It’s still out there. For one that’s specifically what you describe try Keep the Wolves at Bay by Uncle Lucius.

Yeah, I admit it’s a pretty big leap to suggest any one person in the SLC area is connected, but what goes on down there is CRAZY and evil.

The article says that the outbreak actually started near the Utah-Arizona border, specifically the western half of that border. Due to a little thing called the Grand Canyon, the Arizona side of that has terrible road links and no population center comparable even to southwestern Utah, which is already isolated from the center of power by simple distance and sparse population. This has made it prime territory for the polygamist fundamentalist Mormons. If this person is connected to that community, they may have interesting reasons, good or bad, for not wanting to be traced.

Still. Something like this could go viral.

LOL, are you trying to keep me from derailing a shitpost thread where I’m rehashing the boring online debate that inspired it! How dare you!!! What are you? Some kind of Michael?

Huh. Not much a part of my identity these days, but in a yes/no sense, yeah I guess so, LOL. Of course, these days most gym bros are doing some gaming too.

You provide physical inputs, which are sensitive to timing and agility, to a rule-based competition. It’s at least as much a sport as golf or curling or bowling. And I say that as someone who doesn’t find eSports particularly compelling. It requires a sophisticated technal infrastructure and doesn’t require superhuman levels of strength or endurance (though the latter in particular could be helpful), but those are merely “sliders on the configuration screen” for whether a certain sport is to your interest.

Michael probably agrees.

Also, banally, Democrats picked Obamacare subsidies as their red line, and open enrollment for Obamacare plans – sans subsidies – opens tomorrow. How big the outcry over increased premiums is will be politically telling. Whether it works or not, it’s absolutely the card Senate democrats have been waiting to play.

Kit Secord from the one-season Rocketeer reboot for little kids.

Kipo (And her dad) from Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.

Nemona from Pokémon Violet (and Friede from Horizons), plus a talking Pokédex that ended up too clunky to bring anyway.

Various levels of authenticity versus ease of assembly/comfort, and I’m proud of them regardless, but I’m tired, boss. Thank fuckin’ Christ that Nene Kusanagi from Project Sekai actually has a factory-made costume.

Sounds like he’s made peace with its living on in forks as well. Nice to see he’s doing okay.

For your edit, you don’t want the direction of shear forces right along the layer lines. This is less pretty but will be much stronger for the intended purpose.

Pardon me, but that is clearly the forest moon of Endor, not to be confused with the weird lakeshore moon of Endor. Be careful of tempting deer-butts hanging from trees, OP.

lol, I didn’t want to presume, especially based on my experience with weak-ass European clothes dryers.

American dishwashers run very hot and use harsh detergents. Some dishes and cookware will state on their packing or even on themselves that they are not dishwasher safe.

Despite this, the sheer convenience of the dishwasher will make people ignore the warnings, and the objects retain their basic functionality just often enough that the meme can be an open-ended YOLO-like joke, phrased like parental encouragement, instead of merely mocking people who try it.

American Pie by Don McLean

Radio version or album version?

HTC had quite a run there. I still miss my HTC One X, back when it was actually interesting to get a new phone. These days I routinely forget which iPhone it is that I have.

This one is way below $100, but about ten years ago I bought a roll of twist tie wire at a dollar store. It’s fifty or a hundred feet, with a little guillotine cutter. It’s still just a bunch of twist tie, but it punches WAY above its weight with quality of life improvement. No more hunting for the one you dropped, or wondering how you’ll close up a veggie bag. Also good for (fairly light) pictures that use wire instead of sawtooth hardware, and I’ve used it in a pinch when I didn’t have cable ties. I dunno. It’s just an oddly useful substance to have lying in your junk drawer.

I haven’t, but it looks interesting and even more bonkers than the movie.

Because it’s mildly transgressive to a certain demographic, and tools and internet speeds of the day allowed for visuals that were close enough to the inspirations for people to find them interesting. Subverting “innocent” characters has been a trope since at least Tijuana bibles of the 1920s and I assume much longer. Specifically portraying beloved animated characters as adult and jaded would also have been directly evocative of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

Eventually, most of that demographic comes to realize that the transgressiveness itself is only so interesting and there is usually something of value in the interesting property that distance lets them appreciate, so a spoof needs to have other things going for it to hold an audience’s interest (e.g. Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which is still brilliant). That said, there is a certain durability to the low-hanging fruit when the subjects of the satire remain popular to continually cycling cohorts of kids who have the unmitigated gall to begin growing up. :-)

There are biting midges, and I presume they’re very annoying, but most don’t bite and they’re all different from mosquitoes.