My wife and I established movie nights with our kids when they were 5 and 2. Everyone takes turns picking a movie, and no one is allowed to complain.

This is how we’ve managed to break the pattern of our kids watching the same movies over and over and over. Since instituting movie night about a year ago, we’ve only seen Frozen once.

It also gives us the opportunity to expose the kids to our favorite movies.

The movie we’ve watched the most times is probably Disney’s Robin Hood (3 times). Second most is a tie between Matilda, Babe, and Across the Spider-verse (2 times each). So I’d say it’s going extremely well.

Given how much cuter a goldfish is than a silverfish, whatever a bronzefish is must be a absolutely disgusting.

When I upgrade to a new console, I put the old console in the original box. If I didn’t have that box, the console would just sit loose on a shelf in the back of my closet literally forever!

Now it sits there in the box. This is way better.

And it was named that because it was cheap tape.

In English we used to use the word “Scotch”, like Scottish. We still use it to refer to scotch tape - cheap tape.

But that wasn’t even the first appearance of France Nuyen on US television. She even kissed William Shatner on tv in 1958 in what was arguably the actual first interracial kiss on US television.

I’ve heard people describe games like this as “Metroidbrainias”, which is the dumbest name ever, but the point is that it’s a game where progress is blocked not just by obtaining in-game power-ups, but by learning how to use abilities that you already possess at the beginning of the game. The player is the one who levels up. I love that.

The Highlander is an SUV and is thus unsafe to pedestrians and worse than a minivan according to this post.

Fair enough. But short beds notwithstanding, removing seats or using a roof rack hardly qualify as “doing everything trucks do and doing it better”.

I’d still rather use the truck. The original post is silly.

What about moving a mattress? Can’t fit that in a minivan, and that comes up all the damn time.

There are valid complaints in here, but most of it is nonsense. Trucks and SUVs are the only choice? What do you even mean by that? It’s way easier to get a regular car.

I live in Texas. I only know one person with a truck, and it’s used constantly. There’s something in the flatbed that wouldn’t fit in a van at least once or twice a month, I’d say.

Piano. Chopin, especially Raindrop.

https://youtu.be/6OFHXmiZP38

If I said guitar, I’d point you to this song, which is actually a piano song performed on guitar. Lately this is the song that makes me feel things.

https://youtu.be/fnymlUUomKI

So it sounds like you’re checking to see when the light turns off, to know that the car is going.

Sounds like what we actually need is a green accelerator light on the front of the car.

You’re digging the knife into the pit to get a grip on it without damaging the avocado flesh around it.

To do so, place the knife as shown in the picture, then hit the back of it with your hand to drive it in. I usually just take a swing at it with the knife itself, but it’s probably a little more consistent to do it this way.

Avocado pits are slippery. You can’t usually just grab them with your fingers.

So just do what the picture shows, and then do what the instructions say, in that order.

This is Agatha. She’s so god damn fluffy.

Personally, I like a treadmill.

For years I planned to get one, and all the runners in my family would talk about how awful they are, how no one ever uses it once they have it, and getting outside is so much better.

I finally got the treadmill a couple months ago, and I use it several times per week. Some weeks I use it every day. It’s convenient, I can control the temperature in the room, I can watch something on my phone while I run, and I like being able to set a consistent pace.

I’m not convinced some people aren’t just statistical language algorithms. And I don’t just mean online; I mean that seems to be how some people’s brains work.

“Pull my finger.”

He’d be disappointed that he doesn’t end up doing anything epic and world-changing, but then he’d immediately be relieved that he’s mostly got shit figured out. Wife, home, job, driving, cooking, all the basic stuff.

Then he’d realize he only thought he needed to do something epic because he couldn’t picture himself having those basic things figured out. This would take him a few minutes to process, so he wouldn’t say anything.

Any criticism of conservatism is grounds for removal now. I can’t believe it’s gotten this far.

Is there any Sonic community on Lemmy? Did you make one? I’m a casual fan, but I’d join.

Did you even watch the movie? They explain it right away!

Someone “blew it up” and the resulting explosion launched it into space.