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STUNT_GRANNY

@ STUNT_GRANNY @lemmy.world

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  • What is everyone doing to survive this food inflation?

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  • I feel pretty lucky in this regard, in that I've got family members who work at a grocery store, and they let me bum off their employee discount. It's only good for store-brand items though, and it only works while they're off the clock, so it takes some coordination for me to use it. Stacks with coupons though, which also helps.

    Buying in bulk can absolutely be helpful, if you can shop at wholesalers or warehouse clubs, and take advantage of coupons and sales. Wouldn't recommend doing this for perishables though, if you're only buying for yourself. Might also be annoying trying to find space for everything at home.

  • Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?

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  • I browse/post on Instagram as a way to vent about my job, without having to talk my housemates' ears off. Sometimes strangers find it funny. Plus, it's a requirement for Lemons Rally checkpoints, whenever I participate in those.

    Whatever I post to Instagram auto-posts to my Facebook page; I don't use that site directly anymore, I mostly leave it up so my blood family knows I'm not dead. I don't talk to them directly anymore.

    Still stuck with Discord for keeping up with my actual family, housemates and the like, only because I haven't had any luck convincing them to join me elsewhere.

    Had a Reddit account for over twelve years, nuked it when third-party apps went away. Only time I go back to that site anymore, is for communities that don't exist (or are effectively dead) here on Lemmy. Very, very seldomly. Last time I made a comment on my current Reddit account was over a month ago.

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  • Oh yes, larping is my favorite part too. I like to get a bit weird with it though, milsim events are a bit too serious for my liking. Same with speedsofters.

    My go-to garb is a thrift shop 3-piece suit, and my most-used guns are pistols and small SMGs. I stick out like a sore thumb playing outdoors.

    If you're ever anywhere near Dallas, D14 is a solid field for outdoor games. I'd also recommend CavTac or Alternate Arms, both near Fort Worth, for indoor games.

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • What song lives rent free in your head?

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