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All right. Let's complain because I have a headache that feels like it's massive but hiding and also because I am feeling cranky. Maybe if I vent, I'll feel better. Or not, but at least it won't be rattling around as much in my poor brain.
First up: watched The Suicide Squad last night. I watched the first one and found it to be not terrible. I don't know if people had just set the bar so, so low that it couldn't possibly be that bad to me or what, but it wasn't the worst thing ever. It was also not something I really wanted to watch again so there was that.
If the first SS had a case of fantastic trailer (at least one of them was really good) but terrible movie, I was hoping that the second SS would follow the flipside with terrible trailer but great movie. I was willing to settle for good, or even just an enjoyable romp.
Mmm, no. (Please use the thickest Aussie accent you can for that no, as I was watching Beauty News earlier and their Nos are just adorably cranky.)
( Spoilers I guess? )
In less spoilery but more entitled whiny baby rants- I know full well that COVID has fucked up a lot of distribution of things. But I'm getting tired of not being able to snag anything new because companies have decided to not even try. Most of the following examples will be Halloween focused simply because this is the time of year when normally the Halloween stuff hits online and in certain stores and it's also when I tend to do that shopping. But for instance, Cracker Barrel had this super awesome ghost they did this year. But they sent it one per store and had like, 102 online. It sold out immediately, even at its crazy price. Then you had BB&W who put out most of their Halloween stuff early and yup, missed out on the two things I wanted most because they were shortpacked and turns out that even if hell froze and you could order them online (there was a glitch for days where you could see the hand candle holder but couldn't add to cart), they'd show up broken because they aren't packing things properly.
Or my various Amazon preorders for Funkos (Wanda and Agatha are now seriously backordered), or the HP dolls (seriously, wtf) who seem to have gone on walkabout.
There's been other stuff like that, but basically the summer has gone like this:
company: Hey, Impy, there's this cool new thing coming out!
me: you have my attention and I shall set aside money!
company: HA. It's sold out or not available in your area. SUCKER!
me: ..wtf?!
And you might think well, at least you've saved money, right? But no. Groceries and everything have spiked in prices and it's just a shitshow and I am not thrilled at the moment. When I say almost everything I've shown an interest in has sold out or had some fuckery attached to it, I mean it. At this point I feel like people who want things should just pay me to not want them, or companies who want a sell out of something shitty should pay me to want it and voila. My powers can be used for something useful other than making me cranky.
I think I'm gonna go shower now.
First up: watched The Suicide Squad last night. I watched the first one and found it to be not terrible. I don't know if people had just set the bar so, so low that it couldn't possibly be that bad to me or what, but it wasn't the worst thing ever. It was also not something I really wanted to watch again so there was that.
If the first SS had a case of fantastic trailer (at least one of them was really good) but terrible movie, I was hoping that the second SS would follow the flipside with terrible trailer but great movie. I was willing to settle for good, or even just an enjoyable romp.
Mmm, no. (Please use the thickest Aussie accent you can for that no, as I was watching Beauty News earlier and their Nos are just adorably cranky.)
( Spoilers I guess? )
In less spoilery but more entitled whiny baby rants- I know full well that COVID has fucked up a lot of distribution of things. But I'm getting tired of not being able to snag anything new because companies have decided to not even try. Most of the following examples will be Halloween focused simply because this is the time of year when normally the Halloween stuff hits online and in certain stores and it's also when I tend to do that shopping. But for instance, Cracker Barrel had this super awesome ghost they did this year. But they sent it one per store and had like, 102 online. It sold out immediately, even at its crazy price. Then you had BB&W who put out most of their Halloween stuff early and yup, missed out on the two things I wanted most because they were shortpacked and turns out that even if hell froze and you could order them online (there was a glitch for days where you could see the hand candle holder but couldn't add to cart), they'd show up broken because they aren't packing things properly.
Or my various Amazon preorders for Funkos (Wanda and Agatha are now seriously backordered), or the HP dolls (seriously, wtf) who seem to have gone on walkabout.
There's been other stuff like that, but basically the summer has gone like this:
company: Hey, Impy, there's this cool new thing coming out!
me: you have my attention and I shall set aside money!
company: HA. It's sold out or not available in your area. SUCKER!
me: ..wtf?!
And you might think well, at least you've saved money, right? But no. Groceries and everything have spiked in prices and it's just a shitshow and I am not thrilled at the moment. When I say almost everything I've shown an interest in has sold out or had some fuckery attached to it, I mean it. At this point I feel like people who want things should just pay me to not want them, or companies who want a sell out of something shitty should pay me to want it and voila. My powers can be used for something useful other than making me cranky.
I think I'm gonna go shower now.