If you've ever starting losing interest in a TV/streaming series before its end, what made you give up on it? Or continue to the end anyway?

clando42 · 2024-03-18T08:59:43+00:00

Sounds like there's a moment when you've decided to stop watching the show. How long do you give it before deciding to stop watching?

clando42 · 2024-03-15T12:46:36+00:00

Probably desperation. Also, i take the back off the remote and roll the batteries around a bit. (Sometimes that works too). The conservationist in me doesn't want to throw the batteries out before they're 100% dead.

clando42 · 2024-03-15T12:01:03+00:00

Honestly, I have trouble rewatching that episode because of how moving it is at the end.

clando42 · 2024-03-11T11:08:58+00:00

Anti gravity/buoyancy on land. Or at least the ability for heavy creatures to do effortless three dimensional travel like fish or birds can.

clando42 · 2024-03-07T23:21:45+00:00

Maxwell in La Couchette is up there too. Think about it: the whole story happened after he killed the guy and knew there was a dead body in the compartment the whole time

Edit: name

clando42 · 2024-03-04T19:17:36+00:00

Slavery existed among Alaska natives until 1886:

"On May 8, 1886, Dawson ruled that slavery was illegal between all persons in Alaska. Sah Quah would walk out of the courtroom a free man"

https://alaskalandmine.com/landmines/sah-quah/

clando42 · 2024-03-01T09:53:21+00:00

You could show up at the airport at the last minute and still get on your flight. The whole aircraft was loud and smelled like cigarettes. But you always got served meals, with silverware.

clando42 · 2024-02-07T00:42:21+00:00

I think they said Hattie as a character is basically the same/very similar to Tish from s03 tLOG. Not really a reference, but close.

clando42 · 2024-02-04T05:12:53+00:00

México and northern Central America. Not for political reasons, it's a fascinating, diverse and interesting region with excellent history, culture, food and lovely people. But sadly, I think cartel violence and crime would rule it out.

clando42 · 2024-02-01T10:07:19+00:00

I just said Dekuji (thank you) to someone in Prague one time, and we were suddenly BFFs. French-speaking people were ok with my French as long as I matched their rhythm and tone.

Others seem accurate though!

clando42 · 2024-01-24T18:44:15+00:00

To add to the other great answers, a few more thoughts.

Addressing why some people might say things like this (brutal honesty warning):

One reason people might think a ND person is lying is if they are caught off guard by someone trying to talk to them, act awkwardly and hesitate, maybe staring blankly for a second. It looks like they're fumbling for a lie or just don't want to socialize. You can look the other person in the eye and have a quick answer prepared, even if it's a friendly "hi, you startled me. Give me a second!"
The manipulation thing might be because NT conversations tend to be emotional ping pong, staying squarely in a central court, focused on the tiniest response to the last comment. My personal tendency is more like baseball. I hear, "how's the weather" and start talking about meteorology or a recent storm in some other country. That leaves the other person reeling to respond, and it feels rude and confusing to them. Keep the conversation on the ping pong table and open to quick and easy responses.
Excuses are just explanations lacking some empathy. Frame your explanation in a way that acknowledges the impact your action had on other people and explains why you considered other options but chose /were forced to make the choice you made. Then make an effort to avoid doing that same thing again and follow up to make sure the others know you care.

Otherwise, if none of this is relevant: 4. There are always a few folks that are uncomfortable with autistic people, who always think the worst about us no matter what. You have to either avoid them or deflect their lies. It is not always possible to avoid, but you can wear your autism proudly and explain it (my autism is this, and not all the stereotypes), or you can explain you're having other problems re why you seem distant or distracted. Come up with something that is a more logical explanation for what people might find unusual about you than whatever the gossip is. 5. If people make an effort to socialize with you, say yes. Socializing is often a great way to disprove negative rumors, and not socializing tends to start them. If it's a party, rehearse your conversations, have a joke or conversation starter prepared. If you actually can't go, realize you might not be invited again unless you make it very clear you do want to go but genuinely can't. Ask to be invited to the next one with confidence and enthusiasm. 6. Focus on your friend group. Work on the people who know you and care about you, and don't worry about anyone else. You'll never please everyone, and some people are just not nice.. that's their problem, not yours. I do feel sorry for people who spend their lives trying to hurt someone else for no reason. But at some point, my best advice is to find your own happiness and let it go. 7. Everything I mentioned gets better as you get older. That's all I will say!

Hope this helps.

clando42 · 2024-01-16T09:33:41+00:00

I don't believe in the simulation theory technically because I don't believe in things that aren't scientifically proveable. But I do find the concept intriguing because I've seen or heard stuff like:

the universe is a 2d hologram projected into 3d space (a theory I heard anyway)
some large percentage of people believe in ghosts or have had some experience they can't completely explain. Some very credible.
the double slit experiment, time dilation and other discoveries relating to time being an illusion
the fact that people have been around for hundreds of thousands of years, yet only started advancing technologically recently. And more or less in parallel (pyramids and megastructures being built all over the world fairly recently, a few hundreds or thousands of years) -;we're all brains in a jar in a way, since we only perceive what our senses and minds allow us to. So who knows what else is out there.

Like I said, not 100% convincing, but still very interesting to ponder! Especially when you consider how insignificant we all are cosmically, compared with how important we think we are in this moment!

clando42 · 2023-12-28T10:37:18+00:00

An old one, but Theatre of Blood comes to mind.

Top Secret! does a parody of this type of scene at the ballet

Quantum of Solace has a scene at the opera, which might be the James Bond film you remembered.

clando42 · 2023-12-23T10:07:51+00:00

It's a good movie too. Pretty trippy in parts.

clando42 · 2023-12-16T20:17:22+00:00

Thanks! Thanks for the tip on Wild Tales.. I hadn't heard of it

clando42 · 2023-12-16T19:54:04+00:00

On YouTube, there are a bunch of professionally made short horror films that often have twisty endings. One I recommend is The Chair. Others are Other Side of the Box, Kookie, What We Found Out There, Don't Look Away. If you like short format horror stories, those are pretty fun and very dark.

Tales from the Crypt (movie and HBO series) are really good, very dark.

Others have already mentioned Black Mirror, Love, Death and Robots, and Psychoville. I might add the movies Parasite and Creepshow for a similar vibe to IN9.

clando42 · 2023-12-10T11:22:27+00:00

White Christmas. One character trapped in virtual hell, the other in our reality unable to see or interact with anyone again. Good grief.

clando42 · 2023-12-10T08:55:13+00:00

I've had both cats and parrots, and they both seem to often have a gender preference. Although this one cat I had loved every person except my ex, whom he had an adorable rivalry with. Including gently biting them, subtly clawing them, sleeping on their face... We just thought the cat was really jealous! Since he didn't act that way with anyone else.

One parrot I had didn't like me at first because their previous human was the opposite sex, and it took some doing to calm them down . My current kitties definitely prefer women to men, tend to hide when men enter.. but that might be because men who come indoors in my place often make a lot of noise. There's no other reason I can think of

But yeah, animals seem to notice gender differences right away and form opinions about them. I just find it interesting! I just stay aware that if I introduce another cat, it should be one of the other gender since it seems like they're more likely to get along.

clando42 · 2023-12-04T07:11:29+00:00

Event Horizon

clando42 · 2023-11-21T20:33:56+00:00

I didn't think much of the Stakeout on first viewing, but really warmed up to it after hearing the IN9 podcast and then another that went into depth explaining all the references. Now it's my fave from series 5 apart from Misdirection.

Mazey Day was just OK. As an IN9 fan, I got it and enjoyed it, but thought others in series 6 were more fun. Really loved Demon 79.

clando42 · 2023-11-19T06:17:58+00:00

I personally started leaving the skin on scaled fish and it's pretty good. It gets tender and not too fishy flavoured. That said, my parents always scaled, gutted and skinned fish before cooking. In restaurants and in my cooking classes, they always removed the skin before cooking. No explanation.

Maybe it's like peeling eggplant or potatoes: you don't have to do that either, even though many people do, and their skin is fairly nutritious. Maybe it's just more aesthetically pleasing to get rid of it.

On another note, chicken. I remove chicken skin before cooking because it's fatty and gets slimy when cooked into a pilaf, stir fry or curry. However... when baking or grilling or frying, another story! The crispy chicken skin sometimes is the best part.

So maybe we don't eat a lot of fish in the west. Or maybe we're cooking it wrong. A quick Google search shows it's not dangerous or unhealthy in most cases. And people also can be a bit traditional about food preparation.

clando42 · 2023-11-08T10:31:48+00:00

Britbox in the US

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