I started these this year based on a recommendation I got… somewhere?(I forget).
I can also highly recommend them.
I’m not well-read enough to be certain but it seems like stross riffs off of a different famous author’s “style” for at least some of the books I’ve gone through so far, which is fun when I recognize the elements. It’s an amusing homage inside of an already fun chapter in the ongoing adventure.
I heard Jack O’Neill and Teal’c in my head on this one.
J: Well, tell him unless he cools it, I’m going to throw down!
T: Have you eaten something that does not agree with you, O’Neill?
J: What?
T: Is your digestive system experiencing discomfort?
Daniel Jackson: Yeeeah, this is probably my fault, I explained the euphemism “throwing up” to Teal’c last night after Sam’s bout in the infirmary and I’m guessing he thinks the reverse means
J: No!
J: I’m perfectly… Continent.
Number one is the key.
I apparently DO get sleep paralysis, I just didn’t know it because I only sleep on my sides and it doesn’t affect you the same way if you’re not on your back. Somehow the part of your brain that immobilizes sleeping you to keep you from actually physically acting out every motion you make while dreaming doesn’t deem your core paralyze-worthy if you’re on one side. Just your arms/legs.
I have occasionally gotten it if I’ve accidentally ended up on my back, and it happens every time I DO end up on my back, but I never connected the dots.
Weirdly enough, it’s never been scary for me, even when it extended to my face and I couldn’t open my eyes, but I’ve also been lucid dreaming since, like, first grade.
There’s an australian show from a decade or two ago called “Satisfaction” set around a legal brothel that I’m pretty sure tackled this sort of thing (ans a whole host of others) at least once.
As someone raised in a wildly conservative household I found it very eye-opening in my 20’s\30’s. It put what would probably been considered a very human slant on the whole sex worker industry at the time. Not sure how it holds up nowadays, though.
Except for the #reddit-sysadmin IRC channel. Gibby’s always shilling his “fart in a jar” NFT.
They forced cloud on us so they could do the same nickel-and-dime billing that webhosts used for cpu cycles/ram/storage…
…because it’s lucrative as hell when taken to a grand scale.
But there are sometimes side benefits for us.
I, for one, am over the moon levels of happy that I will never spend another weekend patching Exchange servers.
Is THAT what they’re associating it with? 9/11?
I seriously thought it was a reference to the eternal september of the internet, or potentially the school year.
That makes even less sense than the stuff I thought it was about, and I was fucking REACHING.
Okay, so I hit rotten tomatoes, checked movies that were both critics rotten AND audience rotten, and started perusing titles for stuff I thought rocked.
abraham lincoln: vampire hunter
waterworld
hellboy (how is this in here? I thought this was universally loved)
mars attacks! (56 and 53, I also feel like this shouldn’t be on the list. It’s too good, and not in a bad way)
x-men origins: wolverine (again, is this not considered awesome? I thought it was great)
daredevil/elektra (I enjoyed both movies)
and now for stuff I’ve watched at least five times:
the ninth gate
planet of the apes (2001)
avp
prince of persia
green lantern
van helsing
I’m dead serious, I was looking forward to MORE green lantern movies along the lines of that first one. I bought it on amazon having heard nothing about it (I was in a societal black hole for a few years there), watched it, loved it, and was like “sweet, when’s the sequel coming out? I wanna see sinestro do his thing…wow, this did not do well. Fuck.”
I wasn’t super happy with ALL of the writing, but that’s comic stuff in general and I thought the whole thing was still quite enjoyable. Like, multiple rewatches enjoyable. Seeing Hal Jordan on screen and having Ryan Reynolds do it was great.
What in the actual fuck are you on about?
Nothing in wicca allows any of that, so far as I’m aware.
That’s SO far off base with what I understand of the basic tenets of wicca that it’d be like an humanist atheist vegan suddenly signing on to work as a halal butcher and then deciding animals aren’t enough, it’s time to butcher people instead.