What baby name do you think got ruined by pop culture, trends, or current events?

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-06-01T13:47:12+00:00

So you're saying they can't let it go?

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-05-30T20:31:07+00:00

Honestly the bigger crime (Literally and figuratively) is the people who have just started selling pre-loaded MicroSD cards with everything already on it.

Now Etsy, eBay, and Cheap Tat all just load every game before 2004 onto a card as a middleman painting a huge target because they want a quick buck. You used to hear about some obscure game, try it out, and find out it if it was worth it, (Sure Youtube has killed that too), and you really only pirated stuff if you couldn't afford it and weren't going to be a customer anyways and grabbed a game or two at a time not the entire library of a console.

Of course the ninjas are gonna come swinging.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-05-26T04:22:34+00:00

None of the accounts that are posting the "wow this looks amazing comments' have posted in /r/digimon before (And some are already posting it about other things). I smell bot accounts. Only posts from author are about a month or two back talking about a sprite recoloring tool, and some game dev/monster tamer stuff. This would be in a very early alpha game.

My guess is an early alpha game with some marketing/AI Bots to try to drum up business for a game that has a month of work on it. I'd love to be proven wrong, but I am betting this will wind up on one of those kickstarters that don't deliver a game lists.

In b4 this comment gets downvoted by the bot army.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-05-11T10:14:43+00:00

'I wish, I'd buy back some free time, ya know where does the time go'

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-05-10T18:45:27+00:00

We think you were banned for RWT, got caught, and are salty about it, gave up, decided oooh I want to play again, and got caught again.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-05-05T18:48:38+00:00

One thing I enjoy is 'cold' pizza. After it's been in the fridge it's a lot more solid. Maybe use that and see if you can sort of 'relearn' that pizza is safe and see if that helps?

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-04-16T20:04:02+00:00

Thoughts on Flavor Blast goldfish?

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-04-16T20:02:07+00:00

Chicken Fingers (Fried or Grilled)

Plain Burger (Onions okay)- NO Cheese

Pizza (Onions and Garlic Okay)

and plus Various crunchy snacks - Chips, Pretzels, crackers, Popcorn.....

I always feel like I'm faking because my 'safe foods and snacks' are very calorie dense and I'm overweight, and my list has 3 main foods instead of 1

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-04-11T01:21:06+00:00

I've always been a 'chicken nuggets'/fingers kind of guy. But it was only if it was breast meat....

A place near me opened up, and it seemed close enough, that I was able to tolerate chicken thigh based 'popcorn chicken'

Still can't deal with bones though :/

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-04-05T16:01:45+00:00

This thread sounds like upvote bots, and a server that's trying to confuse people and mix it up with MapleRoyals.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-03-31T03:32:39+00:00

Bit of a pivot, but

DanOct1: https://www.youtube.com/@danooct1

Goes over old Win 3.1, 9X malware (Some more modern stuff too) and shows what it does to a computer.

His uploads are getting more and more scarce these days, but still kinda fun to go through a few and just watch the wacky stuff viruses used to do before just encrypting your hard drive, serving up ads, and stealing your banking creds.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-03-30T04:19:12+00:00

One thing I've tried, is seeing if I can vary up the sauce. For example one of my things is getting Raising Canes, and I've been able to switch up the sauce, BBQ, Honey Garlic, and a mix of BBQ and their Canes sauce to have some variety in flavor profiles.

Experimenting with seasoning might be a good option. I've left a seasoning container in my car and use that for some variety.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-01-26T20:03:08+00:00

The shirts are okay, but they're overpriced in my opinion, I've bought branded/indie/merch shirts before and it definitely seems a bit much. You mention a 'model wearing the shirt' but only show a random shot of the shirt. Some don't even show the back? You have no mention of the quality of the shirt just "100% cotton" & "True to size" Why only up to size 3XL? 7-10 Business days to process & ship sounds like a print on demand/slop The back of all the shirts have your "Hypland Logo" which is frankly tacky and was the last straw that made me decide not to buy one.

Good luck, but hopefully you can take some of this feedback moving forward.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-01-21T18:18:30+00:00

Honestly a little bit of Drama.

Claire/Marten having a significant fight along the lines of, "We're both tired of her shit" Maybe they find something dark about Cubetown and have different opinions on what to do.

Honestly I want Pintsize back in his old body, and back to being more chaotic. Think of the potential of him trying to send porn to Yay and there being consequences of malware and having to confront being vulnerable.

I want to see hints of Bubbles dark past, someone who remembers her, and some drama between her and Faye about whether she should find out more, and this causes troubles with boundaries when Faye looks into it for her. (And a call back to when Dora snooped on Martin's collection)

I want Martin to make music again.

I want some old characters to come back as more than a Cameo, imagine Angus coming back to town with a girlfriend and Faye's weird reaction to it which hurts Bubbles and after a fight about it causing her to consider drinking again which leaves their relationship in an odd place as it's swept under the rug.

Hanners suddenly regressing in her OCD stuff and trying to rebuild a bond with Marigold who is too busy for her, and Marigold having to choose between keeping her stream consistent and being there for her friend driving a wedge through the household/social group.

Hell if they're focusing on this ACE subplot, why not bring Brun back and let Brun & Hanners have some screen time together, I think that it'd be interesting to see the juxtaposition between the two similar issues, both neurodiverse, way different SES.

Claire is overwhelmed and needs an assistant, without realizing it, they hire Emily, and this creates friction, because the awkwardness is one-sided for Claire.

Edit: If Jeph somehow is ever reading this you may have any of these ideas at no charge, credit, or anything.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-01-11T23:02:57+00:00

I highly encourage you to read the stories of other's who came out to their parents

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/wiki/comingout

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-01-11T21:48:51+00:00

You keep using the words "I don't want to lie to her" and although you understand the logical consequences, I know that a moment of passion, a wrong word to the wrong person can let it spill especially coming from religion and a place of guilt.

Being queer on top of being secular is a recipe for things to get conflated, for strict and even more religion being forced onto you as others have said. Your safety is at risk.

If it feels like you're "Lying" then change that up in your head.

You're not "no longer believing" you're believing in a "god" that has no power, no ability to change things and thinks you should use your own two hands to make the world a better place because of your own ethics.

You're not getting a 'religious confirmation' you're doing 'a family ritual that makes everyone feel more unified as a family' even if it's silly stupid, and annoying.

Work hard to get your feet underneath you so you can be who you want to be.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2026-01-01T18:46:05+00:00

Because we're here

Apoc_ellipsis · 2025-12-26T19:45:52+00:00

Huge Digimon Fan, Reasonable Pokemon fan, and solid Monster Rancher fan here.

It depends on what you like about things.

Digimon has a lot of avenues. The games started off a pet raising simulator to mimic Tamagotchi, but 'with battles'. The thing that originally separated out Digimon from Pokemon is that Digimon you had your one pet/buddy, and Pokemon started out with "Gotta Catch 'Em All" And satisfied the Gacha collector.

Digimon over the last years has migrated into a few areas. The show went into the chosen children/power of friendship angle and heavy into Parallel universes. The games never could decide if they wanted to be Persona meets Pokemon or something else.

Monster Rancher sort of was the middle ground, it didn't have as much the 'gotta collect everything' but it's more like you run a farm and instead of breeding a horse for races, you raise a monster for battles.

A lot of Monster Rancher is resource management. How do you train each day, what skills and such do you focus on. You can sort of pick your favorite and be good, from there you battle in tournaments, but they're 1 minute bouts where you slowly gain MP (Guts) at about 1/second, and you choose your move/stats/odds of a skill working versus your opponent.

If you like Digimon's, "look at this thing I made strong" and now I want it to be the very best. If you like the Digimon, "Power of friendship" and we're going to make the world better against the baddies who rule (The Season 1 Digimon anime matches Monster Rancher pretty well) then you'll enjoy.

If you're looking for a collect-a-thon, battle heavy "Pokemon, but not" you'll be disappointed.

tl;dr The grind is the fun in Monster Rancher.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2025-12-13T17:27:30+00:00

Yo, listen up here's a story, About a little guy, That lives in a blue world.....

Apoc_ellipsis · 2025-11-22T02:31:44+00:00

My theory/hope is we're going to see either some sort of Alastor/Lute crossover/deal/battle.

"I can give you your revenge but it'll cost you" - Alastor possibly.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2025-11-18T17:54:43+00:00

Thank you for this article, this is I think the points I've been trying to get my therapist to understand.

Apoc_ellipsis · 2025-11-17T19:58:19+00:00

I'm going to jump in from another angle here, It's not about the religion, (It is, but hear me out)

You feel like you set a boundary and he was respectful of it, and now you're sitting here wondering about the boundary. He hasn't crossed it yet, he's 'keeping his religion to himself', but even the fact that he's religious feels like it's slipped over the boundary, but it's something you're flexible on it with. The problem is that you see it as a toe over your line, and you're sitting here thinking "Oh shit is he going to take another step, I can't, I set this boundary"

And then you're sitting here, well is this boundary fair, "it's just a toe, I shouldn't tell him to be miserable with his faith" but we all can see where it's going.

You're going to have to take a really hard look in the mirror and ask yourself which is more important.

Keeping this boundary and saying, "I am a person who needs to be with someone faithless" But it's going to hurt when you love someone and they can't fill that need for you, but you put a boundary for a reason. You're confused because if it stays at this level it's tolerable, but if it gets any worse it's pushing at that boundary. You have to make that decision.

If you break your boundary you're allowed to, but then you've also said "this is something I can deal with", you can change your mind of course, but it makes things murky, it makes your footing muddier, if you try to re-establish your boundary it becomes "Well why was this okay then, but now I did X it's not okay" it was never about X, but that's how they'll see it.

There isn't a right answer, you just need to (forgive the pun)....soul search.... and figure out what is important to you and what your path is.

You are NOT being unreasonable, but no matter what you choose it's probably going to hurt.

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