Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

Rajaah said:

Dear Diary is better than a food derail.

Also yes.

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Rajaah said:

More or less, yeah. The TLDR of my story is that I handled the situation quite poorly and should have been WAY less honest and just rolled with things.

With hindsight, the move was to keep going out with Iron Man 2 girl and just go "fuck it" with my existing relationship, where her wealthy and opinionated parents had all but guaranteed it wasn't going to work (telling her things like that they wouldn't come to her wedding, wouldn't support her financially anymore if she got a place with me, etc). Why did they hate me so much? Her family was a certain ethnicity that tends to close ranks. She had to keep our relationship a secret from them for months and once things were going well and she was confident they'd be okay with it, she broke the news and...they weren't okay with it. It hummed along for another six months but it was DOA at that point, we just didn't know it yet.

On the other hand, art class girl was really nice, classy, didn't have any baggage, had normal nice farmer parents who let her do what she wanted, and spoke French. /whoopsie-daisy.gif

Haven't used Facebook since like 2017. Got tired of seeing people's drama and popping off about politics, plus every time I'd log on I'd have like two fewer friends on my friend count and would feel like I did something wrong. Had a long-time friend blow up at me on there because after he got dumped I said his GF wasn't worth it anyway and was an awful person and he deserved better. Guy goes into full simp-mode defending her honor and yelling at me for 3 paragraphs. Sometimes keeping in touch with old friends isn't actually worth it.

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Rajaah said:

Long-ass Dear Diary post, feel free to not read:

I went to the theater for Iron Man 2 with a really cute girl from my college who wasn't my girlfriend (of over a year at that point). My GF and I weren't getting along at the time due to interference from her parents, who were hellbent on keeping us from getting a place together. The relationship was probably on its way out, but neither of us would accept it. I'd been in art class with this other girl for months, drawing charcoal pictures and glancing at each other a lot before I finally grew a pair and started talking to her. Semester ends and we go out.

So all my Iron Man 2 memories involve sitting next to (way too close to) this cute girl, and how hot Black Widow looked. We hit it off nicely, but I held back a lot due to having a GF. Long story short, I felt bad about going out with her and made the mistake of mentioning it to my GF and telling her I wasn't happy and wished we could just fix things instead of me feeling like going out with someone else to begin with. Which was dumb of me to tell her, and I guess I was hoping my honesty would be appreciated, and maybe she'd appreciate me more and work harder to fix things.

Instead my GF finds the girl in my Facebook friends list and looks at some pictures of her and says, and I quote, "I was hoping she wouldn't be this pretty". Before I could suggest 3 way, she ordered me to un-friend the girl and not talk to her again. I didn't do either, but I did send the girl a text saying that I couldn't see her again because I have a GF. The girl texts me back "Wow." and then un-friends me on Facebook, so she did that for me. Never saw her again. Then my GF dumped me like two weeks later anyway.

Worst part is that while my GF hated video games and didn't like pretty much anything I liked (hence why she wasn't going to see Iron Man 2 with me instead), the girl from school shared basically all of my hobbies. She liked DBZ, superhero stuff, video games, etc. We talked about Bioshock a lot and how deep the game actually was. Another guy in our class was simping for her really hard and I rescued her from him a few times until he gave up, then we'd sit outside and talk about stuff like Assassin's Creed 2 and Dragonball Z Abridged. Last day of the semester (which was right before Iron Man 2 came out) I asked her out and she said yes. During our date she was on my arm the whole time and generally really sweet, whereas my GF was a cold fish at that point and barely affectionate with me.

Kind of hilarious in retrospect (...not really), but man, after losing both of 'em, I felt like complete shit at the time, and I remember drinking a lot in June-August 2010 while staying in a tiny room that faced west and didn't have air conditioning, so it'd be an inferno in the afternoon, with roommates who were never home and friends who were all back in my hometown. I spent the summer playing Mirror's Edge, Bioshock 2, and the God of War trilogy, and cashiered at a store. It was the first time I can remember where I was legit miserable with life and not sure where I was going. Once school started again and I was occupied I felt much better, at least.

In some other universe I'm married to the girl from art class, have kids, and am probably a much happier person. And that's my Iron Man 2 story

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Goatface said:

earned more than quantumania last couple of days, another 200 days might catch it.

another soft weekend, should still be #1, with $10-14m, quantumania did $12m but was #2 behind creed's $58m

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Wombat said:

I prefer to think of it as Cap Falcon's lead over Cap America 1 is now less than $20M (ignoring 14 years of inflation). But the lack of real competition for weeeks could still drag Falcon above the likes of Cap 1, Thor, and Black Widow.

Where are you getting your data anyway? Those inflation adjusted comparisons are brutal for Falcon and Quantumania.

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Attog said:

I think inherantly the name Captain America is going to carry more weight with audiences than Antman, so that alone is in this things favor. Does anyone care about Harrison Ford anymore? 10 years ago that might have meant something too...

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