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I try and exclusively stick to giving people things I like/am interested in but feel like it matches their needs/wants/personality. I've had far too many incidences of getting people what they want or is in their immediate range of necessity or desirability and having them say 'Oh, I really appreciate this, I really do, but my mom/uncle/sister/neighbor's dog actually got this for me already this morning'. So I figure if it's something that's within my wheelhouse of interests as opposed to their own then I'll be far less likely to get them something that someone else hasn't already thought to get them. Which has served me really well over the years.

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I prefer my eggs unfertilized in the morning.

Last night while distracting myself I checked the PS+ monthly games for December and was pleasantly surprised to see Temtem as one of the games. I never got around to picking it up so I gave it a download. I feel like I'm playing nothing but Pokemon knockoffs lately. I think I'm enjoying it a but more than Palworld but I also think that's coming down almost entirely to expectations. I feel like the internet sold me on Palworld as 'Pokemon but online, 3D and with guns' but what I got was 'Don't Starve but in 3D and with monster companions'. Which I'm fine with but it's not what I expected. This feels exactly as advertised by online gamers. It was promised as online Pokemon and it is exactly online Pokemon.

They all have to ruin all literature and any cautionary story. This is your friendly reminder that there is a company unironically named Cyberdyne and a reality TV show called Big Brother. Bonus points: Cyberdyne's main product is named HAL.

I don't have the energy to retype this, but different, so this is just a copy/paste of my message to my best friend of the update. (He, in this context, is my dad)

I think it's absolutely worth watching. For all the slack it gets, it's still an amazingly written show that revolutionized how we even view primetime television. It's responsible for creating the shift in our culture from Monster of the Week episodic formatting ala X-Files into having ongoing storytelling such as Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead. And whether you subjectively like it or not it is objectively very well written (Outside of mid-season 3 but that's been covered in the thread by myself, I believe). I think a lot of disappointment just came from poor expectations being set by people. Admittedly a lot of this can be attributed directly to the marketing which focused on the wrong things about the story. People wanted every tiny thing to have some grander meaning to the show. Every time someone coughed wrong it was considered a 'mystery' that was expected to play out into being a part of why one of the characters is literally an angel in the bible who is known for coughing and therefore the island is Heaven and blah blah blah. Everyone had their own theory and often times they were inane. But they were THEIR theories and a lot of people really ignored what the show was trying to tell them because it didn't fit their theories about how the Island is actually Neverland or that all the characters are secretly clones of 17th and 18th century philosophers or whatever else they imagined. Binging it without having the chance to overthink things or spend months overanalyzing every detail as having some secret meaning that you think plays into some larger and grander story that's not actually there. I think it allows you to much better just follow the story and enjoy the story as it is presented to you.

The intro credits to both Heroes and LOST were continuously like watching the show with that one friend who has already watched it ten million times and says stuff like 'Remember how you thought one of your favorite characters died? I'm not going to say anything but I have a feeling you're going to like this episode! No spoilers, though!'

It's good to know the anime so far is just a season and doesn't cover the full manga. I've had a bad habit of just jumping in head first without even checking to see how many seasons there are and/or if the show got finished or ends without finishing the manga. I was almost halfway through Assassination Classroom when I thought to Google it. Couple months ago I got through Spy X Family and didn't check at all and screamed at my TV when the season just ended (Didn't help I didn't even realize it was going to be a shortened season).

Meth was my brother's drug of choice. I want to double up on the lying. At one point my brother had our mom convinced he was making a livable wage by just picking up soda cans off the side of the road and taking them to recycling when she was concerned about his financials. Like, was fully claiming he was making several thousand a month that comfortably paid for rent and food by just going on the side of the road a couple times a week and picking up soda/beer cans. In actuality he was robbing houses, stealing copper, etc. Stay safe, I now none of this is easy from personal experience, and you have someone that's been in your shoes except my mom was never as aggressive with trying to figure out the truth. She accepted whole cloth everything my brother ever told her. It's an awful addiction to have. Don't hesitate to reach out or respond here.

I haven't watched it but it's on my list.

First time. 90s-2000s I consumed enough anime and manga to fill the Library of Congress, so I kind of got burned out by the 2010s and largely taking a break. Probably watched a total of 5 anime or so anime between 2010-2020. So now I'm trying to catch up and grab the big stuff I've missed in that time span up until now. Current one on my list was Assassination Classroom. I have about 4 episodes left of the anime.

I didn't know there was a nightmare fueled live action until now and now I must torture myself with it.

I finally passed back out shortly after some of the replies. By Wade's response, I was back to hard out. Woke up with enough time to get ready for therapy, which thankfully happened to be the day after all this. Still not doing great, a couple people have called me. Some knowing some of what happened and others just calling without knowing. In both cases I haven't gotten through a conversation with another human without crying. Even when I'm telling them I don't have the energy to talk nor the energy to tell them what's wrong. Therapy was much needed even if it was just 70% me crying. Honestly, right now I'm just trying to have a sense of normalcy. Currently forcing myself to watch Assassination Classroom (I started last week). If anyone wants to do/say anything I think I could use just a bit of normalcy. Funny memes, either here or on Facebook messanger if you have me on Facebook...I dunno, if anyone has seen Assassination Classroom I wouldn't mind talking about it. I just need to feel normal for 5 minutes.