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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe anon should get some better games

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Autism and other personality disorders don't make you smarter or faster, either...

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Ewww to "I'm a bitch"/"I'm an asshole" as a personality trait

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Both movies were loved by their target demographic: children

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't see what makes the last two cult-like?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd be pissed, too

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Personally I'd say neither! If I had to give it a name, I'd say....Lore Episode

I think whether that episode is warranted really depends on the vibe of the rest of the show. Lore doesn't matter for most of them but it matters a LOT for others. Like Star Trek wasn't only about the lore, but can you imagine the fandom without it?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ah, ok. I'm guessing the law is that pay cards can't be the only option then

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Alas, I have not. But that's an early episode, were Bill and Frank are doing something that establishes their characters or motivations? Brings them closer together? Filler episodes are more like irrelevant sidetracks so unless they went to the beach to get a break from the zombies, I don't think that necessarily fits the definition.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I've never heard of McDonald's employees getting paid in preloaded cards, is that true? I know plenty of people do it to avoid taxes but McDonald's is a major employer and that's pretty damn illegal

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I know the exact kind of episode you mean but a filler episode is the exact opposite, it's an episode that doesn't advance the plot in any way.

I tried to find a term for an episode that can't stand on its own but came up short so I'd like to propose a term:

Bridge Episodes.

An episode that is useless without the episodes connected to either side.

 

The bolts for the handle prevent going from top to bottom in one motion across the whole door so I had to adapt. Over time, I've become pretty good at removing all the water to prevent streaks when it dries even on the sleepiest of mornings.

 

I saw a post referencing Lemmy's "obsession with beans" and it made me think of this.

Despite narwhals and bacon becoming something you say sarcastically to make fun of redditors for the past 10+ years, some users here tried to make "beans" the Lemmy equivalent and for a week or two, half the posts here were about beans....then it thankfully stopped.

Since then I've seen a handful of bean references but a significantly larger amount of references to bean references.

Beans were a blip in the Lemmy timeline and i's like gaslit us into thinking Lemmy is actually obsessed with beans. The posts/comments get upvoted but...where are the beans?

Just thought that was kinda funny.

 

Today I was reading about a band I hadn't heard of (Republic of Loose) and thought the singer looked like someone I had seen in a music video for another band.

In this video, the actor in question is laying on his back with the ocean under him (as if filmed off the edge of a ship). I believe it was made recently.

This is Mick (Mik?) Pyro:

He doesn't totally look like the guy I'm trying to find but close enough to make me remember the video.

It is NOT Matt Berry. The actor I'm thinking of has short hair.

This is really stupid but when I first saw the video, I thought it was the guy from that old Hugh Mungus video:

What is the name of this actor?? It's driving me crazy!

 

And yes, they did.

 
 

He stayed at my sister's yesterday so he and her dog (his brother) could get the crazies out before family comes over. A smart move but I missed him more than I thought I would.

 

Pretty much everything I've seen so far has been uncredited reposts from YouTube/Vine/TikTok. Is there anyone consistently uploading original content yet?

The web interface doesn't let you click on anything so I can't see profiles but I don't want to download it and set up an account if it's all cropped versions of stuff I've seen before

 

I didn't mind it last time we had this one because I was still doing baby dunfeons but boy do I hate it now. Ran a couple keys last night and the affix fucked us at least once per run. Besides the obvious bugs like orbs getting stuck in unreachable locations (on the ship in dawnbreaker, between the walkways in grim batol), we also had orbs spawn during Speaker Dorlita's Blazing Crescendo in Stonevault both times we ran it.

I thought last week's was the worst because the add spawned at the end of so many fights but I think I hate this one more.

 
 

I don't know why stuff like this keeps me up at night but let's pretend you just won some obscene amount and there's a lot of people you'd like to set up for life. Let's say after taxes you have $300m in your account

You can give someone up to 18k a year without incurring a gift tax and while that'd definitely be a nice bump to their income, you still have way more money than you know what to do with. So what's the smartest way to hook them up?

A couple of options I've considered are:

  1. Give them a lump sum of $X million. They eat the taxes the first year and handle the savings themselves.

  2. Create a company and hire them to "work" one hour a month for a big salary. If you put $25m in an account, the interest covers the salary. They get a steady bonus income with the added bonus of getting the best insurance available. Is that legal?

  3. Set up a "shared" checking account they can use to pay for...whatever. But would these expenses count towards the gift tax? I do not know.

  4. Buy houses and let them live there rent-free. I don't really like this one because I don't want to be a lord to my friends and family.

For the record, I did not win the lottery. I don't even play it. I'm just working out the details in a fantasy world for some reason

 

The MediaBiasFactChecker bot leaves comments that I like to see so I don't want to block it....but it's designed for how the browser version of Lemmy handles spoilers. It says "(click to view the whole report)" which expands the multiline comment.

On Connect, the entire spoiler section shows up (but blacked out, of course).

Honestly I prefer the way Connect handles it now but I don't expect the bot maker to change their formatting to cater to just one app so an option for it would be awesome

 

There used to be rounded rectangles around each post, now there's nothing separating it from the following post. I tried changing the colors and it's still gone.

Full Width had a bar between them so I'll use that for now...but I kind of miss the Card view showing cards

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