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Klaaz posted:Yeah i figure that but there are some crazy people out there analyzing every single object in his scenes and considering them important pieces of a bigger puzzle that has to be solved to truly understand the movie In general, people who engage with every piece of media, literature or art as if it's a puzzle to be dechipered are awful and I'm not sure if they're just individually really dim or had awful English teachers.
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I didn't see those indie movies, I only like corporate movies.
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Gripweed posted:yeah that was a weird period where terrible indie movies like Napoleon Dynamite, Juno, Little Miss Sunshine, etc. made it big. People complain about Marvel movies but at least they stopped that poo poo. There was definitely a scramble to pick up indie movies at the time. At least, indie movies that had at least one recognizable cast member. I'll add my agreement to wondering why anyone liked Napoleon Dynamite. I can understand almost any other movies listed, but I saw that movie, and realized there are only 3-4 funny moments in the movie, and the rest is just either sad or obnoxious. Unsurprisingly, one of those best moments involves Diedrich Bader. Henchman of Santa posted:I liked Juno a lot, but I was 15 and have had no desire to revisit it. Same. It's one of those movies I really enjoyed in my early 20's, but I'd rather spend the time to watch a new movie instead. Wouldn't mind seeing it again, but out of the movies mentioned, it's the only one. I hold it higher on the list than Little Miss Sunshine because it at least had a certain amount of personal drama I liked. Little Miss Sunshine tried to hit certain "indie" notes intentionally way more.
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i hate spice mixes. i need to cook in my mother's kitchen and it's nothing but "mexican spices" "provencal herb mix" "italian mix" etc. i want to know what im putting in my food, just have a little jar for each separate spice and use what you need, most of these look ancient too so theyre not getting used because theyre too specific and weird and theres tons of them
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Shibawanko posted:i hate spice mixes. i need to cook in my mother's kitchen and it's nothing but "mexican spices" "provencal herb mix" "italian mix" etc. i want to know what im putting in my food
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Tiggum posted:Maybe it's different where you live, but here they all have the specific ingredients listed on the label. If there's some you frequently use together it's just convenient to have them in the same container. You can still have separate containers of them for when you want to use them separately or in different quantities. I’ve got to assume listing the ingredients is mandated by law wherever they’re posting from unless it’s like, the DRC
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While we're on the subject of overrated movies, In Bruges and Training Day were a chore to watch.Gripweed posted:It's loving baffling that Napoleon Dynamite was popular at all. I never saw it, but every quasi-meme/catchphrase that came from it decreased my desire to see it.
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i dont remember a single thing about napoleon dynamite
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I thought it was pretty funny It's very much targeted at small town / lower middle class people
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hawowanlawow posted:I thought it was pretty funny Yeah I felt like I was that target and didn’t feel insulted so
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I feel like I can't really make a sound judgement on Napolean Dynamite because, while I didn't like it when I saw it, a huge amount of that was from the jokes being absolutely run into the ground before I got to see it.
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I liked Napoleon Dynamite at the time but I rewatched it a couple years ago and man it is aggressively bad now. I wonder if it was just the brand of humor being novel at the time or whether my being a college kid made it funny by virtue of how dumb college kids are.
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Manager Hoyden posted:I liked Napoleon Dynamite at the time but I rewatched it a couple years ago and man it is aggressively bad now. I wonder if it was just the brand of humor being novel at the time or whether my being a college kid made it funny by virtue of how dumb college kids are. well that would make sense because your mom goes to college hohohohohohoho
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caning is a good punishment, as long as it is reserved for only very specific crimes that are easily provable littering? caning playing loud music on a portable bluetooth speaker? caning not wearing a mask? caning talking with your mouth full? caning
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id also rather be caned than sent to jail. get rid of jails. cane litterers until they stop littering.
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Sep 23, 2020 13:41
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nobody has ever posted "let people enjoy things" without being real mad about dumb poo poo
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Let people enjoy public caning
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Shibawanko posted:id also rather be caned than sent to jail. get rid of jails. cane litterers until they stop littering. I would also like a stern lady cop to be redden my behind if I've been a bad boy, and believe that this should be made public policy.
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Gripweed posted:I would also like a stern lady cop to be redden my behind if I've been a bad boy, and believe that this should be made public policy. Please make the town watch the stern, uniformed woman redden my behind when I have been naughty.
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Sep 23, 2020 15:16
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Pizza with pepperoni sliced thickly enough that it cups when cooked is disgusting. Regular pepperoni is fine.
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Mediterranean climate is wildly overrated. The best climate is found around Ottawa and Montréal
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doesn't Montreal have tunnels around the city because you would literally die from walking around outside in the winter?
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Yeah but that's only because of the drivers, not the weather.
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hawowanlawow posted:doesn't Montreal have tunnels around the city because you would literally die from walking around outside in the winter? sounds like goon paradise tbh
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Hokkaido Anxiety posted:Pizza with pepperoni sliced thickly enough that it cups when cooked is disgusting. But the little cups form into goblets in order to hold the grease!
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hawowanlawow posted:doesn't Montreal have tunnels around the city because you would literally die from walking around outside in the winter? A quick internet tells me their winter is commonly around -15, with -20 happening every now and then, so if it has tunnels that's not why.
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It definitely has tunnels, I've been down there. "Tunnels" is kinda a sketchy sounding word though, think more like indoor shopping areas and such but below ground level. It's not like the Paris catacombs.
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Disappointing.
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There's a few spots that are just very long tunnels but it's primarily a series of underground malls connected together, plus a few office buildings, hotels, and public buildings like the arena, conference centers and performing arts centers. It can make some travel quicker, but it's very much primarily a commercial thing.
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hawowanlawow posted:nobody has ever posted "let people enjoy things" without being real mad about dumb poo poo Similarly 95% of the time when someone trys to use "we live in a society" as a snarky comeback, it's to deflect from them accurately being called out as hypocrites.
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There's actually nothing inherently wrong about hypocrisy
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Part of the appeal of .pdfs is that no one wants to read them. You can boilerplate some real garbage or meet requirements by providing a link to one and rest assured that most won't and some can't even open them.
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It's fine to like HP Lovecraft's stories and ideas and insanely verbose writing while also acknowledging how awful he was. Me and my best friend buried a page of Herbert West signed by us at his Swan Point grave a few years ago and I have no regrets.
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Gripweed posted:I would also like a stern lady cop to be redden my behind if I've been a bad boy, and believe that this should be made public policy. Captain Monkey posted:Please make the town watch the stern, uniformed woman redden my behind when I have been naughty. You know that if any cop is going to volunteer for caning duty, it’s going to be a fat, bald, white man who’ll barely even hit you unless you’re black. Then, he’ll confuse his handgun and his cane and murder you.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's fine to like HP Lovecraft's stories and ideas and insanely verbose writing while also acknowledging how awful he was. It's also fine to like Bowie songs despite the fact he drugged & hosed 14 year olds. Death of the author? doverhog has a new favorite as of 07:58 on Sep 24, 2020 |
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doverhog posted:It's also fine to like Bowie songs despite the fact he drugged & hosed 14 year olds. Death of the author. Eh, Lovecraft was lovely in his writing, but never did anything and was laughed at and called out on by his peers before he died, and only became popular after he was dead and his closest associates were explaining "yeah this motherfucker had issues" Bowie did it at the height of his fame, and ya know, actually did it and celebrated it, and was celebrated at the time and after he died. Edgar Allen Ho has a new favorite as of 08:02 on Sep 24, 2020 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It's fine to like HP Lovecraft's stories and ideas and insanely verbose writing while also acknowledging how awful he was. i just think he's really boring. there was a brief moment in academia where some people tried to push him as a serious author and his worst crime is just that he's really dull and not at all scary
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Shibawanko posted:i just think he's really boring. there was a brief moment in academia where some people tried to push him as a serious author and his worst crime is just that he's really dull and not at all scary Instead of writing narrative fiction, Lovecraft could and should have written a Monster Manual for a tabletop RPG and he would still be held in the same esteem by nerds and would have had less opportunity for his gross ideology to infect his work. It's not like any adaptations of his work have been particularly faithful either. It should have been "space squid mushrooms? That's page 67 of the Monster Manual, let's do a film about those."
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Lovecraft doesn't go into monster manual type detail (except in Mountains of Madness IIRC). Despite the purple prose he is very much about the feelings, the dread of the unknown.
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the thing is though, i fell asleep before i could even get to the racism bit
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