Lost_My_Mind

So, if you research the history of space exploration, you'll find one result keeps happening over and over and over and over.

They keep exploding.

It's not surprising. Their basic foundation is that they are rockets. Even from their original designs, rockets have always been built with the purpose of exploding. They're weapons. But, before they were weapons, the ORIGINAL idea, was to use the propulsion to exit Earths atmosphere and into space. The only problem is that when this was being designed, I forget the guys name, but he was a scientist that the nazis had captured. He designed the rockets for space craft. Hitler then took the designs and thought "Let's blow up London!"

So, once the war was over, the United States came over, and recruited him into NASA. His designs were how NASA got started. Modified versions of his original designs are what Apollo 11 used to get to the moon. So, the design CAN work. However, there were 10 Apollo missions before that didn't reach the moon. The first one ended disastrously.

The Challenger shuttle ended in disaster.

Even though they aren't NASA, recently in the past month Elon Musk's SpaceX had an explosion. Jeff Bezos also had a rocket explode. So this is still an issue.

And I always wondered, what would happen if you just took a commercial jet, and flew above the clouds? Well, they DO fly above the clouds. So what would happen if you just kept going "up"?

And I'm sure you can't just grab a stock Delta Airlines 747 and fly into orbit, but why not design a space craft, which more resembles the take-off of an airplane? Drives forward really fast, and then lifts? Except it's not flying NYC to LA. It just keeps lifting and lifting, until it's in orbit.

You could put thrusters on it to go forward in space. And then for landings, you wouldn't drop off into the ocean. You'd just land at an airport. The crazy thing is, the people of NASA are so talented, that they could route the whole thing, in a way that they land at whichever airport they want. So they'd know ahead of time NOT to schedule any landings or takeoffs for this 3 hour period of time when the space craft lands.

And I bet with enough time, they could get the experience to reduce that 3 hours, into 15 minutes. Knowing exactly when they'll arrive. Also no more of this breakaway pods that fall back to earth after detatching, or the other ones which just float out in space forever.

But I'm sure I can't be the only one with this idea, so I figure the most likely is that it's a scientific restriction. Where they can't do it, because......and this is where the explanation would be.

Anyone know the explanation?

Ok, so this idea actually can't happen, but just imagine the possibilities.

I want to travel back to 2002 when they were making the Sam Raimi Spiderman movies. I want to take the cast they had working the Daily Bugle. I want them to star in a sitcom that is shot like The Office. The entire show takes place inside the Daily Bugle, with J Jonah Jameson basically having the Micheal Scott role. Except in the J Jonah Jameson style.

And since you only ever get to see/hear from 3-4 people besides Jameson, I figure you could fill out the cast with entirely new characters made just for this show.

No....I didn't just think this up as an excuse to get more Betty Brant/Peter Parker interactions. I also really like the actor who played J Jonah Jameson in those movies. Really nailed the role.

OH! And I guess Eddie Brock will eventually show up as a freelance photographer you see every few episodes, but just in quick scenes. Which, unfortunately would mean Topher Grace. Always hated that casting call. He would have made a GREAT Spiderman. Terrible Eddie Brock/Venom.

Well, now I'm just ranting I suppose.

Ok, so I won't bore you with the back and forth details that led up to this. The important thing to know is that I needed to talk to a human at the IRS to ask a very simple question that would take just a few minutes to look into.

Me trying to call for 3 days dozens of calls dealing with this shit. I eventually figured out how to prompt the AI to let me push buttons to reach menus.

After all that I plotted out what each option does.

ALL OF THEM either lead to a pre-recorded message that says to visit the website, OR attempts to transfer you, before telling you there are no agents taking calls for that option.

Eventually, I wondered what would happen if I said to the AI agent "TAX FRAUD".

Boom. Straight through to an agent.

I feel bad for lying to the hotline, but also, I was left no valid options to talk to a human. Once I said tax fraud, my issue which I had spent probably 100 calls in 3 days trying to get through, was over in 10 minutes. And 6 of those minutes she put me back on hold to research my issue.

Fuck AI

Ok, so it's a dance club. Except there's no music. And to get in you need to wear tap dancing shoes. And the dance floor instead of being dark, is EXTREMELY bright. Like painfully blindingly bright. So all you see is bright light and silhouettes, and all you hear is just constant taptaptaptap of feet shuffling and dancing on the dance floor. Mixed with groans of pain.

Like, imagine just total exhaustion to the point of being uncomfortable. All while drinking alcohol in mostly silence. Talking is discouraged, like a library.

I hate this idea, but that means I think it would be extremely popular with normies. Because I'm a weirdo.

So, imagine being me. I have a dead end job working for some asshole corporation. The cubicle 3 down from me has a dead guy in it. No, I'm not joking. There is a literal skeliton sitting at a desk, where Jeff had a heart attack, and died. That was 2 years ago. His body has decomposed, and his skeliton remains. Covered in spider webs.

Thats when I pull out this letter from my grandpa. He's recently passed away, and in his will he left me his farm. So I say "peace dudes, I'm out".

Now I arrive on my farm. Holy fuck, grandpa clearly let this place go. I need to clean this yard up! Stones and logs everywhere! Now I got this bitch Robin who I just met telling me my new house is a piece of shit, and I should upgrade it. Funnily enough, she's the one selling that service. Kinda seems like her comments have a financially benefiting motivation.

So it's been a few days, I've cleaned up the bulk of the farm. Still some really big logs, and really big stones, but otherwise I got some seeds planted, and some farmable land. Things are coming together.

That's when I notice I have mail. It's from Pam. She's never met me, but she feels entitled enough to send me a letter asking me to bring her a pale ale.

Are you serious??? THATS where this bitch is at in her life? She's SUCH an alcoholic that she's now soliciting booze from me, a total stranger, through the mail??? Oh, fuck off!!!! Yes I helped Clint look at some ores. He asked if I can go find 10 ores and show them to him. Then I kept the ores. He just wanted to inspect the quality that's coming from this mine. It's his passion.

Yes I also brought Willy 2 rainbow trout. He didn't want the fish. He just wanted to share his love of fishing with a newbie. It's a small town, and he just wanted someone to relate to.

But you? You live right next to the bar. You're so lazy that you're asking for alcohol delivery from a stranger through the mail. THIS is your passion???

Pam. You need help. These aren't healthy actions you're doing.

So I was just watching a video on youtube where a guy looks at various designs of Batman's costume, and explaining why certain versions of the suit make sense for the project it appears in.

And as part of his B-Roll, he pans over a shot of comic books. One of them has Batman in a very Batman generic pose. On a rooftop, just looking into the distance. That pose.

But the thing that caught my eye, is it also said "Writer - Kevin Smith".

Whaaa? Holupaminute. Is this a case of just two people unrelated having the same name? Or are you telling me that the guy who directed Clerks is now a writer for legit DC Batman comic books????

Like, statistically there HAS TO have been someone who got into a car crash, or had a skydiving accident, or whatever. Just whatever made them go into a coma around August 30th 2001. Then not wake up until around October 2nd 2001.

Everyone around you would have had wild raging emotions. Suddenly EVERYBODY is really racist towards Arabs. But nobody wants to be the one to tell you what happened. Plus, everyone around you knows that you'll be on so many drugs you'll forget in 5 minutes.

So you may not even find out until like Oct 16th, when you're out of the hospital, and everyone around you is getting pissed off at you for pretending like you don't know about 9/11. I don't remember the term "gas lighting" existing at that time, but the practice existed. Back then gas lighters were just called "assholes".

Can you imagine waking up to THAT???

Ok, so I work at a Wendys one day a week. I just got off shift, and we close at 1am. At 12am I put a whole bunch of patties down on the grill, so I could start cleaning it by 12:30, and be done by 1am. That way I can walk out the door.

Well......usually we have a rush at 12:40-12:59. Except tonight we didn't.

At 1am, I still had 15 big patties, and 15 junior patties. We're supposed to chop them up into chilli meat, but I said fuck that. This massive billionaire corporation won't even let us take home the food we're going to throw out anyways. So I said fuck them, and took roughly 30 patties that they weren't going to throw out.

Now I'm at home with a dilemma. I'm not going to eat 30 patties in a week. So I put the small patties in 2 ziplock bags, and the big patties into 2 other ziplock bags. I put them in the fridge, but I'm wondering. Should I just put 3 of those bags in the freezer, and leave 1 in the fridge to eat throughout the week? Will the freezer bags have any issues? The meat is already cooked. I'd essentially just need to take out a bag, put it in the fridge, and by the next day I could put it in the microwave for a minute.

Is there any issue with doing that?

I don't see many movies. Maybe 1-2 a year? I absolutely have not seen even 10% of the MCU movies. I saw The Avengers in 2012. Then I saw Wolferine and Deadpool a couple years ago.

I liked the Avengers. I felt like the story was the story. I'm not a reader of The Avengers. I know who the characters are, but there's absolutely huge character defining events that I would have no clue about from the comics. That being said, I liked the movie. I probably missed stuff if I would have been a comic book reader, but that's ok. The movie stood on it's own, and I understood the movie.

Wolferine and Deadpool I did not enjoy. Full disclosure, I've not seen any of the X-Men movies. I've not seen any of the Deadpool movies. I know the characters. I used to watch the X-Men cartoon in the 90s. I don't read either of the comics. And I've also not seen hardly any of the MCU movies. I'm not a megafan who gets every little reference. So MY perspective of that movie was that stuff just kind of happened. And you're like "Ok, I guess this is happening now". But from a story perspective, it makes no sense. A good example is that in the movie they just randomly bump into Gambit and a few of the X-Men. Just by chance, then the big scene happens, and after that the X-Men being in that movie made no difference. So I'm just sitting in the theater thinking "Well what the hell was THAT all about??" Later I find out that the actor who played Gambit was apperently an internet obsession to get him to play Gambit, and it's not even the same actor from the original X-Men movies. So the point of the scene is to get that actor to play Gambit, specifically to satisfy the specific portion of the audience who got super invested in casting news from 10 years ago, and were vocal that their favorite didn't get cast. Cool. I was unaware of ANY of that as I watched the movie. And that's all that movie was. References and call-backs to things I was unfamiliar with the source material for.

That brings us to Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

I enjoy spiderman comics. I'm not currently reading any, but I dip in and out of the comics from a historical range. I have a book which shows off the original stuff. I guess technically it would be considered a reprint, but it was released in 2023 or maybe 2022. So I can see where it started from. I also have a bunch from the 80s and 90s. I also watched the cartoon on fox in the 90s. Technically I'm somewhere in Spiderman 3 from 2007. I liked Spiderman 1 and 2. I've seen 3. Don't care for it.

I also saw The Amazing Spiderman. I think that was around 2012? But I never saw the sequal, and I'm just now finding out that there were 3 other spiderman movies in the MCU. So I never saw those. I also never saw that animated one from a few years back. I forget it's name.

So, my question is, given what I'm familiar with, am I going to enjoy this movie? Or will I just be left feeling confused and empty? Please don't give spoilers on anything. Keep it generic. I'm just trying to get an idea on if I'll like the overall presentation of the movie. I want to see it, based on a 20 second commercial I saw. I do not plan on researching anything about the movie. I want my only impressions to be made in the theater.

That being said, will I even enjoy it?

So, here's what I don't get about bigger comic studios. In this case Marvel.

If this guy can make a costume on his own, and have it look this good, why wouldn't Marvel make these suits a bit more professionally? They could make like 1000 of them, and then hire actors of that frame to wear one at the local comic book shop. Just randomly walks into the comic book store, and just sort of hangs out doing improv, in character.

Marvel sells more comics long term, because if you're a kid, and you go to a comic book store, and ACTUAL SPIDERMAN IS IN THE BUILDING, even if you're not already a Spiderman reader, now you are. Because you got that amazing experience.

On top of that, it sells comics immediately, because part of his act could be he's just Spiderman, and he's come into the comic book shop to see if anybody has heard of his comic book. And when people play along, and say yes they know who he is, and he's famous, he can play amazed, and proud. Then he can see his own comic, and be amazed how good it looks. Just whatever the current issue is at that time.

Then he could ask the people around "Wow, this comic is great. You're getting this comic, aren't you? I think you're gonna like it a lot."

Stuff like that. Just crowd participation in a way that sells the comic.

The comic book shop benefits because they get an attraction that they don't have to pay for, which helps sell comics.

Marvel benefits from selling more of their Spiderman comics.

Fans benefit from getting a photo op, and a unique experience.

I see no reason why I'M the first person to think of this. They've HAD TO have already had this idea....but then why don't they do it anymore? Were the costumes they had made up just not good? Was it hard to find a string of local improv actors of the same build as spiderman willing to take VERY part-time work? Like once a month maybe? More if he's willing to travel.

Wait, yeah. You could have them travel, since it doesn't have to happen on any specific day. It's just a random appearance in a random city, driveable from the actors location. So if an actor lived on the eastern half of the country, they could probably make a living traveling as spiderman to different cities every day. They'd just need to live within driving distance of about 20 different cities.

They could totally make a go of this. And not just Spiderman. DC could do the same thing with Batman. Different build, so different actor, but still. I do think the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles might not be suitable for this. So I guess some comics won't be able to do this. But a lot could.

This needs to be a thing.

I did laundry for the first time in months, and now I'm at the bus stop, and all I can smell is how amazing this hoodie is.

I just don't have anyone around to say "Smell how good my chest smells!" and I wanted to tell someone.

SOMEONE COME BURRY THEIR FACE IN MY CHEST AND SMELL ME!!!!