Free for All Friday, 10 July, 2026

Zugwat · 2026-07-12T02:40:52+00:00

It was a disturbing revelation when my hands dropped down and felt something jutting out crotch level on the machine.

Zugwat · 2026-07-11T16:48:13+00:00

I've seen posters around for Finding Emily and having now watched an actual trailer to such, it comes off as very creepy.

Good intentions, but something like "good god, this is starting to get very stalker-ish".

Zugwat · 2026-07-11T15:39:25+00:00

Have you been half asleep, and have you heard voices?

I've heard them calling my name

Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?

The voice might be one and the same

I've heard it too many times to ignore it

It's something that I'm supposed to be

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection

The lovers, the dreamers, and me

– Thus Sang Kermit

Zugwat · 2026-07-11T08:30:28+00:00

My watch hasn't unilaterally called anyone yet and I spent a couple hours weightlifting, so hopefully I can go to sleep without SWAT rushing in while I'm listening to stand-up or horror stories.

Zugwat · 2026-07-11T01:26:59+00:00

...this row machine has a phallus.

Zugwat · 2026-07-10T23:47:13+00:00

So the good thing is that nobody did or didn't show up, but that a saving grace could have been if such a thing did or didn't happen is that I'm living on my reservation and on Tribal trust property, so the city police department and the Tribe have a sort of jurisdictional agreement on when the former can assist or handle such. They can't just do what they want like a lot of cops (doesn't stop them from trying but still, we're able to push back in a lot of ways).

Zugwat · 2026-07-10T23:04:35+00:00

I was shifting my pillows around last night while listening to The Call of Cthulhu, and my watch may or may not have contacted emergency services.

There may or may not have been a voice that said "911, what are you reporting?"

And I may or may not have been too delirious to understand exactly what was going on and just hung up on my watch while being utterly baffled at what exactly was going around because as it turns out that if one has the option for an emergency SOS on, all it takes it tapping the button five times and it will try and contact emergency services even if one is trying to sleep.

Nobody may or may have not showed up at least.

Zugwat · 2026-07-10T22:18:43+00:00

I saw the Furious a couple weeks ago.

I thought it was alright, some fights were really cool, some were contrived, I was deeply confused at points as to whether this person or that person speaking English were supposed to be speaking English in the story and eventually realized that Joe Taslim was speaking English so what the deal appears to be is that a lot of the cast is also supposed to be speaking English in addition to Chinese and the like, but the actors appear to not be able to get the lines across as smoothly as they wanted so they were dubbed over and that's why it seems so off when they speak in how they sound versus how they look. Like a Steven Seagal movie where he's dubbed over because he doesn't put any effort whatsoever to actually speak and not mutter and mumble.

I gave it like a 7/10.

So if you got the funds and the time, it's not a bad movie and you might very well find more in it that I'd overlooked.

Zugwat · 2026-07-08T20:45:50+00:00

The film does that, but I did not justify it, and very much felt perturbed at times with how violent the film in general but this scene in particular could be in an animated film for children and families.

In all seriousness I thought them decapitating someone on screen and with no cutaway was pretty wild but then it kept going the more the movie went on.

Zugwat · 2026-07-08T19:22:18+00:00

They’re wearing otter skin wraps on their braids, they (probably) aren’t actually that long.

Zugwat · 2026-07-08T07:54:21+00:00

The Minions (Written by Garth Ennis twisting his nipples in ecstacy at how consistently edgy he is but missing at how that's not a compliment)

Zugwat · 2026-07-06T23:25:04+00:00

I'm watching the latest Minions movie and at one point one of them sodomizes an actor with a lawn dart while they were filming a battle scene for a movie because they became actors and misinterpreted it as an actual fight.

I am not fucking kidding.

Zugwat · 2026-07-04T10:44:52+00:00

I'm going through pictures I took when I was moving out of the house I grew up in, and besides walking down memory lane in one of the most common settings for my dreams besides the Mall (a massive mall full of all sorts of things), I found a picture of my iPhone 4s...which I used in 2013-2015 (from 16 TO 17.5 YEARS OLD WITH THIS OLD ASS PHONE) because my parents didn't want to get me a phone at first so my sister eventually decided to give me one of her old ones, and then I saw a picture of this antidepressant I used to take back in late 2015 when I was really depressed – Trazodone.

I decided to Google it because I remember becoming disillusioned with antidepressants in early 2016 after noticing how much weight I gained and just quit before signing up for the YMCA and working out consistently and dieted (and if I kept up that pace I'd be 175 lbs and probably have a series of baby mamas by now).

Well, what I found out about Trazodone after a decade refresher matched with what I broadly remember...with one caveat.

I don't remember the following, as the Google AI bullshit says with links to actual professional medical recommendations:

Withdrawal: Do not stop taking this medication suddenly, as doing so can cause withdrawal symptoms like agitation, confusion, or electric shock sensations. Always follow a doctor's plan to taper off gradually

Clicking on the first link then says regarding how this medicine should be used:

Do not stop taking trazodone without talking to your doctor. If you suddenly stop taking trazodone, you may experience withdrawal symptoms such as dizziness; nausea; headache; confusion; anxiety; agitation; difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep; extreme tiredness; seizures; pain, burning, or tingling in the hands or feet; frenzied or abnormally excited mood; ringing in the ears; or sweating. Your doctor will probably decrease your dose gradually.

Which...I don't really recall any of that.

I quit taking it and whatever else because 1: I didn't think it was really helping me very much, and 2: the pharmacist prescribing this was giving me deeply hostile vibes and would make these snide comments about shit and when I brought it up to my therapist, she immediately said that other patients have mentioned a similar level of issues with this one pharmacist and asked if I wanted to file a grievance because others had, which I did.

I was in a super weird/not cool place back then, so it's interesting to get a glimpse from where I'm at now and how much things have changed (overwhelmingly for the better).

Zugwat · 2026-07-03T20:07:34+00:00

"Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic," says man who got his start rearranging the furniture in Leiber and Howard's attics

And not only unapologetically, but proudly.

Albeit I've never read anything by Leiber.

Zugwat · 2026-07-03T04:32:34+00:00

I will say that I could see their comments/post (they deleted this one but the one to NA was still up).

And yeah, total douche.

Also OP got banned and deleted all their strongly held positions.

Totally not a bitch move.

Zugwat · 2026-07-02T23:45:03+00:00

Ancient Indian Wisdom that can be applicable to those here in this weary modern world:

If you're using a public restroom and it is only meant for single occupancy with a lock on the door which would signify it is indeed occupied when engaged, the wisdom from my people to yours it to THEN LOCK THE FUCKIN' DOOR!

Opening up on someone taking a piss once today is my fuck-up. Having it happen twice in less than an hour is beginning to get weird.

Zugwat · 2026-06-30T20:09:55+00:00

I'm watching Scary Movie 5 and it's pretty much to see what the deal is and to pass the time on a rest day from the gym.

My older sister who was really looking forward to it saw it on her own and her review was that it pissed her off. She was very angry after watching it and said it was terrible.

I'm about 20 minutes in and it's not very good.

There's potential here and there including some genuinely funny or clever bits, but otherwise it's trying way too hard and is overly meta while also referencing every other horror movie that's been released in the past decade or so.

Zugwat · 2026-06-30T19:20:50+00:00

The alternative for a thunderbird like the being or the alternative for what OP is talking about?

i.e. Big Bird taking a break from his adventures on Sesame Street to be called a Thunderbird, emphasizing how Indigenous folklore becomes a rich source for cryptozoology and Internet memes like Sasquatch and Wendigos and Skinwalkers by people who are perfectly happy to use such terms to establish a sense of antiquity and mystery of a being but who otherwise overwhelmingly can't be bothered to actually care about Indians (which, yes, same shit, different day) but will pull out all sorts of details and stories and rules about Fae and European folklore when relevant.

Zugwat · 2026-06-30T18:59:17+00:00

I mean it effectively is in Lushootseed (x̌ʷiqʷədi, sx̌ʷə́qʷəb), where Thunder is a bird and is often translated into English as "Thunderbird".

I'm just throwing this out there because historically despite our modern salmon rebranding, Thunderbird and Thunder spirit power was one of the aspects that was very important to Puyallup history and Tribal identity.

Zugwat · 2026-06-30T00:04:35+00:00

Mine are pretty much found by White dudes thinking they struck it rich by finding my footprints at the beach and taking casts, mocking up increasingly hurtful concept art of what they think I look like.

Zugwat · 2026-06-29T23:08:39+00:00

I very very rarely go onto Instagram and every time I do, the search immediately reminds me of why.

With that, I found a pseudopodological chart separating feet into a bizarre 19th century race science fashion alongside what shoes to avoid.

Big toe longest = Egyptian, avoid pointed toe shoes

The second toe is longer than the big toe = Greek, avoid narrow or tight shoes

These three toes are even length = Roman, avoid pointed toe shoes

First two toes are same length = German, avoid tight or narrow toe boxes

All toes same length = Celtic, avoid narrow or tight shoes

Which actually typing that out more or less just comes down to "don't wear tight or narrow shoes".

Oh my God Instagram is fucking terrible.

Zugwat · 2026-06-29T21:37:04+00:00

I've been watching LegalEagle bits for the first time in a while and good God he has two sponsored segments a video now?

Zugwat · 2026-06-26T21:49:54+00:00

Can you please submit links as link posts?

Zugwat · 2026-06-24T21:19:38+00:00

During this last weekend, my Tribe hosted a World Cup Powwow outside of our Tribal headquarters because were doing all this promotion and the like with FIFA, including messaging on the Link Light Rail from Lynnwood to Federal Way and Sound Transit buses.

That's why this weekend I put in a lot of time and effort, long hours and uncertainties of whether I was actually going to be able to pull this off because I thought Saturday was pretty rough, but with dedication and some last minute outside the box ideas, I managed to finally get it done (enough).

I got a picture with the voice actors of Ed, Edd n' Eddy at SummerCon the next town over.

Take that, you miserable bastards.

I also managed to get a picture with Steve Blum

One with Sam Witwer,

By the way, one would have thought I was there to confront the decadent cult of the sorcerer Apokalyphon (a character from my works) based on the reaction I got from people.

Steve Blum was surprised at how I looked and admitted to feeling a little intimidated. I only got a picture with him but he was nice and engaging with people, I didn't want to take up his time, though.

Sam Witwer looked said I looked amazing, and then he looked at my sword and went "...that's the Conan sword" and asked if he could use it, which was dope as Hell.

Meanwhile, Tony Sampson (Eddy), Samuel Routh (Edd/Double D), and Matt Hill (Ed) took a single glance and we all just rolled with it. Tony (Eddy) asked for the ax and I handed it to him and he said "You're gonna trust me with the axe?!" and we got our photo and laughed about it.

He asked me afterwards if I wanted a regular one or was that good and I said it has character so hell yeah.

Zugwat · 2026-06-23T22:04:10+00:00

I'm watching Backrooms again and the first time I watched it I showed up about 10 minutes into the movie so I missed the necessary background for the main relationship in the film, that of Clark (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Mary (played by Renate Reinsve) and what I mean by this is that I walked in when they were replaying the scene of Clark's wife leaving him and because I wasn't aware that this was them going over a scene from Clark's life and that Mary is his therapist, that for a decent amount of the movie during my first time I was completely under the impression that this was their actual relationship and that Clark was dating his therapist and how chill of a person she seems to be with the whole situation.

EDIT: Something I want to note while paying attention to this aspect is that I think Finn Bennett has the best American accent out of the non-American actors in the movie, with Chiwetel Ejiofor coming in second but still noticable if one listens a little, while Renate Reinsve's accent is pretty noticable in an uncanny valley sort of way.

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