You should have seen and heard the room when I slipper announced that I was doing a campaign in my home brew system/universe and it was going to be based on Big Trouble in Little China, very loosely.
Hmmm, kind of a broad thing.
When I think comfort films, it’s about the movies you watch when you’re sick or need a bit of a boost. Conventionally, that would be the Willy Wonka movie (the Wilder one).
But there’s also Rocky Horror, Man of La Mancha, and Arsenic & Old Lace that are go-to for when I’m sick, or just suck of the world. I don’t know how unconventional those are, though.
There’s also Godzilla movies, typically the older ones.
Hell man, I know this isn’t worth much, but I hope you find a path to explore and live your sexuality, whatever that may be.
If you decide to come out, just know that you’ve got support out here in the world, and respect for the work it takes to overcome that kind of difficulty with upbringing. If you decide not to, just know that you’ve got support out here in the world, and respect for making your own decision about your self, which can be brutal with that kind of upbringing.
Not all of them, that’s very true.
But you’d be surprised how many hunters will get pissed off at bad shots. Making a kill quick and clean is kinda part and parcel of serious hunters.
But you wouldn’t strap a living deer onto your vehicle. You field dress any game you’re taking home, even if it was trophy (though, fuck trophy hunting). You don’t let the guts stay in place any longer than necessary, and you want the carcass to start cooling asap. That cooling goes faster when the internal organs aren’t holding heat, and the insides are able to be cooled directly
Ain’t no deer surviving field dressing.
Now, I was never a deer hunter. A lot of my family were, and were generous with the meat, so me taking down another one would have been pointless, wasteful, and that made me not willing to actually kill a deer. I used to have some great pictures I took from a stand though. But, I had no issues helping do the work necessary after someone else did.
You just wouldn’t ever drag a deer to your car and strap it on without field dressing (aka gutting, for anyone not aware). It would likely taint part of the meat. And, again, it would slow cooling, so any meat not tainted by the breakdown of the guts could end up spoiling as well, in a worst case.
Eh, I ain’t mad at em.
It’s no different than anime cars, or hot rods with flames, or any other unnecessary but fun for the owner decorations. Not my cup of tea, I draw the line at a maximum of three pieces of auto flair, in the form of placards, stickers, or decals not to exceed a 6×6 area equivalent. That’s my personal limit, but I ain’t hating anyone trying to find their happy with decorations.
And, tbh, if I had a truck, that motherbumper would have a sexy sasquatch on the rear. All kicked back, chilling. Totally over used, but I still think it’s hilariously over the top. Some things just demand to be done, and you can’t deny the call of the 'squatch.
Whew. They just wanted to piss people off lol.
I still don’t get why people even liked the movie itself.
I get that it was pretty unique, and the art side of it was awesome. That kind of thing hadn’t really been done before.
But as a movie to watch? Man, it was just disjointed, with no real sense in any of it. Yeah, visually interesting, and a unique way to go about it all, but just empty. It was like having a stale cigar in a gold and jewel encrusted box. Or maybe like a ruined orgasm, where you get all hyped because the technique is good, but then it just dribbles at the end with no real pleasure.
I dunno, I’m not analogy man.
I remember watching it the first time and being really impressed with the way it was filmed, the way it felt immersive. But then I just ended up shrugging about halfway through and wondering when it would get interesting beyond being an experiment
Exercise.
Arthritis, and other musculoskeletal problems put me on the disabled list a long time ago. So, if I want anything resembling sustained cardio, it’s water or jerking off. Or both, I guess.
Point being that water based exercise is a wonderful thing when you have any kind of mobility issues. You get resistance without stress on joints, or at least a lot less stress. So you can bust your ass and get some good work in instead of doing fifteen minutes and needing a handful of NSAIDs and the rest of the day to recover.
I just wish I could go more often. We don’t have a pool in our town that’s even semi useful for that. The YMCA the next town over has times set aside, but it’s a tough thing to schedule in.
That is brilliant.
Seriously, if you’ve run across this and are thinking “wtf is this abstract mess?”
Take a step back, follow the line, then step back again and ignore the line while looking at the shapes. Then step back again and look at the whole. There’s a depth to this that isn’t apparent on the surface.
It really does exactly what good abstract is supposed to.
Honestly, I don’t remember. It’s been a few years since the last reread I did. I vaguely remember him surviving being mentioned, and that’s about it.
I’m with you, though. He does that genre defying, epic and deeply engaging kind of writing that’s on par with any of the greats.
Yeah, but I essentially have 3 UK accents, and they all suck, but the Scottish is the least bad lol.
Eh, looking through the comments (and its so nice to see that folks really giving some good thought to their comments on such a hot button topic), there’s not much I can add.
I fall into the “humans will find excuses” camp. I also think that religion isn’t a bad thing, per se. Even organized religion doesn’t have to be destructive at its extreme. But it’s also inevitable that the section of humanity that craves power and control is going to use whatever avenue for such that they find.
Since all religions are susceptible to zealotry, I don’t think we’ll ever be free of religious zealots, which means there’s always going to be people insisting that other people follow their religion’s rules, or else.
Now, that isn’t exclusive to religion, but it’s the obvious example of that kind of thinking. You can look at pretty much any bloc that’s belief based and find zealots. Politics, whoooo boy! Veganism. Even fandoms of cartoons have zealotry in a way, though it tends to be a much less invasive kind, akin to music genre fanatics; it’s more gatekeeping than proselytizing. But you do run into the kind of obsessive fandom where if you don’t like it, you suck; and you have to watch/listen/read.
Now, it may seem strange to connect religious zealotry to fandoms, but it’s the same underlying way of thinking. People are just prone to wanting to control other people, and will use any excuse to do so.
That proclivity is present even in people that think they don’t think that way, and actively try to weed it out of themselves. Ever catch yourself thinking "the whole world would be better if they all insert personal belief here? That’s the underlying kind of thinking that can snowball into the bigger kind of problem. Doesn’t even matter if it’s true on a factual level, it’s the way it’s thought about and approached that’s the key. If anything, a belief being highly factual and demonstrably true makes it more likely to turn into zealotry.
So, better without religion? Eh, nah, not imo. Just different in detail.
Ngl, this was a problem for me too.
It wasn’t lord of the rings, because the kid wasn’t into that level of vocabulary yet. It was Harry Potter. But apparently, me booming out every line of Hagrid’s in a faux Scottish accent was “going to keep the kid and the entire neighborhood up all night, you damn nerd.”
Yeah, this one is too nebulous to answer one way or another. There’s too many possibilities involved to get to a point of certainty.
It is definitely possible for sure. But so is a simple desire for human contact, friendship, or just being bored while waking. Could be looking for friends for his dog.
It’s even possible that the guy read your smile as nervousness and is trying to alleviate that so neither of you has to change when/where you walk the dogs. Could be similar, but wanting to help your dog not feel nervous around him and his dog.
No, not playing means not wasting time and energy on it. That is a full win.
Anyone trying to pretend that participation in a thought experiment isn’t voluntary would be wise to choose very carefully who they pull that with irl.
Q.E.V
Me too. It sucks.
Wouldn’t exactly want to be taking in a lot of caffeine and sugar, if that’s ibs-d for sure. Ibs-c, it can actually help.
If you can call that a word, sure, I guess. Wouldn’t have thought of it like that :)
Preach!
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