ForteanCum [comrade/them]

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Cake day: May 8th, 2022

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  • I tried working with a realestate agent who was a crakkka in it's final form that whined about other people being lazy, odd because nobody brought up that topic, then when it was time to show me the house, she was awkwardly reluctant to do the normal house showing. We got a real sense of not-being-taken-seriously by this person, who we explicitly knew was aware of the importance of not being the last person to put an offer on the house.

    This is the time when the market was generally already bad for buyers, but summer was around the corner so every day delayed brought us closer to peak worst-market-and-worst-time-of-year-for-buyers. I went with the first non-crakkka realestate agent who was willing to do the bare minimum, show us the house, which ended up being the first random person we tried, and we went ahead and bought the house.


























  • I was huge MW2 fan back in the 1996s, almost one of my first PC games. I never played MW1 or MW3 but thoroughly enjoyed MW4. It's too bad that the series is now owned by Bad Company #953487543. I wanted to play the strategy game spinoff, too, but that's lost in time for me.

    I actually had MW2 "Titanium Edition" and never understood what the differences in all the MW2 variants were. Customing mechs was bad ass, also being able to turn on/off "Wire Frame Mode" (pics: https://imgur.com/a/24k7LWs) was just the coolest shit ever.

    There's a bit of magic there that these days is replaced with dumb hollow shit like "purchase spiderman DLC/skin".




  • ForteanCum [comrade/them]toMovies & TVYes
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    2 years ago

    Probably light spoilers

    I like the show but I think it was off in some ways. This might be a general problem with the Addams Family in general, but I found the main family characters to be overly contrarian, like if somebody was going off too hard on "opposite day" type humor, but it wasn't like the older Addam's Family stuff that actually does it well.

    Then I'm questioning the canonical nature of Wednesday going to Hogwarts Pottermore Nevermore, a school heavily themed by Edgar Allen Poe references. Thankfully the idea of "houses" like Harry Potter are mostly ignored/do not exist, but instead of wizards you get racial divisions (werewolf, sirens, vampires, etc.).

    I'm not a true Addams Family connoisseur, maybe most of that is actually cool and fine for canon.

    Also the throwaway reference to patriarchy and mansplaining. It seemed more like virtue signaling or carelessly checking off some boxes than truly integrated and well thought out inclusions. Very superficial.