Advanced Trash

first episode revolves around carly sam and freddie who have fallen out of touch over the years reconnecting as adults and carly and sam have a heart to heart where carlys like we were best friends what happened to us :( and sams like i know i know i just. i dont know i guess after all the years of basically being in love with you as kids i just needed some time to figure out my life outside of you

and carly is like wait you were in love with me?? youre gay?????

and sams like yeah?? i was super obvious about it dont tell me you never knew

and the rest of the episode is like carly having a crisis because she was the ONLY ONE who never realized her childhood best friend was gay and in love with her for several years

freddie: calm down. i mean, i didnt even realize until after we broke up and that was only because i asked her if she ever missed us going out and she threw half a club sandwich at my head and said “im gay now, shitbrains”

[laugh track]

carly: (calming down) ok… its just so weird- i always thought i had pretty good, you know, gaydar

freddie: (making a face) no one says gaydar anymore

carly: you know what i mean!

freddie: look it was just one time. maybe you just have a blindspot for her because youve known each other for so long. i mean, how long did it take you to figure out i was bi?

freddie: carly?

carly:

carly: hey spence

spencer: (distracted) mhm..?

carly: am i homophobic?

spencer: what? no.

so video games! they're a lot of fun and they're my entire life

except for when they present me with a creepy game over screen, y'know?

another irrational fear I have are certain game over screens

like it's not so bad that it'll stop me from playing video games, but they give me this weird kind of anxiety and it makes me feel the need to reset immediately so that i don't have to see it

anyway, it stems from this experience i had as a kid at chuck e cheese

i was just playing games in there when i come across this cool zombie shoot 'em up game

and my kid brain thinks i'm gonna be such a badass, shooting down monsters and saving the world

and then i didn't

so the screen got filled with zombies, and then blood

after it faded, i got a bloody message, saying "GAME OVER"

and that did not sit right with kid me, i literally ran out of the booth screaming

so because of an experience like that, i get weird anxiety when i lose and am presented with a game over screen

but it's very specific like, if it's just a plain game over screen (like BOTW for instance), then it's fine

but if i were to play some arcade mortal kombat shit, i'd lose all of my quarters

do you know what happens if you lose

you're sent to a spike filled pit and dropped into it

and you have ten seconds to put in a coin

and if you don't, your character will get impaled

now most people would be like "wow that sucks but i don't wanna play anymore so eh"

but i would Not let that happen because that sorta thing just doesn't sit right with me and it makes me anxious to see the character that i picked falling to his inevitable demise

anyway yeah creepy game over screens suck and my rant is over