Best posts made by GreenFlashlight

@Lotherio said in Good TV:

Tory ... with a Y

Right, thank you.

I want more of the interaction between dojo's and students, like Hawk and Dmitry's stuff

Their scene at the party was so good! I want more of that in the show.

@Lotherio Nothing to apologize for! I should have remembered it because I remember now getting distracted by that introduction and wondering, "So does that mean her name is or isn't short for Victoria? If it is, that's one of the more subtle naming choices the show has made (looking at you, Robby)."

@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:

They announced Aisha wasn't coming back for season 3.

Boooooooooooooooooooooo

Wait, really?

Okay, the super short to the point of being misleading because the water just started boiling and I need to watch the oven version is, we're so comfortable with lying because we want to be seen as the heroes we pretend we are without putting in the work to be great, so our culture has developed around a grade school "I won't call you on your lies because then you won't call me on mine" mentality. Once you start down that path, you justify lying about everything because hey, it works for the big stuff like national identity, why wouldn't it work for little stuff too?

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Should I be yelling at the damn kids to get off my lawn?

Not precisely. The contention here isn't age, it's either that you think you have a greater right to dictate what Star Trek is than the people who own it have, or that you think Star Trek can only be one limited thing.

I'm not judging, though. I haven't liked a Star Trek movie since First Contact.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

I think I'm entitled to have preferences while aware they don't constitute rights, no?

I agree. That's the second half of the sentence, the part following the word 'or.' I said and will repeat I'm not judging you for disliking current Trek. My only objection is the suggestion that it's a function of age rather than attitude.

@Lotherio said in Good TV:

Didn't Jackson enjoy playing with these old tricks to mix up size on all the lotr films, as I recall?

Camera angles, body doubles, and good old-fashioned greenscreen. Yep.

@Wizz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I am so angry I am shaking. Our new neighbor and his family were outside when my son went out to play in the yard by himself, and when Kiddo saw the dude wasn't wearing a mask he said that he should, and the guy cussed him out. A grown man, to an eight year old kid who was just trying to make sure everyone was safe.

Kiddo didn't confront him and came home right away, and I've tried to make sure he understands that he's not at fault and I'm glad he did not get upset back, but I do not know what to do with my anger. Confronting the asshole would be pointless at best, I already know this. Just...goddamn it, I fucking hate people sometimes.

First, that neighbor is a turd, and I hope your child isn't taking this to heart.

Second, do you believe it would be worth your time to confront your neighbor about it? Not to try to change his mind, but it could be a good idea to make sure he knows he can't get away with attacking your children.

@Auspice said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

How did I go and pick up my laundry from the laundry room, drive back, and just.......leave it

How do people not? I have to put groceries in the front seat or I will forget them by the time I get home.

@Auspice said in RL Sads:

I don't think any lost friendship has ever affected me this much.

I know exactly how you feel. I've been there too. It was a combination of depression and social anxiety, in that case. "They'd be better off without me" morphed into "It's been too long for me to fix it now." I don't know if that will help you in approaching your friend, but in case it does, I thought I'd share.

@Wretched I can't tell if that's petty but I really like it.

@Misadventure said in Good TV:

@GreenFlashlight Not specifically, but when you can manage planet wide communications with any handheld device, is localized wifi worth mentioning other than as a downgrade.

I suppose I'm just thinking of all the times someone had to walk from the bridge to engineering or wherever with a data padd instead of just, I dunno, emailing Geordi's work account with the specs for whatever damn thing they needed to make the deflector dish do this episode.

@Auspice Good luck.

@SilentHills I know your feeling. My work situation is coconuts right now, and that compared with the seasonal shit is affecting my mental health in ways I won't describe on a public board. I hope things get better for you soon. You're not alone.

@kk Feel you one hundred percent on every part of it. My facility has face shields rather than goggles, but I hate those damn things. The thin, wavery plastic distorts light so badly I wonder if looking through one is what it's like to go blind. Everything is so dim I can't see details, or barely even colors, just shapes.

Not quite the same thing as you're all talking about, but I think I'm the only person in this region who, when telling a story, isn't compelled to preface a self-quote in a story by saying, "So I said to her, I said," like frigging Foghorn Leghorn.

Just had to send a resident to the hospital because a routine vital check showed they were about fifteen minutes away from having a stroke. In the course of investigating why on Earth this should be, the charge nurse discovered the patient had fallen on evening shift, but evening shift didn't record anything on it or do any follow-up because "no one saw it," which, if you're not in medicine, is code for "let's pretend this didn't happen because I don't want to do paperwork about it."

I'm thinking hard about calling in tonight. I don't know if I can handle my feelings about my job right now.

@Arkandel said in Critters!:

This might be her final winter. I don't know what's worse - having to make the call, or finding her gone.

I think (and I say this with all the sympathy in the world) that hard ending is the real price for the years of happiness our pets give us.

I'd agree with that sentiment if not for the impossibility of preventing collateral deaths.