The star-fucking nerd at Twitter removed my pinned Tweet, so let's make it much worse: now it's just ABOUT Bill Hader being the douche Harvey Weinstein, humiliating his girlfriend
@aliwong
with his vile theatre person cowardice.
@DocStrangelove2
Fallout: New Vegas deathclaws have 15 DT which means your starting guns that do 15 damage do ~0 damage. So it's not even like a bullet sponge, like the other games, instead you're just fucked (until you get 5.56AP, .308 and .45-70.)
@GothamChess
It might literally be the streaming. 33 seems to be around when young prodigies get...profoundly bored with the game? And now Hikaru's actually having fun and making money. Capitalist chess streamer champion improving his game with money and fame
@GMHikaru
.
@gracecthdralprk
You gotta watch "Company Man" videos on Youtube, Subway is the cheapest franchise to buy into for owners, Subway probably fucking you over with supply prices (entire Quizzno's company collapsed from this,) too many Subways, poorly run (so even if you run yours well, people avoid)
@StevenWallaby
This felt really deliberate, like "he's not actually bad," but not really insanely good, neither. It leaves you with ambiguity? Perhaps Pupkin was one of 10,000 people in America who could pull it off? Obviously movie copying it ("Joker") immediately ruins this, making him suck.
@InezFeltscher
It's crazy how "charity" is "Build Communist infastructure" and not in a way that would help Communism, but almost the opposite. You could almost respect it if it was actually doing that. I guess get that bag, Queens, like MacKenzie herself did.
@ByYourLogic
As a 6'2 guy who used to be fat as a kid, lost a lot of weight when I was a teenager, down to 200, "215" is definitely the zen weight of bullshit. I think it says that on my Driver's License.
@bog_beef
Honestly even the way people think about "representation" is totally incomprehensible to 20 years ago. I remember naive sophomoric media studies "role model" theories (that were never quite right,) around then, but now it's like a Bolshevik version of that.
@hollowearthterf
"The caveman is all muscles and mush. Without a woman to rule him and think for him, he is a truly lamentable spectacle: a baby with whiskers, a rabbit with the frame of an aurochs, a feeble and preposterous caricature of God." 1918-
@jetskitosway2
This is kinda funny since in the interviews for "2001" Kubrick was like "I'm absolutely not gonna tell you how we did this," maybe transposing magician's philosophy to film, those decades. "Tell me how you did that trick!" yearns for knowledge, yet wanting to know how trick done.
@H1TWOM4N
I mean I respected what the TV ending was trying to do intellectually: "the 'return of the King' was never 'good' for any peasant who ever lived," you could imagine George saying, if he didn't hide. But most people experienced it emotionally as Daenerys shitting in a field.
@Dok845
I was reading a
@slate
article of all things tearing the book/movie's plot apart rather convincingly, but the story has weird, killer mythic resonance anyhow. There will never be real space knife fights. It's a space knife fight of the soul.
@ettingermentum
I remember watching videos in 2018 where Israelis on the street were like "I guess they'll all need to die..." and it was faintly chilling how casual it was. And I wasn't terribly anti-Israel then, even, "
@rogerwaters
cares too much about it too narrowly," maybe I'd have said.
@coopercooperco
It feels like people have forgotten a really good director may have LITERALLY been thinking about this since they were 12 years old. Like "how would you make the movie version of 'Dune' work?" Not sure if that's the case here, but it has helped.
@fradmonk
@thechosenberg
Yeah I watch super-grandmasters play for hours. You have 0 chance, whereas you have 1/10,000 odds against Tyson, and learning his Round 1 moves might help animal reflexes (won't help against Carlsen unless you're a chess prodigy, studying him 2 decades, maybe.)
@soonrightaway
Did anybody do a study of that weird genetic "authenticity?" Like Jon Bonham's son is practically Kwisatz Haderach in lending your rock band revival authenticity.
@memeticsisyphus
HL Mencken on Thorsten Veblen nailed almost all the 20th Century academic frauds, in 1920: "It was as if the practice of that incredibly obscure and malodorous style were a relentless disease, a sort of progressive intellectual diabetes, a leprosy of the horse sense. Words were
@nearcyan
Actually-unusable trash, I stopped using the new AI last April or something.
@sama
's right to compare it to a flipphone, and they ruined the "make calls" utility out of the gate, because of annoying people.
@hausofdecline
This comic was good and the comic yesterday was good. Is this Gary Larson reborn? Only one man could ever produce "it's pretty good" comics on successive days in all human history.
@coopercooperco
I was always interested in the more Seinfeldian moment Oppenheimer thought up that it'd be a really badass thing to say. When was that? How long did he sit on it?
@mtracey
Michael I've also listened to thousands of hours of Howard Stern, he's a genius, but he's as embarrassing as Steven King, Rob Reiner or occasionally John Cleese, in accomplishment vs. cringe political hackery, in old age. Could not listen to Stern's Clinton interview.
@capybaroness
"Boba Fett comes from a people...uhhm...yeah, they're like Klingons! They like fighting and honor!" feels like the laziest 1991 scifi writer brainstorm, never could take it too seriously.
@CartoonsHateHer
I was on Reddit for too long, there's multiple domains this sort of bland imbecility prevails. Mixture of postmodernism, sitcom moralizing, 0 insight, 0 self-reflection, +1 smugness. Truly vile.
@univrsw3th4rt
True. Also reflected in real fighting sports having crude weight categories, fat men can get stuff done. So can fat women, it's more of a bug in evolutionary psychology (men associate fat with ageing body type while simultaneously liking big butts, so you get Mixalot paradox)
@feelsdesperate
Don't overlook cynical core leadership at Vice may have very consciously been in charge--take as much money as possible, distribute it to as many friends as possible, run. Consistent with Vice's duplicitous, fraudulent culture running back to the 2000s:
@VLONEPREDATOR
I know Onlyfans girls are often hustling, trying to get engagement places like Reddit, hear me out, what if they were suddenly Black or Chinese
@_evFM
HL Mencken on Thorsten Veblen's "conspicuous"ly awful writing: "[It is] a cent’s worth of information wrapped in a bale of polysyllables…. It was as if the practice of that incredibly obscure and malodorous style were a relentless disease, a sort of progressive intellectual
@CarlBeijer
I like her music, too. That some Jewish people side with Israel now because of family loyalties or whatever is what it is. I'd just call out what feeble arguments they can even make, under the horrible circumstances. Like empirically: no one ever cared about the hostages.
@RobberyFaiI
Americans not only all have guns, they take those Jui-Jitsu MMA classes now, really drives home why it's still criminals'
#1
fear (people actually fighting back.)
@kenklippenstein
Yeah this really reminds me of
@thewarnerd
talking about how real tribal genocides happen in Africa. Malnourish, enfeeble, literally cut hands off (usually "King Leopold's Ghost" anti-colonialist stuff, but Euros likely re-purposed it from real conflict practices, there.)
@matthiasellis
There's that one book published in the 1970s "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" that is totally insane and has always been insane, about how humans only became conscious 3,000 years ago. Previously responding to voices. Intellectual disaster.
@anpaure
Working at start-ups can be worse. It's faker than a cush job at successful company because the business model was never going to work, everyone's just collecting VC cash until it goes bust, officially.
@willmenaker
Antisemitism, rape, "woke kids are annoying," "College bureaucrats are hypocritical idiots," the first two being blunderous and the latter two being cunning--they are nonetheless running out of propaganda levers to pull. "I'm just a gamer geek" feels particularly enfeebled.
@Douggernaut_2
I half-forgot these crazy scenes, kind of homages to Cooper being 1980s action archetype FBI agent, mixed with "land surveyer" of Kafka's "The Castle," mixed with dude stuck in insane pocket dimension 25 years.
@GarlicCorgi
IHOP and Denny's are blown out by "any random small-town pancake diner," like "Buffalo Wild Wings" is blown out by "your local bar." You know Americans aren't consuming less calories so this is a failure of franchise model. People know the brands and they're not too great.
@lillybilly299
I'd go so far as to say most men (like 70%) are faintly pathetic and rudderless without being dominated by a woman. "A feeble and preposterous caricature of God."
@francisxwolf
Agree. I read some review that was like "Dune Part 2 is not weird enough" and I thought it was a little unfair. It's pretty weird. I remember registering a kind of nonverbal, irrational fear response, like "these images are inherently frightening."
@coopercooperco
It's egregious but they're betting on the experiential? Everyone says they hated the ending but everybody sat there watching that fuckin' opening for 9 years like "hell yeah."
@nntaleb
Isn't all academia fully fake now, even the peer reviewers are like kids in my gradeschool classes in unanimous agreement we all copy homework. Students, professors, everyone agrees it's fake, no one reads the awful papers, uses Chat GPT after a year, at every level. Sad!
@walterkirn
Yes. Despite being its contemporary I don't think Joseph Campbell chose to tackle it? Which is kind of funny since it was an almost real-time demonstration of what he argued: many literally believed it, yet were also mythically "serviced" by the symbology.
@willmenaker
I don't even know if counting bombs matters now. "Malnourishment to permanently physically and intellectually enfeeble the next generation" can and have been consciously considered, or enacted, as policy. Like they talk about on
@thewarnerd
.
@geraldposner
There was always something rotten about this coverage, going back to 2013, perhaps. I think it was because espousing for or against this "cause" got tabloid attention. So why was society suddenly obsessed with these issues? The same reason Jerry Springer would have been, in 1993.
@kenklippenstein
All this is kind of more grotesque than that repugnantly honest Republican saying it should be "like Nagasaki." If you are an aid worker, you will be targeted and killed. They were sending the message. It's "on them" lol, it's their conscious PR messaging.
@jesawyer
Didn't it get much worse in early 2010s tho, like "it is objectively, logistically impossible for 'je ne sais quoi' to save us, given workflow pipelines"
@pcgamer
Bioware you spend too much time ristening to fraud consultants with fake social science about zoomers liking Pansexual Hero Shooters, now we are homeless
@MaxBlumenthal
@SecBlinken
@ZelenskyyUa
People don't know Eisenhower made the Military Industrial Complex speech because America's WW1 general, Smedley Butler, did it, x3, with his inflammatory book "War is a Racket." He didn't want to be an existential coward. Lotta cowards, tho!
@Liv_Agar
What's crazy if you look at the timeline, this bit is literally about Louis CK. 1)Whatever the morals, he ate a lot of shit for it, but his "jerk-off in front of you" routine probably quite old "kink." 2)All Larry David's female friends were comics from New York. 3)CK on Conan.
@Noahpinion
Yeah that's accurate. Mongols came in and absolutely humiliated Muslims like the end of "Game of Thrones" with the sack of Baghdad in 1258.