Hot take, but it’s not like people understood the plot of that movie anyway, lol.

Take a film/book about toxic masculinity and the dangers of capitalist societies and a bunch of 20 year old boys with daddy issues will forget any message and worship Tyler forever after.

You can still watch cat videos, they’re just sandwiched in between hell and sadness to keep you scrolling.

I will stand by Pauly Shore’s Pinocchio as pure art, but I can’t promise that I’ve ever seen it sober, or that I’ve sat through the entire thing (I may have?).

I also enjoyed Wonka which has decent ratings but I’ve always heard people talking shit on it.

The movie was filmed down the street from where I grew up, so maybe for that reason or just for whatever lack of parenting reason, I watched this movie multiple times at the age of like 8 or 9.

I turned out okay, everything is fine. I think I need to rewatch it to check exactly in which ways it fucked me up.

They’d still try to blame Islamic people somehow. Like how all the Jan 6ers were somehow antifa

Cartoon Network games! I remember one set of adventure games that I loved to play but I couldn’t understand English very well yet so I’d always make my dad play with me and translate. Resort something. I look them up on the Wayback machine once in a while.

Omg I forgot about the letters. Also made me remember those characters you could customize with clothes and backgrounds and stuff. I guess the prequel to bitmojis but they were like, edgy and cool.

If anyone remembers what I’m talking about can you remind me the name?

I felt this way a few years ago when we had the idiot convoy ride across Canada. The flag became a symbol for racist, anti-vax, just general assholes.

I never was a huge fan of flying the flag anyway, because to me it represents colonialism, but I never used to mind it as much. Now when I see it out of place, I just assume bad, unless it’s one of our more cheerful variations like the indigenous design or the heart one that was used to show support for medical workers.

I see other people getting down voted for similar sentiments, but visiting the US always made me feel uncomfortable to see ALL the flags. I honestly haven’t been to another country that takes that much pride in their flag. Until the convoy, I don’t think I even ever saw anyone flying Canadian flag in their yard except maybe for Canada Day.

Idk, what I’m saying is, I feel for you, I understand it’s a symbol of your national identity, but also, maybe take more pride in what actual good Americans do rather than in just some made up symbolism of what they should be.

Most important thing would be pictures and mementos honestly, but most of my stuff lives at my parents house because I do not have any space, so I guess some stuff would be safe.

Of course I’d lose electronics and gaming stuff too but that feels more replaceable than my other things.

Also would probably kill me to lose my cat’s ashes.

But if he’s not the shooter, what if the real Adjuster isn’t as hot as Luigi?

(I’m just kidding though, I totally agree with you)

I absolutely hate OneDrive and similarly to you would go out of my way to save on my device for work. We had to upgrade to win11 recently and now all my documents, pictures, etc automatically redirect to OneDrive… :| this is an “improvement” according to them.

Also the amount of copilot that’s being pushed on us. I know AI can do lots of things but holy God let me read my own fucking emails.

This was great for me as well, even in social science contexts. I’d draw out stick versions of historical events or do wordplay with names and events. And my notes would all be written as if I were retelling a friend’s story, rather than using any professional lingo. I was never good (and am still not) at remembering specific dates though, just general timelines.

Farts are funny tho

Oh that’s so stressful. I actually hate sharing my song and movie recommendations because I usually like weird indie shit that nobody else enjoys (as pretentious as that makes me sound). I get extremely self conscious about my taste in stuff and would 100% worry that I gave the wrong recommendation.

Oh god just thinking about this is giving me anxiety.

I played this pick up stick one growing up on our 97, but I don’t know if that was exclusive.

I miss getting drunk with my friends.

Sometimes games cause such a strong emotional reaction for me that I genuinely cannot recreate the same feeling. Same with books and movies. I end up feeling nostalgic for when I first discovered it.

Sure a new game might be really good and immersive in a similar way, but it’ll never be the same, y’know?

Here’s a fun fact I never needed to know: my grandmother had eight children in her life and never had a single orgasm.

You’re welcome.

Appreciate u for it

I misread it as ‘sobriety’, but honestly… Both.