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Nothing can ever fully prepare you for being an adult. Once you leave childhood behind, the responsibilities, let-downs and setbacks come at you fast. It’s tiring and expensive, and there’s no easy-to-follow roadmap for happiness and success.

A Reddit user named u/Frequent-Pilot5243 asked the online forum, “What’s an adult problem nobody prepared you for?” and there were a lot of profound answers that get to the heart of the disappointing side of being an adult.

One theme that ran through many responses is the feeling of being set adrift. When you’re a kid, the world is laid out as a series of accomplishments. You learn to walk, you figure out how to use the bathroom, you start school, you finish school, maybe you go to college, and so on.

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However, once we’re out of the school system and out from under our parents’ roofs, there is a vast, complicated world out there and it takes a long time to learn how it works. The tough thing is that if you don’t get a good head start, you can spend the rest of your life playing catch-up.

Then, you hit middle age and realize that life is short and time is only moving faster.

Adulthood also blindsides a lot of people because we realize that many adults are simply children who grew older. The adult world is a lot more like high school than a teenager could ever imagine.

The Reddit thread may seem a bit depressing at first, but there are a lot of great lessons that younger people can take to heart. The posts will also make older people feel a lot better because they can totally relate.

Being an adult is hard, exhausting and expensive. But we’re all in this together and by sharing the lessons we’ve learned we can help lighten each other’s load just a bit.

Here are 21 of the most powerful responses to the question: “What is an adult problem nobody prepared you for?”

1. Lack of purpose

“Lack of purpose. All your young life you are given purpose of passing exams and learning, then all of a sudden you are thrown into the world and told to find your own meaning,” — Captain_Snow.

2. No bed time

“You can stay up as late as you want. But you shouldn’t,” — geek-fit

3. Friendships

“Where did all my friends go?” — I_Love_Small_Breasts

Most of them are at the same place as you are … Probably wondering the same thing,” — Blackdraon003

4. Bodily changes

“I’m closer to fifty than forty, would have been nice to be better prepared for some of the ways your body starts to change at this point that don’t normally get talked about. For instance your teeth will start to shift from general aging of your gums,” — dayburner.

5. People don’t change

“Didnt know that other adults have the emotional intelligence of teenagers and its almost impossible to deal with logically,” — Super-Progress-6386

6. Money

“$5K is a lot to owe, but not a lot to have,” — Upper-Job5130

7. Our parents age, too

“Handling the decline and death of your parents,” – Agave666

8. Free time

“Not having a lot of free-time or time by myself,” — detective_kiara

9. No goals

“Not having a pre-defined goal once I was out of college. Growing up my goals were set for me: get through elementary school! then middle school! Then high school, and get into college and get a degree, then get a job, and then…? Vague “advance in your career, buy a house, find a spouse, have a kid or multiple, then retire.” At 22 I had no idea how to break that down more granularly,” — FreehandBirdlime

10. Constant upkeep

“Life is all about maintenance. Your body, your house, your relationships, everything requires constant never ending maintenance,” — IHateEditedBGMusic

11. Exhaustion

“Being able to do so many things because I’m an adult but too tired to do any of them,” — London82

12. Loneliness

“Being an adult feels extremely lonely,” — Bluebloop0

13. Dinner

“Having to make dinner every. Fucking. Day,” — EndlesslyUnfinished

14. Time changes

“The more life you’ve lived, the faster time seems to go,” — FadedQuill

15. You’re responsibile, even if you didn’t mean it

“You are held to account for bad behaviour for which you are negligent even if you had no intention to cause harm. As a lawyer, I see this all the time. People don’t think they’re responsible for mistakes. You are,” — grishamlaw

16. Work is like high school

“The intricacies of workplace politics,” — Steve_Lobsen writes. “

“When you’re in school, you think that you won’t have to deal with gossiping and bullying once you leave school. Unfortunately, that is not true,” — lady_laughs_too_much

17. Nowhere to turn

“How easy it is to feel stuck in a bad situation (job, relationship, etc) just because the cost and effort of getting out can seem daunting. And sometimes you just have to accept a figurative bowl full of shit because you can’t afford to blow up your life,” — movieguy95453

18. The happiness question

“Figuring out what makes you happy. Everyone keeps trying to get you to do things you’re good at, or that makes you money, but never to pursue what you enjoy,” — eternalwanderer5

19. Constant cleaning

“The kitchen is always dirty. You’ll clean it at least three times every day,” — cewnc

20. Life costs money

“One adult problem nobody prepared me for is how expensive everything is. I always thought that as an adult I would be able to afford the things I wanted, but it turns out that’s not always the case! I’ve had to learn how to budget and save up for the things I want, and it’s been a difficult process,” — Dull_Dog_8126

21. Keeping above water

“All of it together. I was relatively warned about how high rent is, car bills and repairs, how buying healthy food is expensive as hell but important for your health, how to exercise and save what you can, my parents did their best to fill in my knowledge about taxes and healthcare and insurance that my schooling missed, about driving and cleaning a household, about setting boundaries at work but working hard and getting ahead if you can, about charity and what it means to take care of a pet and others, about being a good partner if you were lucky enough to have one, about how dark and messed up the world is when you just read the news and what all that means to me and my community… I was reasonably warned about all of it.

“No one could have ever prepared me for how hard doing all of it at the same time and keeping your head above that water would actually be,” — ThatNoNameWriter

This article originally appeared on 01.28.22

A while after comedian Jerrod Carmichael appeared alongside Taylor Swift at a Kansas City Chiefs game, he has now opened up about how close exactly the two are… Or rather, how their friendship might be a little one-sided, although he has high hopes.

During his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Carmichael was asked about the photo and what Swift was like.

“Taylor Swift’s my best friend,” Carmichael shared, putting the emphasis on best. “Like, I’m not her best friend, but she’s my best friend.” The audience then bursts out laughing.

“Can you think of a better friend to have than Taylor Swift?” he added, asking Kimmel directly. “I called my former best friend and I was like, ‘You’re out. Taylor’s in. You never invited me on a jet to your game.’”

Carmichael then praises her seriously, pointing out that he thinks the pop star is “smart and interesting.” Kimmel then tries to clarify a bit more about how he got an invite to the Chiefs game with her.

“I won’t even get top-billing!” Carmichael joked about the news coverage of it. “It’ll say: ‘Taylor Swift: Jerrod Carmichael’s Best Friend?’ Don’t do that to me, it’s gotta be something else. I do love her though.”

For those looking to see more of Carmichael’s work, his upcoming reality show drops on HBO next week.

Check out the clip of Jerrod Carmichael talking about Taylor Swift and their Chiefs outing above around the 9:10 minute mark.

Auburn lost a member of its starting lineup a little more than three minutes into its NCAA Tournament opener against Yale. As the Tigers were pushing the ball up the floor, starting forward Chad Baker-Mazara wound up his elbow and hit Bulldogs guard August Mahoney in the chest. While there are times where this could be waved away as incidental contact, Baker-Mazara clearly turned his head and looked before he threw the elbow, which is about as close to an automatic ejection as you’ll see.

Regardless, the officials took a look at what happened and handed out a Flagrant 2.

Right after getting into the locker room, Baker-Mazara picked up his phone and did what most people would do in this situation: started posting. Apparently, one of his posts got deleted not long after it went up.

Baker-Mazara then decided to offer up a word of support for his teammates, expressing his optimism that they’d be able to take care of business against the Ivy League champions without him on the floor.

The matchup between Auburn and Yale is the 4-13 game in the East Region, with the winner earning a spot in the next round against the defending national champions, UConn.

Way back in 2017, when I first started working at Uproxx, I wrote a piece called Bringing Drake And Kendrick Lamar To The Brink Of Battle about the longstanding cold war between the two prominent rappers, who fans have interchangeably considered the top of rap’s hierarchy along with J. Cole.

Collectively, they’ve been called hip-hop’s “Big Three,” but on Kendrick Lamar’s new verse on “Like That” from Future and Metro Boomin’s new joint album We Don’t Trust You, the Compton rapper derides the concept, declaring, “Motherf*ck the Big Three / N****, it’s just big me.”

He also spends a significant portion of his verse throwing shade at Drake, which some fans have interepreted as a response to Drake throwing some of his own on his J. Cole collaboration “First Person Shooter” from For All The Dogs.

Now, if you’ve found yourself wondering why these two have spent so much time and energy trying to dim each other’s light, here’s a timeline of their feud to help make sense of it all.

2011: Drake Invites Kendrick Lamar To Collaborate On Take Care

The first official collaboration between Drake and Kendrick appears on Drake’s second album, Take Care. On “Buried Alive,” Drake cedes the stage to Kendrick, who delivers an unbroken stream of consciousness reflecting on his already antagonistic relationship to fame. Even then, it was clear he wasn’t sure what to make of Drake’s extended hand; during the verse, he muses that their association would change him and not necessarily for the better. “So blame it on Mr. OVOXO / The reason why I’m breathin’ all the vanity I know,” he raps, the first sign that things were all hunky-dory despite their initially friendly footing.

2013: Kendrick Lamar’s Verse On Big Sean’s “Control” Sets The Rap World On Fire

It’s funny; the origin of Kendrick Lamar’s big break from the industry as a whole came on a song that isn’t even technically commercially available. For a while, K. Dot played the game, collaborating with Drake twice more (on his Good Kid, MAAD City single “Poetic Justice” and on ASAP Rocky’s “F*ckin’ Problems”) but when given the opportunity to collab with fellow rising star Big Sean on his second album Hall Of Fame, Kendrick instead went full scorched earth on “Control,” inviting the entire rap world to catch his fade. The song, which was released as a promotional single but ultimately cut from the album over sample clearance issues, brought an immediate response from dozens of rappers — but not the one he seemingly most wanted to react.

“I didn’t really have anything to say about it,” Drake told Billboard in August of that year. “It just sounded like an ambitious thought to me. That’s all it was. I know good and well that [Lamar]’s not murdering me, at all, in any platform. So when that day presents itself, I guess we can revisit the topic.”

2013: Kendrick Calls Out Drake On The BET Hip-Hop Awards

Revisit the topic Kendrick did, referencing Drake’s non-response in his Cypher verse at the 2013 BET Hip-Hop Awards. “Nothing’s been the same since they dropped ‘Control,’” he flexed. “And tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pajama clothes.” Unfortunately, despite name-checking Drake’s album, he failed to elicit a direct response, although some cited Drake’s verse on Future’s “Sh!t” as an indirect one: F*ck n****s gon’ be f*ck n****s / That’s why we never gave a f*ck when a f*ck n**** switched up.”

Since then, the two have exchanged a handful of subliminal potential disses, but never anything that either seemed to think was worth escalating the conflict over. A few examples include:

2013: Drake’s “The Language”

Nothing Was The Same was allegedly littered with references to Kendrick, none overt. However, it’s hard to overlook the first verse from “The Language” in which he decries “any n****s that’s talkin’ that sh*t just to get a reaction / F*ck going platinum, I looked at my wrist and it’s already platinum” — a subtle nod to Good Kid, MAAD City reaching the million-sold milestone two years after its release (by comparison, it took Drake’s debut album, Thank Me Later, just a month to accomplish).

2015: Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta”

When Kendrick incredulously wonders, “I can dig rapping / But a rapper with a ghost writer? What the f*ck happened?” many retroactively took it as a pointed reference to Drake’s “ghost writer” controversy, which was kicked off by Meek Mill later that year when he detailed being surprised that Drake asked him for a verse on a nearly completed reference song. After the scandal broke (and Drake cooked Meek with the onslaught of “Charged Up” and “Back To Back”), fans pointed to Kendrick’s bar as an example of foreshadowing… even though he never mentions Drake on the track.

2015: Drake’s Verse From The Game’s “100”

“I would have all of your fans / If I didn’t go pop and I stayed on some conscious shit,” has long been construed as a gloating shot at Kendrick for being unable to match Drake in commercial success. Another example of a line that could be about K. Dot: “I’m in the club every time that they play the competition If they even play the competition and I seen the response they get.”

2015: Kendrick’s Verse From Dr. Dre’s “Deep Water”

“Motherf*cker know I started from the bottom” begins the verse, calling back to one of Drake’s best-known but most scrutinized hits. (“I don’t give a f*ck about your whereabouts” could also be seen as a reference to the Canadian rapper’s tendency to release songs titled with timestamps and locations, such as…)

2016: Drake’s “4PM In Calabasas”

Less of a diss and more of a reminder, Drake made it a point to take credit for taking the risk of backing Kendrick and ASAP Rocky in 2011, eschewing the advice to bring R&B singers on his tour. “When they told me take an R&B n**** on the road and I told ’em no and drew for Kendrick and Rocky / I tried to make the right choices with the world watching.” Might have bit him in the backside.

2017: Kendrick’s “The Heart Part 4”

Ahead of releasing the Pulitzer-winning DAMN., Kendrick made it a point to tell Drake: “Jay-Z Hall of Fame, sit your punk ass down / So that means you ain’t bigger than rapping.” After taking some parting shots on “Element,” he went so long without dropping new music, that it seemed their feud had ended by virtue of sheer boredom on either rapper’s part.

2023: Drake’s “First Person Shooter” Verse

Despite taking in one of Kendrick’s Big Steppers tour stops (after Kendrick expressed confusion at Drake and Kanye squashing their own feud on that album), Drake seemingly couldn’t resist getting in some digs at Kendrick on his J. Cole collaboration, nor slighting him during his own tour, telling fans he wouldn’t disappear on them for years at a time (suggesting that’s what Kendrick did between 2017’s DAMN. and 2022’s Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers).

2024: Kendrick Lamar’s “Like That” Verse

And here we are, full circle — sorta. Truthfully, this feels more liek is should be an intermission, although it’s also the first time in over 10 years Kendrick openly baited Drake with an invitation to throw down. We’ll see if the time Drake predicted all those years ago finally comes to pass, or if Kendrick’s craving for conflict continues to go unsatisfied.

Welcome to a special corner of Neil Gaiman‘s The Sandman Universe. Also, surprise! Netflix is about to gift viewers with a treat while they await more of the flagship series, which is currently working on new stories of the Endless. In the meantime, the streamer will present two young investigators who become partners at solving supernatural crimes, despite being dead and after being born decades apart. They’re ghosts who are the only guys to call in for the job after human hunches cannot suffice, especially when things get paranormal. And that means that they encounter many hazards, including witches and the depths of Hell, while helping mortals put their realm back at ease.

Are you in? Let’s talk about what we can expect from Netflix’s Dead Boy Detectives.

Plot

Viewers of The Sandman are currently waiting to see whether that show’s second season will address Season Of Mists, otherwise known as the fourth graphic novel volume of The Sandman comic books. That volume includes a tale about characters within a British boarding school, and the purpose of the ghost story relates to Lucifer’s (portrayed by Gwendoline Christie in the Netflix series) ongoing beef with Dream (Tom Sturridge). Eventually, Gaiman decided to resurrect these characters for a further adventure because he couldn’t help himself, as Netflix details with these quotes:

“Who amongst us can honestly say that if we were hanging around the Earth as a ghost we wouldn’t want to start a detective agency?” asks Gaiman. “I think what fans responded to the most was their good-heartedness and dedication.”

From there, a Vertigo spinoff comic happened, and in 2024, the interwoven nature of these two comics, along with the fact that we will be waiting until 2025 for The Sandman to return, provides the perfect window for Dead Boy Detectives to step into the spotlight as ghosts who are solving the paranormal mysteries that confound human investigators. Co-creator Steve Steve Yockey compared the two TV series: “If The Sandman is this really lush, rich supernatural drama, then Dead Boy Detectives is the Hardy Boys on acid… Hopefully just as addictive, but through a severely cracked lens.”

Will there be any crossover action on The Dead Boy Detectives? Given that both series hail from Netflix, chances were already good that this would happen. The streamer has also revealed that at least one member of the Endless will surface in the new series’ first season. Who shall it be? My hope is for it to be Death, and that also seems like a natural transition to make (including a logical, literal shift) between the shows.

Here’s the lowdown from the show’s description:

Meet Edwin Payne (Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Revri), ‘the brains’ and ‘the brawn’ behind the Dead Boy Detectives agency. Teenagers born decades apart who find each other only in death, Edwin and Charles are best friends and ghosts… who solve mysteries. They will do anything to stick together – including escaping evil witches, Hell and Death herself. With the help of a clairvoyant named Crystal (Nelson) and her friend Niko (Kitamura), they are able to crack some of the mortal realm’s most mystifying paranormal cases.

Cast

George Rexstrew (as Edwin Payne) and Fate: The Winx Saga‘s Jayden Revere (as Charles Rowland) pick up the roles of the heading ghostly detectives. A Series of Unfortunate Events‘ Kassius Nelson will portray Crystal Palace, the pair’s psychic medium who signs up for the Dead Boy Detective Agency. Lukas Gage portrays the shapeshifting Cat King (for real), and the cast also includes Briana Cuoco, Ruth Connell, Joshua Colley, and David Iacono.

Release Date

This Netflix series arrives on April 25, and we still await an official return date for The Sandman, which is filming now.

Trailer

Strong Lockwood and Co. vibes are coming from this teaser trailer.

Emily Ratajkowski split from her husband, Sebastian Bear-McClard, in September 2022 after four years of marriage. She’s now celebrating the divorce by turning her engagement ring into divorce rings. This week, Ratajkowski shared a series of photos on Instagram where she’s topless in bed and showing off her hands. “divorce rings,” Ratajkowski wrote, tagging Alison Chemla, the creative director of jewelry brand Alison Lou.

“The rings represents my own personal evolution,” Ratajkowski told Vogue. “I don’t think a woman should be stripped of her diamonds just because she’s losing a man.”

The Taylor Swift-quoting model and author decided to repurpose the rings after reading “The Unravelers,” Stephanie Danler’s essay in the Paris Review. “[It] includes the story of her grandmother’s snake ring — a ring that is made up of the different stones from her various marriages,” she said. “I loved the idea of a ring unabashedly representing the many lives a woman has lived.”

Ratajkowski was also inspired by Rihanna, an inspiration to us all. “I was very inspired by Rihanna’s diamond pinky-toe ring; I liked the idea of my former wedding ring ending up on my pinky,” she explained. “The princess cut was more challenging. Alison and I worked together to find something that felt fresh but also timeless.” You can see the Instagram post below.

(Via Vogue)

While promoting Kung Fu Panda 4, and his now-viral cover of Britney Spears’ “… Baby One More Time,” the ever enthusiastic Jack Black revealed that he’s ready for a School of Rock sequel. There’s just one problem: School of Rock writer Mike White has been a tad busy with a little HBO series called The White Lotus.

“I wish there’d be a School of Rock 2: Electric Boogaloo. I’m ready,” Black recently told JOE. “You know Mike White wrote the first one and he’s a genius. And we’d have to have Mike White back in the saddle, but he’s real busy right now with White Lotus, the best show on TV.”

Released in 2003 and directed by Richard Linklater, School of Rock saw Black play a down-on-his-luck guitarist named Dewey Finn. After being kicked out of his band, and low on cash, Dewey impersonates his roommate and takes a substitute teaching gig at a nearby private school. What he finds is a class full of budding young musicians, who Dewey molds into an epic band of his own: The School of Rock.

According to School of Rock star Miranda Cosgrove, Black went above and beyond working with the kids on the movie. He still talks to them to this day.

“I love him,” she told PEOPLE last year. “He just acts [as] the most normal, nice guy. He doesn’t seem like he thinks he’s Jack Black at all.”

(Via JOE)

Reggaeton and Afrobeats have had their time dominating the American music market. Now, the genres amapiano and música Mexicana are ready to snag the public’s attention. A budding talent in the música scene is Grammy hopeful Xavi. His latest single, “Corazón De Piedra,” makes it clear that he should be the entertainer to carry the torch for the sound.

The self-proclaimed “sierreño kiss-off anthem” is here to jump-start your romantic recovery after heartbreak.

“And you think that I’m here for your bullsh*t / I tell you to your face, there is a line behind you / This time it won’t be the easy ones / Keep your desires to yoursеlf and get out of here / Evеrything was ruined / You realized that sooner or later this was going to happen / So please let me be / If you see that I have already forgotten you,” sings Xavi.

“Corazón De Piedra” follows Xavi’s standout single “La Diabla,” which helped him earn his debut Latin American Music Awards nomination for New Artist Of The Year. As Xavi finishes his forthcoming debut album, if it sounds anything like “Corazón De Piedra,” he’s on the right track.

Listen to “Corazón De Piedra” above.

The past few years have seen quite a turn from the disappointing video game adaptations of yesteryear. From The Last Of Us to Five Nights At Freddy’s and even Super Mario Bros., gamers have repeatedly been pleasantly surprised with results. This strange era comes after this target audience has learned to live with crushing disappointment when productions failed to translate essential elements to the screen in live-action form. Or arguably even worse, they’ve witnessed when a project starts out fairly strong, like The Witcher on Netflix, but begins to fall apart to the point where the leading man takes flight or another video game project waiting in the wings.

That would be the long-gestating Borderlands film that has been ebbing and flowing in production since 2015, when Eli Roth was initially announced as director. However, all things do happen for a reason, so perhaps the timing for this film — based upon the wildly popular shoot-’em-up game series — could not be better, given how well other video game adaptations have been received lately. Let’s discuss what to expect from this project.

Plot

The film is co-authored by Joe Crombie and Roth, although The Last Of Us showrunner Craig Mazin was reportedly once attached to the script but has since denied being involved.

How will the film compare to the game? Obviously, the characters and setup will be very recognizable, but Roth has been very effusive about how this will not be “too slavish” or a carbon copy of the source material. Further, Roth specified that the movie (or eventual movies) will adhere to their own canon, which will be distinguishable from game canon. Coupled with high expectations, that factor should be telling on how this film is eventually received.

The cast, at least, is stacked, as we will see below, but for the moment, it’s worth highlighting how Roth is re-teaming here (after The House With A Clock In Its Walls) with Jack Black and Cate Blanchett. Black will portray the robot Claptrap, and Blanchett will portray the notorious outlaw Lilith, who has returned to Pandora, and she’s not happy about it. Lilith will be on hand while attempting to locate the “missing daughter of the universe’s most powerful S.O.B., Atlas” on Pandora, according to Lionsgate’s description:

Lilith forms an alliance with an unexpected team – Roland, a former elite mercenary, now desperate for redemption; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina’s musclebound, rhetorically challenged protector; Tannis, the scientist with a tenuous grip on sanity; and Claptrap, a persistently wiseass robot. These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.

Cast

The motley crew of fellow vault hunters will also include Kevin Hart, who previously revealed to Collider that the movie “looks like the game. It’s unbelievable.” Other famous faces include Jamie Lee Curtis (as Dr. Patricia Tennis), Gina Gershon (as Mad Moxxi), and Ariana Greenblatt (as Tiny Tina).

Release Date

As of now, Borderlands will hope to capitalize upon the heat of the summer with a August 9, 2024 theatrical release.

Trailer

This mayhem-filled trailer arrived on February 21.

Jeopardy! is all about stone-cold facts (well, most of the time), so it honestly feels a little disrespectful that on Wikipedia, it says the game show has aired “over 8,000 episodes.” Not a specific number, but over 8,000. That’s not technically wrong, but come on. The late, great Alex Trebek would have not put up with this estimation. Thankfully, the official Jeopardy! account on X has the exact number. “Tonight’s broadcast of Jeopardy! will conclude with a celebration of our 9000th episode, each and every one of which has been announced by the legendary Johnny Gilbert! Be sure to tune in!” it reads.

Over 9,000 episodes! For perspective’s sake, the longest-running scripted series in American television history is The Simpsons with only (“only”) 762 episodes, one of which featured a guest star appearance from Trebek. And the 9,000 episodes only includes the syndicated edition — it’s even higher with the original versions.

“I started taking voice lessons when I was still in high school, got a job with a little band and traveled around in that area for a while,” Gilbert told Fox News about how he got started. “That was the beginning of it all.”

To find out when to watch the 9,000th episode in your local market, head here.