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Thanks for the rec! I looked them up a bit and it looks right up my alley. The cover of Dookie songs on the front page is perfect :)

I do this, except I use plastic wrap and rubber bands to seal each end. Then I can shake the shit out of it

I have a few on my list I would see again.

• Sum41: saw them a bunch of times when they first started getting popular. They put on a really entertaining show, but the band retired recently
• Rancid: Lars sometimes does a standup routine between sets and he is hilarious
• MxPx: I’ve seen them a dozen times in half a dozen cities in various sized venues. Kick ass show every single time

Green Day has been my favorite band for about 30 years and I saw them live for the first time in 2024. That show was so amazing and I was a dumbass for not going sooner. I’ll definitely go to another one.

I loved Pantheon. I was sad when it was initially cancelled but happy it was picked up for a second season.

It’s based off of loosely connected short stories in The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu. The stories are not exactly the same, but based in the same world and really good quick reads. I’m a fan of Liu’s work.

I’m a big fan of the books, but Cibola Burn is by far my least favorite in the series. I heavily dislike the chapters from Dr. Okoye’s view, just too much fawning over Holden, and this is coming from someone who enjoys romance novels. It really is the weakest in the series and picks up after that.

I absolutely loved that one and it’s based on one of my favorite Blake Crouch books of the same name. The show is great but the book is so much better.

Also, I really fucking love your username lol

Thanks, I appreciate it. I decided I’ll talk to him first, he knows me well enough to know I’d prefer to resolve the issue and that I don’t bring things up unless it’s serious because I’m deeply conflict avoidant. I’m still working on what I’m going to say, but I’ll probably be reaching out to him later today.

And I don’t think my partner was doing anything in that game that was overtly “bad guy”, we were passing all the missions. It was that she refused to assist him with getting him out of jail so early in the game because he was being “shady”, therefore denying him any chance to even play the game with the rest of us. This was where I stood up and got pretty loud, which is very out of character for me. My issue with that is that he’s always her first target, not the other ladies, not her husband, always my partner.

She’s overall good people, but it does suck when someone yucks your yum every time it comes up.

Every year, I purchase a physical planner. It helps me stay organized, remember events and tasks, and since I make notes of my day to day in it, also acts as a journal. I’ve used the same company to create a customizable planner for the last 5 years and I love it.

Focus more of my stretches on hamstrings. I get back pain due to an injury and sitting too much. Taking time every day to stretch my legs and pay close attention to my hamstrings has really helped reduce my day to day pain.

So I’m looking for a little bit of advice and I don’t want a full post about it.

I have to talk to a girl friend (the wife of my long time friend) about comments she makes when our group gets together. She’s usually a very kind person, but she has said things recently that have gotten under my partner’s skin and to be honest mine too. It came to a bit of a breaking point recently when we were early into a game we have played only a few times (a secret bad guy game that I feel we are still kind of learning the rules). It turned into in game bullying on her part towards my partner, which was when I stepped in and pushed back pretty hard, her husband also stepped in and pushed back a bit. This later brought up my partner’s frustration with other comments she’s made about hobbies he enjoys (mostly financial talk). When she’s not interested in a topic, she makes snide remarks that seem to be an attempt to change the discussion, but they come off as judgmental and a bit hypocritical. Her partner is interested in the similar topics and it was disrupting a conversation between my partner and her husband.

She may not necessarily mean them as derogatory towards my partner, but it gets rude when it disrupts conversations. It’s the little comments here and there that really add up. She often pushes her opinion by shouting down others and not letting their opinion be heard if it’s something she disagrees with. There is never an agreement to disagree, it’s always she is correct. This time was worse because it was in our home and she became disrespectful towards my partner, especially after the in game bullying.

I prefer to avoid conflict, so it’s hard for me to bring up, but I know I have to. Should I bring my long time friend (her husband) into it to talk to her? Or does it need to come from me? Any advice on how to have that convo would be appreciated.

I wasn’t even that against the human aspect, I just wanted more characters from Beast Wars. I very much would have liked to have seen Blackarachnia because she was my favorite.

It’s become a lot easier since I stopped caring what others think. I also like myself more when I have my mohawk, even if it’s hawked up 😁

Yes, I absolutely agree. Instead of men complaining to women about why they are a “good guy”, they should talk to other men and call them out for giving men a bad name.

Women are not the cause of women being afraid of men. Men are the cause of women being afraid of men. Men need to step up and fix their own problem.

I would have stayed in field hockey. I love that game but was bullied out of my sophomore season by my coach because I “underperformed” during training season. I had a knee injury so I couldn’t get my run times up to her standards. The two whole times she put me into a game for 5 minutes each, I saved the other team from scoring, drove the ball hard to the front line, and our star offensive scored a goal. But I got a whole 10 minutes of play time that season. Fuck you coach.

It’s not a huge life changing thing, but I loved that game so much. It probably would not have changed my adolescent depression, but it would have made me happier and connected to my teammates and peers if I kept playing. I ended up disconnecting from a lot of friends and started working instead.

So now, I’m getting into PWHL because fuck yeah!

I was kind of excited for that Transformers because I watched a lot of Beast Wars as a kid. But all the previews looked pretty meh, then I found out my favorite characters wouldn’t be in it, so I said fuck it. Still have not watched it.

Same and sometimes it’s a struggle to stay up until 9pm. It’s just after 8pm now and I probably won’t make it to 9 on a Friday night…

I usually wake up 4:30-5am which is nice because I can get all of my chores done early and have a full day ahead of me.

Not all of these are social media sites, but this list is my social internet path

Bolt dot com & SciFi channel chatrooms

AIM & Yahoo chatrooms

ICQ & IRC

Soulseek (I count it because I used to hang in the chatrooms quite a bit)

Eyeball chat, then followed friends to Camfrog chat, before both were enshittified

MySpace

Facebook and dabbling in Instagram

Reddit, left after Apollo went offline

Mastadon and dabbled in Snapchat

Threads

BlueSky, still here

Lemmy then Piefed, still here

Good advice, the extended movie is better and that low point I think is important to the story.

I wanted to love Afterlife. I didn’t see it in theaters, but after the reaction to Answer the Call, I was so excited for a new Ghostbusters movie that I bought and watched it the day it came out on iTunes. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a disappointment Afterlife was. I have not watched it a second time and I have no interest in watching Frozen Throne.

I grew up on Ghostbusters movies and cartoons from the 80-90s. I just get so mad that the new ones forgot what a Ghostbusters movie is and I feel robbed of a sequel ATC.

It was the CGI Spengler at the end that sealed the deal of garbage movie 🤮

At least ATC honored Harold Ramis with a bust