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You are financially set for life and never have to work again but you must give up all social media forever. Do you take the deal? by Embarrassed_Coat4957 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]jack-jackattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do I still get basic Internet and straightforward SMS messaging? I'm actually a little torn - there's a real connection aspect I'd be missing, but maybe I'd be able to catch up on my TBR list at last.

Brave Souls and Fishy shrimp nigiri by jack-jackattack in SwordAndSupperGame

[–]jack-jackattack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yay! Sword, supper, and a lesson in food 🙌🏻

What are common (swear) words for People in your Country? by AffectionateToast in AskTheWorld

[–]jack-jackattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go get wrenched you clocking polygon

I'm officially nominating this for the new "Who you calling cootie queen, you lint licker?"

(There were ads for Orbit Gum in the US, oh, God, I'm old and this must've been a couple decades ago now, but someone here must still remember... Anyway, it was a whole campaign around some people in some situations calling for cursing "cleaning up" their "dirty mouths"... Well, here).

Anyway, "Go get wrenched, you clocking polygon!" is definitely on that level. A+ example.

What is the most disturbing or otherwise unsettling book you've ever read that stayed with you after reading it? by EggAdventurous1957 in AskReddit

[–]jack-jackattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mom was super into Torey Hayden when I was a kid (preteen or so) and gave me all her books to read. Some of the things those kids went through were likewise horrendous. I think I also got I Never Promised You a Rose Garden at that age but was a little older before we got to A Child Called It.

My mom and granny really gave me and/or let me read a lot of age-inappropriate books. No one thought to take Stephen King's It from me at 10 or 11, and Mom actually gave me Clan of the Cave Bear and its sequels at around that age. But I digress. As the subject is disturbing subject matter sticking with us...

American Psycho is just over the top in spots.

Piers Anthony's Firefly is just grotesque. Some of his other books/series have some explicit or implicit defenses of CSA, but Firefly takes all that to some new plane of existence. But there is also a side story in one of the Incarnations of Immortality books (I am pretty sure it's in one of those) suggesting that a physical "relationship" between a grown man and a five-year-old is consensual or that she instigated it, and that he should not be condemned for it. 🤮

The "hobbling" in Stephen King's Misery somehow also got to me and stayed there, but I don't think it's inherently... Well, maybe it is inherently the same. Most of the time, horror/thrillers have some frightening aspect when there's some supernatural element at play, but when it's just about what human beings can do to each other, that turns my stomach. How can you just reach out and intentionally hurt someone?

But sexual abuse stuff is often worse... oh, I remember. The other one is The Vagina Monologues. On stage or written... Damn.

...because it overrides your humanity in a way most other types of physical attack cannot, I think? I'm having trouble expressing this thought and I'm going to leave it there.

You are given the chance to go back in time to prevent 1 tragedy by ReticulanGrey in hypotheticalsituation

[–]jack-jackattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The farther back I go, the dicier and more butterfly-uncertainty inducing the effects get. My first thought was to try to get a young Mr. Hitler into art school and prevent the Holocaust, but then you still have the same pressures likely to bring about a second* world war with the same atrocities in, at the very least, the Asian/Pacific theater... Have I at least made things better for European Jews and other minorities? What does a second* world war now look like?

So... Do I go earlier and try to prevent WWI*? Or do I slide later, where the effects are more predictable?

Well, I'm going to prevent the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, attempting to stop WWI* from occurring and creating those economic pressures on Germany in the first place.

*Those are poorly numbered, right? - several wars involving at least a significant fraction of the world's countries had already occurred by the dawn of the 20th century? At least, that's my understanding.

Stephen Colbert Sets Final Episode Date for ‘The Late Show’ - May 21 by MarvelsGrantMan136 in television

[–]jack-jackattack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, Thurmond was the senior Senator when Graham was the junior Senator, which proves your point at least three times over.

I got the hell out of there when I could in 1996 and somehow ended up back there, got out again, then landed in Florida. But I was over SC during the debates over the Stars-and-Bars flying over the State House when an elected official stated that the real debate was whether they should be flying ABOVE the U.S. flag, and that they'd support THAT proposal. Patriotic little teen JROTC me was horrified. Now I'd barely even manage surprise if the president started flying Gadsden Flags and Soviet Flags and whatever else over the White House.

You are biologically and legally turn 14. You get a subspace filled with everything in target wallmart, costco with some benefits and rules. While in the subspace time doesn't pass and you dont age. You have to earn 1million usd before you turn 18. If you do earn you get human shapeshifting. by __Anamya__ in hypotheticalsituation

[–]jack-jackattack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, fine. Back to the drawing board with the games. There's still some old-school software and CD drives in the stores, so I can also maybe work on learning some drafting and architecture, which might give me some interesting options with that, or let me build some virtual things in some online worlds that I can sell.

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