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@Ghost said in Good TV:

Weiss and Benioff announce exit from Star Wars Trilogy.

Same day it is announced that they are no longer part of Game of Thrones prequel.

Proooooobably a story, there.

They were at Austin Film Festival this past weekend and had a talk.
In this talk, they basically just joked around the entire time about 'lol we had no idea what we were doing the entire time! we don't even know why they gave us a show to begin with, guys!'

Like, the whole thing was basically them laughing about the fact that they never should have been given a show in the first place, that they purposefully never had women or PoC in the writer's room because they insisted on writing everything themselves, etc.

Someone live-tweeted the whole of it.

I think uh, there might have been a lot of cutting of ties going on and they're saving face now by saying 'Uh, we're just too busy with our Netflix contract!'

But it all happened right after articles about that talk at AFF went up.

ETA: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a29608442/benioff-weiss-game-of-thrones-showrunners-writers-panel-austin-film-festival/

@Selerik said in Resume Help:

I'm a big fan of trolling LinkedIn for people /actively in the jobs I want/ and requesting copies of their resumes.

They'll surprisingly often just give it if you ask, and it could lead to an opportunity.

Dang.
I've never thought of this!

I might have to give this a try next month since my contract is up in January (unless they renew). Thanks for sharing.

@RightMeow said in Critters!:

@Auspice said in Critters!:

@jinshei said in Critters!:

Did you know that, if you sponser a dog, you can send it presents?

I am sorry to hear about your losses, but one of the reasons I love to participate in the redditgifts secret Santa for pets (other than to see what people get for my kitties) is so I can spoil other people's pets.

I dunno what it is, but buying things for critters is a lot of fun!

This is old, I wasn't looking at animal pics to have a good day (It's a lie, I was). Is this still a thing? Was it really a thing? More importantly, is it still a thing? I need this thing in my life.

It is.
https://www.redditgifts.com/

They do them a couple times a year and each time there's a big slew of themed exchanges. Tea, pets, hockey, football.... pretty much whatever your hobbies, there will probably be something for you.

well.
I was looking forward to finally getting a full allergy workup done.

But I don't got $2k.
damn 'out of pocket' shit.

@JinShei

All the hugs.
Anxiety is the worst.
I recommend tea and puppy slobber.

Just got a screening pass to see Doctor Sleep tomorrow.

@Alamias
Katy Perry - California Girls

@hedgehog
Flag on the play! Band name doesn't count!

@hedgehog
MKTO - Bad Girls

I didn't catch the earlier one CUZ THE THREAD MOVES SO FAST.
That's why the 'if it stalls for 24 hours, you can restart it however' rule is there. In case of ruts.

I THINK they now air, up to date, the Great British Baking Show on Netflix. I love it. It is the best 'cuddle up on the sofa with the kitties' show in the world IMO.

It also got me through my recent dental work (they have netflix in the patient rooms at my dentist).

I always recommend Masked Singer.

They're not trashy, but. I think they're great.

@eye8urcake said in I need brain candy reality TV shows:

It also inspired me in a binge re-watching of The Mighty Boosh

god I still quote bits of this show to myself all the goddamn time.

'do you think the black bits in bananas are spider eggs?'

NO ONE AROUND ME IRL WOULD EVER GET THESE THINGS SO I JUST HAVE TO WHISPER THEM TO MYSELF.

@Rinel
Ooof. I'm sorry.
Even so, I am glad you are seeing a doctor because this incident aside it is safer in the long run.

BarkBox really wants your dog to be happy this holiday season.

If you have a line of cars waiting behind you in the aisle in the parking lot and decide to waste a few minutes awkwardly backing into a space: there is a special place waiting for you in hell.

this weather needs to make up its fucking mind so that I can breathe again.

@gryphter

A few nights ago, driving home, I get to my apartment complex to see people double-parked on either side of the aisle. There was just barely enough room for me to carefully navigate my car (a Fiat 500, so tiny) through.

As I was finishing pulling through, an ambulance came bouncing into the complex: sirens and lights on.

I cannot imagine the shitshow that must have followed.

And sad to say, this is very very common there. @Admiral can attest from when he used to live in the same complex.

"Again, 99 problems and the trolley isn't one of them."

I have to pull all my screenshots, videos, and references ('let me do that myself so I can best describe....') from a test instance at work. Understandable. Don't want me mucking about in production.

U N F O R T U N A T E L Y we use a spot instance* for this. And it has been spottier than usual lately. Like, 'back down 15 minutes after it's brought up.' Our liaison with the dev company emailed them today to go 'Get us an on-demand instance or put a higher bid.' They said nah, money. Business manager went 'Uh, I'm sorry?'

I was on the other side of the table like: '......I just hate pestering them every time it's down.'

I got a round of: 'No. Pester them. Email them every single time. This is getting ridiculous.' (80% of the time, I am the only one using it.)

I love my team.

*A spot instance, in our case, is basically low-level 'highest bidder' cloud servers with AWS. So for something that is low need/use, it works. Your server will be there, but if someone has a higher bid in the system... you can get knocked out. So either AWS (possible) is having more issues of late or their bid (also possible) is way too low.

I know it hasn't been a great year for the Browns, but goddamn Garrett.

If it wasn't for DeCastro (66), that would've been a far more dangerous hit.

All I can say about most recent episode of The Good Place: