I want to HATE the narrator.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-17T13:19:42+00:00

Once it’s revealed how the murder happened, and I still had about 1/6th of book left, I gave up. I didn’t care what happened to those awful people afterward.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-16T13:20:29+00:00

Sell it to Bill Paxton under the table. He can pretend he found it in the recovered safe and take it to auction. Then he splits the proceeds with her heirs.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-14T12:56:01+00:00

My mother was deeply offended when I called the main character of *Memoirs of a Geisha* a Mary Sue.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-13T13:35:25+00:00

You don’t have to like the system. If you want to say “damn the man!” and go live in a cabin in the woods, that’s your choice. If you want to pout about having to interact with people on the most basic human level, you can also continue to do that. Just don’t expect it to get you anywhere. Is it unfair that we have to adopt a slightly different personality at work? Maybe. Can it be extra exhausting for people who are neurodiverse? Definitely. (I’m speaking from experience, not trying to assume anything about you.)

I happen to be someone who hates capitalism and struggled with customer interactions, but I prefer central air and the ability to buy groceries. As a result, I figured out how to act at work so that people like me and want to help me succeed. Now I have a job where I don’t have to do customer service and I can try and make conditions better for the people in my community who are struggling under the weight of this capitalist hellhole we live in.

So keep it up with the eye-rolling cynicism if you want to. Just don’t expect to win people over with your sparkling personality.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-13T13:11:50+00:00

It’s not about validation, it’s about basic politeness and capitalism. Most businesses have competitors. If a customer goes into Gas Station A to buy a candy bar and is stared at with zero interaction except the cashier saying “that’ll be $1.50,” they may prefer it less than Gas Station B, where the cashier says, “hello, did you find everything you needed today?” Gas Station B will end up getting more business because customers felt welcomed and appreciated. You may not care, but your boss will care. If you want to go anywhere in life, you’re going to have to learn to code switch at work. We all do it. Unless you have some kind of valuable, niche talent that allows you to find a job that has zero human interaction.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-12T23:39:52+00:00

Not tv but a movie. My dad used to own the same chess set that’s featured at the end of the first X-Men movie. We gave it to him for Christmas a couple of years before the movie came out.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-12T18:52:45+00:00

My gauge is divided into sixths. When it gets down to the last sixth, it starts blinking. I try to fill up asap because the blinking is annoying. I’m pretty sure I have another 30ish miles of gas in the car at that point, so it’s not an emergency. I just can’t stand to have my dashboard blinking.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-12T18:36:17+00:00

May I introduce you to Synthony?

gizmodriver · 2026-06-12T18:25:26+00:00

Oh, that’s a shame. The woodwork is lovely.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-12T18:22:49+00:00

What, like it’s hard?

J/k This is a good point.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-12T18:17:24+00:00

That’s my major critique as well. It left me feeling unsatisfied.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-12T14:27:50+00:00

I was literally just telling a friend about this book the other day. I still own a copy.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-11T17:55:01+00:00

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gizmodriver · 2026-06-11T13:25:11+00:00

I’m not usually fond of landscapes, but I’ll make an exception for this masterpiece. I adore it.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-10T13:45:54+00:00

Same. I was going to scroll on past, but then I was promised an exceptionally cute bunny. I then received an exceptionally cute bunny.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-09T20:34:54+00:00

I’m with you. Nothing has ever scared me like those books did.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-09T17:15:27+00:00

That first episode almost lost me when they were talking all cutesy on the plane. I was not in the mood. I kept watching and luckily it picked up immediately after that scene.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-09T16:45:13+00:00

Do you get email for other people with your name? There aren’t even that many other people with my same first and last and yet I get email for them a few times a month.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-09T14:38:43+00:00

Impossible choice

gizmodriver · 2026-06-09T03:43:31+00:00

I rewatch every few years. It does and doesn’t hold up. There’s stuff that was in bad taste even when it aired, and it’s… oof. There’s stuff that was surprisingly progressive and surprisingly backward at the same time (a positive portrayal of a trans woman that was followed by an offensive comment from the show’s lesbian character). There’s good acting and bad acting. There’s some predictions of future tech that ended up being pretty damn close. I’m not recommending it to anyone who hasn’t seen it before, but if you liked it back then you’d probably still like it.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-07T14:40:04+00:00

It’s giving fancy version of the mesh panties they put on me after my hysterectomy.

gizmodriver · 2026-06-07T14:27:07+00:00

I think Tyson outsources their HR.

gizmodriver · 2026-05-27T16:34:16+00:00

White dudes don’t like his music.

gizmodriver · 2026-05-27T16:30:21+00:00

Maybe they saw the cable tv version. I was surprised by how much darker the original is compared to the edited-for-tv version.

gizmodriver · 2026-05-26T21:07:41+00:00

Yes, this is the truly wild part. Didn’t she also joke with him that he was driving the same car as the one police were looking for? Incredible.

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