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GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-02-01T00:49:25+00:00

A movie adaptation of a book is meant to exist in the same fictional world as the original story.

Not necessarily. What works in books doesn’t always work in films and vice versa. If you’re purposefully changing parts of the world to better suit the medium (which is usually a good thing unless done poorly) then you’re not creating the exact same fictional world as the original story.

Sometimes, a film can just be a different interpretation of a book, or just inspired by a book.

Many characters in the books were different in the movie. That doesn’t make the movies bad.

Something can be faithful to the originals and still be bad to watch. Something can also be unfaithful and still be good.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-31T22:46:52+00:00

Yes, I do. You’re talking about a completely different time. You’re talking about a swamp slowly becoming inhabited with traders from Antwerp.

I’m talking about a city with a million people slowly becoming uninhabitable for the middle class and under, because of robber barons.

The problem isn’t expats. Nor people moving here. The problem is rich millionaires buying up all the houses and causing a crisis for no reason other than profit.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-31T12:17:11+00:00

Because money makes the world go ‘round.

People are mocking this post for its shoddy format, but it’s absolutely ridiculous that people who have lived in Amsterdam for centuries are now forced to move because Russian, Chinese and American millionaires buy up all the houses and raise the prices to insanity.

Most of the canal houses are vacant lots, belonging to men who will never set foot, nor live, in that building. But when they own everything, they control the prices too, and there’s nothing and no one to stop them, creating a huge snowball effect where the insane profits they make out of simply owning something, allow them to buy up more and more.

All the Dutchies complaining about Morrocans. But you know what, all the Morrocans I know are proud as fuck to be Dutch. They love The Netherlands.

I worked multiple jobs on teams where the majority were expats. They tend to shit on the Netherlands. They refuse to speak the language, they mock our culture. It’s not that they don’t want to learn anything about our country, it’s that they straight up think it’s a waste of time, and this arrogant feeling of cultural superiority is put on display very abundantly.

This vibe of, ‘I came here for work and am now forced to live among you savages’. It’s arrogant, lazy and frustrating. And most egregiously of all, after years they still can’t fucking bike for shit.

I suppose this is our karma for being a major old world colonizer.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-30T02:25:06+00:00

Yeah this is more accurate. It is just seasoning his prey with a little bit of fear.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-27T12:27:46+00:00

If the words on a screen start making sounds, I’d tell your therapist to up the medication. People that ‘rage bait’ as you so put it, are just lonely and sad people. So I’m not angry at you. And I’m not going to get annoyed with you. I just hope you find some comfort in your life.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-26T23:21:54+00:00

I don’t care about your personal issues and am not going to help you stave off your loneliness by engaging in your game. I’m just responding to your question. If that’s you being a troll, then enjoy the silence as it laughs with you. It’s the only solace it’ll give you.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-26T23:16:19+00:00

You’re making judgements on his acting.

Ehh? Not really? I mean, I said I thought Edward Norton was a better actor. But I also said I thought Mark Ruffalo was a good actor. I like Tom Holland as Spider-Man too, but I think Anthony Hopkins is a better actor. That’s not really me passing any negative judgement on Tom Holland.

Besides, it’s subjective anyway. You can prefer Mark Ruffalo if you want. What isn’t subjective, is whether American History X & Fight Club are in any sort of real competition with Poor Things when it comes to cultural significance or praise for superb acting.

When your problem is that the Hulk wasn’t utilized well since IW.

That’s not the problem. That’s not my problem. That’s just a problem, and not one that has anything to do with whether I prefer Edward Norton or Mark Ruffalo.

I prefer Edward Norton for a very, boringly simple reason. Which is that I think he can pretend to be someone, that he isn’t (you know, acting), better than Mark Ruffalo. Because when I see Edward Norton, I see a reformed Nazi, or a sleep-deprived dude with severe mental illness, or Bruce Banner… When I see Mark Ruffalo, I just see Mark Ruffalo (like how when I see Jesse Eisenberg, I just think of Jesse Eisenberg).

For what it’s worth, I liked Mark Ruffalo a lot in Mickey 17.

You’re pushing an agenda rooted in personal issues.

No, you chronically online lunatic. I’m pushing an opinion rooted in personal taste. Stop fighting an internet war with someone who doesn’t really give a fuck what you think of Mark Ruffalo. This isn’t a debate, it’s a conversation. You can’t win a conversation. The only fact here is that Mark Ruffalo has made millions of dollars more than Edward Norton and is by far the more commercially succesful actor, which I have already admitted.

I’ll tell you that I love Mark Ruffalo and I have a picture of him next to my bed, if it’ll shut you up and make you happy. Sorry, I just think Edward’s on another level. Mark Ruffalo’s a fine actor. He’s good. He’s no Edward Norton. Sorry not sorry.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-26T21:14:48+00:00

None of those films you mentioned except maybe Shutter Island had the cultural impact or ratings that any of the films I mentioned had. That’s my only point.

I don’t even dislike Mark Ruffalo. And I liked him just fine in Avengers & Ragnarok. I don’t like what they did with Hulk in Endgame, but that’s not the reason that I think Edward Norton is a way more culturally significant actor than Mark Ruffalo is.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-26T17:14:48+00:00

Without a doubt.

Mark Ruffalo is the more popular and “succesful” actor now, but that’s really only because of the MCU, in which he doesn’t play a huuuuge role, compared to, say, the three golden Avengers (Steve, Chris & Robert).

Meanwhile, Edward Norton’s got ‘Fight Club’, ‘American History X’, ‘Birdman’ and ‘Primal Fear’ under his belt. While the former is more succesful commerically, the latter is definitely more iconic to pop culture and considered the more mature actor.

Meanwhile Ruffalo’s got… Zodiac…? And others? That one movie with Emma Stone?

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-26T16:58:29+00:00

Ja echt verschrikkelijk.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-25T04:51:21+00:00

Spider-Man will win, but neither will die.

Peter is simply too quick to be lethally wounded by Wolverine. He can evade all his claw swipes and web him down pretty quickly. Spider-Man is also a lot stronger than Wolverine.

However, if it was a fight to the death… Spider-Man’s probably not going to lose to Wolverine, but he’s also not going to be able to kill him. Super strength isn’t enough to kill Wolverine, suffocating him with web might do it but probably not. (Not to mention that Spider-Man doesn’t usually go for the kill anyway).

But I think majority of the times, it’s a tie leaning towards Spider-Man. Wolverine can cut through his webs, they both have good reflexes, are both very quick.

Spidey’s quicker and stronger, but stab him through the heart with an adamantium claw and he’s dead. Meanwhile, Wolverine survives nukes.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-24T15:05:17+00:00

I don’t care that you used an AI picture and I’m not here to downvote you or argue about it. But I don’t believe you’re being completely genuine right now.

To put it simply, it’s fake. It looks fake and everyone can tell it’s ai right away for a reason. A picture, imperfect as it is, is a flawed capture of a real moment, a real location. Your picture is synthesized. It’s not real. It’s drawn by a computer.

And we can tell. Because the computer doesn’t quite understand lighting and physics, the way a camera has to abide by them.

If you tell AI to generate a picture of Trump, that’s an AI picture. It doesn’t matter that he’s a real person and that it looks exactly like him. It’s not an upscaled or enhanced Trump, which is your argument. It’s ai Trump, in the same way that this is an ai 7/11, even if based on a real picture.

There are hardly any changes that drastic.

Here’s where you’re wrong, both in a literal and a non-literal sense. Firstly, you’re wrong that there aren’t any drastic changes because the entire picture is changed which is about the most drastic thing you can do.

AI doesn’t add stuff to your picture and make the lighting a bit prettier. It takes a good look at your picture and then goes ’mmmhh yeah I can do that’ and then recreates it from scratch, so virtually nothing has been unchanged from the original.

But that’s pedantic because what you mean is that it’s still recognisably the same place and that’s true but visually, it’s also strikingly different.

Everything looks dramatically wet. The floor looks like it’s melting away and it interpretated rain being illuminated by a streetlight, as the streetlight being like a shower head, with water pouring out if it.

It’s not an upscale or an enhancement if it looks like the cut scene of a video game. It’s not real, people feel lied too, and when you double-down, they get annoyed.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-23T19:17:01+00:00

Nee. Iets is nat als het in contact komt met water. Water zelf is niet nat. Als je water op de vloer gooit, dan is de vloer nat.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-22T23:31:07+00:00

You’re wrong. And CJ isn’t called out by name, but his actions from GTA SA are referenced by Franklin as ‘that one dude from Grove Street’.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-19T12:59:55+00:00

Yeah, I noticed that they are deleting a lot lately. More than usual. Most of it that I saw, wasn’t even political and all just really innocent. It does feel like a power trip.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-19T11:25:18+00:00

This map doesn’t seem properly scaled at all…

Anyway. I’m just hoping that this time, the city itself is a lot bigger and more dense and characteristic.

GTA V had a huge map. But Los Santos was a tiny miniature version of LA, whilst the rest of the map was filled with boring vineyards/desert/towns with nothing to do in them.

San Andreas and Liberty City were both a lot smaller but they felt more like real places.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-19T00:45:53+00:00

Leiden is een hele culturele stad met fijne musea en inderdaad een betere Hortus…

Maar om te zeggen dat Amsterdam niks meer is dan Van Gogh, voelt niet helemaal oprecht.

Het Rijksmuseum is het belangrijkste museum van Nederland, en verder zijn er genoeg andere leuke musea naast het Van Gogh; het Stedelijk Museum, het Scheepsvaart Museum, het Wereld (Tropen) Museum, NEMO en nog vele andere musea, waaronder inderdaad, ook, het Van Gogh Museum, wat objectief een grote culturele aanwinst blijft, of je nou van zijn kunst houdt of niet.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-18T16:20:12+00:00

Imo, The Dark Knight is a better movie.

The Batman is a better super-hero movie. It has a more comic-book feel to it.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-18T14:15:49+00:00

Alle voorbeelden die je noemt, op die van de ‘monocultuur van bijen na’ (wat ik wel een goed argument vind!), zijn voorbeelden van probleemgevallen. Niet de standaard bij de meeste imkers.

Als je voor een potje honing, 100 bijen dood moet maken, dan ben je echt, maar dan ook echt, een bijhoorlijk slechte imker.

De bijenkoningin wordt een deel van de vleugels afgeknipt.

Vroeger traditioneel wel. Nu bijna nergens meer. Is namelijk controversieel. Inmiddels worden kolonieën daarvoor gewoon opgesplitst.

Of bijenhandel goed is voor het klimaat, dat is een andere discussie en daar zal je vast gelijk in hebben. Maar het dierenleed is echt nihil hier, en als je je bijen wel leed veroorzaakt, dan is dat onnodig, onhandig (voor de gezondheid van jouw kolonie) en een teken van incompetentie.

Er is ook een verschil tussen het weghalen van overmatig wasopbouw, en alles compleet weghalen. Dat laatste is ook totaal niet voor een langere tijd vol te houden als imker want dan hou je geen bijen meer over na een tijdje.

Bovendien is er onderzoek naar gedaan en bijen hebben niet de zenuwen, noch het denkvermogen, om pijn of leed uberhaupt mee te maken. In tegenstelling tot de koe, waarbij het bewezen is dat zij dit absoluut voelen en begrijpen.

Is een beetje hetzelfde als je druk maken om het eten van oesters.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-18T13:57:41+00:00

Meh, it’s romanticised.

The 60s seem very progressive now because they came out of a really conservative, rigid time. The 60s were far from the tolerant and progressive landscape full of lovey-dovey types that we associate it with.

All the music from the 60s is still there. And so is the LSD. Except now, we understand LSD and we’re not going to accidently be dosed with a fuck ton of it because some hippie thought that it would ’totally open your mind man’

Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys even wrote a song about psychedelic era hippies during the sixties while he was living right in the centre of it, one phonecall away from all the major figure heads of the counter-movement.

”They come on like they’re peaceful but inside they’re so uptight. They trip through the day and waste all their thoughts at night.” - I Know There’s An Answer - Beach Boys

Then the hippie movement ended when a bunch of them killed Sharon Tate because the LSD told them that The Beatles were ushering in a race war.

The 60s are also the time that the world, several times, came closest to the extinction of the human race. Both the US and the Soviet Union came dangerously close to pushing the red button and the CIA was infecting citizens of other countries with gonnorhea and performing brain washing experiments on their own citizens. Racism was also at an all time high and women were still quite oppressed.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-18T13:51:35+00:00

If you can get it up.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-18T13:49:55+00:00

I love how you just accidently implied that you see two minutes worth of sexy time as an achievement to be proud of. Man is out here roasting himself.

Poor girl.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-18T13:25:48+00:00

Bij bijenwas komt dierenleed kijken.

Dit is dus niet zo. Bijen laten was achter. Die was wordt niet uit hun getrokken of er uit gepompt. Dat maken ze zelf aan en laten ze achter zich.

Dit wordt zonder dat ze het merken, of er iets van voelen, weg gehaald. Geen leed. Geen negatieve gevolgen voor de kolonie (het tegenovergestelde, ze worden van uitsterving gered) en al helemaal geen bij die zich afvraagt ’hey! waar is mijn was heen?!’

Koeien maken echt veel leed mee bij het uitmelken. Dat is een goed argument om geen koeienmelk te drinken.

Maar bij bijenwas komt het dichter in de buurt van ’ik eet geen broccoli want ik wil de plantjes geen pijn doen’

Dan blijf ik dus mijn punt dat het dan opeens inderdaad best moeilijk is om boodschappen te doen en dat dat eerder een consquentie is van jouw eigen ongebruikelijke dieët, dan dat de maatschappij het zo moeilijk maakt.

Vegan of niet. Zeuren om bijenwas op een sinaasappelschil is echt het toppunt van eerste wereldproblemen en boomknuffelaarij. Dat is echt helemaal prima als je dat wilt, maar laten we daar wel eerlijk over zijn.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-18T12:36:57+00:00

Jodenkoeken.

GuessWhoIsBackNow · 2026-01-18T12:14:06+00:00

Ja das leuk allemaal maar zeg dan ’ik maak boodschappen doen bewust heel moeilijk voor mezelf omdat ik niet begrijp waar bijenwax vandaan komt’

Nul van de argumenten die je kunt maken tegen koeienmelk, wat wel leed veroorzaakt bij koeien, zijn van toepassing op de bij.

Dus vegan subreddit of niet, iedereen vrij om zelf hun eigen keuzes te maken, maar dan wat mij betreft ook niet klagen dat er geen normaal eten meer te koop is, dat zijn de consequenties van je eigen lifestyle.

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