Sock Knight

Bad jokes and half baked takes on popculture

[stackofsnakes]

I can finally show my gf Supernatural because our cat has a crush on one specific character. guess which.

Sam

Dean

Ellen

Bobby

Castiel

Crowley

Voting ended onJul 18

[stackofsnakes]

My gfs company is having a sandcastle competition. They thought it might be a fun idea for the summer and the winners get to be featured on the companies socials, no stakes, entries can be submitted any time and entirely, and i can't stress this enough, voluntary. No pressure to enter. Anyway, she got the first entries today and a good chunk of them are AI generated. She also got complaints that ai generated entries were rejected, even though it was explicitely stated in the rules that ai wasn't allowed. She also got to filter out the same entries yet again because some butthurt people pressured her 19 year old coworker into accepting those submissions. Like, ?

[stackofsnakes]

Just waiting for the anesthetics to wear off so my newly drilled tooth can realize how horribly it has been violated today and i can be somewhat uncomfortable for the rest of the day

[stackofsnakes]

I think nothing i|ve done as a teacher has impressed my principal as much as casually opening her beer with my housekey

[stackofsnakes]

I|ve been avoiding Deltarune spoilers since wednesdaz but it|s getting absurd. Gotta plaz this chapter now even though this room|s like a hundred degrees

[stackofsnakes]

You know, i used to be the call guy. I could call freakin' anyone about anything. I'd do calls for others, now i can't even call for myself. It's a simple issue, i just need help setting up an account, it's vitally important for me but for the institution just a bit of tech support. Why can't i do it anymore?

[stackofsnakes]

There's gotta be a time traveller working tirelessly so that humans have access to free information. Like, i'm deeply grateful and astounded by the existence of libraries, public broadcasting and Wikipedia

[stackofsnakes]

I think the problem with Teen Tians Go and Thundercats is that audiences expected a serious reboot when the studio clearly wanted to produce a comedy show for kids and audiences kept expecting substance when they could've accepted reality early on and deprive the studio of the fabricated outrage.

I do get it tho. Sure, Thundercats and Teen Titans were childrens programming but they were also good shows that offered something to whatever adult audience might've been strung along. It wasn't so much adults who have outgrown their fandoms and now demand a gritty and mature Dora the Explorer to compensate, it was content starved audience who wanted to be treated as their parents were, perhaps wanting to share their excitement for an outdated show with their children.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's always "stop harming yourself or we'll have to lock you up!!!" and never "what do you need to change to want to harm yourself less and how can we help you make some of these changes?" and that's why we're not getting anywhere

[stackofsnakes]

Two friends of mine are psychologists and they fucking hate the institution and want out. Another got disillusioned and stalls with random minimum wage jobs while avoiding to write his bachelor thesis. Their favourite bit of advice they like to hand out is never to get institutionalized, which luckily i already knew from friends who got institutionalized...

[stackofsnakes]

Why are we into fallout all of a sudden? Not that i mind, fallout is great, but why?

[raindrop2401]

Having your favourite genre be rpgs suuuuuuucks sometimes. Like "Oh boy I wanna replay Dragon Quest IX. It's been like seven years since I last played it" lol loser. That's like 40 hours of your life when you still got a huge backlog to get around to. Get fucked.

[stackofsnakes]

Been a while since i've last sat down and spend a good couple hours reading. I got work, i got deadlines to keep and at the end of the day i've got finite energy. Made it to page 50 of House of Leaves in days. Teenage me would've gotten halfway through the book day one

[homunculus-argument]

I don't even know whose job it was to teach people this, but did they just stop teaching people what a bicycle bell means?

One would think that hearing a very distinct, clearly audible, reasonably loud and rapidly approaching sound of any kind would make any reasonable mammal turn to look at the direction of the sound, just purely by instinct?? If a deer heard something nearby go DING DING DING DING DING DING at its general direction, it would at least look up to see whether the source of the sound is a threat or not? Just a quick "is that something I need to be concerned about?" type of glance.

The enshittification of pedestrians has reached the point where they have less traffic survival skills than deer.

[homunculus-argument]

How exactly does one slow down and weave around pedestrians who are blocking the entire way in a formation in which it would be impossible to pass them even on foot without elbowing one or two?

[deepestangelcollective]

It is legitimately the drivers sole responsibility to slow down to the speed of the slowest traffic in a mixed traffic scenerio. Thats why parking lots have a 5mph speed limit. If you don't have time to slow down without hitting someone that is your fault.

Turning to look at a bycicle bell so they can see where you are before moving out of the way is normal and expected.

[homunculus-argument]

The fact that they are not turning to look at a bycicle bell so they can see where I am, not to even think of moving out of the way, is the entire problem at hand.

[stackofsnakes]

Pedstrians and bicycles should really have their own respective infrastructures but reality is that they don't. Cars hog all the space and budget and the rest of us just have to make do with what we get. The least we can do is be considerate to each other. Like, get out of each others ways and perhaps stop walking in these stupid bigass formations. You can't have a three, four, five way conversation that way anyway and that shit is annoying even as a somewhat faster walker

[writing-prompt-s]

You and your archenemy would have killed each other by now, but every time, a different threat interrupts your fight and you two have to team up to stop it. This is now at least the fifth time it has happened, and you are both getting really mad.

[stackofsnakes]

It's hate. Genuine hate. As long as the other is still part of this world there's little sense to go on, a world without the only desirable outcome. Unfortunately, god's really into enemies to lovers

[anarchistmemedistro]

[stackofsnakes]

Nice sentiment but no, it is a lie. I get it, the first two decades of your life every adult is hellbent on instilling the idea that lying is always bad, but it ain't in itself. Protecting somebody with a lie is an unambiguously good moral deed.

[stackofsnakes]

Gotta feel sorry for Childerich III. Dude came in at the end of a dying line that had already been ursurped by their mayors, was only briefly on he throne because it was politically convenient for a minute and then they took his crown, shaved his head and locked him into a monestary. And then the son of the guy who took your crown gets to be one of if not the most relevant kings of the early middle ages in europe

[verylostpenguin]

Personally I love books that put the footnotes at the bottom of the page instead of at the end of the book so that I don’t have to keep flipping back and forth like an absolute barbarian

[stackofsnakes]

I'm reading the vita karoli magni right now and it's so annoying

[stackofsnakes]

So, my gfs austrian grandma is going to go on a daytrip to the chiemsee in bavaria but she doesn't know what the weather is going to be like there, so what does she do? Well, she asks me because i just so happen to be the only german she knows. Famously, us germans possess the inate esoteric knowledge of all weather within our borders, entirely incomprehensible to the austrian mind