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It all started in 2016 when Tom decided to join a yoga class to impress his crush, Lisa. Little did he know that his flexibility was about as non-existent as his cooking skills. On day one, as he attempted the downward dog, he somehow flipped over and landed in a perfect, albeit unintended, cartwheel. The entire class erupted in laughter, and Lisa, between giggles, assured him he certainly had a “unique approach” to yoga.
Tom may have bombed his chance with Lisa, but he unwittingly became the star of the yoga studio. Instead of stretching muscles, he stretched the limits of his dignity. From that day on, he embraced his reputation as “the cartwheel guy,” often showing up with fresh band-aids and a newfound confidence. Turns out, all he needed was a little humor and an unexpected knack for an acrobatic exit!
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Have you watched The Lazarus Project (British show currently on Netflix in the US). It’s about a team who uses a Time Machine to go back one year to prevent nuclear war. No one except for them remembers going back, and the team suffers from reliving the same year multiple times. For example, one team member gets pregnant, gives birth, and watches the baby disappear each reset. It takes dozens of resets to prevent each nuclear war. Society doesn’t necessary suffer directly, but the team does.
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El Psy Kongroo
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I am mad scientist. It’s so cool! Sonuvabitch.
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Didnt expect Steins gate reference
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Came here looking for this
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Duuuude, the part of the visual novel where he keeps looping is roughhhhhhh
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whats it feel like
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It feels like >! shoving your friend into traffic just so something new happens!<
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SHIPPAISHITA. SHIPPAISHITA. SHIPPAISHITA. SHIPPAISHITA. SHIPPAISHITA. SHIPPAISHITA. SHIPPAISHITA. SHIPPAISHITA. Suzuha had it rough too.
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I’m an anime only, so I imagine it shouldn’t be as tedious as reading through it, but I found my eyes glazing over multiple times over that part. Can’t imagine living through it.
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I forgot about that anime, damn
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Great show. I’m sad they only made 2 seasons. Minor nit though, the baby was only reset once. Born a few days before the checkpoint iirc. And next time they had a girl and not a boy, and that’s what stuck. But yeah one of their spiels about we don’t reset for just anything is “think about all the babies we’d be erasing from existence”
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The baby was reset 16 times if I’m not mistaken.
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That is crazy to put yourselves through that. Like maybe the first one or two was a mistake, but at some point, maybe just wait a couple months until after the apocalypse to give birth? But I haven’t watched it, and I’m already hooked, lol.
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Dumb. Not resetting means they don’t grow up so it’s automatically the worst choose of the two.
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The baby born before the reset was the boy. Then they waited longer to conceive so they wouldn’t have to suffer losing another baby, and that baby was reset 16 times. That’s why there’s the rule about not getting pregnant in the first half of the cycle.
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… Ah. Yeah I think you are right. Been a few months since I watched
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You might like travelers , pretty well made and similar premises.
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And both were sadly cancelled.
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Recursion by Blake Crouch has a somewhat similar premise
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Fantastic book
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His books are great. Feels like the closest thing we have to a Michael Crichton successor. (I’m not counting people like Ted Chiang who is, imho, in a different literary tier.)
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For sure, Crouch can make a page turn with the best of them and has some great premises. I’ll read everything he puts out.
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Crichton got me into reading when I was a kid. Love his books. Gonna have to check these guys out.
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Dark Matter is probably Crouch’s best book. Super fast paced black mirror esque thriller
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I’m have to check it out
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Really enjoyed the 2nd season. The first wasn’t my favorite. I’m disappointed there won’t be a third.
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That sounds a little Dark.
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Just finished that series a couple weeks ago!
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You should check out shadow of the moon.
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Reminds me of Odyssey 5. Anyone remember that?
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God, those scenes with her, her husband and the baby (or lack thereof) were absolutely gut wrenching. Such a well thought out idea, and the ramifications of such a thing happening.
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On a similar topic…anyone remember Seven Days?
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This sounds like my gout. But I keep going to the Cajun seafood boil spot. They never seem to remember me, society, the staff, the customers, the meal…. But my gout remembers
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It’s leaving Netflix in 5 days. Time to binge.
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It’s almost a really good show, but it is worth watching.
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I’ve started referring to years in terms of A.H. (After Harambe). 2026 = 10 A.H. hopefully it catches on
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I love that, I’m using it
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I too am on the bandwagon
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I can’t shake the feeling that the ~~Aztecs~~ Mayans were right all along. December 12th, 2012. Instead of a prophecy of the end of the world, it was a prophecy marking the day one single decision, somewhere, was made, and that single decision was when everything started to go downhill. It would’ve been impossible to notice at first, probably just localized around the person who made the decision. But slowly, over time, the effects became greater and greater, effecting more and more people, becoming a more noticeable effect or a more prominent event/moment, such as Harambe. A butterfly effect, if you will. A ripple in the water, growing wider and wider as it expands. Whatever that decision was. Whoever made it. They doomed us all to this timeline.
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There’s a great theory that we all died when the collider turned on
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I like the theory that our universe merged with another one, with certain people from the original universe overriding the version of themselves in the new universe, and some people from the original got overridden by the new one. That’s where the Mandela effect comes from. Not that I believe it, but its fun to think about.
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Dammit why’d I get overridden by the shittier version
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Sad thing is you didn’t
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Oof.
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Oh christ, we’re on the island in Lost
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EVERYTHING ON THE ISLAND HAPPENED THEY WERE NOT IN PURGATORY
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Fucking thank you. I’m so sick of correcting that shit.
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The level of media illiteracy that was needed to get that from the ending and the way it took off online like a fire and just never stopped was exhausting. I didn’t watch the series for YEARS because of it, and only gave it a chance when I was really sick and it autoplayed on the stream I was using and I didn’t have the energy to get up and turn it off. It hooked me HARD and by the time I got to the end I was so upset at how off base that whole narrative was surrounding the ending.
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