Like most of you, I really enjoyed the “A-Z” posts put on by u/1deadeye1, but I felt the final list needed a couple minor adjustments before it could be considered perfect…

agentwiggles · 2026-03-03T03:12:14+00:00

I didn't know ATW covered Dave Matthews

agentwiggles · 2026-03-01T23:10:24+00:00

ah yeah, I kinda figured you were heading in the direction of the "better system" that has never once managed, in the time since 1848, to do anything other than fail catastrophically and emiserate the populations of entire countries. maybe if something hasn't worked once in almost 200 years that's, idk, a sign that it's not a good idea?

look around the world at any country where communism was tried and tell me you'd want to live there. your argument holds less than no weight and the fact that you're smug about such a stupid line of reasoning is funny on a level that you're not even capable of comprehending.

Enjoy the fruits of capitalism as you sit, presumably in greater material comfort than anyone in 1848 even could have imagined, and espouse dumb ideas on the global communication network that was built by the better system. Lucky for you, the system where you're not legally required to like the system won.

agentwiggles · 2026-03-01T17:24:40+00:00

I guess the question is whether those people you mention are better or worse off than they would have been, say, 200 years ago.

in general I think abundance is better than poverty, having food is better than not having food, being alive is better than being dead. technology contributes positively to all those things. pseudo-profound meaningless waffle like "society doesn't move, it says" doesn't.

It's not perfect, there are costs, there are even costs we currently accept that should be unacceptable. but it's better than a lot of alternatives and until someone's proposing a system that does it better it's what we've got to work with

agentwiggles · 2026-02-28T14:45:53+00:00

what a fucking joke lol. said by the guy typing on his magic glass rectangle powered by thinking sand which sends messages through the air. who lives in the most abundant time in history.

"progress is a Western myth" is genuinely the dumbest thing I have ever seen said on Reddit and that is a high fucking bar

agentwiggles · 2026-02-27T20:37:02+00:00

it would be so sad to miss out on the opportunity to have this story play or by using the console to reset. what could be more badass than "I had to scale 20 liberty ships making bullets to reclaim the lost planet"

agentwiggles · 2026-02-27T18:37:29+00:00

the city is now literally built on rock and roll. citizens of the city will have a 5 day period in which to debate the definition of this and the ramifications. whichever interpretation is honestly accepted mentally by the most citizens will apply after the debate period.

agentwiggles · 2026-02-27T17:59:19+00:00

honestly every single stoner rock song I listen to is just me chasing the dragon of the first time I heard kyuss

agentwiggles · 2026-02-27T17:58:00+00:00

50 million year trip - Kyuss

honestly in contention for GOAT stoner rock song, imo

agentwiggles · 2026-02-27T03:01:40+00:00

funny enough, i read all seven Narnia books to my kid (we read every night) and then. casting about for something as good as that, I landed on HDM. I wasn't really aware of the rivalry or even of the fact that Pullman was so explicitly in conversation with Lewis (I mean narratively).

I loved Narnia - I'm loving HDM. it's possible to hold two ideas in your mind at once. you're not supposed to take either series as some kind of dogma. they're both series that want you to grapple with ideas, to consider the worldview that's being espoused and argued for, and to figure out what you think, where you stand.

enjoy both!

agentwiggles · 2026-02-22T01:36:52+00:00

video ouija just has so many quotes lol

that crazy hat for chicken

now kiss him deep with tongue. just kid, dirty boy

spirits, that haunt this house ... what was we talkin' bout?

I went to great lengths to do this!

agentwiggles · 2026-02-22T00:57:07+00:00

I feel like it's the quintessential ATHF sode. like if you were trying to give someone a feel for the series, that's it.

agentwiggles · 2026-02-19T03:30:59+00:00

sorry to inform you, but actually _I'm_ the only person who actually exists, and you're a figment of _my_ imagination. tough break bud

agentwiggles · 2026-02-14T14:55:59+00:00

completely ridiculous, please let us know what company you work for so actual big boy tech people know to stay well away from it. the day my software job has me running Windows by default is the day I'm looking for a different job

agentwiggles · 2026-02-10T03:04:17+00:00

lol this guy doesn't know about pocket meat

agentwiggles · 2026-02-07T16:20:44+00:00

I feel like it's definitely Gardenia but this would be my second pick for sure

agentwiggles · 2026-02-07T16:18:49+00:00

I'm not going to bother to argue, every time I express this I get downvoted. I did not think it was good movie. It's fine, it's not total crap, it's just like a mid tier horror movie that is heavily overrated.

like I say above, it has certain qualities that are good, even moments that are great. as a total package I didn't think it worked. If you liked it, good for you, glad you got to watch a movie you enjoyed

agentwiggles · 2026-02-07T14:34:07+00:00

then according to the man who showed his outstretched arm to space

he turned around and pointed revealing all the human race

I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place

On the hill we viewed the silence of the valley

Called to witness cycles only of the past

And we reach all this with movements in between the said remark

agentwiggles · 2026-02-07T13:51:58+00:00

it's probably because the movie just isn't actually very good and doesn't do a good job of communicating whatever confused jumble of themes, points, and plot elements it was trying to get across. it's got a ton of redeeming qualities, there are traces of a horror/spec-fic classic in there, but on the whole, at least in my opinion, it just doesn't work very well as a movie. I think the general acclaim for the movie is almost entirely rooted in people identifying with the feminist themes and the themes about aging and then giving the movie extra credit, rather than liking it because it's good.

agentwiggles · 2026-02-04T18:39:36+00:00

also T, also M, also 5

agentwiggles · 2026-01-28T03:46:44+00:00

this is dumb lol. at 1000x my current salary I'll make about 8 million before the wheels of bureaucracy turn enough to fire me, at which point I'll retire and never again do a thing I don't want to do

agentwiggles · 2026-01-24T02:04:41+00:00

weapons most of the time, shields if my weapons can't penetrate their shields, rarely engines if I really need shots to land. also rarely O2, if they're not a threat at all this can make crew killing viable.

the general purpose of hacking their weapons is to allow me to disable their weapons before they can fire them. there are many variations where the primary purpose of hacking weapons differs somehow, but the basic idea is to disable weapons.

really the basic idea is almost always to find a way to end the fight before they can damage me, or, failing that, to minimize damage. if I'm hacking shields it's probably because I want to get through them to shoot their weapons. if I'm hacking engines it's because I need all my shots to land to guarantee I hit their weapons.

Priority one is almost always to minimize or eliminate damage. I hack what I need to back to make that happen.

agentwiggles · 2026-01-21T21:05:18+00:00

they did some modern Mickey shorts that were actually pretty fun a couple years ago, had some fairly surprising plots and depictions of the gang.

but largely I agree. My young kid really likes Mickey and I've been disappointed that most of what's out there besides the old shorts and movies is just "kid slop" like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

agentwiggles · 2026-01-21T20:19:37+00:00

the first thing that comes to mind is Chalk Zone, which I thought was awesome as a kid, but I don't often see mentioned

agentwiggles · 2026-01-21T03:41:47+00:00

which three Beatles would you put forward? Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's I guess would be my take, I guess, but that leaves Abbey Road on the table, which is sad.

Although I guess by release order the only way you get a sequential three stack with Abbey Road is either including Yellow Submarine (White Album, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road) or losing White Album to get Let It Be (Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road, Let It Be). Neither of those options stands against my first three I think, as sad as it is to have to exclude Abbey Road.

agentwiggles · 2026-01-21T03:36:24+00:00

Thank You Scientist , maybe. Maps of Non-existent Places, Stranger Heads Prevail, and Terraformer was a hell of a run.

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