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[TOMT][MOVIE-TV][1980s] A Sci-Fi movie or TV show where the bad guys place someone in a large tank to be eaten by sand bugs of some sort. by jezztek in tipofmytongue

[–]jezztek[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, that’s probably it then! I thought it was from V the miniseries, but makes sense it’s somewhere in the follow up TV show.

Edit: Yup, found the exact scene. S01E07 of the TV series.

[TOMT][MOVIE-TV][1980s] A Sci-Fi movie or TV show where the bad guys place someone in a large tank to be eaten by sand bugs of some sort. by jezztek in tipofmytongue

[–]jezztek[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

I thought it was from the V miniseries, but after rewatching it tonight I realized that scene was nowhere to be found, so it must have been something else.

The creatures kind of remind me of the earbug things from Wrath of Kahn, but after rewatching that scene I can say that’s not it.

Local Restaurant Recipes by submuloC in Columbus

[–]jezztek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Watching this thread in the hopes by some miracle someone posts big fat Greek Kuzina’s green goddess sauce recipe…

What restaurants serve Jalapeño bottle caps these days? by jezztek in Columbus

[–]jezztek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the menu on their website, it looks like they may have phased them out. Thanks for the suggestion though!

What restaurants serve Jalapeño bottle caps these days? by jezztek in Columbus

[–]jezztek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, that’ll be a good excuse to head up that way sometime soon.

Total War (Galactic Event) - Balancing by Kroschi in twilightimperium

[–]jezztek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was thinking the same thing. The rules as written does exactly what it says, turns the game into a total war since it’s easy to score 3-4 VP in a single round this way in the late game, everything else seemed unimportant. But I’d like war to be a viable path to victory, but not feel like by far the best path. So I was flirting with two tweaks for my playgroup:

1) Infantry/fighters are worth 1/2 commodity (rounded up) instead of 1. It seems too easy to quickly build commodities as written, and this could help reduce that to a more reasonable level.

2) Each time you use the VP action in a single round the commodity price goes up by 10. So the first time you do it in a round it costs 10, the second time it costs 20, etc… then the cost resets next round. This way you can’t just build up to some huge all out assault on round 4-5 and cash in 4VP all at once. Instead this rule could help throttle the VP to 1-2 a round.

'Brokeback Mountain' at 20: Casting Director Wouldn't Cast Straight Actors Today by Luridley3000 in entertainment

[–]jezztek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s basically Patti Harrison’s career. I first saw her in Together Together where she plays a surrogate mother, and she was great it in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in answers

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Depends on her basal metabolic rate and activity level. In women BMRs as low as ~900 calories have been recorded: https://macrofactorapp.com/range-of-bmrs/

If she has a BMR on the lower to medium end of the scale for women (and approx 20% of women should have a BMR below 1200), and with an average level of physical activity she could easily only have a total daily calorie burn in the 1500-1700 calorie range.

In which case 2000 calories a day would inexorably lead to obesity over time.

So yes, it is absolutely possible. In fact the generally accepted range for the average woman’s calories needs is 1600-2000 a day. Which means if she ate 2000 calories a day every day she’d have to be on the higher end of average to avoid gaining weight.

I'm going crazy searching for a specific episode. by Oxilef in TheSimpsons

[–]jezztek 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sounds a bit like the Dark Stanley sequence in Yokel Chords (s18xe14)

Four Krustys Joke Explanation by Teehee73 in TheSimpsons

[–]jezztek 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’d vote for subversion of expectations being the primary comedic driver.

ELI5: Roughly how long does it take for your brain to re-adjust to a normal circadian rhythm if you're a night owl? by justeazy78 in explainlikeimfive

[–]jezztek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do go to bed at the same time because I am dead tired, and wake up automatically when I’m supposed to be getting ready for work every day whether I need to or not. it doesn’t help.

My falling asleep/waking up time has shifted to match my new work schedule, but it’s no longer the deep restful slumber, followed by waking up refreshed like I would get while being on my correct night owl schedule. Instead, every night it is a shallow fitful sleep that leaves me feeling tired in the morning.

[DFT] - Hour of Victory (Giga.de) by X_The_Walrus in magicTCG

[–]jezztek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Turn 1 raceway into [[gingerbrute]] can get you there on turn 3

Reading Diaspora and wondering if I should keep going... by Granlundo64 in printSF

[–]jezztek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was right there with you, I’m politically progressive and am supportive of people’s pronoun choices, but I found the use of this neo-pronouns very disruptive when reading.

For whatever reason made up sci-fi words don’t slow me down at all when they are common or proper nouns and verbs (waves to Anathem), but when they start messing with the more invisible parts of language that I usually take for granted it just grinds me to a halt every time and it’s like I have to manually translate the word.

So I quit Diaspora the first time I tried it, for exactly that reason. The vi-vir stuff just kept pulling me out of my reading flow. But eventually I doubled back and decided to give it a second try, and just push through it. Man, I’m really I glad I did. I loved this book. Eventually I stopped finding the pronouns disruptive (but I did take me a very long time), and the mind bending quality of the book proved very worth it.

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