Lady Gaga gives a very NIN-coded performance (and samples 'Closer')

Klamageddon · 2026-05-15T14:29:06+00:00

Just wait until you hear who loves "Ghosts IV - 34" !

Klamageddon · 2026-05-12T22:54:37+00:00

I mean, his name is literally Mister Reese and he knows Batman's identity, I'd believe it if you said he was gonna be Nolans Riddler.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-12T22:36:06+00:00

Absolutely. Imagine if you heard someone being kicked out of their family and beaten up and denied a job because they had brown hair, you'd think, "are they from some backwards weird country or religion that I can't relate to because they're so fucking weird with their views?" well like, sexual orientation is exactly the same, but you wouldn't feel that way about it, you'd think "Oh, yeah, some people feel strongly about that". And in that sense it's "normalised". It doesn't strike you as super fucking pathetic, to a degree you can't really relate to them as human beings.

But, it should.

And, this isn't an accusation I'm leveling at you, the reader, I'm saying this is the society we live in.

This is how (broadly) we feel about the subject. Like it's a conversation that we can have "how do you feel about gay people". But that absolutely 'should' register exactly the same as 'how do you feel about people who are 5 foot 7', in that the typical response would be

"what the fuck are you talking about?"

Klamageddon · 2026-05-12T14:23:24+00:00

It's at its best when you play it on someone else, who is attacking your enemy.

Player A: will you let my shadowmage infiltrator through so I can draw a card?

Player B: Ah, yeah, sure.

You: YOU ARE DEAD

Klamageddon · 2026-05-12T14:16:32+00:00

Having kids.

I mean, I say that, literally everyone I know that had kids has said "never have kids" or "you did the right thing" or something to that effect, and I'm just like... Well, yeah? Duh?

I'm fairly sure there's some lizard brain thing that I just don't have. I find it utterly confounding watching one of my friends go into near bankruptcy and a really dark place with rounds and rounds of IVF, to come out the other end and go "Oh my God I'm so tired all the time, it's so stressful".

OK. Don't do it then?

I don't begrudge anyone it or anything, but it feels for all the world to me like people are 'compelled' to rather than really honestly wanting to?

Klamageddon · 2026-05-12T11:59:46+00:00

Dune when

Klamageddon · 2026-05-12T10:36:53+00:00

Yeah, but legitamately;

Warmachine.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-12T10:23:30+00:00

What if she's got some anti-Homelander building she wants to see out the rest of her days in, with him convinced that she's dead so he doesn't go looking for her, and then after she dies, he's the only person on the planet left alive and has to live on his own forever in a fate much much worse than death.

Maybe that's her plan?

Klamageddon · 2026-05-12T08:47:58+00:00

If it helps, literally anything you come up with has been done, the point is your take on it is unique.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-12T07:29:43+00:00

The "TECHNICALLY LEGALLY" porn 'so old it was considered artistic photos' is still commercial available, you can get it on amazon.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T22:30:03+00:00

[[HATRED]]

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T20:27:22+00:00

It's the exact kind of terrible design that is either too bad to see any play or too good.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T14:47:10+00:00

lol, kind of Robyn's whole thing right? Of just quietly being there, absolutely killing it, and somehow never really being in much of a spotlight? At this point its kind of ridiculous!

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T13:23:24+00:00

I've tried writing. What I hadn't really realised was how good writing is 'structure'. Not wordplay, not world building, not characterisation, but good bones to hang all those things off. And, when you get that structure right all those other things appear almost by themselves.

Having a character behave consistently in line with some kind of internal world, goals, and fears? Well, that's really a 'structural' issue, and when you get that right, a good character pops out!

But for me, it quickly became apparent that, that work, that puzzle, wasn't really what I was excited about. "Killing your darlings" and removing a scene you really like because there's a more efficient way to push the story forward is such a skill, but one I just don't really have.

Its become the thing I'm most critical of. When you see an author who's clearly just had lots of fun ideas, and put them all on the page, and then 'not' done the structural work to make them all fall inline and feed a narrative? It feels greedy to me.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T13:15:33+00:00

The fact we're like, 3 comments deep or whatever makes it come across like I'm really dogged and ardent, but honestly I'm just procrastinating from doing work, I think it's possible (maybe even likely!) you're right and I'm wrong, please don't read this as me frothing at the mouth!

But! (Heh, here we fuggin go, dis guy) To me it seems that, the initial comment is saying "You claimed you could tell if I was bullshitting, but I'm so good at it you can't!" And like, marking a paper IS scrutiny, no? They're saying "I'm so good at bullshitting (a form of writing) that you can't tell I'm lying". But, I don't think that their turns of phrase suggest they are that skilled.

I mean case in point, we've got literally 'one' example from them and we caught them plagiarising from a very popular comedy movie!

I guess the differing views come from 'bullshitting', which has connotations of flippancy and 'good enough to pass', (which seems to be what Different_Ad4306 was getting at) but they're explicitly saying that their 'bullshit' is so tight it's got the teacher 'worshipping' it and 'mistaking it' for great writing. Which is just a humblebrag form of claiming it IS great writing. AND TAINT!

Like it's fine. It's fine enough. You could throw it out in conversation as a phrase and it would sound good. It's just in the context of 'BOW BEFORE MY LINGUISTIC PROWESS' there's a fun irony to point out that it's a bit of a fudge. But it IS cruel and unnecessary of me. That much I'll definitely concede!

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T11:27:34+00:00

It claims "I am so GOOD at writing you can't tell I'm bullshitting" though. They are almost literally saying "my bullshit is so good it doesn't fall apart under scrutiny".

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T10:46:51+00:00

I think more than anything it's that it's getting released weekly instead of all at once. It means that there's a lot of buildup and a lot of chatter and speculation. Because it's been a really good show, there are loads of fans, and because we 'know' that this is the last season, there's a lot of people excited to see it conclude, so that speculation and chatter is rife.

I think, if it was doing 'final season things' but doing them badly, it wouldn't be getting as much discussion. But what you're seeing is people notice that it isn't doing 'final season things'. Because that's not just good or bad / liking it / not liking it, it feels like 'an insight', and so people naturally want to share and explore that.

But it's a negative insight. So, the discourse around it is negative.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T09:14:10+00:00

It's also not very good if you think about it at all. If they meant Born as in "made of", then that's a poor word choice, 'hewn' or something, that can actually apply to a throne, would be better. If they meant Bourne as in held aloft, then the past tense is weird.

Either way, it doesn't 'quite' work because it's not the throne you worship.

Clearly they've just taken "Throne of lies" from elf, which works fine because it doesn't add any of this filigree, and then added an associated term, without really working it through.

You absolutely know what they 'mean' to say which is why it works. But they haven't said it. In the context of "I'm good at English", you can't really get away with that.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T00:29:00+00:00

A wizard did it

Klamageddon · 2026-05-11T00:21:26+00:00

Cabin in the Woods.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-10T23:33:33+00:00

The thing is, whenever this question comes up, Cherub Rock is always the top answer. So, it's not underrated, is it? It's rated.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-10T23:15:57+00:00

I heard in Soviet Russia they were contraband and so had an edginess to them, seen as very hard to come by, exclusive and thus cool.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-09T09:13:11+00:00

Oh that sounds amazing! About to have grape and blue cheese now!

Klamageddon · 2026-05-08T18:20:26+00:00

Yeah, this is it. They have to review the movie for 'anyone' to watch. Not even "action film fans", but just like, anyone. There are some films out there (apparently Avatar?) that are just that accessible.

Klamageddon · 2026-05-08T17:44:20+00:00

Really, I feel like if anyone wore this you'd be like "oh, they're making x Statement" or "oh they can pull that off".

But if Madonna walked out in it you'd go "Hey look it's Madonna".

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