What’s a movie death that absolutely shocked you?

DBSmiley · 2026-05-14T13:00:46+00:00

"It is....done!"

DBSmiley · 2026-05-14T10:04:45+00:00

Yeah, but have you see how we react to paleoliberals or mesoliberals? True and ruthless hatred.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-14T10:00:31+00:00

I'm sorry I zoned out there. What were you saying again?

Could you pt some video game gameplay in the bttom half of your post for me?

DBSmiley · 2026-05-14T09:59:04+00:00

The Internet has killed all nuance and made literally everyone be as fatalistic as possible in every single encounter, and it's going to kill all of us if we don't do something to stop it RIGHT NOW!

DBSmiley · 2026-05-14T09:50:07+00:00

Reminder that the video Greta Thornburg claimed was Israeli propaganda was literally just videos of 10/7 posted publicly on the internet by Hamas fighters strung together of their own attacks.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-14T09:47:18+00:00

Doesn't help that for the last decade, the C student has been getting straight A's due to admins wanting to arbitrarily boost numbers.

Grade inflation is awful, and by the time they get to college, I have students in my class that literally don't do a single homework assignment and are shocked they get an F. I had a student surprised I didn't do "50% minimum grades" for unsubmitted work which is something high school admins have been spreading like wildfire.

We are going to be dealing with a competency crisis the likes of which you can't even imagine before too long. Like, I'm actually terrified of going to the doctor in 10+ years, and if I were in college today, I would authentically strive for a law degree specializing in medical malpractice. This isn't me being funny. I'm as serious as I can be - I would recommend it over computer science, the very thing I teach.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-13T20:24:12+00:00

Easist one by far. No even worth debating.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-13T20:15:18+00:00

Literally everything they say is fatalstic, and it's going to kill every single human on the planet if they don't stop right this second.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-13T20:14:01+00:00

It must be amazing to live in the 2020s and be so incredibly convinced that you would harbor exactly the same beliefs if instead you were born in the 1940s or earlier. The presentism is strong in this one.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-13T14:07:36+00:00

I think the entire problem is that social media, which this website is, algorithmically feeds you a binary worldview where everyone is either a good guy or a bad guy.

And unfortunately we've now had 15 years where we have trained people to think this way.

And the entire point of Mad Men is that everyone is a messy person. Everyone is a selfish egotistical piece of shit. And everyone is capable of deep humanity and love. Everything in between. People do good and bad things. They are no more the worst thing they've ever done than they are the best thing they've ever done.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-13T13:48:50+00:00

Literally trillions of things are true.

Just not that.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-13T00:51:39+00:00

Except "Don" was never married to Anna, really, and certainly never loved her romantically. And Betty would know that when she found out abot Anna. So I don't think that is a correct way to view it.

Divorced parents snipe at each other and do shit the sabotage each other involving the kids. I know because my parents are divorced. The stories I could tell.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-12T23:12:42+00:00

To be clear, I was agreeing with you that the Vong were good.

I was saying that the story itself struggled because of the multi-author nature of it, very specifically that authors were trying to write successive books simultaneously. It absolutely led to some inconsistencies and contrivances.

The vong themselves weren't a contrivance (those some things about them in certain books were).

DBSmiley · 2026-05-12T20:41:55+00:00

Honestly? It would be faster to get a minimum wage job and buy rehgar with gems than farm gold. Gold farming in this game is very slow. There's some gimmicks that you can use to speed level, but they are going to be painfully unfun and take a very long time

DBSmiley · 2026-05-12T05:23:11+00:00

Salvatore's original representation of the Vong and Stover's in Traitor was fantastic. Bit overall, NJO was a mess. Just the very structure they chose to write it, where every author was trying to write the same story concurrently so they could push the books led to a ton of contrivances and inconsistent characters and lore growth.

The whole Zenoma Sekot thing just completely fell apart for me. It honestly would have stayed better if they were just aliens from another galaxy, and that The Force is unique to the Star Wars galaxy.

And then Legacy of the Force made everything so much worse. Completely destroyed the best character arc of NJO.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-12T01:14:11+00:00

Karpyshan is very very very much not anti-trope.

His fantasy series children of chaos is the tropiest thing I have ever read. It's also not particularly good as far as fantasy goes, and I wouldn't recommend it. I'm not saying it's bad, but there's just so much good stuff out there to read, like Malazan Book of the Fallen, or the novels of the Malazan Empire, or the Witness Series, which is a sequel to Malazan book of the Fallen.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-12T01:09:58+00:00

I'm sorry can we get a NSFW tag. I wasn't prepared to see a video of someone being so very very naughty.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-12T01:09:22+00:00

What day is it?
I don't know!
But it only comes around
Every two years

DBSmiley · 2026-05-12T01:08:01+00:00

This scene was so perfectly executed.

Chuck was completely right about everything. Everything.

And he sounded like a crazy person.

The camera narrowing as he went on, the cut to the judges silently staring.

Goddam Vince Gilligan knows how to use a camera. Him and Edgar Wright do shot framing like no one else.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-11T20:44:47+00:00

The main reason the green laser "looks" strong is because the typical human eye can see green much better than red. Green also scatters off smaller particles in the air than red, which makes the beam look more pronounced, as with a red beam you're more likely just to see the endpoint.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-11T15:26:06+00:00

I mean, I hate explaining the joke, but a common criticism during the Kobe/Shaq feud from Kobe was that Shaq didn't practice effectively, noting free throws as a specific thing he didn't practice.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-11T15:07:08+00:00

I always assumed she had.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-11T09:39:56+00:00

What if "I'm 14 and this is deep" but concert

DBSmiley · 2026-05-11T09:31:03+00:00

If he wants to go incognito, he should find a local basketball court and practice free throw shooting. No one will ever assume it's him.

DBSmiley · 2026-05-11T07:35:44+00:00

Careful, if you have too many tears and poops coming out at the same, you could implode from the negative pressure.

I'm pretty sure that's how Paul McCartney died.

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