There is one benefit, at least for now. You aren't locked into long term contracts like cable has/had.

I love eldricth horror precisely because of this. Imagination will almost always be scarier than something that can be put into words. Descriptions give handles to hold onto for your understanding, boundaries and walls for the horror to fit in.

Give me more vagueness about how, gazing at it, the room could not have possibly contained its size. The feeling of the split second while tripping before you connect with the ground, stretched into an interminable constant in the back of your mind.

Realistically, however long it took for someone else to notice you were doing it and call them.

Source: had the cops called on my friends and I multiple times for having foam sword fights in parking lots at college. Apparently people from a distance thought actual fighting was going on. Not sure if that's a testament to our acting or their poor eye sight.

For anyone missing the show, there was a wonderful project called Streamlined Mythbusters where fans edited each episode down to remove the filler, pre and post ad recaps, etc. They usually also would reorder things so each individual myth was seld contained.

It's wonderful, but some episodes legitimately got cut down to be 16 minutes long with no real content loss, which can be kind of jarring.

Looks like it's just a partnership with an existing brand, Popcorn Indiana, zooming into the picture. So just a cheap marketing stunt for them.

This sort of disclaimer needs to be beside every article concerning corporate fines. Fucking ridiculous.

Giving me flashbacks to the game Space Station 13. It was never "the clowns", just "The Clown". And it absolutely was a threat.

More often than not, the person who picked the singular clown role on the station (or who mugged the person who did and stole the costume), would be someone who was highly skilled with the game who wanted to get up to shenanigans.

I've watched a clown armed with nothing but two banana peels single handedly take out an entire security force, steal their gear, disappear while the station gets wrecked by a changeling, then pop back out and lure the changeling into a carefully built conveyor belt system that traps them in an inescapable loop of being knocked over forever, trapped, forced to listen to infinite bicycle horns and a farting robot made out of their own cut off butt.

The clown then used the opportunity to set the station's black hole engine loose, destroyed the end of the hall to the escape shuttle, and lubed the floor. The survivors, rushing to escape, slip, and glide out into the void. More bicycle horn honks are the last sound they hear.

Honka honka honka honka honka honka...

Ah yes, the classic "you can only be upset about one thing at a time"!

If you're upset I pissed on the floor instead of in the toilet while Biden is complicit with genocide you're part of the problem!

Sorry boss, I can't care about my job because of Palestine!

How dare you pull me over for going 80mph in a school zone, pig! Don't you know what Israel is doing?

How could you possibly expect me to care about something so insignifIcant as wiping? Don't you know that children are dying?

his wife is an executive at Disney

Wait. What? Holy shit, every good goddamn thing he's ever released regarding copyright and intellectual property needs a big bold disclaimer about that in front then.

Fucker's talking out both sides of his mouth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Taylor_%28businesswoman%29

In 2017, Disney acquired Makie Labs technology and personnel for an undisclosed figure.

In keeping with the strategic acquisition, Ms Taylor is now the Director, StudioLab at The Walt Disney Studios. In that role she is responsible for ensuring that Disney continues to invest in the intersection between online tech and content distribution.

I'm sorry, in non-executive speak, doesn't that heavily imply that she at least oversees some work on DRM? Any content distribution method Disney touches with a 40-foot pole is going to have DRM methodology.

Motherfucker.

Do you not have a bug tracker or ticketing system of some sort to manage these things coming your way?

Incredibly few people at my work get much more than dismissive small talk from just walking up or from sending me a message expecting me to re-prioritize everything else for their special pet problem.

My manager sets my priorities, any changes to that need to come from him. They can take it up with him if they don't like it or disagree.

I don't respond to IMs or emails not from my boss or from my own team except when I've hit a mental road block and need to think about something else to refresh.

And I don't actually work on any of those requests until there's a ticket in. If someone comes to me asking why my main job duty isn't done, I'm sure as hell going to have a paper trail documenting who fucked up the timeline. No ticket, no work.

That also puts some weight on anyone else able to pick up tickets for your team to do it, so it's not always falling to you because you're not jaded enough to say no.

There must be a way to stop this feeling.

Been there. I'll keep it short. The way is to get professional help. Therapy and/or medication.

Since you have no job, first step is to get on whatever low/no income insurance is available to you locally.

Off the absolute top of my head there's the redcap. Depending on the material it can be depicted as a gnome, goblin, or kobold with a jaunty looking red hat (generally long and pointy like a gnome hat or like Link's hat in Legend of Zelda).

It keeps the hat red by dying and regularly re-dying it with its victims' blood.

There's also a number of depictions of pixies as essentially flying piranha.

But this sort of mythology isn't some deep secret, it's everywhere outside of the kid friendly/disney filtered stuff. I'm sure a simple search will net you tons of content.