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Laterite posted:luv to modify critical automobile safety functionality deep in the settings menu i also love handbrakes with no tactile feedback and engage lag
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In all seriousness, there must be a reason soccer moms do. Were people forgetting their brakes were on?
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Frosted Flake posted:In all seriousness, there must be a reason soccer moms do. Were people forgetting their brakes were on? Yes. Especially when they were loading in like 2 kids and groceries.
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Which movie will beat Avatar at the box office? Plane??
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https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-motor-citys-push-button-age/ All the excesses of 1950s and 1960s American automotive engineering are back. Nonsense posted:it’s like that celebrity who crushed himself on his own gate because he decided to actually keep the Chrysler vehicle given to him. Anton Yelchin. He played Chekov in the first Abrams Star Trek movie. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36572649 Eric Cantonese has issued a correction as of 02:43 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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I like the off button in my Prius cause it only works if the car is at a standstill with the brake applied and automatically puts the car in park, engages the hand brake, and unlocks the doors. when I drive another car I get annoyed that I have to put it in park and put the handbrake on manually AND THEN turn the thing off. it's simple people!!!!
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one thing i really like about players is that organizm is obviously on the spectrum but this basically never comes up because people are so used to thinking of being on the spectrum as a disability they literally cant process the idea that someone on the spectrum can be both hypercompetent but also incredibly infuriating to deal with on a personal level thats not intended as malicious but is almost impossible to interpret any other way when you need clear communication and just arent getting any i really dislike the extent to which being on the spectrum is pathologized in general its not like impossible to learn social skills it just requires more effort the same way some people have to put in more effort to learn math i really have to wonder to what extent our societal discord is being exacerbated by the extent to which no one thinks communication is an improvable skill i mean hell thats like the one thing trump is good at is doing is communicating and hes basically the one eyed man in the land of the blind at this point because hes the only politician who even seems to understand that you need to play to an audience anymore
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knowing math comes up much less often and learning it is much less important than social skills if you are trying to exist among neurotypicals so comparing the two kind of trivializes how difficult of a journey (some) people on the spectrum have to go through
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Soup du Jour posted:I wish I could have heard this news through an app dedicated to jeremy renner updates the Trolls ruined it.
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my point is that schools dont just give up trying to teach algebra if a student doesnt understand it but theres not even a baseline for acceptable social skills because theyre not considered something you can learn this is a recent social change mostly because you cant standardize test social skills like basically all the conflict in players revolves around organizm not having teamplay skills something he could probably learn pretty easily if someone would just take the trouble to coach him on them instead of expecting him to figure it out on his own
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When the star trek guy died, I kept haphazardly seeing the name Chekhov everywhere and got excited because I thought it was going to be something about Anton Chekhov, the Russian writer. Then I was able to read an article. And then wasn't. In retrospect, I lived through a very good Anton Chekhov short story.
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I watched Avatar 2 yesterday. I thought it was quite good. At three hours the story really gets to breathe without having to rush through anything, and the build-up of the outcast whale culminating in his completely massacring that Aussie whaler gently caress was extremely cathartic all the water effects and "graphics" looked really good the worst thing I will say about it is that the use of the Papyrus font was jarring
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Antonymous posted:idgi
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A Buttery Pastry posted:in modern parlance, being political means your game/show has women in it oh lol
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Some Guy TT posted:one thing i really like about players is that organizm is obviously on the spectrum but this basically never comes up because people are so used to thinking of being on the spectrum as a disability they literally cant process the idea that someone on the spectrum can be both hypercompetent but also incredibly infuriating to deal with on a personal level thats not intended as malicious but is almost impossible to interpret any other way when you need clear communication and just arent getting any The trick is a shitload of neurotypical people have absolute garbage social skills as well, while being completely ignorant of it, and are quite often just as bad or worse at communicating clearly Also a shitload of social problems come from how children, especially boys, are basically just not taught social skills. At all. Literally like My Little Pony episodes are the closest thing to structured and specific lessons about how to get along with people and communicate that they're ever going to get.
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a lot of it comes down to intent like you can clearly tell organizm is way different from the other obnoxious characters on players because hes super quiet and shy but everyone keeps interpreting his actions like hes this epic dude laying down sick owns at moments of maximum impact because aggressive rear end in a top hat behavior is so normalized in the league of legends gaming culture the idea that hes being offensive unintentionally is just entirely beyond people
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It was funny when they decided Mission Impossible was going to be a Jeremy Renner franchise, then realized midway through the film that no, Tom Cruise is just going to do them in perpetuity.
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Nichael posted:It was funny when they decided Mission Impossible was going to be a Jeremy Renner franchise, then realized midway through the film that no, Tom Cruise is just going to do them in perpetuity.
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Renner just isn't charismatic enough to be a leading man. Also he's ugly, which doesn't help
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McCloud posted:Renner just isn't charismatic enough to be a leading man. Also he's ugly, which doesn't help He looks like the leading man clone they made right before they dialed in the machine enough to make Daniel Craig and the Hemsworths
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:He looks like the leading man clone they made right before they dialed in the machine enough to make Daniel Craig and the Hemsworths more like jeremy rennerup
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McCloud posted:Renner just isn't charismatic enough to be a leading man. Also he's ugly, which doesn't help turning his leg into a twizzler isn't going to help either.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:Top Boat Flicks: Das Boot
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i liked dead calm, it has baby nicole kidman and her terrible baby wigs, sam neill and billy zane are always a delight, and it has a lot of that 1989 crunchiness to it while still being fun it also has a lot of really good boat shots
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DoombatINC posted:man Im watchin Burke & Hare (1972), a british adaptation of the story of the real-life 19th century serial killers and corpse wholesalers, and it would be a forgettable nothing if it weren't so tonally bizarre. its got plenty of violence, nudity, and general amorality, but the impeccably tidy period clothes, overlit and overdressed sets and bouncy, playful soundtrack gives the whole thing the feel of a live-action Disney movie from the sixties. all the filmmaking language being used is that of a comedy but its not in any way funny - like get a load of this loving themesong Isn't this just all Hammer Horror?
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if it weren't for gary oldman christopher lee would 100% still be the best dracula
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Nonsense posted:turning his leg into a twizzler isn't going to help either. Jeremy Rendered
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Nonsense posted:i think the rock did several jungle movies and it featured no boats he was in a jungle movie called jungle cruise
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Count of Monte Cristo post, probably second-to-last: I'm basically done with this book. Danglars has been punished and the only remaining plot thread is to reunite Valentine and Maximilian (and probably set Dantes up with Haydee, I guess, which is some Woody Allen poo poo, but they're French so I shouldn't be surprised). Danglars is stripped of the last of his fortune by having him get kidnapped by Luigi Vampa and stuck in a cell, and starving him until he voluntarily signs it all away in exchange for like six meals total. I appreciated the irony in finishing him off by, essentially, showing him what capitalism is like for a poor person (this is what it's like to not be able to afford things but needing to buy them anyway), but it annoys me that they then set him loose with what I'm guessing from context is a totally normal amount of money for a person to have. He's the worst of all of them, and he got off the lightest. At least make him poor, goddammit. Mercedes ends up poorer than him. I'm also kind of surprised that Dantes is made to undergo a crisis of doubt when he finally completes his revenge on Villefort (in that his plan accidentally caused Edward, a ten-year-old kid, to get poisoned to death instead of only the several adults he intended). This is the archetypal revenge story, so I expected total clarity of purpose all the way through with the exception of the part where Mercedes convinced him not to kill Albert. I think I have positive feelings on this surprise, but, as I mentioned in my last post, he was totally fine with Valentine getting poisoned to death until he found out she was Maximilian's "property," and she didn't do anything wrong either and isn't even much older than Edward (I think she's like 17?) which makes it feel kind of arbitrary. (e: the Saint-Merans didn't do anything to Dantes either, but they're right-wing aristocrats, so gently caress em. Barrois is comrade-adjacent and should have been spared too, though.) I'll probably wrap up this book tonight. Overall I'm glad I read it, but I'm not 100% on whether I should have just read the abridged version. It took its goddamn time getting to the point. Next up I'm going back to Discworld. I feel like a fraud posting with this av when I haven't even read every Rincewind book. loquacius has issued a correction as of 15:56 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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I also liked how the villains in CoMC each, basically, had a different cardinal sin. Danglars: greed Fernand/Morcerf: envy Villefort: pride (slash ambition I guess but that's just pride) Caderousse: being a loving idiot Mercedes gets one too -- cowardice. But that's not a Deadly Sin, and it didn't make her a prime mover in Dantes' misfortune, so she wasn't a revenge target, just collateral damage in Fernand's punishment, and Dantes even tempered his vengeance to spare her son because she asked nicely. I feel bad for her, and this was the intended reading.
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dumas was getting paid by the word and at some points you can really tell. don't think i ever finished it.
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The only chapter in the book that seemed totally extraneous, as in it didn't advance the plot in the moment, you don't find out later what the point is, and it doesn't add to anyone's characterization in any meaningful fashion, is the one where Dantes convinces Franz to do hashish with him and he takes a lot of convincing. The fact that Dantes uses hashish never comes up again, and Franz is a tertiary character at most. We did not need thousands of words about them getting high together. That said, though, a lot of chapters could have been a lot shorter, and the entire Franz-and-Albert-take-a-vacation-in-Rome subplot could have been like a tenth the length. That could have been one chapter rather than a whole act of the book where Dantes is a secondary character.
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McCloud posted:Renner just isn't charismatic enough to be a leading man. Also he's ugly, which doesn't help yup. he isn’t bad looking in terms that he’d be someone you’d see randomly on a subway or shopping at Costco, but he’s rally not star attractive; however, that’s far less important than that he’s uncharismatic and has no real acting range besides 50 Shades of Constipated then again I felt the same way about Matt Damon and they stuck in him in a bazillion lead roles in the 2000s so welp
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Renner would fit in a world war 2 movie about a bridge too far, first big breakout role! *ignoring avengers* send me a check later
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Bit late to this but if you are looking for a good recent Ed Norton film, Motherless Brooklyn is great
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loquacius posted:The only chapter in the book that seemed totally extraneous, as in it didn't advance the plot in the moment, you don't find out later what the point is, and it doesn't add to anyone's characterization in any meaningful fashion, is the one where Dantes convinces Franz to do hashish with him and he takes a lot of convincing. It may not surprise you that Dumas was a big fan of hashish. I think a lot of that part of the book is basically a travelogue. That said, you might still have some surprises in store. The joke with Danglars at the end is apparebtly that the money he's left with is what he had earned more or less honestly, and he was also specifically subject to within an inch of the fate of Dantes' father; a slow death by starvation and despair. The Count's a massive drama queen like that. See also how with Morcerf he turns a moment of triumph into a personal disaster, and lets Villefort experience total betrayal from those close to him. It's also still funny how little he really had to do to make their lives unravel. loquacius posted:I also liked how the villains in CoMC each, basically, had a different cardinal sin. Caderousse is more on the lines of sloth, he had the opportunity to stop the plan before it started, and furthermore that to stop things from getting worse just by having a touch of backbone to resist the worst possible advice from hanging with terrible people, but he doesn't, and it ends up with him living mostly poorly and miserably, and then dying even moreso. I'm pretty sure a classic definition of sloth isn't just laziness and idleness, but refusing to use the brains God gave you and letting perfectly good talents and opportunities go to waste. Like a lot of 'archetypal' things, Monte Cristo actually doesn't take its premise for granted like you'd expect and plays around with it. The whole Pyramus and Thisbe allusion isn't a coincidence; Maximillian and Valentine are pretty much Romeo and Juliet, caught up in a feud between their families (the Count pretty much having adopted his old boss's family for lack of his own) that to them is senseless and inexplicable. Actually kind of a theme there, with grandpa Nortier using it to her advantage to have her marriage called off because of HIS old feud.
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