The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

Touchdown

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Not sure if this is a new thing or just had bad luck but WOC Season of Light had no fire effects Tuesday-Thursday. Had full fire effects including the giant flame thrower Saturday-Sunday.
 

mickEblu

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Had no idea the previous arch collapsed. Not a fan of this new one, though. Seems less aged and less real. Not that I'm ever going to notice if I ever go back to Disneyland.

Yeah I have to agree. It's missing those little touches that separate it from the previous class of imagineers. Don't care for that floral looking pattern at the top. If you notice the older temple had areas that were cracked that made it appear more aged and real. The color is also too saturated and it's not like that area is going to get a lot of sun to tone that down. With that said, it's hardly the worst thing they've done of late and I'm glad they took down the cheap looking "dig site" walls.
 

TP2000

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I spent last weekend in NYC. Christmas in the Big Apple really just hits different. If you ever felt Disneyland crowds were bad, try Rockefeller Center in December.
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I visited NYC regularly in the latter 20th century, for business and pleasure. It's a place that you couldn't pay me to live in or near, even if I had one of those $50 Million skyscraper penthouses above Central Park. But it's a place that every American should see at least once in their life.

It's been decades since I've been to NYC, and I've been thinking I need one last visit before I become a drooling fool in a rocker. Somehow I never made it to the Guggenheim Museum, and I really need to see that. I think I need to pause for a moment at the 9/11 Ground Zero monument as well and say a prayer four our nation. I also would like to take the tour of the UN Building as that architecture and its interior design has always impressed me, if the actual activities of the assembly within are less impressive. ;)

And I can easily imagine that even in its current state, the city is still rather beautiful and bedazzling at Christmas.

I've got a cruise schedule in Autumn '25 that would line up nicely with a 48 or 72 hour stopover in NYC. It can happen.
 

mickEblu

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Disney, what are you guys doing? :(

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truecoat

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I visited NYC regularly in the latter 20th century, for business and pleasure. It's a place that you couldn't pay me to live in or near, even if I had one of those $50 Million skyscraper penthouses above Central Park. But it's a place that every American should see at least once in their life.

It's been decades since I've been to NYC, and I've been thinking I need one last visit before I become a drooling fool in a rocker. Somehow I never made it to the Guggenheim Museum, and I really need to see that. I think I need to pause for a moment at the 9/11 Ground Zero monument as well and say a prayer four our nation. I also would like to take the tour of the UN Building as that architecture and its interior design has always impressed me, if the actual activities of the assembly within are less impressive. ;)

And I can easily imagine that even in its current state, the city is still rather beautiful and bedazzling at Christmas.

I've got a cruise schedule in Autumn '25 that would line up nicely with a 48 or 72 hour stopover in NYC. It can happen.

You should do a tour of the 9/11 museum.
 

TP2000

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You should do a tour of the 9/11 museum.

I honestly don't think I could stomach that.

But if I visit NYC again, I will definitely go to the memorial and take a few quiet moments. I remember the day well, and I don't think I could handle the museum. Or at least, add it to what should be a fun and breezy visit to the Big Apple.
 

PiratesMansion

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I honestly don't think I could stomach that.

But if I visit NYC again, I will definitely go to the memorial and take a few quiet moments. I remember the day well, and I don't think I could handle the museum. Or at least, add it to what should be a fun and breezy visit to the Big Apple.
It's a really, REALLY well done museum.

Did it bring up residual feelings from the day I honestly didn't realize I still had? Yes. It's a difficult museum to visit, but I'd say it's also an important one to visit. As much as it brought up some painful memories, it also brought a level of closure (may not quite be the word I'm looking for) that I didn't know I needed.
 

DarkMetroid567

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Tell me you've never been on Reddit without telling me you never been on Reddit.

If you would have said YouTube or Facebook it would have been more accurate. So though it was a fairly straight forward routine.....you just couldn't stick the landing.
I’ve unfortunately been on Reddit for 12 years and those kinds of comments are very common on r/movies and r/boxoffice, the reputation of Reddit being a “woke”-only left-wing site is very outdated.
 

Consumer

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It's a really, REALLY well done museum.

Did it bring up residual feelings from the day I honestly didn't realize I still had? Yes. It's a difficult museum to visit, but I'd say it's also an important one to visit. As much as it brought up some painful memories, it also brought a level of closure (may not quite be the word I'm looking for) that I didn't know I needed.
Having been alive but possessing no recollection of the day, I found it a very informative and well done museum. I also appreciated that it does include a lot of artifacts from the day on display, something too many history museums seem short on. I find that's what really makes history come alive. My one and only gripe is that it's $30. Given the importance of its subject it would be great to make the museum more accessible in that regard.
I’ve unfortunately been on Reddit for 12 years and those kinds of comments are very common on r/movies and r/boxoffice, the reputation of Reddit being a “woke”-only left-wing site is very outdated.
If you think Reddit is anything other than a woke-only, left wing site, you probably also think Mao was too conservative.
 

DarkMetroid567

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If you think Reddit is anything other than a woke-only, left wing site, you probably also think Mao was too conservative.
Lol. Dramatics aside, it’s a far more dynamic site than most give it credit for (likely due just how siloed subreddits get). For every r/politics and r/pics cringe left-wing post, there’s historical examples like r/The_Donald, fatpeoplehate, the campaign against former CEO(?) ellen pao where every basically just made racist Chinese jokes against her, jailbait, the list goes on. Would hardly call any of those “woke”.

I do think it had a very liberal slant for most of its history, and some of the defaults like r/politics still have a hold-over on that, but the website has gotten too big and stratified to really even pinpoint a slant these days.
 

Consumer

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Lol. Dramatics aside, it’s a far more dynamic site than most give it credit for (likely due just how siloed subreddits get). For every r/politics and r/pics cringe left-wing post, there’s historical examples like r/The_Donald, fatpeoplehate, the campaign against former CEO(?) ellen pao where every basically just made racist Chinese jokes against her, jailbait, the list goes on. Would hardly call any of those “woke”.

I do think it had a very liberal slant for most of its history, and some of the defaults like r/politics still have a hold-over on that, but the website has gotten too big and stratified to really even pinpoint a slant these days.
Those don't even exist anymore. I would say your argument is completely backwards. Historically, Reddit was intellectually diverse. Now, it's entirely one sided. Go to r/all and find one right wing post. Anything that doesn't fit the narrative of Reddit moderators and admins (side note, did you know Ghislaine Maxwell, wife of Jeffrey Epstein, was a Reddit admin?) is banned and scrubbed and removed from the site.
 

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