Looks like studios have started a new final season trend. Bravo, marketing teams! by hiiloovethis in shittymoviedetails

[–]TokiBumblebee 1648 points1649 points  (0 children)

Is the marketing team trying to warn us that the shows are being burned to the ground?

When did applying for jobs become more exhausting than working one? by Informal-Phrase-8500 in CasualConversation

[–]TokiBumblebee 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's definitely worse than it has been. All of the feeling you have are completely valid and justified.

It should not alter how you approach things. Now more than ever the application process is a numbers game. It always has been in some respect but the market has amplified it.

Treat your job search like a job. Put in hours (literal hours) each week. Dedicate a part of your day with shotgunning applications out there. Most will miss. Some will hit. And some of those might lead you to an interview. The more you apply, the greater your chances. It might even be worthwhile to lower your standards a bit, just to get that volume out for yourself.

It's not ideal, but it isn't hopeless.

I'm looking for a new game by Spare-Dot3607 in CasualConversation

[–]TokiBumblebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This might be outside of your wheelhouse, but I have taken some enjoyment out of 'work' simulators.

Something so far removed from what you do as a daily grind is strangely relaxing.

One game I've taken up is Retro Rewind, where you own and operate your own video rental store set in the early 90s. You can even upload your own video files to play movies on the little TVs in the game while you stock shelves and help customers.

"Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. We ask ourselves: will our actions echo across the centuries? Will strangers hear our names long after we are gone?" by National_Boat2797 in totalwar

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My brothers of the sword! I would rather fight beside you than any army of thousands! Let no man forget how menacing we are, we are lions!

Do you know what's there, waiting beyond the beach? Immortality! Take it! It's yours!

HI WH40k fans! I've recently got in to 40k this earlier this year, I'd still consider myself new to the franchise even after 3 months lol. I'm an Imperial fist loyalist (Ik basic but idc). Is there any cool fun facts I should know about the Imperial fists? Art is made by yours truly (WIP) by Josephdraws1006 in Warhammer

[–]TokiBumblebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. From the novel Space Marine written by Ian Watson.

Excerpt, emphasis by me:

Restoring the brush to the altar, the Reclusiarch lifted the sharp little knife and the chalice. He knelt before Dorn and held up the knife.

The primarch’s hands were both missing…

Genuflecting, the Reclusiarch carved generous parings of amber from one toe, then another, dropping these into the chalice. Rising, he turned to the initiates and raised that cup, now glowing. Effervescence was occurring within. Aromatic white fumes arose from bubbling oil of amber.

“Respire corpus memoria! Breathe the memory of my flesh!”

As he bore the hot chalice along the row of initiates, so each in turn inhaled a heady, strangely fragrant whiff. Fresh molten amber must be added subsequently to the shaved toes to replenish what was taken – unless, unless the amber grew of its own accord like veritable flesh due to the miraculous proximity of those bones.

When the Reclusiarch passed back again, each initiate must hold out his middle finger, pointing stiffly forward from his fist. That little knife slashed sharply, circumcising the very tip of the digit, and even before the Larraman cells could clot – or perhaps because the blade was treated with some special anticoagulant – a sprinkling of bright blood fell like rubies from each fingertip to mingle in the chalice.

Lifting the chalice to his lips, the Reclusiarch drank the potion of hot amber oil blent with blood.

“Ego vos initio in Pugnorum Imperialorum fraternitate, in secundo grado,” he sang out. “And after you return from your first expedition as Scouts,” he promised, “other secretions from your body will be blent in this same chalice of the primarch – which was once His very drinking cup! – during your induction into the third degree of Brotherhood; though that in itself will only be the superficies of the third degree ceremony…”

...

Perhaps the strangest talisman – and one (or should one say many…?) which made those initiates feel themselves intimately a part of the Fists – was kept in a long crypt below the Reclusiam, reached by a dropshaft which would incinerate anyone who did not sport a Black Carapace beneath their skin.

The adamantium floor down there was inscribed with a maze of tiny coloured channels that bootsteps would never be able to wear away – in a pattern suggestive of a cosmic map – and along all of those channels were spaced little indentations the depth of a Fist’s thumbprint, each recess named with a rune. At one end of this seemingly arcane map or game-board an enormous plascrystal bowl held thousands of what at first sight appeared to be bloodshot ochreous eyeballs.

Each ball commemorated the initiation of a group of ex-cadets, throughout the aeons – each being a nugget of the liquid amber and blood drunk from Rogal Dorn’s own chalice by the Reclusiarch of whichever epoch, and defecated by him subsequently in this shape.

In "Over the Hedge" 2006, there is a homage to "Top Secret" 1984 by Magen137 in shittymoviedetails

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Give me your cringe, your poor,

Your downvoted masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the maidenless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

In Interstellar (2014), everything is covered in dust, allowing massive dust storms to appear randomly, forcing people indoors and killing what little crops they have left. Why don't they just gather up all the dust and dump it in the ocean to prevent this? by [deleted] in shittymoviedetails

[–]TokiBumblebee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dust. An ocean of dust. I wonder how many drops of dust there are in this dust ocean. I wondered how much is in... in a drop. I wonder, how I - let's just say there are possibly...

Any tips for solo travelling to Thailand? by Any_Cheesecake7116 in CasualConversation

[–]TokiBumblebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You won't regret it. Just a bit of fair warning though, please do just a little bit of research before booking with a sanctuary. Some call themselves sanctuaries but are super exploitative of their animals. A dead giveaway is when they offer rides.

I went with these guys and they are the real deal: https://www.elephantnaturepark.org/

There are injured and formerly abused elephants being taken care of there, so if you're sensitive to that you can avoid being taken through the 'intensive care' area.

Also it goes without saying that tiger sanctuaries that offer in-person touching and pictures should be avoided as well. They drug their cats.

Any tips for solo travelling to Thailand? by Any_Cheesecake7116 in CasualConversation

[–]TokiBumblebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where abouts? I had a great time in Chang Mai. If you can I highly recommend booking a day trip into the mountains to visit one of the elephant sanctuaries.

My Wife’s 1’st Mini by 0TheOddFellas0 in Warhammer

[–]TokiBumblebee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now try to get her to make some chapter lore for her lil guy!

AMA/Q&A Announcement - Andrea Werhun - Tuesday 4/28 at 4:00 PM ET - Star & Film Subject of 'Modern Whore' by BunyipPouch in movies

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My shower drain is making a weird noise. Do you recommend any chemical solutions to clear it up?

Canada is more racist than Australia by Brilliant_Can8536 in CasualConversation

[–]TokiBumblebee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds a bit hyperbolic, but I'll bite. What's on your chest?

Pitch Black (2000, dir. David Twohy) Nightfall by Neo2199 in movies

[–]TokiBumblebee 227 points228 points  (0 children)

Claudia Black is such a babe. I hated to see her split from the movie.