I’m pretty sure Neil Gaiman enjoys milk and cookies, he even wrote the story Fortunately, The Milk where a kid goes back in time to get the ever-important milk that his father forgot to pick up.

The person reacting to your comment calling them a pigeon:

Also all eight of Captain James Holden’s parents!

The more I think about this the more curious I am as to what’s on it. Nice work reaching out to the Smithsonian, sometimes you gotta take action to satiate curiosity.

Reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite’s pocket tots.

Andean Cock-of-the-Rock is my new DnD bard name.

If you haven’t seen the AceVane video where Superman gets high, it is absolutely hilarious.

I was able to find that this is part of the 2020 Spider-Man and Venom: Double Trouble series but couldn’t find anything about a Doreen Green appearance happening in it. Does anyone know if The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl shows up to help during this plot line?

For me I currently have state healthcare in the U.S. Under my plan, I can only see a specialist when referred to one by my primary health care physician. I made an appointment with them, gave them my story and asked to be referred to an allergist. They issued the referral (takes about two weeks to show up in system) and I called into the allergy office a couple times until they confirmed they received my referral and could then schedule an appointment that my insurance would cover.

My allergist went over questions first (e.g. what brought you in today, do you seem to have more symptoms during different seasons, do you have constant runny or stuffy nose, itchy eyes, etc.). The second part is the prick test. I lied on my stomach and the nurse marked different spots on my back and numbered each spot. Then they have a bunch of little needles, each one with a small amount of a different potential allergen. They then prick one in each spot and measure the size of the bump that happens to determine how allergic I was to each allergen, if at all. This test also took place in two parts: the first time was for food allergens (dairy, crustaceans, mollusks, etc.) and the second time was for seasonal/household allergens (pollen, ragweed, mugwort, dog hair, etc.).

It’s definitely worth getting tested since a lot of the symptoms and discomfort can be treated, as well as the benefit of having the knowledge of what to generally avoid if possible so that substitutions can be made. The shots are for the seasonal/household type allergens, but since there is some crossover (for example, celery is a food allergy, but the reason it can produce a reaction is because the body can mistake it for mugwort, which is a treatable seasonal allergy), and in my case is thought to help my body be more at ease instead of constantly being agitated by the allergens, which could reduce overall discomfort and sensitivity when eating spicy foods eventually.

They’ll go over treatment options and if the shots are recommended based on your results and discussion. It’s also good to know if you have a food allergy or a food intolerance, since apparently they are different. Really I learned a lot and feel a lot better than I did a year ago. Check with your health insurance (and/or managed care plan within your insurance) and see what you need to do to ensure that a visit to the allergist is covered. If it requires a referral from your PCP, they will likely make sure to refer you to a specialist that is in-network, but do confirm with them or the specialist before you take the appointment.

Ugh this is me. I used to love spicy food but something happened a few years ago where it switched to just destroying me.

All it takes is a little bit and I’m sent into an uncomfortable, mouth-searing sweating fit for essentially the rest of the day. I’ve got bottles of alcohol-based mouthwash like Listerine stocked up since it’s one of the few things that helps in those times when I accidentally get a hit of the ol’ spicy stuff. Once I do that and wash off my lips with face cleaner I’m alright, otherwise I’m struggling to keep hydrated because I’ll sweat for hours and hours.

Finally went to see an allergist that found a ton of underlying allergies and thinks that having all those go untreated is what increased my sensitivity overall. I’m currently getting the allergy immunotherapy shots and hoping that results in some regained resistance to capsaicin. It’s super embarassing to be out and start sweating like a maniac when I get a bite of an appetizer I didn’t know had pepper extract or one of those steaming plates of hot spicy stuff that sends a pepper cloud in my face and just leaves me drenched the rest of the night.

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Disco Elysium is a fantastic one. There are an insane amount of choices that shape how you go about the investigation of the hanged man and ultimately what happens beyond that investigation. Choices of who to side with, how to side (openly or playing multiple sides, etc.), choices that ultimately define what kind of detective you are (by-the-book boring, superstar douchebag, violent tough guy, Sherlock Holmes-esque genius, etc., including my favorite: Twin Peaks Lynchian detective that bases their decisions off of dreams, intuition and imaginary conversations with the dead body), and even how failing or succeeding at something can lead to progress in very different ways. If you fail to hit that person you tried to punch, or miss that shot with your gun, or utterly fail to convince someone to help you, you progress through in very different ways so that failing your way to the truth is just as satisfying and entertaining as succeeding your checks to get there.

And of course Fallout: New Vegas. Whether you choose to support the New California Republic, Caesar’s Legion, Mr. House, or a truly independent New Vegas, none of them are perfect. Each succeeds in an ideal society in some ways but completely fails at others, leaving you to decide which imperfect system you feel is the right one for the world instead of shoving an obvious answer in your face.

1. “Stay gold, Ponyboy!” -The Outsiders (1983)
2. “Stay gold, Cheesy Boy!” -Reservation Dogs (2021-2023)
3. “Take it sleazy.” -The Good Place (2016-2020)

It’s never explicitly explained, with the most being the other characters saying that they don’t think he’s ever seen the movie Gattaca and doesn’t know what it’s about, and Rafi later confirming he had no idea it was a movie.

Since Rafi’s character is defined by being as uninformed, devoid of all decency, and chaotic as possible, I think that it completely fits though. Especially since most of his lines are improvised by Mantzoukas, who would be clever enough to use a similar-sounding movie title in place of an actual event for Rafi’s character. Adding to that, there is another scene in later seasons where Rafi is getting kicked out of a store and he says that they’ll have to call in the police and the FBI to get him out of there, again shouting “Gattaca” which definitely plays into your theory.

If anyone gets the chance to ask Jason Mantzoukas a question, this is the one to ask about! Until then, I think this just became my headcanon. GATTACA!

I don’t use it very often but I misuse the word “Gattaca” on purpose sometimes. In reality it’s the title of the 1997 film that’s named from the letters G,A,T, and C, referring to guanine, adenin, thymine and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.

But on the TV show The League, the character Rafi (Jason Mantzoukas) screams it as his battle cry during paintball, completely oblivious to what it actually means or that it’s the title of a movie. I urge you all to misuse this word at some point as well – if you ever need to hype yourself up, try screaming “GATTACA!” as your battle cry!

When it sunk it that reversing time was more than just a clever puzzle mechanic, I did a lot of self reflecting.

If you haven’t checked it out, I highly suggest the game Disco Elysium. It’s similar in that the more beautifully-written context you learn about, the more it transcends the plot and explores the themes. You can check out a playthrough of the first parts of gameplay to get a taste of its writing style but it continues to evolve as you level up the voices of your own conscience to the point of genuine wisdom or sheer madness (or leave them oblivious which is also fun).