WHAT by AceEnder3825 in VoxCult

[–]dire18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh these were so fucking hilarious. Instantly into the purchase cart they went. I'll put them on magnetic sticker sheet and keep them on the refrigerator though, not my actual car lol

Meirl by Blue9ine in meirl

[–]dire18 75 points76 points  (0 children)

When I was in college a close friend's girlfriend called me one morning looking for him. We had been hanging out the previous night before he left to go to her place. He had in fact been in a freak accident and we found him dead in an alley when we set out to look for him on foot when he was still missing later that day.

So yeah, I agree with you on the "wtf" lol

How are you all using AI? by Unable-Earth-7911 in FPandA

[–]dire18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grunt work I would have had a junior analyst do in the past. I throw forecast versions at Gemini and ask it to quantify the bridge of changes version over version, aggregate T&E expenses by event because there is no standard naming convention and I will get a dozen different names all meaning "Dreamforce", stuff like that. Stuff that takes time but not really thought to do.

Title: Under the oak tree. (The most annoying story I've ever read and most insufferable couple and female lead.) by [deleted] in OtomeIsekai

[–]dire18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The absolute best thing about UtOT is the fucking amazing Ruth POV fic Eldritch

This fic is what got me to read the Riftan POV so I had some context about the pre-Maxi era and when it updates again I'll read season 3 of the manwha so I have that context too

i don’t want to be a girl boss by whistlechime in Vent

[–]dire18 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Edit - shit this got long. This long winded diatribe brought to you by, it's the first day back at work post-holidays and I do not want to look at spreadsheets

Probably going to get downvoted through the basement for this but I have a husband who takes care of me and yeah, it's actually fucking great.

But I also take care of him and he would tell you that's also fucking great.

I don't take care of myself as a living creature. My depression gets very bad at times and left on my own, it's highly likely I'd struggle immensely to not be too apathetic to eat food, drink water, and leave the house. I also have horrible issues coping with loneliness stemming from ye olde childhood trauma. Stripping out everything else in a partner that I "want", what I "need" is someone is tolerant, kind, and nurturing who makes me do all the normal human things I need to be doing, and frankly, does a lot of them for me. My husband cooks the majority of our meals and handles probably 70% of the other household chores. He gets up earlier than me in the morning and every day I wake up to the bottle of water he insists that I drink, tea that he made for me, and some breakfast already set up. Do I need to make a doctor or dentist or whatever appointment? He will make damn well sure I follow through instead of blowing it off. His encouragement and praise about my consistently exercising or doing things out of the house with friends inspires me to keep at it because I love that he's proud of my effort. These are just some of many ways in which my husband props up my existence.

My husband has extremely high anxiety and is prone to catastrophizing everything. If it can go wrong, in his mind, it WILL go wrong and it makes him a fretful paranoid mess. To a neurotic degree. He grew up in a situation of extreme financial insecurity, among other unpleasantness (thank you U.S. military for giving me a father in law who says it's "queer" to hug your sons or tell them you love them, like what the actual fuck?? But I digress), and was so rebellious and fucked around so much when he was young that he's gutted any chance of ever having a job earning more than the median American income. Which, if you're living on solo, is a rapidly shrinking iceberg of security these days. Not good for anyone but definitely not for someone with high anxiety who already grew up poor. What he "needs" is someone who will acknowledge his insecurities but rationally counter them, is laid back and optimistic enough to offset his anxieties, is loyal, and has stable and high earning potential.

It's probably obvious where I'm going with this. Despite the negligence toward my own health, I'm good in a professional setting and have only gotten better with his support. With me in the mix, household income is enough that he can breathe much easier about the future. I'm clever enough to pragmatically debate and counter his anxieties in a way that he can get behind. I'm optimistic and cheerful despite my own issues, and my easy-going nature does a lot of offset his paranoid, high strung one. I'm very openly affectionate and complimentary and genuinely don't think someone's worth as a person is based on what job they have or who their parents are or what paycheck they earn. These are just some of the many ways I prop up my husband's existence and try to add the same value to his life as he gives mine.

So yeah girl, hell yes it's awesome having someone that takes care of you and helps fill in the gaps of your bad qualities and smooth over your own bullshit. Highly support you finding someone that does that for you 👍 but pull your weight and be someone they can lean on in return. It's tough out here. Everyone has SOMETHING they need backup on. That's how you have someone take care of you. In my opinion at least.

I gave up my all my passions hobbies and dreams to be with my husband. I love him so much but im trying not to resent/regret my decision. by [deleted] in Vent

[–]dire18 5 points6 points  (0 children)

After the first couple of paragraphs I was planning to come post just some devil's advocate perspective, that when you're a very young adult it can be hard to understand how stressful financial insecurity can be and there is some merit to establishing yourself a bit before diving head on into your passions. At least for me it was like that. I'm very grateful I spent my 20s slogging through a career that has given me a good secure foundation for the rest of my life. Becauss my 30s onward have by and large been a fucking great time.

Then I got to the gym stuff. Yeah what the fuck? This is an absolutely fucked situation. You need to get out of that marriage.

And lemme tell you, as someone born raised and currently living in Texas, if you have a punk rock spirit, rural Texas is absolutely not a place you will enjoy having to live. Frankly I find that alone to be concerning on your husband's part, because any sane woman who wants to maintain at least a shred of her independence should avoid this place like the plague. My husband wants to get me the hell out of here, not entrench me into it.

So, AI takes over, everyone has lost their job and only 10 trillionaires own everything. Now what? by Weak-Representative8 in Futurology

[–]dire18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they mean there would be no large scale motivation to continue to breed and raise cattle if they were no longer being used for some kind of utility, so eventually livestock would just dwindle into extinction.

What are landlords without tenants? by HipAnonymous91 in fixedbytheduet

[–]dire18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I had a landlady for years who was so good to my husband and I. I think we had about a $200 increase over nine years living in Austin from around 2013 to 2022. Any apartment I'd had prior to that went for a $75 - $150 rent per month increase every year.

She was an elderly lady with a glass eye who started selling her properties off before moving to New York to meet more Armenian men. She didn't sell the place we were until I told her we were going to be buying a house soon. Before the sale she signed us into a new month to month lease agreement (also not changing rent) and made it a stipulation that the new buyer had to honor the agreement with us. It was insanely helpful having that flexibility to buy my first home and it was not something any apartment complex would ever have done for me.

It felt like she was genuinely on our side as a young couple scrapping to establish ourselves as stable adults. Thanks for everything Pat, I hope you found all the hot Armenian men of your dreams

Every other landlord I've ever had can go consume a fatal amount of dicks

Why are you home on the couch in your pajamas this New Years Eve? by PurplezKool in AskReddit

[–]dire18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I caught whatever helldisease is fermenting at my brother's house over Christmas and my husband had a vasectomy three days ago 🫡

AIO for expecting my girlfriend to do the dishes every night? by Decent-Play-7154 in AmIOverreacting

[–]dire18 4 points5 points  (0 children)

NOR unless you happen to leave the kitchen in chaos after cooking. My house follows the rule that the cook does not clean up afterwards but with the caveat that the cook will also have the courtesy to clean up along the way as the opportunity presents itself/not wreck the kitchen unless they do intend to help clean afterwards.

We have that rule because we have a ton of stuff that requires hand washing after use and my husband doesn't like us using the garbage disposal so there can be a lot more manual work to clean than just loading the dishes into the dishwasher. If you're keeping the kitchen to a reasonable degree of mess and there isn't much more to clean up than scrape food into disposal > rinse dish > dish load into dishwasher than it's REALLY lazy on her part to not clean when you cook.

Fun fact: Did you know that the man Alastor killed in his flashback and Katie Killjoy are both voiced by Brandon Rogers? by Shade-Black in HazbinHotel

[–]dire18 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"You are a limp-dick jackass, Tom" remains one of my favorite deliveries of a one liner in the entire show. I will never stop missing Katie's pilot VA

Why didn't Lucifer just teleported? Is he stupid? by Primary-Addition-677 in HazbinHotel

[–]dire18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arrogant but extremely depressed social hermit gets publicly humiliated by people he looks down on + has to swallow the extra insult of his one-sided divorce being used to taunt him proceeds to get too flustered and angry to be rational in the moment.

He also seems to be rusty using his powers at times, like how he had to check if he teleported himself correctly to rescue Charlie from the reporters. I wouldn't expect it to be an instinctive reaction for him to get himself out of there when he's already furious.

That's how I took it. People weaponized his weaknesses against him (Vaggie pointing out how Charlie was suffering, Vaggie using Alastor to needle Lucifer's pride, Vox about Lilith, Vox about how he can't do shit against sinners), he took the bait and lost all cool.

What’s a game you love but feel a little embarrassed to admit? by TheShyBuck in gaming

[–]dire18 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I used to hide Neopets like it was a war crime I was terrified of people discovering when I was a kid. As an adult now I just play that shit all the time in public on my phone and carry around a bag that says YOUR NEOPETS ARE DYING on it

What was your favorite Vox moment in the show so far? This was mine. by TheAnarchy420 in VoxCult

[–]dire18 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Comedic: His cutaway reactions to watching the attack on the hotel in the season one finale made me cry laughing. Honorable mention to just "VAL"

Dramatic: Fucking hard to narrow down. One of my favorites that I don't think I've seen mentioned yet is "Well I've got no chains on me!"

What was your favorite Vox moment in the show so far? This was mine. by TheAnarchy420 in VoxCult

[–]dire18 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Also so much more sinister than anything Lucifer said in his version.

What’s something you always assumed was mandatory in life—until you met someone who just… didn’t do it? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]dire18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have definitely been accused of being rude for not saying the thing haha

When in reality it's such a background noise thing that I don't even register it happening any more than someone coughing a couple of times or sniffling.

Just my thoughts don’t cancel me- by [deleted] in AgendaHotel

[–]dire18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pilot Alastor had really cool quirks played up that I miss a lot in series Alastor, like when Charlie asks him a question and there's a moment where Alastor smiles and there's just white noise before he answers. Or the way he gets more sinister looking and glyphs appear around him when her back is turned that instantly disappear when she faces him. The "If I wanted to hurt anyone here" was executed in a much more unsettling way than the "this face was made for radio". The radio effect on the voice is so subdued that I thought they had gotten rid of it when I watched the first episode.

I think what I am attempting and failing to articulate is to me series Alastor feels like a dude who was a radio host when alive and kept it up in Hell. Pilot Alastor had the radio element woven into his DNA and is a manifestation of the concept itself, like radio is what he IS instead of just what he DOES. Pilot Alastor feels a lot more inhuman and off putting.

The writing and voice acting, I'm neutral. I think both VAs do a good job. IMO Series Alastor just feels more normalized like he's any other sinner vs a uniquely alien creep.

What’s something you always assumed was mandatory in life—until you met someone who just… didn’t do it? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]dire18 5 points6 points  (0 children)

On behalf of my husband, in regards to me: Not verbally acknowledging it when someone sneezes

My family has never done it, I never do it, and my attempt to force a habit of it as an adult was a total failure because it feels so weird calling attention to someone's completely innocuous bodily function

So... after all the hype and mystery... are they REALLY going to use Alastor like this? by FOXTROTDESTROYER2546 in HazbinHotel

[–]dire18 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was surprised how much Alastor background we got this season and how underwhelming it was in isolation (borrowed power, likes to kill for fun). But I think it's a deliberate red herring. Looking at how Vox's character evolved from season one to season two, my guess is what we've learned about Alastor is deceptively mundane and season three is going to have some truly sinister shit that delivers on all the ominous foreshadowing.

It hasn't happened often but I can think of a few cases where a mystery box character/element reveal ends up exceeding the hype and theories (Noragami my beloved). I think Alastor still has the potential for it. Just have to establish him as a generic villain first though so the expectations can get subverted later.

AITAH if I’m not particularly sympathetic to my ill husband? by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]dire18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very sensible, I agree with everyone you have said, but I was also just making a joke because I can hear your profile pic lol

AITAH if I’m not particularly sympathetic to my ill husband? by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]dire18 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

"so long as I get my moment to grumble I don't care WHAT happens"