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  1. Aldarion

    The Prepper Thread

    This: Reading that was bizarre, like a prolonged and disorienting session of deja vu.
  2. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Meetings are useless and terrible. Zoom meetings are 10x worse. Zoom meetings where every fucking person but me is wearing a mask (solo, alone in their offices): WHY THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE WE DOING A VIDEO CALL IF YOU ARE COVERING YOUR FUCKING FACE
  3. Aldarion

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    I dunno, I don't do prefab stuff for anything, but that may be more of a stubborn mindset thing than a rational choice. Chicken coops are easy to build, its not like theres code requirements to follow or something.
  4. Aldarion

    Homesteading and Hobby Farm/Ranch

    We don't heat our chickens here in Oregon. My coop is not insulated, its just a standard wood frame with a single layer of plywood or siding. Granted we have really mild winters, it rarely freezes. But as I recall we didnt heat them in Maine either and it got cold as fuck there. If I had the...
  5. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2021/10/asmr-the-emerging-scientific-quest-to-understand-brain-tingles/ I was really interested to discover there is a name for this sensation and people studying it. Its interesting that such a wide variety of stimuli can trigger what is recognizably the same...
  6. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    I'd already pretty much perfected my home pizza game except the sauce. Until a couple months ago I learned the truth about pizza sauce, and cracked the last part of the code. Raw tomatoes - the kind that are so ripe and perfect you want to eat them on their down, but dont, save them for pizza...
  7. Aldarion

    Midnight Mass

    The vampire's tomb was buried in the sand then a sandstorm revealed it and the priest wandered in. I don't think they specified a time frame but I interpreted it as a long fucking time, like thousands of years or something.
  8. Aldarion

    Midnight Mass

    I think it was just the usual motivation for a vampire thats been buried for thousands of years, he was hungry. Finished it, really liked this one. Only character I dislike, after its all said and done, is the ridiculous "I'm a Good Muslim" sheriff. Literally every scene in the series, any...
  9. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    this. dude could hang out on the streets of any major city in my state and never be recognized. just one more bald white dude with a mask on. surviving months in the woods? hes not doing that shit. Why bother?
  10. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Is the distinction you're making based on whether it was written or not? None of them have provided written quotes ahead of time. Just verbal "I will do this job for X$". First a concrete guy, then an electrician, then a fence guy. it appears to be the standard scam: underbid to get the job...
  11. Aldarion

    Foundation

    Show runners that race and gender swapped the cast are utterly disregarding the source material? If only there had been some kind of sign? Some warning?
  12. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    OK, my rant for the day. Fuck any profession who sets the price after the work is completed and fuck every single person working in those professions. Three times in the past 2 years I've hired a guy to do some work at my place. In each case I carefully get multiple quotes from different...
  13. Aldarion

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I mean, it sounds like Uber or Lyft, dont those drivers lose money on average (upkeep/gas/etc) while a few drivers actually do well?
  14. Aldarion

    Wheel of Time

    If you think the impact on Rands character development is the biggest trouble this signals I don't know what to tell you. When they deliberately fuck up something as easy to get right as casting a series where the author has described each character in painful detail down to the embroidery on...
  15. Aldarion

    House of the Dragon

    I missed that this was a coal burner family, I thought it was just a random diversity casting I can see their clownlogic in giving the halfbreed kids black skin but white hair. But how the fuck do they explain the black dude (presumably the husband who married into the family) white targaryan...
  16. Aldarion

    Midnight Mass

    Youre missing it. His death made perfect sense.
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    Midnight Mass

    No, I agree -- all that stuff was a good representation of the Catholic service. Just not the sermon. Catholics don't shout and get excited during the sermon. The sermon is a sedate, almost academic discussion. It is also a minor part of the service in the catholic church compared to Protestant...
  18. Aldarion

    Midnight Mass

    This show is awesome despite its issues. it just feels like every one of the main actors is giving it 110%, along with the writers. We bitch about characters whose motivations dont make sense. The main character in this... they set up his backstory so well, that his end made perfect sense...
  19. Aldarion

    House of the Dragon

    Lol they literally cast a black dude as a Targaryan and gave him platinum blond dreads I'm convinced the simulation is just trolling us at this point
  20. Aldarion

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Whats funny about it is how it reveals the mental illness in these people. FB goes down briefly? Normal people don't even notice The folks at Twitter think everyones like "oh no I can't get on FB, quick I have to log into SOME social media! aaaggghhhh!!!"
  21. Aldarion

    Midnight Mass

    This show suffers from the same flaw as every other Hollywood production that involves a Church. The director and actor have clearly never stepped foot in a catholic Church. Its goddam ridiculous. Its like if someone who didnt speak Spanish or ever heard any Spanish, tried to write and direct...
  22. Aldarion

    The End of Days - Ours. Planning for the Last Raid Boss

    What you've said is obviously reasonable so dont take this the wrong way. I just want to explore this "breathing and not much else" part. One of the principles I've learned in life is that we never really understand a stage until we've gone through it ourselves. Young single people don't...
  23. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    You ordered a style of "pizza" known for putting the sauce on top of the cheese. On purpose. ygwyfd
  24. Aldarion

    What If...?

    Not to mention that if they had timepaded into some universe with the stones in hand, the stones would have presumably returned to their original power level where a normal mortal cant even touch them without dying. Its not like they were ever easily usable.
  25. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2021/09/30/machine_learning_identifies_the_most_important_predictors_of_infidelity_796700.html What a shocking revelation. Truly, it took a study to reveal this conclusion. Social science is not science and should not be funded.
  26. Aldarion

    Foundation

    Yeah, after all, women can't enjoy watching movies with male leads, just like men can't enjoy watching movies with female leads, and little black kids can only look up to black actors. Thats why they cast so many of the Wakandans white and so many of the Handmaids male, it was important to make...
  27. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    My students have so many audible notifications turned on that any time I interact with them its like theres a third entity in the room with us, an R2D2 sitting there beeping and chiming away. its not just their phones, they have this shit turn on on their laptops too. Bleep, bloop, ding...
  28. Aldarion

    Foundation

    The black chick just doesnt do a convincing mathematician. After 2 episodes its pretty grating. Every time she talks about math its more like some mysticism or female intuition or some shit. Or The Force. Compare this with a Beautiful Mind or even Good Will Hunting. This is a Womens Studies...
  29. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    I have a hobby. When I'm travelling, I just blatantly watch the dumb shit people do on their phones. Like, I don't try to hide it or look out the corner of my eye or something, I practically lean over and just watch them. 99.99% of people are doing the most ridiculous, childish...
  30. Aldarion

    What If...?

    Hawkeye was bad ass this episode.
  31. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    https://www.fox5ny.com/news/americans-check-their-smartphones-96-times-a-day-survey-says hilarious and believable Smartphone addiction is a really funny thing to watch from the outside. its such an extreme compulsion and people just have so little shame or self awareness about indulging it...
  32. Aldarion

    Foundation

    the black chick on terminus isnt the same one? they need to wear name tags or something
  33. Aldarion

    Foundation

    This was something I appreciated as a rare moment of non-wokeness. They had the black chicks planet pretty much all black. They had one of the planets having a meeting with the Emperor, all albino/white/blue eyes. Actual differences instead of making each planet a "beautiful rainbow of...
  34. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    To be clear, I believe you're correct about the actual legislation. I was referring to the Law Of The Road, which states: "get your fucking childrens toy out of traffic" When I was a kid, we biked everywhere. When a car came, we pulled over to the side of the road and let it pass. Because we...
  35. Aldarion

    Interesting, Non Political News

    I've read a couple articles about the event. Neither of them made any mention of the driver swerving, losing control, or anything like that. If a cyclist is in the road and get shit by a car its the cyclists fault. Children's toys dont belong in traffic.
  36. Aldarion

    Foundation

    Its really frustrating that even the non-woke say stuff like this. Literally no one gives a shit about or objects to having non-white people in sci fi settings. Literally zero people. We can make a poll if this is a contentious point, but I dont think it is. I can sit here and list examples of...
  37. Aldarion

    Loki

    Did I completely misunderstand or are you splitting hairs? I thought He Who Remains was just the version of Kang that won the first multiverse war.
  38. Aldarion

    Loki

    Yeah, people just have a thing for praising black actors as a way of virtue signaling. The weird thing is even extend sto FOH. "OMG Idris Alba is such a good actor, did you see how he turned that sword to open the bifrost? swoon" He didnt come across as ancient, genuis, eccentric, or dangerous...
  39. Aldarion

    Dune (2020)

    I took option 5. God help me, I loved Dune that much. I'm ashamed, for what its worth
  40. Aldarion

    Dune (2020)

    Of course, thats what I mean. The obscenity of an ending to which I refer was the godawful Sandworms.