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Yesterday, I was at Universal Studios theme park. They said "keep your bag by your feet". I verbalized "wait, that's stupid, this is a high-speed roller coaster. Can't I put it on the side or something?" They said no. I complied. Guess what flew out of my bag? My phone. With the wallet attatchment that has my ID and debit card.

They made me wait the entire day. 12 hours at the theme park. Just to say they couldn't find it. They reassured me "we have a special team that comes at midnight, we'll email you by morning". I check my email on my laptop. Nothing. I called them with the hotel phone. Not found somehow. I check the location on Google. Still at the theme park.

Now I'm at the airport. Orlando to Seattle. My plane leaves in 7 hours. I have absolutely nothing but my expired passport, this (brand new) laptop, and some merchendise. I have no idea how I'm gonna buy food or even get home. I can't access ANYTHING. I log into any single financial app or account on my laptop and on every single one of them - "verify with phone!" Im gonna be hanging out at the airport for the next 7 hours. It's the only thing I can even do.

This is such BS. Screw Universal. Their movies are crap anyway. "Guys look, the little funny yellow kid said 'BANANA!' for the 26th time! Pure comedy!" The Harry Potter movies are a joke.

Anyway, I'm gonna land in Seattle where my car sits in the parking garage. I live 3 hours from Seattle. I have no clue how I'm gonna drive home. I can't pay for a night at a hotel because I don't have any access to anything financial at all.

TL;DR: My phone fell out of my bag during a roller coaster. It's a wallet-phone with everything. I have to fly home today without an ID or debit card or anything but the laptop I'm typing this with.

Yesterday, I was at Universal Studios theme park. They said "keep your bag by your feet". I verbalized "wait, that's stupid, this is a high-speed roller coaster. Can't I put it on the side or something?" They said no. I complied. Guess what flew out of my bag? My phone. With the wallet attatchment that has my ID and debit card.

They made me wait the entire day. 12 hours at the theme park. Just to say they couldn't find it. They reassured me "we have a special team that comes at midnight, we'll email you by morning". I check my email on my laptop. Nothing. I called them with the hotel phone. Not found somehow. I check the location on Google. Still at the theme park.

Now I'm at the airport. Orlando to Seattle. My plane leaves in 7 hours. I have absolutely nothing but my expired passport, this (brand new) laptop, and some merchendise. I have no idea how I'm gonna buy food or even get home. I can't access ANYTHING. I log into any single financial app or account on my laptop and on every single one of them - "verify with phone!" Im gonna be hanging out at the airport for the next 7 hours. It's the only thing I can even do.

This is such BS. Screw Universal. Their movies are crap anyway. "Guys look, the little funny yellow kid said 'BANANA!' for the 26th time! Pure comedy!" The Harry Potter movies are a joke.

Anyway, I'm gonna land in Seattle where my car sits in the parking garage. I live 3 hours from Seattle. I have no clue how I'm gonna drive home. I can't pay for a night at a hotel because I don't have any access to anything financial at all.

TL;DR: My phone fell out of my bag during a roller coaster. It's a wallet-phone with everything. I have to fly home today without an ID or debit card or anything but the laptop I'm typing this with.

AI is tampant, taking clean water and replacing jobs and art. The economy is shot, everything is a subscription, everything is way too expensive. No one can afford anything or get hired anywhere. The US just passed a bill to combine our military and the IDF. Everything in society right now is nostalgic, nostalgia-baiting, and all focused on things from literally even just pre-2020. There's also tons of angst in people, where everything is hated and no one can have fun anymore.

I'm always told that society comes back around - that it gets bad and then good in phases. I'm wondering if that's even true. I still have faith in the AI bubble popping, mass lawsuits against the data centers eating water, media becoming rich with its own stuff instead of nostalgia, prices going down to compete for consumers, etc. But will that actually happen? The economy shows zero signs of getting better. We now have trillionaires

I am a white guy who is into black women, Indigenous, and east-Asians.

When I mention being into black women, it's always "hell yeah, bro" or people just laugh and find it cool. They might make jokes like "dipping in the chocolate" or whatever but it's all good fun. Other white people around me mention being into Latinas a lot and it's played up like something funny or cute. Same with Indigenous or Indians.

But as soon as I even dare slightly mention east-Asians, it suddenly becomes this super weird thing, like I must be some kind of creep or pervert. I don't really get it. Why does it elicit such a different reaction?

Unfortunately, Oliver Tree was killed today in a helicotper crash. Which really got me wondering how that even happens. There's so much open space, can't they just swerve around? I'd figure an actual collision would be pretty rare because they'd have to both be at the exact same height. They aren't bound to roads or tracks or anything, is it just difficult to turn?

This is an industry I only went into because I had zero references/experience, I was 19, and I was desperate. I happened to have one connection and enough video editing/graphic design work in my personal portfolio. I found the job through Craigslist which is how you know you're in the toilet.

News fucking sucks.

The few compliments I can give are that "at least I'm not doing mannual labor" or "I don't have to deal with customers in-person". But the actual industry itself treats its workers like shit. I was often scheduled for 8 days in a row, forced to work 12 hour days, and sometimes had to pinball between 3PM to midnight/3AM to noon shifts. I worked for 3 years even getting a PROMOTION - yet no raise. And trust me, I was asking for raises. I made flat minimum wage throughout my entire time there, despite getting promoted to a higer position with more responsibilities.

Wanna know the crazy part? I was not alone.

The anchors, meteorologists, journalists, photographers, and everyone else was also making minimum wage (or only very slightly more). And they had many of the same situations that I did with 8-day weeks/12 hour shifts. I had a coworker in my department who had been working there for 9 years... and he was paid the same as me. That's dirty. In fact, the anchors have it worse because they are under a contract where they'd have to pay 5-10k to exit.

If you wanna actually make money in news, become a salesperson. The person who sells commercial/ad timeslots at the station will make 100x more than you.

The workplace culture itself is... less than ideal. It's gossip hell. Because you're dealing with news, politics come up a LOT. I'd mention a moderate political take because it was asked of me and it would circulate the station for a month. There's so much gossip and drama. I constantly had to know everyone's bussiness and everyone else had to know mine. Not to hate on the reporters/anchors too much but- let's just say they tend to give off vibes of the popular people in high school. There's some narcissistic tendencies among them. They talk down to others quite often, especially editors and journalists who they probably view as being beneath them in terms of status/looks. They're like the mean girls in Mean Girls.

Outside of that, everyone would just talk about how their life sucks and how they can't wait to drink themselves into a coma that weekend. I was in the video editing department and the journalist, manager, and main anchor would all have completely different ways they wanted me to edit something. Every one of them claimed to overwrite each other and they'd get mad at me for listening to someone else. Some of these people were so incredibly fucking lazy, they would forget to write an entire script or insert a video, yet not know how to adlib and then blame *us* for it. Master Control operators can also be a pain in the ass, and give us the wrong showtimes.

While I didn't deal with customers in-person at all, the ones who would call or email were all annoying. Cable News is only really viewed by elderly people so you got the craziest of them asking ridiculously stupid questions. One time, we got an email from someone saying Kamala Harris is a man and that they were gonna sue us and every other news station in the vicinity for addressing her as a woman with 'she/'her' pronouns.

Shoutout to my supervisor though. He often vouched for me to get a raise, he did what he could to get us reasonable hours, and fought for us to keep our jobs when we faced layoffs. I hated that job but needed it to pay rent. I was actively applying for things on the side.

From the way people described this movie, I thought it was gonna be unwatchable abomidable garbage. It actually wasn't that bad. Maybe like 4 or 5 out of 10. Many of the jokes didn't land and felt like "hey look! new thing!" though some of it got fun. There was a K-Pop Demon Hunters animation montage that caught me off guard. The vagina blunt scene and Ghostface playing DBD.

The ending was solid - where the Wayans Brothers confront the other actors for being in Scary Movies 3-5 after Scary Movie was taken away from them in real life. A lot of it was 'shut your brain off' humor but I'm a big fan of Beavis and Butthead so I liked that. Though there was one incredibly clever joke;

"Let us in! We're white!"
"How white?"
"Candace Owens white,"

I am a demsoc while my friend is a "progressive liberal". He watches Destiny a lot. I've never liked 'BreadTube' so I hadn't checked out his content until my friend told me to.

I'm not sure what Destiny's ideology is. Some of what he says leans more liberal, whereas other things lean more leftist.

I'm not big on debate-content because nowadays, it just feels like a combat sport. But I do like Destiny's approach. He's very vicious and edgy. I like that style, and hate how leftists are so anti-edge, or rather, 'safe-edgy'. Hazbin Hotel "edgy". Many 'BreadTubers' are afraid to touch certain topics like facism or racism while he actually deconstructs them properly instead of dismissing them.

What's the community consensus on the dude?

Date:

• December 18th, 2026

Evidence:

• We just had a *STAR WARS* movie underperform - the most popular franchise on earth. YouTuber-made productions took favor by several orders of magnitude. In this era of blockbusters flopping, Avengers Doomsday will need to make 1.5 - 2 billion dollars globally just to break even.
• Thunderbolts, despite being a great film, flopped in the box office. Fantastic Four: First Steps underperformed. The MCU hype died during 2020-2022 due to a string of bad movies and the Kang era ending up directionless. Ever since then, their films have struggled.
• Every video essay I've seen on the movie, and every person I've spoke to about it, are all saying the same thing - "Not impressed. Bringing back Chris Evans and RDJ looks like a cash grab. I don't wanna see it". Avengers movies used to be events, meanwhile I have only one friend who is excited for Doomsday.
• They're bringing back the X-Men from the Fox universe as a focal point since Disney acquired Fox. Nobody has cared about the Fox universe in decades.

I'll have to gauge where the hype is at after Spiderman: Brand New Day and the Endgame re-release in theaters (with the added Dr. Doom post-credit scene). For now, I think it will be a financial disaster.

I watched Right Back At Ya which I believe follows different lore from the games. From what I understand, Kirby is a 'Star Warrior' like Meta Knight. He was supposed to orbit the planet for another few hundred years but he crash landed too early. That's why he coexists with Meta Knight and has the mentality of a baby.

Is any of this canon in the games?

Also, what is the canon reason for Meta Knight and King Dedede being good now? I know Dedede often gets possessed and at one point tried to stop Kirby from releasing Nightmare. But he's still been portrayed as a real villain from time to time. Meta Knight also used to have this badass stoic antihero personality. Why is he just a regular hero now?

I believe one of the manga series shows Kirby having a girlfriend and being able to talk. How canon are some of the mangas?

I had this theory a long time ago which I posted on an old Reddit account back in like 2018. It can be found here.

My writing style back then (early high school) was so pseudointellectual and cringe. But I still do believe Galacta Knight is Kirby. Galacta Knight is the 'temporal warrior' who does nothing with time travel/manipulation. Galacta Knight is so powerful that he had ot be contained. I think it's possible for him to be the force that went back in time, knocked himself out of the star pod, and caused him to crash early so that he wouldn't be as crazy powerful. He's also pink. And Meta Knight knows a bit too much about Kirby for it to be a coincidence.

Hi everyone! I'm gonna give my top 5 movies of all time because I think it's a fun discussion :) Let me know if you agree or disagree with these. It's really hard to pick my favorites, but I'm pretty confident in these choices;

5. Searching

This movie is from 2018 and it's one of those ones where 'the whole thing takes place on a screen'. It's easily the best in that subgenre. It's a mystery of a dad going through his daughter's laptop to look for her when she goes missing. The acting felt realistic and I love the narrative that, as he searches, the father realizes he doesn't even really know his own daughter. It's very well-edited.

4. Obsession

I know it's a recent pick - "bro started movies in 2026". I genuienly think it's already an instant classic. Me and my friends derived different meanings from various aspects - and when you can derive different meanings, you know that's high art. It's one of the only horror movies that actually scared me. The actors really brought it to life as well.

3. No Country For Old Men

A classic. There's a lot I could say about the ambiance and aura of this movie but the star of the show was the villain. Anton Chigurh is nothing short of a brilliant character.

2. Chronicle

I found this while looking for more 'superhero-horror' stuff on parr with The Boys or Brightburn. Chronicle sweeps all of them and it's not even close. There's so much I could get into with this movie. The way it's filmed (being kinda 'found footage') is genius. I've always wanted more things like that in media. Sometimes, the movie is extremely fun, like you're watching a friend group slice-of-life. And other times, it gets very dark. Andrew was a terrific character. The philosophies discussed in the movie (and how they relate to the characters' actions) also add to it. Josh Trank cooked hard with this and it's a shame that his legacy now lies at Fant4stic.

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Alright, I know this sounds like a crazy pick. I love all three original Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies. The casting is the best I've seen in any movie. Tis trilogy is full of comic-y bits that pay respect to the source material, its own humor, jokes, and little OSTs. It's very nostalgic and reminiscent of the era. And all three movies have good meaning. I chose Rodrick Rules because it works the best as both a family-friendly comedy AND a family drama. Greg and Rodrick's dynamic beautifully tells the nature of siblings.

HM

There's an indie film called Coherence from 2013 that's one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's a sci-fi thriller that was made on a shoestring budget. It's about a group of friends celebrating as a comet passes by but the comet does weird things like brings in different realities and the characters get lost in the mess of them. It's one of those mindf- movies like Donnie Darko that require thinking deeply on. But I was so impressed.