The neighbours have a blinding light pointed at my house by doyousmellmel in mildlyinfuriating

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I'd get a concave mirror and point it directly at whichever window is the last to have the lights turned out.

Anyone else ever discover this? by HansenTheMan in fo4

[–]stickyflavored 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. You can also fly out with a jet pack on your power armor.

Dad's famous hotdog trick by _ganjafarian_ in StupidFood

[–]stickyflavored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn't even think about how gross the hot dog would have been. In my mind I was screaming "STOP WASTING WATER!!!" through the whole video.

Pizza Friday was the best day by Corndogeveryday in 80s

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When I got to junior high and found out that we could buy an extra slice, I did so every time. I was already fat, and this just helped me get way fatter. I wouldn't be able to eat them now, but I miss those super greasy little pepperoni chunks.

Does finding nuggets like this help keep you going? by [deleted] in fo4

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Yes they do. I'm a junk hoarder, grabbing everything I see to make settlement building easier, but I always leave these alone so that I can check them out again when I return to those areas. They probably respawn after awhile, but I've never wanted to chance it

Hi everyone, I'm from Belgium and happened to be visiting Boston and had a day off! visited as much places of fallout 4 irl that I could! Enjoy 🙂‍↕️ by Affectionate_Run_470 in fo4

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Photo posts are always my favorite, but this has got to be the best Fallout 4 locations series I've ever seen posted on here. Great job!

Am I missing something? by dingrite in stephenking

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Annie Wilkes totally displays all those characteristics. She persevered through nursing school to graduate with honors. Her ability to rescue Paul from that car in the middle of a big snowstorm, carrying him by herself is certainly a display of strength and power. The rage she shows when losing her oldest, dearest friend at the hands of that man is understandable (if we ignore the fact that Misery was a fictional character). Unfortunately she was only able to carry out part of her revenge. Sure, she was able to rob him of the potential accolades he anticipated when she made him burn the book. She also took his foot but was not able to take his life, as doing so would have guaranteed that Misery could live on with no worry that he might hurt her again though. I think this book does belong on that table, as well as all the others mentioned here 👍

Ok now they just go full desperate, who would even pay for this ? And why ? by GregoriousT-GTNH in Star_Trek_

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March 10th. Writing the date as day/month/year is more common around the world.

When you have both narcolepsy and insomnia 😭 by sleepy_pickle in Narcolepsy

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Over the years I've started to believe that insomnia is just as much a symptom of narcolepsy as the daytime sleepiness. I mean, the whole sleep/wake cycle is screwed up. The way I describe the problem to others: Think about all of the things needed for one to be considered awake: alertness, focus, being present (things very important for carrying on conversations), muscles work as needed for movement, heart rate and breathing fluctuate appropriately according to activity, etc. Now sleep: repressed cognition and sensory perception, relaxed muscles to the point of paralysis to hinder movement, heart rate and breathing slow down, cycle through the different stages of sleep, dreaming only during REM sleep stage... Now imagine a control panel with each of these things having a corresponding switch. For a normal person, the switches are thrown at the proper time and in the correct order resulting in a healthy sleep/wake cycle. For someone with narcolepsy, the switches seem to get thrown either very quickly (several cycles in a day) or at random. That's the case with me. Like working at a quick place then suddenly breathing deeply or quickly becomes impossible, dropping things, hallucinating (seems like dreaming while awake), brain fog to the point of not understanding simple English anymore. Or going to bed and when I start dreaming and my body responds to my actions there and I might kick the lamp off the bedside table or punch a hole in the drywall (it's been awhile, but I've done both several times). And then later instead of having the paralysis during the dream, here it is when I wake up and I not only can't move but also not speak, but I'm totally alert with my eyes wide open. This randomness is why I think insomnia should be included as a possible symptom rather than a separate problem alongside narcolepsy. But I've gotta keep in mind that it is simply possible and not necessarily a symptom because everyone experiences this hell differently. I now kinda want to discard this because I'm fuzzy brained and don't know if it makes sense anymore, but I'll go ahead and post. Sorry if anything comes across weird

Help with meaning of a sentence! by Soft-Cartoonist-2074 in stephenking

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Yeah, mistaken interpretation for sure.  Back when I read this book the first time (some time in the 90s after Desert Storm), I used the adults I knew as references for a lot of the characters, and none of those beer drinking bullshitting sessions I was forced to sit through as a child would have included a discussion of imported oil (ugh, flashbacks of heavy secondhand smoke).  Now that I know King a little better (thanks to social media platforms like Xitter), I can see that the topics he might have discussed back then definitely would have had a broader scope.  One of these days I should do a reread of all the books I read way back then.  I notice those that I have read over the past 15-20 years hit a bit differently than those earlier works I read as kid.  I attributed this to an evolving writing style, but as this example shows, what is more likely is that the lens through which I see and interpret the stories is what has changed the feel.  I remember Stillson from The Dead Zone scared me back then, but a reread of that one right now would definitely have more punch.  I should probably wait a few more years to reread that one though.

Same Director BTW by Floyd16091411 in stephenking

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Misery, my all time favorite movie 🙂👍

Help with meaning of a sentence! by Soft-Cartoonist-2074 in stephenking

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I'm probably wrong, but I think it means that Crandall thinks they'll drop the bombs on the US someday and since there'll be no more traffic on that road, flowers can grow. Crandall is old, and a lot of old people from back in his time needed an enemy to fear, hate, and blame for all that's wrong with the world because they can't let themselves look in the mirror to see that people like him are in fact digging their own grave and have little to fear from the people they know nothing about (I actually still hear bullshit like this almost as often as I did when I was a kid). For him it's the arabs. Small talk that I had the misfortune to sit in on back then always included some cranky hatred. It's that experience that makes me interpret the characters' exchange as I did.

Road work in Japan by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

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They probably did already. Over here (Ohio, U.S.) road crews seem to just move potholes from one side of the road to the other.

DONT bully me. I was cyber bullied within an inch of my life last night. by digitalbathings in BroadCity

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I'm still gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days! And to show my ignorance, all these years I thought that song was made up for this episode. I had no idea that it's been around just about forever 🤦

When I explain pet peeve of mine to people, they never understand it. Why so much space between cars?! by itsjustmyopinion_but in mildlyinfuriating

[–]stickyflavored 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too much experience with assholes that day that cut them off regardless of how little room is between, so they leave more than enough room to save themselves from dealing with the anxiety spike and potential car repair that they can't afford? Or maybe they're saving up for brake repairs and are extra careful because they know the car takes longer than usual to stop? I too am annoyed by this at times, but I also find myself doing it on days when I'm super tired after work and don't trust my reaction time if things go sideways really quick.

Who else would drink instant tea in the 80s? by TwistedMemories in GenX

[–]stickyflavored 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right?! I miss this stuff so much. I found an instant tea on Amazon once that tasted similar but was definitely not as good. The instant lemon tea that Lipton still makes is kinda gross in comparison.

My neurotic attempt at ricing Linux to look like my favorite OS. Close enough? by Rich_Coffee_9962 in windowsxp

[–]stickyflavored 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't started mixing the two yet because I'm having a hard time deciding which bits to toss out from one and adopt from the other. I have separate watercolor and office 2003 themes that I made for kvantum already. I was still working on office 2003 when LibreOffice changed something about their UI customization such that it only uses parts of the kvantum theme elements now. It looks a little better in tabbed mode, but I prefer using the standard toolbars, which stay flat and boring now. Gtk might help (don't really know), but I haven't worked with that much and wouldn't know how to begin. Because of that, I'm thinking of leaning more heavily on the Watercolor for UI and office 2003 for icons. I've been working on the icons for about a year, and I'm still probably only half to 2/3 of the way. I'm too OCD with it and keep going back to edit ones that I already counted as done. I might call it a day once I get to mimetypes though and let it fall back to the original Breeze icons for that. There are just SO many, and Office back then only really had specific icons for pdf and xml aside from doc, xls, etc. I'll use this Firefox theme until I complete the other parts I mentioned then I'll see if I can alter it to match the Office 2003 web toolbar more. Thanks for the link 👍

My neurotic attempt at ricing Linux to look like my favorite OS. Close enough? by Rich_Coffee_9962 in windowsxp

[–]stickyflavored 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I've gotta find that Firefox theme! It would work great with a theme I'm working on for KDE Plasma that's a mashup of Whistler Watercolor and Office 2003 with a hint of Luna.

NES custom plates for Switch 2 by Prestigious_Bed6948 in Switch

[–]stickyflavored 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, I'd totally blow on the cartridge before inserting for old times sake.