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  1. usagi
    I've noticed that as well. it's like the opposite of having helpful wikipedia links come up as top search results on a lot of subjects. and with the company going public they're awash with more money than ever. of course it's not as obviously bad as the twitter cesspool but reddit - in particular, getting your opinions from reddit - is actively making the world a dumber place. it's a massive echo chamber for the noncommittal centrist/"liberal" hivemind that understands nothing except optics. the upvote/downvote system practically guarantees this outcome. I give some credit to people who were redditors in their teens or early 20s but have moved on and become wiser, but there's always the next generation of idiots that think they're making a difference in the world while updooting celebrity-fellating content or GME go brrr or whatever other dumb inconsequential bandwagon shit is the order of the day. people argued with me when I said the antiwork 'movement' on there was built on a foundation of nothing and would go nowhere.
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    that bullshit website and everyone on it is terrible. I would love it if it imploded like Twitter under Musk.
  3. usagi
    Bill Skarsgard is going to be Count Orlok in Eggers' Nosferatu as well as The Crow in that shitty reboot/whatever it is. two dozen of one and half an egg of the other, or something.
  4. usagi
    Willem da Fo'fo
  5. usagi
    Hades 2 is in early access. very tempted but will probably wait.
  6. usagi
    Wowww I was thinking about this film earlier this week and couldn't remember what it was called. Saw it when it came out and it was dreadful. "a screenplay by Bird and Damon Lindelof" k bye
  7. usagi
    RIP Yosser Hughes.
  8. usagi
    four more beers for Sleepy Joe inshallah
  9. usagi
    lol. the politics nerd equivalent of The Secret. of course it could never be verified, being an act of blind faith. if Trump wins, I will argue that it was because you annoyed people on this board instead of doing anything real. and it'll be true purely cos I believe it.
  10. usagi
    settle down now, mkay
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  12. usagi
    also, Go Make Me A Subliminal Sandwich
  13. usagi
    Tradyricon
  14. usagi
    so, not ideal for motorcyclists. I was thinking about doing a trip at some point but rain is my mortal enemy.
  15. usagi
    which fan
  16. usagi
    it's VR lol
  17. usagi
    True Detective s4: Night Country. more like Shite Country. I tried watching this when it first came out and only made it 30 minutes in. now I've grit my teeth and started getting through it but it's really punishing me, I just quit halfway through the fourth episode and idk if I can go back. it's like eating a meal that is becoming increasingly rancid as you eat it. so much wrong with it. the new showrunner is a fucking hack, removing everything that made the show unique and interesting and replacing it with shitty Guillermo del Toro horror flick tropes. nothing is engaging, there are no hooks for the show to put in you, the music choices fucking suck (fuck Billie Eilish, the most vapid no-soul manufactured pop sensation out atm), there are weird random tonal shifts aping K-horror (which I can't stand most of the time), and the lame hamfisting of 'feminist' overtones (nothing to do with real feminism, literally just "men bad" slop for groveling critics and dumb Marvelbrain viewers to eat up) has absolutely no point. for example, if the point of Jodie Foster/Danvers being annoying and generally dislikeable was to act as a counterpoint or parallel to men throwing their chauvinist weight around in similar positions of power or law enforcement, then said point is completely lost because nothing worthwhile is done with it. she is dislikeable just for the sake of being dislikeable. there is no grander meaning or message relating to her character or women in general or any sort of social or philosophical concept. in s1, Woody Harrelson/Marty was a walking sham and a philanderer, and while this was portrayed sort of glamorously initially with all those sex scenes etc, he ultimately paid a terrible price for it, as seen when he's finally sitting around in an empty house eating a shitty tv dinner by himself. that scene resonated, it drove something home, the idea that there is something deep-rooted in the man with authority, gnawing at him and driving him to ruin. I doubt there is any sort of skilful weaving together of ideas like that in the two and half episodes of this shit that I have yet to see. I like Kali Reis/Navarro. she's done really well for someone with no acting background. that is literally it. so much could have been done here. the setting itself provided an excellent opportunity for powerful storytelling. what a waste. and they've handed Issa Lopez the reins for a fifth season. TD is over. Nic Pizzolatto dissing this season himself is a lol. should've just broken away as a new show rather than assuming the TD mantle.
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    I saw a clip of Fallout - the one where Walton Goggins is explaining to the little girl how to judge the severity of a nuclear attack by using your fingers, right before the bombs drop lol - and that did not look encouraging to me. pretty dumb scene, as if they didn't know looking directly at a nuclear blast at that range would likely blind you immediately. so you guys are saying it's worth a go?
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    I wonder which would cause more of a moral panic, ST ministers or imams.
  20. usagi
    @dr lopez edit: I do appreciate the thoughtful post and am tempted to give something a go, maybe Hypernormalisation even
  21. usagi
    that looks like a lot of time and effort that could instead be spent on... literally anything else.
  22. usagi
    this sounds like current-era Amon Tobin.
  23. usagi
    Derp
  24. usagi
    Bust Highway
  25. usagi
    bruh. that was a reference to 1990 cyberpunk/horror b-movie Hardware. adding it in as a little homage was one of the best moves they pulled. the ending itself is fine, pretty much the same as the original. it's just the final fight that sucks.
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