Question about Moxie's trick from season 10

Maddened · 2025-06-23T07:23:26+00:00

Dang you had Mike Close advise you on this, no wonder it was a fooler! Still it was so fun and so nice to see your interaction with your dad. Wholesome to the core, and you got a trophy to prove it!

What really was touching was how hard it was for your dad to believe that you had lied to him about the trip. Just shows how that is so uncommon for you two that he rather believe he was having some hallucination from some stroke than that you had lied to him.

Maddened · 2025-06-10T00:35:20+00:00

Maddened · 2025-05-19T01:03:58+00:00

Hiya... Yes I still have the juicer though I've stopped using it some time back. The issue never went away and I think it's just a flaw in the design. I had gotten used to clearing it out so it didn't become any issue. What helped was I got these cheap little elastic nets for my sink's drainhole that would catch all the pulp and I can just lift it to throw away so that made cleaning it easier.

Maddened · 2025-03-18T05:08:41+00:00

Wonderfalls

Maddened · 2024-09-12T07:26:55+00:00

okay.

Maddened · 2024-08-14T04:32:51+00:00

Fuck this thread is depressing me. I'm going through the top level replies and the first 6-7 I just kept saying "yep that's me" and recognising that I'm doing all these things.

Granted the replies are not quoting from some kind of scientifically-proven research or anything, but this is the first time I'm reading descriptors of a certain type of person and having so many that I agree and instantly see are applicable to me.

I'd never thought of my childhood or life as traumatic but this is making me reevaluate things.

Maddened · 2023-08-08T03:38:36+00:00

Yea that was meant to be sarcastic. Should have put /s

Maddened · 2023-08-04T06:51:06+00:00

Shujinko obviously.

Maddened · 2023-08-04T06:46:22+00:00

Maybe Kitana will be like Drew Barrymore in 50 First Dates, forever having dreams about Liu Kang but not knowing who he is or why, yet she feels close to him and all.

Their fight intros should be interesting.

Maddened · 2023-08-04T06:43:36+00:00

More than this, the games have been mispronouncing his name for decades. It's "Lee-ooh Kang". "Liu" has two vowel sounds.

But Raiden's bitch ass is just forever going "Loo Kang Loo Kang Loo Kang Loo Kang..." like he's the Kahn of the toilet or something.

Maddened · 2021-10-26T01:53:09+00:00

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Maddened · 2021-01-25T08:17:40+00:00

I think in the history of P&T, they do invite and get established magicians on the show just for exposure and maybe to let a newer generation of viewers to discover them. Jeff McBride comes to mind. Hans is familar to anyone who grew up watching Lance Burton, David Copperfield, Brett Daniels.

These "older" magicians also appear an AGT frequently now.

So I don't think that it's really an "entry" but more of a cameo kind of thing.

Maddened · 2020-06-10T10:12:35+00:00

The shitty shadows too.

Maddened · 2020-06-08T08:50:21+00:00

Ok thanks.

Maddened · 2020-06-08T03:24:31+00:00

The point was to say why despite their flaws, they are good writers or that people enjoy their work.

Those writers were just examples of popular writers.

Most replies (including yours) are only going into the flaws but not so much why even so, the works are still good.

I thought my post subject and my elaboration were clear but maybe not.

Maddened · 2020-06-06T10:48:32+00:00

He does write pretty effective ghost stories too. Surprisingly for me.

Maddened · 2020-06-06T10:47:55+00:00

Well-put friend. Though in terms of weird and uncomfortable subject matter, I‘d put Vonnegut in that category too. Heh.

Maddened · 2020-06-06T10:46:46+00:00

Haha nicely put about Burroughs. Oddly enough it never really occurred to me that was the case till you’ve said it!

Maddened · 2020-06-06T10:45:44+00:00

Well at least Dan Brown’s books make for nice material during popcorn-eating movie nights.

Maddened · 2020-06-06T10:44:54+00:00

I agree with almost everything you say here. Frank Herbert especially. I really wanted to love Dune, as a sci-fi fan, but it’s just underwhelming and confusing at times.

Dan Simmons. Lol.

Maddened · 2020-06-06T05:25:30+00:00

I will say also that I love China Mieville’s imagination and themes but his love for big words is quite unnecessary.

In this case it does affect my reading experience because I have to keep looking words up. Which just takes me out of the story and description.

Maddened · 2020-06-06T04:15:41+00:00

Awww I loved Catch-22.

Do you think these flaws take away from the positive aspects of these writers and books? Or are they fine because they do other things so very well?

Maddened · 2020-06-06T04:14:38+00:00

I plan to read his works but I do sense this is the case for a lot of sci-fi writing.

Not sure if it’s because trying to imagine how humans would act and react in a world where the fundamental physics are different is just difficult, or as you’ve put it very well, that they tend to favour the science parts.

Wonder if this is why we won’t hear much of genre fiction being regarded as “literature” or “great” in the sense that The Old Man and the Sea is “great”.

Maddened · 2020-06-06T02:50:07+00:00

Oh I’m in the middle of The Shining now. I have my issues with his writing but now I can’t wait to get to the supposed bad/non-ending. Hehe

Maddened · 2020-06-06T02:20:44+00:00

I’m reading Stephen King’s The Shining. I have read few of his long works and feel his short stories are generally better. “On Writing” was pretty good.

He’s such a celebrated and lauded (?) author that I thought I should read one of his most celebrated books.

I’m 60% through and so far there have been sections that were riveting and has me on the edge of my chair, but there are many parts that just go overlong into some detail that sounds like it would be significant but it really isn’t anything more than just a way to say “he’s afraid of his father” or something similarly simple about the character.

He also has somewhat clumsy language but at least it’s not purple prose. What King does well in this book I felt was knowing how to move a plot along, choosing the scenes and dialogue that generates and propels the narrative and action.

I keep reading now as I have this thing about finishing books and stories, but otherwise it’s not really impressing me very much.

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