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"Bad Blood" - a classic.

The one that's on my short list of best TV episodes of all time is "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," from Season 3.

Re: the commitment of 22 episodes a season - most shows that do that have some kind of formula that makes it a little easier, but the really astonishing thing about the x-files is that it managed that without having much of a formula beyond "Mulder and Scully investigate something wacky." You never quite knew what you were going to get.

What was the one with the split screen thing going on? that was a good ep, I recall, and funny.

I liked the one with the mastodon.

I've been watching the X-Files straight through for the first time. Only caught them sporadically when they first ran, so I never really understood what was going on. I just finished season 2 and started season 3 and although there have been some fun episodes, I definitely didn't fully comprehend the melodrama I was in for. "You've been making reports on me since the beginning, Scully - taking your little notes!"

There's also a lot of stuff where my disbelief refuses to suspend itself. Not in terms of vampires or telekinetic abilities, but seeing something where I'm like, there is no WAY that's the correct FBI procedure for interrogating a witness or containing a biohazard or whatever. Maybe I'm just spoiled from having decades of police procedurals and gritty prestige TV laying it all out there.

x-files law&order crossover when

the truly absurd stuff is in later seasons when scully still refuses to believe in aliens even tho she was abducted and impregnated by them

Scully is a stand in for the MSM

x-files is the funniest version of a tv show not putting characters in protective gear because it makes it harder to show the actors responding to things

alien spores? virus spread by a sewage monster? parasite that just reappeared from the neolithic era? we’ll just tromp around in our normal fbi outfits like normal

[record scratch. freeze frame]: yep, that's me. defending the SS. you're probably wondering how I got here. https://t.co/Dq4ufxf1KF

— jan (@janhopi) September 25, 2023

At min 44 of today's livestream, Catturd has to jump off the call. At min 59 Jewel breaks the news that he's been swatted, uttering the instantly immortal phrase, "Cops are absolutely everywhere, they're all over Catturd ranch"https://t.co/1HDRKqGDRR https://t.co/jOtNMHtm7q

— 🌴🌤️🌺 Miles Klee 🐠🦉🦂 (@youwouldntpost) September 25, 2023

elon did it

x-files law&order crossover when

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7H9oN8Sc9A

Hilarious posting

the replies to this are incredible. the number of americans that believe they are some sort of special forces operator and that every trip to the shops they might be called on to go john wick mode https://t.co/KBwRE5QqBT

— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) September 25, 2023

I would say your sample is skewed by blue ticks, and that your sample is people goofing about online

Wasn't there some viral post a decade or so ago by a concealed-carry guy going on about "wolves" and "sheep" and how he's one of the wolves protecting the sheep?

Definitely a lot of concealed-carry people walk around with this cosplay fantasy, just hoping for the chance to be a hero.

Oh, it was wolves, sheep and sheepdogs. The concealed-carry folks are the sheepdogs (in their addled minds).

I love how so many of the responses are like "how dare you suggest that anxiety has anything to do with the constant grinding fear I have of every single person with whom I come into contact?"

there was a 'what's in your bag?' thread somewhere where people not only considered their guns essential, but often a spare clip of ammunition in case, i guess, they had to shoot more than 12 things in a day.

There is a police training program that way too many departments have paid for that explicitly use the wolves/sheep metaphor

as for the "what's in your bag" type of posts, there were multiple companies that made fancy notebooks, etc. that had to keep untagging themselves in everyday carry tumblr communities because they didn't want to be known as the notebook you carry with your gun

just out of curiosity how many times in a year do people actually get to live out their hero fantasies? I know that Texas church shooting someone did but only after the shooter murdered 30 or so people.

also, how often do those guns end up being used in a less heroic manner?

depends on if you think confusing you daughter for a home invader is heroic or not

I was taking a whizz in a Target restroom about 6 months ago and there was a guy in the stall next to the urinals who I guess finished his business and stood up and flushed and then I heard a loud CLACK and looked down and under the stall wall I could see a goddam handgun having just fallen out of his holster onto the floor. Fortunately I guess the safety was on and he did not shoot me in the foot, but I wanted to yell at him WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU CARRYING IN TARGET? Instead I laughed a little (hopefully loud enough for him to hear), washed up and got the heck out of there.

(I mean, I know why he was carrying, it was to protect himself in case a Pride display jumped out at him)

i used to go to a barber in a lil tourist town in new hampshire who would open carry, thank you sir for protecting me from all the hikers

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concealed carry guy, earlier today

i talked to him about it once and he was super relieved that i didnt call him a bad person and that i had a reasonable rationale for gun control, cant remember what i said tho

I saw a guy open carrying a giant rifle at Festival Foods and I wanted to yell at him too! first of all this is obviously not making anyone feel safer, secondly when in the history of grocery stores has there ever developed a situation that would be improved by a random guy carrying an automatic rifle? I mean I didn't feel panicked or anything, though now that I think about it anyone who deems it necessary or fun to carry a gun into a grocery store probably needs to be afforded a wide latitude

feel like you could shoot anyone open carrying and itd be ok

on a similar note my son's school did an ALICE drill a couple weeks ago and is now regularly having nightmares about school shooters. he's 8 years old.

my skin crawls on the rare occasion i've been around cops openly carrying guns, i can't imagine how freaky it is seeing randos in the supermarket

that shit is so dire, pure security theater that does nothing but terrorize children and give consulting paychecks to cops xp

anyone who deems it necessary or fun to carry a gun into a grocery store probably needs to be afforded a wide latitude

How I break it down too. Basically, if I know someone has a gun in a public setting I try to put some distance between me and them. I have tried to explain to concealed-carry people that while their gun might make them feel safer, it has the exact opposite effect on me.

I saw a guy open carrying a giant rifle at Festival Foods

Despite living in Texas, I have yet to come across anyone open carrying. If I did, I'd probably struggle to resist confronting them about it, even though I know that's not a wise idea.

nah I think it's a pretty natural instinct to avoid the dude carrying something that can instantly kill you

Despite my mangled syntax, I'm attempting to say the opposite though. My instinct is to go right up to them and tell them exactly how I feel.

open carrying prob getting rarer as most places where its legal just allow concealed carry now

carrying a gun is inherently a threat, but you have to recognise other people as something more than NPCs to understand that

I'm not any more in favor of concealed carry, but at least those people could make a plausible argument that they aren't doing it purely to terrorize random strangers

some people are truly nuts for their guns they love them want to marry them, which is pretty sick when you consider theyre machines for killing

The same people who have Punisher skulls with American flags inside of them on their big trucks also open-carry guns and consider themselves "pro-life."

There is stupidity, yes, but there is also denial, and most of these types are simply in denial that they are beholden to culture and mindset of death and destruction.

it's sociopathy by definition i think, but medicalising it doesn't help any more than trying to engage in reasoned debate would

actually funny to think about gun "addiction" and how those who defend gun ownership would respond to other addictions

there are so many gun nuts that dont drive murdered out trucks tho, my dads neighbor a 70 something guy whos always helping out with something around town carrying in old ladies groceries making sure people know how to sort their recycling at the dump and whatnot is always strapped, hes also a conspiracy nut needless to say

mistaking the power to kill for the power to create life, a common misunderstanding

then theres tons of people who arent really that into guns but theyre just normal things to have in their local culture so theyve got a couple around

i know quite a few poltically liberal gun control supporting gun owners just cause as long as theyre legal why not theyre pretty sick you can go shoot some cans if you want

yeah i think cars are a reasonable analogy to guns in some ways, so normalised that it seems almost insane to question their normalness - if you live in a culture where they've been normal for long enough

yup