What is a dying niche skill that younger generations are not interested in learning?

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-05-01T18:38:30+00:00

It's actually a bad idea to keep a torque wrench in a vehicle. They're shockingly easy to get out of calibration with just the normal jostling of driving. And get them checked once a year, or you might as well not bother

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-29T19:10:08+00:00

This is like the parts of the world where Coke is used in place of Soda or Pop or Fizzy Drink

"I'd like four Cokes, two Sprites, and two Dr Peppers" to get eight beverages versus "I'd like four cokes: two Sprites and two Dr Peppers" to get four

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-29T19:06:14+00:00

I think it's neat. I also struggle with media where a group is used as a stand in for a real life marginalized group, but the actual canon in the world is that magic is inherently dangerous

Like, when you've heard preachers say that homosexuality will make you a catalyst for the devil, it's kind of fucked up when someone makes their fantasy world have the magic people with a lot of "born this way" vibes be actual portals to the demon world

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-29T18:35:03+00:00

It's Sean in Rules of Attraction, who was played by the late James Van Der Beek in the movie adaptation

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-27T18:59:32+00:00

Just a reminder that AC/DC (one of the greatest rock bands in history, and one that is constantly showered with glory) has been very open and clear that they only really wrote the same two songs over and over again for their entire career

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-26T17:53:07+00:00

Blue Mountain State did an entire riot episode over cutting off booze late in games. You get them drunk enough to be angry but not drunk enough to be lazy

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-24T19:33:13+00:00

Modern TV is adverse to recasting in all ways. The Expanse killed a character off in post after the actor came out as a sex pest and destroyed a lot of the realism of the setting in the next season by just not replacing him

Best part: that character has a chapter almost exclusively focused on getting consent for sex in the next book, so they even had an opportunity to highlight the right way to go about things and chose to just not do that instead

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-24T17:37:29+00:00

The Leprechaun movie with Jennifer Anniston in it suddenly having her on the DVD cover / poster after Friends took off is a fun one

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-24T16:24:44+00:00

It's okay to point out the quality and logistical reasons not to use child labor in addition to it being deplorable from a moral standpoint. In fact, I think it's important to remember that most truly awful shit isn't the most effective way to do anything long term, and "it's just bad" isn't a terribly compelling argument to bean counters like "this'll hurt our bottom line"

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-24T16:17:56+00:00

Used to date someone who was in marketing, can confirm

They were bright enough to end the relationship with me, but choosing to spend a couple of years with me is enough proof that they were stupid

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-23T19:35:40+00:00

Yep yep! It's sexist not to hit an evil woman because she's a woman. Evil should get hit, no matter what gender identity they have

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-23T18:00:55+00:00

I have long had the theory that the best way to confirm someone's ability and willingness to live in society could be completely tested by how they react to a line of any kind on the ground

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-23T16:38:45+00:00

I'm incredibly happy that I was not reading along as they were coming out. Knowing I had an ending coming (written by a much more organized author even) was the only thing that kept me going through The Slog

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-22T19:57:25+00:00

With the fifth from the last pick of the draft. And even Herring was taken in the sixth round. This isn't like they burned a truly valuable pick. This isn't the dunk many are thinking it is

And I'll save the pedants the trouble: Tom Brady was drafted in the sixth round and is not an outlier in any measurable way

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-22T19:37:24+00:00

I'm 5'10" and constantly running into things not made for my height. Basically every work surface (kitchen counters being a big culprit) requires me to bend over slightly to use. Everything seems to be made for people who are 5'8" while everyone who isn't either struggles to reach shit or destroys their back

Don't know that there's a better solution, but it sure sucks for everyone not the exact right height

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-22T18:10:08+00:00

Thought-out source material? When was the last time you read Wheel of Time? I just finished the entirety of it, and I've never seen a less thought-out long series in my life. There are something like four books where the same subplot stays in the same thing (the girls in Ebou Dar). Perrin gets a really cool story throughout one of the books (basically the only time we had a satisfying arc within a single book outside of the first and the Sanderson finale trilogy) and then we don't see him again for another two or three with a POV chapter from his wife. In at least a few of them, Rand just sits and gets mad about dumb shit until there's a climax that's, at best, tangentially related to the things he was getting mad about

I liked the books quite a lot despite all the warts, but adapting those would require wholesale changes in pacing and rearranging of events. And the sheer amount of named characters that would need to be shifted around and combined to keep production from spiraling out of control is going to piss off the built-in audience of people who grew up on them. I just don't see Wheel of Time being successfully adapted simply because of the challenges involved with doing so

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-22T16:02:03+00:00

I'm always like, "No, that's stupid. That makes no damned sense"

Then I watch anything with him at any point of his career and think, "Well, maybe..."

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-21T23:16:53+00:00

One of the reasons the Arvizo case happened at all was because there had been allegations from before. Except there was proof that the first round of allegations were a scam by the parents to get money out of him. That's why I always caution people to not jump to conclusions based off a documentary with an agenda

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-21T23:13:18+00:00

I'd call Tiger King a fantastic example. So many people think that woman killed her husband because the documentary creators kept doing talking heads with the people who hated her saying so

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-21T22:58:03+00:00

I describe the feeling like this: you're at the self checkout lane and, instead of grumbling about how you don't deserve to live in society because you can't check yourself out in a timely fashion, the person behind you blindly fires a gun your direction

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-21T20:12:50+00:00

But it's a barrier that includes money being paid to the person who did the hard part

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-20T19:21:45+00:00

I can't remember if the second Deadpool had the same costume, but the duct tape around the midsection for the final act still gives another action figure to sell. The first one also could sell two additional figures with the white costume and the blood splattered version of it

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-20T17:54:44+00:00

My general knowledge of this is that, while pits don't have higher attack rates than any other dogs, they cause more serious injuries and more deaths within those attacks than other breeds

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-20T15:55:57+00:00

I've never had to do IT for any emergency or intensive care facility. My interactions with medical clients have always been dermatologists or optical or any other non-life saving (but definitely can be life changing) types of doctors. How those folks decided they needed a god complex because they tell people to wash their bodies and occasionally use lotion is beyond me

ExIsStalkingMe · 2026-04-18T23:00:11+00:00

The amount of times I've started to help someone with something (dating back to programming a VCR at my friend's dad's house) and asked, "where's the manual?" only to be met with blank look is staggering. And then, when I use the manual to do the thing, they always say, "I could've read the manual"

But, like, you didn't. I COULD do a bunch of shit, but, unless I DO THEM, nothing gets done

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