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@ganymede We believe in you, and we're honored you trust us enough to drop the persona. I hope we reward that trust with the acceptance and support you need.

@cobalt I'm choosing to ignore all the terrible things in that story to glad the kid has such a thoughtful gran, and that the kid is apparently able to eat (when I had COVID, I slept too much to eat a pizza).

***Spoilers for the new Spider-Man movie coming out this Christmas.***

@rinel ***This one about forty-year-old comics rather than the movies***

@testament said in RL Sads:

I have to physically restrain myself from asking repeatedly what I did wrong or how can I fix it.

Not for nothing, but I've always had the best results when I just ask if we're still okay, instead of letting myself spiral into certainty that I have been abandoned again. The other person almost always feels the same way.

@eye8urcake I can't even find words for how horrible that situation is. You have my deepest condolences. I'll miss your perspective here very much, but I understand, and I hope this change is helpful to you.

@kk said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

The nursing/nursing aid shortage is worse than ever and about to get much worse with winter, holidays, covid and the vaccine mandate. It worse than it was last winter by far and not even winter yet.

You know those cardboard signs people put in the grass by the sidewalk that have a phone number you can call to sell you car for cash NOW! or liquidate your home or just get a job the sign doesn't describe? The nursing homes near me are putting up those kinds of signs.

@rinel I am so greedy for the hiatus to end and the show to resume.

@grayson said in Good TV:

The main character of the Lord of the Rings is, let's face it, the languages.

The rest of it is just a handy showcase.

Take your Like and get out.

All the text messages I'm receiving today from six-digit phone numbers warning me that a bank I don't do business with is freezing my card. What card? Unclear! But I better call them right now with all my personal details ready to clear up this misunderstanding!

@jennkryst said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

@derp I am still in the middle of it, but what I have seen so far is bad, and further justifies my 'Netflix is trash' stance on things.

***NSFW content***

At some point, I really need to just bite the bullet and say, "Dude, me liking girls doesn't mean I want to look at your collection of Only Fans photos."

On the one hand, I am deeply amused by the idea of "what if Family Guy was in space," given Seth Macfarlane's open desire to do exactly that.

On the other hand, and I know how petty this is, the proportions of the characters just upsets me. I know it's just a stylistic choice, but it gets under my skin in a way I did not expect.

@mietze said in RL Sads:

What I cried about is potentially telling one of my kids I can't come visit him at school (I had to miss his university family weekend because of my stupid workplace injury!!! We had rescheduled for this Sunday) until the van is fixed.

I'm not a parent, but being unable to see your kid seems like a good reason to start your eyeballs leaking.

@mietze I've dreamed about it ever since Professor Farnsworth used his to break into Area 51 and steal back the remains of Bender's body.

@hedgehog I'll never forget his delivery of, "Hey buddy, this is a family establishment. Keep your mouse in the house."

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

I feel like there is a whole story here and I am dying to hear it.

Not really. Just microaggressions here and there, piling up until the conclusion is inescapable. I've tried to turn it into an interesting narrative, and just can't figure out a way to make death by a thousand papercuts flow.

@aria I forget if someone else already said this, but the argument against actors being responsible for gun safety is they're not trained professionals. Every movie set has, or at least is supposed to have, two trained, licensed professionals who check every firearm to be used in a scene prior to the cameras rolling, to check that it's loaded with blanks and to announce loudly to the whole set that the gun is either live or not. Adding that responsibility to the actor, who almost certainly is not accredited, just creates another way for the system to break by adding an amateur to a system designed for professionals. I tend to support this position, from my own anecdotal experience with systems that have lots of redundancy.

I got a lot of people to feed chicken n taters

4 lbs bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
1 tbsp kosher salt
1 tbsp dried oregano
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp dried rosemary
1 pinch cayenne pepper
6+ cloves of garlic, crushed
1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup olive oil
3 russet potatoes, quartered; skin them if that's your thing, but I like skin on
2/3+ cup chicken broth or stock

Preheat your oven to 425F. Lightly grease the inside of a large roasting pan.

In a large bowl, combine everything but the broth/stock. Give it a good hand-mixing until everything looks about evenly coated.

Transfer the chicken to the pan, skin side up. Add the potato quarters among the thighs. Pour the stock/broth evenly over the whole affair, then pour the marinade from the mixing bowl over it, also evenly.

Put the pan in the oven. Let it go for about 20 minutes, then remove everything and give everything a rotate to help cook more evenly, but keep the chicken skin-side up unless you want to lose the skin on the bottom of the pan. Return it to the oven for another 25 minutes or until the chicken registers 165F near the bone.

Remove the chicken from the oven to a serving plate. Cover it to keep it warm. Toss the potatoes in the remaining juices and return the pot to the oven on broil until the marinade caramelizes and blackens; maybe 3 minutes. Remove from oven and turn it off. Transfer the taters to the serving plate.

Splash a little more stock/broth into the pan to scrape up the crusties on the bottom of it, and give the marinade a good stir to make sure everyone gets some burnt garlic. Drizzle it all over the chicken and taters. Serve it with some broccoli or something if you're trying to pretend there's anything healthy about this meal.

@ganymede I stopped making it because I can and will drink the remaining marinade straight out of the dish I put the leftovers in, which makes me feel undignified.