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  • On what specific episode does your favorite "I swear it eventually gets really good" television show actually start turning around?

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  • I wish I'd stopped watching The Walking Dead partway through season 5, whenever Rick and friends arrive at Alexandria, but before they go inside.

    Sure, there's plenty of good episodes/moments afterward, but without spoiling anything, that's also when a lot of the show's bullshit really ramps up.

  • Any Other Guys wish they were short/shorter

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  • Usually no, I generally wish I was taller. Or at least my legs were longer; I'm 5'9, but my legs are unusually short, due to a bunch of surgeries I had as a kid. If my legs were 'normal' I'd be over 6 feet tall.

    The only time I've wished I was shorter, was to fit in to smaller cars. Recently, I tried to drive a kei car called an Autozam, tiny little sports car, and I had to take my shoes off to comfortably use the pedals. My head hitting the ceiling is slightly problematic in a car that has gullwing doors.

  • What do you love about your job and what do you hate about your job.

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  • I like the flexibility trucking offers me. Dispatch doesn't care when or how far I drive, as long as I pick up and deliver on time. But this is highly carrier-dependent; most of the companies I've worked for would see my legal drive times as targets, rather than the limits they're supposed to be.

    I like that I get paid to cruise down the highway and listen to the radio all day. But I don't like that it often takes all day. I often work sunrise to sunset. Literally.

    I like that my boss physically cannot look over my shoulder at work, since he's usually at least two time zones away. But so are my friends and family, most of the time. Phone calls just aren't the same. Even if I'm just an hour's drive from home, I may as well be on the moon.

    I get to see a lot of amazing sights, but seeing them, in passing, is all I'm usually able to do.

  • You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?

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  • I wonder how many people in this thread have read/seen 11.22.63 before.

    Without some amount of preparation, I think I'd just end up mostly working for cash and living out of a van for most of that time, or otherwise staying off-grid. There's a surprising amount of paperwork involved in legally existing as a person.

    Also, since memorizing statistics is not one of my hobbies, I'd want/need some kind of written ledger to have an edge in back-alley sports betting.

    Just for fun's sake though, I'd try my hand at writing professionally again, as a novelist, but just ripping off the plots of movies and TV shows that haven't been filmed yet. Self-publishing everything under pen names of course, to preserve my anonymity.

  • You're immortal and sent back to Dec 1945. How do you survive until modern day?

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  • Why not operate under the assumption that your future self has already gotten away with everything? Taking advantage of the bootstrap paradox. Like Bill & Ted, everything around the dad's keys. Might at least be fun, that way.

  • TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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  • It straddles the state line. Partly in Kansas, partly in Missouri. A few other cities are like this, like Memphis and Texarkana.

  • I would like to play a calm game

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  • Project Zomboid is super peaceful if you turn off the zombies. The game's sandbox settings are super expansive, so you can play pretty much any way you want.

  • What are you up to today?

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  • Well, this morning, I'm nursing a hangover, and learning an important lesson about making bulk cocktails: water them down, because there's no need for ice if you keep bulk cocktails refrigerated. Also, the pumpkin spice espresso martini recipe I'd made several months ago came out annoyingly viscous.

    But it was delicious otherwise, and I'd ended up drinking an entire bottle on my own last night. Luckily it was only ~50 proof.

  • star wars or star trek?

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  • The original, or the reboot? Pretty important distinction.

  • What is everyone doing to survive this food inflation?

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  • I feel pretty lucky in this regard, in that I've got family members who work at a grocery store, and they let me bum off their employee discount. It's only good for store-brand items though, and it only works while they're off the clock, so it takes some coordination for me to use it. Stacks with coupons though, which also helps.

    Buying in bulk can absolutely be helpful, if you can shop at wholesalers or warehouse clubs, and take advantage of coupons and sales. Wouldn't recommend doing this for perishables though, if you're only buying for yourself. Might also be annoying trying to find space for everything at home.

  • Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?

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  • I browse/post on Instagram as a way to vent about my job, without having to talk my housemates' ears off. Sometimes strangers find it funny. Plus, it's a requirement for Lemons Rally checkpoints, whenever I participate in those.

    Whatever I post to Instagram auto-posts to my Facebook page; I don't use that site directly anymore, I mostly leave it up so my blood family knows I'm not dead. I don't talk to them directly anymore.

    Still stuck with Discord for keeping up with my actual family, housemates and the like, only because I haven't had any luck convincing them to join me elsewhere.

    Had a Reddit account for over twelve years, nuked it when third-party apps went away. Only time I go back to that site anymore, is for communities that don't exist (or are effectively dead) here on Lemmy. Very, very seldomly. Last time I made a comment on my current Reddit account was over a month ago.

  • That kid was the WORST

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  • I dunno about "proud", 14-year-old me was around when saying "gay" was usually a punchline, or an insult. Maybe he'd be surprised about my ex-boyfriend. Or my current boyfriend.

    Whatever problems he might have with my current self, he'd definitely come around after all the insider trading information I'd give him. Then he'd definitely be quick about doing things I actually wish I'd done sooner, like quitting marching band and switching to theatre. Focusing on trades, rather than racking up debt, then later burning out trying to get an engineering degree. Things like that.

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  • Oh yes, larping is my favorite part too. I like to get a bit weird with it though, milsim events are a bit too serious for my liking. Same with speedsofters.

    My go-to garb is a thrift shop 3-piece suit, and my most-used guns are pistols and small SMGs. I stick out like a sore thumb playing outdoors.

    If you're ever anywhere near Dallas, D14 is a solid field for outdoor games. I'd also recommend CavTac or Alternate Arms, both near Fort Worth, for indoor games.

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  • I haven't played airsoft in a couple of years. Mostly because I don't have the time anymore. I used to play about once a month, but then I had to move to a different town, so now my preferred field is ~80 miles away.

    If I'm using half a tank of gas just to go there and back, I want to make it an all-day thing. But I also travel for work nowadays, I'm only home most weekends. Taking my guns and gear on the road with me isn't really an option; space on my work truck is at a premium, and it wouldn't look good for me, if a DOT or customs agent were to stumble across an M60 machine gun during a level 1 truck inspection. I also have yet to find any airsoft fields that allow 18-wheeler parking. My truck couldn't physically fit on the driveway to my preferred field.

    Spending a day playing airsoft means I've only got one other day, if that, to do my chores and run my errands for that week, to say nothing of how physically demanding the game is. If I push myself too hard while playing (something else that happens when I've only got a couple days at home per month), I end up needing the following day just to recover.

    I'd pick it up again if I ever get a regular 9-5 job though, or at least something that gets me home every night.

  • Any other American 90s kids grow up watching classic Doctor Who?

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  • I've always loved it, or at least liked it as a kid. My dad was a huge fan of the show when he was a kid, having amassed a huge collection of serials on VHS, and he'd used them to get me hooked just in time for the reboot. We'd watch every Saturday night like clockwork. I remember being distraught when The Empty Child aired, ended on a cliffhanger, and my local PBS affiliate waited four months to air the followup episode.

    I lost active interest in the show sometime during Matt Smith's run as The Doctor; something about the show's writing around then didn't quite sit right. Everything was becoming about The Doctor, always revolving around him, pulling focus away from whatever a given episode was meant to be about, and all these hints were being dropped, presenting questions to the audience that would ultimately go unanswered.

    Also, I thought bringing back the Weeping Angels was stupid, before they were made more powerful upon their return.

  • Any of you work in the movies / TV? What's it like?

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  • I worked at a Waffle House as a teenager, and ended up acting in an episode of some kind of show for MTV, called My Life As Liz.

    By which I mean, there were a few actors and a camera crew camped out in a booth, and the director wanted me to bring them waffles, as a part of whatever scene they were filming. It was the middle of a random Tuesday, the place normally would've been dead, it was a nice change of pace.

    I wasn't paid or credited for this by MTV, just "being on TV was enough" according to the Waffle House's franchise owner. The show's production was also pretty low-budget, non-union; I only remember four or five people on the crew, plus three actors in the scene.

    I ended up making dozens of waffles for these actors, who would only eat a couple bites per take, if anything. Some of the crew ate them on their lunch break, but the majority of the waffles were just thrown away after each take. To the production's credit, they did pay for every single one. After about four hours, they'd apparently got all the shots they needed, packed everything up, and left.

    Several years later, unrelated, AMC used a car I owned for a few episodes of Fear The Walking Dead. I was never on set for that though; their production company apparently had a "car wrangler" who reached out to me. They bought the car off of me, took it away, and when they'd wrapped the season's shooting a few weeks later, they called me to offer first dibs to buy the car back, or else it would've been auctioned off.

    When I got the car back, it was covered in fake dirt, the Landau top had been cut up to make the car appear in worse shape than it actually was, and there were several fake bullet holes in the bodywork from a gunfight scene. Although, in the take that made it to air, you never actually see those bullet holes on the car.

  • What's the dumbest or craziest thing your town/city/region is known for?

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  • Bonnie and Clyde robbed a church in my town. Except, not really, it was an early scene in that movie from the '60s.

    It was a grocery store back then.

  • What game do you personally have the most hours played in?

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  • GTA Online is my most-played game according to Steam, but that time is largely skewed from how rough the game was upon its original launch. Rather than put up with nearly hour-long loading times whenever I wanted to play, I used to simply leave the game running overnight. And as a result, I've got a few thousand hours in that game.

    Project Zomboid is a distant second according to playtime, currently around 900 hours, but I think I'm catching up to it in terms of time I've spent actually playing the game.

    Something about sandboxes with cars and guns that just scratches a certain itch for me.

    I've also got at least a few hundred hours on iRacing, but because I haven't linked that to my Steam account, I don't know the exact amount of time. And I'm not going to look back through my race history to add up every minute of virtual track time.

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    YSK that the idea that drivers pay for roads is a myth, because funding sources also include property taxes, sales taxes and income taxes that people pay regardless of whether they drive or not

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  • Delivery trucks/vans for everything you buy off the internet.

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    Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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    "this is fine, nothing to see here." - Nemesis

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    Goku isn't actually sad, he just kinda always looks it.