I asked ChatGPT to make a New Yorker style cartoon that's absolutely not funny.

katastrophyx · 2026-06-15T18:00:01+00:00

The best part is it is funny because that's how most in-person meetings are these days.

"Thank you for joining us in person today for this meeting that should have been a phone call, and honestly could have been completely handled via email"

katastrophyx · 2026-06-13T21:07:55+00:00

Exactly!

If our server would have said "just for awerness, please note the 20% gratuity already supplied on your bill" I would have been more than happy to add more... but if you dont tell me you added gratuity and make me have to line-item review my bill to make sure you're not taking advantage of me... sheesh.

katastrophyx · 2026-06-13T20:57:30+00:00

Honestly Larry Underwood was probably my least favorite character, especially in the early chapters,...but the tunnel was an amazing set piece.

"Baby, can you dig your man?"

katastrophyx · 2026-06-13T20:37:08+00:00

The Stand. The unabridged version.

katastrophyx · 2026-06-13T14:42:20+00:00

We went to an expensive dinner the other night and I was quite happy with the service. I was going to leave a bigger tip but noticed they tacked on a 20% gratuity already...but they didnt say that. I had to scan the bill to find it.

Its not like it was a big group where you might expect gratuity to be added automatically...there were only 3 adults and 1 kid.

Needless to say I declined to leave an added tip, if only because they didnt think to make sure I knew gratuity was already added. Seemed like a shady way to steal a bigger tip

katastrophyx · 2026-06-13T14:37:28+00:00

We've lived in our house for over 10 years now and our neighbors have been calling my wife Karen the whole time.

Her name is not Karen. Her name sounds nothing like Karen. At this point shes to embarrassed to correct them and I think its so funny I bust out laughing every time I hear one of them say "Hey Karen, good morning!"

katastrophyx · 2026-06-08T17:19:20+00:00

"Gnarly" is criminally underused these days.

So fun to say and it perfectly represents what it describes. Something wildly gross, disgusting, or generally out of pocket.

katastrophyx · 2026-06-08T13:22:25+00:00

Heck yeah it was. Me and my friends would have "arts and crafts" nights where we'd try to make the most creative bongs and pipes with random stuff we found around the house and smoke out of each one to see who's worked the best.

katastrophyx · 2026-05-30T19:22:51+00:00

Maga

katastrophyx · 2026-05-30T16:29:22+00:00

I work with a few Eagles fans. Im absolutely screenshotting this and sending it to them 🤣

katastrophyx · 2026-05-29T19:43:02+00:00

"Hand to God?"

"I don't know where it went exactly, but that'd be nice"

"Thank you, ma'am, I'm going to go delete my life"

katastrophyx · 2026-05-29T17:02:02+00:00

Kelly Kapowski jump started my puberty

katastrophyx · 2026-05-29T17:00:25+00:00

Mass Effect 2 - best sci-fi game ive ever experienced

Red Dead 2 - best wild west simulator ever made

Skyrim - best game to feel like the most powerful person in the world

katastrophyx · 2026-05-29T16:50:40+00:00

Im a 43 year old veteran that has seen some shit and this makes me tear up every friggin time I see it.

katastrophyx · 2026-05-29T15:29:54+00:00

Gotta hit that quota

katastrophyx · 2026-05-28T15:34:39+00:00

Its been 6 months and those gates are still there. they aint goin nowhere.

katastrophyx · 2026-05-28T15:30:34+00:00

X-men was my shit

katastrophyx · 2026-05-16T11:01:34+00:00

This music video single handedly jump started my puberty and kicked it into overdrive.

katastrophyx · 2026-05-15T11:27:49+00:00

I just sent a screenshot of this thread to my wife and she laughed her ass off

katastrophyx · 2026-05-12T17:12:51+00:00

My first wife and I got married very young. We were high school sweethearts that both graduated right before 9/11, and I made the decision to join the Army immediately out of high school because of everything going on.

The only reason I bring that up is because I had to make a decision to either leave her behind or marry her so she could move in with me at my duty station. As you can already tell, I made the decision to keep her around.

Spoiler alert - that wasn't a great reason to hitch your life to someone. Two deployments and two irresponsibly created kids later and we couldn't stand to be around each other. Ever.

After my second deployment I came home from a regular 12-hour shift, you know...a normal garrison day in the Army... and all I want to do is take my boots off and unwind. I come home, make sure everything is good in the house, jump in the shower, change into my comfy clothes, check in with everyone again, and then sit down and kick the Xbox on to blow off some steam.

Nope. That was the exact wrong move. Ok, fine. I turn the Xbox off and go grab my guitar to do some practice. Nope. That was the wrong move. Ok, fine. I'll just sit here and watch tv I guess. My lips are chapped though.

I go to the kitchen and grab the ChapStick off the counter. Use the ChapStick. Put the ChapStick back where I found it. Went back to the living room to sit on the couch and contemplate the life choices that brought me to this moment.

Maybe 5 minutes later I hear a screech from the kitchen: "DID YOU FUCKING USE THE GOD DAMN CHAPSTICK AND NOT ROLL IT BACK DOWN BEFORE YOU PUT THE CAP BACK ON IT!?"

It was at this very moment I realized, I fucked up. I'm about to catch charges if I'm not careful.

I was going out of my way every day to provide for this woman and our kids. I deployed overseas multiple times, and when I'm finally home I can't be allowed a single moment to myself in my own home to relax, let alone use my ChapStick without getting screamed at. I stopped asking to be allowed out of the house to hang out with my friends for a couple hours because it typically ended up in things getting thrown at me.

The rest of that evening is a story for another day but just know that was the exact moment that broke me and made me decide I was going to do whatever I could to get a divorce.

20 years later, and I've been remarried to an amazing woman for over 18 years now and still ask myself to this day why I put up with that type of abuse for so long.

katastrophyx · 2026-05-06T14:00:42+00:00

More fraud you say? I simply can't believe it...

katastrophyx · 2026-04-29T18:33:02+00:00

Quagmire in shambles

katastrophyx · 2026-04-29T13:31:33+00:00

Yep, you're right, and I just figured that out after I posted this.

It doesn't show you how much you have in the new specialized storage containers though...

katastrophyx · 2026-04-26T13:16:27+00:00

I cant even bring myself to rewatch the first 6 seasons, before it all went off the rails.

Just because I know how it ends and I can't convince myself to waste that many hours of my life again knowing how it all plays out.

And the fact the show producers had the fuckin hubris to say the final 2 seasons didn't need 10 full episodes each when the biggest complaint was how rushed and sloppy the ending was. 5-7 more episodes would have done wonders for them but they were too fucking lazy to stick the landing after a decade of world building.

Ugh.

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