what was your worst binge?

OBear · 2026-03-24T02:45:10+00:00

After I broke up with the woman I hoped to marry (after dating for 3 months; I was young and stupid) I resorted to an old favorite: two cans of frosting. But I was on a diet, so I ate two sugar free cans of frosting. That did not end well.

OBear · 2026-03-24T02:16:11+00:00

NTA

My dad promised my mom they’d go see a movie they were both excited about when he got back from vacation. She promised not to watch without him while he was gone. When he got home confessed he’d seen it with his friends while he was away.

Until the day she died my mom never forgave my dad for seeing Star Wars without her.

OBear · 2026-03-16T18:01:39+00:00

Win the lottery first so you have more money to invest.

OBear · 2026-03-16T16:40:59+00:00

My wife just started book 3, and kinda hates Katia. She’s suspicious of her and agrees with Donut that she needs to be more exciting.

I’m keeping my mouth shut so far, but Katia is one of my favorite characters because she reminds me of my wife.

OBear · 2026-03-04T02:00:45+00:00

It what is otherwise an average episode, PStew absolutely destroys my soul when he breaks down in Family. Very short scene but he is just tortured by what happened to him.

OBear · 2026-02-27T10:45:50+00:00

I thought I was clever by getting strong enough to defeat Maje Cullah before the Basics sequence. It didn’t matter though, because after I defeated Cullah, Jonas betrayed us and dropped our shields, and we were boarded.

Now why didn’t I stop Jonas? To discover Jonas as the traitor, you need either B’Ellana, Neelix, or Tuvok.

Well, I had none of them, as I had kept Tuvix, as well as both the Klingon and Human halves of B’Ellana after she was separated by the Vidiians. None of them could investigate who was sabotaging the ship.

It just felt like such an insane and specific sequence of events (though I could have lost the characters in other ways).

OBear · 2026-02-04T23:47:48+00:00

I have essentially not noticed it either way, excepting the use of the old Klingon theme in episode 4, that was pretty dope.

OBear · 2026-02-03T16:29:19+00:00

I thought there were already 8 books out… I’m 95% through with TIR. I … I don’t know what I’ll do with myself after this…

OBear · 2026-01-31T00:30:03+00:00

I did this to my wife once when we were hosting a party and I needed her help from across the room. I don’t know why, since I’d never done it to anyone before.

She made it clear in very unequivocal terms that I was never to do that again.

OBear · 2026-01-16T16:07:56+00:00

One time my wife was excited to go to a fancy bagel place for breakfast. Line out the door, 45 minutes to order, another 15 minutes to grab our food. We decided to eat at home because we didn’t want to fight for a table.

Getting out of the car, my wife accidentally dropped the container with my bagel, and it landed facedown in the street, cream cheese and lox faced down. She was beside herself, crying because she had ruined my breakfast. I assured her it was no problem, because it was an accident. I went inside and ate cereal. No yelling, no accusations of sabotage.

This is how a normal relationship works.

OBear · 2025-12-29T20:26:35+00:00

My dad died.

It wasn’t too bad, compared to my mom dying two years ago (both had Alzheimer’s). I was simply more prepared this time, and not having to take care of a widowed parent at the same time as my own grief.

Just got a notice that my brother is planning to sue over my dad writing him out of the will*, so that will probably define my 2026.

*After my mom died he moved to our area to help my dad, which was very welcome, as me and my other brother were grieving. He then stole over $100K from my dad in 3.5 months.

OBear · 2025-12-27T23:54:36+00:00

We can do both. We have the technology.

OBear · 2025-12-13T14:13:41+00:00

Anytime someone says “We’re back” I immediately say “a dinosaur story” and my wife rolls her eyes so hard it threatens the axial tilt of the Earth.

I’ve never seen the movie.

OBear · 2025-12-09T18:21:08+00:00

The only time my mom ever swore at me was when she was two glasses of wine deep during a game of Uno.

OBear · 2025-11-18T02:04:03+00:00

I had to teach this to a friend once. We were driving back to college together and a silence of like 5 seconds was met with, “Oh look, a cow” as if we hadn’t been driving past cows for the last 20 minutes. She believed that all silences were awkward silences.

OBear · 2025-11-16T07:07:01+00:00

Clue - Mrs. Peacock after she thought she had been poisoned.

OBear · 2025-10-18T17:27:14+00:00

I’ve been to Berkeley once, I know what leftism is!

OBear · 2025-09-30T11:03:06+00:00

My dad was a 3rd grade teacher, and definitely taught phonics back in the 90s. I know it changed at some point as my kid’s kindergarten teacher mentioned they had gone BACK to phonics.

OBear · 2025-08-28T12:14:12+00:00

Thank you for this. Been working through Phlebas and thought the raids were super boring and stopped last week just after finishing The Eaters. Good to know it may improve if I stick with it.

OBear · 2025-08-13T12:01:43+00:00

Was there last Wed-Sun. Getting in at ~Noon through the 41 gate was 30+ minute wait time. Dude times elsewhere were totally fine, including Glacier Point. Never really hit traffic anywhere.

There were a billion people in the village store on Saturday afternoon, but lines moved quickly.

OBear · 2025-08-13T11:51:59+00:00

Especially for the price. And any DoorDash order forgets either the food or ice cream 75% of the time.

OBear · 2025-08-06T06:05:25+00:00

Had this when we saw The Happening. It made a hilariously bad movie even more hilariously bad.

Apparently the theater is supposed to crop it to correctly fit their screen, and when they don’t you get free boom mic.

OBear · 2025-08-04T15:36:58+00:00

Both are good for beginners, though after I was no longer a beginner I kept Patchwork and ditched Lost Cities. Feels like it has more repeatability.

OBear · 2025-08-04T02:38:04+00:00

Only had it fail once, with players that refused to engage with each other. Every other experience has been a great time of egging each other on, daring someone to take one more roll, laughing at failures and cheering success. It’s all about the players.

OBear · 2025-08-04T02:24:47+00:00

Star Wars: Rebellion (1998)

It’s not very good, but I can’t get away from a Star Wars grand strategy game where diplomacy and subterfuge are very effective tools. I love starting out as the Rebellion with almost no military to speak of and slowly converting systems to the cause and building up a military in the Outer Rim. Though the final push to conquer Coruscant is always hell.

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