ShadySands

I'll try very hard to never go back to the theater but the most restrictive part of the lockdown was like heaven to me. I think it's safe to say that I'm not representing most people.

I went to the Buddhist service that first week but stayed in the squad bay for every week after that. I must have been a bad example because each week more people stayed behind when they saw that I was still alive and well. I want to say it was after my first deployment but there was a senior enlisted guy at Camp Lejeune that got deep into some weird fundamentalist stuff. He ended up recruiting his junior Marines and had them try to recruit their friends and families into his church. They'd all line up on street corners and medians waving signs and chanting Westboro Baptist level stuff. Eventually, I think, someone came down on that guy for abusing his influence on his subordinates and having them recruit and organize their church stuff at work. I don't know how it ended because there were still dudes chanting with signs when I got out of there but it wasn't as many as before. I'm not doing how creepy the whole thing was any justice

Plot twist, they were old the whole time.

I never saw anything much different than the same casual stuff you'd see outside the military except that people would lean into it a little more for laughs. Anything truly hateful was most likely reserved for a more receptive audience. There were always stories of hate groups and whatnot getting exposed and expelled but it was always something that you heard about in a safety brief. The most extremism that I saw out in the open in my 5 years was of the Christian variety.

I think it'd be super confusing to refer to a third person as you/your and I isn't gendered

StarCrawlers Chimera

I finally beat act 4, which is as far as the beta goes, and I'm really looking forward to the full game. I might mess around with a few things here and there but I'm trying to wait for the full release before really diving back in.

SR4 was one of the funnest and funniest games I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. I don't even like those kinds of games but SR4 was transcendent.

We started watching season 3 of Master of None but it was so depressing we turned it off and put on DS9 instead. I don't think we'll be going back to it.

It's a long drive but I suppose I could be the guest teacher for a class

I completely forgot that he was Egyptian. Sounds like it's time for a rewatch.

I started a new game with a purifier oracle with the nature mystery for a wolf pet. Still in act 1 but am enjoying it so far. I dropped my aeon playthrough in act 4 because

We watched the Back to the Future trilogy on Netflix. Wife really wanted to see them and really enjoyed them. I was hesitant to see them after so long but my wife asked me if I really wanted a wife who hadn't seen Back to the Future. Couldn't argue with that.

Paul Mooney

IIRC the early endgame was also almost non-existent. Which was weird because of how fast you could hit the cap compared to some other games of the time.

Yeah, we had a guy assigned to us in Iraq that everyone thought was one bad day away from shooting up the base. The solution was that his firing pin was removed when he wasn't paying attention. So, yeah.

Huh, Shades of Gray isn't the greatest TNG episode?

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This. it's been a week since I got chipped with Janssen. Still the same number of arms and testicles but I don't want to say that number in case it's not what it's supposed to be.

I still have very fond memories, knowhutImean?

So thanks to the TV thread I think I'm going to try to watch a Pauly Shore movie or two to see if I can still enjoy it. Maybe it's like the Ernest movies in that I loved them as a kid but can't enjoy them the same as an old man. To those who are asking what's an Ernest movie, it's like a Madea movie but from the late 80s to early 90s.

He's supposedly a bastard of a person, especially when intoxicated, which he seems to always be You're telling me you haven't seen that classic?

I didn't know some of the TOS questions and I think one of the Voyager ones.

My wife got sick on Mother's day so today I made her chicken noodle soup. I'd never made it completely* from scratch before so it was fun. *okay, not completely. The chicken was 2 day old rotisserie and I did add a little Better Than Buillon because I didn't have enough "scraps" to make the broth chickeny enough.