@wretched Mine goes more like...
Body: You know you've been up for like 18 hours now... that sleep thing should happen.
Brain: Ooooooooo, you know what we haven't seen in foreeeeeeeever? ARACHNAPHOBIA! PUT IT ON RIGHT NOW
Body: But.. sleep...
Brain: OH LOOK ITS YOUNG JULIAN SANDS! AND YOUNG JEFF DANIELS! AND YOUNG JOHN GOODMAN!!
Body: siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh ...welp... sure, lets make this the fourth 20 hour day in a row.
I get to take part in a clinical trial to test a new drug for relief from myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome). I hate that name, it makes it sound like a 'made up' disease. But I am thrilled at the potential for some relief!
@reimesu I miss those totally fake bright red boneless spare ribs. I can't find them ANYWHERE anymore! 
FUCK! I loved Dean Stockwell.... he was in so much of my life... Yeah, sure, Quantum Leap but like... he was in The Dunwich Horror (BOTH of them). The Twilight Zone (all THREE runs). Alfred Hitchcock Presents. DUNE. Yeah. Motherfucking DUNE. To Live and Die in LA, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Murder She Wrote. McHale's Navy! BSG.
BTW, he voiced Duke Nukem in Captain Planet, too. This man had roles in so many shows. He was not given nearly enough credit for all the appearances he made all over the place. All the movies he was in. This one hurts.
Every interview I have attended recently (except two!) has been through Zoom. And thank God for it. For once I'm not being judged on my makeup (I don't wear any), or how well-tailored my clothes are (my weight fluctuates enough to make all my clothes look vaguely ill-fitting), or how awesome my hair looks (I haven't had the time nor money to get a haircut in the last three months). We talk and alot of the times the cameras aren't even on! We're just... talking. Which is... so nice.
As an overweight female with anxiety, I cannot tell you how much I hated in person interviews. They made me want to cry. I have nailed every interview in the past year thanks to Zoom.
@crawfish I had no idea what I was asking when I submitted it other than 'man it would be cool to have all 13 CatGods in one shot'... but it was worth every day and every penny! I love every part of it, I love seeing little things that I overlooked the last time I looked, I love all of it!
I love that Mangata is chilling at the table smiling for the picture like 'this is fine, this is totally fine'. Even though Lagoma has litt he table on fire, half the cats are worried about Aion's sleepyhead, and Tehom is giggling in the mirror. XD
@prototart Worth it. I'm hunting down a copy of Katamari Damacy for my PS2. Because who doesn't love rolling the world into a ball?!
This is why I love the superhero genre. Yes, my character is pretty. She can also punch out your liver, set you on fire, throw you into the sun, deconstruct your mind, or whatever else other kickass power she might have. Judge by looks alone at your own risk.
*empirical 'you', not pointing any specific fingers!
@greenflashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Sometimes I wonder how much of my absolutely childlike lack of knowledge of how my body works can be explained by me growing up in the Bible belt. I'm not even talking about sex stuff; I'm talking about stuff like how I get ingrown hairs if I shave too often or how to clean my ears properly so I don't make my ear buds disgusting. I feel like this is stuff that I would have learned if not for an underlying assumption that my body is sinful and therefore shameful to discuss.
While there's certainly an aspect of that to lay at the feet of the Bible Belt, that's not all of it. Medicine itself doesn't truly understand the female body and how it differs from the male body. Up until about the 90s, women weren't even really taken into account when it came to testing drugs, and updates in how female hormones/organs function and what sort of care/upkeep they require come slowly, if at all, even now. Mammograms haven't really changed since the 1900's. There hasn't been an appreciable update to how to check for breast cancer other than to cause a woman pain and discomfort. Same for pap smears. All the updates to tech and medicine we've seen, you would think there could have been improvements made to either or both procedures. Women still struggle to be taken seriously for any sort of medical complaint, even by female doctors. And this carries over into other things like shaving, skin care, perfumes, makeup... I mean, it's finally, finally just now starting to come out that 'hey, makeup is bad for your skin and you should limit how much you wear and for how long'. And it's still largely being dismissed even as the evidence stares us right in the face. Literally.
So! Yes, being in the Bible Belt doesn't help (hi, raised in Iowa), but that's not the only part of it. I moved away from the BB when I was 18 and quickly found that it doesn't really matter where you go, poor understanding of how the female body works (even to the degree of the similarities between men and women, like shaving) is still rampant.
Borderlands 3 Gameplay Trailer!
They showed it live, streamed through the website at the Pax East con, more information will be forthcoming on April 3rd!
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Let's not remove the upvote button because the alternative will be upvote gifs. And I will use them.. hard.
This seems fun! Lets see how badly I can do...
@l-b-heuschkel No, you didn't get it wrong. I feel so bad for Matt Gertz. And it really shows just how little people pay any sort of attention.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck anti-vaxxers. My son is in high school. FOUR kids in his grade got measles last year. I know it doesn't seem like a huge number... but goddamn. All it takes is one. Just one unvaccinated kid to start an epidemic. Thankfully we're in an excellent school system and the nurse caught all four of them right away, sent them home immediately with notes, had talks with their parents, then sent out an email that afternoon to every parent alerting them of the small outbreak and what to watch for, just in case.
@Wretched Hey, I still shop at Goodwill. There is NOTHING wrong with secondhand clothes.
Hit Points.
So, tongue in cheek for a moment. Dimension20 addresses this, in-character. As in, its a high school for adventurers, so the kids 'level up' and get higher hit points, harder to kill, etc. But one of the characters has a father figure that's truly just one of the random NPC's. He's like... a level 3 diplomat. 10 hit points. In season 2 the kids leave their usual 'realm' to go do a quest thing, save the world, etc. They can have three 'hirelings' with them. One of the ones chosen is this father figure. First fight? Dude dies in one hit, first round. Full on dead. He gets revivified. Second fight. Dude dies again, one hit. 10 hit points, y'know? And these kids are like 7th level whatevers. So the stuff they routinely go up against is dealing like 13+ hit points of damage in a single shot. So they revivify him again. Same fight? Dead in one hit. Revivify at end of fight.
Cue confused conversation between daughter and father figure as to his apparent inability to handle a fight. And his freaking the fuck out and yelling at her that he's JUST A GUY. He's a normal, average person. That not everyone is as tough and resilient as she and her friends are. He never went to 'adventuring academy', he went to a SCHOOL.
Anyways, I really liked that idea. That adventurers are these kinda.. freaks of nature that somehow manage to get harder and harder to kill the more you throw at them, so society has just sort of evolved to put them in their own little place to learn their weirdo adventuring stuff, and go 'save the world' while the rest of the society just goes about its business.
@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Having some stupid quirk that makes cilantro taste like soap, and everyone around me talks about how good it is. And then finding it is in my peanut sauce enough to ruin it. Blech.
You're not alone. I love so many foods that naturally are prepared with cilantro, and it kills me every time to have to order it without. The looks I get from people when I ask if something has cilantro in it... and its messed up, too, because if you say you have an allergy to cilantro, you get sympathy. If you tell them you have a genetic marker than makes cilantro taste like three day old soapy dishwater, you get stared at like you've grown a second head.
I got my hair cut a few weeks ago after a year of no haircuts. My undercut pixie is BACK and a deep blue that makes me happy.
