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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Adding something like that to your negative self talk is a wonderful way to make you realize you're doing it. It's helped me a great deal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

I remember Knight Moves too! Christopher Lambert was never a great actor but I enjoyed watching him work nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

It was Heinlein taking the "only veterans should be able to vote" to a logical end. A society that's always at war because the ruling class are all military.

The opening pages tell you the reality - land on planets and nuke the bugs, even if there's intelligent life there. And use all those nukes, we don't want to bring those back to the ship. It's heavy and inefficient.

After that, we step into the eyes of a high school student being indoctrinated.

Heinlein wrote the book extremely well, but many fail to see the whole picture. He didn't approve nor disapprove. He just took a stance his father had always held and crafted a world where that was the reality.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago

I'm a fifty year old man with supportive parents and a good circle of friends... and I still struggle, every day, to like and be at peace with myself.

So not only am I proud of you, and many others in here, be proud of yourself. Give yourself the credit that you know what you didn't get and have persisted throughout your life knowing it should have been better.

I think a program like big brothers / big sisters would be really beneficial to you. You'll get the chance to be for someone else what you never had.

You know the importance of it. Be that light for others. It's a nice feeling.

I'm not a Dad because I always figured I'd be a terrible one. But my wife and I took someone in who needed a ton of help... and I'm not qualified. But now I'm kind of a Dad, and I chose to be. I'm still not a good one but it doesn't much matter because if you're trying, you're likely doing well enough to make a difference and make someone feel valued and worthwhile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

"Bunny! Ball ball!!"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Hudson Hawk.

Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello are cat burglars who synchronize their movements by singing, which does not seem at all subtle or stealthy.

It's batshit insane. But it's also very fun. I saw it in the theater.

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

True enough, but season one stands very well on its own, and I enjoyed seeing where the show went next after that, though at a greatly diminished rate.

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

Used to be Westworld, but they pulled it so I haven't rewatched in a while.

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

The hobo code and hobo nickels made it into the game too. It was fairly comprehensive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

John Hodgman wrote the book The Areas of My Expertise, which has a list of hobo names for some bizarre reason.

Kingdom of Loathing, in making a multi-player clan hobo dungeon, used that list of names as a random hobo name generator, and then named the boss of the whole place Hodgman, the Hoboverlord.

I went to a standup show where Hodgman was supposed to do a set and he had cancelled, replaced with Brian Posehn. Brian was also awesome but I really wanted to tell John Hodgman how he inadvertently saved my life.

Now the details of how you get that specific item are even weirder but I'm done phone typing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I once helped someone get a Hodgman's Imaginary Hamster and in return he gifted me a few IRL pot plants (Super Lemon Haze, a damn good strain) that I used to pull myself and my Dad out of a pit.

Game inadvertently saved our lives, and I still haven't gotten to thank John Hodgman.

(Yes, the game is that insane and silly. Getting that damn hamster requires at least 10 people working together.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Very good and very silly game.

 

I was honestly curious if there was a link between the two terms, not a scientific one.

That said the number of participants in the study makes it a little questionable.

 

I'm a 50 year old dude, never cared about sports. But my wife got into PWHL last year and I started watching with her.

It doesn't have the toxicity that I've seen in so many male dominated sports. We're Minnesotans, so of course we support Frost.

Late last season we were watching a game and while the game was tied, our (Minnesota, not yet called Frost) team wasn't making as many shots on goals as they usually did, and I said that.

"What's going on? Why is Minnesota lagging in shots on goal... WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, I'M MAKING OBSERVATIONS ABOUT SPORTS STATISTICS!!"

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Catnip time! (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Left to right and actually sorted oldest to youngest we have:

Bernie Sanders is eight years old.

Miles Morales is just over four.

Abed Nadir & Troy Barnes are two and a quarter.

Maryjane is just over a year and is a foster fail. I'm the one that insisted on the failure. My dad adopted Mongo from the same litter.

Maryjane was supposed to be a Peter Parker but my wonderful professional vet tech wife was wrong this time.

Somehow everyone gets along in our house. 5 cats, 2 labradors, 1 tortoise, almost zero fights.

 

Hey all, I'm a cis ally in the upper Midwest of the USA. I offered a room to Keris a while back and she accepted.

She got here Wednesday night and things are going very well. She likes me, my wife, and our cats and one dog, and is learning to tolerate the other.

She has an attic bedroom that is her space alone.

She has time to unwind and figure out what she wants to do without fear of being dumped on the streets.

I just wanted to let you all know that we have taken her in and that she is safe and loved.

 

Said by one of my two DM friends to me while we were in a pizza joint together.

"Dude! Context! We are in public."

I have a bountiful life of riches. I run two games and play in three. Just a problem finding time for them all.

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