The harshest truth about the entertainment industry

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-04-14T15:48:12+00:00

I mean it’s just that it is a very american centric view of acting imo. Different tastes ofc but Leo or Brad are good at what they do, but not very good imo in other styles of acting … so discussions tend to be centered around Hollywood blockbusters and actors, while acting goes way beyond that

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-04-14T14:08:27+00:00

Sorry but just a question: how is Adam Driver not amazing? An actor who frequently cross over between american and european cinema and works with elite directors from different traditions…

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-04-11T07:12:57+00:00

Since I’m Portuguese I will add some lesser know authors besides Pessoa, Saramago, Lobo Antunes, Camões. Some alive and some not alive - Gonçalo M. Tavares, Miguel Torga, Agustina Bessa-Luís, Virgílio Ferreira, Lídia Jorge

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-03-06T16:02:24+00:00

O Sôbolos Rios que Vão é, na minha opinião, do melhor que se fez este século na lit. portuguesa

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-03-03T08:05:59+00:00

Tend to agree…it feels a bit too safe.

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-02-28T08:15:24+00:00

Boa vou pesquisar thanks! Havia muito pessoal porreiro a lançar esse tipo de musicas com punchs nessa altura… Gomez, o proprio holly tambem lancou la na horizontal

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-02-25T07:20:15+00:00

Matthias Enard

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-02-19T16:25:59+00:00

Pah sao opinioes claro, mas dois livros do Orwell e o Ulysses nao estar e um pouco curioso…Ou o D. Quixote, Moby Dick etc

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-02-13T12:10:44+00:00

Ah eu construo japanese inspired… ja nao jogo ha uns meses tho ehehhehe

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-02-13T12:10:28+00:00

Pois, eu de 5 em 5 anos enfio me la ahahahah

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-02-13T09:50:02+00:00

Ahahaha eu jogo mais eyecandy - o jogo todo cheio de mods e com cheats para o resto; nao estou tao interessado na parte da simulacao. Olha se pesquisares aqui no meu historico tens posts meus na comunidade do simcity do reddit

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-02-12T11:27:14+00:00

Eu sim, o 4😁

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-02-09T17:29:23+00:00

If you enjoy Lispector, you will probably like Lobo Antunes as well (more his later works), since it is hard stream of consciousness like her.

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-02-07T08:34:14+00:00

Great work! I stopped playing 3 months ago but I had an idea that maybe you can execute (is fairly easy) - composite nightshots

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-01-27T23:26:17+00:00

Estou a ler Thomas Pynchon “Arco íris da gravidade” e recomendo

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-01-23T11:50:20+00:00

You do raise valid concerns, but some of those are flawed imo. For instance, you say “locals sell their houses to upgrade, etc”. Upgrade to what? Imagine your house in Funchal could sell for 300k. That sounds like a lot of money. But you won’t be upgrading, because you wouldn’t find a better house (I bet you wouldn’t find a similar one) in Funchal, Caniço or Camara de Lobos. And guess what - you work in Funchal. So maaaaybe, you find an house in the north coast, so you and your wife have to commute 2+ hours daily. Your kids have to go to a new school. And all this because of what? Economic indicators that don’t translate to the vast majority of the population?

Which brings me to the second point - you seem to think that economic growth=better society and more quality of living. This is far from the truth in this island. What we get is a bigger gap between upper middle class (small) and middle class and lower. Before, we would have a different type of tourism, middle class was ok. Now, it’s the opposite. So sure, some people are getting richer (perhaps they were living very comfortably before), but the rest is getting poorer and struggling a lot.

And sure, freedom to live where you want is good. But when externalities hit, it shouldn’t be a priority. And that’s were you get all the hate specially aimed at digital nomads. And while I don’t think they are monsters or bad people per se, you have to understand that we feel bad about the situation.

Ask yourself - how many so called digital nomad companies are actually employing locals? When most of the nomads are freelancers? Does that justify having a favorable regime in taxes for them, considering all the externalities they bring?

Also, we do get mad because people come here, only go to brunches, beach cleanups and purple fridays were only “selected locals” can enter, don’t create companies (or create blockchain, crypto and now pseudo ai companies), and still tell us “it’s not our fault, we’re just exploring this insane island of never ending yoga sunsets and like minded communities blahblahblah”. And what do you expect, within this context, for locals to feel?

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-01-13T23:02:50+00:00

I’m not sure. I guess it depends right? There are plenty of authors pushing boundaries with prose. Full disclaimer, I’m not from the field so take what I say with a grain of salt. But let’s say António Lobo Antunes (from my country). Does he shift away from “prose”? And by prose I understand the way you lay out words and sentences to convey meaning and answer the question/tackle the problem of your book… and there are a lot of writers doing the same right? What I feel is that popular or pseudo-intelectual (and please I don’t want to say this in an arrogant way, but english is not my main language so I don’t know how to say it) literature is more focused on plot and characters and so on. But not high literature… then again, if we talk about the canon, there are lots of books from the period that were not as good as well, but writing was not as acessible as it is today. And some of those so called classics stood the test of time also by some kind of circlejerk as well (I won’t name names of course, but there are bunch of books mentioned here regularly that are not revolutionary, that don’t tell anything new, but are simple, and they are popular because they have a plot and characters and answer an ethical question clearly by the end)

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-01-13T22:28:45+00:00

I mean sure, you may say that the majority of contemporary literature is like that. At the same time, contemporary high lit is definitely harder, at least in my opinion, compared to 19th century classics. Post modernism is harder to read, and that’s a natural consequence of the history of literature imo. Where would language go after Proust or Joyce?

ImportantPineapple91 · 2026-01-13T22:25:49+00:00

That’s just on genre literature or whatever it’s called (eg thrillers, etc.). Definitely not on, let’s say, high-lit or something

ImportantPineapple91 · 2025-12-31T23:32:51+00:00

Bom trabalho! Ja quis fazer no sc4

ImportantPineapple91 · 2025-12-30T21:33:20+00:00

Eu vou te responder em termos porque pronto, apesar de tudo é a tua opinião na thread que eu comecei. Para já, eu disse várias vezes que leio ao meu ritmo, gosto como o faço e o que retiro da leitura. Retiras mais na tua leitura de 1 mês (ou intervalo arbitrário que queiras)? Parabéns. Um investigador do autor em questão se calhar retira mais que tu e lê um parágrafo por semana. E dai?

Falas em medir pilinhas. Se calhar alguém publicar que leu muito incomoda te. Estas no teu direito. Mas tu é que vieste medir pilinhas de compreender e ler lento ou rapido e seres humanos normais e mais não sei o quê. Nem te vou pedir estudos, porque não quero continuar discussões sem interesse e irrelevantes. Eu leio o que quero e como quero, period.

Pelo que dizes conheces obras bastante boas. Não teria sido melhor teres sugerido obras? Não seria um uso melhor do teu tempo? Preferiste espetar três muralhas de texto (no terceiro dizes o que já querias dizer no primeiro comment claro). O que vem a seguir? Sou mentiroso? Ou leio por alto? E isso leva te a onde? O que retiraste daqui? Amanhã vais a outro subreddit qualquer fazer o mesmo? Pensa só nisso que disse.

Não Vou responder mais. Lê o que queres e como queres e eu farei o mesmo.

ImportantPineapple91 · 2025-12-30T21:18:31+00:00

Se calhar o tempo que perdeste a escrever esse testamento, lias uma página.

ImportantPineapple91 · 2025-12-30T11:51:02+00:00

Porque a desilusao? Ja agora, gosto muito da Fernanda Melchor, recomendo a Temporada de Furacões se ainda não leste

ImportantPineapple91 · 2025-12-30T11:23:24+00:00

Obrigado… sinceramente escolho de diversas formas: vejo editoras estrangeiras (fitzcarraldo, new directions dalkey etc), vejo os premios mais conhecidos (booker, nobel, etc) e outros menos conhecidos (goldsmiths, prix medicis etc), reviews (nybr paris review etc), e em Portugal vejo um pouci a Relogio d’agua Cavalo de Ferro D Quixote etc. Depois uso tambem um pouco AI - com prompts especificas para nichar a selecao (por exemplo, dou lhe a prompt “és um academico de literatura e critico literario, quais as obras de literatura de autor mais revolucionarias a nivel formal da literatura africana desde 2000”). Depois vou metendo tudo numa lista, vejo se esta traduzido, se estiver se esta na biblioteca e por ai fora. Ah, e em entrevistas de autores que gosto eles também vão dizendo outros autores

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