dRLY [none/use name]

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Cake day: August 14th, 2021

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  • I am also kind of losing steam on season two, but only like two eps in. I think that in my case the issue is kind of the frustration of the time jumps and that it keeps going like two steps forward and like one or one and a half backwards. Though I guess they want to create the feeling, so I guess it is working. Same thing happens with other shows that do similar (or in other cases seem to try so hard to not reach a real point until like the last ep or two). I enjoy when they can land it, but I tend to kind of hate whole seasons until “the big reveal” or whatever is able to make it worthwhile.

    When I watched the first season of Severance, I had just finished Pantheon and liked that it chose to end after two seasons. So after the first season of Severance, I was hoping that it would not try to run more than two or three. It is wild how much they can make these modern shows pack basically the slowness of older 25 ep seasons of older shows.

    Kind of the same annoyance happens when I find what seems to be a long-form YouTube doc/deep-dive. But realize that it is all AI and keeps somehow constantly repeating the same information in a circular form instead of more information (gotten real good at picking up on that shit). Or like supper click-bait “articles” that have multiple “next page” bits at the end of each page. Just always circle with “but that is when the crucial and amazing blah blah” with like a few sentences that “advance” the topic (and of course the page is just loaded with ads).


  • CW IRL self-harm, not sharing a link or images in the “spoiler,” just a very general description. Feel free to delete if a mod, or just reply with “please remove” and I will delete it myself.

    Not a “favorite” (due to being self-harm) but really fucked-up one that involved fans recreating a very morbid “scene” that mimics something a player could come across in Fallout New Vegas (or any of the games). Seems like a creepypasta, but 100% true. Again, CW for self-harm.

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    Two men committed suicide, but they apparently really liked the Fallout games. They dressed-up like characters (I don’t believe any specific named ones) from the game I believe one had a Vault-Tec coveralls and the other was either a generic wastelander or a raider, and left a note (with a small bag of a few shotgun shells and bottle caps like you might pickup) that read kind of like ones you might find in a spot where people got hit by raiders. Text of the note: “The raiders overtook Sanctuary. Food stores running low. Only have 6 caps left and a bit of ammo. I think I hear something in the distance.”



  • That sounds like 4Chan shitposters trying to trick you into something (bet the next step would have been to put a shoe on your head). lol

    It is like all the stuff that would have previously been a huge tip-off of a phising attempt, are just now used by the supposed “legit” services/sites. I am curious how much such a “check” matters with all the AI gen stuff getting better faster than the “prove you are human” stuff.


  • Trump’s time interacting with the WWE and reality TV really makes all of this make sense. Got to have faces and heels to keep ratings high and carry the plot. In the end, they all party after the show. The dems also play their parts. All ran by the rich and their love of keeping the “fans” fighting over which character(s) are better than the others and paying for tickets/PPV.



  • I am just done with all the Boomers and Gen-X folks being condescending about Millennials and Gen-Z being more supportive of options left of Liberal. Get hit with “you just don’t understand what it was like living in the Cold War. And I don’t think you would support them if you were around for Vietnam and constant threat of nuclear war” (or some version of how much chaos existed in the Cold War like we haven’t lived through basically the same shit and more along with them).

    Those same people will talk about how they protested Vietnam, nukes, and were so active (along with “you will get more conservative when you’re older”) in other protests like Civil Rights and Women’s Rights. Maybe even say some shit like “I didn’t sell-out, I bought-in” when pressed about why they became their parents. This doesn’t mean that very broad generalizations of gens is correct. But there are some broad sections of every gen that are large enough to be the “symbol” of those gens. Millennials and Gen-Z will be known to Alpha and (I am guessing) Beta based on similar observations. So it really matters that we need to try to be better. I don’t care what the older gens try to “symbolize” us as, because it is how much we fail those future gens that matters.