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In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
02 December 2025 - 01:07 AM
In Cancun for a short vacation.
2 hours away from Chichen Itza. May look into visiting where the red court of vampires met their end. -
In Topic: The USA Politics Thread
28 November 2025 - 06:12 PM
Azath Vitr (D, on 28 November 2025 - 05:16 PM, said:Cause you better start humping some American flags to prove you love this country (and are compatible with Western civilization as epitomized by Trump)...[/size]
I do love America! Besides I am white, if I have to I can speak afrikaans at a 2nd grade level.
In theory some of what he is saying isnt wrong, as always though its just emption and sound bites and no real plan. Yes immigrants to the USA should be a net benefit to the country, they are overall! Immigrants are needed for many jobs, Trump himself said the other week that we need foregin talent. We also need low skill labour for farms, crop picking etc.
I think most rational Americans are onboard with deporting criminals, terrorists and people who have incompatible values. Trump needs a win though and he is milking this tragedy to rally the base. It is the only play he has left at the moment to distract from epstein and the affordability crisis. Two things he championed until they turned agaisnt him -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
27 November 2025 - 07:12 PM
QuickTidal, on 27 November 2025 - 12:45 PM, said:TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 27 November 2025 - 08:00 AM, said:I've noticed my tolerance for "bleak" has very much shifted as I've gotten older. I used to "cope" (not sure that's the right word) with it when I felt it fit story and setting, but now I'm actively turned off by bleak stories (which I think is why I stalled around BH in my last Malazan re-read and have felt no desire to try it again since - despite having re-read it five or six times prior to then). I think particularly with books I have less time for reading than I did so it's mostly escapism, and I think I've hit a point of just not really being interested in reading that's as bleak/bleaker than the real world I'm attempting escape from.
Having said that Watership Down remains one of my favourite books and Mr NAB thinks there must be something wrong with me as such (guess who watched the film too young?) - so perhaps it's not quite so clear cut.
I have a similar thing, and part of it started with (of all books) THE HEROES by Joe Abercrombie...just relentless grim war, and Abercrombie does not like to let his characters (in that world anyways) hope or have many wins that aren't barbed with wicked razors...but I think COVID is what sent this feeling over the top. We collectively went through a trauma as a planet, and everything that existed before it in the grim and bleak region of fiction became just too much for a society that was climbing out and trying to find ways to destress. Which makes me remember what happened with STAR WARS....which was a hope-studded rejection of the grim 1970's media that was permeating the world at the time, which then led slowly into the 80's which was filled with more whimsical, hopeful, and heroic fare....by the mid 2010's (aside from most Superhero movies) we'd begun to drop back into the 70's shit, and I think COVID allowed a rejection to start taking place again, and much of the book community has not gotten that memo.
Which is not to say that everything needs to be lighty and brighty, but there needs to be hope, and if you are going to drag protagonists through shit, then you better have some hope or wins on the other side or I'm probably going to check out.
Like Harry Dresden gets the world thrown at him...but Jim lets him have wins too, and have hope, and he gets to be heroic without many barbs...it's also why Sanderson is still so popular....say what you will about the man, but he's delivering STAR WARS-like hope in all his books.
I was expecting the shift you described but it hasnt been as big as I expected. Ted Lasso was this perfectly timed, extremly positive and happy show on the back of covid and it did extremly well. I was expecting we would see alot more ted lass and a lot more shows like it. Comfort shows to help us in the bleakness that was covid, the politics of our times and such.
I was expecting new sitcoms, new happy movies, romcoms etc. SO much of the feel good story is missing thse days ftom tv, movies and books. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
25 November 2025 - 03:58 AM
A friend recommended the will of the many by James Islington. Anyone read it and can say if its any good? Also when did Kidnle books cost 17 dollars?
Also is Atlas six worth a read? -
In Topic: What's messing with your groove?
19 November 2025 - 02:49 AM
I live in Boston now, one good thing to come from this job was they paid to move me. I feel like they wouldn’t have offered to move me or give me extra work if they felt I was terrible. If there was a drop in my performance it was from being overworked.
They are offering one month pay if I sign the standard won’t sue waiver. I believed I will still get unemployment benefits in Massachusetts even if fired for poor performance. They would have to prove I was fired for malicious non compliance of company rules for that to be true as I understand. Still sucks, I chose to say fired for poor performance rather than laid off in my application for benefits. I never received any written warnings.
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