Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
He is an overpowered white guy in a new land like John Carter adventure type stories. He is a chosen one the prophecy foretold! Person out of time who brings knowledge from the future to win war against evil. The deadite army is a comedic take on the stop motion armies of the dead from B movies. He even fights his evil twin!
It is a parody of a genre, not a single movie or series.
I am sure that is one of the inspirations.
Because the vast majority of people either benefit or think they benefit from in person interactions. That includes people who end up in leadership positions who make decisions about how content is delivered.
Yes, plenty of people are able to be self motivated to do things online and it is great that the option exists for them. It won’t be the standard for most things though, because of how most people tend to interact with the world around them.
The best parodies are humorous takes that treat the source material with repect.
Shaun of the Dead
Galaxy Quest
Army of Darkness (person out of time becomes a leader against evil)
Stick to policy and let the manager be the one who breaks the rules.
If you do it, then you can be punished.
Fixing the Y2k issue was a single endeavor spread across a massive number of systems worldwide.
It is a singular endeavor with tons of moving parts, like pretty much every modern endeavor.
The biggest thing is that if you want to hang out with people you will need to take the initiative to make it happen and not rely on being invited. If you are already doing that, keep it up! But that is frequently the second hurdle for people after not going out and being social which is the biggest barrier to meeting new people and it sounds like you are going out.
The other thing is being a little more open with new people while avoiding an info dump. Mention a couple things and see if they respond, and make sure to express interest in things they bring up when possible. Like I simply don’t care about sports but can talk about someone else’s enjoyment of sports instead of dismissing all sports talk.
But I can also relate to how some people feel like a chore to talk to and others come easy. But not everyone who is easy to talk to shares interests, which kinda sucks. That is why I haven’t really made new friends for years as I have four friends who are easy to talk to and we interact daily online, and honestly expanding my friend group is intimidating after the last attempt to expand based on a hobby ended up with most of them being maga idiots. It was worth the try though!
Most of us are concerned.
The minority are concerned because the US government has done unethical and malicious medical stuff to minorities, which makes some level of hesitancy for those groups understandable. Not the cod oil instead of vaccines bullshit white middle class and up promote, that is pure snake oil propaganda.
Are the people saying it is dangerous saying why it is dangerous or being vague about it? Are they honest and trustworthy about the things inside the city or are they unreliable liars?
If it is a vague, unspecified threat from unreliable people then I’m certainly going out. If there are details and the people are otherwise trustworthy I’m staying in.
If they are untrustworthy or trustworthy but vague, it would come down to whether there is a reason to go outside other than finding out if they are lying.
We need to talk about Kevin.
Neither are a requirement for life, although you generally need at least one of the two.
Relationships are work, although the good ones only feel like work when there are conflicts and challenges. Even then, a good partner is a net benefit as two can accomplish more things than one.
Careers are kind of a nebulous series of jobs, which may or may not be a linear progression. They do generally reault in increasing income faste than inflation over time, but not always. Someone can switch caeers at any time, or just have a series of jobs, or even find a way to make money in a way that may or may not be considered a career.
Being in a relationship can also result in not needing to work at all if the single income of the other person is high enough.
So you should set your priorities based on your goals and what you want to put effort into. If that is a career now, you will have that established when looking for a relationship. If you chose a relationship, it may or may not help with a career or you may not need to pursue one. Whichever one you choose may end up getting switched at any point during your life because of accidents or incompatability so the most important thing is to focus on whichever you choose and if an opportunity for the other happens to pop up don’t ignore it if you want both eventually.
“I can get a Whopper from McDonald’s and I don’t have to see any crap from Papa John’s because McDonalds is defederated from them.”
Provider doesn’t make any sense when the content is coming from other places.
Fine, “I choose Burger King as my hamburger provider but I expect to be able to access a Big Mac from Burger King unless they are defederated.”
He is in the crowd in Endgame too, but don’t think he has a line.
politics are all opinion-based, so our politics being on the opposite ends if the spectrum are understandable.
This is a view that is easy to hold when the political opinions have little to no effect on those discussing politics. Once one person’s view steps into fascism and other hate based ideologies that spread oppression and violence it isn’t politics, it is just spreading hate with a veneer of politics.
One way to think about it is what would you volunteer in front of a crappy boss when asking question to someone new. Anything you night not want to say is something you shouldn’t ask directly. Asking about the positive aspects isn’t what you really want, but asking about them lets them volunteer negatives or offer to talk to you in a way they might not worry about getting back to them.
Soinds like Bob thought you were too direct and too fast in asking a lot of questions instead of ‘getting to know’ Alice or something along those lines by calling it one sided. That could be a valid complaint, since most people don’t want to be contacted for a list of specific questions that will have answers in their email history. They mostly want to volunteer what they are comfortable first and maybe answer follow up questions. Like I wouldn’t answer a question about ‘bosses being on everyone all the time’ or if coworkers complain all the time in an email.
Bob could also be wrong and making a huge deal out of nothing too. I’ve worked with a few people who assume the worst from and email exchange without actually talking to the people involved. But more likely you came on way too strong too fast and if you worded it that way in the email then your approach was too strong for someone you don’t know.
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I’m not trying to convince you, just explaining why I see it as a parody.