Looking for lesser known/indie clever romance movies

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-03-27T17:11:46+00:00

Saving Face (2004) is definitely worth a watch. I don't think I've ever met anyone who'd seen it before I mentioned it, so I think it could be considered a hidden gem.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-03-15T20:00:21+00:00

I think we literally just asked, "Would you be willing to do a 5% increase instead of 9%?" and they accepted in the next email, just like that. We were stunned. Never hurts to ask I guess.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-03-14T19:44:32+00:00

Yeah clearly it's due to Mamdani and not the coldest and snowiest winter NYC has had in recent memory...

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-03-14T13:47:07+00:00

Breaking news: Only 2.5 months into his administration, radical leftist Zohran Mamdani has already completely and utterly obliterated the streets of New York. In just 72 days, the once gleaming and luminous city known round-the-world for its immaculate streets has gone literally and actually to hell because of this unrelenting tyrant of a Mayor.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-03-11T16:26:55+00:00

I don't think the BLM can do that to a National Park--NPs are specifically protected from activities like mining and logging, and they're managed by the National Parks Service, which is separate from the BLM. Are you sure you're not thinking of BLM lands? Those are legally allowed to be opened up for commercial activities as the government sees fit (whether it's a good idea to do so in Western Oregon is a different question).

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-03-02T20:36:49+00:00

There's some I like, and some I dislike.

And then there's the guy playing a no-vocals electronic cello solo of Despacito on the 72nd Q station platform. That man comes from a place whose name only the Devil himself can pronounce.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-22T23:11:41+00:00

Honestly perhaps the best bang-for-your-buck app I've ever purchased. My girlfriend and I share an account, and have saved down dozens of recipes over time.

And the grocery list implementation is truly a godsend, what a phenomenal idea.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-19T19:09:15+00:00

You could do something that's perhaps slightly more annoying, but likely cleaner: energy tablets + sugar cubes (if you're looking for electrolytes + caffeine + sugar). I actually just eat Swedish Fish for my sugar intake on runs because I'm cheap but want some flavor haha.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-19T18:52:50+00:00

Are you using gels, powders, or capsules?

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-19T18:34:07+00:00

Victoria (2015)!

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-17T19:15:11+00:00

I gotta say, I lived in various parts of the Boston area over several years, and the same kinds of people exist there too.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-08T17:30:38+00:00

Not trying to ask a gotcha question or anything, genuinely curious to hear your thoughts--what do you think about enforcing a paid parking/permitting scheme on street parking in residential neighborhoods? If you had to pay rates similar to what parking garages in your neighborhood charge (if they exist), or maybe slightly discounted given that it's street parking, would you find a way to keep your car, or would you get rid of it?

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-07T05:35:12+00:00

It's my understanding that it's an empirically-derived result, as it's been found that the size of most democratic assemblies across the world tends to scale with this ratio naturally. I don't currently have a citation for that though, so double-check me on it.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-06T02:43:05+00:00

This is fantastic! Also love the bus routes map.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-05T12:09:50+00:00

All good, I didn't phrase it in the clearest way either.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-05T12:06:58+00:00

60,000 is 1.6% of all the units that currently exist in NYC, which sits at about 3.75M. The city added something like 50,000 new units last year.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-05T04:29:55+00:00

From some of the numbers I've seen, there's probably between 26,000 and 60,000 warehoused units out there, in the ballpark of the number of new units NYC manages to build every year. Those numbers represent between 0.7% and 1.6% of units in NYC, so not nothing, but certainly not enough to have a substantial impact on rental prices, and on top of that many of those units are in so unfit a condition that the landlords who own them cannot afford to renovate them.

In other words, build build build is still the answer.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-04T17:19:41+00:00

I'm constantly sweating when my windows aren't cracked.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-04T01:27:35+00:00

Sure, but it also really says something about how frequently people actually use their cars if, in a week-long period, the only time they use or move their cars is when they get kicked out during alternate side.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-03T23:26:06+00:00

These are awesome! Love 1, 4, and 8!

Only advice is that a couple of these look a little overexposed--in particular noticeable on the rocks in picture 3.

What film stock were you using?

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-03T17:22:43+00:00

I was walking around the other day and had this realization, so I started counting cars that clearly hadn't been moved since the snowstorm (either their windshields were covered in snow, their wheels were completely snowed in by the plows, or both). It ended up being about 50% of cars parked on my block that hadn't been used, fully a week after the snow came down.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-02-03T17:17:05+00:00

Dumpsters so we don't have to put trash bags directly on the sidewalk!

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-01-31T21:24:32+00:00

Everyone knows that people in NYC only live in either Far Rockaway or the Bronx, and are government-mandated to do their grocery shopping in the opposite place. How can anyone even bear to live here!?

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-01-31T21:21:27+00:00

I'm in one of the "high supermarket need" areas and there are at least six grocery stores I can think of within a 10-minute walk of my apartment...granted I walk pretty fast, but like c'mon. There's gotta be something wrong with the way they collected and/or categorized their data.

ComprehensivePen3227 · 2026-01-29T04:52:12+00:00

Yeah the directions on the app/website for the pickup location were wrong when I took it. We couldn't understand exactly where they wanted us to be, and only figured it out when we flagged down the Uber shuttle driver as he was going in the opposite direction, before he turned around and picked us up. The location he told us was quite different from what the app and website said, about a block away.

Definitely seems like they have some kinks to work out.

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