Star Trek Picard. Gave up on it after 4 episodes. I had intended to go back, but I caught a serious case of the MEH.

“The Boys” irks me on a FUNDAMENTAL level. A test tube baby is granted superpowers and turns into an asshole that abuses them is SO ORIGINAL that I’m sure Alan Moore wants to shake your hand. Also, the casual mass murder and body horror gore that just gets shrugged off by the general public completely breaks any nascent immersion I might have had. (see also “Squid Games,” and “The Hunger Games.”)

As a rule, I find ANY media that deals with the cannibalistic undead to be also DOA in my interest. A “zombie apocalypse” would never achieve that kind of scale. Even Covid was a flash in the pan compared to some of histories’ big viral killers, and the vast majority of humanity pulled through that. Zombies rot. Rotten muscle no longer functions, and bones cannot move them selves without them so the “zombies” would exist in a state of constant weakening until there was nothing left. Also, Vultures would be EVERYWHERE. (I do like how it was framed in the “last of us” btw, but I never played the game, and so I have no interest in the show.)

While we are on the topic, I also could NOT get into Fallout (the games). I like Oblivion, but Fallout just does not have the same sauce, and it’s early game is absolute trash beyond the tutorial level. Oblivion at least gives you a direction to travel and some general clues about what you might want to do next. Fallout is just an excuse to wander around some ruins that look like suburbia, and when you are not doing that, it’s a simulator showing you exactly how fucked you are until the game actually bothers to drop a decent weapon at you. Except it always seems to do so when the weapon has already been horribly outclassed.

There’s a bunch of movies from the 90’s that I’ve never watched and as they were a product of their Zeitgeist, I probably never will due to the emotional impact of the film being lost on me or the humor missing beats because it assumes things the audience is aware of that may or may not be wildly prophetic or equally so incredibly incorrect that a powerful scene or somber scene is rendered into comedy, when that’s not the tone attempting to be converged. Most of Quentin Tarantino’s early work is Particularly egregious in this regard, and so I probably will never watch any of it.

Another type of movie I try to avoid is/are films like “Titanic.” James Cameron hasn’t made a decent movie IMHO since Terminator 2. All of his current films are 2 hours of key jingling to basic romance novel reading suburbanites who just like pretty explosions.

The Big Bang Theory is Friends. The primary difference being that the characters in TBBT aren’t a bunch of generic yuppies. (“How I Met Your Mother” stole that trope)

*35. The show came out in 1990.

Bitches, either you get the fuck on board the Socialism Express or we can tie you up and drag you behind it. either way we are going to Leftist Reforms Ville and we are no longer concerned with your desire to have an “on-going discussion” about it. News flash: Talking’s done; we are now in the doing phase.

Oh what’s that? How about:

https://youtube.com/shorts/NyDfekjMmuc

Take three Rush songs, two Yes songs, A healthy dose of Alan parsons project, and if symptoms repeat/continue, listen to all of Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. All that prog rock should wash the Country music right out of your system. (Do be warned however, a small amount of Country is useful to maintain overall auditory health; It’s recommended that you carefully listen to some Jimmy Buffet and Greg Allman albums to re-achieve auditory equilibrium.)

And remember: Friends don’t let friends listen to honky tonk. It’s worse than AI generated music. Take their radio/music player from them and seek professional help immediately. Assistance is available, call 1-800-NOTWANG (1-800-668-9264) 24 hours a day, and a case-worker will be dispatched to your location with a 2x4 and other striking implements to knock some god damned sense into that mutha-fukkin’-honky-ass-square-dancin’- cracka.

(try to imagine this as a Robot Chicken bit)

well if they want the treatment to stop, then they’ll just have to straighten out an WORK HARD for it.

There was a progressive/conservative switcheroo back in the 1920’s.

Republicans used to be the progressive ones. The Whigs predated that. The other stuff is correct though. The Whigs were where corporate Democrats are today. Infact some of the more “bought” examples spun off and formed what became known as the “Do Nothing” party because they were so waffly on the issues and fond of status quo milquetoast non-positioning that their actual name is lost to history. They only lasted a few years before dying out and getting reabsorbed into one of the existing parties, or leaving politics entirely.

Oh no, quite the opposite infact. The smacking is to get them to stop acting like subhumans. They already are and we’d like them to not be.

Because Congress has in their head that they are “leaders.” They are not, they are stewards and public servants. WE ARE THEIR BOSSES, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

Also, don’t lie to me and tell me that none of our elected officials would be into that shit.

YOU ALL ARE FINALLY GETTING IT. Violence is not the answer, but it can be part of the solution!

There is also such a thing as toxic positivity, and that has been forced on humanity as a whole for far to long. There is a concept called the overton window which I feel applies here. Right now, politically the world is swinging back to the Left, however, one should not see this as a swing to totally leftist, purely lazze faire social morality. A certain amount of healthy cynicism is required to allow a society to function properly. It provides the basis for being skeptical of things too good to be true, it powers our B.S. detectors, and gives people a moral plausible deniability for dismissing assholes as assholes. It’s cathartic as well. Knowing that other people feel the same is comforting.

We live in times that try mens souls, so goes the quote; don’t begrudge us a place to vent. It’s healthy to get it out of ones system.

This is not being toxically negative. This is how the internet SHOULD be and there’s just a bit of whiplash when you pull the corporate umbilical cord out that requires a sanitized feed. Lemmy is like 4chan but the folks are mostly Liberal/Leftists instead of Misogynist/Racists.

Sorry i thought Article 1 was the one about needing a free market economy to join.

the only issue with NATO is Article 1. Waive that requirement and it would be perfect.

temp/staffing agencies. They are middle men whose sole purpose is to be a prophylactic on a shitty manufacturing company’s high employee turnover affecting stock prices. Every single one of them is a “rent-a-meat” outfit, and literally no one should EVER work for any of them. They are almost as bad as payday lenders, preying on desperation to turn a profit. The perverse thing is that with one small tweak, they’d be on par with unions as one of the greatest bulwarks of labor empowerment, but nope, gotta profit on protecting the bottom line! (What I’m thinking of is something like a member owned/operated trade union that actively works to continue training, and to place members in viable and long term employment, that will also have your back as the worker, offering legal representation and arbitration services if your contractee employer treats you in bad faith.)

I mean “one that makes them as a skill.”

TYL, FYI; If you are playing a Druid, an Artificer, or other, potion using Subclass, Werewolf saliva is a legitimate substitution for holy water in your recipes! Delight your D.M. with that nugget the next time you play!

Sorry ::edit:: So I was thinking that the answer to the question, “wouldn’t the resultant potion transmit lycanthropy?” could go one of two ways:

1. Yes, and “that’s why there’s a label on the potion that states 'Warning: may cause slight lycanthropy, consult a physician if unplanned blackouts occur at next full moon. Discontinue use if upper mandibular hyper piliations occur. Instructions for use: Only dose in silver vessels!”

and

2. (old crone voice, highly cockney) “See, tha’s wot ya’d tank woudt happen, but noo, see, Ah Werewolf whot a carise o’Got, roit? And, See tha tang es thah da D’vol only cairst thangs by…ah… “ray-movin’” things. L-Loik ah! Vampires, fair enstunce! Da D’vol takes yer’ soul, a’see? But, God, He Carise by puttin’ thangs back in!- Er- So ta speak. So what Got didh was make The werewolf cairse ah bacteerium! Et enfectcs yeh, an’ a’fore long yare oot en the yaird oo’r ta the neighboors whih yer snoot up Lassies arse, n’ thoots ah Howlin’ hootn’ ta th’Muun. So ya gess goh ta boil it, an’ ih’cooks righ’ ooff!”

(ooo I’m sorry,🤣 Try your best!)

I think Salt Lake City, UT needs a connection with St. Cloud, MN.

actually Werewolves are cursed BY GOD, not Satan (as is the case with most vampires), which technically makes them deal holy type damage. This makes then especially effective against the Undead, of which vampires are a type. That’s why Vampires don’t like Werewolves.