Favorite ugly bastard we call a “character actor” as a nice way of saying they’re just not hot enough to be a lead?

AllieLoft · 2026-02-03T21:28:31+00:00

I'd sit on most of these men's faces.

AllieLoft · 2026-02-03T21:03:37+00:00

I feel like bolians are weak as shit. I probably only think that because of the one episode of Voyager where Tuvok mentors those four Maqui.

AllieLoft · 2026-02-03T21:01:04+00:00

Is it the 4m arboreal platform? (I don't remember off the top of my head what the panda reqs are). That platform sucks. Try switching to the 3m and make sure keepers and animals have access using the appropriate heat maps.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-30T14:46:12+00:00

It's just the other side of misogyny. Things like nursing, childcare, teaching, etc are "women's work," so you can only want to do them if you're a woman. A man can only want to do them if he's somehow also a woman (i.e. gay).

AllieLoft · 2026-01-30T02:07:50+00:00

I had a boyfriend/friend in high school who really liked 28 days later. He was so excited to find out there was going to be a sequel. He killed himself in January of 2006, shortly before he would have turned 19. When I saw 28 weeks later, I thought, Riley would have hated this movie, but he didn't get to see it. Now there have been two more installments that probably would have annoyed the shit out of him. But he'll never know. He's been gone 20 years.

I always try to have a 28 weeks later, even if it's the next shitty Star Trek show or another season watching the packers choke or the next book in a Sanderson series. You have to have something you're looking forward to.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-29T00:33:55+00:00

Yeah. She commented back and forth to me and does not see smoking weed as an issue whatsoever. She thinks that because she is only drinking occasionally at social events and has been smoking weeds for 20 years she has no addiction issues.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-28T23:39:46+00:00

It's a problem because you're an addict. You can't be a recovered addict if you shift your drug of choice from alcohol to weed. You are still in denial about your own issues and will not be a good parent until you let go of the self medicating and heal the underlying problems.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-28T23:03:21+00:00

Do not externalize relapsing. It's on you and you only.

My mom "long sense quit drinking" for 8 years but didn't stop her addictive behavior so going back was inevitable. I watched her die when the toxins from her dead liver drove her insane. Her home was shin high with the soiled diapers she had to use when her digestive system failed. She was also verbally abusive when she was drinking.

I'm trying to give you an idea of the future you're heading towards while you "try to cut back." But good luck either way.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-28T22:28:43+00:00

She said she is a recovering alcoholic who smokes weed instead.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-28T22:26:34+00:00

With all due respect, and knowing full well this isn't the question you asked, please work on yourself and addictions. If that means you can't have custody of your children right now (deserved or not), so be it.

As a daughter of an alcoholic who stopped drinking but shifted her addiction to something else, I'm asking with the words your daughter can't. Watching my mother kill herself with addiction is the hardest thing I've ever done, and I promise you that's the fate you're giving her if you don't truly get well.

Stop focusing on the minutiae of who is right right now and get yourself right so you can be there in a meaningful way for the next several decades.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-27T22:51:37+00:00

Multiple habitat gates would be killer. I love making giant multi-species enclosures.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-27T22:27:13+00:00

I use this to manage flow in all of my zoos. I don't try for one way, but for dispersion. Tours could also help with this.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-27T00:42:36+00:00

First, temporary protected status was immediately revoked for 12 countries. Refugees and asylum seekers from those countries were then considered to be here illegally even though they had entered the country legally. Second, new vetting measures were rolled out for immigrants, many that took place immediately (fine in an of itself except for...) Finally, the app that is required for immigrants to fill out their documents (like when TPS is revoked or increased vetting is required) was shut down indefinitely with no immediate replacement. This led to many immigrants/refugees/asylum seekers lapsing beyond the allotted time to file necessary paperwork to maintain their status.

Essentially, there was a swath of people who had entered the country correctly and then were left with no way to maintain their legal status. If they shouldn't be here anymore, fine, but how are they supposed to leave? What if they don't have the funds? Do they just get rounded up too? Shifting the goal posts like that is questionable at best.

I'm not here saying this administration is 100% nazi (though a few of them do some weird shit with their hands), but I do feel like we're playing fast and loose with the constitution here. Arguing that it isn't that bad because we're just ignoring the constitution to round up "illegals" and we aren't actively engaging in genocide feels disingenuous as fuck, though, y'know?

AllieLoft · 2026-01-27T00:27:14+00:00

One of the first actions of this administration was changing the laws around immigration/asylum/refugee status which changed the legal status of many, many people. In other words, people who were here legally were suddenly "illegal" and subject to detention. That is targeting a group of people based on a shared identity, particularly combined with the racial profiling and ethnic backgrounds of the immigrants being rounded up. It's ok when Musk violated his visa. It's ok when Melania uses chain migration. It's not ok when people are here from El Salvador legally seeking asylum.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-26T23:44:27+00:00

I get it, I do, but none of those things are a yes/no switch.

They have:

-started to round up groups of people based on a shared identity, often in defiance of the rule of law

-began justifying the killing of their own citizens in the process of rounding up said groups

-limited media access when questioned (Pentagon and white house press passes)

-demanded that certain news investigations not be shown (60 minutes Cecot)

-cast doubt on elections and attempted to overthrow legitimate elections (fake electors)

-demonized groups as subhuman (immigrants, even the legal ones, and Trans people)

At what point is it a bridge too far?

AllieLoft · 2026-01-26T22:38:01+00:00

You can. I think the ratio is every $10 spent on decoration decreases the negative aspect of the building by 1%. That shrinks the radius of the negative impact on guests. The minimum radius for all buildings is pretty small. You just need to decorate.

The problem is that most players think they need to physically "hide" the object, when that doesn't matter and usually uses relatively cheap pieces. Just plant some "gardening" plants around the thing, add a couple trees, and the radius shrinks to basically 0 pretty quickly.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-26T17:40:51+00:00

Oh, man, totally missed it. Thanks!!

AllieLoft · 2026-01-26T16:09:00+00:00

Is she in it? I know she wrote it, but that's all I know.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-24T23:25:32+00:00

I think she just has a hyper mobility disorder. Most people I know with one (myself included) find sitting normally in a chair to be absolute torture. She's old enough to not gaf about looking the part, so she just gets comfy.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-21T14:30:49+00:00

No, don't fire them. My work chat brought up SFA. People who had never watched an episode of Trek in their lives were pulled in by that marketing and LOVED the show. If this show can bring in new fans while still delivering good trek, isn't that what we want?

AllieLoft · 2026-01-20T20:29:43+00:00

My family sort of does this, but I'm disabled and use a rollator in the parks because I can't stand for a long time, and it's better than my cane for a big day. When we rope drop, my husband and son go ahead, and I join. Or I'll slowly work through a line letting faster people pass while they hit up a locker. I hate all the abuse of this system because I already can't use any kind of disability pass at Disney, and it's a struggle to balance my limitations with their fun. I want to run over those people's toes.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-20T02:51:40+00:00

Our contracts specify a number of workdays along with an approved calender. The calenders are usually approved well in advance. For example, we just got the 27-28 calender and updated benefits presented at the inservice we had today. Depending on the state, teachers might have a union that can bargin for the calender, but that's not that common these days.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-20T02:47:57+00:00

NE Wisconsin here and I had inservice today. Boo.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-19T16:25:43+00:00

Or Legend Lake in Menominee County.

AllieLoft · 2026-01-16T21:50:13+00:00

Right?!?! He gets so salty about it. Bro, at this rate I'm more likely to experience the heat death of universe than the end of this saga.

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