My ex started as a Production Assistant in the Vancouver Film Industry. She mostly worked on the CW shows and those terrible Hallmark holiday movies that get constantly filmed there. Being a PA was a little like being everyone’s bitch, so she eventually made her way into the account department of the same hiring company that managed the PAs.
She had her share of good experiences and plenty of asshole stars.
The president’s limo will be there on the front lawn, up on blocks with it’s wheels and hood missing. A few barrels will be interspresed with fire for warmpth.
Trump will be seated on a beaten up old lawn chair, the kind that your parents had in the 70s and never got around to replacing. To his right there’s a styrofoam cooler; the kind you get at a gas station when your heading out fishing with your pa. It’s filled with Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Melania will put her hair up in a Peggy Bundy beehive and squeeze her aging ass into pair of daisy dukes and cowboy boots.
Joe Rogan appears and kneels before Trump before the match begins. But instead of kissing a ring, it’s a beer tab.
The festivities begin with Kid Rock catterwalling out what he thinks is the national anthem, but is actually just a bunch of random lyrics he put together during the last time he blacked out.
Dean Cain is the “celebrity” referee for the match and Kevin Sorbo is there to provide some colour commentary alongside Rogan.
Due to the unpopularity of all of them, no one wants to volunteer to be the people in the match, so it eventually Trump sends ICE out to round up some homeless people and it quickly devolves into bumfights_dot_com
It’ll be great!
Old mechanical things.
The Japanese have a myth called tsukomogami. It’s the idea that things get a soul after 100 years.
And while I don’t believe that’s technically true, per se. It’s fundamentally based on something that I adore, and that’s the fact that mechanical things all age individually and that it’s something that we’ve lost with modern technology.
My go to examples are always typewriters and vintage camera lenses.
Each typewriter will age differently. Different keys will become sticky, it’ll become misaligned in different places. They develop individual personalities as they get older. So much so that forensics can actually pinpoint when a specific typewriter typed a specific note.
In terms of camera lenses it’s much the same thing. Different lenses will wear differently depending on what aperture/focal length, etc… that the photographer uses most often. Mold and discolouration between the glass elements will eventually form a unique look to a specific lense.
It’s magical (to me) and something that I am sad that we are losing with modern consumer technology based on on “throw it away and get a new one”.
Sorry. Longer than I intended. But you asked for it.
When said immigration switched from primarily being Europeans emigrating from a post WW2 Europe, and instead became primarily brown folk coming from all the countries that the U.S. itself bombed to shit.
It’s not immigration that they hate. It’s brown immigration.
Never forget that.
The Total War series should theoretically be right up my alley, since I’m a history nerd and I put a LOT of time into Paradox games (EU4, CK2, HOI4, Stellaris, and Surviving Mars are all high on my hours played chart).
But for whatever reason, I’ve just never clicked with the Total War versions of the same thing. For old school, I played Empire and Medeival. For new school, I dipped into Atilla because it was on a sale. I figured old mechanics/new mechanics, maybe one will work better than the other. But while I did somewhat enjoy Empire, the Total War series in general just has never grabbed me.
I have the same issue with the Assassin’s Creed series. History Nerd…should be right up my street. But just have never clicked with me despite trying multiple games. THOSE however are much more clearer to me as to why. It’s the cut and paste gameplay loop that Ubisoft has in ALL of their series.
Unlock an area, do random missions based on a number system for difficulty, interspersed with main plot missions. Move to another area, repeat. Some missions encourage you to team up with other people and go online. Others can be bypassed by micro-transactions. They literally haven’t changed their core loop in years, whether that’s Assassins Creed, Watchdogs, Shadow of War/Mordor, The Division, Far Cry…the list goes on and on.
Yay! Bullied tech nerds no longer have to bring their own gun! That’s convenient for them.
We’re not that lucky. But hope springs eternal.
Before he dies, I want just one single reporter during a Q&A session to stand up and ask “Yes, Mr. President. What the FUCK are you talking about?”
Even his most brain-dead sycophant supporters have to be aware by now that when he uses the phrase “a lot of people”, he means “no body”
I don’t think you’re wrong at all.
But there’s an element of “Cult of Personality” with Trump. I don’t think anyone else can turn all of that hatred to a common cause the way that he has. And I think a lot of that has to do with being the poor man’s idea of what a rich man is. Even back in the 80s/90s. You didn’t see other billionaires cameo’ing in Home Alone 2. Or creating the Apprentice.
He cultivated an image of what “rich” looked like to gullible americans, then sic’d them on his enemies once he had the power to do so. Yes these people are racist. Yes these people are stupid. Yes these people are hate-filled assholes. But up until Trump, they were also largely being assholes in their own homes, making their families miserable instead of the rest of us.
It took Trump to give them permission to bring their shit out in public. And once he dies, I don’t think anyone else in the GOP has the same cult of personality to carry it on. I think a number of people will try, and the GOP will devolve into internecine chaos.
I haven’t once in fifteen years needed to do any coding whatsoever to use my Linux computers day-to-day.
Leo DiCaprio. No exceptions. The movies he’s been in that I’ve enjoyed were enjoyed despite him and not because of him.
His entire approach to a character is to put on an over-the-top accent and call it a day. I’ve never had the sense that any of his characters were the actual character and weren’t just “Leo with an accent”. I’ll be fair and say that he has improved in recent years, with movies like The Revenant being tolerable.
But holy shit, how his career went anywhere when people saw his “acting” in Titanic and especially Romeo and Juliet, is mind-boggling to me.
Only a matter of time…
Wait…people actually bring office partitions to starbucks???
Doesn’t officially exist on paper? Check.
Computer generated code name? Check.
Sounds like an opportunity to train a future international assassin ninja.
How much self-loathing does Tim Cook have as a gay man coddling up to Trump, knowing that the orange fuckwit would happily have him thrown in a concentration camp for his sexual orientation if not for his billions of dollars.
I wish there had been a way for Kellog to be more than just “a guy you kill on the way to the institute”.
He deserved to be more fleshed out and used.
As with everyone else, I agree that Ublock origin is the first wonder of the world.
Also up there however is just password managers in general, be that bitwarden, lastpass, protonpass, etc…
Because the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
Chaos makes the news. Boring doesn’t. Countries that are currently being run by mostly functional adults don’t find themselve in the news as much as countries that are a literal dumpster fire being fed by boat-loads of orange toddler piss.
Ergo…the U.S. news is everywhere at the moment.
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