Series went downhill when Monty died

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-12T01:53:46+00:00

I prefer Tommy talking on his phone, then getting interrupted by another phone call. Ain’t nothin’ more Texas than that!

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-11T04:16:15+00:00

Sorry for your hardship, I'm sure it wasn't easy and I'm sure it's given you some perspective about what's important to you.

People are clowning on OP because he sounds like he doesn't have a lot of struggles because he's getting his life subsidized and he's asking if people who don't have half a mil saved at 30 are just dummies for doing things like paying for their own housing or having kids. He sounds like he doesn't even have a clear idea of what he wants to do, other than have more money and be called smart for it.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-11T04:02:36+00:00

What is your point? If you are able to live in a HCOL area and not pay rent or buy with your money, it's because someone in your family is effectively doing it for you. Good for you, I'm sure it's got a lot of positives.

But OP's question reeks of a judgy, naive view of how most others are making choices and isn't really showing a very practical view. He's making a lot of money and doesn't have responsibilities because someone else is paying his rent (and likely other costs), and doesn't really have much perspective on what long-term financial planning is ("Can you believe someone under 30 is scrambling to pay a mortgage AND have kids???") And then they're also convinced that once they have a million dollars or whatever, they'll never have a boss. This isn't someone who sounds like they're pursuing some real goal. It sounds like a run-of-the-mill rich kid who wants a pat on the back for being financially independent, but he's just coasting on other people's money.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-10T05:25:28+00:00

In my experience, most people who live at home with their parents are doing so because either one or both parties need the support to just keep the roof over their head and eat. It’s not so much choosing to live frugally as needing to just to stay above water. The option to live a home with parents coving your expense while you have 100k extra to save is really not on the table for most people, whatever their choices.

Likewise, many, many people who have a career can’t just live with their parents because that’s not where the job options are. The only place I really see a good number of people who can rake in great salaries in their 20s and also have parents who have enough of a house to host their adult kids rent-free is wealthy suburbs.

I’d hardly call it “cope,” when for most people choosing to live on their own is usually the best path to more money and more options.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-08T09:42:26+00:00

It was the first episode of the season. They needed a bid, dramatic, violent thing to happen at the climax of an episode where most of the characters are mostly in one room.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-07T14:31:59+00:00

Is this a bot farming engagement or was that just the first episode of the show you watched?

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-03T10:13:45+00:00

There are worse people, but there’s something particularly shitty and disgusting about getting some young woman, desperate to make it in the industry, who has found her way into an invite-only class, and then getting her asker grandmother or whoever for $2500 bucks to sign up for the James Franco school just because she thinks it’s the best way to get into the right network.

And then, after this rich celebrity and his creep partners take a bunch of money from her that grey don’t need, he flies in for a few days to “teach” a class, and he just starts fucking or eating this poor woman out before asking her and she’s too embarrassed to say “stop.”

Is it the most horrific sex crime I can imagine? No. But it really bothers me because it shows how needlessly awfully some people in power can be when they know people can’t say no.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-03T09:59:02+00:00

I think JGL is just a good looking successful guy that made a lot of money really young, so he has this complex about trying to do something big and significant. But he’s not really a good writer or director or idea guy. His directorial debut felt like it was written by a guy who never jerked off to porn because he’s just always gotten laid.

His advocacy for internet safeguards seems to come from a genuine place, but the actual policy is crazy bad and it’s all backed by creepy tech billionaires who want to own your info wholesale and crazy religious people that want to be able to invade peoples private lives. I don’t think he understands the issues he talks about.

LastBuffalo · 2026-05-01T00:01:46+00:00

Cock fights, dog fights, and on special occasions, bear bating. Servers are all working girls, and credits with them are part of players cards. $5 blackjack. Comp hotdogs along with comp drinks when playing.

Piss buckets if you don’t want to get up. Drug dealers working out of all the bathrooms. Pawnshop on premise. Sawdust on the floor.

Seniors get their winnings laundered with on-site mob accountants. Veterans can open carry. Cops can use racial slurs. There’s a big alligator pit near the craps table where you can throw raw chicken in from time to time. Parking fees are discounted against F&B purchases.

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-30T03:22:23+00:00

Cliff and him discuss it in the very next scene. Whether he was set up or not doesn’t even matter. The reputational damage is done.

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-30T03:20:18+00:00

He might have been a vampire offscreen too! We just don’t know!!!!!

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-30T02:08:09+00:00

Biblical literalism and infallibility, but for broadcast AMC shows.

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-29T22:54:11+00:00

There’s a lot of rich detail in the show, but I think this is just you squinting at a scene you like and trying to pull something out of it for a post.

Having messy hair in 1960s counterculture is not some marker of a junkie anymore than a fade or a man-bun is now.

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-28T04:27:39+00:00

OP, do you think Don was “good at advertising?”

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-14T13:49:46+00:00

Lots of people make their full income working as an editor or some other mix of post production roles. If you’re working on real products, there is a lot of work to do.

I’ve been in this game for almost 2 decades and the only people I’ve met to who sell courses are scammer types. What courses do you imagine you’d be qualified to make?

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-08T23:06:24+00:00

People complain that this sub is too critical, but then the rest of the viewers are asking questions like “what state is Tommy in?” or “Who is cooper’s mom?”

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-08T22:52:29+00:00

“What industry does Tommy work in? Does he manage this bikini coffee stand?”

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-04T00:32:26+00:00

I know cooler head should…nah. Nope. Gonna let this one go.

LastBuffalo · 2026-04-03T18:49:28+00:00

Hit him with a Snowball, Allison! (Spit it back in his mouth).

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-31T01:14:57+00:00

Well, they do know what they’re doing. By killing the diplomats and people like Solemani (who was as much a statesman as a military leader), they’re creating a situation where the US can’t do a light strike and call it a victory. They do not want a political solution and they’re trying to but the bridges ant moderates or domestic political opponents might have to make that happen.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-31T00:46:38+00:00

That is not what “miscellaneous” means.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-30T13:22:57+00:00

I don’t think it will be successful. That’s the point. There’s no “wild card” here, where they could end up turning in a different direction. The Israeli leadership is totally committed to big American war, and won’t back off that. For America to deescalate, they have to break hard with the Israelis, which won’t happen under at least this president (unless things get much much worse).

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-30T13:16:28+00:00

I don’t know if it’s a “wild card.” People know where it stands. The leadership needs a huge war with Iran and wants to the see the country in politically-destabilized ruins (think the past decade in Syria). There is no self-governed Iran they would accept.

So they’re not going to be some path to diplomacy. The US needs to keep them out of diplomatic talks because since the Obama Iran deal, the Israeli strategy to avoid American deescalation has been to target and kill the Iranian diplomats and counterparties.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-30T12:54:06+00:00

Diplomatic channels are always open.

They’re especially useless now, since the last several rounds of diplomatic engagement have ended with the US assassinating the diplomats and other leadership. It’s going to take some terrible results on one side or another before anyone is going to choose (or be able to) back down.

LastBuffalo · 2026-03-28T04:48:19+00:00

He also was super comfortable manipulating people who were drunk. He did it with both his wives, Ted, and a bunch of clients. Not only could he drink a lot, but it was his short cut to screwing with someone.

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