If you want to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

I’ve got a stack of old 14.4 modems I’ll sell them if they’ll grift on that for a bit.

He’s already lost his job and been released.

I never heard that about aliens (probably grew up in too podunk a place for anyone to bring it up) but 100% heard this about hauntings. Anything related to ghosts is demonic or satanic.

Along with any bad thing that happens. Alcoholism? Demon got him. Accidentally killed a kid? Demon. Purposely killed and ate a kid? Demon. Spilled breakfast cereal? Demon. Don’t like the way someone looks? A demon is probably in them, you can see it behind their eyes. Cheat on your wife? Demon. Get caught getting split open by two dudes in a truck stop bathroom? Demon. “Wrestle with gay thoughts” to the point where you think homosexuality is a choice? Well, thoughts of sweaty men showering together were sent directly by Satan himself.

For a bunch of folks who say you should take personal responsibility they sure blame a lot of shit on demons.

A conman is a better conman when they believe their own schtick.

Look, I said I was sorry! What do you want from me!?!

Can’t agree more. I love both my country and my state, as fucked up as the politics are. I fight because I know they can be better.

I never thought of it like that, but I believe you’re right. He’s not just an exaggerated character for TV, he’s exaggerated because that’s the way the guy telling the story sees things.

Same. Full Moon Productions, Asylum, Troma…I love them all.

I was a full release male for a while. Now I’m not secure and shouldn’t be put online.

Before 41, none of them. After? Everything.

I was in the Navy and I can corroborate this. I’ll add to it that a lot of our teachers at A school were O-1 to O-3 (Ensign to Lieutenant) and they were pretty cool. We used to mess with them from time to time when they left the building by lining up and making them salute all the way to the parking lot. They were good sports.

I thought it was just Peter Criss going through some shit.

Don’t blame the alcohol. It didn’t do anything!

I’m in Texas, so mine currently says “Free Porn Here”. In the past it was always some snarky bullshit. My buddy’s is “FBI Mobile Team” or something similar. I think he’s had one about the DEA in the past.

So nothing funny or clever about Wi-Fi or networking, but definitely not normal names.

Don’t be afraid to be that guy. You’re right, and I wrote it incorrectly. I actually appreciate the gentle correction.

I should have written “I want to add it to the song queue between sets”.

They’re already excusing it saying it’s so that she can’t plead the fifth when she gets subpoenaed for cases against people she trafficked for.

My buddy is a songwriter and is working on an album right now. He was showing me the lyrics and I could almost map which songs were about who.

Half the album is sad bastard and the other half is just how certain relationships sucked.

I’m really looking forward to it. I run sound from time to time at a place where one of his exes works and I really want to queue it up between sets.

But that’s not the message you get. I’ve seen that message (or last 5, or whatever), but this one sounds like it can’t be the same as your immediate previous password.

I want to speak to this a bit because I enjoy a lot of flawed things, SNW included. I also don’t spend time complaining about entertainment I don’t like because if I don’t like it I just don’t talk about it at all. I used to spend that energy but it got old.

Side story: A friend of mine is a huge Wheel of Time fan. He has reread the books dozens of times. He started a book club where we worked at the time just to have someone to discuss them with (which i joined). This was in the days leading up to the final 3 coming out, so quite a while ago. It’s flawed. 90% of the plot could have been fixed by saying “then they actually talked to each other”. Women characters weren’t generally treated with care. Hell, dudes weren’t either in a lot of cases. When Brandon Sanderson took over the character voices changed. And I have bitched about all the issues with the books. But only because I really enjoyed them.

So when I come out and complain about yet another Spock romance, how the women aren’t being treated right, reversing the polarity of the jammy dodger flow (oh, that’s Doctor Who), Trelane vs Q, or whatever else it’s because I genuinely like Trek. I don’t talk about DS9 or the later seasons of Discovery because they’re just not my cup of tea. I’m going to let the people who like them have their own conversation without my negative opinion tainting the conversation.