Oh, boy, that brings back memories of being a teenager in the early 90s. Grandpa gifted me his old CB, got it setup and tuned in, and immediately turned it off.

It’s just that back then, those people weren’t glamorized with fancy titles like “podcaster” or “influencer”. They were just garden variety cranks everyone knew to just ignore.

Truth.

And given all that’s happened between the original run of KoTH and the present, I found Dale a lot less charming in the reboot.

I’m not saying the concept didn’t exist then. There was just a higher barrier to entry than buying a microphone.

I’m currently on the second book of the “Cold Equations” trilogy.

Almost gave up on the first book 1/3 of the way through but glad I stuck with it. There was an entire chapter basically just describing the meal the character was enjoying lol. I mean, in context, it makes sense but it definitely seemed like it dragged on for a bit too long.

Nedry was literally a computer scientist and systems designer / programmer from Cambridge. Arnold was a theme park engineer (designing rides and control systems; some programming involved but a whole different paradigm than developing large systems).

Source: Have read the novel 50+ times.

Arnold was an engineer, though. He was competent in using the system and not totally lost when poking around the code, but he’s no computer scientist. Basically, he was a power user / sysadmin rather than a developer.

I am not a gamer these days and am unfamiliar with Arc Raiders, but if there’s any way to incorporate the Klingon death ritual when one of your squad goes down, that would probably be pretty epic

I can’t even do “vacation” Klingon lol. All I know is Qapla’ means “success!” and you call someone a petaQ when you want to insult them.

Fucking with and/or interfering with someone trying to bring their lost pet home is in the top 3 dick moves you can do as a human.

Thoughts:

1. Rhea Seehorn can totally carry an episode by herself. That was pretty epic in and of itself.
2. The drone fail 😅
3. I found it interesting how “they” firewalled themselves from Carol by only communicating by recording and interacting via drones. Carol definitely seems to have spooked them.
4. Granted, she did drug and nearly kill one of them so can’t blame “them”
5. I wonder what was on the second take of the second video we saw her record?
6. I’m sad I didn’t wait a bit longer to watch this episode because it’s going to be even longer before we ind out what she found at the food packaging plant.

I’d have to go back and rewatch (ok, you twisted my arm), but maybe Helen’s reaction was “standard” for the portion of the population where joining was fatal. I don’t recall any other failed joinings on screen so don’t have anything for comparison.

In ep 2 when Carol had a tantrum at Zosia and all the joined went into a coma (and many died as a result), it may be similar to Helen’s case. (Thinking out loud with that one). If it was similar, then that could be another hint.

If no one died during the initial joinings, but people died during the mass joining, how can they be sure they won’t kill Carol when they force her to join?

I don’t think they can be sure but also it may be an acceptable risk considering force-assimilating and the risk of death during assimilation are both loopholes to their “do no harm” ethos (I haven’t seen ep 4 yet so if anything revealed there contradicts that, I apologize)

Just a plain, simple tailor 😎

Literally the best thing you can do for your experience here is just start blocking any account that starts throwing out political labels at any other account. Just block and don’t look back.

Considering I can’t even identify the flavor by the label, I’m gonna say, no, probably not.

In the “DS9: Millennium” trilogy, that’s pretty much exactly what kicks off the plot lol.

Basically pretending to be an organic grass-roots movement or to plant the seeds but the movement is to either destabilize or otherwise benefit a foreign entity.

How do you do my fellow Americans? How about we just start burning stuff down?

Basically shit like that (it’s not always that transparent except when it is exactly that transparent). See it pretty often even on here (less so since I’ve enabled “turbo” on my block button).

I guess what I’m saying is we should get the hell rid of it all so eventually public opinion won’t be swayed by cheap foreign labor, bots, and people who just want to burn it all down.

I’ve blocked so many accounts on here that are clearly not Americans just straight up trying to incite shit in US news / politics communities. I don’t know what’s worse: the number of upvotes those get or how transparent they are.

Awesome! Looking forward to that. Thanks!

Not sure if ADHD specific or a symptom of being “on the spectrum” or a bit of both (have never been diagnosed either way but show all the signs), but I have a very low capacity “social battery” and am very sensitive to noise. The end result is I crave (relative) solitude and quiet or else I’m useless at getting anything done.