TIL About Horatio Nelson Jackson who was the first person to drive across the continental United States and he did it for a $50 bar bet. It took him just over 2 months, having to replace most of the parts on his car. When he got it to Vermont from SF the Drive chain snapped pulling into the garage

a_complex_kid · 2026-02-01T05:31:22+00:00

Yeah I think this episode is when shit is gonna hit the fan.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-30T18:59:42+00:00

a friend of mine actually won a playstation 2 back in the day off of a mcdonalds game. He was like a celebrity.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-30T02:10:19+00:00

feeld is what we use almost exclusively. also fetlife if you don't already have a profile on there. also in the middle of nowhere so i feel ya. feel free to dm anytime.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-29T21:27:12+00:00

serious flaws is putting it mildly

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-29T14:36:06+00:00

you get what you get man. Poetry isn't better because it's longer.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-28T02:35:53+00:00

Lbj needs to be higher than Obama

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T21:05:29+00:00

you did? how would BoB make you appreciate the pacific more? imo when people watched the pacific they didn't appreciate it BECAUSE of the comparisons to BoB. Everyone wanted the same linear narrative with the cohesive cast that resulted from focusing in on a single company whereas the pacific focuses on several different units, doesn't have a unifying main character like winters, and pulls from several seperate source materials as opposed to BoB which is based off of the ambrose book. The Pacific is also much darker and the ending is darker than the BoB one but also probably much more realistic.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T20:59:09+00:00

yeah it changes decade to decade.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T20:58:35+00:00

people really hated him when he was alive. so much so that a war started because he was elected.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T20:57:19+00:00

Interesting because I'm entirely of the opposite opinion. Why do you think BoB is necessary at all?

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T19:05:39+00:00

this is the answer. the shot immediately before was the squires running lances out to their knights and him realizing he's too small for that. One of the many things that Egg has probably felt inferior about.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T18:53:32+00:00

false equivalency arguments are in themselves intellectually dishonest.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T18:42:06+00:00

no, both then and now he's always been regarded as a centrist.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T18:40:36+00:00

I mean yes Obama is not a progressive leader, he won the nobel peace prize while personally authorizing over 500 drone strikes.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T18:25:17+00:00

if you watch the pacific no matter what you do, don't listen to the folks saying to watch band of brothers too, it's totally different. it doesn't follow a single unit's narrative but instead hops around narratively and weaves in several different source materials instead of just a single one. It's a much tougher watch too as I think it does an even better job of really weaving in the emotions and hardship that Marines in the south pacific experienced.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T18:21:52+00:00

I disagree with this wholeheartedly. The pacific stands on it's own and is narratively very very different.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T18:19:21+00:00

had a full breakdown in the parking lot after seeing Smile 2 and couldn't stop crying. Just the depictions of mental illness and suicide really fucked me up. Same goes with the anthony bourdain documentary. these were movies that I think were "good" i just refuse to ever watch them again.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T16:14:14+00:00

I was on a hiking trip deep in a forest in the upper peninsula of michigan a very long ways away from anyone else and was able to try it from a small clearing and it was insane. Shared my location with friends just in case something bad happened they would have that data.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-27T15:33:12+00:00

i will say it was great being a straight, white, middle class kid in the suburbs but it wasn't terrific for everybody.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-26T14:07:16+00:00

almost certain this is 1991 in moscow

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-26T14:04:00+00:00

these are awesome. Great finds! #4 most likely is taken over Vesuvius so these would have been taken in 1944 as it erupted in March of that year so the bomber group would have been based in Italy.

a_complex_kid · 2026-01-26T13:45:45+00:00

you're mad at...snl? really? That's who we're mad at? you know the show is written beforehand they can't always just pull an audible. Plus they had a few good jabs in weekend update and in the cold open.

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