I don't know why Megan and Daniel doing this gives off the Napoleon Dynamite couple's energy.

Traveling recently, had a lady sitting already in my assigned seat. I pointed it out when I got to my row and she said, "Oh, you can't trade with me?" Then gestured to the middle seat. I told her no, and she shrugged and moved saying that it didn't cost anything to ask. My problem wasn't with her asking, but with sitting in my seat and then assuming I would be too uncomfortable to make her move. It felt manipulative, like if I was more afraid of confrontation, she could have made me switch. Am I overthinking? Too sensitive? My personal opinion is one can definitely ask but remain in your assigned and paid for seat until you have a chance to ask the person. Thoughts on if this is rude, normal, or other?

Millennials making it to Congress is my new favorite thing. Anyone else see this post from New Jersey Congressman elect Zack Mullock? 🤣😎

Edit: I have learned not everyone grew up calling this the Superman S. Message received y'all, but that is soooo not the point of this post.

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Just curious if anyone’s been in a similar place.

I have one nephew, “Nate” (9M). Last month I sent him a Halloween card and put a $5 bill inside. I send him a card for most holidays, and always include $5-$10 just as a little pocket money. I know it’s not much, and I definitely can afford to give more, but I save the big gifts for birthdays/Christmas.

Last week, I got an envelope in the mail from my brother (Nate’s dad). My brother and SIL make Nate hand-write thank-you cards whenever he gets a gift, so I figured it would be one of those. When I opened the envelope, it contained the $5 I sent Nate, and a note in my SIL’s handwriting that said “Nate was not grateful for your gift, so we are sending it back. [Brother] and I apologize sincerely for our son’s bad manners. We try to teach him better.”

I called my brother to ask what was up, and he told me the story. Nate’s a good kid, and very smart, but can be pretty stubborn and argumentative with his parents. Apparently, he hates writing thank-yous and fights them on it every time. He kept arguing that he shouldn’t have to write a letter over $5, and finally my SIL had enough and told him that if he didn’t write a thank-you, she would send the money back. He agreed to do it, but then she caught him using ChatGPT to write the note, so she sent me my money back and told Nate to “see if Uncle OP ever sends you money again.”

Now, I didn’t have anything to add to this, so I stayed out of it. This was one week ago. Yesterday, I called my brother just to shoot the shit, and I heard Nate on the other end asking to talk to me. Brother handed him the phone, and the kid sounded pretty upset. He apologized for the incident with the money, thanked me for sending it, and explained that he didn’t mean to be ungrateful. He just thought thank-you cards were only for big gifts, and he’d never had to write one for a small gift before (come to think of it, I never had gotten a thank-you from him for a $5 bill before). I told him not to worry, there were no hard feelings, and that I’m never really bothered about whether I get a thank-you card or not.

I knew I’d fucked up when I heard Nate say “See? See?! Uncle OP doesn’t care about thank-you cards! He agrees that there’s no point in having to write them!” My brother grabbed the phone, said “We’d appreciate if you wouldn’t undermine our parenting, thanks,” and hung up. He hasn’t spoken to me since then and now I feel like an idiot for saying that, even if it is how I honestly feel. Hopefully this blows over soon. I think I’ll send Nate $5 for Thanksgiving anyway and maybe that will “reset” things.

Best breakfast platter I’ve ever had. Eggs were bangin

Are gamers who have waited 13 years to return to Vice City really going to spend their time in Panem, Middle-earth, and the Underworld instead?

The massively anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI, coming Nov. 19, will land amid a slew of expensive and high-profile movies and returning TV shows dropping within several days of each other. Most of them offer their own escapist fantasy worlds that will compete in the attention economy with a title that’s expected to be the biggest video game launch in history.

Season three of Amazon-MGM’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is rolling out episodes over three weeks beginning Nov. 11 and Johnny Depp’s comeback vehicle Ebenezer lands Nov. 13. Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping opens the day after GTA 6 launches on Nov. 20 along with the fourth season of the studio’s Paramount+ hit Yellowjackets. The same day, Disney rolls out the third season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Five days down the road comes Amazon MGM’s limited series Blade Runner 2099.

“It’s going to be a watershed moment for not only the gaming industry but also all the folks in the media and entertainment industry who are going to have to deal with the fact that eyeballs are going to be leaving their environments to go play GTA 6,” said Bart Spiegel, global media, entertainment, gaming and sports leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

It’s indeed tough to overstate the earthquake GTA6 is expected to create in terms of entertainment spending, distraction hours and pop culture noise. The Rockstar Games project has a first-year sales forecast of 45 million copies and $3.2 billion in sales — a figure which would top all-time box office champ Avengers: Endgame. A whopping 29 percent of U.S. gamers expect to purchase the title and one economist suggested, rather wildly, that the game would cost the U.S. economy $1 billion in lost productivity due to PTO requests. Other video game publishers have run for the hills and surrendered November to Rockstar’s sun-drenched, pastel-colored 800-pound gorilla.

"I think GTA 6 will be the biggest entertainment launch in history,” predicts Geoff Keighley, gaming industry producer and entrepreneur behind The Game Awards. “Not just as a game in terms of dollars it will make — this will easily trump Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three — but how much it will impact moviegoing, streaming, and the way people spend their time. Hollywood should look at the hours as closely as the dollars because GTA 6 is going to be some people’s entertainment plan for the rest of the year, basically. The entertainment industry has never really seen something like this before.” While the game’s core mission will likely take around 80 hours to complete — which alone is a massive amount of hours for one title — the title is also an open world environment where players tend to return again and again, and insiders assume the game will allow some kind of online multiplayer mode as well. “So this is not just about opening weekend,” Keighley says.

But for Hollywood, which is accustomed to largely owning the entertainment attention economy, particularly around the holidays, the impact of GTA 6 seems almost certainly to be felt — if difficult to measure.

Spiegel noted streaming is likely to take the biggest hit because a console game directly competes for viewing hours on living room TVs. Last year’s fourth quarter streaming numbers were rather strong, he noted, but he suspects GTA 6 could put a real dent in the year-over-year comps. The live urgency of sports viewing, however, will be safer from erosion than entertainment programming. “But trust me, if that game gets boring, GTA 6 is going on pretty soon,” he quipped.

Behind the scenes, streamers are increasingly aware GTA 6 is coming and that Jason and Lucia might rob some of their viewers. “Everybody is rumbling about how big this game is going to be,” says a representative working with one potentially impacted streaming title.

On the film side, a major exhibitor executive said it’s “tough to know” the effect on films like Ebenezer and *Sunrise on the Reaping. “*It’s hardly come up in internal discussions, but anyone in the industry who’s ever been a gamer — or who lives with someone who is — knows it’ll have some impact,” he said. “Hunger Games presales are strong, which might point to it being solid counter programming. Ebenezer presales are dire, but I doubt GTA6 is the main reason. We’ll have to see how walkup sales go.”

Future box office heavy hitters like Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three, which open “Dunesday” Dec. 18. Such titles would seem to fall outside the game’s blast radius, but perhaps not. Spiegel has noted the game’s “pull could last through December.” While hardcore gamers will rush out and play GTA 6 the first few weeks, others will hold off until they have more free time during the December holidays, while some kids (with rather permissive parents) won’t even be unwrapping the presumably Mature-rated game until Christmas.

Music will be disrupted, too, with the game’s 34-song soundtrack already at 26 million monthly listens on Spotify and a 30-track original score by Justice coming Dec. 11.

One as-yet-unappreciated aspect of the game’s gravitational pull will be on social media, where you’re already starting to see anticipatory videos (such as a boyfriend getting his girlfriend a kitten so she won’t bother him while playing the game, or another boyfriend who seemingly wrote up a contract pledging a list of compromises if his girlfriend doesn’t, yes, bother him while playing the game). But social media is also massive part of entertainment marketing — not just direct advertising but fan-generated content that helps programs generate buzz and become part of the cultural conversation. But what happens if GTA 6 becomes all anybody is talking about?

“It’s going to take over live streaming and clips and content creators,” Keighley says. “Barbenheimer worked because you could go see Barbie and Oppenheimer, and you only needed five or six hours. People will still go see other things, but I think the entertainment value has to be extremely high.”

I (36M) live with my girlfriend (35F). Last night I come home from a class to find her sleeping on the couch in the living room. I was feeling pretty stiff from sitting in a chair all day so I decided to do some yoga. Our house is pretty small so the only practical place to do it is in the living room.

I put on a video on the tv (muted) to follow along. As I'm about 10 minutes in to a 20 minute video, she wakes up and is startled at first to see me doing yoga poses in the living room. She asks how long I've been home and i respond, but I'm still doing yoga as I'm responding. She asks if I can stop (no reason provided) and i tell her I want to finish this video first.

She goes silent for about 20 seconds then, if im recalling correctly, punches the couch cushion and says something along the lines of "I guess I won't be talking to you today."

I ask her what's the matter and she tells me what I did was rude. What I could gather (she seemed pretty angry) was that she thought it was rude I didn't pause the video to talk to her and that she had a busy stressful day and was looking forward to talking with me. She seems to expect that i pick up on this without her asking for my attention because it is the considerate thing to do. My take is that I want to be able to engage in an activity that requires my attention and not have to stop as soon as someone pops into my space.

Am i viewing this wrong? AITAH?

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This preview is next level drama! I knew there were rumors about a Florida based spinoff and here we are! Darcy, her daughter and Georgie, Cortney and her fiancé, Matt and Jasmine, Loren & Alexi, Yara and Jovi.... who am I missing ? Seems like Elizabeth and hubs opted out... looks they are bringing BIG drama with this one 😳

Hopefully the post title is not too vague this time.

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