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lol I worked at a professional theatre for 5 years (and theatres in general for way longer) and you seem like you’re more well versed than I am.

Interesting point about Les Mis and Phantom. I enjoyed Les Mis the last time I saw it, but that was ages ago, during a time that I also liked Phantom (I still like a few songs in phantom, but hoo boy there’s a lot of grossly problematic themes in it). Phantom with a high budget can be a blast to watch though, from a technical standpoint. I saw it once in Las Vegas. The chandelier was in 3 pieces hanging above the audience seating, and it slowly lit up and came together above the stage during the overture. It was fucking crazy to see. (awful audio warning: I found a terrible quality video on youtube!)

Haven’t seen Wicked, Cats or Hamilton (or basically any broadway show. I’m a heretic, I know lol), so I can’t comment on those. I haven’t seen Evil dead: the Musical, but I’ve wanted to for ages. I’m big on Horror movies, and the Evil Dead movies are all wild.

I’m glad you mentioned Moulin Rouge. That movie is so fucking incredible. El Tango De Roxanne has lived rent free in my head since I first saw it and I’m honestly so glad about it.

As for recommendations to check out:

• Sweeney Todd. The 2007 movie with Johnny Depp is great (and very bloody) but I’ve seen a few renditions of it live and it’s honestly always a great show. Checks a lot of boxes for me (good tunes, dystopian, and a surprisingly heavy story given that the theme is often horror-comedy-esqe).

• Urinetown. Been a while since I’ve seen it, but it’s a great satirical musical (it makes jabs at a ton of stuff, but it’s mostly aimed at capitalism in general).

• Little Shop of Horrors. This one has a special place in my heart because it’s the first musical I worked on in highschool that I actually enjoyed. Not much to say, it’s just a fun show.

What kind of musicals do you like? I don’t generally care for musicals as much as other play formats, but I got to see some real fun ones when I was a backstage tech at a theatre.

The Wiz is absolutely amazing though.

What model, and could I get your opinion/recommendation on them? I’ve had a pair of “JBL Tune 760NC” headphones for a few months now and they’re okay, but the noise cancelling isn’t nearly as good as I’d hoped.

As much as I so dearly love the word scallywag, it already has an extremely rigid place in my vocabulary as a cat-exclusive term.

Oh, fuck yeah. I remember it using nvidia shield, and I haven’t bothered with seeing if it works outside of geforce since I dropped that (fuck geforce lol). Glad to hear there’s an open source alternative.

I only know it as moonlight (been a while since I used it). What’s the Sunshine component?

As an aside, Moonlight was incredible. Used it to play PSO2 on my phone when I was a few hundred miles away visiting a friend.

Honestly, thigh highs + hoodie + “is there any clothes under that hoodie?” is peak fashion.

(at the risk of making a truly stupid joke)

You could wear some pants instead of trying to cover it with just a hoodie.

No, because I was just spitballing plausible answers. I tried to make that pretty clear.

This is way off topic, but I’m curious about the fresh water thing. Does that include frozen water, and how does Antarctica fit into that metric? I know Antarctica is a continent, but is it also a country? Is it multiple?

Edit: I return with knowledge!

Antarctica has no countries, but does have regions where certain other countries have “claimed”. Also the info is pretty dated (late 80’s I think), but there’s a large portion that is totally unclaimed land entirely. Fun fact: this is the only large land area on the planet that’s unclaimed by a country.

As for fresh water content: Antarctica holds about 70% of Earth’s fresh water as ice. As a scale reference: If that all melted, it would be enough to raise the planet’s sea levels by nearly 200 feet (~60 feet higher than the 2011 tsunami that caused the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan).

Places where subways don’t have as many stops, or cities that have better bus infrastructure and/or funding, likely (example: bus has more funding and as a result, you might only have to wait a couple minutes at a bus stop compared to 10+ at a subway).

Could be off base, but that seems likely enough.

Ah yes, what a great superpower to have when your brain essentially registers every single noise like it needs your full attention, every time.

Framing extremely debilitating things as a “superpower” feels wildly ignorant and disrespectful.

Definitely not an AI. An AI would say humans have 9 fingers on each hand, for a total of 47 fingers.