Waiting on Hail Mary, the movie. Great book.
I intend to drag the family to the movie theatre.
ETA: try Ted Lasso. It’s feel good, funny, and lightly mocks standard form plotting engrained in those of us who have consumed TV to any degree. It’s smart too.
I too am old. I loved YouTube for the lack of prescribed format until it became prescribed format by becoming enslaved to and hopelessly manipulated by an algorithm.
The random free form was lovely and enjoyable. Was.
There was one point in which I stumbled into “beige” culture, then found myself watching a vid, long form, of a millennial discussing decor. Not my thing. I’m there for comedy, instruction, and journalistic documentary forms. Watching millennial man discuss decor, the psychosocial of it hit me. Here’s this personable fellow talking right to me (the camera) about nonsensical daily crap, on a subject you might engage in a work breakroom. Living space decor is pretty light fare.
For people who are fairly devoid of random, natural socialization that is not stressful for them, of course this is popular. It conveys a false sense of human interaction and agreement. Dopamine hit success without talking to anyone real.
Explains reaction vid popularity, for sure. I find them to be the most obnoxious waste of time, worse than ads, but they are popular. And probably for the lack of socialization and need for that type of dopamine hit reason.
If you have people, and get genuine reaction in regular conversation, why would you want this?
The scifi television renaissance was fantastic, while it lasted. Says the ~~Star Wars generation~~ genx media consumer.
Things like McNally, fast/fancy/clean woodworking snippets, and cat vids are great short form, in moderation, sure. But short form domination feels like the room time of the main character on the second episode of Black Mirror, “Fifteen Million Merits”.
It did get better for a while, but now it is worse.
The problem with short form, which is quite evident to those of us who grew up with regular form TV back in the day, is short form format mimics a TV advertisement of yore, most of the time (exceptions exist, we’re talking middle of the bell curve numbers here). The type of music played is exactly that bad as well.
As such, shorts usually hit the brain like an advertisement under the guise of not being one.
I’d be curious to know if shorts consumers are more likely to consume ads, now that they’ve been thoroughly trained to consume advertisement format vids/music.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Dungeons & Dragons.
6mm aren’t necessarily 6mm on Amazon. And when they do fit, they’re not ideal. Typically a hazard for snapping off the rod at the base, so it’s used like a key instead of a perma knob. Presently have another one, but it is 7mm.
I think I’m going to mill one out of wood, drill a hole, place tape across part of that hole, and use resin to make the flat half. Which is ridiculous and tiresome.
Something I’ve personally noticed as someone who will perform a light disassemble before tossing an “broken” item.
The plug in oil heaters that look like radiators. Efficient, low cost. 3 now, total. The knob spins and I can no longer turn it on. Unplug. Unscrew. And a broken Dshaft knob falls out. They don’t make it obvious and easy to get to these knobs, you have to remove the large side panel without bothering the wires to get to a small panel to unscrew to get to the knobs. Then you have to find or make a Dshaft knob to fit, which isn’t easy.
I agree with legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill humans. As such, if the pets quality of life at the end of life declines that much, then yes. Sometimes the treatments make things worse.
For example, on the human side, people may not want to spend most of their last days in hospitals hearing machines beep and sleeping in an uncomfortable hospital bed. They want to go home, be comfortable, and die not in pain. Fair. In states where it’s legal, that sometimes means taking prescribed euthanasia on their terms, rather than letting the cancer do it. Sometimes it means just having the option close by as a reassurance while letting the cancer take them, but I digress.
How much do our pets like the vet? Staying overnight? Considering that at the end, alongside pain, is something we have to weigh in these decisions. Unfortunately, unlike humans, our pets can’t make that decision for themselves. You’ll have to decide for them. When is enough enough? What’s the balance between their pain and your want to have them with you? None of us can tell you that answer.
The only real advice I can give you is to listen to them, really listen to them, and don’t allow your personal pain drown out their voice. Humans or animals.
Vance’s future running mate, probably. The ick ticket.
Depends on how much you love (or not) what you do.