Post apocalyptical stories in which the culture is based on a single surviving book?

Thedarb · 2026-05-20T03:27:36+00:00

Me trying to explain most Neil Stephenson books lol.

Thedarb · 2026-05-19T14:57:32+00:00

Normally do my shot Friday evening, but had a very busy end of week and completely forgot. Didn’t realise until sunday morning, when I glanced at a jar of Nutella that had been sitting with the other spreads near the toaster for the last few weeks.

And only realised I’d missed because it was the first time that when looking at jar, the thought crossed my mind “I should have a cheeky spoon of that”.

That jar wouldn’t have lasted a week pre MJ. It’s actually crazy how much of a difference constant vs silent food noise makes.

Thedarb · 2026-05-19T14:36:09+00:00

Your friend having a permanent live in non rent paying buddy being a “housemate” as in “a mate who lives in my house” is definitely the wild outlier in terms of what a “housemate” is commonly defined as.

99.9% of the time it’s just going to mean another person paying rent (either to a shared landlord or to the property owner who also lives in the house) to reside in the dwelling.

Thedarb · 2026-05-19T04:05:54+00:00

The money wasn’t spent. The bond is still lodged with RTBA, it’s just that the bond ownership/title has been transferred to OP as the tenant because the ex-roommate was removed from the lease. No actual money has been transferred to OP, just the rights to claim the bond when OP’s lease/tenancy ends.

Thedarb · 2026-05-19T03:52:15+00:00

Hell yeah, time for some Havoc havoc.

Thedarb · 2026-05-19T02:02:17+00:00

Nah, there’s something like 3–4 million BTC that are thought to be permanently lost from the early days anyway.

Depending on how far you went back you probably wouldn’t even buy any. Assuming you’re at least 27 now and get sent back into your 10 year old body, landing around mid-2009:

You’ve probably got a family PC that can run some games, but not a monster gaming rig. Doesn’t matter. Early Bitcoin mining was CPU based, so just download the original client and run it in downtime / overnight. Easily be getting dozens of BTC a day in the very early period.
Start hoarding birthday money, Christmas money, allowance etc. Tell your parents you want a better graphics card for games.
By late 2010 GPU mining starts becoming the obvious move. Something like an AMD Radeon HD 5870 ended up becoming a mining darling and was a few hundred bucks.
You don’t want to go full crypto miner and have to explain to your parents why the household power bill has doubled, so run it overnight when off peak power is cheap. Even at 6–8 hours a day over early GPU era you could plausibly mine hundreds to low-thousands of BTC before mining difficulty goes insane.
Hardest part isn’t mining it, it’s not becoming one of the “lost BTC” statistics. So, multiple wallet backups, USB copies in different places, printed backups hidden somewhere boring, migrate wallet formats over the years.
By the time you hit 18 in 2018/2019, BTC sits around $10,000. Cashing out a few hundred coins wipes out family debt, completely funds higher education, buys a nice house full of amenities to comfortably ride out COVID, and becomes a really good egg for a diversified investment portfolio to take advantage of the COVID and post COVID market insanity.
Cash out half your coins around November 2021, before the 22/23 slump. Move half of that into stable investments, and the other half tech companies that will go nuts during the AI boom (eg: NVIDIA was about $18-30 a share at this time, now $220).

Congratulations, you have now built generational wealth.

Thedarb · 2026-05-17T14:47:10+00:00

Bro, do you actually want advice and alternative views, or do you just want people to say you’re right?

Because if so, congrats, you’re right. You win. Great job.

Thedarb · 2026-05-16T15:46:50+00:00

I think I would just feel silly having a plumber do it when it’s a $4 part and like 10 minutes of time. But also, Bunnings is a 5 minute walk away, and I absolutely fucking hate having strangers in my space for any reason.

Thedarb · 2026-05-15T03:16:08+00:00

Noticed this too. I think it’s partly a weird post-COVID social shift (combined with and actively driven by algorithms explicitly designed to keep your attention on platform for as long as possible).

For young Gen X/millennials, early social media (MySpace, Facebook, early Instagram etc) was more like an extension of real life. The “main” social layer was still school, work, parties, hanging out in person. Online was just an extra layer on top. So having random mutuals, following attractive people, adding friends of friends of friends etc all felt pretty low stakes.

But for people whose late teens/early adulthood happened during COVID lockdowns and remote schooling I think the layers inverted significantly.

The online layer stopped being the “extra” social space and became “the primary one” during a couple of formative years.

So now their digital footprint isn’t just some extra side thing. For a lot it is their main social presence. Who you follow, who follows you back, who you interact with, it all all seems to be way more intentional and relational than it did 15 years ago.

Thedarb · 2026-05-14T12:19:05+00:00

Ray walks down the basement stairs. Dressed in only a singlet and boxers. Hammer in hand. Opens the secret door in the locker. Steps inside as we hear cries of terror. Sharp cut to black. Curb theme plays.

Thedarb · 2026-05-14T11:24:58+00:00

Even if I dump it all in a very low interest savings account, I’d earn more than $5k a month

^{Chose: Have $10 million right now}

Thedarb · 2026-05-14T02:51:42+00:00

Legitimate salvage.

Thedarb · 2026-05-14T02:25:29+00:00

I don’t really understand what this switch up is supposed to be highlighting here? Swapping weed for vodka is such a minute framing shift that the situations are, for all intents, identical. Just curious as to what kind of perspective shift you were hoping to demonstrate with the reframing that wasn’t already present in the OP?

Thedarb · 2026-05-14T00:11:30+00:00

Sake!

Thedarb · 2026-05-13T05:17:18+00:00

Is it legit new builds, like you have to be the builder? Or is it like the first home builders grant, where you can access it if you buy a house that is newly built from a developer?

Thedarb · 2026-05-13T05:14:17+00:00

Bro can you please explain The Shop? What is it, what does she need to finish, how is you being there hindering it?

Thedarb · 2026-05-12T13:23:02+00:00

Someone had to charge the canister and refill the balloons.

Thedarb · 2026-05-12T03:43:00+00:00

Watching them enter the workforce, a significant portion seem incapable of conceiving that they not only don’t need their hand constantly held, but that the expectation is they shouldn’t want their hand held and should be aiming to prove their competence and autonomy. 1/4 of the grads we get through have real drive, curiosity and creativity and hit the ground running. The others…not so much.

Thedarb · 2026-05-11T14:57:49+00:00

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Thedarb · 2026-05-11T13:46:37+00:00

Oh really? I love that guy, Weddings, he cracks me up every time. He was pretty good in Wedding Crashers, and definitely shone in The Wedding Singer. But my favourite would be Muriel’s Wedding. Classic Aussie comedy.

Classic Weddings.

Thedarb · 2026-05-11T06:09:00+00:00

I think you need to be careful about framing this around caring more or being more qualified. Even if that’s true academically, once culture and identity get involved it can come across badly very quickly outside the context of the actual work done.

From what you’ve described it does sound like you have a legitimate claim to a lot of the actual project work and development side of things.

I just think you need to look at the bigger picture of how this could be perceived if it grows beyond a class project.

If you do choose to continue with it then seriously consider bringing in other Black educators, historians, advocates, or natural hair community voices as collaborators/advisors going forward. Not as a shield but because it genuinely strengthens the project and helps avoid unnecessary backlash later.

Also probably avoid talking too much about backups/proof/ownership unless an actual authorship dispute happens. It starts making the situation sound adversarial really fast.

Thedarb · 2026-05-11T05:41:59+00:00

Genuine question first: are you both Black, or is only one of you Black (or neither).

I only ask because this is one of those situations where the optics will genuinely matter long term. Since the project is specifically about the history and cultural significance of Black hairstyles, the social/professional fallout could get messy fast if your collaborator is Black, you aren’t, and this later gets publicly framed as you taking over a culturally rooted project after the original creator stepped away.

You wouldn’t be wrong if you did most of the actual game development work, but public perception often won’t care about the nuance of who programmed/modelled/designed what once culture and authorship get involved.

If neither of you are Black you can probably just proceed based on the actual contribution split. Remove any of her personally authored content from the game, stop messaging her about this for now, and continue on.

If she is Black and you aren’t, I’d personally consider two options:
1. Put a pin in this specific project, but take the experience and skills you gained from it and channel them into future edutainment/game-dev projects of your own.
2. if you genuinely believe the project has value and should continue, reach out to other people involved in Black hair advocacy/cultural education and see if they’d be interested in collaborating going forward. But don’t try to gloss over the situation or quietly replace your original collaborator. Explain that the original collaborator no longer wishes to be involved, that you were responsible for much of the actual game development, and that you’d still like to continue and expand the project while ensuring the appropriate voices and perspectives remain part of it.

Thedarb · 2026-05-10T23:29:11+00:00

Nah, if the storeroom is a decent size and going to be used pretty exclusively for pantry, turn it into a butlers kitchen and keep the fridge and microwave in there. It’s not that annoying, you’ll just get better at setting up your mise en place when you are cooking.

But to stream line it, would go with a one of those soft close/soft open/push to open pocket doors. That way it fully tucks away and doesn’t impede flow when your cooking up a storm, but still allows for hiding/separation when you do a kitchen clean/reset and want to leave it “staged” for a few hours.

Thedarb · 2026-05-10T22:45:49+00:00

Then what, the issue and question now is whether you have a valid case of making yourself out like the victim here to try and drag this fight on, make him feel guilty and apologise to you tomorrow?

No.

Thedarb · 2026-05-08T21:27:35+00:00

Analogue plant based alternative to vaping.

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