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Rich people are like children with a lot of money and power.
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I don't think I've ever been to any kind of event involving gifts, where they weren't opened. People want to see your reaction to their gifts.
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May 18, 2022 06:48
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mandatory lesbian posted:Id chuck a eric clapton guitar too, clapton sucks rear end Surely throwing it out a window is merely a tribute to the original owner.
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May 18, 2022 08:24
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It's kind of funny, I'm actually watching Breaking Bad for the very first time right now, and it's striking how absolutely loathsome Walt is very nearly from the word go. Sure, he has relatable moments every now and then, but even cutting him all the slack in the world for his cancer he's still an absolute egomaniac. It's wild to think that people were (or still are) actively celebrating and rooting for him. 
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May 18, 2022 08:41
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Yeah. Much like the Sopranos, Breaking Bad is about a bad person who gets much worse, not about a good man who becomes bad.
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May 18, 2022 08:49
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KozmoNaut posted:I don't think I've ever been to any kind of event involving gifts, where they weren't opened. except for weddings. defo don't want to spend an hour watching them open gifts when we could be drinking/dancing
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May 18, 2022 09:26
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Perestroika posted:It's kind of funny, I'm actually watching Breaking Bad for the very first time right now, and it's striking how absolutely loathsome Walt is very nearly from the word go. Sure, he has relatable moments every now and then, but even cutting him all the slack in the world for his cancer he's still an absolute egomaniac. It's wild to think that people were (or still are) actively celebrating and rooting for him. in all the scenes where he's teaching he's just an absolute piece of poo poo to his students, wildly disrespectful, insults them to their face, and the only reason i can think anyone wouldn't immediately be disgusted by that behavior (and by how he treats jesse) is that they wish they could talk to their own kids like that
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May 18, 2022 10:06
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Perestroika posted:It's kind of funny, I'm actually watching Breaking Bad for the very first time right now, and it's striking how absolutely loathsome Walt is very nearly from the word go. Sure, he has relatable moments every now and then, but even cutting him all the slack in the world for his cancer he's still an absolute egomaniac. It's wild to think that people were (or still are) actively celebrating and rooting for him. You want him to win because if he wins, his family wins. But after a while it becomes painfully clear that his goals aren’t about that any more. Hes also a great character and really fun to watch. Cranston is a genius
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May 18, 2022 10:33
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CelticPredator posted:You want him to win because if he wins, his family wins. But after a while it becomes painfully clear that his goals aren’t about that any more. And one of the best moments in the show is when he has his moment of clarity and admits to Skylar that he was doing it all for himself.
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May 18, 2022 11:04
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CelticPredator posted:You want him to win because if he wins, his family wins. But after a while it becomes painfully clear that his goals aren’t about that any more. Oh absolutely, he's wildly entertaining to watch, especially when he vacillates between awkward dumpy dad and wannabe criminal mastermind. But at very nearly every point of the story everybody else would be vastly better off if he'd just dropped dead.
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May 18, 2022 11:12
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moonmazed posted:in all the scenes where he's teaching he's just an absolute piece of poo poo to his students, wildly disrespectful, insults them to their face, and the only reason i can think anyone wouldn't immediately be disgusted by that behavior (and by how he treats jesse) is that they wish they could talk to their own kids like that Gilligan was talking in some interview how they had a scene in the finale where Walt runs into an old student of his and asks him what he took away from his class, and the student's reply is along the lines of, "I thought it was cool when you used powder to make the fire turn green." In however many years of teaching he's made no lasting impact.
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May 18, 2022 11:22
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Walter White is similar to Mama Rose from Gypsy. (watched it last weekend the last day it was on Netflix, the Imelda Staunton one). Both of them feel like they were left behind for reasons that were not their own fault (although in reality it's more likely narcissism/mental health issues), and in trying to push back, ruin their relationships with most of their families chasing a dragon while claiming that they are doing it for their offspring, having a revelation later on where they finally admit that they were doing it all for their own sake. The difference is that the realisation breaks Mama Rose while Gypsy takes pity on her and allows her to remain part of her life, while Walter White doubles down, terrifies his family and ends up completely abandoned.
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May 18, 2022 11:26
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I've started better call saul, and I like it better, because at least two seasons in I find the central conflict between basically good Jimmy who bends the law to do the right thing and people who go by the book and use the law to be as cruel as possible more interesting
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May 18, 2022 12:06
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It's also a lot lighter, it's a lot harder to watch Walter White constantly being awful and emotionally abusive to Skyler season after season than it is to watch Kim and Jimmy basically turn into (lategame comparison to another story) the MacBeths
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May 18, 2022 12:25
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Ambitious Spider posted:I've started better call saul, and I like it better, because at least two seasons in I find the central conflict between basically good Jimmy who bends the law to do the right thing and people who go by the book and use the law to be as cruel as possible more interesting
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May 18, 2022 14:12
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One thing that bugged me about the final episode was that a stray bullet killed him, not the cancer that was the driving force of his downward spiral since episode 1.
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May 19, 2022 12:03
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grittyreboot posted:One thing that bugged me about the final episode was that a stray bullet killed him, not the cancer that was the driving force of his downward spiral since episode 1. I thought that was quite appropriate, actually. The cancer turned out to not be the driving force anyway - it was just his excuse to be his toxic self. He didn't stop making meth when his cancer went into remission, remember. So dying to the consequences of his actions that he could have walked away from has more meaning than him dying to the disease that he couldn't escape.
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May 19, 2022 12:41
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Randalor posted:The 4th season of Blackadder? It's set in the trenches of WW1, but for 5 1/2 episodes, it's "Blackadder tries to get away from the front lines" comedy and 1/2 episode of unfiltered despair.
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May 19, 2022 16:49
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Rochallor posted:Gilligan was talking in some interview how they had a scene in the finale where Walt runs into an old student of his and asks him what he took away from his class, and the student's reply is along the lines of, "I thought it was cool when you used powder to make the fire turn green." In however many years of teaching he's made no lasting impact. That's just true to life. The few good teachers in my school days had zero impact on 90% of students.
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May 19, 2022 18:09
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I just finished the first series of Naruto so I'll be onto Shippuden later. It's kind of ridiculous that they don't follow up on Sasuke at all and just have the last third of the show be random adventures culminating with an (admittedly pretty badass) Gaara 5-parter. By the time Sasuke finally comes back into things it'll be like "I was gone for years, why didn't you even try to find me?" "Oh to be honest, we kind of replaced you with Gaara, he's way cooler and has more fun adventures." BioEnchanted has a new favorite as of 19:59 on May 19, 2022 |
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May 19, 2022 19:56
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BioEnchanted posted:I just finished the first series of Naruto so I'll be onto Shippuden later. It's kind of ridiculous that they don't follow up on Sasuke at all and just have the last third of the show be random adventures culminating with an (admittedly pretty badass) Gaara 5-parter. 
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May 19, 2022 20:09
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Rochallor posted:Gilligan was talking in some interview how they had a scene in the finale where Walt runs into an old student of his and asks him what he took away from his class, and the student's reply is along the lines of, "I thought it was cool when you used powder to make the fire turn green." In however many years of teaching he's made no lasting impact. I never understood the "one teacher who changed my life" thing. Do people actually go through this? I have zero recollection of any of my teachers, grade school, high school or university, except for some negative experiences with the latter. And given on how education is going down the toilet worldwide thanks to shortages and aggressive parents driving them further, that will just get worse.
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May 19, 2022 20:47
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AceOfFlames posted:I never understood the "one teacher who changed my life" thing. Do people actually go through this? I have zero recollection of any of my teachers, grade school, high school or university, except for some negative experiences with the latter. And given on how education is going down the toilet worldwide thanks to shortages and aggressive parents driving them further, that will just get worse. It's true, your experience may not be universal.
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May 19, 2022 20:55
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BioEnchanted posted:I just finished the first series of Naruto so I'll be onto Shippuden later. It's kind of ridiculous that they don't follow up on Sasuke at all and just have the last third of the show be random adventures culminating with an (admittedly pretty badass) Gaara 5-parter. The manga basically goes right into the timeskip and because I guess the anime was in danger of catching up they just did like a straight two years of filler. So now that you've finished all of it I can tell you that every single one of those episodes could have been skipped with no trouble
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May 19, 2022 21:06
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AceOfFlames posted:I never understood the "one teacher who changed my life" thing. Do people actually go through this? I have zero recollection of any of my teachers, grade school, high school or university, except for some negative experiences with the latter. And given on how education is going down the toilet worldwide thanks to shortages and aggressive parents driving them further, that will just get worse. Your experience is not universal, I've had several extremely inspiring teachers. And there are and always will be plenty of decent people who will actually do their best, no matter the circumstances. Same with nurses, social workers, all the people who actually make society work properly. Some people actually do give a poo poo and actually do give it their all
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May 19, 2022 21:09
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christmas boots posted:The manga basically goes right into the timeskip and because I guess the anime was in danger of catching up they just did like a straight two years of filler. So now that you've finished all of it I can tell you that every single one of those episodes could have been skipped with no trouble Speaking of Naruto and media that didn't age well, Shonen Jump's run of Naruto, where the physical graphic novels had greatly outpaced the magazine, so they jumped forward several volumes in the magazine, just to jump forward a few months later when they decided to "catch up" to the Japanese magazine's publication because Naruto was that popular in North America. I think they did a similar thing for One Piece, but it was less egregious because those were mostly short story arcs that didn't really add much to the overarching plot anyways.
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May 19, 2022 21:15
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Excellent example. Although I'd say there's a lot of despair sprinkled in up to that point. I'm glad they didn't go for the everybody comically dead at the end option.
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May 19, 2022 22:17
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Yeah that's the problem with American Shonen Jump, it was a monthly mag but the popular stories were actually running weekly in Japan so they could never catch up except by devoting half their pages to the popular manga.
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May 19, 2022 22:33
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AceOfFlames posted:I never understood the "one teacher who changed my life" thing. Do people actually go through this? I have zero recollection of any of my teachers, grade school, high school or university, except for some negative experiences with the latter. And given on how education is going down the toilet worldwide thanks to shortages and aggressive parents driving them further, that will just get worse. I didn't have it happen, but I do know it happens. And I feel like, if one of my school teachers came up to me and asked that question, I could at least bullshit something.
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May 19, 2022 23:50
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AceOfFlames posted:I never understood the "one teacher who changed my life" thing. Do people actually go through this? I have zero recollection of any of my teachers, grade school, high school or university, except for some negative experiences with the latter. And given on how education is going down the toilet worldwide thanks to shortages and aggressive parents driving them further, that will just get worse. I can buy someone not having a Lifetime Movie Moment where a teacher changes their life forever but not having any recollection seems worrisome to me and my eidetic memory.
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May 19, 2022 23:59
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Cleretic posted:I didn't have it happen, but I do know it happens. I mean chances are you probably have a few teachers who were decent to good if you can do things like read, write, and analyze. They might not of motivated you to your career or passion but they did teach you.
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I had several inspirational teachers! It just didn't help, really, there's only so much you can do with inspiration.
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May 20, 2022 00:46
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BioEnchanted posted:I just finished the first series of Naruto so I'll be onto Shippuden later. It's kind of ridiculous that they don't follow up on Sasuke at all and just have the last third of the show be random adventures culminating with an (admittedly pretty badass) Gaara 5-parter. That whole last third of the show is anime-only filler they made to let the manga get ahead. It uh, doesn't work and they end up having to do a ridiculous amount of filler during Shippuden anyway. Living through that long stretch of filler as it was airing was utter hell. Just everyone getting more and more tired of it and screaming for the plot to pick back up again. 
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May 20, 2022 01:08
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Vandar posted:That whole last third of the show is anime-only filler they made to let the manga get ahead. It uh, doesn't work and they end up having to do a ridiculous amount of filler during Shippuden anyway. At the very least I found the longer filler arcs interesting like the girl who had uncontrollably powerful genjutsu, so I didn't hate watching them.
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AceOfFlames posted:I never understood the "one teacher who changed my life" thing. Do people actually go through this? I have zero recollection of any of my teachers, grade school, high school or university, except for some negative experiences with the latter. And given on how education is going down the toilet worldwide thanks to shortages and aggressive parents driving them further, that will just get worse. I had a couple. One was a Special Education teacher to inspired me to switch from my dreams of becoming a history teacher to one for Special Education. She showed me some things that made some things I struggled with finally click. She encouraged me to tutor other students and I found that making things click for people makes me happy. I didn't end up quite on that path but I teach adults now. A history teachers got me an internship at an archive, and later when she realized I had a drinking problem, she got me an apprenticeship as a ship's carpenter. Another of my teachers was a lesbian who took a very confused young me and explained some concepts like bisexuality that let me understand who I was. So yes. I had a few who left a positive impact on my life.
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May 20, 2022 03:07
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Thomamelas posted:A history teachers got me an internship at an archive, and later when she realized I had a drinking problem, she got me an apprenticeship as a ship's carpenter. lol that's perfect
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May 20, 2022 03:38
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Mister Kingdom posted:I'm glad they didn't go for the everybody comically dead at the end option.
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AceOfFlames posted:I never understood the "one teacher who changed my life" thing. Do people actually go through this? I have zero recollection of any of my teachers, grade school, high school or university, except for some negative experiences with the latter. And given on how education is going down the toilet worldwide thanks to shortages and aggressive parents driving them further, that will just get worse. I had many significant university courses that I regularly reflect on even now and that continue to offer me perspective in the present.
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May 20, 2022 04:10
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BioEnchanted posted:At the very least I found the longer filler arcs interesting like the girl who had uncontrollably powerful genjutsu, so I didn't hate watching them. yea Naruto's one of those animes where it is 100% chock full of filler but there's like a good 50% of that filler that's actually kinda solid and fits the series and all so at least you can find a list of 'okay here's the episodes that suck and here's the ones that are legit' and still have a good bit of story.
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Thomamelas posted:I had a couple. One was a Special Education teacher to inspired me to switch from my dreams of becoming a history teacher to one for Special Education. She showed me some things that made some things I struggled with finally click. She encouraged me to tutor other students and I found that making things click for people makes me happy. I didn't end up quite on that path but I teach adults now. A history teachers got me an internship at an archive, and later when she realized I had a drinking problem, she got me an apprenticeship as a ship's carpenter. Another of my teachers was a lesbian who took a very confused young me and explained some concepts like bisexuality that let me understand who I was. Same here. I don't remember a lot of high school teachers, but I do remember one history teacher who wanted us to be able to understand the Why of history instead of just spitting back years and who was on what side in what war. I remember a college professor who told me that getting a degree in marine biology while I had no plans to leave AZ was a waste of money, he also got me into SCUBA because we do have some lakes here, and Rocky Point isn't that far. Another professor taught me inadvertently that it was totally possible to be accepting of LGBTQ people but hate the ones who didn't have the same religion regardless of their orientation. At least in his mind. It was a weird loving take. For Walter White, I kinda wonder what his previous students who hated him, thought of him when the truth broke. Their weakass pissy chem teacher who left because he was sick, turns out to have been a loving druglord who blew up a nursing home? You can't tell me some of those kids weren't impressed.
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