Wait what? Is this a hot take? Do most drivers in America not bother when they think nobody is around?

Well it certainly didn’t kill us all :) x

If “well done” is overcooking thoroughly it makes sense that charring to an inedible mess is a stronger form of praise.

As much as buying and eating a whole chocolate cake is 100% a bad idea for your health, doing it once is unlikely to have any noticable impact beyond making sure you have horrible shits for a day or so.

Doing it (or similar) habitually will obviously drastically increase your chances of heart attacks and other issues though of course.

But if you want to reward your inner 8 year old every once in a while I say do it, too many people make themselves permanently unhappy with dieting. The (much easier said than done) trick is very well known, and it’s simple moderation.

Let me just feed my tamagotchi quickly and then I’m in.

Yes it was, good call. I have such a clear image of ace ventura saying it in my head but that’s clearly fabricated.

Easy mistake to make given Jim Carrey just plays Jim Carrey in both roles I guess.

I feel like ace ventura taught a whole generation how to spell beautiful right every time.

Jim Carrey is a treasure.

I get that people exist who have no interest in actually watching, but if you’re on social media (lemmy included) it seems impossible to have actually not heard of these.

Clearly I’m wrong though, it just really surprised me.

Yeah you’re not wrong, doesn’t mean I don’t miss when there was less to life sometimes though.

No worries. Another show that sprang to mind which isn’t in this list is the legend of vox machina.

It’s an amazon prime series based on critical role and follows the first campaign relatively faithfully (so far). It came to mind because it’s an animation and the setting and plots are well thought out. Characters have been played by the voice actors for literally hundreds of hours before the show was even conceived so whilst there are clichés aplenty, the characters are fully formed and fleshed out from the start. I’m biased because I was addicted to CR since the early days but the show really stands up on its own in my opinion.

It sounds corny as fuck but it’s one that was 100% made with love and if you like adult cartoons I really recommend it.

Sounds totally fair enough mate. I’m not really the person to ask because most of these shows are shows I want to watch but haven’t yet. Last of Us is fantastic though and the boys is as enjoyable as any superhero property imo, mainly because it feels like it’s pretty much what would actually happen in our world if superheros existed and doesn’t pull any punches (literally), where every other show would just give you a sound effect while it cuts to someone’s reaction, the boys will give you slow motion and high focus so you can see the details of someone’s head being pulled off their body or something equally (often more) horrific.

Ted Lasso sounds more likely to grab you from that list if only because it’s 30min episodes and relies on humour more than plot. But this is still based on others opinions, it’s just a show I still want to watch at the moment so I could hate it yet. I tend to find that most things which are universally acclaimed are well worth watching though.

I think with an extra 40 hours free time a week for a year I could catch up with everything I want to see in a year. That’s 2000 extra episodes of 1hr TV I could watch. I reckon I could manage it while also watching a couple new shows.

Games are a bit different, usually I play one or 2 time intensive games in a year but I don’t expect to play all the big releases even with no job. 3 or 4 years should allow me to catch up with the ones I feel like I’ve missed and want to play in the last 5 or 10 years though.

I’d be happy with a couple years of no new TV where we can all just catch up with the shows we’ve missed to be honest.

Why is that out of interest? Plenty of shows here have been universally acclaimed and I don’t think there are many people who wouldn’t love at least one of the shows here.

What are some of your favourite shows you have seen? I’d be curious what you enjoy if there’s nothing in this list that appeals.

You haven’t heard of last of us or the boys…?

How do you even exist on the Internet without coming across these?

Shit I’ve only seen 2, and haven’t even finished the boys yet so really just one.

I need like a year off work to catch up on TV and film, then another 3 or 4 years to catch up with gaming.

Fuck adulthood.

Yep, no arguments there!

To your last point. If that were true then it follows that all governments are exactly as good (or as bad) as each other. You don’t seriously believe that every single government on earth have equal merit though? Plenty of people have unjustified opinions of certain governments but that doesn’t mean that every opinion is unjustified and there are no better/worse governments.

If I asked you which government was better, Sweden or North Korea, it’s not exactly a stretch to say there is an objective answer. A governments job is to manage the nation for the people, and some countries do a far better job of that than others.