I love Dead Like Me, but the problem is Ellen Muth seemed to just give up midway through the first season and her IRL eating disorder showed. So many of the other characters were pulling their own weight but even they couldn’t carry it.
I did a marathon in the last year and it was difficult to get through the last few episodes…let alone the movie
The thing is it was a refreshing change when it came out. I thought it was the funniest movie I’d seen in years, bought the DVD when it came out thinking it was still great then when I tried watching it again a year later and it completely lost it’s luster. It’s like Juno, that one movie was great for a change of pace in an otherwise stale genre
The basic message is supposed to be but loses intent because of the fact it’s all fat jokes
I’ve always had shit sleep patterns, insomnia as far back as kindergarten. I did eventually get a sleep study done and shocker I have sleep apnea. I got a CPAP and the doc pumped it up so hard. I had facial hair so finding a mask that fits wasn’t easy. Also, I’m a side/stomach sleeper, and if I’m on my back in bed I’ll be side awake for hours. So I tried the CPAP for a couple months.
It still woke me up at 2-3 am every single night, and I had dreams about suffocating. Never used it again
Not worst, but it’s been very hit or miss on Kickstarter. There were some good things that came from it buuut…
Coolest. Yes I did end up getting one, but never used the cooler itself. The only thing that got use was the Bluetooth speaker, which I used so much it killed the battery. When I was getting ready to move, the coolest was in pristine condition but the internal battery (for the blender and phone charging) was completely shot, and I had newer better coolers so I set it by the curb.
Andromium Superbook. This was supposed to be a netbook sized device that you plug your android into turning it into a “laptop”. Nothing ever came from it, reports of being a scam or someone embezzled the money.
Polygons. Measuring cups and spoons which are a single piece of plastic that can “fold in” to different measures sizes. These seemed kinda slick but “production issues” blah blah “suppliers” yadda yadda, still nothing after a decade.
Bears vs Babies. A card game which turned out to be boring and shitty.
Nuvi Sleep Mask. A sleep mask which pairs to your phone that’s supposed to help sleep by setting up light pulses etc. I could never get the app to work so a total bust
Flyte socks. Fun “bold” colorful socks. Stitching tore putting the damn socks on
7+. Various comic books. Backing a couple and finally reading them…you can tell why they had to seek funding on Kickstarter and otherwise couldn’t find a publisher for these stories.
Same here.
I had an old paintball gun I bought off someone in highschool but never got the chance to play, until after college on a weekend out of town trip so I had to borrow everything. About 8 years later a friend decides to get back into it after his divorce so we played a couple times and I swore I’d wait until we played a few times before investing money into newer, better gear. Then I got a new marker, hopper, mask, tanks, and all the trimmings. We played once (1 on 1) then he vanished forever when he started dating his would-be wife. I never touched any of it again.
I didn’t get into DnD until COVID, and know how I am with things, I decided to get 1 set of cheap dice, borrow a PHB and start small. After several sessions and a solid group my dice addiction hits, I buy PHB, DMG and MM off eBay, custom mini and make my own dice box. Then I start getting into DMing, buy tons of minis, DM gear, paints, more dice etc etc. Me and my gf break up, the DM (a coworker of mine) went turncoat and I was gone from the group. I tried finding a couple new games after I moved but no luck.
So now I got all this shit sitting on shelves in my basement
A little one I’ll neve forget is playing Jedi Outcast and you’re doing battle with the 2nd in charge, Tavion. Keep in mind I was high af playing this, but after you defeat her you’re holding her up and force choking her off the side of Cloud City. And she starts singing like a canary. The part that hit hard (again stoned out of my mind) was the person who was hell bent on killing you and leading to darkness which could cause the deaths of thousands and subjugation of millions says…because I’m not brave enough to die!
I love when Boss was with…I don’t even remember who…but they were singing Biz Markie Just a Friend.
This hits even harder at the end of 4 when the entire cast is singing it (poorly) and towards the end all the other voices fade out and it’s just Michael Clarke Duncan singing it out. For those who don’t know, MCD was did the voice of Benjamin King, one of the main villains in the original Saints Row. He did some VA for SR4 but passed away early on and Terry Crews took over the role. Before he died, one of the things MCD was able to record was him singing Just a Friend.
I will never not upvote KotOR
Medical transcriptionists. Stay at home moms would make a killing by just typing out what a doc would say on a small tape recorder.
Now, it’s all voice-to-text with Dragon Naturally Speaking being the standard.
Nursing is still feeling the effects of 50 years ago, when graduating they told you half wouldn’t be able to be employed since the Market was oversaturated.
However the nursing shortages today are largely artificial or the result of doctors being unrelenting egotistical assholes. Travel nurses and labor pools where once the day of picking up shifts where needed. But now a ton of RNs will quit their employment at a hospital, then become a traveler, staffed at that same hospital for 3 months and make almost a year’s wages, then move on to the next hospital. Rinse repeat
My absolute favorite…
You’re not pretty enough to be that dumb
Could be a lot of lurkers finally found something worth posting too.
…or as history has taught me, BOTS
Don’t forget the popup as soon as you open the app for a “Limited Time Lightning Deal” of 25% off when you subscribe for 3 years with a price lock guarantee.
And the post office has an incentive to keep costs low, whereas private companies could just add easily price-fix
I used to be almost addicted to beef jerky, especially the smaller store types where it’s made semi-local…until it got to be 29.99 per pound. I love the stuff but will never like it THAT much
Hurricane Michael. I was in Georgia at the time and most hurricanes dissipate and turn into big storms by the time it hits us. Nope. This was a CAT5 when it hit the coast and maintained to a CAT3-CAT2 by the time it hit us. I loved alone at the time, had prepped my Danger Room (inner most closet).
While waiting I had taken a brand new unopened bottle of Bibb & Tucker bourbon into the room with me because I’d joked if I die in hurricane I’m not gonna do it sober. It got really hot and muggy in there and the weather didn’t sound so bad so eventually I get out to try and look outside. I spent the next maybe hour walking from a rear window to a front window but it was late evening and you could only see when lightning flashed. It honestly didn’t seem as bad as Id thought, and when checking the radar the worst had passed us. So I checked outside with my headlamp and flashlight to see it had uprooted a tree in my front yard which had fallen onto my front porch. No real damage but it’s wild I never heard the damn thing fall. Nor did I hear the neighbor’s tree fall and destroy the carport in the back of the house. It took almost a year and a half for insurance to admit there was roof damage.
There wasn’t much I could do for my house since the trees were too big on their own. I tidied up what I could, grabbed my chainsaw, met up with a neighbor buddy and we went around the neighborhood doing whatever we could. Of course there were douches who wouldn’t lift a finger in their own yard but were expecting us to cut shit at their demand.
The whole area was without power for about a week. A couple days later we went to a friend’s house who was having a freezer party with the whole point of grilling food that would have otherwise gone bad. I brought my bottle of B&T to share because I thought i’d drank less than 1/4 of it while waiting out the hurricane. I went to pour my first cup and…nope. I barely had enough left for 1 glass for myself. No idea how I drank that much in 1 night with my legs still able to function and not puking my guts out the next morning
She can’t have kids, I don’t have kid(s) of my own and want one.
I do love MacGyver! Grew up on that, Quantum Leap and Wings!
Diablo Cody was the writer of Juno, and I only know it because she became a hot commodity after the breakout success of Juno. And she had a middling hit with Jennifer’s Body but hasn’t done anything of note since.
Meanwhile whomever did Napoleon Dynamite was getting offers left and right, and his followup Nacho Libre was a dud because they were banking on the same success of ND but starring Jack Black. Jon Heder got a bunch of offers, including that skating movie with Will Ferrell but I think he kinda just fizzled out