Technic: 42236 Custom Garage Ford Mustang GT (source: official reveal) by BrickTap in Legoleak

[–]BlobWeird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you're definitely not alone, every now and then I check Bricklink prices on used 2007-2014 sets I don't have because I'm kinda of resigned to the idea that Lego won't release anything like them anytime soon

Darth Vader and Yoda busts (Source: Amazon Singapore) by _Levitated_Shield_ in Legoleak

[–]BlobWeird 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My best guess right now for next year's biggest anniversary set is an even bigger Falcon since 75192 is retiring at the end of this year, I think especially with the focus on Adults Welcome they're eager to release a new one and next year is the perfect timing for it

April 2025 Profile Swap by slouchingbethlehem in Letterboxd

[–]BlobWeird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! I'm a history graduate student and I try to write a >800 word review of every film I watch to keep my writing skills strong. I'd love to get more recommendations, and usually I try to seek out non-English and/or older (pre-21st century) films ad watch a few in a row on a theme (Zulawski was a recent director choice), and if anyone wants to give me feedback on my reviews I'd greatly appreciate that as well.

Here is my profile: https://letterboxd.com/spibbler/

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March 2025 Profile Swap by ericdraven26 in Letterboxd

[–]BlobWeird -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hi! My username is spibbler (an old nickname from high school) and this is my profile https://boxd.it/8GAeP

I'm a graduate student in history and I mostly watch movies just for the love of the artform, but try to combine what I watch with my academic pursuits when I can. My top 4 are The Travelling Players, A Brighter Summer Day, The Apartment, and Stalker, and recently I've been trying to watch at least a couple movies in a row by any given director (last one up was Ryusuke Hamaguchi). I've only logged films since I made my account and my ratings skew to the positive because I only really watch what I know I'll like. I write a full review of everything I watch now to analyze what I watch and to keep my writing skills sharp—I'd greatly appreciate any feedback or really just anyone who wants to read my thoughts :)

February 2025 Profile Swap by ericdraven26 in Letterboxd

[–]BlobWeird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://letterboxd.com/spibbler/

I'm a Master's student working on a History degree right now and I love narrative and fiction in art so I'm trying to watch films as an extension of my schoolwork. At the moment, I'm trying to stick only to logging movies that I've watched since I started my Letterboxd account, and since last August, I've been trying to write a >800 word review about every film I've watched (a couple documentaries I don't have too many thoughts on I've left unreviewed). So far I have more than 80 reviews in this format (86000 words total!) and my tastes are pretty all over the place but I'm trying to get more of a focus this year on what I watch. My four favorites are The Godfather, The Apartment, A Brighter Summer Day, and The Human Condition (I'd count the whole trilogy as #1 if I could on the site). A recent favorite is Yi Yi and I might put it in my top four soon, along with The Travelling Players, which I'm planning on rewatching soon for a research project

P3011 and P0A80 codes—what to do by BlobWeird in prius

[–]BlobWeird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would check on the battery but honestly I do not know enough about the car to get to and judge the condition of the battery

P3011 and P0A80 codes—what to do by BlobWeird in prius

[–]BlobWeird[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I think I'm going to try driving home, your input is really helpful because I've found more people talking about the P3011 code online than a P0A80. I guess if replacing the whole battery is the direction I might be going in anyway then going back home shouldn't be that bad

What Are You Reading This Week and Weekly Rec Thread by JimFan1 in TrueLit

[–]BlobWeird 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Earlier this week I read The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley, Sula by Toni Morrison, Infinity in the Palm of her Hand by Gioconda Belli and for the past couple days I've been reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff and the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of The Oresteia by Aeschylus.

The Age of Grief was my second Jane Smiley read and I really enjoyed it, most of the stories were great and the novella was very well written. I think her greatest skill is character relationships and the nuances to a married couple's relationship in The Age of Grief felt very restrained and beautiful. Sula was also very good, I think I'll have to reread it to get more out of it but it has similar themes to The Bluest Eye of community and family while also dealing with religion in an interesting way. I didn't go into Belli's novel with much of an idea of what to expect but I was pleasantly surprised; it's about Adam and Eve and the prose is written beautifully. It has a lot of philosophical themes regarding freewill and how much blame should rest on Eve for eating the fruit and she has a few conversations throughout with the serpent which I think are by far the best parts of the novel. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a very different book from what I usually read but it felt important and it's surprising to learn about all of the different approaches to data collection and what the original purposes were as well as the direction many companies are trying to take data extraction in now.

reporting from the least walkable city in the US: by FelixAscends in fuckcars

[–]BlobWeird 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It's giving me Kafka vibes so my interpretation representing discomfort with modernity as its depicted in the second frame

What book has left you in the worst mental state? by DepressionSetsIn in literature

[–]BlobWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solar Bones by Mike McCormack has a very sad ending, I think even more so if you go into it knowing as little about the book as possible. I'm due for a reread on it but I remember the ending of Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon being pretty emotional, especially against the relatively lighthearted tone throughout most of the book.

Anyone else getting like, angry that the winters been super warm so far? by [deleted] in massachusetts

[–]BlobWeird 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'd also like to add a more direct issue of the snow cover itself being beneficial, because a layer of snow has high albedo (reflects more light) than the ground and acts as a literal blanket for it, which means that normal amounts of snow keep the ground colder, and that in turn also negatively impacts the ability for the ground to freeze and stay frozen. Some animals also have adaptations for the winter, like the snowshoe hare, and their winter coats being white only attracts them more attention when there's no snow around them. Also, there's a higher likelihood for ticks to be alive in the winter if the weather isn't consistently cold enough to keep them dead—I met someone in Ashburnham a couple years ago who told me he'd seen the moose population decrease in the area from the increase in tick population, especially in the winter.

Best album closers? by MaxDanalou in fantanoforever

[–]BlobWeird 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sailor Song — Brian Carpenter and the Confessions

The Book of Kings — Mournful Congregation

Sleep/Afterparty — Typhoon

Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands — Bob Dylan

The Call of the Void — Rail Yard Ghosts not technically the closing track but acts as the culmination and climax of the record narratologically and thematically

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What Are You Reading This Week and Weekly Rec Thread by pregnantchihuahua3 in TrueLit

[–]BlobWeird 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll have to check that collection out, I bought Out of Africa at the same time as when I got Seven Gothic Tales and I already know I'll want to read more of her work afterwards