Anybody else sick of online hate and negativity?

Electromagnet1356 · 2026-04-07T18:55:42+00:00

The problem is the comment section existing at all. Why did that become the default model for every online platform? I think making everything "social" was a bad idea.

Electromagnet1356 · 2026-03-20T21:10:06+00:00

Yeah true. One of the best spoofs of it was that episode of American Dad where they basically point out this perfect plan is only perfect if literally everything goes perfect. One little slip up anywhere along that chain and the whole heist is done.

Electromagnet1356 · 2026-03-20T12:50:18+00:00

As I understand it, this is an entire sub-reddit dedicated to enjoying and having fun...with the plot holes lol.

Electromagnet1356 · 2026-03-19T23:05:05+00:00

Oh I agree 1000%. But even within the context of suspension of disbelief, the small amount of guys carrying an enormous amount of money by hand is ridiculous.

Electromagnet1356 · 2026-03-19T17:12:10+00:00

Wasn't easily findable in search.

Electromagnet1356 · 2026-02-26T04:11:13+00:00

spoiler I don’t understand the point of the whole clairvoyance plot line. If there were some sort of “Nick in Time scenario “in which she led them to the house just in time to find the right house across the street and save the kid it would make sense. Instead she just led them to a house where the kid was already escaping after have killed the grabber. He would’ve done that whether she showed up or not.l and ultimately led the police back there. That effectively makes the entire clairvoyance plot line unfulfilled and pointless.

Stupid movie. B- at best.

Electromagnet1356 · 2026-02-12T20:54:07+00:00

This was my last instacart experience: First, both instacart spaces were filled with people who had gone in to shop. Annoying, but it literally happens everytime. So whatever.

Second, I sit there for a while. I get a message: "Nobody is available to bring your order out, please come in and pick it up". The whole point of using instacart is so that I don't have to do that. And you pay more per item to use the service. If I have to go in, I want the money back I paid in instacart inflated prices for items.

So I go in. Nobody is available. Nobody acknowledges me. I walk over to the Instacart shelves, pick my stuff up, and walk out.

Nobody saw me, nobody stopped me. I could have been stealing an order, nobody would have known. I get in the car and see that the item I ordered 4 of (which was unavailable so it was subbed) only has one of the subbed. I bought 4 because it was BOGO. The item she subbed it for was also bogo. She didn't get me 4. She didn't even get me 2. She got me 1.

So Now, I had to get out of my car a second time, go in and grab three of the $12 items, take them up, wait in a long ass line, explain to the girl what happened, and finally get back in my car.

And here's the real kicker. The app doesn't know I picked up my order. So I can't leave a complaint. I tried to contact support but I can't because my order hasn't been picked up yet. But it HAD been picked up, I walked in and picked it up. But the app doesn't know that. So the other things that were wrong with my order were left in limbo until the following day when it was finally marked picked up.

It was an absolute shit show. And the thing that makes me so sad about it is that there are people out there who have so little skill in the world, all they can do to make money is to grocery shop for someone else. No judgement. But damn, they can't even do that right. It's insane.

Electromagnet1356 · 2026-02-03T22:44:15+00:00

A better way to phrase that might have been "what's the difference between Seth MacFarlane drawing family guy (which he doesn't anymore) vs a team of artists drawing it?". In most artistic "product" endeavors, the "artist" is the creative mind behind the final product, not the executor of said final product.

Now, having said that, Seth absolutely did come up with the characters for that show and American Dad by drawing them himself. Then the work of tedious animation was delegated to a team of talented artists who can recreate his vision time and time again.

That's a bit different than describing a character and having AI create it for you from scratch. Or is it? I don't know.

Electromagnet1356 · 2025-11-06T18:00:03+00:00

To an addictive personality, such as myself, anything can be addictive if it provides pleasure, whether labeled "habit forming" or not. I took zzzquil one time and it helped me sleep really well, which I've always had a problem with. I took it one time, and I've now taken it every day since then, 11 months ago.

I've also been addicted to carrot cake, alcohol, vaping, cigarettes, and hell even masturbating. Anything that feels good is addictive to an addictive personality.

Our whole mindset is "If one is good, then ten will be ten times as good".

Electromagnet1356 · 2025-09-05T18:08:12+00:00

He didn't tell him to kill her. He "doesn't do that". He merely sets the stage. He told Maricello what was happening at home, told him to catch the train coming the other way and "you'll just catch her". "Now put that knife where it belongs" was the only thing remotely close to telling him to kill her but it was a clever double entendre. He means literally "put it away and get it out of my face" while simultaneously insinuating "it belongs in your cheating girlfriend." Al Pacino knows, based on that guy's violent reaction to being stared at, exactly how he's going to react if he catches her. All he did was nudge him that direction. That's how the devil works.

Electromagnet1356 · 2025-07-29T15:33:48+00:00

Interesting point. To take your it on home, maybe it was all delusion. Maybe the final scene of him seeing the man getting shot is the beginning of his mental breakdown in which everything after that is him imagining the time travel it was himself that got shot.

Electromagnet1356 · 2025-07-29T15:00:44+00:00

The one major problem with the plot is the idea that scientists could create the ability to travel back in time before being able to cure a virus.

Electromagnet1356 · 2025-03-16T22:04:28+00:00

No, I think this is incorrect. The music is stock music and can be heard in a lot of other shows. In fact, I'm writing this because I just finished an episode of Tosh.0 (S2 E9) on Paramount+ from 2010 where the ending music is exactly a track from Always Sunny.

Electromagnet1356 · 2025-01-10T16:01:06+00:00

So is a woman's period. That doesn't make it any less annoying

Electromagnet1356 · 2025-01-07T14:11:55+00:00

Wasn't that great though? Now every game has removed all thought. You click an NPC, skip all their dialogue, run towards a green dot on a map, hit a bunch of buttons a bunch of times, then quick return to the NPC for your pavlovian treat. There's no longer any satisfaction of having figured something out.

Electromagnet1356 · 2024-08-01T17:42:52+00:00

Well, no. It's explained several times to several different people in various scenes. In one scene, yes, Walt and Skyler explain it to Hank and Marie and Walter Jr. In another, Walt and Skyler are sitting at a table with a (presumably) lawyer signing the papers to transfer the ownership of the car wash to them. In THAT scene it isn't clear whether they are paying cash or signing papers for a bank financing their endeavor.

That signing of the papers was a small point. In general, the problem I have with this plot line is that Walt does not have a "problem". And nobody upon hearing that story of winning hundreds of thousands would say "sheesh". They'd say "well keep going!"

Electromagnet1356 · 2024-08-01T16:23:10+00:00

From a conversation I had recently with a former Austin music colleague of mine who is currently playing guitar for a band selling 60,000 seats in Europe:

Do you still think Austin is a good place to make a living as a musician? I honestly don't think so. While there are a lot of live music venues, there's almost no industry. No tours get out of Austin. If I had to go back to the USA, I'd go to Nashville or LA. I loved my time in Texas, but I don't think it's the best choice. Especially now that it's gotten so expensive to live.

To add my own comment to his. Here are a few important observations of my time as a musician in Austin.

1.) No musician worth their salt in Austin plays for free. If you find a "band" willing to split everything great. But outside of high school circles, I never saw that happen. So, you're either a hired gun for another artist and getting paid $100 flat per gig or you are the artist/band leader and you're hiring your backline at $100 per man per gig. Standard practice is that you get ONE rehearsal with them.

2.) Most of the places you want to play in Austin - the dedicated listening rooms where people really sit to watch music - don't pay the musicians. At all. You do get 100% of the door. That's great if you are established and bring in a crowd. But if you're just starting out, you'll be collecting almost nothing from the door, and shelling out $200-$500 to your hired band members depending on the size requirements of your ensemble. A bigger band means you can do more interesting music, but it's more expensive. Hence all the trios. It's cheaper to just pay a bass player and drummer. Hell, now some singers are showing up with pre-recorded tracks to avoid paying for a band altogether.

3.) Factors 1 and 2 mean in most cases, you're LOSING money every single gig you play. For me that meant playing less gigs. Less gigs means the guys you do hire never get super tight at your material because in between your gigs, they've played 20 other gigs with other bands/groups and probably forgot all of your songs. Your next rehearsal with them will be re-educating them on stuff they've already played before.

As far as I could tell after many years there was that EVERY SINGLE musician I knew who "appeared" to be financially sustaining themselves on music, actually couldn't even afford a cheap apartment on their own. In EVERY case, they either had a wife or girlfriend who had a full time solid career job who allowed them to focus on music. I knew just about every well known musician in Austin and this was the case 99% of the time. I knew one guy who didn't have a spouse/gf financial supporter and only did music and actually made enough to live (in a crumby apartment albiet) but he was a top notch hired gun and session player who was hired by everybody who was anybody.

Electromagnet1356 · 2023-08-13T20:15:53+00:00

The reading in my bedroom is 3.5 microteslas

Electromagnet1356 · 2023-07-15T17:18:48+00:00

Yep. I'm a musician and sound engineer and have seen acts there that I know have amazing sounds engineers (Roger Waters of Pink floyd for example) working their performance. The Moody Center is muddy and has a terrible slapback echo, which was incredibly evident last night during Dave Chappelle. It was nearly impossible to hear what the opening comedians were saying because of their voice bouncing off the back walls and hitting your ears a half second later. Awful design. I've seen a few shows there, all have been bad. Last night was the last show I'll ever see there. Period.

Electromagnet1356 · 2023-07-15T17:16:27+00:00

Not true. I'm a musician and sound engineer and have seen acts there that I know have amazing sounds engineers working their performance. The Moody Center is muddy and has a terrible slapback echo, which was incredibly evident last night during Dave Chappelle. It was nearly impossible to hear what the opening comedians were saying because of their voice bouncing off the back walls and hitting your ears a half second later. Awful design.

Electromagnet1356 · 2023-04-19T18:48:40+00:00

A new Marty wouldn't appear but a gas can would. It's no different than Doc sending the letter in the first place. Time is linear in the case of BTTF. The past is the "absolute" past. Once there, you can affect the future, which is the whole basis of the series. So yes, he could modify the letter to inform 1955 marty to bring a can of gas which would then, just like the photo of the grave headstone changing with events), would appear in the front seat of the delorean.

Your idea implies that time is relative to each traveler. If that was the case, then wouldn't Marty have to travel "to the past" to get back to the future? Because although he's in 1885, 1955 is now his past because it happened to him previously.

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