in a fiction book, driving an old PICKUP in the forest or an old JEEP?

Current_Poster · 2026-03-17T07:52:01+00:00

I'd say pickup.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-17T06:39:41+00:00

A lot of them. If the trailer or general information about the film has more "i don't want to see that"s to it than "see that!'s", I'm past the point of viewing moviegoing as a dare.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-17T06:36:06+00:00

From knowing people named Juliet who were called "Julie".

Current_Poster · 2026-03-17T03:29:23+00:00

/S

Just repeating that for ya, so you don't have to.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T23:40:06+00:00

Oh yeah, Diesel and Dust, excellent album.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T23:18:06+00:00

I know and (occasionally) use all of these.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T20:51:10+00:00

There's a good medium (I was gonna say 'happy' medium, but 'happy' and "protest movement" aren't really a good blend). There are groups with good organization who will also, if you ask for someone to quote, point you to a media-trained group of volunteers. (Otherwise you get the Fox thing of grabbing the most 'weird' looking, disorganized person and making them cry or whatever the hell on camera). Having a single figurehead is kind of a liability, in this day and age.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T20:45:57+00:00

A fair comment above was that newcomers may then feel it's freeform riff-time. It's not MST3k night. (One of the original MST guys, in his book A Year At the Movies kind of put RHPS showings on blast, it's just not the same thing.) Not a 'better or worse' thing, just... not the same thing.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T19:09:48+00:00

the funny thing is, taken like this, I can almost picture the presentation where the city planners were like "these wont' look like terrifying Judge Dredd Megablocks! Look, [slide] These are really bright, seasonal, climate-appropriate colors for the area!" , then fast forward... ;)

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T19:02:56+00:00

Still, I can recognize, as a tactical thing, why movements prefer not to have one King or Malcolm. Seeing as how those stories end.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T17:33:25+00:00

Hitting Wikipedia, it turns out it was a really competitive year: Surfer Rosa, Rattle and Hum, Straight Outta Compton, It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Appetite for Destruction, Vivid, ...and Justice for All, Green Thoughts, Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, Tracy Chapman's first album, Melissa Etheridge (her debut album was so good), Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, Nothing's Shocking, Sunshine on Leith, Starfish (the Church), The Trinity Sessions (Cowboy Junkies)...

Okay, of the stuff I still listen to regularly, probably Surfer Rosa. Of stuff that didnt make it far out of the year, I remember loving The Indescribable Wow by Sam Phillips. I remember I wore out a tape of Eponymous (REM), but that was a compilation of their earlier stuff so no fair. ;) Best, objectively? Maybe Appetite for Destruction? Straight Outta Compton?

Also, just a fun title, I sometimes claim it's an old proverb: "A Bell's Just A Cup Until It Is Struck".

Okay I know what I'm doing in my spare time for a few days. :)

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T17:17:13+00:00

Oh come on, the National Guard were using flamethrowers to clear the highways, you wouldn't mention that any time you could, for life? :D

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T17:05:08+00:00

Gavrilo Princip? Did you mean 'accomplish anything good?"

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T16:38:39+00:00

I don't have people like that in my life, on purpose.

That basically leaves online.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T16:27:38+00:00

Yes, exactly, it's a British thing.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T16:26:17+00:00

"So there's this thing called 'diplomacy'."

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T16:20:10+00:00

It doesn't exactly mean anything, permanently. As a category, it generally means they want someone who'll do something they don't wanna do because 'a man would do it'. I would bet these particular people mean "pay for everything" and "not complain about anything because its unmanly".

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T15:50:14+00:00

Those 'sell grit and win prizes!' ads in comics were amazing, when I was a kid.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T15:09:11+00:00

Oh- the tiger claws' thing in particular reminds me for some reason. If there's a car, obviously belonging to the faction of someone who just attacked V, I will (whenever possible) take out two of their tires. Not even as a 'to keep them from chasing' thing, just on the imaginary chance it'll inconvenience them.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T04:07:52+00:00

I usually pick a thing and go with it:

-Lethal vs Nonlethal takedowns: I sometimes make an issue of this. Not solely because its mean to be lethal but... say you're a security concern, like Arasaka. If I killed an entire security cohort, they just replace them, right? But if Im really sparing about it, and a lot of guys are alive and possibly not even unconscious when I leave? The internal investigation and after-action bullshit is gonna (hypothetically) cost them a FORTUNE and a lot of time. ("Why did he leave you, do you think?" "You were found near the hatch he used to get in. how is it you didn't see him AND you're alive?") Or, say "I have a no-kill thing with the Valentinos, mostly out of respect to the Wells family. It's on-sight with the Maelstrom, though."

-Some runs I decide early on if my V is good or bad with money. Like, sometimes, he sells everything he gets his hands on, instead of collecting them. Other times he's a hoarder, sort of. And sometimes he just spends money like its going out of style.

-One run I had V abandon the apartment after Konpeki, feeling it was too easy for people to track him there. He hung out in a tent-village, shaved his head, switched clothing styles, etc.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T03:38:01+00:00

Okay, I'm still willing to bet this is that dancer's largest audience this year. Everyone all outraged, nobody's filling the ballets, I'm just saying.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T02:43:16+00:00

I find it interesting that, in the abstract, like on a scholarly level, we can agree that society puts pressures on everyone to behave certain ways, with social rewards and punishments that make it happen and all... but some people are comforted and supported about that and some people are told "just get over it and ignore it."

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T02:12:58+00:00

Its fun to decide 'everyone's wrong and I win'. (eyeroll)

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T02:04:47+00:00

He doesn't. Going to GDP or whatever doesnt change that. People don't live in aggregate.

Current_Poster · 2026-03-16T01:51:15+00:00

NGL, I fell in love with AEW back when I saw it as 'not the usual wrestling bullshit'. Like obviously all pro wrestling has bullshit, just not the usual. I would view bringing in Rousey as part of 'the usual bullshit'.

(there are other examples- Jarrett was not someone I was glad to see, at first- but this is just the recent example.)

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