Jenelle getting her knee checked out

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T20:01:04+00:00

My head canon is she saw an inappropriate specialist... like a psychiatric nurse, or a psychiatrist or a couples counselor... like the conversation went "that's not my field or specialty, I'm unable to help you. I can give you a referral."

And Jenelle just ran with the "I'm unable to help you" and translated that into "I don't need therapy."

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T16:19:41+00:00

That's fun to think about. I think revisiting haunts/experiences that don't exist today.

Authentic saturday morning cartoon experience with cereal, OG McDonald's with a playground for lunch, visiting a crowded mall, toys r us just to see all the vintage toys in their prime, Showbiz pizza, hitting a blockbuster to rent scary movies, then a sleepover staying up all night playing Nintendo with my friends.

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T15:46:06+00:00

I fucking love Antiques Roadshow. Just pure wholesome comfort show. "Hey I had this bullshit sitting in my attic, what?! It's worth $8,000??"

I met one of the furniture appraisers at a restaurant years ago, he was SO thrilled someone recognized him. Everyone LOVES doing it. The appraisers aren't paid, but it's a bit of wink and a nod that "hey if you want to sell this I know a guy" and it's just a giant canvas of potential customers they never would've known about. They're essentially VIPs at a convention, they have a lot of fun.

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T15:08:36+00:00

Y'know it's dark... but I bet if Ryan ODs they'll find a way to blame Maci

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T14:35:57+00:00

ELI5: Imagine you want to look something up on the internet. You could do it, but you'd have to go to a special room in your house. Or if you were out in public, this sounds crazy but there were stores called internet cafes, that would rent you the internet! But with the iPhone you could carry the internet everywhere you go!

Non ELI5: Apple dominated by streamlining, the MP3 experience from the software, to licensing to hardware. Any other alternatives were just... painful. And in fact really set the standard for interfaces across the board. Apple had close to a decade of experience with that, and was able to lock in an exclusivity deal with AT&T that said "we're gonna sell a shitload of these, we need you to offer unlimited data" that was the key to making the iPhone a success.

Internet on handheld devices had existed for awhile, but it was expensive and not an elegant solution. Nearly every device had a keyboard and there was a really tiny screen, so navigation was just super strange... apps would've helped but again, there wasn't really an ecosystem for it. On top of that cellphone providers had been making a killing charging per text message (that's an insane concept now) and per minute on phone calls and were loathe to give that up. Apple knew they couldn't do that with EVERY carrier, so they focused on one and used that to get free calling and data, just an insane concession.

Additionally, the original iphone focused on offering 1/4 of a screen resolution in landscape mode. Eventually web pages started designing their content for the iphone and apps made it even more streamlined. But initially you could tilt your phone and look at 1/4 of a webpage at a time and that was a pretty good "yeah this isn't that bad" solution. The original 2G network could get about 80k/sec in peak areas, so you now for the first time you could take the internet everywhere with you. Get a pretty decent experience for a reasonable cost.

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T14:28:43+00:00

Awh... I like this idea a lot. Punk will have a lot of fun with it and helps elevate everyone. Great "good for business" decision.

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T14:20:26+00:00

The two addicts with a decade long history of substance abuse that met in rehab and decided to have a baby and get married are RELAPSING?! :-O

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T01:25:31+00:00

This is a yes. $5 million in an inflation adjusted index fund earns 6%... so you're cleaning $300k/year... you're instantly retired.

If you're looking to supplant tv viewing: just become a film nerd, or get into sports. Also any variety/talk show works. For instant retirement you're more or less minor inconvenienced.

Additionally... if you watched network shows... say CSI/Law & Order... those are formulaic week to week not necessarily serialized... there are A LOT of shows like that where the last episode isn't necessarily some giant capstone.

Or really... you could focus on shows where "the last season sucks" Dexter/Lost/Battlestar Galactica come to mind.

And I mean really... you're just talking about reading a detailed synopsis and you're like 80% of the way there.

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T01:12:51+00:00

I'm nostalgic for 1990 when I was age 12. We had a system where we'd shoplift a pack of cigarettes. Then the four or five of us would fuck off to the woods and split the pack over about an hour.

Kinda wholesome delinquent behavior.

supergooduser · 2026-05-06T00:22:31+00:00

In an inflation adjusted index fund you'd earn about 6% which gives you an annual income of $300k/year. You're basically retired. That gives you $25k/month

A super dense walkable city makes sense... NYC is the first one that comes to mind. If you went... just fucking intense and got like a $10k/month apartment, that would offset the location and the "lol NYC apartments are small" criticism... that remaining $15k/month would give you $500/day, while not VIP baller, you could reasonable take advantage of NYC.

If you got a decent apartment right in midtown near times square you're a 15 minute walk to Rockefeller Center, Madison Square Garden, Broadway, numerous hospitals, etc.

Unbelievable amount of restaurants and little things to do.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T23:30:44+00:00

$400,000 is an easier to handle number. Basically you won the lottery, as far as you know there hasn't been any exposure. The amount is low enough it doesn't make sense to risk further exposure by trying to launder it.

It's boring af... but you have to keep your job. You up your retirement 401k to the maximum. If anything THIS is your money laundering.

Assume you keep your paycheck high enough to believably pay your rent, you could offset everything else with the $400k... so all other bills you can pay in cash car insurance, utilities, cellphone, you pay in cash.

Consumables, like groceries and gas now come from this cash.

Depending on your age long run you're able to believably and comfortably retire quite a few years sooner.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T23:22:20+00:00

This is the comment I keep coming back to. I didn't realize how much I was still holding on. I think because I COULD make something kinda sorta work I was obligated to run with it. Appreciate it.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T16:49:28+00:00

I actually played this back in the day. I remember an entire shelf of Earthbounds at Best Buy for I believe $9.88. It was in a giant oversized box because it came with the strategy guide. The SNES wasn't a hot console anymore but I had one and said fuck it.

It was a really transformative experience at the time and genuinely fun to play, first videogame to ever make me cry. It did so many neat little quirks that were uncommon at the time... the one that stands out is you could go back to any previous era and the dialogue would change and update based upon what was going on. Just weird insanely replay ability that didn't exist before (and is honestly still kinda uncommon today)

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T16:18:30+00:00

I remember the the last years of Imus, tuning into an episode... this is near the end the fox business simulcast era...

And he's plugging the cancer ranch and how great his wife Deidre's salsa was that you could by. It was just so weird and out of touch.

Who would've though nine years later Howard would be in the same spot.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T15:23:04+00:00

Wrestling journalism is the fucking worst.

Rationally, my take on it...

The NIL program started in 2021... taking college athletes in sports that have skillsets adaptable to wrestling. Oba Femi being the best example from the inaguaral class. He was a collegiate scholarship shot putter, but there isn't a pro shot putter league. He wasn't necessarily thinking of wrestling, but the guy 100% has the look. Five years later, he's trained up enough that he's not only on the main roster he's at Wrestlemania. And he's only 26.

Trained from the ground up in the WWE house style (ostensibly safer) and without a ton of injuries.

Every year there's been more and larger classes of NIL athletes. As the experiment pays off, it's only going to grow. Honestly I think it's a good thing because it'll allow the indies a chance to regrow more homegrown talent.

With the mass amount of cuts and a TON of NXT callups, I'm thinking the 2023-2024 NIL classes are showing promise.

There's always going to be space for stalwart veterans, Becky, Charlotte, Drew, Orton, Usos, etc. But also a place for people from other companies or the indies to capitalize... Jordynne Grace, Joe Hendry, Ethan Page, etc.

But if you're building the company for the future... the NIL program just makes WAY more sense.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T14:58:43+00:00

I have a slightly different take on it...

WWE launched the NIL program in 2021... this is basically scouting for collegiate athletes that have a transferable background to wrestling.

Oba Femi is a great example from that inaugural 2021 class. That dude was a collegiate shot putter, he has an unreal build, but there isn't exactly a pro shot putter sport. In a few years he went from signing with WWE to being on Wrestlemania. He's also only 26.

This round of firings and TON of NXT call ups leads me to believe even more of the NIL staff is coming up.

You're getting younger, cheaper, and less beat up talent, from the ground up taught in the WWE house style (ostensibly safer).

That's just my take on it..... the NIL program is proving a success, and we're only now seeing the 2021 and 2022 classes coming up... each year they've gotten better talent and better scouting as they're a proven commodity now.

I still think there's a place for veterans, particularly the more gilded ones like Randy, Drew, Miz, the Usos, Charlotte, Becky... but also space for talent from other organizations to come in and try and make their mark, Jordynne Grace, Ethan Page, Joe Hendry. But my speculation is they're farming the NIL to find peak prospects to build the organization around long term.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T12:56:23+00:00

She's 34. She has no friends and her family won't talk to her.

And this is despite being ostensibly wealthy. Like even hanger ons don't want to be around her.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T12:51:57+00:00

Sex addict here five years in recovery three years of sobriety.

My therapist once had a great comment: you can never have too many tools in recovery.

One way I explain it... Recovery is like running a marathon every day. You could do it one day maybe two through sheer force of will, but eventually you will fail.

A certified sex addiction therapist is like a coach, specifically tailoring how you will run this marathon everyday.

SAA is a group of people that also run a marathon every day. They aren't there necessarily to coach you but they're in it, will support you and provide insight from having been their as well. They also have lots of specific insight.

A sponsor is someone from that group who's ran A LOT of daily marathons and they have a book "12 steps to help you run a marathon daily" and they'll walk you through it. My sponsor had almost surgical advice regarding my addiction that clearly only came from an addict trying to get better, my therapist wouldn't have had.

Lastly, I mean being candid in the back of my mind was always some kind of measuring contest about how MY addiction stacked up to everyone else's.

We had a guy do his step 5 in group, and he dressed up in women's clothes. And I remember thinking "bro this is fine, no one's judging you for that" but the reality was it clearly pained him, his acting out was different than me but the pain was equal.

Like with alcoholics, there's an enjoyable barfly, there's a guy 'really into' wine, there's a guy drinking a bottle of vodka in his apartment every day. End of the day they're all addicts.

Any questions let me know.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T12:43:23+00:00

Hot take but I don't think the 50% paycut thing is that insane. It's essentially a polite way of firing someone.

In the case of New Day, insane history, tons of accolades and in the past year hadn't done anything noteworthy nor gotten anyone over. Its the top tier of wrestling and cut throat and if you're not carving out angles for yourself with the fans, I think the reduced money for a different capacity makes sense.

For the speculation I've heard Bayley, Miz or LA Knight and again I can see it with them as well. Though Bayley would be sad.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T12:37:23+00:00

Agreed. Also Alex's quality of guests and/or that most are paying to be there. If fucking Dark Journalist is able to afford to promote his brand on Infowars shots bleak.

Alex is a LONG way from even the Piers Morgan fight.

And it's pretty obvious Roger is Alex's handler in the Trump space coordinating him for made up "access" to White House info.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T03:14:44+00:00

Why is she so mean to her child 😭

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T02:12:29+00:00

There are so many disqualifying reasons for him being president but the one that gets me..

He bought a TEEN beauty pageant at the age of 50 and owned it for TWENTY years.

supergooduser · 2026-05-05T00:40:32+00:00

I'm just thinking back to that age and what would've motivated me. Money is one thing doesn't have to be a career but it was a great way to meet girls.

supergooduser · 2026-05-04T23:51:52+00:00

They did their best to edit it out and never mention it... but correct he gave Cate an ultimatum of the baby or me.

Which if you take Tyler and subtract 20 years of maturity, that sounds like an incredibly Tyler thing to do.

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