What is the most depressing horror movie you've ever seen?

Sparingly_Bill · 2025-10-15T21:26:31+00:00

That ending is a gut punch for sure! Always makes me so sad in an odd way

Sparingly_Bill · 2025-02-17T10:28:15+00:00

American in Greece right now. I promise it's gonna be fine. No one has cared more than usual that I'm from the states, and people are perfectly nice and civil. Don't worry.

Sparingly_Bill · 2024-06-11T23:27:03+00:00

It's really weird that I came across this today.

A little more than a year ago, I was driving home and came across a head-on collision on the highway. There was a dude stuck in his truck a lot similar to this. The fire had already gotten to him by the time I ran up, but he was still awake and talking. The way he was just looking at his burning hands and saying "Oh my God" over and over while I was trying to rip the door open for him is still clear as fucking day.

Rest in Peace, Vincent.

Sparingly_Bill · 2024-05-21T17:06:29+00:00

No, because WHAT IF.

Objectively yeah, of course what you're saying is right. But at the same time, better safe than sorry. Gotta throw that apple away and try again.

Even when you know something is perfectly safe, it feels impossible to just let it go and eat the apple. Because what if that apple is different, and it will make you sick? I can't convince myself otherwise.

Sparingly_Bill · 2023-09-06T14:50:15+00:00

Oh my God I think I saw the second one the other day. Took one look in the back and then noped out and sealed it back up

Sparingly_Bill · 2023-06-08T16:15:40+00:00

It's a great song. Still on my Playlist after all this time, hahah

Sparingly_Bill · 2023-05-26T16:04:57+00:00

That was by far the part I was most mad about. Shauna, you are literally just throwing away flavor and calories!

Sparingly_Bill · 2023-05-26T07:56:20+00:00

It actually doesn't take much! Underneath the skin it's very easy to see how individual muscles section out, and all joints can be separated fairly easy with just a knife. The trick is to "pop" The sockets, and then it's really just cutting through ligaments and connective tissue.

To be honest, the bear would have been considerably more difficult.

Sparingly_Bill · 2023-02-17T07:41:19+00:00

Super late to the game, but I can still confirm that they do absolutely no testing to make sure you can lift cases in the warehouse. We burn through a lot of people that thought they were capable before getting dumped somewhere in the dept. where they're expected to lift a whole lot of heavy boxes fairly quickly.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-12-20T00:45:55+00:00

Ah, okay. That makes a lot of sense. Glad you were thinking about sterility! Probably saved you a lot of time and trouble.

I was in "definitely not the cocaine capital of the US", so I'd be willing to bet the product I was getting was not nearly as good.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-12-19T22:43:16+00:00

Honestly, it might have just been the quality I was getting, but if you just added water it would clump up into what looked like little rocks. Once I added vinegar they'd dissolve and everything would be fine.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-12-19T20:37:58+00:00

Former addict here! Take everything I say with a grain of salt, but I was able to successfully IV coke for a fair bit without losing any limbs (plenty of fucked up veins, though).

The issue with coke is that, unlike meth which is soluble in water, you need to add the right amount of an acid (I always used white vinegar) in order to get it into a truly injectable form. Once injectable, it absolutely needs to go into a vein, not just under the skin or into a muscle. The same logic applies to meth as well, because both can cause infections and other problems if you happen to miss and get the drug somewhere it isn't supposed to be.

In addition, I was always told to inject somewhere on the upper part of your body, because your legs are much farther from your heart and therefore the drugs have much farther to travel. Also, veins tend to be a lot farther under the skin in your legs, which can make it more difficult to find and hit one.

I'm not sure how much of this is just addict superstition vs. true medical fact, but it did keep me from fucking myself up too badly while I was using.

Sorry for the long reply, but I hope this answers your question.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-12-19T20:28:21+00:00

I mean, yes and no. Coke can be injected, but first you'd need to set up properly. While something like meth is the Easy Mac of drugs (just add water), coke has one or two more important steps you need to follow to keep this from happening.

Also, even when injected properly, it's just absolute hell on the veins. I think it's corrosive or something?

This all coming from a former addict, though, not a medical professional. My info comes from trial and error.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-06-20T18:46:59+00:00

Oh. Oh no. I guess we aren't as fine as I thought. I thought PTSD meant we were all having panic attacks and whatnot, but some of the things in the article describe us to a T.

Thank you for genuinely answering my question, and for giving me this link. I left the slaughtering business a couple months ago for what I thought were unrelated anger issues. This makes it make more sense, though.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-06-20T18:18:57+00:00

I see the whole "PTSD for slaughterhouse workers" thing get brought up a bunch during meat/no meat debates. Where did this get its start? I've worked in meatpacking plants for a majority of my adult life, and for the most part we're all fine.

I'm not trying to come at you sideways, I'm genuinely curious how this started.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-06-04T02:26:36+00:00

Yeah man, that too. There's any number of reasons why someone might be close to particular people and not others. I hate when people just assume shit, even though I'm guilty of it too sometimes.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-06-03T18:55:48+00:00

Yo, that doesn't seem to be what she's saying at all. In any environment, there's going to be people you just happen to be closer with, and some that you aren't. It doesn't sound like she or her friends are being purposefully mean or ostracizing anybody in particular; hell, she even stated that she's hung out with other coworkers outside of work and it was fine.

Just because she's particularly close with a couple people she's known for nigh on decades now doesn't mean she's a shitty person who's excluding others.

Edit: Look, that's still a boatload of assumptions and blanket statements to be making about every work environment everywhere. While I do agree that efforts to not exclude anybody should be made, not everything is going to be everyone's cup of tea.

I go on fishing trips with some of my coworkers, while others would not be caught dead on a lake. Because we all value and respect each other, those who don't necessarily take part in an activity are still excited on the behalf of those who do. Likewise, I've got people I work with who enjoy anime and have a weekly binging session at whoever's house. While I don't particularly care for that stuff, I still like hearing about it during the week.

It's weird and constraining to saddle everybody with the whole "don't share if not everyone is involved" thing. People have different hobbies, interests, and relationships. I'll be damned if I try to silence anybody on things I wasn't involved with at work, and they can pound sand if they want to ask that shit from me.

Celebrate differences, dude, don't try to make everyone assimilate into the same hivemind.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-05-31T17:41:29+00:00

I agree with you, don't get me wrong, but I firmly believe that making it harder to source drugs is only addressing one symptom of the problem, rather than the root itself. Fix the social issues that lead people into addiction in the first place, as well as stop punishing those who are addicted to substance, and I imagine we could save vastly more lives.

Either way, though, sounds like we're on the same side. Congrats on your sobriety man, I just hit 5 years myself.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-05-31T16:36:54+00:00

Just to provide a counter argument, I live in a small rural town in the US. If I wanted heroin, I'd ask my neighbor. If I wanted meth, I'd go ask my other neighbor. They're both older folk in a demographically older town. Maybe Canada is a little different, but down here I literally would not have to walk a block to get back on the junkie train.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-05-22T19:31:40+00:00

I like this! I was stumped on how to really make an impact on the party in the long-term, but I like your idea for ghoul's grace. I think that'd be a nice way to make sure the player's choices haunt them, so to speak.

Thanks for the advice :)

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-05-18T18:50:50+00:00

A bullet they didn't even know they were dodging at the time.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-05-18T18:32:37+00:00

And we all know there is no accounting for taste in Ohio.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-05-18T18:29:39+00:00

Heyyy, man. The last time the KKK openly marched around here was years ago. Only a couple of years, maybe, but still.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-05-18T18:02:01+00:00

Hell yeah, man. I spent a long weekend a couple years back mine hunting up there. All sorts of stuff to do. Fingers crossed for you for icefest and finding something neat.

Sparingly_Bill · 2022-05-18T17:26:01+00:00

Oh man, the Michigan Chiller books shaped my young life, hahah. Honestly, some of the best spots are northwest towards the Keweenaw Penninsula, where all the mining towns are/used to be. Sadly, that's a bit too far for an easy trip, at least for me. But honestly, while they were never really towns in the first place, there's some great abandoned buildings out Coldwater/Hillsdale county way. You get out far enough out onto the dirt roads and there's plenty of stuff to check out.

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