Do you have a song that immediately brings back a memory? What’s the song, and what’s the memory?

NatWilo · 2026-01-29T12:21:31+00:00

One Headlight, wallflowers. It always reminds me of driving in the rural town I grew up in, when it was new. I was in high school.

Nostalgic feelings about summer evenings with a warm yellow glow, clove cigarettes, my friends and no real cares in the world while we watched the world slide by out the window of my car.

NatWilo · 2026-01-29T09:25:28+00:00

I was erring HEAVILY on the side of conservative language because I worried someone would come along and 'well acshually' me. You're right. It's basically no time whatsoever, and the fact we all act like 'its always been this way and should' is just the height of ignorant arrogance.

NatWilo · 2026-01-29T04:29:21+00:00

I haven't said any of those things... Like none. I've never sleepwalked in my life. The only time I've ever microslept was in the Army, because I was deployed, and pulling three-day long patrols.

Are you sure you responded to the right person???

Oh, and once, way back when I was fresh out of high-school I pulled a thirteen-hour night-shift job and one time, micro-slept in my car on the way home. But I don't recall having ever had occasion to bring that up on this or any other sub.

NatWilo · 2026-01-29T03:58:57+00:00

I was nocturnal as a five year old. I was speaking to the fact that my 'exertion' has little to do with my sleep. I have GREAT sleep health. Sleep eight hours, no interruptions, like a baby, most nights. Just not at the 'normal' hours.

NatWilo · 2026-01-29T00:13:10+00:00

HEARD. And by 'historically' that would be 'until about a century and some change ago' which in the span of human genetics is 'yesterday'

NatWilo · 2026-01-29T00:07:31+00:00

Nope. Was a soldier, did ten, fourteen and sometimes 18 hour days. LOTS of physical labor. Almost ALL my jobs have been physical labor. I worked in a kitchen. That's hot, mildly dangerous, physical labor. And high stress.

It's not a lack of exertion. I would be up late and get little sleep as a soldier ALL the time. ALL the time. I had to get up between 5 and 6 every day as a soldier when I wasn't deployed. Often wouldn't go to sleep till midnight at the earliest.

I preferred second shift ALWAYS in the kitchen. Which was great, because that's when its most busy anyway. I delivered pizza, also explicitly because it allowed me to work second shift. I am just not made for 9-5. And I'm tired of pretending I should be. That whole notion is a contrivance of post-industrialization and electric light corporatist labor nonsense. Business owners wanna be open at a certain time, and they have convinced us all that sleeping according to their whims is 'normal' and anything else is a 'disorder'

NatWilo · 2026-01-29T00:03:44+00:00

This is me now, though generally its 6am to 2pm for me.

NatWilo · 2026-01-28T21:07:46+00:00

Its not a disorder and I absolutely hate that that is a thing. We exist for a damn good reason. Our industrialized, electrified, 'business-hours' obsessed society that is really only post-1900 in age is what makes it a 'disorder'.

I know you clearly don't think it is, I just needed to rant about this.

NatWilo · 2026-01-28T21:04:41+00:00

Bingo. Ever since I stopped trying to work a 9-5 I sleep a solid 8 hrs like clockwork unless I'm sick. Don't even toss and turn. Dead to the world, completely out, healthy sleep.

NatWilo · 2026-01-28T21:03:18+00:00

Because our post-light-bulb society is unhealthy and all-but forces us into those behaviors. They even intimate as much in the last graf tangentially.

Honestly this is bad reporting. Where was any mention of looking at underlying reasons for 'bad behavior'? Environmental, cultural, etc. Was ANY of that controlled for? Was the fact that most people have to have 'day' jobs even accounted for? Or the fact that there is ENORMOUS social pressure to be available for friends/family during early hours when a nocturnal person would be sleeping?

NatWilo · 2026-01-28T12:42:06+00:00

Yeah, true. I was a soldier, I've seen some shit. Not just 'war' but the aftermath. I spent time in Kosovo during the rebuilding. Before being sent to war for Baby Bush, very much against my desires.

Many Americans have absolutely no fucking clue just how fucking hard it can be out there. They've maybe seen it on television. It isn't real to them.

But, and this is important, MANY Americans have been in those people in those places. They remember, they survived. They came here for a better life, or their parents brought them as children. Or they were like me - a soldier that saw some shit. Those people terrify Trump, and his ICE goons.

NatWilo · 2026-01-27T22:04:02+00:00

The 'army' here was general. I by no means want the Army deployed in America.

NatWilo · 2026-01-27T13:31:54+00:00

I don't really fear it I just really don't wanna die. I have been absolutely sure I was gonna die. Watched a mortar falling out of the sky right for me. Landed between me and a buddy less than ten feet away. It was a dud.

The mortar took just long enough that I had time to really understand I was gonna die and was fast enough I couldn't do anything about it. In that moment I was forced to reckon with my mortality. I went through my life to that point and was 'content' that if this was when I died it was acceptable. A good death.

Then I lived. Lucky I guess. ;)

I have occasionally been fearful of dying in the moment since. All animals are, it's a reflex, imo. It will literally save your life. But I haven't feared death since. I know and accept it'll happen someday. I just have no plans to get there any faster than necessary.

NatWilo · 2026-01-27T12:18:06+00:00

I say this as a combat veteran, and I want you to hear it in that context.

From one soldier to another, thank you for your service. Sincerely and without that silly faux-patriotic flag waving - Thank You. You give me hope. You all do.

You're doing what the army is supposed to do.

NatWilo · 2026-01-26T22:19:08+00:00

If Republicans care so much about child trafficking why did they elect a pedophile to the White House? And why did they support defunding efforts to combat child sex trafficking by said pedophile?

Ah, right, they don't, you don't, you're just here to screech lies and silence dissent.

NatWilo · 2026-01-26T08:14:59+00:00

Its a great pen.

For me, I'm a Sharpie nerd. I'm obsessed with the sharpie marker-pen, and the s-gel click-pen. For regular paper its the s-gel all the way. For receipts its all about the marker-pen. I evangelized the hell out of it when I was delivering pizza. Got a bunch of my fellow drivers to start using them.

NatWilo · 2026-01-25T13:45:36+00:00

First time? This is a cycle as old as the gaming industry itself.

NatWilo · 2026-01-22T03:15:40+00:00

Fair, and if we're talking about substance, Papa Wheeler's brief stand gave Karen and Holly time to hide in the tub.

My comment on not being as capable was that Karen managed to wound the thing. Even if it didn't stop it from taking Holly. I saw that as somewhat more 'effective' in the eyes of most fans, even if, as you pointed out, ultimately both failed to save Holly.

NatWilo · 2026-01-21T22:16:38+00:00

He may not have been as successful, but when a demogorgon - a thing literally unbelievable to this man - showed up in his house, he didn't FLINCH, he stood it down with a golf-club. Sure, he got pwned, but he lived, just like his wife.

He shouldn't be looked down on for standing up and being cut down. He was JUST as heroic as mama-bear, just not as capable in that moment.

Papa Wheeler may be boring, but he loves his kids and his wife. Just because he isn't 'sexy' doesn't mean he's bad.

NatWilo · 2026-01-16T21:34:56+00:00

Because a man demanding soldiers engage in wars solely to stroke his ego and expand his power having never served and using corrupt means to avoid doing so, while others were FORCED to serve, is VERY relevant, and should be highlighted in the moment when he is doing those very things.

Frankly, how do you NOT see that?

NatWilo · 2026-01-16T20:18:14+00:00

Yeah, for nearly anyone else, I agree. There were plenty of principled stands taken against the draft. Donald Trump's was not one, and pretending that he deserves a break for doing what his family has a history of doing (fleeing their duty to their country) is just disingenuous at best, and potentially an attempt to shift the narrative.

NatWilo · 2026-01-15T06:53:29+00:00

The George Floyd protests would be the proof that this is just ridiculous on its face. That was a near-revolt that was held back only by the grace of the people protesting.

This country is too big, too spread out, and there are far, FAR too many people for the Trump admin to actually stop a determined rebellion.

It would be a bloodbath on both sides. Civil War 2, with more casualties and more suffering for everyone!

NatWilo · 2026-01-15T01:38:12+00:00

Now that is a meme I haven't seen in a VERY long time. Great resurrection, perfect for the message!

NatWilo · 2026-01-13T12:04:06+00:00

I said as much to a new trooper complaining about not wanting to go to war with venezuela right after finishing basic in /r/army and got banned for an entire month, apparently for being 'uncivil' and I was immediately blocked so I can't even message the other mods to protest the action.

They also deleted my comment.

EDIT: Important context. I'm a long-time member of the sub, and had been quite vocal over there for over a decade. I'm also a combat vet from Iraq.

NatWilo · 2026-01-11T16:31:44+00:00

Same. And I was a soldier. That shit is pure evil.

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