I like cats - I have three - but not being able to toss and turn sounds awful.

Is this the origin of “oh no, Mr Bill”? My mom used to say that all the time but only barely explained its beginnings and I guess I never looked it up.

It’s pronounced “emm-preg.”

My original comment was about Canloe Nusback in a thread about how RPG players will often call NPC’s silly names; in this case, Camel Nutsack. The NPC in question accepted belts from a nearby faction (Crushbone) as a quest item. Since he accepted unlimited numbers of them he was often used to grind.

The first time I explained this to anyone in game, I said he was affectionately referred to by his nickname and someone responded that they didn’t want to get affectionate with a nutsack.

I just made a post about camel nutsack and now I see you. Do you want some Crushbone belts?

I remember Camel Nutsack in Everquest.

I demand that you aggressively prove your mild mannered nature.

Someone with that username enforcing compliance is kinda scary.

Yesterday I went into a small town near my town (my town is absolutely tiny; the next town over is pretty small but also a college town).

There was a protest going on in the town square. There were a lot of really cool inflatable costumes because of that frog and EVERYONE was smiling and waving.

What do you do now?

That’s fair, I feel like I could support the project either way.

TIL. That’s not what I would have guessed the H was. Thank you for the edification.

MAHA? I can guess what the H is, but I haven’t engineered that one before.

edit: That was supposed to be “encountered.”

Huh, I had no memory of him being in The Martian. To me he’ll always be Troy. With a backup of Childish Gambino because I showed this clip to a friend:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMY9y-6W_fQ

And the friend said he resembled the musician, which is how I found out that actor also has a rap career.

Anyway, thanks for bringing this to my attention!

My dad, now passed, once said “I’m glad I won’t have to live in the world you kids are growing up in” (or approximately those words). He was primarily referring to privacy and rights, which I think were being directed by Bush at that time.

I was young and privileged enough that I had noticed a few worrying governmental trends but didn’t really feel myself affected, nor did I have much concern about the future. I now feel his words more impactfully.

(I know some of the prevailing sentiments on lemmy; I worry about our collective future but don’t resent my dad for his part in bringing me into this world. He was a good dad who provided me with a good life and set me up to continue that after he was gone and, even if that weren’t true, he couldn’t have predicted the world we’re in today.)

Oh, those weren’t my hands.

(Also, I haven’t thought about CUPS in forever and this made me laugh. Thank you!)

I wanna CUP.

Not much.

All of my skills and knowledge focus on the things that draw most lemmy users here and the ones who stand out from the norm have frequently proven themselves to be smarter than I in various ways, so … Not much.

Depressing endings are so rare in movies that I, personally, often enjoy them for the novelty if nothing else.