impossiblepen
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impossiblepen
1mo ago
This movie vaguely traumatized me as a 15-year-old girl who saw it in theatre (with my much-cooler sister, even!). You have articulated why better than I was ever able to myself. Well, the feminist aspect at least. There's also some degree of a message of "no one will ever like you if you aren't laid-back and cool; being uptight and tone-deaf is the worst thing you could ever possibly be." Like, the Stone family isn't portrayed as actually being wrong! They just were maybe insufficiently coy about it, in the movie's eyes, I think.
Weirdly I also kind of liked it, at the time, and also liked it when I recently re-watched it, twenty years later. It's very rare to find media that lays these messages so bare so honestly. I do view it as much closer to a black comedy or a family drama with comedic relief elements than an actual comedy or rom-com though.
impossiblepen
1mo ago
The CS building on my college campus genuinely smelled of unwashed nerds, and was semi-infamous for it. This is "a thing" if ever there was a thing.
impossiblepen
1mo ago
I suspect women who like to hang around a place like this aren't too likely to be offended either way.
impossiblepen
1mo ago
I do like having an angled clipper as well, mostly for hangnails.
impossiblepen
2mo ago
All this BG3 talk is giving me a craving, but I can't bring myself to embark on a new solo playthrough while I'm paused a bit into Act 3 with one friend and at the start of Act 2 with him and another friend, who are both too busy to play recently.
My husband and I just finished playing through Strange Antiquities together and really enjoyed it. Nice relaxing fare while I'm more-or-less on break from my usual semi-tryhard WoW gaming.
I've dabbled in Satisfactory for the first time recently, but think I might not be the right kind of nerd for this game. The technical aspect doesn't grab me enough; I find I'd rather just explore the world.
I'm as terrible at Marvel Rivals as ever but like it enough that I've swallowed my pride and re-downloaded it just to run AI matches to wind down late at night. That game was fun when all the other casual noobs were also still playing and just became painful once that population dropped off. If anyone knows how to get good at this kind of game, feel free to send me a link or something, since I apparently can't just move on lol.
It's about the time of year for my annual Minecraft spurt but I may try to get back into Enshrouded to semi-fill that niche instead. Or I may succeed in logging off and reading a book instead. We'll see.
impossiblepen
3mo ago
If you ever desire to dig really deep into the realm of medical treatment of autism, I highly recommend you check out a blog called EpiphanyASD, written by a German father of a severely autistic boy whom he has been able to treat to the point of being moderately functional.
You've saved me, thank you. I have the same-aged Pixel 4 and would've taken the same Pixel 10 deal, but I didn't think of the size and know a bigger phone would bother me. Although the info that it's apparently impossible to get a sane-sized phone is tempting me to ditch the smartphone life altogether (a perennial temptation.)
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