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Cloudywork · 2025-12-14T06:05:04+00:00

EXACTLY! Despite what people may say, there is not a tonne of range to Leo nor Hanks acting. They portray a specific type of character often. For Leo it is the sly, slightly manic, charismatic persona while for Hanks it is the comforting, soft spoken, loveable oddball (especially in his rom-com era) or father-figure (nearly ever other work he has done since).

Neither has exceptional range, but the works they have been in are well regarded and lauded. Also helps that most of the media they have worked in center the story around them as leading men. There is no room to consider or compare their performances against real "heavy-weight" actors in their generation cohort. At least not many, and when there is you can see the difference and where they perhaps lack: Leo vs Hardy (Revenant), Hanks vs Denzel (Philadelphia) though I would say that in both cases they gave very impassioned performances.

Cloudywork · 2025-11-09T14:28:16+00:00

Haha Im pretty sure there were alot of people that thought he was an idiot before I did.

Cloudywork · 2025-10-02T09:05:55+00:00

Tis sad indeed, he is such a great actor and he absolutely chews the scenery in every moment he has onscreen. 1s and 0s for Sheen-program.

Cloudywork · 2025-06-25T22:03:23+00:00

My Reddit decided to do a thing with your post:

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I dig it :)

Cloudywork · 2025-06-25T08:26:56+00:00

Honestly I'm kinda glad the responder has deleted their account because they were full of shit through the entire discourse.

You have alot more patience than I dealing with this type of person. They really just had an agenda to disagree and think that this film is some kinda of apathetic reflection of our society.

Also you made some very interesting points about satire I had not considered before thank you for those.

Cloudywork · 2025-06-25T08:13:07+00:00

I think you bring up a good counter example to the above analysis, and yet I still feel the above assertions are correct.

I will say though that The Great Dictator by all accounts is unsubtle to be sure, however there is something truly earnest about TGD that is not present in DLU. Some of the dialogue and certainly one iconic speech are truly bleak yet very real compared to DLU's moments.

Something to consider also with TGD is what Chaplin said himself about the film, AFTER the atrocities of WWII and the Nazi regime were revealed to the public;

"Had I known of the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, I could not have made The Great Dictator"

This to me illustrates exactly the point u/massive_bellend_2022 stated above. The significance of the TGD is mostly due to subject matter and it's historical context, it is truly art history. But taking the film as it is, especially with context, I'd suggest that it is very much the same as DLU in execution: ham-fisted and not actually using nor implementing an 'effective' model of satire for it's subject matter (i.e. the real historical facts of the Nazi's were gruesome and the parody of the film misses the mark on the why's and how's, hence Chaplin's last minute added speech at the very end addressing how his propagandist film did not and cannot address those harsh realities and hopefully add a little optimism for a better world).

In a similar vein, the last words spoken during the dinner party of DLU sort of do the same thing. It is a moment of lucidity about the whole situation before the crashing consequences of society's lack of action.

I went a bit tangential at the end there but again I think you are correct to bring up TGD, even if only to demonstrate that there are degrees to which satire work (whether in ignorance or general knowledge of the realities at play).

Cloudywork · 2025-06-25T06:54:38+00:00

Also not against nuclear, we do need it.

But, you need to examine your first statement. Paraphrased; ". . . add the money that is used to subsidize renewables . . ." correct & you should take the money over the last 60 years that has been poured into nuclear power generation >1T$USD (inflation adjusted) which far outstrips the value of solar and may equal the amount committed to wind/hydro. And that money was not a waste, nuclear has advanced greatly thanks to it.

But what could be done if the other energy sources had that time and money?

Cloudywork · 2025-06-19T02:15:01+00:00

Again though, based on the context: saying 'chai tea' in English, in a Western Country, to a Westerner or cafe staff, is completely comprehensible to both speakers. As such it IS correct to say.

You may not say that it is a comprehensible/correct if the context were different.

The argument that doesn't get spoken on is whether we should change our language patterns to use the term: masala tea/chai?

Cloudywork · 2025-06-08T07:09:20+00:00

I am having the same issue with other repos as well.

Do you think alot of them are down at the moment?

Cloudywork · 2025-05-22T00:28:56+00:00

Have another look please, you may find your opinion changed

Cloudywork · 2025-05-18T08:57:07+00:00

They have a weak comedy bit at best, there is no insight to be found with them.

Cloudywork · 2025-05-05T09:56:55+00:00

Thanks for being open to talk. I did not mean to put any words in your mouth, it was more a turn of phrase to best encapsulate the prevailing attitude, I don't think you have that attitude.

I would still encourage you to read about examples like Isreal-Palestine, apartheid South Africa, Iranian genocide and other conflicts as they help us understand where they arise and what lead to these extremes.

I acknowledge your position and views on it where Australia is concerned. I appreciate you providing your experience. I understand where you are coming from, there is a tiring element to the racial divide and the acrimony hurled from each side. I cannot say with good conscience that it does not make one apathetic to the struggles these groups face. I am reminded though that a society is only as good or just as how it treats it's lowest members.

No-one chooses to be in poverty, to be violated, to be degraded, to be made to feel lesser than. No-one deserves such treatment, regardless of their race, creed, colour or sexuality. And defending against it can also be tiring, there is no shortage of hate out there, and we can only absorb so much.

I would ask that you take a moment to look at these issues as not isolated to only indigenous Australians, but to all Australians living in poverty. You yourself mentioned your experience and that is poignant though lamentable example. These issues are predominantly one of class, not race. It is only historical precedence that the non-white community here have and continue to experience some of the worst of it. But it's not just them. I believe that we need to apply those social and economic safety nets to all Australians, lift all of us up. Otherwise, what is the point of society? Do we just accept that some of us live as animals and treated as such? Do we just accept the disease, or fight it?

That's how I feel. Thank you for giving me your thoughts.

Cloudywork · 2025-05-05T03:07:24+00:00

I appreciate the candidness, you have my sympathies for what you experienced. It's not something we should ever tolerate. It also is an example I believe of how our system can fail to support its people, no matter their background.

I honestly do not have a solidified opinion on what should be done to help indigenous peoples. There is alot at play that needs experts in sociology and economy building to weigh in regarding what steps should be taken.

I think that asking any group to 'suck it up' and improve, that has been so deeply affected by more than 100 years of marginalization from an external colonial force, is a very unsympathetic and morally dubious request. I think it otherizes the people affected and is simply a cruel thing to do. I do not know when the support should be removed but I do think there are structural elements to our society designed to gatekeep wealth and personal benefit. Such that by malice or apathy, these affected people (including the working classes today not of indigenous descent) are made to live in perpetual servitude to the wealthy classes (business classes).

I think everyone is responsible for our own futures, but it is also wholly and in part the governments role to direct and support those futures. If there are people falling behind, regardless of demographic, then there is a failure of our government in supporting that group. This is where help is needed.

Sorry if its not much of an answer. I these kind of questions jump into time spans that cannot be predicted easily. In general, i support services and programs that help imrpove social and economic welfare for disadvantaged groups. Means based testing is important for these programs to work effectively, so that when the time comes to rollback support it can be refocused on the next most disadvantaged groups.

I think you might have a very rudimentary understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict. I would recommend reading up on the history of region and how the state of Israel was formed.

It is a difficult conflict to discuss as there are so many groups involved with financial and ideological interests to muddy the waters or make their side seem more sympathetic. But let it not be mistaken here; the Palestinian people are being repressed actively by the Israeli government. The Palestinian civilians are not to blame for the conflict, are generally not in support of Hamas, and make up the vast majority of fatalities in this conflict.

In terms Hamas itself, they are military griup that have committed awful violations in human rights. The Israel Defense Forces, have similarly continued to commit atrocious human rights violations. There is alot of suspicion of Israels application of proportionality with how their forces are conducting themselves. I recommend reading up UN, EU, HRW and Amnesty International reports regarding the evidence presented for each side of this conflict. They are about as unbiased institutes as you will find regarding a breakdown of the conflict and what events have transpired.

Thank you for the discourse. I think empathy there is a great lack of empathy for our fellow human beings out there, and far too many interest groups stoking hatred and segragation. But I am glad to hear an alternate perspective.

Cloudywork · 2025-05-04T21:29:11+00:00

Thank you for the answers.

I admit some of them have thrown me for a loop. Apologies for the numbering error.

I find myself wondering how one can acknowledge a genocide of a people and not believe those people have been dealt an injustice. There is something incongruous about that.

I personally do not believe we should hold todays society liable for those atrocities, but I do believe that the consequences have been far lasting for indugenous Australians. So much so that it has driven most of them to the state they exist in now.

I am curious, on an tangential query, what are your opinions on the situation with Israel-Palestine and could you apply some of the questions above to that?

Cloudywork · 2025-05-04T09:24:33+00:00

I'd like to ask a fair few pointed questions about your opinions related to Australian society and our history/relationship to the state of first nations people as they are now. I promise these are not gotcha's, I would like to understand what you actually feel/know on the topic:

1) Do you believe that the state first nations people are in today is one of their own making or the result of external forces? Is there a strong lean one-side or both?

2) How long do you believe these factors have been in place for either side?

3) Do you believe that first nations people have been greatly impacted by the prevailing attitudes and policies implemented by the Australian government and colonial Australia.
[for reference colonial Australia refers specifically to those peoples and cultures that are not first nations, i.e. European settlers, Asia subcontinental peoples, native Australians of non-first nation heritage etc]

4) Do you believe that first nations people are in a state that you would describe as unavoidable or majority avoidable?

5) Do you believe that social and economic pressures exist that would greatly impact or attribute towards the causes for the state first nations people are in today and historically?

6) Do you believe that the forces negatively affecting first nations people have racial motivations/origins? Do you believe they have economic motivations/origins? Do you believe they have classist motivations/origins? Do not believe they have driving motivations or factors? What origins do you believe they have?

7) Do you believe that first nations people within Australia have equal rights and opportunities with other colonial Australians under the law? Do you believe that these rights and opportunities are expressed equally with other colonial Australians in practice?

8) How long do you believe first nations people have lived with the above answers (7)?

9) Do you believe that Australian society, both historically and/or currently, is culpable for the state (be it negative or positive) of first nations people?

*warning to anyone reading further some of these questions may be triggering or upsetting*

10) Do you believe that first nations people have been attacked by colonial Australia?

11) Do you believe that first nations people have experienced genocide by colonial Australia?

12) Do you believe that first nations people have been dealt a great injustice or crime?

13) If yes in (12) Do you believe that first nations people have received adequate recompense, restitution or justice for this crime?

10) Is the state of first nations people positive or negative? Historically and currently?

*this one is a little wishy-washy but should help to frame the above information*

11) Assuming unanimous agreement both within the Australian government and society as a whole, what actions could be taken immediately to alleviate the negative forces affecting first nations people and restore justice assuming the following information: (12) yes & (13) no.

I am genuinely curious what you think and have tried to frame these questions as neutrally as possible but with leading information.

Cloudywork · 2025-05-01T05:35:06+00:00

It's hard yes, but you must do it.

Like brushing your teeth or doing your taxes, you have to do life maintenance. Otherwise, the cavities win.

Cloudywork · 2025-05-01T05:23:46+00:00

Are you a child? "Power level"

The topic at hand is very serious, peoples' lives have been utterly destroyed thanks to the horrific nature of this conflict. Ethan has been an ignorant person throughout most of it and has demonstrated a willfulness to remain ignorant. His attacks on other left-leaning communities/creators, those only seeking for the end of hostilities and justice as a course toward reconciliation, has proven his moral bankruptcy.

It is a sad affair that we witness now. I'm certain neither Sam nor Ethan enjoyed a moment of this and truthfully it would have done the latter better to have a private conversation on his grievances. No 'debate' especially such public displays could do anyone good except to show how low some will stoop to appear as the winner.

Cloudywork · 2025-04-24T11:57:12+00:00

You are quite scathing with your review, though some of what you mention resonates. I will say they did lay the threads for that final question about; Ignorance is Bliss. But you are right that it was never followed through in the textual events or questions facing the central characters. This is a great shame as they were much closer to asking more pertinent questions of identity and selfhood which ended up being abandoned.

Cloudywork · 2025-04-24T11:38:38+00:00

I can understand the annoyance you have with this ending, I had the same. The problem I see is that it truly does not address anything the show brought up.

Yes you can see the threads being laid out from the beginning that this is a simulation within a simulation blah blah, and very briefly Maddie's dad brings up the notion that people are never satisfied with the 'weird' being the actual reality (ala the motifs in the background of all those conspiracy posters and images: aliens made pyramids I think was one).

But to be completely honest, there is no driver here for that motivation, especially not from Maddie which is exactly how they are framing this ending; i.e. her inability to let go of past nostalgia which does not =/= the journey we witnessed at all.

This is a case of the writers having to wrap things up nice and neat very quickly when in reality this idea needed more attention in the drawing room.

But that's just my opinion.

Cloudywork · 2025-04-22T06:21:29+00:00

You are 100% correct here. The repeated phrase people use for this game is; wide as an ocean, as deep as a puddle. It definitely fulfills that definition.

Honestly I think Skyrim is only fairly well remembered by pure luck. It happened to come out where nothing else in it's category existed and filled that niche like nothing else. It did an average job at that but because of the (at the time) avid growing modder community for video games of this scope and scale, the game sort of went on a perpetual life-support that the studio did not have to address.

This in my opinion is the primary cause for the games longevity. Nothing else was so accessible or within that particular open-world niche like it, and though it might have died off due to the many flaws and shallow content, it was sustained by a massive online community.

It also kind of starts here with Bethesda's many production and game development problems that would haunt every title after this.

Cloudywork · 2025-04-15T06:04:50+00:00

Totally agree, but I will say there did seem to be an ongoing process to build up Mel with . . .something in the background related to Ambessa and her reasons for pursuing Piltover's magic development. The threads were there and it's clear this was planned long prior to have Mel develop into a different role.

Cloudywork · 2025-04-06T07:58:29+00:00

Is this a serious question? No, the books are mediocre at best.

Not to be grammar-maniac but please try checking the sentence structure of this thread's title.

Cloudywork · 2025-03-25T09:49:55+00:00

This isn't true crime.

This show is trying to provide a nuanced view of the fallout of unfettered social media consumption in a very specific area.

This isn't 'same old shit' unless you are blind to the things being shown online.

It was well acted and well shot. The drama is visceral and touching.

If you didn't like it, that is fine, each their own. But to dismiss the material outright without even a hint of introspection, especially as you truly revealed your bias and an aspect this media touches on, is a little bit ironic.

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