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STUNT_GRANNY

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  • I haven't played airsoft in a couple of years. Mostly because I don't have the time anymore. I used to play about once a month, but then I had to move to a different town, so now my preferred field is ~80 miles away.

    If I'm using half a tank of gas just to go there and back, I want to make it an all-day thing. But I also travel for work nowadays, I'm only home most weekends. Taking my guns and gear on the road with me isn't really an option; space on my work truck is at a premium, and it wouldn't look good for me, if a DOT or customs agent were to stumble across an M60 machine gun during a level 1 truck inspection. I also have yet to find any airsoft fields that allow 18-wheeler parking. My truck couldn't physically fit on the driveway to my preferred field.

    Spending a day playing airsoft means I've only got one other day, if that, to do my chores and run my errands for that week, to say nothing of how physically demanding the game is. If I push myself too hard while playing (something else that happens when I've only got a couple days at home per month), I end up needing the following day just to recover.

    I'd pick it up again if I ever get a regular 9-5 job though, or at least something that gets me home every night.

  • Any other American 90s kids grow up watching classic Doctor Who?

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  • I've always loved it, or at least liked it as a kid. My dad was a huge fan of the show when he was a kid, having amassed a huge collection of serials on VHS, and he'd used them to get me hooked just in time for the reboot. We'd watch every Saturday night like clockwork. I remember being distraught when The Empty Child aired, ended on a cliffhanger, and my local PBS affiliate waited four months to air the followup episode.

    I lost active interest in the show sometime during Matt Smith's run as The Doctor; something about the show's writing around then didn't quite sit right. Everything was becoming about The Doctor, always revolving around him, pulling focus away from whatever a given episode was meant to be about, and all these hints were being dropped, presenting questions to the audience that would ultimately go unanswered.

    Also, I thought bringing back the Weeping Angels was stupid, before they were made more powerful upon their return.

  • Any of you work in the movies / TV? What's it like?

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  • I worked at a Waffle House as a teenager, and ended up acting in an episode of some kind of show for MTV, called My Life As Liz.

    By which I mean, there were a few actors and a camera crew camped out in a booth, and the director wanted me to bring them waffles, as a part of whatever scene they were filming. It was the middle of a random Tuesday, the place normally would've been dead, it was a nice change of pace.

    I wasn't paid or credited for this by MTV, just "being on TV was enough" according to the Waffle House's franchise owner. The show's production was also pretty low-budget, non-union; I only remember four or five people on the crew, plus three actors in the scene.

    I ended up making dozens of waffles for these actors, who would only eat a couple bites per take, if anything. Some of the crew ate them on their lunch break, but the majority of the waffles were just thrown away after each take. To the production's credit, they did pay for every single one. After about four hours, they'd apparently got all the shots they needed, packed everything up, and left.

    Several years later, unrelated, AMC used a car I owned for a few episodes of Fear The Walking Dead. I was never on set for that though; their production company apparently had a "car wrangler" who reached out to me. They bought the car off of me, took it away, and when they'd wrapped the season's shooting a few weeks later, they called me to offer first dibs to buy the car back, or else it would've been auctioned off.

    When I got the car back, it was covered in fake dirt, the Landau top had been cut up to make the car appear in worse shape than it actually was, and there were several fake bullet holes in the bodywork from a gunfight scene. Although, in the take that made it to air, you never actually see those bullet holes on the car.

  • What's the dumbest or craziest thing your town/city/region is known for?

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  • Bonnie and Clyde robbed a church in my town. Except, not really, it was an early scene in that movie from the '60s.

    It was a grocery store back then.

  • What game do you personally have the most hours played in?

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  • GTA Online is my most-played game according to Steam, but that time is largely skewed from how rough the game was upon its original launch. Rather than put up with nearly hour-long loading times whenever I wanted to play, I used to simply leave the game running overnight. And as a result, I've got a few thousand hours in that game.

    Project Zomboid is a distant second according to playtime, currently around 900 hours, but I think I'm catching up to it in terms of time I've spent actually playing the game.

    Something about sandboxes with cars and guns that just scratches a certain itch for me.

    I've also got at least a few hundred hours on iRacing, but because I haven't linked that to my Steam account, I don't know the exact amount of time. And I'm not going to look back through my race history to add up every minute of virtual track time.

  • Who recognizes who around here?

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  • Some peoples' usernames stand out, for sure, for one reason or another. Mostly the big ones, they've all been mentioned here already, I don't feel a need to mention them here again.

    I feel... okay? with not seeing my own name mentioned here, but then again I don't consider myself to be a power user or whatever. I mostly just like answering questions here.

  • What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?

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  • Mad Max. Thunderdome's a bit of a sore spot I'll admit, but everything else has been at least as good as the original film.

  • Work on any good projects lately?

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  • I'd consider donating this car if it were in better shape; in its current state, sure, the engine is running and it'll move under its own power, but it's still got a long way to go before it'll be road-legal, or even safe to drive.

    Right now, any charity organization that'd accept the car would probably just have it crushed, which would just be a waste to me.

  • Work on any good projects lately?

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  • I revived an old car that has sat in my mother's yard for several years. Didn't need much to get going, just a jumpstart and some fresh gas, but now I've got a set of wheels I don't have to care about. Might turn it into a Lemons racer.

  • What's an aspect of you that people don't know about?

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  • I drive a truck for work, and I'm a major gearhead.

    Nobody who knows me in-person knows that I've written erotica for money. Hardly anyone knows I like to write, like, period.

  • Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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  • Not me, but I took him to a local vet.

  • Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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  • Nah, I'm in Texas

  • Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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  • This guy might've become Greasy if he managed to get under that hearse; Kovu is his name though, since my grandma's had other cats named after Lion King characters, and I thought she'd like keeping the motif going.

  • Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

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  • No collar or chip; i've asked the neighbors and checked for missing pet posts online, but nothing came up for this guy.

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    Welp. Cat distribution system has found me again. This is Kovu.

  • wanna have a perfectly healthy guy take 1 recreationally so i can use him as a human dildo for hours

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  • really nice gym pumps

    Oh baby

  • How would you survive a zombie apocalypse?

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  • Driving (and living in) an 18-wheeler, I've got shelter and transportation already sorted. Got all the comforts of home on board. Enough food and water to last a couple weeks, maybe a month if I had to. I can carry enough fuel to drive ~2500 miles if I ditched my trailer, or to run my APU for nearly a year in "standby" mode. Sure, replacing that fuel once it's gone would be tricky, but it's a diesel. There are plenty of alternative fuel sources out there.

    I suppose my plan would be to run away from civilization, but off the beaten path so as to not get stuck in the mother of all traffic jams. No need to go that far; a few dozen, maybe a couple hundred miles down a non-interstate highway should be sufficient to avoid most humans/zombies. Plenty of random warehouses and parking lots out in the middle of nowhere.

    Then it'd be a matter of relaxing for a few weeks, keeping my head down, and listening to the radio for any news about a safe zone or what have you.

  • Traffic cameras have caught a white RAM 1500 pickup truck driving above the speed limit or running red lights more than 547 times since 2022. It belongs to an NYPD cop.

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  • We came close, it was gonna be brought over as a Pontiac like with the Commodore/G8, but then that brand went away.

  • Is there a strategy game or there about managing a post war economy?

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  • Rebel Inc comes to mind.

  • Recommend us a kids' cartoon

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  • Nothing overly adult-oriented; a few things are implied here and there, probably the worst thing I remember seeing is a few characters smoking.

    But as far as the show's premise goes, yeah, they're all criminals, street racing is inherently illegal. But they're all in it purely for the love of the game, nothing more than pride and bragging rights are ever on the line. Nobody ever even throws a punch over any of the driving.

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    "this is fine, nothing to see here." - Nemesis

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    Goku isn't actually sad, he just kinda always looks it.