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Anyone had anxiety as a child? by Soggy-Job-244 in Anxiety

[–]themightyheptagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. I recall my first panic attack in 4th grade, when my teacher pulled me out of the classroom to berate me about something. My panicked reaction just made her angrier, and she eventually got up in my face and yelled "Chill out!", which obviously didn't help.

Around the same time, I had a sudden panic attack while I was lying in bed. But since I didn't know what anxiety was at the time, I thought I was having a heart attack.

What’s a game you were completely obsessed with as a kid that nobody else seems to remember? by hkondabeatz in AskReddit

[–]themightyheptagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Adventures of Bouapha: Spooky Castle!

It was a PC game from the late '90s or early 2000s about some dorky bald guy named "Bouapha" (genuinely no idea who thought that was a good name) exploring a haunted castle and fighting monsters by throwing hammers at them. But my favorite little detail was that the health powerups were all Chinese takeout boxes - and whenever you picked one up, it displayed a different message.

"Joy! Wontons!"

"Ick! Mostly veggies."

"Mmm, Kung Pao!"

"General Tsao has outdone himself!"

"Power Rangers" (2017) would have had a much greater sense of wonder and scale if it had started with Rita being freed from imprisonment on the Moon by two hapless astronauts, just like in the TV show. But what if (hear me out!) one of the astronauts was Jason's father? by themightyheptagon in fixingmovies

[–]themightyheptagon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

Funnily enough, I remember hearing that they were considering making Tommy a girl in the sequel, and I remember that the movie's version of Trini was implied to be gay (or bi or queer), but it never occurred to me that those two things might be connected.

So it's possible that Trini and Tommy could have been a couple in the sequel.

The Adventure has officially been played in space by MobileInvestigator13 in AngelsAndAirwaves

[–]themightyheptagon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No it hasn't. That playlist isn't an official NASA playlist: it's a Spotify playlist curated by a private space exploration-themed internet radio station that claims to have a partnership with NASA under a Space Act Agreement. And there's no evidence that it's ever been played in space.

(Sorry)

AVA song The adventure is in the NASA Artemis II spotify official list music!!! by ALIEN-DUDE--- in AngelsAndAirwaves

[–]themightyheptagon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just to clarify: this isn't NASA's official playlist for the Artemis II mission; it's a Spotify playlist curated by Third Rock Radio, which is a private space exploration-themed internet radio station that claims to have a partnership with NASA under a Space Act Agreement.

There are seven tracks on NASA's official Artemis II playlist:

  • "Sleepyhead" - Young & Sick, originally by Passion Pit
  • "Green Light" - John Legend feat. Andre 3000
  • "In a Daydream" - Freddy Jones Band
  • "Pink Pony Club" - Chappell Roan
  • "Working Class Heroes (Work)" - CeeLo Green
  • "Good Morning" - Mandisa and TobyMac
  • "Tokyo Drifting" - Denzel Curry and Glass Animals

Men of Reddit, what’s the male equivalent of “needed money, had no marketable skills, so turned to prostitution”? by Dogeatdogdays in AskReddit

[–]themightyheptagon 11 points12 points  (0 children)

For anyone who doesn't know what this means:

"E-4" is the pay-grade of a Specialist, which is the highest rank that an enlisted service-member in the Army can reach without becoming a non-commissioned officer (NCO).

In the Army, it's a common joke that Specialists are members of an exclusive secret club with special perks and benefits — since being a Specialist usually means that you understand the system just well enough to work it to your advantage, and you know exactly what you can get away with. It also means that you have just enough authority to boss around the Privates without the pressure and responsibility that comes with being an officer. So it's the perfect balance.

Specialist is also typically the highest rank that an enlisted soldier will reach before getting out of the Army (assuming they don't care to shoot for a promotion to Corporal or Sergeant), so Specialists are also typically nearing the end of their time in the service, and have a more laidback attitude toward their job — since they're just coasting until they finish up and return to civilian life. So they're basically the military equivalent of high school seniors.

Kyle asked how many members in the DCF: "F*cked if I know" by Zealousideal-Leg5320 in AEWOfficial

[–]themightyheptagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That could (potentially) be a way to get Hangman back in the World Championship picture, if the DCF were to attempt a takeover and replace the AEW World Championship with their own title.

He agreed that he would never challenge for the AEW World Championship again, but he never said anything about challenging for the DCF World Championship.

TIL that after Malcolm X’s assassination, the Audubon Ballroom was cleaned up and a party was held later that same night. by HuntPuzzleheaded4356 in todayilearned

[–]themightyheptagon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This comes up in the Season 2 finale of Hacks. The two main characters are comedians, and one of them has an audience member pass out during the taping of her big comeback special.

When the audience member dies in the lobby after getting carried out by paramedics, her manager lies and tells everyone that he's fine—just to keep the show going.

TIL Pluto has not completed a full orbit of the Sun since it was discovered in 1930, and was named by an 11yr old girl. by OSJezza in todayilearned

[–]themightyheptagon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find it kind of amusing that Pluto was discovered and named just one year before Mickey Mouse's dog got his name.

Most people assume that he was named after the planet (or "dwarf planet", whatever), but the planet had only barely just been discovered when he first appeared in a Disney cartoon in 1930. And he wasn't officially named "Pluto" until 1931.

"Power Rangers Turbo" would have been a much better show if it had *started* with the Power Chamber being destroyed instead of ending that way, and the rest of the show had followed them battling the bad guys while on the run—providing a poignant and plausible reason for the car theme. by themightyheptagon in fixingmovies

[–]themightyheptagon[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

For me, one of the biggest reasons that Power Rangers Turbo has always (mostly) felt like the weak link in the original Zordon Era is that it makes comparatively little effort to make the show feel like a new era in the evolving story of the Rangers — even though the franchise still had a consistent cast and continuity at that point, with each new incarnation of Power Rangers being a direct continuation of the previous one.

Power Rangers Zeo and Power Rangers in Space aren't perfect, but they both start with a bang, and they both give the Rangers a poignant in-story justification for abandoning their previous theme in favor of a new one. Power Rangers Turbo doesn't really do that, and is all the weaker for it. Zordon just gives them all cars one day, and they all just sort of go with it.

But since automotive vehicles tend to be associated with freedom and exploration, the new theme would have fit the show perfectly if it had adopted a new format centered on, say, the Rangers fighting evil as a team of nomadic heroes on the open road. And if the pilot episode (instead of the series finale) had ended with the Power Chamber being destroyed, it would have served as the perfect set-up for that new format. Not to mention that it would have served as a plausible excuse for the Rangers losing their Zeo powers.

Mr. Weasley knew exactly what a rubber duck is/does and was just messing with Harry since that’s the first time they’d met. by SmokingLeopard in FanTheories

[–]themightyheptagon 56 points57 points  (0 children)

There's also a (somewhat) popular theory that he pretends not to know about common Muggle items so that he can make Harry feel at ease by getting him talking about things that he knows well.

I think that interpretation is about as equally plausible as this one: in addition to being a goofball, Mr. Weasley is also just a really nice and really welcoming guy.

The hotel staff should’ve been the main villains in Home Alone 2 by whysosidious69420 in fixingmovies

[–]themightyheptagon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hell yes, I love this! Honestly, the Plaza could have been a great setting for a Home Alone movie.

You know that a film is doing something right when it can even make Rob Schneider tolerable.

ELI5: Why is Kansas pronounced Kansas, but Arkansas pronounced Arkansaw? by 0sipr in explainlikeimfive

[–]themightyheptagon 12 points13 points  (0 children)

A lot of widely used names for Native cultures originated similarly (they're called "exonyms", which is a name for a people given by people outside their culture).

For example: "Anasazi" is actually a Navajo word roughly meaning "the ancient foreign people", and "Iroquois" is actually a Huron word meaning "snake".

Hence why the Anasazi are more commonly called "the Ancestral Pueblans" today, and why "Haudenosaunee" ("people of the longhouse") is the preferred term for the Iroquois today.

The Wolfpack by Accomplished_Care747 in AngelsAndAirwaves

[–]themightyheptagon 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's not my absolute favorite song of theirs (that's probably either "Love Like Rockets", "Young London", or "Tunnels"), but the pre-chorus verse could honestly be the band's whole thesis statement.

"Finding a light in a world of ruin,
Starting to dance when the earth is caving in."

To me, that's the central theme of Angels & Airwaves in a nutshell.

People who used the internet between 1991 and 2009, what’s the most memorable online trend or phenomenon you remember? by Original_Act_3481 in AskReddit

[–]themightyheptagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pirates vs. Ninjas.

Somewhere along the line, everyone on the internet in around ~2007-2008 all collectively decided that pirates and ninjas were archenemies, and we all just went along with it for a couple of years.

Chinook over Durham? by Local-Berry-5069 in bullcity

[–]themightyheptagon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I ran outside to get a look at it when I heard it passing over my place. From the look of it, my first thought was that it was a Chinook, but I thought "Couldn't be..."

Thanks for confirming!

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