#quietprofanity

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This makes it seem like you want to avoid video games as well as people when drunk though.

I typed that when half awake but on principle now I am going to avoid video games when drunk, drunk people, drunk video games, and drunk people games.

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Would Dale Gribble have voted for Gary Johnson, maybe? Someone else said he probably wouldn't have voted for an establishment candidate.

I don’t think he would vote, because touching that lever is how the Trilateral Commission gets your fingerprints.

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quietprofanity replied to your post: A fresh batch of TERFs is on my post arguing...

I haven’t had the displeasure but I have heard a couple of people who’ve been trolled by alt-right types and terfs say the latter are actually more annoying.

The alt right trolling technique is to throw out a ton of broad slurs and attacks, try to find a vulnerable target, and then move in. They have a really short attention span and will quickly move on to the next target if you don’t show the kind of vulnerability they’re looking for. From what I’ve observed TERFs are way more obsessive about probing for vulnerabilities.

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There is a little pub called The Peacock Inn in a...

The restauranteurs that think they can argue their way out of a bad review always blow my mind. My favorite recently happened when a customer (who happened to be an attorney) found a worm in their fish (and put the video up on YouTube) and rather than saying something normal like “Sorry” they went all “THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO ANYONE YOU’RE JUST BEING AN EVIL LAWYER!”

Every time I see a Restaurateur Tantrum I am reminded that the restaurant industry is a meatgrinder for the human psyche and it takes an, uh.... passionate kind of person to willingly go into a business like that. Throw in a few choice factors like constant access to a bar and awkward phonecalls from creditors, and it’s probably a small wonder that restaurant owners don’t just eat their customers.

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It looks like I’m going to go on this ghost walk...

Not to try to dampen anything but sometimes these types of things are run by people who don’t believe in ghosts but just like collecting the stories – there was a guy in Delaware who was a lot like that.

I can respect that (though if I was a ghost tour guide who didn’t believe in ghosts, I’d be inclined to keep quiet about my scepticism, even though that might feel a bit sketchy and dishonest on my part).

On a similar note, I just spent about 20 minutes googling ‘ghost tour tricks’ because I’m pretty sure that any tour operator worth their salt is going to have a few tricks up their sleeve to liven things up a bit, since even if ghosts somehow do exist, they’re probably a bit crap at performing on cue, and you’ve got to keep the punters entertained somehow. If tour guides can create an air of spookiness and give people the heebies purely through the power of their storytelling then that’s actually awesome, and if they can throw in a few magic tricks and mentalism as well then that’s even better.

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Rick Sanchez x Reader fic exists in copious...

I salute you for at least trying to read those and report back because I … um … have trouble admitting I’ve read like … a lot … of … of … of the Rick/Morty stuff … [hides]

Do you have recs? I am asking for someone who isn’t me. 

Like on one level I’d expect Rick/Morty being the main pairing within the fandom and on another level I’m like ‘noooooooooooooooo. noo. noooo. no. nooooo. no’.

Then again we are talking about a protagonist who’s probably tortured his grandson in multiple timelines.

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quietprofanity replied to your post:

Arrival spoilers leftofrevolution replied to...

I feel weird about that movie because D. side-eyed me for crying at that end of it and then started saying he liked it a week later. I don’t know how I feel about the choice she made – my biggest issue with the movie is that the climax rests on a predestination paradox.

I got the impression that the creative team behind the movie weren’t very interested in the whole precognition schtick and just wanted to show us some neat aliens and do something fun and a bit Twilight Zone twist-ending-y* with the Sapir Whorf hypothesis. And I gotta admit, I didn’t watch the movie because I wanted an interesting exploration of precognition, I watched the movie because I wanted a story about communicating with aliens, and I think the movie delivered on that.

As movie plots involving non-linear time go, however, it didn’t piss me off as much as, say... Interstellar. I watched Arrival while drunk and I cried a lot and I thought it was beautiful, and I watched Interestellar while drunk and I cried a lot and I thought it was beautiful, but Arrival is the only one I’ll remember as being a decent movie. (Although maybe that’s unfair, because I think the two films have similar flaws and both prioritise style over substance in places, but... ehh, at least Arrival’s plot was less convoluted.)

*Having re-watched Contact too many times, I was expecting the daughter to turn up alive in some form at the end thanks to bullshit alien magic or something, so I’m glad that didn’t happen.

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I think that more horror needs to deal with the...

I think it depends on the person. I’m a runner. My fiance is like “I don’t go to haunted houses because I’ll punch the monsters before I think about it.”

Oh man the whole idea of American haunted houses is lost on me because if I had to set foot in a place where I knew people were trying to frighten me I would likely go into a really undignified berseker rage complete with mad gorilla screaming and flailing arms, so I’d look just as silly as the people running away except that I would be screaming and flailing my arms towards the source of my discomfort, which probably wouldn’t be very sensible in an actual survival situation given that I am 5′4″, and it would be embarrassing for all involved.

Running seems more practical, even though I bet 50% of humans, when faced with a threat, are hardwired to attempt to Absolutely Fuck All The Shit Right Up.