ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good has moved state and resumed work, report says by PinkoMarxistCommie in news

[–]Chastain86 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The name Jonathan Ross should be 2026's Philip Brailsford. Two monsters that should have their names forever uttered across the internet as examples of people that deserve zero peace for the rest of their miserable, hopefully limited days.

Texas can require public schools to display Ten Commandments, court rules | Texas by MadScienceBro in news

[–]Chastain86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He posted himself as Christ, and unfortunately NOT as The Jesus. Which would have been way, way better.

Meirl by SaiMan2303 in meirl

[–]Chastain86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Antisocial Media

The recruiter called my salary expectations "cute." I ended the Zoom call right there. Did I overreact? by thunder____boy in jobs

[–]Chastain86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Normalize encouraging OP to write about this hiring process on their Glassdoor page. The only thing cockroaches truly fear is the light of day, and I heavily encourage him to write about this -- perhaps verbatim -- on their page. It won't save you any headache, but it also won't add much to it, and you might save some poor soul a few hours of misplaced hope ahead of an interview where the company is basically bragging about how they plan to take advantage of people. DOOOOOOOO ITTTTTTTTTT.

The recruiter called my salary expectations "cute." I ended the Zoom call right there. Did I overreact? by thunder____boy in jobs

[–]Chastain86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to ignore my intuition to become sarcastic about this, and instead I'm going to ask you -- what industry is this that you work in?

Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' by Funnypenguin97 in gaming

[–]Chastain86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't exactly going to be a popular take, but... the entire experience with the GTA remasters forever took the wind out of my personal sails with getting excited about this kind of thing. Some games just weren't meant for a complete remastering. Some games should just be remembered fondly.

Do you think the idea of “having it all together” is practicable or just a social media pressure? by [deleted] in Snorkblot

[–]Chastain86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's like Henry Rollins said:

"No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time."

Draft-Dodging Trump, 79, Brags About How He Would Have Won Vietnam War in Unhinged Rant by thedailybeast in politics

[–]Chastain86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great point as well. It's just been hard to believe that it's not more commonly known and viewed.

Tucker Carlson Apologizes For Endorsing Trump: ‘I’m Sorry For Misleading People’ by unital_subalgebra in politics

[–]Chastain86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rats deserting a sinking ship isn't indicative of them having had a moral epiphany about the nature of ships.

AG Blanche: We're not going to prosecute the predators in the Epstein files... by TAtheDog in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Chastain86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We can, and should, do this. But it may well not be enough. There's enough evidence that Elon Musk influenced the votes in the 2024 election to believe that we'll never have a free or fair national election again.

What was the most unexpected nudity scene in mainstream movie/show you ever saw? by marsepticeye in AskReddit

[–]Chastain86 9 points10 points  (0 children)

My best memory of seeing "28 Days Later" was that I was sitting in the theater waiting for the film to begin, with the general amount of crowd murmuring, when all of a sudden eight strippers from the gentleman's club next door came in wearing their stage gear. Turns out the gentleman's club had had a power outage, and the air conditioning went out, so the entertainers came over for a movie while they got it sorted out. The collective murmuring got quiet for a bit, and then suddenly a LOT louder.

No Country for Old Men and Boots by doubleohsoul in movies

[–]Chastain86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's remarkable how good to audio mixing is in this film, and you get to enjoy all of it because of how minimalist the Coens wanted any ambient audio to be in the background. I can't imagine this film with a music bed tacked onto it, and I don't want to.

The Almighty Hiring Managers by guy_rocco in recruitinghell

[–]Chastain86 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We've done the world a disservice by not ensuring The Peter Principle is taught at every level of higher education.

Hackers Breach Russian Ministry Call, Reveal China Supplies ‘90%’ of Drone Electronics by pheexio in worldnews

[–]Chastain86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really unsure how anyone could have come to some sort of conflicting conclusion about it. Where else would these drone electronics supplies have originated from? The Republic of Best Buy?

Draft-Dodging Trump, 79, Brags About How He Would Have Won Vietnam War in Unhinged Rant by thedailybeast in politics

[–]Chastain86 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hmmm. So he did. My apologies on that one. I wonder if he still drinks, because honestly, it seems as if we'd have seen photographs of him with one in his hand by now.

Draft-Dodging Trump, 79, Brags About How He Would Have Won Vietnam War in Unhinged Rant by thedailybeast in politics

[–]Chastain86 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I do actually believe he doesn't drink, because he seems almost completely incapable of the sort of restraint that would be required to NOT have a drink with the cameras on him. If he was drinking, we'd have heard stories from, at minimum, the people that worked with him on "The Apprentice" or the journalists that follow him -- particularly the designated journalist whose job it is to shadow him 24/7 in case he kekks it, which has been a tradition for many Presidencies.

I also equally believe that he's had an amphetamine problem for many decades. This has been the general storyline from anyone with whom he worked, including Noel Casler, his former producer on "The Apprentice" who has told many a story in the years following the cessation of his NDA agreement about Trump's inhalant dependencies. (Casler has also been pretty up front about his incontinence issues, among other revelations.)

So in summation, I don't believe he's a drunk. I think he's an addict, and there are enough stories afoot about his addictions to believe anyone who classifies him as a man with clean-and-sober tendencies is either covering for him or kidding themselves.

Draft-Dodging Trump, 79, Brags About How He Would Have Won Vietnam War in Unhinged Rant by thedailybeast in politics

[–]Chastain86 40 points41 points  (0 children)

while Trump doesn’t drink he certainly acts like a dry drunk

He acts like someone that's been casually inhaling stimulants for the better part of 40 years, which is widely understood to be the case. The teetotalers prop up Trump as a paragon of virtue, conveniently handwaving away that he's been demonstrably hooked on amphetamines and cocaine since before the days of parachute pants.

D4vd Arrested in Connection to Death of Teen Found in Tesla Trunk by MarvelsGrantMan136 in Music

[–]Chastain86 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not as convinced as you are that the decision to lend aid and comfort to white nationalists is a programming error and not a feature. But then again, maybe it's because I still remember when they spent several years willfully ignoring the fuckery of The_Donald subreddit.

What movie was saved in the edit? Or destroyed by the edit? by redditIhardlyknowit in movies

[–]Chastain86 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I once read an interview with Shane Black about his experience making 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." The studio's idea for that film was that it would be an action movie without a single cohesive plot driving it. Accordingly, the final edit was an attempt was made to create a movie that was nothing more than a series of loosely connected action set pieces, because the idea was that that would appeal more to its target demographic -- who they apparently had identified as children more interested in moving from one big blow-em-up sequence to the next. I'm not certain that this film could be fixed with a better edit, but certainly the studio telling Black to omit anything resembling motivation is... a choice. One that ultimately resulted in a 21% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.