u/Impressive_Yak_9089

I'm now sorting through my files (doing a digital inventory cleansing of sorts) and came upon a TV script titled "The Backrooms". The pilot episode is titled "No Way Out."

I won't share the script itself or any additional information -- other than, since it was submitted for a competition, I can't see the author's name. Any chance Kane Parsons wrote this?

He's a cereal rapist

Fucked Count Chocula in the ass

The guy who was from Egypt and kept slamming his head against the table and then pretended to faint was pretty funny. Sokol's relentless dickishness and aggressive pizza consumption ranks pretty highly, too

Looks like NBC took down all the TCAP YT clips at least a year ago. I can't believe they originally aired this (obviously not the self-takedown, but the immediately preceding and ensuing events).

do you think the setlist will change dramatically?

They've already said theyre coming back to the US next year to play arenas ... given the relatively static/lackluster setlists for the summer shows, and the state of the economy, i think i may wait for them to play msg or pnc (in new york or nj). i would imagine the stage production will be insane and provide a setting for a stronger, more structured/thematic, setlist.

the visuals for the dark forest will be insane. theres no way theyre *not* playing that song on future legs.

To some degree, I think almost every human being still feels the "weight" of the pandemic -- how it bifurcated our lives in a way only trauma manages to do. I had turned 30 a month before the pandemic hit -- lost my job in late February, was unemployed and in lockdown by mid-March (like everyone else).

Because of any number of factors -- employment, relationships, family, death, the sheer social disruption COVID caused -- there seems to exist a large segment of the population that never recovered from the pandemic. I still feel (and may forever feel) like "normal" died -- I am nowhere near the person I was pre-pandemic, and I don't know if I'll ever reach the same highs or feel the similar levels of joy as I did in my pre-2020 life.

Like the Great Recession, the pandemic hit us at a sensitive age. It seems like Millennials have had an especially hard time regaining their footing -- while younger generations are completely lost; it's a shift as seismic as the first time my dad brought home a PC with AOL, or 9/11.

Anyway ... what're your thoughts? How are you doing?

Assuming extreme weather conditions continue to plague North America -- especially in coastal cities and areas within the United States -- which areas are least likely to experience severe disruptions/property damage in the next 20 or so years? Which states will become most desirable, if only because access to resources and a somewhat "comfortable" lifestyle are least likely to be affected by severe climate disruptions?

Ari Aster is four-for-four with his relatively young filmography. Hereditary is definitely his best work thus far, IMO (though I can see why some fans prefer Midsommar).

His back-to-back horror films arrived before COVID and feel very personal, touching on themes of family, sex, generational trauma, and the occult/cults/religion. While Beau is Afraid is certainly his most "autobiographical" project, both that movie and Eddington deal with anxieties and fears specific to 21st-century American sociopolitics. (I've seen Beau Is Afraid three times, and -- though it doesn't reference COVID directly -- at least from what I recall -- it definitely gives off post-pandemic vibes.)

Reflecting on each of his movies, Hereditary carried the urgency of a talented first-time filmmaker with a strong "voice" -- and I think about a half-dozen scenes that utterly shocked and terrified me. Midsommar was anything but a sophomore slump, but except for the first sacrifice and the ending, I don't remember its story or scares as much as I do Hereditary. I liked Beau Is Afraid the first time I saw it, really enjoyed it upon a second viewing, and now think of it like The Big Lebowski -- it works as a complete, three-hour anti-epic odyssey, but it's almost as if it was intended to be chopped up into hilarious, context-less YouTube clips.

I saw Eddington twice. The first time I watched it, I felt much as I did after my first experience with Beau: I knew it was extremely well-made, and though I appreciated its unique"voice," its depth and social commentary, I was certain I was either missing something or that -- as a singular film -- it fell short. ... Its second half initially felt self-indulgent and tonally inconsistent. It was almost as if Aster stuffed a western, a social satire, a political thriller, and some light horror sweetener into a blender, but the resulting smoothie didn't quite congeal. After my first viewing, I walked away thinking the film didn't quite add up to the sum of its parts.

Like with Beau, I reflected on Eddington and its message(s) often enough that I rewatched it recently to gain a second opinion. I now believe that -- in some ways -- Eddington is Aster's most horrifying story. Its takeaway message is that modern America is ruled by insatiable big-tech billionaires whose addictive applications and algorithms relentlessly feed us personally curated buffets of misinformation and manipulation that distract us through division and fear while democracy crumbles beneath our feet.

Phew. I worked myself into a legit panic attack. Thanks, Ari!

Hi. I'm conducting research for a nonfiction project largely about U.S. veterans' benefits; I'm trying to understand what kind of help my uncle -- a Vietnam veteran who was disabled (by what he claimed was friendly fire) during the war, circa 1969 -- received before his untimely passing two years before my birth (1986).

Are there any books or resources you'd suggest about the history of the VA? Specifically, I'm trying to figure out who was financially responsible for his physical and psychological treatments -- and if psychological treatment was available to him after the war.

1. Did Vietnam veterans receive supplemental income after the war? Were there additional benefits for those injured in combat?
2. Were veterans subject to the same disability income limitations as civilians who are disabled?
3. When did individual psychiatry/psychotherapy become available for veterans through the VA?
4. Who covered his prosthesis, and how often could he get it replaced?

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

I was in a traumatic auto-ped car collision about a decade, which basically cost me my arm. (An auto-ped collision is when a car collides with a pedestrian; I was the pedestrian.) At the time, I had a white-collar job and was very physically active (I was training for a marathon when I got hit). I have since developed severe complications with my arm and extreme chronic pain, limiting all aspects of my life and leaving me disabled. I'm extremely lonely and literally need assistance at this point just to function. I feel like my life is over, let alone my dating life. Is it even worth trying to date or find a partner?