You mean the Cyclops on xmen (marvel) or does DC also have a cyclops character that shoots a powerful laser?

I think a lot of sitcoms rely on it because it’s a way to create conflict without needing to create a bad guy.

Malcolm in the Middle is an example of a show that didn’t rely on miscommunication for every plot and I realized during my first streaming watch through that there isn’t a single recurring character on the show that I’d consider a decent person.

To be fair, armpits are pretty quick to shave and I could see some people sticking with some personal hygiene habits in times like that just to feel a bit more normal. Also, if they don’t have time for showering, shaving armpits might be one of the most effective ways to keep the smells lower, like the difference between needing to scrub a lot with a sponge or just give it a wipe.

Personally, I shave my face because once it gets to a certain length, it annoys me. Same with my head. Now I do use an electric razor for both of those and don’t go down to the skin for either, so whether I kept up with that or went all mountain man would depend on access to electricity, but if I had that access, I would absolutely spend a bit of time managing that because it starts to be a distraction if I don’t.

I love the scene in (a movie, just realized I can talk about it without spoiling if I don’t say what movie, those who have seen it will know), where there’s an attempt to do a romance scam where they rob you when you get naked to have sex with the bait woman. He takes the other guy’s gun, at which point the guy laughs and says it’s only loaded with blanks. MC pauses for a second then shoots him in the face point blank anyways because blanks still release a ton of energy, they just don’t put half of it in to a small projectile, and the guy ends up rolling on the floor in agony, blinded.

Though that shot is fired inside and I don’t recall if they even acknowledge that aspect of it.

Archer definitely does, though!

This makes me want to see a fully automatic revolver. If you’re going to be absurd, lean into it.

I think Newton would be the first to say that being appalled by things doesn’t cause a torque force on corpses. Well, he would be if he wasn’t dead. I guess it’s really just me saying that but trying to add Newton’s weight to it.

This is hilarious because it would also resolve that part where the person saying to turn on the TV basically needs to be psychic because they almost always tune in at the start of the presentation where it isn’t even clear yet what the presentation is about.

If you click a link, then the video starts from the beginning but it also makes sense that the person that sent the link already knows what it’s talking about.

Though this wouldn’t really help when that same “needs to see the future to be able to point something interesting out because it hasn’t started happening yet and thus wouldn’t yet be worth pointing out” gets applied to events about to happen nearby.

I wish shows would have some people just confused and not really understanding what’s happening, and not just for “the helpless civilians that need to be saved” but incorporating the whole “it can take time for individuals involved in something unexpected to even understand what is going on or what they are responding to”. It’s kinda funny how much some fiction ignores things like the fog of war, especially ones where they have a sniper that can somehow just see everything and always has a shot (often also sitting way out in the open where they’d get counter sniped pretty quickly, like hanging from a crane, which also begs some more questions).

But they will share all the details with any random supporter waiting for the procedure to be finished in the otherwise empty waiting room, right?

I find it unrealistic for any movie involving contact with aliens to not even consider how our and their microbial life would interact with each other. There should be a default rule of “oh you touched the alien? Ok, you will be the quarantine subject that we will monitor to make sure you haven’t caught some slow developing disease that will inevitably kill any earth life in your vicinity because we haven’t developed any kind of resistance to it”.

Except instead of “touched the alien” it would really have to be “entered their atmosphere with your ship” because the ship itself could bring back contaminants that would eventually destroy all life on our planet. And maybe even entering the atmosphere isn’t needed if microbial life occasionally gets swept into space by extreme weather, meteor interactions with the atmosphere, maybe solar ones also. Including this because it’s plausible that earth life originated elsewhere and was just seeded here by some event that allowed life to escape some other location and survive to come here. We’ve also had ships return to earth with life detectable on their outside–because someone on earth sneezed on it before it was launched and the microbial life wasn’t destroyed by being in space.

Similar line of thought when they go on the alien planet and just breathe the atmosphere because they detect oxygen.

I think this might be one of the reasons zombie a apocalypses are so popular because it gives a plausible reason for why large groups could be just as failure prone as small groups, as well as a plausible reason as to why the survivors don’t just immediately restart society considering the infrastructure, power stations, and factories don’t just disappear but require the knowledge and logistics to run or maintain them and some essential people might have been turned into zombies, plus the risk of attacks while doing maintenance or going out to run it.

Your brain is doing the whole thing.

It can imagine you have already read something it never actually “simulated”. It can imagine you going through the steps of reading without any written words in the dream being involved at all. It can imagine illegible text that you are conscious of being unable to read. It can imagine legible text that you can read. It can invent information, recall it, or fail to recall it for the contents of the text. The contents could stay consistent if you return to them later in the dream, they could change, or at that “later” point, your brain can invent the “memory” of having previously read that text.

And it isn’t really a simulator, which is why lucid dreaming might only experience a subset of these, possibly leaning more towards illegible text, because a lucid dreamer is probably either trying to read to find information (that the brain might not have and might not bother trying to make up because it knows what the conscious mind is up to) or testing what is possible in dreams (which I’d imagine the unconscious mind might think something like “dude, I’m just making this up as I go in the first place, and while it’s cool that this whole thing entertains and/or perplexes you, it’s just a hallucination that happens during routine housekeeping that you’re not even supposed to remember because it’s all meaningless. Don’t try to do science in it, just enjoy the show, laugh when you think about it when I’m fully online, and move on”).

This could be adapted into a strategy. Use some words that look like they follow some other pattern, deliberately pronounce them and volunteer a definition as if they do to prompt a challenge, basically gaslighting your opponent into losing confidence in challenging to allow you to start making up words later on. You’d basically convert Scrabble into poker lol.

Could be you have it set to start up when you boot your computer, as it’s pretty quick to “launch” when it’s actually already running but hidden in the system tray. I have it set to be manually launched on mine and yeah 10 seconds sounds about right for what I’m used to (haven’t restarted since the update).

As a viewer, I find animated presentations to be gimmicky. Often feels infomercial-ish, or like a fast food version of professionalism.

For those still on windows, it’s very infuriating. For those that have made the switch, it becomes mildly amusing. Averages out to mildly infuriating.

Make one right now. Stick it on your keychain. Then you will be prepared to at least boot into Linux on a moment’s notice. Should probably also have a look around and figure out how to show a presentation on there or do whatever you might need to suddenly do there.

Hell, this is why I went out of my way to make sure I could control updates for my personal machine where the only consequences of it doing a random update would be that I can’t use it until it’s done. I didn’t even ever have it actually do an annoying update because the frustration was obvious as soon as I heard the term “automatic updates”, like this isn’t just for some program, it’s for the OS itself and will demand restarts.

And that isn’t even mentioning the undesirable updates, like the buggy ones or the ones that just enshitify your OS rather than add anything anyone wants, like all those windows 7 “get ready for windows 10” ones and apparently some people even got an automatic “7 to 10” update.

And then on Linux, every part of updating is nicer, other than the supply chain attacks (which is unfortunately serious enough I could see it threatening the entire Linux ecosystem itself).

Yeah, if anything, it’s a copy pasta, though not even sure it’s that because I haven’t seen it a lot.

The private table in the break room.

Optimized for artificial insemination?