Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

UpToIsomorphism wrote:
Amoebic wrote:
Prederick wrote:

Guys, c'mon. It's 2021.

Rubik's Cube banana hammocks.

it's always bearkini season!

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Charmin's switching up the advertising this year, huh?

Accidentally ate some moldy cheese, happy Friday.

I just got the Roomba I'd been thinking about. It only took fifteen minutes vacuuming a room that I thought we'd kept fairly clean for the thing to pick up all the dog hair it could hold.

It also seriously weirded out the dog.

My wife and son (and in-laws) are gone this week to the beach. My to-do list has grown immeasurably and went from things like...

Watch Bad Batch,
Play Horizon Zero Dawn, and
Organize my toys and collectables...

And now includes far more items like

Replace the mailbox,
Hang the last pictures in the house,
Move the boxes to the basement, and
Throughly clean the playroom.

I know you've written that as a loathe, but honestly, a full week to quietly get sh*t done with no interruptions sounds lovely!

Yeah my wife took the kids for 3 days back in July with her mom for a birthday. It was glorious.

Well mostly. I was a tiny bit sad by day 3. Didn't realize how used to noise in the house I've gotten the last year with 2nd kid.

But mostly it was fun to have no responsibilities again for a couple days

The most beautiful gift to give a parent: Peace and quiet.

Don't get me wrong, I love the peace and quiet, but I wish I had fewer real jobs and more play video games and watch nerdy sh*t jobs.

And I'm guessing by Day 3 I will be crazy.

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Don't get me wrong, I love the peace and quiet, but I wish I had fewer real jobs and more play video games and watch nerdy sh*t jobs.

And I'm guessing by Day 3 I will be crazy.

100% this

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

Don't get me wrong, I love the peace and quiet, but I wish I had fewer real jobs and more play video games and watch nerdy sh*t jobs.

And I'm guessing by Day 3 I will be crazy.

Heh. Last time this happened to me (by which I mean one of the two times it's happened in the last 7 years), I rinsed the f*ck out of all the real jobs in the first few days, like full-on 10 hour days of going hell for leather, then kicked back for the rest of it.

Me: I should finish one of the show's I started.
Me 2 min later: predator 2 is on Amazon prime? Let's rewatch that movie.

I received my first ever reddit reward today. But it's not even a good post.

Their doing an autopsy on a body that's been dead for 50 years on the history channel, one of the Alcatraz escapees. It's making me hungry, the dude looks like a roast turkey, but with glasses on.

Day 4: I am going crazy. Where is the people’s?

NPC: I'm very hungry, please go out and find me 3 pieces of raw meat so that I can cook up a good meal.

Me: Here, take 3 of the 500 raw meats I've been keeping in my pockets while running around and fighting all day...

NPC: *briefly considers taking a necklace from a dead townsperson*

Me: I AM LAWFUL GOOD! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING? That person may have a family that would appreciate that valuable inheritance!

Also me: *loots literally every corpse*

Tscott wrote:

NPC: I'm very hungry, please go out and find me 3 pieces of raw meat so that I can cook up a good meal.

Me: Here, take 3 of the 500 raw meats I've been keeping in my pockets while running around and fighting all day...

I love Breath of the Wild for this. Link's running around for several weeks swimming, freezing, and in searing heat with a bowl of clam chowder in his bag that somehow doesn't go bad.

Prederick wrote:

I love Breath of the Wild for this. Link's running around for several weeks swimming, freezing, and in searing heat with a bowl of clam chowder in his bag that somehow doesn't go bad.

Stasis power says hi.

I caught a small fish in my first few minutes of playing Dragon's Dogma. I put it in my storage chest. 500 hours of gameplay later, and it's still there. Still fresh. Not stinky at all. I actually lived dozens and dozens of alternate lives with that fish in my storage chest and it still didn't go bad.

I hereby void all of this year. We all need to stop pretending and just accept that 2020 part 2 is still going and thus we can take the rest of the year off.

Stealthpizza wrote:

I hereby void all of this year. We all need to stop pretending and just accept that 2020 part 2 is still going and thus we can take the rest of the year off.

lots of people are saying that the secret to ending COVID, which the new world order government elites, 5G-loving celebrity class and Bill Gates doesn't want you to know about is by choosing your tag

Chairman_Mao wrote:
Stealthpizza wrote:

I hereby void all of this year. We all need to stop pretending and just accept that 2020 part 2 is still going and thus we can take the rest of the year off.

lots of people are saying that the secret to ending COVID, which the new world order government elites, 5G-loving celebrity class and Bill Gates doesn't want you to know about is by choosing your tag

So be it.

"Tag Chosen".

Should be "Chosen Tag" for posterity ;P

or "So Be it."

"How many narratives am I keeping up with in my brain these days?" is a weird thought that popped up in my head this week, and the answer is "way too many":

  • READING: Phillip K. Dick's 'The Man in the High Castle' (about 60% complete)
  • READING: Taiyo Matsumoto's 'Ping-Pong' (about 10% complete)
  • READING: 'Yotsuba&' (in Japanese, in volume 7 at the moment, although it's only short stories)
  • READING: '20th Century Boys' (in French, in volume 3)
  • READING: 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes' (on hiatus, it's short stories anyway, so maybe this one doesn't count?)
  • PLAYING: 'The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure' on PC (almost done)
  • WATCHING: 'Stranger Things' on Netflix (finished season two on Thursday, started season 3)
  • WATCHING: 'Trese' on Netflix (almost done)
  • WATCHING: 'Ted Lasso' on Apple TV+
  • WATCHING: 'Sex Education' on Netflix
  • WATCHING: Some crappy Thai soap
  • WRITING: Story for the game I am creating (working title 'The Saturday Amateur Beach Soccer League') (and also thinking about the technical side, but that's not a narrative, so it doesn't really count for this list)

Not included but probably relevant are all the various things currently in the news: federal electoral campaign (almost done), Afghanistan, COVID, climate change...

No wonder I wake up in the middle of the night and have problems shutting my brain down.

bobby,

That certainly is a lot of different narratives! The thing that piqued my interest the most though is the number of languages that you seem to be proficient in. Could you please elaborate for me the details of your multilingual talents and how you came to them?

BTW, Doyle is the bomb!!! I’m a wannabe Baker Street Irregular, myself.

I went to a party last Saturday night
I didn't get laid
I got in a fight
Uh, huh
It ain't no big thing

RawkGWJ wrote:

bobby,

That certainly is a lot of different narratives! The thing that piqued my interest the most though is the number of languages that you seem to be proficient in. Could you please elaborate for me the details of your multilingual talents and how you came to them?

BTW, Doyle is the bomb!!! I’m a wannabe Baker Street Irregular, myself.

My first language is French. I started learning English in school, and towards the end of high school I forced myself to watch more TV and read in English (25 years ago *sigh*), and I reached a good level of proficiency in my early 20's.

I've been learning Japanese on and off for quite some time, but have been focusing it a bit more in recent years. I am far from proficiency, but I can understand most of 'Yotsuba&', and I could probably venture into more challenging stuff. I might have to learn Filipino soon, depending on how things go with the guy I'm currently seeing.

bobbywatson wrote:

"How many narratives am I keeping up with in my brain these days?" is a weird thought that popped up in my head this week, and the answer is "way too many":

No wonder I wake up in the middle of the night and have problems shutting my brain down.

I'm almost certain you've forgotten one or two on your list. We all keep a frightening amount of stories bouncing though out heads now-and-days with all the forms of entertainment available to us. A dozen sounds a little low to me. Or maybe I just personally follow too many narratives.

Mantid wrote:

Assuming he is watching that Thai soap with subtitles

Correct

bobbywatson wrote:
Mantid wrote:

Assuming he is watching that Thai soap with subtitles

Correct :)

Haha, you caught me! Figured you answered the question, my comment wasn't needed!