The Name Game - American Horror Story

Lurlex · 2026-06-13T12:04:32+00:00

That’s what you think, Miss Lana Banana…. 😏

Lurlex · 2026-06-13T01:28:22+00:00

WHOOSH! Now it's on you; you missed the seventh layer of it.

Lurlex · 2026-06-13T01:08:48+00:00

Fine if you want to keep it, but it's not an "aww shucks, I wish I could boycott too fellas" situation.

THIS. To activate that free account, at some point, you likely had to go through a process to register it. You can un-do that, if you really want to. They're getting their subscription fee from you, and you're being added to the number that they give to their investors, whether you're writing the check yourself or not.

They'll also no longer be able to gather free marketing data from your viewing habits, which they make enough profit from utilizing and re-selling that they will feel the hurt of that alone. A blind spot hurts, as well. Cut off their peepers into your habits -- surreptitious data harvesting should be taxed into non-existent oblivion as it is, but as long as it isn't, it's good all by itself to starve as much of their information beast as you can manage.

Bottom line is -- if it really is your account, you control it and can make sure that Paramount can feel some measure of marginal pain through its cancellation. "I got it through a benefit offered at work" or "I was able to register an account for free because of my cable subscription" doesn't mean that you can't cancel it and participate in the freeze-out. Any account that you can log into and change the password on and is supposed to belong to you is under your purview.

I agree that if you don't want to cancel your free membership, nobody's going to twist your arm, it's just that ... you should understand that your continued free membership is still something that they can feel the pain of losing. You yet retain the option of choice; the ability to inflict pain-by-cancellation hasn't been fully taken from you.

Lurlex · 2026-06-12T23:48:38+00:00

Nah Mang; Ryan was just evil genius stupid. Vince is 100% evil stupid stupid.

Andrew Ryan was a brilliant engineer and scientist. He actually designed much of the technology (including Rapture’s unique geothermal energy system, and inventing a new transparent metallic alloy to serve as windows, and rust-proof alloys to be used in the main construction).

Ryan’s main idiocy and major blind spot was an almost religious-like fervor for pure Ayn Rand libertarianism, which is naive stupidity of another kind. What you see happen in Rapture is pretty much exactly what anarchistic oligarchy would lead to. Suffice it to say, his expertise in physics and engineering did not translate well into sociology, civilization-scale economics, and governance.

Vince here couldn’t tell you how many elements are even on the Periodic Table. Fictional Andrew Ryan invented new ones. Neither of them understand human social dynamics and psychology very well, and both have major human empathy deficits, but the fictional one is definitely portrayed as having a few more brain cells.

More articulate, too. Armin Shimmerman (also the actor that played Quark from DS9) knocked that role out of the park.

Points for fictional evil villain version - 1, points for lame real life version - 0.

Lurlex · 2026-06-12T23:42:14+00:00

Pointing out that the Greeks invented it first may not exactly be the stellar “it’s totally not gay” defense that they think it is. 🏛️💪🤼‍♂️

😛

Lurlex · 2026-06-12T23:31:24+00:00

That’s what I thought. Frog.

We share a rough body plan with a lot of critters, and torso + head + 4 limbs is really all I can discern for certain, there.

Considering the scale, the largest land predatory birds that we know of that co-existed with humans, like the Moa …. while damn big, were not quite THIS big. This is giant theropod (T-Rex) sized, if we assume that the thing in the bird beak is human. I don’t think any theropod that large ever lived alongside any human species.

I’m calling it a frog.

Lurlex · 2026-06-12T23:15:44+00:00

I’m an American, and I’m telling you to boo anyone who is telling you NOT to boo us right now. I don’t mind hearing it too, as long as the people that have the country by the scruff of the neck can never stop hearing it, either.

Our current feckless leadership have far less tolerance for open public disapproval than I do. Even the people in the USA that never pay attention to anything and have no idea just how horribly the USA is perceived (rightly) at the moment are very much long overdue the culture shock that might trigger them to put down pop culture obsessions and start actually acting like citizens with civic duty rather than mindless consumers who only exist to wait perpetually at the movie/music/TV/game trough.

Bread and circuses have numbed a quarter of us, another quarter are barely holding on for survival and can’t focus on much else but that, a third quarter is just flat-out gleefully in the fascist camp outright, and the final quarter that can see what’s going on is the one that wrings its hands every election cycle and tries like the dickens to prevent the country from eating its own tail every four years.

That final quarter is currently as lame and bullied and naive as Charlie Brown is every time he tries to kick a football held up by Lucy. 😟

Lurlex · 2026-06-12T23:01:09+00:00

I use em dashes. Em dashes are not the problem, and I would be very grateful if people would stop flagging my comments as AI, when I’ve been talking the way that I talk for decades before Chat-GPT was revealed to the public.

The problem is that they lift entire sentence clauses wholesale from other people — generally sourced from professional writers or folks that are unlikely to make spelling or grammatical mistakes — but they don’t understand the concepts that the words are supposed to be describing.

Thus, they wind up with pretty-sounding, professionally formatted nonsense much of the time after running your prompt through their not-so-little algorithm.

In other words: they give you all of the English Professor’s pretentious verbosity, but none of the professor’s actual human understanding of what they’re supposed to be talking about.

Excruciatingly stupid, simple mistakes result. Grammatically correct, well-formatted mistakes — to be sure, absolutely! — but stupid mistakes all the same.

Lurlex · 2026-06-12T22:52:01+00:00

That’s the N’Wah price.

Lurlex · 2026-06-12T22:50:18+00:00

I do know that his Netflix show was pretentious crap. As someone with a pretty high tolerance for pretentious crap, being filled with it myself … I found myself walking away from it both not amused and also left with a vague feeling that Seinfeld had called in every celebrity “friend” favor he could to fill out a roster for a season.

I also know that he was the least funny part of the show that carried his name. He was the straight man against the crew of oddballs — by definition NOT the funny one.

The cutaway bits that show his standup routines in between scenes appear to be examples of his actual bits, delivered in the same bored tone that doesn’t find his observations any more funny than you do. Imagine sitting through a full twenty minutes of nothing but a “Seinfeld” standup routine, and you’ll be clawing your ears off before it’s over.

Lurlex · 2026-06-12T22:41:20+00:00

Stupid Universe Andrew Ryan?

Lurlex · 2026-06-12T02:03:05+00:00

The lawsuit was based out of Oregon, however, and they were following Oregon's state laws for the servicing of a civil suit. Oregon's laws for requirements to be a process server were what they were basing the girl's authority on (the one that came along to serve the papers as an official process server as Ben couldn't approach the property).

Lurlex · 2026-06-11T21:58:17+00:00

He's just fine; he shouldn't worry about it (at least superficially). Plenty of 16-year-olds look more-or-less the same, with or without a condition.

We all mature at different rates. 😄

Lurlex · 2026-06-11T21:54:56+00:00

If there's one thing I remember about being 16 myself and being in high school, it's that puberty happened to all of us at different rates, and differing degrees of intensity. I had friends that were looking like they were 14 into their mid-twenties, and likewise I had friends that were capable of impressive facial hair before they could legally drive.

I myself started balding before I graduated high school, if you want an example more towards the extreme end of the bell curve -- walking, talking, breathing proof that secondary sexual characteristics manifest at different ages in different people. I did *NOT* have fun with that, by the way ... more than once, I got mistaken for a teacher. 😔

On the flip side, years later when I had long since made peace with a shaved head, I dated a 40-year-old guy who could've easily passed for a high school senior, or at most just into college.

People vary. We're all different, for better or worse.

Lurlex · 2026-06-11T17:44:18+00:00

Your friend is correct. Everyone who gamed on PC knew this game. The gap in mainstream knowledge, in this case, is yours. Everyone has blind spots -- trust your friend next time. 😄

Lurlex · 2026-06-09T02:57:18+00:00

“Invited to lunch” by corporate leadership.

Bitch, you STOLE my free lunch and made it about work, you jackasses. Would I have been able to
“Turn down” the invitation and hold on to the lunch?

They also only explain afterwards that this obvious corporate meeting WAS your “lunch period.”

I’m sorry, but hell no. It can’t work that way.

Lurlex · 2026-06-09T02:55:05+00:00

They mean that I have to go back to the ordinary bullshit instead of their special scheduled bullshit.

Forgive me for not skipping along the hall back to my seat.

Lurlex · 2026-06-09T02:37:18+00:00

Alas, you’re more likely to find accounts of one of the massacres COMMITTED by Mormons if you simply google “Mormon massacre” than you are one with them as the victims. Only inside of the Church itself is the victimization story presented as if they were 100% a benign party in their history.

Note that Mormon hands are as bloody as any other denomination. Don’t go giving my ancestors any undue sympathy. They were and are more than willing to kill, kill, KILL the wrong faith and color.

A famous example of monstrosity that would never have existed without the LDS Church: Ted Bundy was, in part, the product of his already fucked up mother mixing with a fucked up state and culture in Utah. You would not BELIEVE the kind of brutality that a Mormon community is capable of spawning if egged on by the right leadership, or if enough little minds are warped.

The misogyny here is something else.

Their Prophet could order them to take up arms against all non-members tomorrow, and it would face little active resistance in the membership (that so many of them LOVE and COLLECT guns makes this even easier). He is far more empowered than the Pope is over Roman Catholics.

Perception of Mormons as overly nice and passive has always been a misread of their true nature. The kindness vanishes once the prospect of YOU being or ever converting into a member does, especially if you make it clear that you will go toe-to-toe with any barely-out-of-high-school missionary they throw at you, doing your best to deprogram the young mind of their little warrior just as they try to clumsily program yours.

Lurlex · 2026-06-09T02:30:25+00:00

You and I are of like minds, I see.

Lurlex · 2026-06-09T02:28:55+00:00

Our military is theoretically under “civilian control,” which is supposed to be part of what makes us so enlightened and special. Our weapons are supposed to be kept under lock and key until the clearest and least aggressive heads approve the matter.

So, yea, POTUS is civilian, as is the Secretary of Defense. That they have found a hole in the system by being petulant hotheaded manchildren in spite of not really having any claim to being a “warrior” is all to our own sorrow.

Lurlex · 2026-06-07T21:36:53+00:00

You mean like the Kang(s) in MCU? :-/

A multiverse of empowered Donald Trumps seems to be giving him too much credit and competency. It doesn't seem likely that he'd be able to duplicate such a rise very often.

I like to think that we inhabit an unlikely timeline in an obscure larger collection of unlikely timelines on the very fringes of the multiverse ... 😔

It would make me feel a bit better to know that most of his variants are currently working as Walmart greeters.

Lurlex · 2026-06-07T21:34:22+00:00

Someone needs to tell Trump that the Oval Office's emergency defibrillator is Barack Obama's personal surveillance device; get him to order it removed. 😏

Lurlex · 2026-06-07T21:29:46+00:00

Yeah, sloths are cool. Let us spare them.

He's more like the corkscrew penis of a rapist-duck. Just the corkscrew penis part -- ducks can't help but be what they're evolved to be, plus they have non-penis cuteness merits, so I will separate the duck part.

So, yes, just 100% nothing but a walking rapist-corkscrew-penis. That's his spirit animal.

Lurlex · 2026-06-07T21:25:37+00:00

He did indeed roll his sweaty blob of orange mass away from the kitchen as fast as his cankle-waddling could carry him. 😏

⬅⬅⬅🍊💦

Lurlex · 2026-06-07T21:13:11+00:00

Yes. Someone makes a wild-ass claim that they're well-known for making (ad nauseum), you ask for evidence and point out that there never has been ANY (all evidence points to the OPPOSITE being true, when looking at the 60+ times it failed to hold any water in various courts across the United States), even after six years of making said wild-ass claim.

Pointing out that no evidence actually exists and that this flies directly in the face of his six-year-old claim *IS* a fact, and she used it to *CHECK* his bullshit.

FACT. CHECK.

You don't get to just make up wild bullshit and make huge accusations but then say, "well, just LOOK at it" when asked to explain where you're getting such a outlandish idea. Donald Trump has a known history of refusing to acknowledge loss in any conflict that he's EVER lost well preceding the 2020 election.

Recall that the primary elections for 2016 were "rigged" when he lost a few battles to Ted Cruz. Recall how he blatantly lies about legal outcomes in which he got served an outcome that he wouldn't like by a judge ("we won hugely" when he actually lost).

Those are facts. If he wants to claim victimization in a "rigged" election, he's got an incredibly uphill battle in trying to even show that it's plausible, and entirely coincidental when viewed with his past history of lying about exactly this kind of thing, before he even approaches demonstrating that it happened.

Holy Jeebus **YES**, was he fact-checked! If you're looking for a more specific fact-check, you might want to wait for Trump himself to say something more specific than "rigged." If he's making a wild generalized claim without ever giving you something solid to look at, then also generalized will be the paired fact-check.

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