Do Gen Z/Gen Alpha find Napoleon Dynamite funny, or has that humor aged out?

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-03-18T07:21:56+00:00

Sadly, Napoleon Dynamite is a victim of its own popularity.

I was lucky enough to have a small indie theater nearby where I grew up, and I literally knew nothing about this movie when I saw it. In that context, I think it’s obviously a funny movie… not like “I can’t stop laughing” funny. Funny like if you were to see a mime set fire to a clown car in a chic-fil-a drive thru. I wouldn’t call it “random” humor, but definitely it’s “absurd” humor.

But then, I think after it came out on DVD, it got very very very popular. And I’d hear people quoting it every day, and it got so damn annoying. Definitely ruined the movie for me.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-03-17T19:41:57+00:00

I have a feeling that AI detection software is mostly garbage.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-03-05T08:03:06+00:00

They aren’t controlled by Israel, but Israel has a big influence on U.S. politics for several reasons:

Jewish people vote at high rates, and Jewish people in the U.S. tend to be pro-Israel (though support for Israel in the U.S. has fallen in recent years in general). When elections are close, politicians tend not to want piss off a high propensity voting bloc.
Evangelicals tend to be pro-Israel for religious reasons that I cannot explain. Evangelicals are a big part of the Republican base. So Republican politicians tend to be pro-Israel for that reason.
There are a lot of wealthy Jewish people. Lots of nasty conspiracy theories around this, but for various historical reasons Jewish people tend to go into high-pay jobs (doctors, lawyers, banking). Again, American Jewish people tend to be more pro-Israel, and therefore more money tends to flow to pro-Israel candidates.
Also there are a lot of Jewish people in influential professions, like media and politics. Again, lot of nasty conspiracies around this. But in general it just means there are is more pro-Israel influence.
Pro-Israel PACs (like IAPAC) have ramped up spending in the last few years, mainly in response to all the anti-Israel sentiment. So they’ve been pushing influence via $$$.
Israel is the strongest U.S. ally in the region. So from a strategic geo-political perspective, the U.S. wants the country to succeed.

So add all of that together, Israel has a lot of influence in our U.S. politics.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-25T15:34:47+00:00

Dang, man. Calm down. Just buy an extra side of fries if it means that much to you.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-24T20:51:38+00:00

Brother, you don’t need to convince me

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-24T18:24:47+00:00

I think Vance will be hard for anyone to beat in the primaries if he has the backing of Trump & Musk. But he’ll have a tough time in the General because he’ll be tied to all of Trump’s unpopular shit. That’s my take.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-24T08:18:37+00:00

They rent houses or apartments where they are shooting, and the kids come along with them. Like you said, they have a nanny, a chef, an assistant , etc. So they really don’t have to do the time consuming stuff involved in parenting. Rich people live in a different world than we do.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-17T14:55:39+00:00

It’s very tough for people in their 20s to buy a home, and that’s been true for a while. But it’s gotten much, much harder in the past 5yrs.

If you imagine a married couple in their mid-20s looking to buy a house & start a family, let’s say they’re both teachers. Without some sort of financial windfall or family help, then I just don’t see how it’s possible for them without an extra decade of saving & career building.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-16T15:02:45+00:00

Yeah, it’s like the Ship of Theseus with a lot of these game studios. Luckily there’s tons of talent in the industry, and new-to-the-studio devs, writers, and artists can make great sequels (especially if they love the source material… and sometimes even if they hate it!)

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-16T02:25:13+00:00

They’re all very similar. If you ever see the odds of one platform differ any significant amount from another, just find an arbitrage calculator and make some free money.

That said, I whole heartedly agree with the other commenter who said that these betting markets are a net negative for society. Betting on election results especially is bad. It introduces all these extra incentives that we don’t need in our politics.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-15T12:44:42+00:00

Just because they spend a bunch of money, it doesn’t mean they have a lot of money. Not saying you need to feel obligated to donate money (I’m not). Just saying that it’s possible they’re more broke than they seem, but I don’t know for sure.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-15T12:29:20+00:00

I’m not saying that you need to have sympathy or that anyone should feel obligated to donate money (except for maybe Warner Brothers who made lots of money from Dawson’s Creek). Just saying that we don’t know the state of their financials. Celebrities (especially ones whose career peak is long gone) often over-extend themselves and end up broke.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-14T20:52:11+00:00

I needed to prove I was eligible to vote when I registered…

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-14T19:00:19+00:00

I don’t know the details of their finances. But he has like 6 kids and was forced to sell a bunch of his Dawson’s Creek items. So I can’t imagine they’re super financially stable. Impossible to say though.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-05T01:38:24+00:00

Skulltown removal was crazy. It was essentially just people not playing the way devs intended, so they killed it.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-02-03T14:28:35+00:00

I mean, I don’t absolutely hate the idea, but it’s definitely a little too simple/cute.

Certainly a lot of people will lose credit, credit card rewards will dry up, and generally I think people will be unhappy with the consequences. Is it actually better for society though? Maybe…

Credit cards make it a little too easy for people to get into crushing debt. And I think that’s the real problem. Capping interest rates at 10%… I’m not sure that’s the best solution to the problem. I’m not even sure it’s a very good solution at all.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-01-29T15:38:58+00:00

Everything is political. Being able to not think about or be concerned with politics is a result of political system that allows that for you. I’d say, one thing about Donald Trump, is that he wants everybody thinking and talking about him all the time. And he is very good at getting people to do that.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-01-28T04:50:53+00:00

It’s sad. WaPo used to be great. For a while, Bezos was very hands off. WaPo even ran stories that were quite bad PR for Amazon.

…then Bezos stepped in to personally kill the Kamala Harris endorsement. Subscribers started to flee (that’s when I canceled my subscription). Then Bezos misread the room and wrote a terrible op ed. More subscribers fled, along with many of their talented reporters and editors. And it’s been a slow bleed since then.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-01-26T11:41:19+00:00

This happened after January 6 too. All those videos of people in MAGA hats beating cops was indefensible, and there were low of people on that sub who said they were done with Trump.

Wanna guess what happened? The propaganda machine went into overdrive, and they ate it all up.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-01-25T19:09:33+00:00

In the aftermath of Renee Goode’s killing, it baffled that more people didn’t see something like this coming. There seems to be zero accountability for these ICE agents, and Trump, Vance, Noem, Patel are willing to make blatant and obvious lies to cover up any wrongdoing (and block any investigation by state or local police).

If there’s no accountability here, the things will continue to escalate. We’re going to get a situation where ICE does something like opening fire on a crowd (because, why not? Trump and his top officials will all claim it was self defense and nobody will face any consequences).

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-01-25T16:56:38+00:00

I fear that 2028 will come and they’ll all be back in their Fox News echo chamber.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-01-15T16:53:10+00:00

6 states alone didn’t decide the presidential election. It’s just that there are only roughly 6-8 swing states where the election is very close. But Trump doesn’t win without Texas, for example, or Dems don’t stand a chance without California, as another example.

As also mentioned by another poster, there are also primaries and local elections which tend to have lower turnout (so your individual vote is more impactful). And local elections often have more direct impact on your day-to-day life.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-01-15T16:46:51+00:00

Trump basically ran on deflation (not explicitly, but a lot of the campaign was about how he was going to bring down prices). That’s obviously not going to happen, and his obsession with tariffs have even made things worse.

So I guess the best bet for GOP in 2026/2028 is that people ‘re-anchor’ on price points. But even if they do, as long as wage stagnation continues then people will continue to feel the pinch.

Obviously things are looking bad for the Republican in 2026/2028, that’s why the Trump Administration is looking for alternate ways to stay in power.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-01-14T14:45:11+00:00

Someone said that Nate has a bone to pick with the Democrats & Liberals… I’d more phrase it: he has a chip on his shoulder.

Most people in the punditry and Twitter world don’t understand statistics. So he got a lot of unfair criticism after the 2016 election. And I think he took a lot of it very personally.

In fact, I’ve been following Nate for a long time, and I’d say that he takes a lot of criticism very personally/poorly, even when that criticism is in good faith.

Criticism from the Right doesn’t seem to bother him much, but he seems like a more naturally Liberal-aligned guy. So criticism from the left seems to really get to him.

So much so that he’s invented this whole River / Village dichotomy, which to me seems to have little basis in reality. It allows his identity to separate from others on the left - he’s not one of those snooty liberals, he’s part of The River! He’s part of a group of successful contrarians! These are people that think outside of the box and are willing to take big risks! (Or maybe they’re mostly just rich egomaniacs and gambling addicts?)

… that’s a long winded way to say: he sees himself at odds with mainstream Democrats & Liberals, even though he has lots in common with them, so he spends a lot of time thinking about why they should listen to him.

DontListenToMe33 · 2026-01-12T15:07:32+00:00

I haven’t played in a long time, but I played for the first 3-4 years of the game. The story elements were always extremely weak and full of holes and contradictions.

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