Perfectly stacking (placing them with precision) a bunch might take effort & might take minutes.
But slinging them around haphazardly to make a mess is super easy. Takes only seconds. (Especially with a pair of gloves.)
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I think you're talking about the old-timey radio drama, Calling All Cars.
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It's clear to me Jurassic Park should merge with Fast and The Furious first to practice franchise merges. Learn the challenges & pitfalls, and how to account for them.
After a couple movies of Vin Diesel doing heists while driving a T-Rex, we'll be ready to pull the ripcord and do this thing.
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I remember some very conformist types saying "hell yeah" & always wanting to claim credit for how punk they say they were when they'd been younger.
Reminds me of that line from a Jill Sobule song mentioning how all the French joined the resistance *after* WWII.
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But then IMDB to the rescue: turned out Snuffy Walden did the music on both projects.
I can't count the number of times I've made a truly bizarre connection between wildly different movies or shows, looking insane, and it was only IMDB that proved I wasn't imagining things like a crazy person.
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The Stand reminds me of a memory I have when I was watching The West Wing, and I paused it to tell someone how much some of the guitar music in the background of a certain episode reminded me of The Stand miniseries' music. And they looked at me like I was a schizophrenic person hearing things.
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I think about this all the time when I think about dinosaurs. We learn about them as kids and spend years getting over (or failing to get over) how cool it is that dinosaurs could have existed.
But imagine being the people who were adults when dinosaur fossils were first discovered.
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I might also attach some fine print to the "10 items or fewer" sign establishing that if you go over 10 items, you're agreeing to be charged three times as much for your entire transaction as some sort of fee for the luxury of using a lane you weren't actually eligible for.
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If I ran a grocery store, I'd absolutely train whoever works that lane to literally get on the store PA system and start loudly, publicly roasting the customer, asking if they can read and whether they can count to 10, or if they're just a selfish piece of shit who thinks rules don't apply to them.
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Remind me exactly which Republicans killed Universal Healthcare that time when Democratic President Obama and a Democratic House and a Democratic Senate took it upon themselves to choose to take Universal Healthcare off the table?
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As both an artist & a baker, I'll never stop taking issue with the leap in logic it takes for Peeta working at a bakery (where he sometimes decorates cakes) to mean he's able to masterfully do makeup that perfectly camouflages him without even having a mirror.
I have a thousand questions about it.
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I think it's as fake as wrestlers in a scripted feud.
If Trump isn't actively smashing all his businesses (not just tiny shots at the EV one), or imprisoning or deporting him, it's fake.
If Musk isn't actively dismantling the MAGA propaganda machine he assembled and owns, it's fake. It's a work.
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Until Trump does something that crushes all his businesses (not just minor dents to the electric vehicle one) & imprisons or deports him, we have to assume it's all just fake scripted wrestling feuds.
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I was coming here just to ask if Langoliers was on the list.
I mean, I don't know if I can even recommend it, but also it would be patently inexcusable for it to be left off.
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But then so much of the time he sounds like an unfrozen caveman who got thawed out and doesn't know how not to sound like he's forever stuck in the past.
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At his best, he can absolutely ruin you with how good his writing is.
I read Hearts In Atlantis as we were invading Iraq, and the story (oddly not the one the film with that title was based on) set me on fire & burned me down. Forever informed how I look at peace & war, death & guilt & privilege.
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Six years ago when I first played the game, I was fresh off a breakup and this throwaway line in the journal snuck up on me & absolutely broke me.
"She went and left me. She weren't wrong. I'd leave me if I could."
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The fact that he's yet to nuke anyone makes me suspect he actually wasn't given any nuclear codes.
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I still wistfully think about what The Lost World movie could've been as a horror.
The novel's mysterious climactic big bad dinosaur had chameleon camouflage. It was so scary, the raptors & rexes were afraid to enter its territory.
Imagine Spielberg playing with that and making a horror of it.
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Waiting for them to notice the expanding cranium should only be Step 1.
Step 2 should be choosing specific books & asking suspicious questions making it seem like you're a supervillain researching or plotting some terrible crime.
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This is like accepting a cashier job, and then my employer reviews footage and sees I let random people they didn't hire man my cash register for chunks of time whenever I wanted a break or didn't feel like doing the work. Whether those rando's did my job well or poorly would be beside the point.
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I feel like it should constitute fraud on some level for a lawyer to accept a case or a job and to then pawn the work they claimed they'd do off onto someone else (or something else, in this case) while pretending it's their own work.
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The bottom 2 characters were so me.
Toby Ziegler's season 4 stories especially. Allowing his negativity & fear to ruin his joy at becoming a dad? Felt like that'd be me.
And the brutal "you're just too sad" speech Andrea gives him as she declines his proposal? That hit painfully close to home.
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To be fair, I'd been hamstrung by my topic. The teacher required at least 3 web sources (as the internet was just becoming a thing). I could only find 2 decent web sources. Rather than settle for a shitty 3rd, I created & published my own webpage to cite.
So I'm a fabulist. Not a plagiarist.
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I also invented a source to cite. I'd written what I knew was an A+ quality paper. Totally legit. But I knew it was gonna get docked points because I only cited 8 different sources instead of the required 9 or whatever. As a middle finger to his arbitrary requirements, I made up my last source.
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To be fair, you using the service you paid them for made you a less-than-ideal customer. Ideally, customers should pay and never deign to use the service.
Kinda insane how many companies talk themselves into ruining or tanking their business long-term pursuing a short-term bump they can brag about.
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They should have to suffer sticking to their unlistenable Lee Greenwoods and Toby Keiths instead of getting to delude themselves into pretending Springsteen was speaking their language so they get to let themselves have good tunes to listen to.
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It's like they all ran out & bought copies of "God Bless the USA" by Lee Greenwood, and found out artists willing to pander with jingoistic songs solely make music that's unlistenable shit.
It made them so desperate for decent music, they all pretended Springsteen meant what they wish he'd meant.
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Weirdly, I kinda prefer Republicans hating him and acknowledging his lefty politics.
It beats what they usually do, which is mindlessly play "Born in the U.S.A." as if it's a jingoistic pro-America anthem when it's very clearly a bleak song about how much America sucks for the average person.
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It's annoying on a customer service level but it's probably more infuriating on a human competency level.
The threat of losing accrued points has to be the highest-percentage club in their bag. Them choosing not to swing it by sending a simple email? So, so dumb.
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I prefer to listen to my hotdogs instead of reading them. That way I can get other things done as I listen.
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I hope this comes to pass. That movie really deserves more eyeballs on it.