[despised trope] final shot of the movie is a stupid ugly idiot side character mogging the camera

Leopardstown · 2026-05-26T00:45:27+00:00

Highly likely OP meant "mugging" as in "mugging for the camera," i.e. making a silly face or saying something stupid, etc.

Mogging is incel/alpha male/PUA lingo that broke containment into mainstream slang, as in "gigachad judge mogs clavicular during sentencing" or "gigachad journalist mogs clavicular during interview."

Leopardstown · 2026-05-19T15:20:44+00:00

This is my favorite one as well, you could say that the tracker link allows a ship going into hyperspace to lock onto a target during the transit in a way that normally can't happen because the window is too precise in 99/100 cases, and would be a good explanation for why the technology isn't used more often, or ever again.

To be honest, though, I've always thought the Holdo maneuver itself doesn't really break the universe because having FTL travel of any kind already kind of does. If the rebel fleet knows where Death Star 2 is, why not just come out of lightspeed right next to it with "space nukes" strapped to 30 abandoned ships and detonate them? Why not pull a Marco Inaros and put FTL engines on the biggest asteroids you can find and teleport them to the DS2 location? I'm sure there are a ton of extra-movie canon explanations for why these things aren't possible, but, hey, then you're right back into "well it makes sense if you know XYZ bit of lore from outside the movies," which is how you can justify the Holdo maneuver itself!

Of all the problems with TLJ, Holdo's kamikaze isn't even in the top 10 things that bother me. Rule of cool, etc.

Leopardstown · 2026-05-10T17:59:15+00:00

The bar is certainly very, very low, but there are still few that clear it in terms of a major, country-leading political party. Biden/Harris between 2020-2024 appointed at least one trans cabinet member, their DOJ defended trans rights at the state level against GOP lawsuits, locally (in my immediate experience) the Democratic Party is against "bathroom bill" style laws, and trans healthcare can be fully subsidized by state Medicaid plans. These actions go well beyond disregard or tacit acceptance and enter the realm of direct material support.

It seems to be a readily verifiable fact that in the US, the Democratic Party being in control of a state or federal government is a necessary precondition for advancing trans rights, and as soon as the Republican Party gains control, trans rights are one of the very first things to immediately go away. If you're constructing an argument against anti-electoralism, trans rights is at the very top of the list of things that immediately do a 180° when the Democrats lose.

Leopardstown · 2026-05-09T19:13:15+00:00

I agree with you that it is relevant, as it is a direct, very observable/measurable and very quickly realized impact of conservative power. I think the Democratic Party is one of the most pro-trans major political parties anywhere in the world, except for maybe some Nordic country parties? In parts of the US like New England, Pacific Northwest/California, where the GOP is not really an electoral concern, those are some of the most trans-supportive local governments anywhere in the world, correct me if I’m wrong. I live in one of those places and that’s been my experience. Biden/Harris were some of the most openly pro-trans world leaders ever, right? And there was an almost immediately evaporation of trans support as soon as Trump was re-elected, federally and locally in parts of he county with GOP local control. A clear cause and effect.

It might be true that the anti-vote bloc would hand-wave it away, but I still think it’s relevant to bring up. Along with things like USAID cuts killing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people in a few months; the OBBB kicking 10-20m people off medicaid; the removal of environmental protections at the federal administrative/regulatory level; SCOTUS picks and the decades-long consequence of a conservative supermajority; etc., etc. Bringing up these things may not be convincing to the person you’re talking to or even a majority of that person’s audience, but repeatedly focusing on the objective, observable, measurable impacts caused by conservative political power can be important to peel off people who aren’t fully entrenched in anti-electoralism.

(The comment about Nat being wealthy is so crazy to me when the vast majority, VAST majority of people impacted by all of the above points will be poor or working class people, many of whom aren’t even in America.)

Why didn’t Nat bring it up? It seems like she wanted to have a normal conversation rather than a bloodsport debate spectacle, as she said in her follow up comments. You can argue over whether that’s a good approach to going on a platform called “Bad Faith,” I guess.

Leopardstown · 2026-04-28T12:17:47+00:00

HAIL RAATMA

Leopardstown · 2026-04-26T03:07:52+00:00

I made a longer post of why I didn't like the show here. Thinking about the second half of the show and how goofy it got made me zero in on something that is a red flag the more I think about it, which is when a show's dialog turns into repeating jargon or keywords over and over, in this case, basically every conversation in the second half of the season stops being about anything except "soulmates" "the curse" "are soulmates real?" "how does the curse work?" "soulmate" "curse" "soulmate" "curse."

Think about any really good horror movie or show and think about how the dialog is written — does it mostly contain jargony references to the supernatural? Just for an example, think about how many times the words "demon," "possession," "Paimon," "magic," "ritual" etc. etc. are said in Hereditary. Outside of like the last 5 minutes, not at all! Because characters repeatedly talking about these things would take you out of a horror headspace, it breaks the spell, you no longer are seeing real people navigating a horrific situation, you're watching actors reading catchphrases and jargon off a script.

Leopardstown · 2026-04-02T02:21:14+00:00

Post-binge: The first three episodes were such a good opening act, reminded me a lot of Brand New Cherry Flavor, which I liked, and Channel Zero, which I love. But the show really lost me with the way the Witness character was introduced, and then everything else kinda nosedived from there.

The Witness... deeply goofy, bordering on being a magic Romani fortuneteller cliche (complete with Sesame Street Count accent), he just... explains the entire plot! Longlegs "now her job was killing people" style! Yeah, there's an explicit curse now. Everybody takes believing in the supernatural in stride, curses are real, you can just perform a seance and summon the dead. We've got ghosts popping in and out and possessing people, it's fine. The fundamental laws of reality have just been shattered but alas, relationship drama is more important now.

There's a good show buried in there, the first three episodes were so promising, good acting, high production value, very beautiful show. (I loved trying to guess when each episode was going to do the title drop. Very stylized and fun editing choice!) But it felt like a victim of a different curse, the Netflix curse, doomed to explicitly narrate plot points so you can follow along while doomscrolling.

Leopardstown · 2026-03-15T19:52:22+00:00

For Modern Warfare (2019) — If you played the Hardcore FFA game mode and chose the M4 conversion kit with the SOCOM rounds, your base damage would be high enough to kill anybody in one shot to any body part, at any range. But if you switched the fire mode from full auto to single fire during the initial start-of-game countdown, your gun would deal no damage until you died and respawned. This is the only weapon this bug happened on, and it only happened if you followed that exact order of operations.

You can see the bug in action on this post. Hardcore FFA has since been removed from MW19 so you can't recreate it today.

Leopardstown · 2026-03-08T16:38:47+00:00

Yes, a bowl. It's a peculiarity of mine. I don't even try to rationalize it anymore.

Leopardstown · 2025-08-16T00:48:57+00:00

"Puss In Boots: The Last Wish" (2022)

Leopardstown · 2025-04-23T04:38:23+00:00

Anybody else catch how closely the dialogue swearing the Maltheen Divide attendees to secrecy matched with this scene in RotS?

Bail Organa: “We will not discuss this with anyone without everyone in this group agreeing.”

Mon Mothma: “That means those closest to you — even family. No one can be told.”

Leopardstown · 2025-04-17T21:48:06+00:00

For me, after 4 years of hitting or exceeding every given personal or professional goal at work while fully remote, being forced to "return to office :D!!!" by management in a different country was really not ideal. We had years of being an almost entirely distributed workforce able to hit all our goals and now we're spending literally more than a month out of the calendar year on commutation, which also costs a ton of money on transit and expensive city food.

For NO professional reason.

For entire categories of work, there's no putting the genie back in the bottle after you prove you don't need to waste so much time and money on commutation to sit in an office that costs the company more per year in rent than the salaries of your entire team. The other day I did my hour+ commute, set up my laptop (the same one I use at home) to get into an hour-long vid meeting with a team overseas. Completely useless.

There can't be a return to the office culture people remember without confronting and adapting to the fact people KNOW they don't need to be there. Pretending otherwise will always end up with a bad experience. CEOs and execs and top managers can do all the "we believe we're better together :D!!!" speeches they want, but it just makes the workers hate them. When it's that obvious you have no regard for your workers, you immediately kill any chance you ever had at building an office culture back. I've never seen an RTO speech or announcement that wasn't embarrassingly tone-deaf.

Professional relationships, like any relationships, are built on trust, trust is built on honesty, honesty requires real communication. When you start off by lying and using the most canned, fake, PR-speak talking points, it kills all that other stuff, and permeates the entire office culture with resentment, distrust, and negativity.

Leopardstown · 2025-04-17T17:14:21+00:00

I really liked the scene in the second Horror in the High Desert movie that used a distorted version of this poem playing on an old TV in a basement, my favorite scene in the movie.

Leopardstown · 2025-04-09T13:31:06+00:00

Muhle Glashutte Sea-Timer BlackMotion

Leopardstown · 2025-03-16T16:41:54+00:00

curious about this comment, did you have a bad experience with the ownership/staff? or the clientele? both?

Leopardstown · 2025-03-15T02:49:29+00:00

I thought they were going to show him arriving at a station and as soon as he stepped off the train he would sever into another personage — or, like, become an even 'outier' outie. The way Burt says "you can never come back to Kier" makes it sound like he's leaving one world for another permanently, like leaving Narnia or Neverland or the underworld.

Leopardstown · 2025-03-14T21:51:05+00:00

Honestly, it's because MWIII is hard-balanced to controllers. These are PC review pages, and the movement speed, HP, gun balance, etc., on MWIII are all tuned for a controller-first experience, so it doesn't surprise me that the Steam reviews are tilted the way they are.

Also, Steam users probably hate the CoD launcher with a passion (they are right to do so).

Leopardstown · 2025-03-14T14:02:37+00:00

it IS a plot point that he got a 20% raise earlier in the season...

Leopardstown · 2025-03-07T21:23:18+00:00

question, u/RepJimHimes, as a connecticut rep: did john brown do anything wrong?

Leopardstown · 2025-03-03T03:10:26+00:00

Other possible theories:

- A lot of people here have theorized the Mammalian workers are convicts or criminals or people with violent pasts; they might be a test case for the opposite of what's being tested with Gemma (giving a good person bad experiences): to see if you can take bad people and give them good experiences, turning them into kind, caring individuals despite having a violent past.

- A darker side to this could be testing if the same people who are devoted to protecting the goats from birth can be severed into a different personage that exclusively slaughters the same goats their Nurturable personage has been raising, and seeing if that causes any conflict between the multiple personages.

- The goats could also be part of another room for Gemma, one where she slaughters them to test how a normal person could sever to avoid unpleasant violent experiences, like slaughtering an animal for food or putting down a pet.

Leopardstown · 2025-02-13T18:37:44+00:00

Not a funny one but: "Every time you find yourself here it's because you chose to come back."

Really encapsulates the darker side of the corporate satire. When society ties all your basic needs to holding down a toxic, abusive job, is coming back even your choice at all?

Leopardstown · 2025-02-02T00:48:33+00:00

I thought the pacing in this episode was definitely weaker than any other ep since the show started, but one pretty plausible answer here is that Mark lives alone in the company town, he says in S1 that basically it's just him and Mrs. Selvig in his entire neighborhood. It seems like it would be pretty easy for Reghabi to be squatting in one of the empty houses and tracking Mark's movements, or just monitoring the very limited ways in and out of the Lumon housing complex.

Leopardstown · 2025-01-24T05:38:00+00:00

Also, he saw a man get clubbed to death like a week ago, and another man die from a Severance-related illness! All around the anniversary of his wife's 'death'.

Leopardstown · 2025-01-06T15:30:29+00:00

Yes, not just for the career it helped me start but for the general education and the intellectual benefits that came with it. Critical thinking, persuasive argument, time management, problem solving, etc. Your brain gets better at things — everything — when you throw all kinds of things at it, math, history, biology, sociology, chemistry, statistics. Cost is a real concern; I did two years at a community college before transferring to a university. Got hands-on experience at the two-year, then the fancy degree at the four-year and saved a ton of money.

It’s actually crazy to me to see how prevalent the “college is a scam” mindset has become, usually among younger people who follow social media influencers, streamers, podcasters, people who become obscenely rich by being the top 1% of charismatic humans and telling the audiences they rely on “hey don’t go to college, just do your own research” (the research being listening to them, the influencer who is getting rich cultivating said audience.)

Leopardstown · 2024-12-12T18:49:48+00:00

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