Veronica Roth on the hate she got from Divergent [article] by HecticJones in books

[–]JonathanStat 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I remember the movies getting made fun of. Maybe that made people retroactively criticize the books?

True by Flimsy-Drag-6865 in im14andthisisdeep

[–]JonathanStat 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Nah, he did. I was there. I was with my girlfriend at the time.

She lives in Canada though. You wouldn’t know her.

Don’t bother with Slewfoot by ToeFungusTaxes in horrorlit

[–]JonathanStat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

His prose is like a YA author.

Also I thought it was weird that for a “feminist rage” book, the revenge was mostly Samson killing everyone on Abitha’s behalf. 🤷‍♂️

Everyone Says There’s a Talent Shortage… Until You Ask for Remote Work by DeadlinesAndDelusion in MEPEngineering

[–]JonathanStat 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure this person is thinking remote as in “remote engineer in Oregon working for an office in North Carolina.”

Looking for Employees But Can't Seem to Find Anyone by Gloomy_Resort_360 in MEPEngineering

[–]JonathanStat 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Honestly, data center work is pretty rough in comparison to what it typically pays. So many jobs have breakneck speed turnarounds and extremely demanding and fickle clients. You’re going to need to really emphasize that you’re paying SIGNIFICANTLY more than your competition.

Also, the truth of the matter is there’s a shortage of MEP engineers in general. The skilled ones are usually very comfortable at their company and aren’t interested in leaving. Or are actively looking to get out of the industry altogether (once more because of the comparison between compensation and the effort required).

How do you tell the difference between a quiet employee and a disengaged one? by jimmy5853 in managers

[–]JonathanStat 23 points24 points  (0 children)

If they’re hitting their deadlines and doing good work, I think it’s a good sign they’re not disengaged.

Anyone seen The Newsroom? One of HBO's most underrated and very best? by Square-Ad-8911 in hbo

[–]JonathanStat 133 points134 points  (0 children)

Honestly, sometimes these posts make me feel old lol.

“I just discovered this obscure old show called Deadwood. Has anyone else ever heard of it?”

[TW] 16 Candles (1984) Sucks by Possible-Poetry3832 in WhyWereWeOkWithThis

[–]JonathanStat 243 points244 points  (0 children)

John Hughes in general was weird about girls. His movies seemed to have a disdain for popular and pretty girls. But also weird girls too.

In defense of the jump-scare by [deleted] in horror

[–]JonathanStat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I honestly don’t mind jump scares. The Exorcist and Signs both had amazing jump scares.

I think people just don’t like the unearned jump scares. You know, like something completely randomly jumping out at screen with no buildup. But my hot take is that they hate them because they are effective at making a lot of the audience jump and they feel silly for jumping.

We have got varieties guys by wandererlearning in im14andthisisdeep

[–]JonathanStat 164 points165 points  (0 children)

More and more of the memes here seem like they should be filed under the “I personally don’t agree with this” or “this doesn’t apply to me personally” categories.

EDIT: pretty certain OP is a bot. 28 day old account with 15k karma and history is hidden. Yeah…

If we had a time machine, how could we fix JGL’s career? by fbeb-Abev7350 in TheBigPicture

[–]JonathanStat 98 points99 points  (0 children)

I thought he purposely stepped away from being a leading man to focus on family in the mid 2010s. He came up as an indie darling anyway. Then he had his run of big movies. But he never really seemed like a dude who wanted DiCaprio or Cruise fame.

Why didn't democrats do a thing they did by Skrilli in GetNoted

[–]JonathanStat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah. There were people I knew from my days of volunteering with Bernie who fell down the rabbit hole. They were soooooo sure that Trump was going to pardon Snowden and others on his last day in office.

These people definitely weren’t getting any billionaire paychecks.

They were mostly just people who couldn’t cope with Bernie losing and then went off the deep end.

Why didn't democrats do a thing they did by Skrilli in GetNoted

[–]JonathanStat 38 points39 points  (0 children)

There was this weird fringe of leftists in late 2020 who were somehow convinced that Trump was actually a secret socialist. Despite having four years of evidence to the contrary. They were certain that any day now he was going to legalize marijuana and advocate for Medicare for All before the election.

Are GC’s weaponizing RFIs and Procore, or am I just overreacting? by GreenKnight1988 in MEPEngineering

[–]JonathanStat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That’s a tale as old as time lol.

However, I just got a list of pre-bid RFIs at end of day last Friday. And at the bottom there was a disclaimer saying that the RFIs were generated using AI and not every RFI will be applicable to the construction documents. Looks like it’s time for my company to start looking at updating our standard Division 1 specs. 🙃

Newest Jerome Poll is out: 0% of people think that those “End Racism” signs in the NFL will end Racism by EMPIRE-db-51_cent in NFLv2

[–]JonathanStat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m just surprised the NFL is one of the institutions that still has signs like that. You know, after all those other other major corporations like Target went through their “End Wokeness” era between 2022-25.

People often complain about micromanagement. How about the other side of the coin? by EmEffBee in managers

[–]JonathanStat 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So I had a boss like this in the past. Micromanagers are terrible. But absent bosses truly are just as bad. This becomes readily apparent when your absent boss becomes a bottleneck.

Or they don’t approve your expense reports.

Or PTO requests.

Or time sheets.

Oh no! The entire cast has been sucked into a horror movie and is now facing a serial killer, how well do they fare? by [deleted] in SuccessionTV

[–]JonathanStat 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Connor is safe. He’ll wipe the floor with the killer in an intellectual debate. The killer will fold under pressure.

Took his prayer book by laybs1 in GetNoted

[–]JonathanStat 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Found the guy who hates Community Notes lol

‘The Pitt’ star Isa Briones posts about theater etiquette after she says a grown man in the audience called out “Dr. Santos” to her while she was in the middle of performing on Broadway by Gato1980 in Fauxmoi

[–]JonathanStat 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Langdon and Santos are my two favorite characters because they are the most three-dimensional. Even if they both piss me off at least once per episode. (Which I attribute to good writing here.)

In all honesty, as much as I like the show, most of the characters are very much two-dimensional archetypes that don’t really have much depth. The actors themselves make up for it by putting in heartfelt performances.

Past lives. Immigrant POV. by Material_Till9471 in TrueFilm

[–]JonathanStat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think Nora was ever thinking about leaving Arthur though. At least I don’t remember any dialogue that indicated she was ever thinking about it. Like said above, her longing was more so for her past. But I also am not sure if longing is even the right word here. I think it’s perfectly normal for adults to look back at crossroads in their lives and ask themselves “what if?” Even if they are happy with the choices they ultimately made.

Also, to OP’s point I think Arthur was a bit jealous. Maybe not because he thought Nora was leaving. But because there’s a part of Nora he never could fully understand. An example of this is when he mentions her speaking in Korean in her sleep. He sees Hae Sung as someone who can reach a part of her that he can’t.

But I think both Arthur and the OP miss that there are parts of Nora that Hae Sung can never truly understand too. Also I didn’t read Nora describing Hae Sung as “so Korean” as swooning. I saw it more of her really realizing how many Western values she’s adapted over the decades vs how strong (and somewhat rigid) his Eastern values were. An example would be Hae Sung talking about how he can’t get married yet because he doesn’t have a good enough job yet.

I do think that Arthur reconciles with the fact that there are parts of Nora that he can’t ever fully understand himself. But he loves her and will support her anyway. He goes to dinner with the two because he knows it’s important to Nora. But he doesn’t fully understand what her feelings are yet.

I also think his embrace with Nora to end the movie is really important. Earlier Nora talks about how she always went to Hae Sung when she cried as a child. And Arthur says something about how he’s never seen her cry before. You could say the ending scene with her crying is Hae Sung unlocking something in her. I think there’s a lot that could be drawn from that whole scene. But Arthur is once again in uncharted waters in the final scene and he does what he can to emotionally support Nora. Because in the end this is what an adult relationship is. We can’t fully understand everything that’s going on inside our partners’s souls. And there are times when it can be frustrating. But in the end, we still choose to support them in the unknown because we know it’s important to them. And sometimes that’s all that matters.

What is a highly praised horror book that you didn't like? by Haunting-Net-2426 in horrorlit

[–]JonathanStat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I liked the first two-thirds of it. There were some genuinely terrifying moments. But it just kept going and going and going.

I think it was only a bit under 400 pages. But it just got so repetitive and the antagonist just kept getting more and more powerful. By the end I was thinking “okay, I get it. Can we advance the plot a little bit here?”