The next Super Smash game starts bringing in elements of GTA.
paddirn
joined 1 year ago
Another milestone passed with seemingly no end in sight. It’s such a disgusting disregard for life for little apparent reason, and that the Russians keep throwing themselves into the meat grinder in mind-boggling.
Rumspringa is a rite of passage for the Amish, I think they’re saying you’re disconnected from society, though that kind of gets at what I was saying about my kids. Younger generations are more connected now than any previous generation, but they just don’t care as much about what the older generations were into. While you’re aware of most of the big franchises through cultural osmosis, like what the original commenter was saying, it’s not a priority. For me and my generation that feels odd I think, at least growing up for me I went through a period of trying to get exposed to those big cultural landmarks, music, movies, tv, and books. I assumed those things must’ve gotten popular with the older cool kids for a reason, so I wanted to experience it for myself, if just to be able to understand the odd reference when it came up.
JD Vance is the kind of guy that purposely gets into a fight with his wife, just so he can sleep on the couch.
That is a weird graphic for that “Connected for Good” thing. I think it’s more supposed to represent a star from the US flag, suggesting we’re connected to Judaism/Israel, but it comes across as a pentagram, almost Satanic in a way.
As a 40+ year old white American, I agree with most of this list (I’d reduce “Hannibal Lecter series” down to just “Silence of the Lambs”), but if I were to ask my 6–12 year old kids about these, I feel like they wouldn’t know who 1/3rd of these are. I’d be curious to see if there was a common thread or set of threads between all of these that point to what traits our Western society value/avoid or what makes a successful franchise in the West.
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/simon-cowell/
After looking at more photos to see if I could find something worse than what was in the article, I noticed that he has the same weird smile in alot of his photos. It’s like he’s purposely just exposing his top teeth when he smiles. I’m assuming it’s a sort of “rehearsed” smile he can pull out whenever he needs to, because celebrities are just expected to be “on” all the time, but it looks weirder the more I look at it. I’m not entirely certain what a “normal” smile is supposed to look like, but that’s not it.
I’m kind of in this situation now. Workload is a bit light at the moment and I’m just really not excited by alot of stuff going on at work right now. I’m just mentally checked out and coasting most of the time. I’m not looking for another job, but it feels like I’m in a mental rut. My area doesn’t really have levels of promotion and the next “logical step” is management, which I have no interest in because of how far removed from my job skills (graphic design). There’s nowhere else in the company I’d care to go to, I’m fine with where I’m at, but at the same time bored to tears with it. I know “getting out of my comfort zone” could help, but having a mortgage and kids to care for means I don’t really have the luxury of just uprooting everything on a whim.
Freelancing is an option, but I usually dislike doing graphic design for other people (ironically enough). I love the feeling of being so passionate about a project that I get lost in it and obsess over it for weeks, but I just don’t have that spark right now, everything feels dull.
Gabbard’s one achievement was actually from the 2020 election primary debates when she shut down Harris with a single attack about her record. Harris didn’t have much of a response and it seemingly caused her campaign to flounder, as she had been a big favorite before then, but then disappeared until Biden gave her the VP slot.
It kind of makes sense why they might think she can help, but I would think that Harris would have a response to that line of attack by now at least.
I feel you, mine got lost/stolen about 6+ months ago, seemingly just inside my house, since I never take it anywhere. I’m not a hoarder, keep a relatively tidy house, though I have kids (so tidiness is only ever temporary). I turned over and looked through literally every room in the house, every cupboard, shelf, drawer, and piece of furniture was checked and re-checked and still, nothing. I only just got over it a few weeks ago and broke down and got another one, but this time got an AirTag for it. I’m just more annoyed at the not knowing part, hopefully it’ll just turn up in some stupidly ridiculous place that it hadn’t occurred for me to look, but I suspect I won’t see it again. I doubt it was stolen, since that’s seemingly the only thing gone. Potentially one of the kids broke it and, rather than tell me, they trashed it, but that doesn’t seem like them either or one of them would’ve broken ranks and confessed.
It drove me insane trying to find it before and it still bothers me, but at least I have a Steam Deck again.