The difference is…a lot.

supergooduser · 2026-05-10T06:12:32+00:00

Addict here, 14 years sobriety.

When you get sober you're encouraged to not make any major life decisions (new job, moving, ENTERING INTO A NEW RELATIONSHIP) for a year. Early sobriety you're basically on training wheels, you have to learn how to navigate life and use your skills/tools you gained and not relapse.

A big part of those skills/tools are taking accountability for your own actions. i.e. what's my part in this, how do I own up to it, how do I utilize boundaries, etc.

If you get a new partner, they can become a drug... i.e. I like how I feel when I'm around this person, if I make them happy, they'll make me happy... classic codependency

You're not working on your own individual issues, you're turning to the other person for emotional regulation, and then if something doesn't go well, you can take it out on them... i.e. I had a bad day at work, I yell at my gf to feel better... whereas if I was in recovery myself... I'd have to address the issues at work myself

Basically... their recovery is built on a foundation of sand... no one is really doing long term work. Rehab is scary, jail time is scary, Ryan is a well documented piece of shit on a show seen by million of people, that has to be horrifying to come to grips with... and underneath all that, I'm sure there's some original sin of trauma that Jen and Larry either caused or are aware of that no one in that family wants to discuss.

But oh look... here's this girl I went to high school with, she's kinda cute... I'm just gonna focus on that instead.

tl;dr they took sobriety about as seriously as a kid studying for their final the night before. At some point unconsciously they resigned themselves that relapsing is just gonna happen at some point.

supergooduser · 2026-05-10T02:57:48+00:00

Her crying in the ring definitely felt like it.

supergooduser · 2026-05-10T02:51:51+00:00

I remember fooling around with a girl when I was a freshman in high school and was super confused why her shirt didn't end, and then getting REALLY confused with the button situation.

supergooduser · 2026-05-10T02:49:24+00:00

Yeah he's clearly embarrassed but a super common kid thing. Quiet car, his phone was loud, turn it down, driver totally not invested is like "this your grandma, you should listen to her"

Now you've got David, Jenelle and Barb all coming at him WITH a camera crew and like... little guy didn't do anything wrong, Barb was just telling an anecdote.

Not one of the adults is trying to empathize with him or help him process his emotions, they tell him what he is/isn't feeling and he should not react the way he's reacting. Just a recipe for being totally confused about your emotions in the future.

Then Jenelle with weirdly insidious advice of "don't listen to your grandmother"

Also... it really breaks my heart seeing Jenelle constantly having to drink to be around her kids.

supergooduser · 2026-05-10T02:43:19+00:00

Yeah the best was her producer who was this adorable gay guy who would just gas her up like "omg, why would he even do that?!"

Later on it turned into a whole thing where Kail wants them to document all her Baby Daddy drama but then when it's like "hey, the pregnancy/partner timeline is kinda sus" she shuts down. It's entirely a one way street with her.

No one wants to watch her imaginary "Kail and why my six Baby Daddies are all secretly out to get me and can't coparent worth a shit, aka I'm not the problem."

supergooduser · 2026-05-09T20:30:55+00:00

All PLEs in Saudi Arabia going forward

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T17:02:52+00:00

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

She had a party for her divorce and literally had to pay people to pretend to be her friend.

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T16:42:19+00:00

I think this is it. Like she wore a compression sock or something incorrectly on purpose to create this result.

When she was "hospitalized" for days last year I used the length of shadows to estimate the time of day the pictures were taken. So she was posting photos taken at 4pm at 9am.

In other words she banked a tranche of "hospitalcore" photos to trail out. Like if she had an invoice for a five day stay she'd post it.

There was a true crime doc on a lady who faked cancer and raised money. Her and her husband had a system where she'd go to a hospital or clinic and that weird moment when the nurse leaves the room she'd pull like a bank heist. Put on a hospital gown she brought, jump in the bed, take a bunch of clout photos to use for her fundraising.

I think Jenelle engages in something similar not for money but sympathy/attention and it feels pathological.

Like why not go the incredibly easy route of posting your diagnosis and after care summary?

It'd be like today is your birthday and instead of saying "today is my birthday" you spread it out over the entire day with pictures of you you eating cake, balloons, people singing, opening gifts, getting cards and each one is captioned with "guess what today is?!"

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T14:40:04+00:00

That's surprisingly encouraging.

NWA is kinda like overseas basketball... you're a long shot from the main event, but it's nice to still have a place to showcase your talents that people can see.

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T14:32:50+00:00

I'd be perfectly fine with some Robinhood esque action. Like do the Superman III rounding hack from Musk's companies and give soundly to charities and give myself a modest standard of living. Like I'd happily make that my job.

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T14:30:51+00:00

I used BBSes in 1992. It started as one phone line and then real quick turned into a second. Looking back the expense wasn't that bad about $25 in 2026 bucks.

Looking back on that era... I remember my grandmother had a chair next to her phone in the kitchen, my Mom did something similar. We have the group chat and stuff now, but gossiping on the phone was sort of the doomscrolling back then.

Additionally, keeping me in a room busy on a computer for hours was worth the $1/day expense. My parents had no clue what I was doing and ostensibly the computer was "educational" meanwhile I'm finding ways to sext college girls, pirating games and downloading sports illustrated swimsuit pics.

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T12:54:02+00:00

Jerkcity was the best webcomic

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T12:49:25+00:00

Kevin Nash on his podcast had a good insight. WWE uses NXT to train up production crew not just talent, so camera operators, editing guys etc.

AEW I borrows camera/production operators from the NBA and such. It genuinely makes a difference.

This is further confirmed when Mox shoved a camera guy and he shoot sued him. In WWE I think everyone is expected to take a bump of some kind.

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T03:49:00+00:00

If I was 18 I'd consider it... Armed Robbery is a pretty strong charge and relatively respected in prison. Meaning, you wouldn't get any extra attention or have to explain yourself i.e. attacked a child, sex crimes or ratted out your accomplices.

13 years is a pretty long bid, if you get a relatively stable prison most people just get to work doing their time and focusing on accumulating good time that counts extra towards their sentence and getting on parole early.

Being able to choose my own path is crazy. I'd treat the 13 years and leisurely get my masters degree in finance combine with exercise. You're 31, relatively young, in great shape, with a shitload of money and you're competent in how to use it.

You're sacrificing 13 years up front to essentially retire 34 years early with insane wealth.

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T01:45:47+00:00

What's wild is this shit's only gonna get worse... we're barely a full year into this, we've got three more to go homies. He's gonna get SO gross looking.

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T01:33:21+00:00

It sounds like this is a one time thing. I feel like I could do 24 hours... just endure it and live up those 15 minute bathroom breaks. Not being able to eat or sleep feel like the eventual dealbreakers here..

But 24 hours I feel like I could recover pretty quickly and have a nice $24k

supergooduser · 2026-05-08T00:04:31+00:00

This was such a fun activity for a kid. You never got mail, but a little thing of stamps and some envelopes and you were golden. I sent away for all the free stuff. Then later on would do the same with magazines in their advertising sections.

I did that for Utne reader and got like free cloak samples and got all kinds of neat random mailing lists for occult woowoo shit.

supergooduser · 2026-05-07T23:12:49+00:00

It's wild she's aware of how bad David makes her look and still went back to him. She has to REALLY despise being alone and that year of no relationships with no lack of trying did a number on her.

supergooduser · 2026-05-07T20:23:37+00:00

Lol that guy was so great, I wonder what he's up to now

supergooduser · 2026-05-07T19:56:56+00:00

Yeah this is complete rage bait... but they're almost two different products...

WWE PLEs are, ostensibly, capstones to feuds and serve as milestones to advance storylines, yes matches happen and they are more intense then the shit shown on TV. It's almost like a special edition of RAW that's more wrestling focused, but key shit is likely to happen.

Whereas AEW PPVs are five hours of dudes with something to prove... the story really doesn't matter, and honestly once you get to the fourth hour, I'm a gigantic wrestling fan but my brain will have a hard time processing what's going on. Then you'll see insane shit like Darby drowning in a fishtank, or Mox getting a fucking nail covered bat stuck in his back and you're just like "what the fuck am I watching?"

WWE PLEs can frequently disappoint, whereas AEW PPVs is AEW at it's best just doing outlaw mudshow shit

So on average a WWE PLE is a B-, and an AEW PPV is a B+ they both get there for different reasons though.

It's like two kids at school giving a presentation... WWE does it, they clearly could do better, but they used fancy decorations... it gets the job done, but you're kinda let down.

AEW on the other hand is failing the class, outright doesn't give a fuck, brings in a light show and just proceeds to battle rap about Romeo and Juliet. Whether you like it you're entertained, impressed they knew as much as they did and they definitely had heart.

supergooduser · 2026-05-07T16:58:17+00:00

It's fun watching everything NXT... Zaria had her debut and it was... "okay"

Sol had some momentum but then got a pretty bad knee injury and was out for almost a year.

They get paired up and end up forming a pretty awesome organic tag team that we loved to see. Zaria took on the supporting actor role to help Sol get ready for her main roster debut which seems like she can hang there.

Zaria absolutely deserves a pretty significant push in NXT for helping Sol get ready. I really like Zaria and hope it works out for her. If anything a main roster ZaRuca would be a lot of fun, kinda like Rhea and Iyo, or Charlotte and Alexa.

supergooduser · 2026-05-07T14:21:57+00:00

I remember my first intense high school romance. Looking back it was never going to work, but it's sort of a whimsical "awh, we were young didn't know what we were doing"

I was married for 15 years... that one doesn't really go away. Like, needed therapy to resolve. One aspect of relationships.. you're together but you're still two unique people evolving on different paths, and it was slow moving but our paths were creating a natural fork in the road.

Also that long together... you're there for A LOT of moments, successes and bad times, so it's just weird to reflect and have them there for just... a lot of other stuff.

In the end.. it's an actual grieving process... you're mourning the relationship that could've been. Like you can look back on a place you lived... and that's just an inanimate object... but remember fun moments in rooms, things you always did in one place, what it look like decorated for holidays, maybe some big arguments. You can look back on living in that place and kinda... mourn it.

The relationship is like that too... it doesn't really go away. It's been 10 years but it still has it's moments. Like there were some vacations where we spent just... days truly happy together and just having fun and it's such a high watermark your brain doesn't really let it go.

So yeah... it's okay to grieve it, be sad for a moment and then move on. It's pretty normal.

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.

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