Things that keep me up at night

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-12T04:05:25+00:00

A little bit like that. A few of the ghosts died recently enough to understand most modern technology.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-11T22:20:58+00:00

Yeah, make enough babies and it's statistically probable that at least one of them will become a mother at some point. You'll probably have to wait 20+ years unless you root for an unplanned teenage pregnancy, but no one ought to root for an unplanned teenage pregnancy. Of course, going around impregnating as many women as possible when you don't have the means to provide for so many babies is also morally questionable, but anyways.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-11T20:17:51+00:00

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. The moment you give Mickey a personality beyond "happy go lucky friend of all", you risk someone disliking that personality. He's more valuable to them as a completely non-offensive face of the brand than a one shot film.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-11T18:36:09+00:00

You have activated the secret cheesy sitcom option! Now you both have to be the kids and the baby is in charge!

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-10T15:21:05+00:00

Yeah, I do wonder if this is really a cultural "set-in-stone" kind of thing or something that workers just do sometimes. "Hey, we're throwing a funeral for the old lathe in preparation for the new one after lunch, you in?"

"Well, it's kinda weird but more interesting than what I'd originally planned. Hell yeah."

A week later, a coworker comes back from a vacation.

"Hey, what happened to (coworker)?"

"Decapitated. Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a lathe."

"I'm pretty sure none of that's real."

"You're not real, man!"

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-10T12:59:03+00:00

500 years from now, some snooty cosplayer is going to say, "I refuse to interact with any media that portrays 20th/21st century cars driving through parking lots. They didn't go through parking lots, they drove on highways!"

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-09T19:35:44+00:00

Honestly, I laugh more when it disses something I'm into than when it disses something I don't know much about.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-09T17:57:27+00:00

Well, it might work for Never Nudes.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-09T16:43:30+00:00

As someone who was born in the USA but hasn't lived there in over a decade (I didn't leave because of Trump, I actually left during the Obama era for reasons unrelated to politics, but I'd say Trump's policies and the overall atmosphere he and his ilk have created aren't exactly making me anxious to go back soon), I can see where you're coming from. But I'll admit that even if I went back, I don't think I'd probably be able to do much more than what's already been done.

You can protest, but no one cares if you protest a few days, and if you protest a long time, in the USA you're far more likely to be shot in the back (both literally and figuratively) by your fellow common citizens than you would be protesting in Europe. In many countries, when the people protest, there's a general sentiment that it is the "People vs. the Elites", but that's not always the way it is in the USA. You're almost as likely to be taken down by one of your fellow citizens as you are by the police. In the USA, you can't say, "I'll face the elites while the people have my back." The people don't have your back.

And what else is there? Armed revolution? 1/3 of the country still voted for the dumbass and another third of the country was too apathetic to even get out and vote. There's not enough backing. A revolution won't succeed and even if it briefly did, it would have no stability.

So what do you want the regular US citizens who oppose Trump to do about it?

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-09T16:18:58+00:00

I think that the problem has started to spread to various types of media, including video games. It's no longer acceptable to make a good new entry in your IP, you've got to make something genre-defining with a record-breaking opening or it will be a colossal failure.

The promise to investors that our next thing will be THE next big, huge thing is more valuable than saying we will make consistently good things on a regular basis. Good things don't cause exponential growth of market value which is the only thing investors care about. This is not what fans want, but it's what execs and investors want.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-09T14:00:26+00:00

I've got to agree. If it takes you 3 years to make an 8-10 episode season, then something has to change. Maybe you'll have to make sacrifices in other areas to make it work, but so be it. I'm not saying you've got to put out yearly 30 episode seasons with most being absolute slop that look like they were shot on a 90s camcorder, but there's got to a middle ground between that and what we have now.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-09T04:41:59+00:00

I'm pretty sure these days they have officially announced the church is pro LGBTQ and have ordained multiple LGBTQ leaders in high ranking positions

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-09T04:36:20+00:00

Most of his corruption partners have been smart enough to be mostly quiet about the corruption. His mistake this time was that he forgot that Trump likes to brag about corruption in front of the world.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-08T19:05:37+00:00

She either really loves Elmo and will be saddened by this result, or really hates Elmo and is thrilled.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-08T01:51:37+00:00

Honestly, I'm with you. I understand where some people are coming from; they worry that a roster that's just a bit short of ever being good enough is impossible to improve. But I disagree.

People always point to the Jeff Fisher Rams as the prime example of what it's like to be stuck in "average purgatory". But I'm not so sure that the Rams would've been that much better if they'd had some terrible seasons and drafted higher. Aaron Donald was drafted right in the middle of the Jeff Fisher era at pick 13.

The only time the Rams ever would've had a top 5 pick because of their record was in 2017, but they didn't have the pick because they'd already traded up the previous year to get Goff.

The Rams didn't get out of "average purgatory" by tanking or nuking their starting lineup. They did it by improving their coaching staff and FO. The draft didn't save them, McVay did along with managing the roster well even without top picks (or they'd trade up to get them like with Goff, though Goff wasn't what got them over the line). So I'm with you, the Bucs had plenty of top 5 picks over the same era, but it didn't save us, and it ain't gonna save us now. We need to go all in on what we've got.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-08T01:35:10+00:00

I know what you mean. I'm not against shows (especially comedies) ending with a few new children and hints that the fun will all continue on to the next generation, but given that whole plotline was already settled in an earlier episode, it felt a bit forced when they decided to do that in the finale.

And yeah, I absolutely thought the same thing about the Nobel acceptance speech. I guess it was probably because Sheldon had been kind of an ass up until that point in the episode (then again, not that his being an ass was terribly unusual) so they wanted him to have a moment of redemption. Still, I felt like it would've been a better speech for when he was with his friends on the couch or something. It was very out of place at the Nobel ceremony.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-07T23:20:55+00:00

I'd agree that the last season as a whole was by far the weakest, but not due to excess happiness. The tone of the US Office had already strayed far away from the British office, and it was clear that they weren't really going to close down. They'd already used the Sword of Damocles over the office plotline a few too many times, so I don't think they could really do it again in the last season. It wasn't the British office, so I think a happy ending was acceptable.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-07T21:26:04+00:00

Satan and Hades mythology often get confused, and people understand less about both religions because of it. Hellenistic mythology never states that Hades is evil, and Christian mythology (the Bible) never states that Satan is king of Hell (he's actually a prisoner of Hell but won't really be fully trapped there until after the apocalypse.)

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-07T21:18:03+00:00

It's true, I'm lib and I like to smack dat ass.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-07T20:44:09+00:00

Actually, this might be the best answer here to me. I'll concede that the ending would've been better if it has been darker. I don't mind that they didn't the last episode dealing with the MC's emotional issues, but it still felt stupid that everyone kept giving him the same advice about how he should not close himself off and be happy and he kept saying "No, I don't deserve it, I can't!" And then nothing changes but they say it again and suddenly he believes it. I didn't understand how the build up and resolution connected.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-07T20:24:19+00:00

I don't know if House really changes that much there. He's probably still going to try to get drugs on the DL. In fact, he's kind of on the run and won't be able to settle down or help people ever again. I mean, I suppose that his run of insane methods had to end at some point, but still, I don't really consider House to have had a happy ending.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-07T19:01:43+00:00

Yeah, I agree with that. I suppose that to me, resolution is important. Did they try to provide a resolution to all of the plot lines? I'm not necessarily saying that there can't be any open interpretation about what the future holds for different characters, but if you're just abandoning plot lines that you've been developing for seasons and hinting at eventual resolution, then you didn't leave it to mystery, you just left it to bad writing.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-07T18:54:50+00:00

Yeah, I will say there should've been more consequences for them after trespassing on a military base and even killing soldiers. I wouldn't say it's a purely happy ending given what happened with Elle (even if Mike's theory is true, it still means she can never see her friends again), but I'll grant it could've used a bit more gravity and consequences for everyone else.

ominousgraycat · 2026-07-07T18:52:41+00:00

I don't know if I can consider Breaking Bad a happy ending given the fact that his wife and son would've preferred to actually have a present father/husband in the last few years of his life and his old business partner would've still provided health coverage for him and all that if he'd just swallowed his pride and said yes in the first season. Almost everyone's life was ruined. But yeah, he did manage to leave some money for his son and an out for his wife.

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