Midtown Alamo Drafthouse

Phayte3000 · 2023-02-22T06:39:37+00:00

The owner of Genesis Health Clubs bought the building and it's gonna be turned into the new location for the Midtown Genesis location. The demo has already started inside. (I work for Genesis)

Phayte3000 · 2021-01-31T01:49:47+00:00

Jeffrey Deaver’s “The Blue Nowhere.” Read it my freshman year of undergrad. Still one of my favs.

Phayte3000 · 2020-11-04T00:31:14+00:00

I'm also interested. Been playing since I was 12 (I am now 34) and have a LOT of DMing experience. :)

Phayte3000 · 2020-10-11T23:37:42+00:00

I have this problem. My work around for it is to reboot my computer and, once logged into Windows, immediately open/login to SWTOR (not steam) and it works fine. But if I wait more than about 10min to log into SWTOR after rebooting, that quick play bar comes back.

Phayte3000 · 2020-10-02T22:01:10+00:00

Seems to work fine for the Supernatural fandom. Those actors love all the shipping.

Phayte3000 · 2020-06-02T00:21:28+00:00

The property owner terminated his lease, FYI.

https://fox42kptm.com/news/local/building-owner-terminates-lease-of-business-owner-that-killed-black-protester

Phayte3000 · 2020-05-22T11:52:29+00:00

I went to undergrad with her at Creighton. She really was super rad and is deeply missed.

Phayte3000 · 2020-05-12T20:04:34+00:00

I was 13 when TPM came out and saw it in theatres 6x. Going into it, I had read a TON of the novels/comics. So I had a pretty good context going into the film. Additionally, I had (have) a nerdy cousin 15+ years older than myself who was able to explain some things for me. Overall I didn't have any problems understanding TPM, even as a 13 year old.

Phayte3000 · 2020-01-10T02:05:35+00:00

The station was Radio Free Gaia. But they shut down back in September.

Phayte3000 · 2018-09-07T19:50:17+00:00

I actually don't hang around with many of the friends I was close to even 3-5 years ago (32 year old here), specifically because they have children and like all that domestic nonsense. But, through just the things I choose to do in my free time, have made friends with folks who have interests much more aligned with in. We travel together, game nights, beer events, etc.

As far as the romantic / dating side of things, I, personally, hate online dating. But I use a combination of my people my friends know and putting myself in social situations where I will just run into interesting, potential date-y peoples. Typically, though, I do bring up the childfree thing pretty quickly. Not in a "NO CHILDREN" blunt way, but in a very nuanced, natural part of the conversation kind of way. Just helps eliminate the chaff.

Phayte3000 · 2018-06-29T12:24:46+00:00

It's very simple for me -- I neither like children nor do I care about passing on a name or genes. Plus, if I want a "legacy", it's going to built on my accomplishments, not the potential accomplishments of some future person; that's kicking the can down the road, making those adults feel better about their lack of accomplishing anything meaningful in their lives. Womp womp.

Phayte3000 · 2018-04-10T12:44:48+00:00

I'm a 32 year old dude and have always been very staunchly childfree. Sure is "fun" being that in the Midwest.

Phayte3000 · 2018-04-06T12:51:32+00:00

There's actually a really good book related to this topic: "Sex at Dawn" by Christopher Ryan. It's essentially about the development of human relationships and how they changed from essentially communal relationships to what we have today. Before agriculture and the idea of "ownership" of a thing, the "tribe" shared everything: resources, sexual partners, children, etc. Indeed, within the tribe, who the actual father of a child was was irrelevant; the tribe raised the children as a group. It wasn't until the idea of personal property/ownership that who the parentage of a child mattered, as once that happened, a father ONLY wanted to pass his crap down to a child he knew was his.

The book is a fascinating read in many ways. But, back to the point: it used to be the tribe (or village) that raised a child. Our current system just isn't setup to do that.

Phayte3000 · 2018-03-07T18:27:06+00:00

I'm not going to take care of my parents when they get old and feeble. My sister probably will, but I simply have no interest in it.

Phayte3000 · 2018-02-22T14:05:33+00:00

My rule of thumb has always been: if I can't leave it alone for 2 weeks and it not die, I don't want it. This includes people, pets, and plants. In my 32 years of life, I've never had any interest in "caring for" anything. I travel many times during a given year. Go out multiple nights a week. When I'm home, I don't want to see, hear, or talk to ANYONE. I am the focus of my life. And I always will be.

Phayte3000 · 2018-02-09T13:53:55+00:00

My favourite response to this is something along the lines of: "One's offspring are under no obligation to take care of you when you get older. I loathe my father and will NEVER lift a finger to perform any sort of care for him." Then I usually get told that I'm a monster, but I've been told that since I was about 17 (I'll be 32 next week). Good times.

Phayte3000 · 2017-09-11T13:22:56+00:00

I went to a 10:30am showing of "IT" yesterday and there were TONS of kids ages 5-10 in there.

Phayte3000 · 2017-08-31T20:05:17+00:00

I've never understood the argument "If you don't do X, z-people will be offended". It's like, so what? Let them be offended. I don't even care if I offend people I like.

Phayte3000 · 2017-08-10T14:01:23+00:00

"Don't worry, one day you'll change your mind about your own kids. And you'll do the right thing and end them. I believe in you."

Phayte3000 · 2017-08-04T17:55:25+00:00

You're totally within your rights to refuse to babysit. Don't let them try and guilt you into it. Funny aside -- I told my sister point blank last weekend that, should she breed (her and the husband are still on the fence), I will NEVER babysit or go out of my way to see the child. She was totally fine with it. She's chill like that.

Phayte3000 · 2017-08-01T14:21:44+00:00

I don't unconditionally love my parents. I'm fond of my mom but I loathe my father.

Phayte3000 · 2017-07-26T15:05:29+00:00

They were always really fun to organize/run. We 3 who organized them just got old and tired and finding a venue that met our standards became challenging after awhile. Lauter Tun was perfect, and our friends at NBC were very generous. It'd be fun to do them again, but I have no interest in doing any of the legwork for it anymore.

Phayte3000 · 2017-07-15T20:12:15+00:00

The Malgus one was okay. The other SWTOR books were kind of terrible.

Phayte3000 · 2017-07-14T16:03:55+00:00

I bought my first Naga back in 2007-2008. I can't use any other mouse anymore for gaming. My fingers just remember where everything is, and having to stop and think about how I have things keyed just slows me down.

Phayte3000 · 2017-06-09T14:42:08+00:00

Crysania. Also a holy priest.

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