Dime Store Philosopher; Flawed Human; Quixotic Fantast; Democratic Socialist ๐จ๐ฆ
Coffee Flows Through My Veins
#MentalHealth - #BDII #BPD #ADHD
Blocked By Some. Muted By Others.
Tolerated By Most.
Matthew 25:40
Matthew 7:1-3
Acts 2:44-45
1 Timothy 6:10
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Things I Mainly Post About:
* TV ๐บ
* #MCU
* Games ๐ฎ (Mostly #LEGO or #EWR)
* Wrestling ๐คผ (99% #AEW)
* Some political stuff (VERY left-leaning)
* My #MentalHealth "Journey" ๐ตโ๐ซ (sometimes dark)
FYI: I won't Follow Back if your posts are 99% political ๐ซค
I'm disappointed in the li'l neighbourhood cafรฉ. ๐ซค
All their signage is about coffee, so - going in - I thought that it was a "coffee bar"-type place.
Nope. 1 kind of "just OK" coffee ๐ญ + pastries etc.
It just feels more about the cute vibe.
They're doing well; so just not my cuppa', I guess? ๐ ๐คท
If I had money, I'd definitely open "The Coffee Bar".
All the chain places have let their coffee quality slide in order to focus on mediocre food.
I'd focus on different awesome fucking coffees (and teas)... and any food served wouldn't taste like processed crap.
Sigh. I need to win the lottery ๐
Today is International Animation Day.
For decades, the National Film Board has revolutionized animation. There are many great films but my personal favourite is The Log Driver's Waltz.
Created to foster national unity, it is beloved.
This is the story.
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I learnt last week something that the movie business is going to start doing:
using AI to replace actors' mouths in foreign versions to give the illusion that they're speaking the dubbed language... and recreating their voice using AI.
How uncanny valley / Cavill's moustache will this be?
Ugh.
I've been doing more reading about ADHD... and I really should've been doing this sooner, because - DAMN! - there's WAY more to it than I knew & it explains *so much*.
It doesn't fix the problems, but seeing that other people are experiencing the same weirdass shit in their brains is helpful.
Importantly: I learnt that there're impulsivity issues w/ it.
So, of my diagnoses - #Bipolar II; #BPD; #ADHD - *all 3* have that as a symptom.
You guys... I think I know why I have trouble w/ impulse control! ๐
It explains the addictive personality, too, methinks.
Sigh. I hate my brain sometimes.
The only thing I can't seem to nail down is my (what I'm calling) "Extreme Comfort Watching".
Comfort Watching makes sense: watch a series or movie that makes you feel better, and move on.
Obsessively watching the same thing over and over, though?
That can't be healthy, and yet I feel compelled.
I didn't realise how many older workers that I had on my roster until I started doing a stable of "Grizzled Veterans".
It's now up to 7 people, including the manager. ๐
It's the oWo.
I'll keep the stable going years past its expiry, and just keep adding more people as they age into it. ๐คฃ
#EWR
AJ was my long-term plan for champ, and the game had just given me a message saying that he'd end his career w/ WCWF.
I didn't think it'd be so soon! ๐
Yes, I hired Cody Rhodes. ๐ซฃ
In my #EWR universe, he's not a POS. ๐คฃ
Just a manager. Not a huge loss.
Time to Pi-VOT & rework my plans.
Darn it all.
Literally a month ago, they were touting how they were improving AI in Firefox.
This is such bullshit.
It's all or nothing, assholes.
Either you're for AI or you're anti-AI; you can't play both sides on this one.
We, internationally, need to do exactly what the Brazilians did and lead by example with:
1) Block all far right figures/accounts
2) Never share a far right account even to dunk on them
3) Never reply to a far right account even to dunk on them
Completely cut their algorithmic advantage
OFF-BRAND MUPPETS
Oscar the Grouse
Bernie & Ert
Cookie Wanter
A Large Bird
Grover Cleveland
Tick le Meelmo
The nude eyeless mute chef made of felt
Grover Cleveland
Furmitt the Krog
...and his Lady Hog
Mr. Teeth and a Band of Animals Who by Definition Cannot Consent
Zongo ("the weird one")
The C*nt
The fight just to exist as a team was a really important story to tell, so I get why they had to focus on that in S4, but I'd really like to see them on the pitch more in S5.
Higher stakes games.
Learning new plays. TotalFootball? Lasso Special?
Maybe Chilton has something up her sleeve?
#TedLasso
Today is Dรญa de los Muertos for Pets.
It honours the loyalty and companionship of our pets that have crossed over the Rainbow Bridge.
Today, I honour Boris, my buddy that crossed that bridge on Sept. 6, 2022.
Believe it or not, despite how much I bitch about how disappointed I've been thus far, I want the #DCU to succeed.
So, I'm glad for "Clayface" doing well at the BO.
Too bad it's a hard R horror; that doesn't appeal to me at all... kinda' disappointed w/ that.
Hopefully it leads to better things?
Maybe w/ their Batman plans all screwed up Gunn could've easily said "Well, shit... why don't we just make Clayface Batman's first villain?"
Having a sympathetic villain as his first major movie foe could be interesting character development for the #DCU Batman.
Hell... if it's not connected to anything, who's to say that Clayface doesn't show up in "The Batman 3" if they were to do one.
That could be really interesting, and the styles might mesh better.
Believe it or not, despite how much I bitch about how disappointed I've been thus far, I want the #DCU to succeed.
So, I'm glad for "Clayface" doing well at the BO.
Too bad it's a hard R horror; that doesn't appeal to me at all... kinda' disappointed w/ that.
Hopefully it leads to better things?
Apparently, one of the criticisms is that it's a stand-alone story that doesn't lead anywhere, and I read a post that said that they don't have to.
I agree, actually... to an extent.
Most of #MCU Phase 1 were stand alones but the stingers were the build.
So, can't it be both?
I don't think that this is very spoiler-y, so I think it's safe to post:
I read an interesting fan theory about #TedLasso S5.
They think that the stage manager's name is Claire.
If you're a fan, you should be able to put it together.
If true, that could be interesting.
I of course loved him as Chekov, but playing Bester on BABYLON 5 really showed his range. You really forgot the guy ever *was* Chekov in that role.
RIP Walter Koenig.
Walter Koenig as Oro in the Canadian sci-fi series The Starlost.
The Canadian produced show was filmed in Scarborough, and only aired for 16 episodes in 1973. Due to budget cuts and production difficulties, show creator Harlan Ellison left before the first episode aired.
The Goonies takes place on the same exact date that Marty goes back to 1955. Gremlins takes place in the same location as the Clock Tower. 3 of the greatest 80s movies live in the same universe.
I saw someone post that Walt Disney would be horrified at the state of the company.
False.
As someone that worked at Disney:
He was *so* not the saint the propaganda says.
He'd be fucking THRILLED.
He never truly cared about happy children.
Just as it continues today, it was *always* about the $$.
That's not to say that he wasn't a fucking genius.
He knew how to make movies / parks that made children happy which, ultimately, made parents give him money.
It's just that the "Uncle Walt" stuff is such balderdash.
He was a huge POS whenever he wasn't on camera.
The precursor to the modern CEO.
So, not only does DST still exist for some reason... but, just to make things even more interesting, Europe/UK changes theirs a week before North America... which in itself no longer has DST everywhere.
Woof... doing int'l business in the next week is gonna' be a pain.
How is this still a thing?
I feel so basic. ๐
I've only played AD&D 2e, D&D 3e, and Star Wars (I honestly don't even know which one).
We, very briefly, attempted to play Wheel of Time but that went nowhere fast; so I'm not really counting it.
Anyone else remember those shitty arcade machines that had a bunch of different games on them - which was cool - but every quarter just bought you, like, 2 minutes of play time?
It was, until we got it for the NES, the only way that I could play Super Mario 3, but, still... what a rip off.
Have any #Dispatch players opened it after the *12GB* update?
They didn't bother w/ patch notes.
I'm reading both that they're pushing the Deluxe Edition content to everyone but you can't access it w/o paying for it, and that it isn't working properly post-update.
Anyone out there have any info?
If they really are pushing content that I cannot access, I'm playing through one last time, and then uninstalling for a good long while.
23GB... 12 of which I can't access? F that noise.
I reconnected w/ 2 old friends last weekend, which was nice - and a positive experience which my anxiety told me it wouldn't be.
Now I've yet to hear back from either of them.
It's shit like this that makes me anxiously question myself.
Did I say/do something wrong?
Am I just too big a loser?
Ugh
I know that they have lives, and that shit happens... but, man... both of them?
One of them was supposed to call me back, as it was their turn in phone tag, and the call just never came.
One of them was supposed to send me some stuff by email that day, and call to talk about it.
Le Sigh.
"Debate" has been corrupted by codifying it into a competitive sport imo; at this point it is rarely a method for good faith actors to hit upon best solutions or refine a shared reality; it's mostly a vector for bad faith actors to keep failed and destructive ideas in perpetual zombie currency.
it's understandable to think of constructive debate as an ideal and then to figure that *any* debate is therefore a step towards political values and virtues. but I think most debates, particularly in the social media age, make conversations and outlooks worse than where they started
I have literally no idea why this completely random thought even occured to me...
... but I wonder what a Benjamin / Ciampa tag team would be like. ๐ค