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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How's everyone's gas prices?
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    26 days ago

    Somewhere in Hawaii: $3.50 last Thursday
    $3.60 yesterday, Monday
    $4.90 $4.10 today, Tuesday, but this gas station was also closed today

    Pretty horrifying, thanks

    Edit: my bad, it was 4.099 (as in $4.10) that Tuesday, not 4.90
    It is Thursday, March 12, & it’s $4.15 now.

    Edit: it is Friday the 13th, and gas is $4.35 (4.349, but it’s really 4.35 to me)
    This gas station is still closed; Idk why they bother updating the aign

  • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is my character's personality? I'm doing a writing thing and I need to list off words to describe her.
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    28 days ago

    *Condescending towards younger people? *Belittling?

    *Judgemental af, in the sense that whatever molded her was so negatively critical, it’s ingrained in her personality that it’s normal to judge herself and others based on every little misstep?

    Since you mentioned a birthday, maybe borrow adjectives from zodiacs?

    spoiler

    Also, even tho you didn’t ask for this, but because you mentioned she’s a character in a story, and because other comments also vibe with my first impression of “Idk, sounds like an asshole with random facts sprinkled on,” consider looking up “save the cat”? Note that the thing that makes a character likeable is their choice to actively do a good deed for some extrinsic reason.

    Example:

    A train operator on a moving train sees someone tied to the tracks. They pull the brakes. The train stops, and the victim is saved. Meh. What a norm-core thing to do because it barely seemed like they had a choice.

    If someone else were with them saying “oh my god, if we hit the brakes now, we could derail!”, and the operator low-key knows this and immediately pulls the brakes anyway - that’s cool, because they had a choice, and they chose to do something difficult but good for someone else.

    Or a person being an asshole in general and poor, but still paying for the dude in front’s groceries when their debit card declines. That’s cool.
    Or person going out of their way to cheer up their friend that they noticed was almost too good at masking chronic depression. That’s cool, too.

    Dr. House without his medical malpractice shenanigans to actively help strangers is just an asshole.

    …If all this was ultimately excessive and unnecessary for someone else, at least this has been an exercise for me think up save the cat examples. I hope these spoiler tags work. Ta

  • BlindFrog@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Breaking: BAD
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    29 days ago

    I stopped halfway through Resident Alien just to start over from the beginning to try & clip funny moments, and damn

    I forgot that Alan Tudyk was not a complete hoot in the first episode. Just my take, I think he really found his character’s voice another episode or two in once Harry was more confident in himself around humans.