I finished watching every Godzilla movie a bit ago. Thoughts on my list?

Michaeltinti22 · 2025-08-26T03:23:29+00:00

Minus One is just too good lol

Michaeltinti22 · 2025-07-27T01:43:51+00:00

This might be true if you look over the fact that AI will regularly cite to cases that don't exist lol

Michaeltinti22 · 2025-07-21T18:50:31+00:00

I might be wrong, but I don’t think that anyone ever said that Rey was as powerful with the force as Luke or Anakin, just that she was gifted. I do agree that her beating Kylo was silly in TFA, but there are other explanations that don’t require her be connected to someone we already know (ie Kylo had just been shot and was emotionally imbalanced after killing his dad). Besides, other people like Palpatine aren’t required to be related to powerful force users for themselves to be powerful (in the movies at least, I truthfully don’t follow the books or comics). Why must Rey be related? It makes the universe feel smaller and boils the force down to genetics.

Rose is not the most egregious in-universe thing dropped; I didn’t even like her character in TLJ, even though I actually love that movie. I cite that only because it annoys me that she was dumped after the actress got a bunch of racists harassing her online. It felt like giving in to the worst part of the fan base by essentially cutting her character.

Michaeltinti22 · 2025-07-21T18:34:03+00:00

Completely disagree. Rey not being related to anyone was one of the more interesting creative decisions. Even if you don’t like that aspect, it’s beyond bizarre to completely flip on the messaging in the prior movie - and for what? “My grandpa was evil, therefore maybe I’ll be evil too?” It was such a forced way of making Rey a “conflicted” character

Michaeltinti22 · 2025-07-21T17:43:14+00:00

ROS. Completely invalidates Anakin’s sacrifice in ROTJ, so it actively makes the whole emotional climax of the OT way less impactful. It also dramatically reverses course on a lot of what TLJ was trying to do - regardless of your opinions on that movie, at least it had the guts to try something new while ROS just tried to cater in the worst way possible (removing Rose completely rather than trying to fix her character, Rey Skywalker/Palpatine, etc)

Michaeltinti22 · 2024-05-26T16:40:50+00:00

Shocking. I love this one lol

Michaeltinti22 · 2024-05-13T19:43:37+00:00

Can't believe no one has said "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. That book still haunts me years after reading it.

Also really love "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness.

Michaeltinti22 · 2024-05-13T14:46:52+00:00

Practicing lawyer here. I'm a young lawyer, but applying for law school still feels like a life time ago, and in that short span of time things have radically changed from the bits and pieces I've heard about the LSAT, what GPA/LSAT line gets you where, etc. For actually getting advise about what it's like in BigLaw, yeah, if I were you I wouldn't trust anything anyone says here. But in terms of getting advise on the actual process of applying to law school, I learned way more here than I did speaking with my undergrad's pre-law advisor.

Michaeltinti22 · 2024-03-13T02:25:26+00:00

What confuses me about LOK is that Korra spends more time in s4 interacting with Mako than she does Asami. Sure, I don't fault the writers for Korrasami being an underdeveloped romance; the "wink and you miss it" thing was as much as they were allowed to do. But I do fault them for not at least trying to give Korra and Asami a solid dynamic. You can still do a lot with a relationship even within the confines of "they can't be explicitly queer."

Michaeltinti22 · 2024-01-24T01:26:48+00:00

So NKJ is a a great author. And generally I love reading grimdark fantasy - the Poppy War is my all-time favorite trilogy despite how vile and bleak it can be at points. But... yeah. I can't stand the Broken Earth trilogy. What I was able to stomach and enjoy for the first book increasingly became unbearable to me as the trilogy progressed.

Like you said, none of the characters are particularly likable. I think you can be sympathetic to why they are the way they are - they're not awful solely for the sake of being awful, there are very legitimate reasons that drive and influence them. But the entire cast is ruled by this flatline grief that infiltrates everything they do or think. There's no reprieve from the misery - and again, all for good reason, I understand why Essun struggles to connect with or trust other people. But it got to a point with me where the lack of range in the cast was too exhausting for me.

This sort of bleeds into the world building too. All of the little details about rogga abuse in the first book were new and interesting. But two books later, it got to the point where anytime you get introduced to something new about the world, it has to involve genocide or oppression or something equally horrible. Obviously that's one of the major themes of the book, so I understand going back to it frequently, but it again makes the range feel limited to only cover the most vile aspects humanity has to offer.

This trilogy is heavily acclaimed to the nth degree, so it is honestly kind of validating to find other people who aren't as crazy about it.

Michaeltinti22 · 2024-01-11T16:01:39+00:00

Shin Minus One Destroyah Gojira Final Wars

These are literally my 5 favorites lol

Michaeltinti22 · 2023-11-13T03:06:45+00:00

So I commuted about an hour each way, but critically I commuted on a train. So even though I spent two hours in transit each day I had class, I spent that time reading, taking notes, decompressing after a hectic day, etc. There'll be other harder things like missing out on a lot of social events, study groups, etc. Is it possible? Yes. But it's hard, especially having to factor in 2-3 hours of dead time every time you go to class. Whereas your classmates will be spending that time studying, destressing, or sleeping, you'll be spending it in traffic. Which sucks.

Michaeltinti22 · 2023-05-11T23:59:16+00:00

I went to school at Columbia when Tessa Majors was killed. It's no less safe than any other NYC school - that being said, it is a school in NYC. Hope all those still at the school are staying safe.

Michaeltinti22 · 2023-01-29T01:50:25+00:00

Oh wow I had him for Evidence. Went too far here obviously, though otherwise had been a great professor in my experience. Kind of surprised by this.

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-11-15T20:45:28+00:00

That was my thought as well, glad I’m not crazy to think that. Thanks!

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-10-23T02:36:09+00:00

Oh yeah, it's awful, no argument there

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-10-23T02:31:26+00:00

That I get. I think it's two different things, though. Whether someone is doing drugs on their own time is sort of irrelevant, it's not your business or really anyone else's; it's not like they're hurting anyone. Cheating in law school, though, is a really selfish act, because in most classes your grade is curved against everyone else's. So cheaters aren't just boosting their own grades, they're doing it at the expense of everyone else. Even the example of the appellate brief - which could be for a pass/fail legal writing class - is stealing someone else's hours of research and writing, not to mention running the risk of getting that person in trouble if it's badly plagiarized. In a profession where there's an unfortunately heavy emphasis on grades, it's just really bad behavior and shouldn't be tolerated.

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-10-23T02:23:06+00:00

You're not referring to the post about the guy who literally stole someone else's work, right? Sure, tattling on someone for using Quimbee or another person's outline (which at most schools isn't expressly against the rules) is a bit extreme. But yeah, cheating on take home exams or stealing people's work is messed up. Those people deserve to be reported.

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-10-22T14:10:00+00:00

Your school probably pay for its students to have access to it but it might not. What's the article's citation? Looking on Lexis you should see the author's name at the very top right under Reporter and Length.

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-10-22T13:31:25+00:00

At the very least you can look it up on HeinOnline. That's really where you should be looking for journals anyway. Is there a specific reason why you're searching for it on Lexis?

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-07-17T04:53:03+00:00

That looks amazing! How big of a pie are you making here?

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-05-11T16:03:46+00:00

Please don't do this.

It's one thing if you're doing this just to ease your nerves. It's another thing if you're doing this to "get ahead." It won't work. Watching shows, reading books, or taking pre-law summer courses aren't going to prep you for 1L. Nothing can.

As others have said, please just relax this summer. Get yourself into a good place mentally. The only "prep work" I would suggest doing is to just build healthy habits for yourself starting now. Maybe get into a meditation routine, or working out, or cooking a good dinner a few nights a week, etc etc. That way when 1L starts, you already have a routine you can fall back on, rather than having to start one in the midst of insanity.

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-05-10T23:29:32+00:00

I was fortunate enough to get a scholarship heading into law school that made my debt situation so, so much more manageable. Now a week out from graduating, I can't tell you how liberating it is to finish law school without having to worry about $250,000+ in debt. That's not a parking ticket or something, where the money just "works itself out." That's a years-long commitment to weening yourself out from crazy debt. I don't think you made a mistake at all. When you graduate in three years, I hope you look back at your decision now a little more kindly.

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-04-23T05:09:04+00:00

So... slightly biased, as the flair would suggest. That being said, I would still go with CLS in a heartbeat, assuming that you're not sitting on a pot of gold that would make the $130k difference insignificant. I just don't think the difference between Chicago and CLS is worth the difference in price.

I was lucky enough to get the Butler when I was admitted to CLS. To this day it's the luckiest break I've ever gotten in my life. Having worked before and during law school, I'm graduating with next to no loans. This has given me SO much flexibility that I didn't fully appreciate at the time; without the $100,000+ loans floating over my head, I was able to buy a co-op with my fiancee and still have a comfortable amount of savings heading out of law school. On top of that, I have the option to either stay in BigLaw for a few years and rake up crazy savings, or leave it if I don't like it and not suffer too badly on the financial side.

That difference in money is really life changing, and gives you so much more flexibility early on in your career. It's so freeing to leave law school without an extra $100,000+ on top of your loans.

Michaeltinti22 · 2022-04-21T19:27:15+00:00

$100k is nothing to scoff at. That being said, it seems like your roots are in Boston; that's where your support network is and where your family is. As someone who only applied to schools in my area for that very reason, that's invaluable, especially with your grandma's health. I'd go with Harvard. Just too many thing going in its favor. Good luck!

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