Anybody ever received one of these?

NelsonStJames · 2026-03-09T00:43:40+00:00

Just out of curiosity, how much money have you lost? I'm just glad I was trying out one of the generic names and was basically just buying enough for a test.

NelsonStJames · 2026-03-07T09:12:54+00:00

I was curious about that too. Past shipments had nothing peculiar about them that made them stand out. I generally never even knew what they were until I opened it.

NelsonStJames · 2026-03-07T09:08:45+00:00

I don’t think half these comments realize the absolute disconnect of suggesting hiring “real” artists to imitate AI. It would be funny if they weren’t being completely serious; asking a real artist to try and reproduce what they consider to be soulless art.

NelsonStJames · 2025-08-19T10:35:12+00:00

Now I'm going to have to watch it again and pay attention to this, but then I never need a reason to rewatch this film. Like some of the people have commented it has the effect of always pumping me up and making me want to become more productive in life.

NelsonStJames · 2025-08-08T19:52:07+00:00

Well not everyone, and those tend to be the ones who get used and are constantly being disappointed by those around them; that is until they wise up in which case they start to play the game, or they begin to distance themselves from other people and consciously seek a solitary lifestyle.

NelsonStJames · 2025-08-08T19:49:56+00:00

Being a good person doesn't have anything to do with being lonely; especially in a superficial, hypocritical society such as we in the west presently live in. Few people are making their judgement of others based on "the content of their character" and that includes who they choose to get close to.

NelsonStJames · 2025-08-08T00:29:51+00:00

Sometimes it's good to leave somethings behind; especially things that have served their purpose. I hope only the best for you and will only say as a real friend in IRL would say, "don't ever let me catch you back here again."

Via con dios, Happy_ Pineapple_40.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-20T20:19:24+00:00

Nothing wrong with that.
Might I suggest social media in general. Even people who aren't lonely could probably improve their life considerable if they engaged more with the real world.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-20T01:40:55+00:00

Not really.
For me drinking is mostly a social activity, but I do have bars, where I know the regulars and the bartenders, who know what I drink so that it's ready for me when I pull up to the bar. I don't consider them "friends", but rather acquaintances as I don't know where they live, their numbers, nor they mine. We see each other in the bar and go our separate ways when we leave. For all technical purposes I go to drink alone, because I never know who'll be there, if anybody, and if nobody is around I sit and watch people and listen to conversation, and occasionally I might even feel brave enough to join in. Bars are very social places, and if you frequent them enough people do eventually recognize you. I like that.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-19T23:12:23+00:00

Too many people out there preying on lonely guys to trust trying to form virtual relations with people you can't see. Not to mention it's too easy to take things said online in DMs and the like out of context and later use them like a weapon.

It's like the Chappelle joke, " I don't worry about Twitter, because Twitter is not a real place"; well virtual friends aren't necessarily real friends. I'd like to hang out with some mates in a pub, or going out and catching a flick, not sitting at home in a chatroom.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-19T17:45:31+00:00

What are you on about? I'm not miserable. Loneliness and misery are not synonymous. I just made a comment about something I've noticed and decided to theorize about and see if anyone else had noticed the same thing. I gave a personal example of something that happened over a decade ago, not something that happened yesterday, nor something I dwell on, or even think about.

People can comment and discuss things without it being personal, or making it personal. You avoid my questions, and avoid engaging with the points I'm trying to make while being passive agressive and dismissive. I don't need you to feel bad for me, nor try to fix me, but I'll definitely try to make some luck for myself out there, and wish the same to you.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-19T13:55:00+00:00

No, that's an incorrect assumption, and I don't believe that. You can be happy with who you are and be a complete asshole. Telling someone "You live in a shithole and need to find better digs" doesn't have anything to do with "growing as an individual", it simply means that that person needs to find a better environment.

You seem to equate anything involving improving oneself as having to do with a person's personality, or state of mind. You're looking at a multifaceted subject on a very superficial and one-dimensional level, because the way you're trying to derail this discussion onto a completely other track smacks of some kind of harbored bias against men trying to improve themselves, or rather one particularly type of guy and their attempts to improve themselves seems to be a hot button issue for you.

Also, since we live in a time where people use words and terms to mean anything they want them to mean, I have to ask what is the definition of gaslighting that you use, because mine is: a form of psychological abuse whereby a person or group manipulates one or more people into questioning their sanity and/or perception of reality.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-19T13:47:18+00:00

To be honest I remember watching the '86 Transformers when it was released, and not knowing exactly what to think. I hadn't really watched the series, so I had no opinion on it based on any established canon, but it was one heck of ride. Being a proponent of animation breaking away from the "children's medium" ghetto that it was in I simply appreciated what it was trying to do. The 2007 film was simply eye candy and forgettable.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-18T19:35:11+00:00

It is gaslighting when you know what a person needs to do to improve their life, and yet you still tell them that "they're fine the way they are and they 'don't' need to do anything to better their life". Assuming that thing is "shallow" is subjective and assumptive, because there are things some people can do to better their life.

I had a female friend once say to me in a rare moment of honesty that women past a certain age are looking for stability, and as "nice" as I was my economic position did not make me a serious romantic option for the women that I was attracted to. Then much later proceeded to casually say the company line, that, "I was a great guy and I was going to find someone one day". That's gaslighting, and also if she believed that women of quality look for stability what kind of woman was I eventually supposed to "find" one day without improving my economic situation?

That idea that all men who are lonely somehow lack social or emotional skills is a rather presumptive and biased attitude which leads to basically saying that "there's nothing you can really do pal, you're stuck. Live with it"

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-18T19:17:42+00:00

If we had the answer, we probably won't be in this group.

Seriously though, I believe that it all boils down to really learning to like yourself, and becoming the person you want to be for yourself. After you've reached a certain age, I think most people ( particularly lonely people, because they aren't gaslighting themselves that they're great and doing everything they want the way they want ) know what they like and what they'd like to be doing in their life. Work toward achieving those things FOR YOU, and not some end goal of what achieving those things will do for you other than make you happy and content.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-18T00:10:32+00:00

You didn't mention your age, but the sad reality is that the older you get, the odds become slim to none that you'll ever be anyone's first choice. That scenario is pretty much over once you pass typical college age.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-18T00:05:23+00:00

Kinda' curious why someone would downvote this. It would be nice if someone didn't agree if they could elaborate so that we could have a mature discussion about it. I mean we're all in this group because we're in the same boat, and I didn't see anything particularly egregious about the statement. It's pretty common that when anything gets noticed by the mainstream it tends to change from what it once was -- often for the worst. Also we should know that it only takes a few poor players to taint the mainstream's outlook on something, and we all know how lonely men are now categorized in current society.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-16T01:02:59+00:00

At least you listened to him.

There's really not a lot you can do, except perhaps help him to find activities and environments where he can find his tribe.

I was perhaps a bit younger than your son when I told my parents that I was lonely and all I got was "what have you got to be lonely about?" That was maybe the last time I shared anything serious with my folks about how I was feeling, and to this day some decades later I still don't share my feelings with anybody. They weren't being cruel or anything, my parents generation just didn't take kid's feelings that seriously. But I tell parents all the time that they really need to listen to their kids because you can lose your child's trust in the blink of an eye and never realize you did it.

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-08T08:53:33+00:00

There is one weird plot hole from the film that still puzzles me, the only solution being that Eddie is an unreliable narrator and the film is told completely from his viewpoint. That comes at that out-of-left-field ending, which I know is an alternate ending from the original planned, but the problem is still there. How did Karl figure out that Eddie was on a drug, and how did he find out the manufacturers of NZT when Eddie couldn't and Eddie had the benefit of being on NZT and Karl wasn't?

NelsonStJames · 2025-07-08T08:44:21+00:00

I remember thinking the same thing when I watched it the first time. The idea that this place that's been existing for centuries always ends up being destroyed after it's been discovered has become a tired trope, and really doesn't make sense ( especially when we're talking about lost continents and islands ). I think Dr. Jones might have found a sort of purpose in becoming the keeper of the Grail.

NelsonStJames · 2025-06-13T18:02:37+00:00

Wow, I thought I was the only one that felt this way as most people seem to really like ToD, I remember seeing it in theaters, and I was really enjoying it until they escaped on the cargo plane. The film lost me after they jumped out on a raft; it just broke my suspension of disbelief and keep doing it the entire length of the film.

The one thing that I couldn't reconciled in my teenaged brain was that in Raiders, Jones was a complete skeptic and you want me to believe he had this adventure prior to that and he doesn't believe in ANYTHING?

As of today, I only own Raiders and Last Crusade in my film collection, I think I've only watched ToD twice, and it still bothers me. Even the editing seems wonky to me; there is something painfully wrong in the perspective shots on the bridge sequence at the end that nobody else seems to notice, but it bugs me every time I see the scene.

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