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The sidewalk has an imaginary line down the middle. It can usually be ignored, but if there isn’t enough space, two parties passing one another should stick to their half.

People that don’t do this do come across as self important assholes.

For whatever reason, in my experience, it’s usually two women walking or jogging at lunch, that don’t dare go single file. If I hold my ground, I’m usually rewarded with a dirty look. If I step aside being overly-polite, I’m usually ignored (would a knowing nod hurt you?).

Between those options, I’ll take the dirty look most of the time...

@dasakamov: This is their first post, so it’s probably some weird bot-spam.

If this is a real dude, yeah...don’t do that. Also, I know CA is expensive, but I’m in another expensive state and my modest 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house’s mortgage is less than that each month. That rent is bananas!

I don’t listen anymore...never missed an episode of either coast, starting with Arrow Pointing Down, but I’m 6 weeks into a break and totally at peace with it.

When I did listen...yeah. I sent in a handful over the years and, had more read than not, but something about sending the same generic e-mail to both shows (and maybe other shows) just seems lazy. I always tried to tailor mine for whichever crew I e-mailed, personally.

I watched the Sunday games and it was totally fine,

Thoughts:

- Behind the scenes on reviews is welcome

- Mic’ing the coaches is NOT welcome. Too many coaches use similar play-calling, which allowed me to predict the play from my couch before it happened. I knew who was getting the ball, where they’d be going, and GENERALLY what the route was.

- Shorter play clocks are welcome

- Overtime “shootouts” sound cool, in theory

- Special teams rules are surprisingly thoughtful AND safer

- Extra points are a decent wrinkle

Overall, it’s WAY better than XFL1.0. The player quality isn’t there and I saw some woeful decision making. The defense generally looked impressive and I dig the changes. This is a totally fine product to watch, if you want more football. It’d probably be better served running in the summer, when the appetite for football is higher than immediately following the NFL season.

Soooo...they going to patch in a new ending now?

@monkeyking1969: It was run by a bunch of Italian guys in Rhode Island...it was really weird.

@ginormous76: Eh, there are handful of passionate folks without taste buds in there, but even then, there are a lot of qualifiers like “at 3am,” “consistency over quality,” and some references to self-loathing.

@ginormous76: I grew up without good pizza, but really good Chinese.

I moved out of my parents’ place and got an apartment in an Italian neighborhood. The local Chinese place didn’t serve rice, instead they had dinner rolls.

I ordered delivery, so it was a bit of a shock. I assume if I had gone there myself, I’d have seen some warning signs.

Having people depend on you helps tremendously. A spouse, kids, pets, whatever you have that needs you to succeed.

Setting goals helps. Start with small, achievable, daily goals. Write them out and work on them. Maybe use a simple Kanban board app like Trello.

From there, make your goals a little loftier, a little longer term. Build on success.

Also, consider what it is you need motivation to succeed at. Personal, professional, something else. Why do you want to succeed? What does success look like? Happiness? Money? Comfort? More time at home? More time seeing the world?

You need a north star for whatever you’re looking for success in. You need motivation to get there. Envision WHY you want to succeed and WHAT that success looks like. Then break down HOW to get there.

Write down and display what you need to do to get there and go fucking forth.

I’d only do this sort of thing with one aspect of your life at a time. Consider what would make the biggest immediate impact to your health, happiness, finances, relationships, whatever, and go get it done.

@sloppydetective: I think about a year back their...VP of Content, it might have been, noted that it was business reasons that lead to shows being formulaic in their episode count and runtime. She said they were aware it was a problem and were easing contract terms, I think.

If that’s true, we should start seeing shows break that mold more (like Maniac).

Whether this happens or not, the opportunity is there for writers to do new things and break that mold. I never saw Bandersnatch, but that sounds like another case of people taking advantage of the platform, even if choose-your-own-adventure isn’t the newest concept.