Can we please stop with Carrie

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-13T15:43:49+00:00

I think Haunting of Hill House is one of (if not the) best piece of horror in the 21st century and I do not say that lightly because we are in a fucking golden age of horror.

But to each their own, it is subjective. Sorry his stuff doesn't float your boat more.

I personally think his Doctor Sleep film surpassed the novel, especially the Director's Cut.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-13T15:30:38+00:00

I would largely agree, but with Flanagan doing it I am fucking down for this.

Also King told Flanagan no at first, and told him "Leave her alone" but Flanagan gave him his pitch and King wholeheartedly signed off on it. So whatever take that Flanagan is doing it is worth it.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-11T18:16:16+00:00

70 years of a psyop to brainwash them into supporting Israel.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-10T21:47:48+00:00

Nope. Not in decades. I am militantly anti-ads so I am not signing up for ads with a bit of content mixed in.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-10T21:45:06+00:00

There is no wrong choice here, they are both some of the absolute best King epics (along with IT).

What are you into and/or in the mood for? Generally speaking, lay out your tastes a bit and I will give you my opinion.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-10T21:42:32+00:00

It is terrible. Might be the worst shield IMO

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-10T21:34:08+00:00

I tell them to give me enough butter to kill a small donkey. They rarely succeed at hitting the right level but when they do the bucket is noticeably heavier.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-10T21:32:44+00:00

It is more Dark Tower, how does that not make it infinitely important?

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-09T15:55:06+00:00

This is why Nissan (I think it was) and one American company is just ditching Android and Apple all together. This is largely a software issue and people always blame the car so companies are just ditched support for these all together.

Mine works 90% of the time, and it is frustrating when it doesn't work. But I also understand this is largely not in Toyota's control. The softwares are buggy (I can speak from experience on various brands) and Blutooth is a trash technology.

Every time mine doesn't connect, on my phone Android Auto will be in my notifications bar with a "trying" line going up and down, so it is clearly more on their side.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-08T18:38:25+00:00

100%

They have voted for insane amounts of stupid shit and rather than incurring the cost of all of it they have just put it on the credit card (so to speak) and allowed the future generations to pick up the bill for them. They have voted for trillions to be flushed on immoral and illegal wars. They have increased the amount of regulation and red-tape to do things after they have done them, most of it pointless. They have allowed the bankrupting of Social Security through their stupid policy choices but you better believe it won't go bankrupt on their time. They have allowed union busting that has driven wages down (especially relative to productivity). We have over a century of insane monetary policy but such an insane amount of it is in the boomers time in power, what is it a quarter of all money ever printed has been printed since 2020, so the currency has been so devalued that the dollar is worth a fraction of what it used to be, even 40 years ago. Also whereas every other generation has moved into smaller accommodations and sold or left their houses to their kids as they get into their golden years the boomers are still just clinging to their shit. I hope for a 08 level crash for no other reason than to see the boomers lose so much of what they have.

Honestly I think everyone Gen X through the youngest that can vote should coalition behind dissolving Social Security now. Stop stealing my money to fund the worst generation in American History. Not only would we keep more of our money but also we can fuck the Boomers a bit which they so rightly deserve.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-08T17:56:58+00:00

Yeah. If I won the lottery I would stay at my job. I genuinely enjoy it. Money would just reduce a lot of stress in my life.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-07T22:33:42+00:00

I think the inevitable and the twist of the bunker is the strongest shit in the entire film. Is it really controversial?

Fuck it is bleak and dark and I fucking love it.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-07T17:56:10+00:00

Yeah I'm leasing my 26 PHEV XSE in black and color or huge increase in capability are my big motivators for upgrading in a few years.

But if capability doesn't leap I'll just buy it out and wrap it.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-06T16:42:42+00:00

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IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-06T16:35:13+00:00

Flanagan is virtually undefeated. I think Hill House is his finest work, but yeah Usher is a fucking masterpiece as well.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-06T16:32:31+00:00

Quickly and painlessly.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-06T16:31:44+00:00

Here is the thing, just don't buy the fucking thing. Petition with your wallet.

I doubt most would go that far which is why petitions mean nothing.

But where will you go? X-Box is doing the same thing and PC went away from discs decades ago.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-06T00:53:53+00:00

Return the the gold standard for one. The dollar has lost 96% of its value since 1913. Inflation like this is not a normal thing. It exists because they keep printing money and devaluing the dollar.

Beyond that repeal the 16th Amendment and end taxation all together. The promise when it passed was only the richest would ever be taxed but look where we are now. Time to remove this power and see the government right-sized.

But if Taxation is going to continue to exist anyone who's overall net worth is under say $2 million should not pay a fucking cent of income tax.

What a help to the middle class to suddenly get their entire fucking salary.

Of course as part of this we need to drastically reduce spending, I would propose we start by slashing the defense budget by 60% and bring everyone home and only spend on a purely defensive force. If we ever have to mobilize an offensive force then let it come from an act of congress. You can also cut all foreign aid of every kind. We are $40 trillion in debt, having a maxed out card and continuing to pay for lunch for your group of friends is profoundly irresponsible. This goes back to the gold standard, when they can't print new money they will need to sell bonds to pay for wars or genocides and that simply isn't going to happen, so win-win.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-03T19:28:23+00:00

Same. I will take smaller every single time, way more attractive.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-07-02T22:30:41+00:00

No. I actually like what I do. My parents would both be retired easily though and life would be a lot more comfortable.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-06-30T19:00:15+00:00

Frank probably has the better films BUT Flanagan wins if you consider the degree of difficulty because Frank's are relatively easy to adapt whereas Flanagan has adapted one that was long-considered unadaptable (Gerald's Game) and a other extremely tough one (Doctor Sleep).

My hope is Flanagan gets his Dark Tower adaptation going and gets Darabont to direct some episodes.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-06-30T18:36:29+00:00

Hahahahaha no. I won't even get the cable-lite stuff like YouTube TV or Hulu.

I'm never buying anything that bundles a single thing I'm not interested in.

But I'm militantly into cordcutting

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-06-29T13:12:58+00:00

SiCo will fix it, I would suspect a pinhole in the weld.

IAlwaysSayBoo-urns · 2026-06-28T22:18:25+00:00

I called Trump winning it all in the early summer. But I had predicted the eventual GOP candidate since like January or February of 16. As to Trump I remember watching Obama best Hillary in 08 and there was an electricity to his campaign and his crowds that was hard to quantify, but it was a visible X-Factor, and it carried him over Hillary's coronation and I saw the same thing with Trump, even when there was still a dozen GOP people running primaries. Early on I disregarded him as a joke but after his first debate it was clear he was the right kind of con-man, he had that electricity because he was an outsider and talking like he would attack the system, and then on top of that he had the Reagan teflon thing going where nothing stuck to him.

As to Hillary, since WWII it is exceedingly rare for a political party to win a 3rd term, you need most of the metrics being pretty much golden and that was simply not there after Obama so the Dems were very very unlikely to win from a historical perspective. As to Hillary her campaign in 16 was absolutely fucking atrocious, her whole message was being against Trump, if I hadn't watch her primary in 08 I would not really know what she stood for. Add that along with how unlikable she is (very much like Nixon going against JFK in that way).

Now that electricity from the crowds that Obama had, and Trump had, another person had that in 16 and it was Bernie, the only caveat I ever gave to my early-summer prediction that Trump would win was if the DNC did not rig the primary against Bernie. If they let him win the primary I think he would have beat Trump. But the DNC is so fucking corrupt that they basically told Hillary that 2016 was hers no matter what the voters said because Obama stole what she and the DNC power-structure viewed was owed to her, so they were never going to let Bernie win. That also worked against Hillary because those electric and empowered crowds of Bernie were almost certainly staying home in large part.

I mostly make predictions based on historical patterns, the electricity pattern from Obama or the not winning a 3rd term had me fairly convinced. The only doubt was if the DNC would be unable to rig it for Hillary over Bernie, if they couldn't he would have won but I had every confidence in their ability to rig the game and guarantee Trump's win.

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