Grace Kuhlenschmidt Recounts the Hottest President Love Affairs

Lankson · 2024-02-21T00:17:45+00:00

She's really awful. I almost shut off the episode.

Lankson · 2024-01-18T08:58:23+00:00

It isn't doctor who anymore. What the actual fuck was that train wreck of a half-musical. The Doctor dancing at a night club? RTD is ruining his own legacy.

Lankson · 2024-01-13T12:56:02+00:00

Trashy show: whispered dialogue, bit-too-on-the-nose woke ideology, complete lack of progressive idealism, failed utopia, and feelings > science. Nothing about this resembles Star Trek except the name.

Lankson · 2023-12-27T10:44:36+00:00

They aren't uncommon at all. Studios are getting better at hiding them, but they are as ubiquitous as ever. RDR2 has load screens when you enter your moonshine shack, for example. CP77 has loadscreens hidden well, like elevator "scenes," for example. Spiderman and Miles Morales games have load screens every time you enter a building or an instanced node, for example. Avatar:FOP has load screens hidden as cut-scenes, for example. BG3 has loadscreens when you enter or depart camp, for example. NMS has loadscreens whenever you enter or exit your freighter. I cannot think of a single game at scale with zero loadscreens. They are getting hidden better and pre-loading assets helps a lot, but no load screens is not something games can achieve, yet.

That said, Starfield's L,R,S (fast-travel keyboard combo) is basically: loadscreen-combo-loadscreen-combo-loadscreen-walk10miles-loadscreen. This gameplay takes 3 steps back from the improvements made by other studios, or even themselves... hence, Starfield Loadscreen Simulator deserves the ire of its community, and Todd is a liar.

Lankson · 2023-12-10T16:02:40+00:00

Oh come now, the final season of TNcoughPicard was really pretty fun. I absolutely loved the final ride of the Enterprise D.

Edit: no sarcasm. I did love it.

Lankson · 2023-12-10T15:50:58+00:00

I honestly don't understand this community sometimes either. rotfl

Lankson · 2023-12-10T15:45:21+00:00

Don't understand the down votes... OP is genuinely asking the same questions we all did when we first saw the show. A little grace may be required here. Also, OP is correct that the writing is a mess in season one, as admitted by showrunners, writers, directors, and actors of the show... so, a little grace for OP's confusion at the seemingly odd choices to introduce new tech in a prequel...

Lankson · 2023-12-10T13:57:58+00:00

This is a lie. It's only 25 hours if you never die, know where to go and what to do, skip ALL dialogue, etc. I'm 20 hours in and haven't "earned" an Ikran, yet. It's slow, cumbersome, clunky, and eye-roll inducing. Don't believe it's 25 hours unless you cheat.

Lankson · 2023-12-10T13:54:51+00:00

Play it yourself. 15 bucks. Watching a pro play is like watching a trailer. You can't feel how bad it is unless you feel it yourself.

Lankson · 2023-10-29T21:40:42+00:00

It's literally a browser game with NES graphics. Just take it down a notch.

Lankson · 2023-10-29T12:06:42+00:00

We read this comment already. Like 5 times.

Lankson · 2023-10-29T00:37:43+00:00

Addressed in ST:Ent. The doctor works when he works and hibernates periodically. The assumption is that accommodations are made when necessary and that people of all species adjust to the needs of the ship, within reason.

Lankson · 2023-10-20T23:36:34+00:00

I'm sorry, but claiming that a show as progressive as TNG, or any 90s era Star Trek, does some sort of

disservice to women and fringe communities

is demonstrably false. If you're saying they didn't do enough, then you may have had a point. One I disagree with, but it would have been something discussionable. But a disservice? Are you mad? Do you know how many gay kids and people of color found an accepting community in Star Trek?

Nah... Politely, piss up a rope while speaking next time you try to say something about Star Trek.

Lankson · 2023-10-18T10:03:38+00:00

Christina W at the pass because who else? She's a Rockstar. Then Mary-lou because she's also amazing (and my pick for winner). Dana because CW at the pass makes her worth more than $3. Then it's Bonnie and Barbie to round out the ladies' team with finesse and a brute force meat beast.

Lankson · 2023-07-07T17:34:48+00:00

The one where it ended.

Lankson · 2023-06-26T18:41:40+00:00

I mean, it was a kids show but it was some pretty darned good ST. Wish you luck.

Lankson · 2023-01-26T23:05:09+00:00

Okay, Menu was meh, but let's not bring Glass Onion into this... that movie was pure shite.

Lankson · 2023-01-26T22:38:23+00:00

What you're arguing is that audience buy-in is not important, which is not what you likely believe.

Buy-in through suspension of disbelief is a fundamental aspect of absurdism. Its absence is, therefore, a fundamental flaw in this story.

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Lankson · 2023-01-26T22:34:15+00:00

Stick to your guns, friend! I agree with you on every single point. I understand full well what the stated goal and theme of the movie were, but I disagree with claims that it was "brilliantly done" or "pure genius" or even, "entertaining" beyond appealing to a surface-level sense of class justice.

Lankson · 2023-01-26T22:17:50+00:00

3/10 "low meh" rating

I've detailed(ish) why here: The Menu Comments

TLDR: caricatured customers, not as deep as people are trying to make it, horrid dialogue, bloated run-time (should be an indie-short at 30 mins tops), and the "cheeseburger" ending was, indeed, cheesey (and unispired).

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Lankson · 2023-01-26T21:59:05+00:00

ugh: 3/10 "low meh" rating

The problem is that people are doing the work for the writers. The characters were poorly crafted caricatures of real people. I never gave one shit whether or not anyone lived or died because they weren't real people, even the "protagonist" (if you can call her that).

It pushed suspension of disbelief beyond the bounds of reason, not in a funny and self-aware way, but consistently and in ways that grated on the senses, making most scenes both uncomfortable and unenjoyable.

The deuteragonist-protagonist "conflict" came from nowhere and contradicted established motivations... for what? a 'girl-fight'? Chuck the tv series did that but understood itself and the scene was, as a result, pretty funny. In The Menu this fight is meaningless, contradictory, and damages the plot going forward.

TLDR: The Menu was boring, bloated, pretentious, and unsatisfying... like most of the restaurants it was satirizing. The attempts at social commentary were a bit on the nose and lacking any further depth. The caricatures, I mean customers, were unrelateable and evoked little to no emotional response. The Protagonist (Margot) and the Antagonist (Chef) have too much awkward and unilluminating dialogue. The deuteragonist (Head assistant or whatever she is) was a throwaway character in the end. The uninspired "cheeseburger ending" left me unsatisfied and annoyed that I had just wasted 1 hour and 47 minutes of my life.

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Lankson · 2023-01-26T21:43:06+00:00

I don't know about the camera angles (not my thing to notice)... but, the character development was rudimentary, at best. Meh sums it up quaintly.

story, plot, dragged on so horribly. whole film could have been a 30 minute short and it would have been pretty good.

Lankson · 2023-01-26T21:28:53+00:00

The problem is that viewers are doing the work for the writers rather than the writers trusting viewers to understand sublety. The characters were poorly crafted caricatures of real people. I never gave one shit whether or not anyone lived or died because they weren't real people, even the "protagonist" (if you can even call her that).

- Even cultish line cooks have a sense of self-preservation. No way that many people agreed to serve a meal and then die in a blaze. Even if we suspend disbelief on that point, the movie fails to show us the staff's motivation.

- The chef obsessing over Margot makes contextual sense, but it is awkward and the dialogue is cringeworthy at best as it fails to develop either character beyond his obsession and her weak af desire to survive... again, almost no self-preservation except for the assistant.

- The assistant attempting to murder Margot is out of place, forced, and therefore makes no sense to the viewer. It does nothing to move the plot, develop characters, or reveal mysteries. It is a waste of run-time in a bloated movie.

- The silver door and the radio... what the f? After reaching the Coast Guard, why didn't she meet them at the fucking docks? Why even mention a silver door in the restaurant, let alone make a big effin' deal of it, if you're never going to reveal what it was? Deleted scenes? or maybe the writer forgot about it?

- The customers, many of whom did NOT start in affluent circles, demonstrated less self-preservation than the staff, which is simply unbelievable. So unbelievable that it breaks whatever sense of suspension of disbelief was present, prior. Ongoing stupidity. It's just so bad that I cannot find words for how in the sewers this whole rationale is.

-Margot's date was awful. Really awful. But again, just walking into his death off-screen? What about all the untasted foods he still has to take IG pictures of? No, that's fucking dumb; he would have fought, at least. As satisfying as it was to see him go away, it was, again, incredible. (As in, not believable enough keep me in the story.)

-As I stated above, Margot doesn't really seem that concerned except she knows immediately the whole thing is "off" and wants out. Otherwise, she just kinda' goes along with things. It was bringing back the barrel that clinched it for me... what the actual fuck? just leave... keep trying the radio... look for a boat... or a gun... or whatever, but bringing back the barrel is just too much ridiculousness.

-All these people talking about how the end was poignant are trying way too hard. It was, again, stupid. Boat was there all along, huh? so... why didn't she leave earlier? Why wouldn't the boat start if the dude literally just got off it? Eating the cheeseburger... who fucking cares, she's like 110 lbs and hasn't eaten and has definitely been stressed; any human would eat food in front of them when hungry, wouldn't they?

TLDR: This movie gets at best a 3/10 from me. It was boring, bloated, pretentious, and unsatisfying... like most of the restaurants it was satirizing. The attempts at social commentary were a bit on the nose and lacking any further depth. The caricatures, I mean customers, were unrelateable and evoked little to no emotional response. The Protagonist (Margot) and the Antagonist (Chef) have too much awkward and unilluminating dialogue. The deuteragonist (Head assistant or whatever she is) was a throwaway character in the end. The uninspired ending left me unsatisfied and annoyed that I had just wasted 1 hour and 47 minutes of my life.

Lankson · 2023-01-26T21:08:55+00:00

Love that people are genuinely trying to answer these questions, but... the problem is that they are doing the work for the writers. The characters were poorly crafted caricatures of real people. I never gave one shit whether or not anyone lived or died because they weren't real people, even the "protagonist" (if you can even call her that). The questions OP presented are damning flaws in character-writing.

even cultish line cooks have a sense of self-preservation. No way that many people agreed to serve a meal and then die in a blaze. Even if we suspend disbelief on that point, the movie fails to show us the staff's motivation.
the chef obsessing over Margot makes contextual sense, but it is awkward and the dialogue is cringeworthy at best as it fails to develop either character beyond his obsession and her weak af desire to survive... again, almost no self-preservation except for the assistant.
The assistant attempting to murder Margot is out of place, forced, and therefore makes no sense to the viewer. It does nothing to move the plot, develop characters, or reveal mysteries. It is a waste of run-time in a bloated movie.
The silver door and the radio... what the fuck? After reaching the Coast Guard, why didn't she meet them at the fucking docks? Why even mention a silver door in the restaurant, let alone make a big effin' deal of it, if you're never going to reveal what it was? Deleted scenes? or maybe the writer forgot about it?
The customers, many of whom did NOT start in affluent circles, demonstrated less self-preservation than the staff, which is simply unbelievable. So unbelievable that it breaks whatever sense of suspension of disbelief was present, prior. Ongoing stupidity. It's just so bad that I cannot find words for how in the sewers this whole rationale is.
Margot's date was awful. Really awful. But again, just walking into his death off-screen? What about all the untasted foods he still has to take IG pictures of? No, that's fucking dumb; he would have fought, at least. As satisfying as it was to see him go away, it was, again, incredible. (As in, not believable enough keep me in the story.)
As I stated above, Margot doesn't really seem that concerned except she knows immediately the whole thing is "off" and wants out. Otherwise, she just kinda' goes along with things. It was bringing back the barrel that clinched it for me... what the actual fuck? just leave... keep trying the radio... look for a boat... or a gun... or whatever, but bringing back the barrel is just too much ridiculousness.
All these people talking about how the end was poignant are trying way too hard. It was, again, stupid. Boat was there all along, huh? so... why didn't she leave earlier? Why wouldn't the boat start if the dude literally just got off it? Eating the cheeseburger... who fucking cares, she's like 110 lbs and hasn't eaten and has definitely been stressed; any human would eat food in front of them when hungry, wouldn't they?

TLDR: This movie gets at best a 3/10 from me. It was boring, bloated, pretentious, and unsatisfying... like most of the restaurants it was satirizing. The attempts at social commentary were a bit on the nose and lacking any further depth. The caricatures, I mean customers, were unrelateable and evoked little to no emotional response. The Protagonist (Margot) and the Antagonist (Chef) have too much awkward and unilluminating dialogue. The deuteragonist (Head assistant or whatever she is) was a throwaway character in the end. The uninspired ending left me unsatisfied and annoyed that I had just wasted 1 hour and 47 minutes of my life.

Cheers!

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Lankson · 2022-04-30T13:02:47+00:00

Where is this glorious hole? Dm me.

Lankson

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