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This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time) on Friday to midnight on Saturday (8pm Eastern Time).

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Posted by Elna McHilderson

https://cheezburger.com/45140485/i-walked-out-of-there-with-my-head-high-and-laughing-young-upholstery-apprentice-gets-back-at-52

"I'm a fully qualified joiner now with a very well-paying job and a beautiful wife who doesn't think I'm ugly or stupid and definitely prefers me over a donkey."

When it comes to blue-collar jobs, being an apprentice is a must. Sure, you can just be thrown in with the wolves, but there is just so much you need to learn that it's better with an apprentice. We're not just talking about the actual trade; we're also talking about the edict of the world of blue-collar work.

https://cheezburger.com/45140485/i-walked-out-of-there-with-my-head-high-and-laughing-young-upholstery-apprentice-gets-back-at-52

summersgate

Yesterday's. Mirrors again. Circles reflecting more circles.

Today's. Sunrise. Quick sketch from the back porch looking east this morning as the sun was breaking through.

We've been having busy days. Yesterday we drove to Myakka State Park and explored there. Then last night we went to the beach and watched the sun go down. This morning we did some doctor office visiting to get some things straight for Kathy's upcoming laser surgery and then explored at Robinson Preserve and stopped at the boat basin where the manatees live. We saw more manatees than I've ever seen and saw them better. Usually you're lucky if you see a snout barely sticking out of the water. Today we could see the backs of them passing by. The backs look rough and like they have barnacles on them. By the time I got my phone out it was too late but I think Chloe got some good pics. Here's seven pix of other things from yesterday and today - not in order. Too fussy to have to do that with my phone. While I'm here I miss using my computer to write entries and post pictures with. ( Read more... )

Tomorrow will be another busy day. Going to visit Emerson Point in the morning then have family over later.

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⌈ Secret Post #7049 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1006.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

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Posted by Remy Millisky

https://cheezburger.com/45140741/25-silly-spongebob-memes-for-goofy-goobers-who-work-9-5s

Childhood is short; Spongebob is forever.

Spongebob Squarepants has been on the air (and in movie theaters, too) for so long that it really spans multiple generations. The show started off in 1999, and is still running today! After 16 seasons, 4 movies, and 2 Netflix spinoffs, the show's cultural impact is undeniable. I don't think a day goes by that I don't make some sort of meme reference to my friend group about the show.

Not to brag, but I think millennials were the group who were best poised to watch this wonderful show. We got to see it from it's very beginning, through its best years (debatable, I know). We spent our childhoods belting out the Krusty Krab Pizza song and the F.U.N. song. We basically memorized a lot of the episodes!

When the Krusty Krab training video episode released, it was such a moment.

Who could forget when nematodes ate Spongebob's pineapple house, or when Spongebob tried to deny himself water inside Sandy's treedome?

Didn't we all love calling people "Spongeboy me bob" or calling our pets "Gare-bear"?

It was a truly iconic time, and I know that word is overused, but I mean it. Every new episode release was incredible, and we all looked forward to each new drop.

In addition, the way I know this show is deeply iconic, and a lasting cultural touchstone, is that there are freshly minted 2026 Spongebob memes.

Check out 25+ of these memes below. Because what could be funnier than 24? 25!

https://cheezburger.com/45140741/25-silly-spongebob-memes-for-goofy-goobers-who-work-9-5s

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Posted by Bar Mor Hazut

https://cheezburger.com/45090053/i-hope-they-fire-me-47-year-old-employee-makes-a-mistake-at-work-that-leads-to-serious-repercussions

How do people reach the age of 40 or 50 without feeling completely burned out by their careers?

The short answer is, they don't. It's incredibly rare for anyone to have a career, any career, without feeling the burnout at some point. It could happen when you're 25, it could happen when you're 55, and it can happen many times in between, too. The question is, what do you do to deal with it, and how do you move on without losing your job or risking your career?

Take this 47-year-old man, for example. He is a family man, a father to 3 kids, and a highly experienced employee who hasn't been without a job for the past 20 years. Despite all that, or maybe due to all that, he is currently feeling the worst burnout of his life, and is longing for a break, even though he knows he can't afford it.

Recently, he made a mistake at work that had huge repercussions. He admitted that it was a careless mistake, but he is so burned out that he doesn't really care if this mistake will lead to being fired. Actually, he is rather hoping it will. Now, when someone reaches the point of wishing they get fired because of how tired they are of working, they must take a long, hard look at their life and understand what they need to change.

They can take a long vacation, take on a hobby, or work on improving their home life and relationship, whatever it takes to not feel so tired of their everyday life. Obviously, they can also change their job or profession, but that is a decision that should not be made recklessly, especially not these days. Staying at a job that makes you feel hopeless is never a solution, so we are here for any idea of how someone can snap out of it and enjoy life once more. Which is exactly why we now wonder:

What should the desperate man below do?

https://cheezburger.com/45090053/i-hope-they-fire-me-47-year-old-employee-makes-a-mistake-at-work-that-leads-to-serious-repercussions

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Posted by Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/friday-squid-blogging-how-squid-survived-extinction-events.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71981

Science news:

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, intelligent creatures likely originated deep in the ocean over 100 million years ago, surviving mass extinction events by retreating into oxygen-rich deep-sea refuges. For millions of years, their evolution barely changed—until a dramatic post-extinction boom sparked rapid diversification as they moved into new shallow-water habitats.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.

Blog moderation policy.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/friday-squid-blogging-how-squid-survived-extinction-events.html

https://www.schneier.com/?p=71981

cosmolinguist

After I finally finished work (our theory-of-change meetings are getting existential, this one gave me such a headache), I went outside to sit outside in perfect weather, barefoot, listening to the radio, reading my library book, and enjoying the smell of the neighbors' lilacs.

Then I made an easy dinner, and then D and I cycled to a nearby pub for a pint. A big trip for him! It's lovely that he's feeling up to doing stuff now that the weather is making it so much more fun to do things.

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icons

103 Doctor Who icons (Eleventh Doctor era, mostly the Eleventh Doctor), 16 House of the Dragon icons (season one, mostly Daemon), 1 Womb/Clone icon, 8 Christopher and His Kind icons, 8 The Death of Bunny Munro (should be non-spoilery, but hasn't aired in the US yet) There is a Matt Smith theme. :)

Teasers:

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Posted by Matt

https://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/purple-stuff-tmnt/

https://dinosaurdracula.com/?p=44915

Well guys, it’s finally time. This episode of the Purple Stuff Podcast is more than ten years in the making. For the first time ever, it’s an entire show about the lean, green fighting machines. It’s time to talk TURTLES!

Yes indeed, a whole show about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! And a huge one, at that. This baby clocks in at 90 minutes, and we’re covering everything — the cartoon, the junk food, the weird live-action appearances, and so much more!

There will be more fully-dedicated Ninja Turtles shows in the future, but for our first at-bat, you’re getting a BIG dose of ‘em!

Click here to listen to this month’s show!

…which is also on Spotify, Apple, and wherever else you listen to podcasts!

As a reminder, we’re also on Patreon, where you can grab an exclusive bonus show every month, and gain immediate access to our giant back catalog of nearly 100 bonus shows. The next one is on its way soon, and trust me, it’s a good one!

If you’d like to learn more about the subjects discussed on our TMNT extravaganza, follow the links below!

1. The TMNT Anti-Pot PSA!
2. TMNT Light ‘n Lively Commercial!
3. The Ninja Turtles on Oprah!
4. Thank Goodness for Chef Boyardee!
5. The WWF Toxic Turtles!
6. Nightmare in the Lair!
7. TMNT Delicious Cookies!
8. Turtle Tunes on VHS!

Thanks so much for listening, and for sharing the show around! We had a blast diving into the sewers for this one, and we hope you enjoy hearing about everyone from Creepy Eddie to Oprah Winfrey. Cowabunga!

https://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/purple-stuff-tmnt/

https://dinosaurdracula.com/?p=44915

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Posted by thebloggess

https://thebloggess.com/2026/04/24/im-sorry-i-didnt-plan-it-this-way/

https://thebloggess.com/?p=44537

A few days ago I told you that Hunter S. Thomcat had passed and I said that I would soon write funny happy stuff again but then Ferris Mewler took a very bad turn and the vet said it was time, so today he joined Hunter. Apparently this happens more often than we think…two bondedContinue reading

https://thebloggess.com/2026/04/24/im-sorry-i-didnt-plan-it-this-way/

https://thebloggess.com/?p=44537

sartorias

There's been a situation that has been making life stressful for the past year, and yesterday the stress doubled. My way of dealing with this kind of cosmic ass kick is to bury myself in writing, where I feel I have a pretence at control. I only say this because I might not be as responsive to posts as usual, and if anyone even notices a dearth of commentary from me (very small chance I realize) it's not you, it's me. Not gone, just coping and scribbling away.

fail_feed

Posted by Remy Millisky

https://cheezburger.com/45138693/company-forgets-employees-10-year-anniversary-then-apologizes-by-giving-them-a-hoodie-thats-too

Why should a company reward their workers who have stayed for 5, 10, or even 15 years?

In a time where the best way to get a raise is to switch jobs every 2 or 3 years, this person is still dedicating their loyalty to one company. In the olden times, workers often stayed with one company for their entire career, and they were rewarded for it with money, perks, benefits, and a nice pension plan.

These days, you'd be hard-pressed to find a workplace that actually offers a pension plan, and it'd be even harder to find a company that properly rewards workers who stay long term. Many people find that they might get a 5 or 10 percent raise at their current job each year, but they'll double their salary by switching to a new gig. You can't stay loyal to a company who doesn't have your best interests in mind, and I fear that most places won't match a new offer. They'd rather just let that employee go and start fresh with an entry-level employee.

https://cheezburger.com/45138693/company-forgets-employees-10-year-anniversary-then-apologizes-by-giving-them-a-hoodie-thats-too

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Posted by Ben Weiss

https://cheezburger.com/45111813/high-school-teacher-refuses-to-clean-up-after-students-senior-prank-then-learns-the-principal

Why should this teacher restore her classroom when a bunch of 17-year-old kids who know better were the ones who destroyed it?

Senior pranks are only fun in theory. When you grow up, however, you should come to realize that a high school prank, no matter how innocent it may seem, might make life more challenging for the faculty and staff who actually work to maintain a clean environment for your education.

Sure, using a permanent marker to draw on all the walls and desks might feel like justice after working tirelessly as a student five days a week for four years of high school. But what about the people whose jobs are to work tirelessly five days a week for their livelihoods? Should they have to clean up after your rebellious mess?

It's hard not to empathize with the author's partner in this situation. A private school teacher, she did not expect to restore a damaged classroom as part of her daily responsibilities. When she and her partner learned that this "prank" was fully approved by the high school principal, the backlash only grew.

https://cheezburger.com/45111813/high-school-teacher-refuses-to-clean-up-after-students-senior-prank-then-learns-the-principal

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Posted by deb

https://smittenkitchen.com/2026/04/sidecar/

https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=96029

If there’s anything that’s been consistent about this site in its near-20 years of beaming (babbling?) hypertext to servers and back to you, it’s that I’m very bossy when I get into something new, especially cocktails. When I fell in love with Porch Swings, I wanted you to as well. Ditto for Blood Orange Margaritas (but only when in season), a Perfect Manhattan era that spanned over a decade, Boulevardier that has been woven into almost every year since, and a Slushy Paper Plane phase last year. This past winter and spring still, it’s been Sidecars, 1920s-era cocktails with about as many conflicting stories as my kids regale us with when they didn’t do their homework.

https://smittenkitchen.com/2026/04/sidecar/

https://smittenkitchen.com/?p=96029

tozka

1. I am currently on an island, the Isle of Wight.

2. Today I finished reading We Bought an Island, which I LOVED. It's a memoir of two sisters who bought an island off the Cornwall coast in the 1960s and turned it into (basically) an artists' retreat. This book is focused on them finding the island and moving in, and all the people they meet. It genuinely made me laugh out loud several times, to the point where it's coming home with me because I know I'll want to reread it later. Luckily I have the small pocket-sized paperback version; if I have to I can just put it in my coat pocket.

I desperately want to read the sequel, which talks about their life on the island after moving in, but I may have to resign myself to reading the PDF on Archive.org as the local used bookshop doesn't have a copy. I can always order one on eBay if I want to later, too.

3. While looking for Tales From Our Cornish Island (that's the sequel) at the local used bookshop, I found a different book about living on an island: Herm, Our Island Home, which I of course bought. This one is about a family (6 kids, 2 parents) living on an island 3 miles from Guernsey in the Channel Islands, around the same time period as the sisters on their island, actually.

4. I enjoy reading about people on islands, and I enjoy visiting islands. If I were going to live on an island, I'd prefer a larger one. But then I've never been enamored with small-town life, tbh. I prefer mid-sized places.

5. I re-watched Muppet Treasure Island the other day and then read Robert Louis Stevenson's fascinating Wikipedia page; I'd no idea that he'd written travel memoirs, nor spent the last years of his life writing from and about Samoa (an island nation).

6. Other islands I've been to: the UK (of course), Madeira Island, São Miguel Island, Barbados, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Manhattan Island.

7. Private artificial islands creep me out, especially when they're populated by billionaires. Public artificial islands are, I suppose, fine.

8. I just found this Wikipedia list of fictional islands and it's made me think back to how many of my favorite books as a kid were set on islands, or involved islands, most of them only lightly inhabited. They do make for interesting story settings...

9. "Let's all go to Gullah Gullah Island!"

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common_nature

Looked out at the sky the other night and the moon was not that bright. Despite what appears in the photo below, we could see the entire ball of the Moon. It was just that the slice was brighter.

What was also very noticeable was Venus. After a number of attempts I was finally able to get a non wavery shot of it in close-up.

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runpunkrun

Photograph of a pomegranate (here standing in for an alien fruit) and a paring knife against a black background. Text: The Feast of St. Olaf, by Punk.

Author: Punk
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Team Sheppard
Rating: G
Content notes: No standard notes apply.

Size: 3,800 words

Summary: The hunting knife is twice the size of the fruit in his hand, but Ronon handles it with ease.

Read it on the AO3 or here »

( The Feast of St. Olaf )

Reblog on Tumblr
Email | The Underground | AO3

oursin

Reform UK will tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says - and I am getting out a whole school of, er, perhaps not codfish, something more sustainable and perhaps with nasty spines, for Reform UK, who prate on

Reform leader Dan Thomas told BBC Wales there were "some museums that take a very niche view on our past that may talk about slavery, without the whole picture of the fact that the British empire was the first to abolish slavery, and that other countries have done it for, you know, millennia".

I am pretty sure that back in the early C19th the ancestors, whether actual or in general leanings, of Reform UK, would have been screaming loudly at the very thought of abolishing slavery and denouncing Wilberforce as WOKE. But now they are able to claim abolition as Great Achievement of the British Nation.

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I do wonder whether fellow Esperantists actually read these, it sounds niche to the point of eccentricity, not that that was exactly uncommon in those circles: Why Was the Discovery of the Jet Stream Mostly Ignored? Maybe because it was published in Esperanto:

The somewhat eccentric Ooishi was not only the director of Japan’s Tateno atmospheric observatory but also the head of the Japan Esperanto Society, proponents of the artificially constructed language, created in the 1870s as a means of international communication. Ooishi announced his discovery of the swift, high-altitude river of air in the Tateno observatory’s annual reports, which he published in Esperanto. Not surprisingly, his research was ignored[.}

On the other hand, would they have gained much traction beyond Japan anyway - observatory annual reports hardly usual scientific journals mode of dissemination.

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Urban life: The LCC and the Arts I: The Open-Air Sculpture Exhibitions - do wonder if there is a slightly condescension of posterity going on in the assumption of 'the elite aesthetics and values of its ‘natural’ middle-class constituency'.

At least two of the cities where Waymo operates have not experienced declines in traffic-related injuries and deaths.

The Disappearance of the Public Bench

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Tourist finds rare chunk of oldest sea crocodile - actually turns out she was an amateur fossil hunter on a guided walk along the Lyme Regis shore, although she had no idea just how rare a find she'd made (She Was No Mary Anning...)

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I like this: The Destructive Myth of “Getting Outside Your Comfort Zone”.

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get_knitted

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.

This Week's Question: Does your crafting change with the seasons, certain crafts at certain times of the year?

If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Current Mood: tired

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Posted by John Scalzi

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/04/24/an-anecdotal-observation-about-career-longevity/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=60341

As most of you know I spent much of this last week in Los Angeles, taking meetings with film/TV folks and pitching things to them, both from books I’ve written and ideas I have currently not connected to something I published. The meetings generally went very well — which isn’t necessarily the same as I’m walking away with a movie deal, there’s a lot of moving parts involved with that — and I came away with a lot of interest in the things I pitched and movement as my manager sent along materials. I gave some thought on why these meeting generated as much interest as they did.

There are a number of factors for this, but the one I want to bring to the fore at the moment is this one: When I sit down with these film/TV people and run an idea or concept past them, they one hundred percent know that the idea I’m running past them is my own, not generated by or written out with, some version of “AI.” From a practical point of view this means they know there is no issue with things like copyright (“AI” generated work is not copyrightable, and rights issues are a big deal for film/TV). From a creative point of view this means they know I have actually thought about the concept I’m bringing to them — that I know it inside and out and can build it out, dig deeper into it, and can improvise with the concept rather than just go with whatever an LLM spits out from a prompt.

In other words, they know I can do actual creative work, from ideation to production, and they know when they work with me they’re not only getting an idea but they’re also getting the actual working brain behind it. That brain can efficiently work the problem, whatever the problem might be. In 2026, this is a real and actual differentiator: A functional brain, and a reliable creative partner. I rather strongly suspect the further along we go in this new era of “cognitive offloading,” the more of a differentiator this will be.

This isn’t an anti-“AI” post. It is a “the more other people claiming to be writers use ‘AI’ the more secure my gig gets” post. If you want to use “AI” to generate ideas or create your prose or whatever, by all means, be my guest. The next twenty years of my career thanks you in advance for your choices.

— JS

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/04/24/an-anecdotal-observation-about-career-longevity/

https://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=60341

shivver

Title: "Gunge"
Fandom(s): Doctor Who
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones
Rating: G
Genre: General
Word Count: 296

Summary: The Doctor and Martha work to prevent ~~a calamity of epic proportions~~ ... ~~widespread bio-disaster~~ ... All right, all right, it's just going to be really gross, okay?

Read it on AO3.

Author's Notes: So here's the deal. I've been working on a story, and it's 1730 words of pure dross so far. Then I was looking back at another story of mine and thought, "I should write *this* idea instead," but you know, that's going to take two weeks.

Then I remembered I'd written this earlier this month, as just a practice adaptation of another fic I saw, and I thought, "Hey, I can clean that up in ten minutes and get it posted!"

So yeah, this is just crap that I'm posting to not miss a month. Just keep scrolling down your feed and forget this ever happened.

oliviacirce

Yesterday was Shakespeare's (alleged) birthday, so here (a day late, because yesterday was a little bit of a doozy) is a Shakespeare poem! It is also a poem about horses, since I haven't posted one of those yet this year, and is obviously a sonnet.

( Shakespeare's Horse )

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Posted by Elna McHilderson

https://cheezburger.com/45119493/actress-daughter-cuts-ties-with-unsupportive-mom-after-she-invites-her-on-an-extravagant-vacation

"She made it clear that she was going to go [to school] for theater. I told her it was a horrible idea and to do something that would actually have her be able to support herself. I knew she wasn't the next Broadway star."

It's a fine line parents have to walk when it comes to being supportive of your child, but also making sure they set themselves up to be able to survive. This becomes especially difficult when deciding a college major. Higher education is expensive in the US and you can't just go and then have nothing right afterwards. This is the problem for a lot of art students. They go to school, and then are drowning in student loan debt for the rest of their lives because they never end up making enough to pay it back. The system is whack and I could go on forever about, but that's not what I'm trying to do here..

Right now I'm trying to figure out if this mother is in the right or wrong… It's obvious she did not support her daughter's dreams of becoming an actress. But does she need to rub it in her daughter's face after she has been struggling in her career? You see, she begged her daughter to pick a more supportive major, but no, she chose theater. The mother disapproved, but it isn't her life, so whatever.

However, after coming into some inheritance, the daughter is wondering if her mom could help with her student loans. Her mom gave her a stern no, but then right afterwards invited her and all of her siblings to an all-paid extravagant vacation. That feels a little tone deaf, don't you think? Like, read the room, mom…

https://cheezburger.com/45119493/actress-daughter-cuts-ties-with-unsupportive-mom-after-she-invites-her-on-an-extravagant-vacation

dorchadas

Back in 2019 I played through The Eternal Castle (REMASTERED) and beat it, but left it at a single playthrough even though I could tell there was more waiting for me if I managed to beat the game without dying. Little did I know how much more there was:

Watch on YouTube

This video got recommended to me by the algorithm--an actual good recommendation for once--and just a bit ago I watched it. I was expecting a secret cutscene at the end after the credits, the classic result of doing the challenge run, but there's so much more here. The levels shifting just a bit between runs, new dialogue for most NPCs, NPCs vanishing, playing tricks on you with the game "crashing", an entirely-separate game mode with a separate protagonist, separate levels, and separate enemies...there's so much more and it's entirely possible that the guy who made this YouTube essay is one of the few people in the world who has seen it all. If he even has and there isn't still more to discover.

That was well worth an hour and a half of my time.

Current Mood: curious
Current Music: The Eternal Castle (REMASTERED) - Chase On The Roofs

shadowhive

Once again the past days have been low energy with my focus not being as there as I hoped.

Castle reruns started on channel 5 this week so we’ve ended up watching those. It’s such a great show and it’s so good seeing it from the start. I’m just a sucker for detective shows, especially with an outside consultant, they’re always fun.

I watched the other resurrection of the daleks special features, which were mostly with Janet Fielding (Tegan) and damn. I’d no idea that she’d had cancer, or that she’d been married to someone that she found out was dealing arms. Like ?? That’s so crazy. Plus there were cute seals.

I’ve also been continuing Tomodachi Life, which now has 3/4’s of MCR (minus Frank) and four people from Stranger Things (Dustin, Steve, Jonathan and Argyle). It’s funny seeing them go around doing their silly lil things. I wish I had art skills to make use of custom stuff and I do hope they add more things. I think the best of the miis I’ve made were Seapeekay and Ray.

I am still going on Pokopia, mostly still trying to get rid of ash. I think I have all the recipes now (bar the last few levelling ones) though I still need to get Pokémon. But the ash has sidetracked me and there’s so so much. Person who decided on that, you’re insane.

Also I watched Maul Shadow Lord, albeit a bit belatedly. Ugh the empire is there and being assholes. I really hope we get stuff that isn’t so empire centric some day but this was still pretty good. It was surprising how they made Marrok’s comeback so threatening too.

Wednesday was a trip to get mums meds which went wrong cause some weren’t there and so that’s caused issues (she has a certain make, but apparently they’re not getable anymore and we don’t know why). I did get a marvel rivals graphic novel and the usual Lego magazines from sainsburys, plus gaming books from Aldi but not much else.

So Stranger Things Tales From 85 went live yesterday and I watched the first two eps (I’d have watched another but, as is often the case tiredness hit) so thoughts ahoy.

Before I go into detail I have enjoyed it so far in general. But more thoughts are under the cut (with - when we get to more detail to avoid spoilers)

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So yeah I think I might try and watch the series over the weekend (superseding the plans I originally had for nighttime stuff).

General night time stuff I wanna watch being Heated Rivalry, The Beauty and Pizza Movie (plus I wanna finally get back to Welcome to Derry I’m determined to finish the last eps over the next two weeks). Also I am thinking of doing a Mandalorian rewatch but I dunno i can squeeze it in before the film. We’ll see.

Plus I wanna watch the blu rays of Warning From Space (and maybe other things too, like Life Force, Sacred Spirit and Weapons).

But next week is one of those busy weeks. Mum’s friend coming (ugh), food shop delivery, mum’s birthday and free comic book day/theatre open day.

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Current Music: Seapeekay stream

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https://cheezburger.com/45143301/neighbor-repeatedly-sues-homeowners-for-over-55k-after-parking-dispute-claiming-disturbance-from-car

A petty parking dispute quickly escalated into a full-blown battle when these homeowners picked the wrong battle with an unhinged neighbor.

Life is not without its small annoyances. Noise, disturbances, and disruptions are among the most troubling aspects of living next to other people. Especially when they are unpredictable or at early or late hours, disruptive noises like loud vehicles and music, even lights that shine through windows, can become majorly inconvenient, leaving you fuming for entire days as you struggle to get through your work amid a cloud of sleep deprivation.

Unfortunately, there are few places left where you can actually live without having to deal with other people. Even the most rural areas have more than their fair share of people problems. And, branching out into the wilderness too has its problems, wild animals like bears, as some brave souls have trialed for us, make for poor companions.

But there is annoying, and there is inconvenient, and then there is a certain point where your own reaction becomes the problem. You need to sit down and realize that it's really not that big of a deal, and you're just going to need to learn to live with it.

There is also addressing and handling things with your neighbors with reasonable requests. And there is: this.

https://cheezburger.com/45143301/neighbor-repeatedly-sues-homeowners-for-over-55k-after-parking-dispute-claiming-disturbance-from-car

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"I'm a fully qualified joiner now with a very well-paying job and a beautiful wife who doesn't think I'm ugly or stupid and definitely prefers me over a donkey."

Childhood is short; Spongebob is forever.

How do people reach the age of 40 or 50 without feeling completely burned out by their careers?

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Why should this teacher restore her classroom when a bunch of 17-year-old kids who know better were the ones who destroyed it?

"She made it clear that she was going to go [to school] for theater. I told her it was a horrible idea and to do something that would actually have her be able to support herself. I knew she wasn't the next Broadway star."

A petty parking dispute quickly escalated into a full-blown battle when these homeowners picked the wrong battle with an unhinged neighbor.

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