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I'm reminded of this:

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weirdest part of being an adult is the fact that you can put off watching a movie for nearly a decade and barely notice

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v.2

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Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

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"no user serviceable parts inside" uh huh uh huh keep telling yourself that

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just found a pile of fresh grapes on some paving stones in the middle of woods because, you guessed it, god loves me the most and wants me to prosper over others

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While I'm posting here and no longer under any obligation to rep the company, I might as well share this incredibly funny story from behind the scenes that I don't think ever got out: Due to the constant problems we had around "The Chaser" being also a name of a sex thing online (you would not BELIEVE the kind of confused fan mail I had to sort through), in 2019 we had very seriously planned to rebrand our online channels.

After a laborious process whittling down hundreds of potential names we settled on another alcohol related term, a popular Australian slang term for wine, as we thought that was in the spirit of "The Chaser" but also uniquely Australian.

Literally the only reason we didn't end up rebranding was the whole company fell into an omnishambles in 2020, and we were all too busy both figuratively and literally putting out fires to even think about doing a full company rebrand.

And that, my friends, is how The Chaser through sheer dumb luck, managed to avoid what would have gone down as possibly one of the worst company rebrands in the history of everything, when that same name came to mean something else VERY different a few years later:

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My method for staying in at least somewhat-decent shape is to just think of myself as a temporarily embarrassed fit person. If some activity requires strength, athleticism, or endurance, I don't pause to contemplate whether I can do it, the answer is always "of course I can", what an odd question to ask.

And if it turns out that I cannot do that after all, and instead I eat shit, get hurt, and look stupid the whole time I'm dying, I'm not thinking "wow, I can't do shit like this anymore", but "wow, I gotta do this more often, I'm really out of practice". And then get determined to get that level of strength and endurance back, even if I never had it in the first place.

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#cottagegore

just shot a gnome

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sorry but the scene where eggman grabs his henchman by the inner mouth made me blush

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in retrospect i'm enjoying imagining the brainstorming meeting where they were like "our userbase is full of introverted, nervous, and annoying people doing parallel play, they all love bothering each other, but they also don't want to be overly familiar with strangers, let alone the people they've been hanging out with for literal years, how do we add enrichment to that antisocial social enclosure" and the correct answer was to let us socialize like a feral cat colony and nonverbally and impersonally yet lovingly smack each other lol

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a treasure found antiquing today