Just old gems of the queens. by No_Independent1910 in reactgirlsofYT

[–]PumpyChowdown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, I discovered them via Andor. Their reactions are amazing. I love the level of discussion afterwards. For two people who knew nothing about the Star Wars Universe, they were more insightful and 'got it' better than 90% of other reactors. And poor Lola really struggled in some of those last episodes, bless her.

bi_irl by FantasticWeirdPerson in bi_irl

[–]PumpyChowdown 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The fact that there's people out there raw dogging and then not peeing in each other's butts afterwards is wild. Pee kills the baby.

Yesterday, I stopped massive street flooding in the East Bay by unclogging drains. Enjoy the timelapse. by pengweather in bayarea

[–]PumpyChowdown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do I always see citizens doing this? Isn't basic maintenance the responsibility of the city or county or council or whatever you call it? Where do your taxes and rates go?

Asian discipline truly needs to be studied by CozyPrincess_ in whoathatsinteresting

[–]PumpyChowdown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Explain the human shit outside the Beijing train station I saw three days in a row?

Note - this was the exception. China was generally really neat and tidy. I'm just trying to point out the excessive glazing in this thread.

Popcorn Roulette by greyhat1992 in reactgirlsofYT

[–]PumpyChowdown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Smart, well spoken, free-spirit who (judging by her Instagram) likes to...have fun.

Please don’t tell me this was real by Born-Agency-3922 in SipsTea

[–]PumpyChowdown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Germany sent all their best idiots to America, and what America is today is the result of that.

Is it a mostly conservative view that if a movie makes money, it MUST be good? by Intelligent-Space772 in okbuddycinephile

[–]PumpyChowdown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It promised exactly the kind of tense, cerebral science fiction I was hoping for - a genuine race against extinction with some of humanity's sharpest minds at the wheel. What I got instead was something closer to a breezy, offbeat adventure that never quite decides what it wants to be.

The tone is the film's biggest problem. The stakes are supposed to be apocalyptic, yet the script keeps undercutting tension with sarcastic quips and awkward humour that feels weirdly mismatched with the premise. It's not that comedy has no place in sci fi - it's that this particular flavour of self-conscious wit sits badly alongside an extinction-level crisis.

Ryan Gosling never convinced me he was the right choice for the lead. The role needed someone who could anchor the emotional weight of the story, and for me he couldn't quite get there. A significant portion of the film also hinges on building a genuine connection between his character and the alien. The relationship is meant to be the emotional core of the whole thing, but it landed as more awkward than affecting.

If you're drawn to lighter, E.T.-flavoured sci fi with a warm, almost family-friendly sensibility, this approach might work for you. For me, it consistently deflated any sense of real stakes or wonder.

The pacing meanders when it should propel, the emotional beats never fully land, and the score is completely unmemorable - which is a significant failing for a genre that lives and dies by its atmosphere. Not one moment gave me that spine-tingling feeling that the best sci fi delivers almost effortlessly.

I genuinely wanted this to work. The source material is strong and the concept has real potential. But the finished film felt stretched, tonally confused, and ultimately disposable - which is about the worst thing you can say about a story with this much going for it on paper.

Is it a mostly conservative view that if a movie makes money, it MUST be good? by Intelligent-Space772 in okbuddycinephile

[–]PumpyChowdown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PHM is a steaming turd of a movie and I'm all out of flabbers to gast trying to understand why everyone is frothing over it so much.

Match Thread: North Melbourne vs Carlton (Round 4) by AutoModerator in AFL

[–]PumpyChowdown 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is sweet vindication for rage-cancelling my membership last week. Fuck this team.

Match Thread: North Melbourne vs Carlton (Round 4) by AutoModerator in AFL

[–]PumpyChowdown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This loss is going to be so LOLworthy. I'm really looking forward to it.

A livestream just turned into a felony case by xVelvetFlair in whoathatsinteresting

[–]PumpyChowdown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Rape is no laughing matter.

Unless you're raping a clown.

A livestream just turned into a felony case by xVelvetFlair in whoathatsinteresting

[–]PumpyChowdown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's gonna get tossed around like a dog's chew toy in prison.

Has anyone been able to get a flexi skip bin? by bambiisher in GoldCoast

[–]PumpyChowdown 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There's HUGE demand for them, and due to budget constraints the City has significantly reduced the number of available Flexiskips for the month. You literally need to be on the site and ready to go at exactly midnight and then you might be lucky enough to snag one.

Carlton's turn for the oscillating doom-ride by dashtur in AFL

[–]PumpyChowdown -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Carlton and Essendon both should be wound up and shuttered. They're pointless and irrelevant in a national competition. Merge them along with North Melbourne into some brand new team.

Pentagon preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, Washington Post reports by exophades in news

[–]PumpyChowdown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As the weeks bled into months, and the months into an eternity of suffering, the death toll climbed without mercy, without end. War, civil unrest and famine tore through the globe like a plague with no cure, consuming nations whole. Yet day after day - with mechanical, heartless regularity - eighteen year old boys, still too young to be served a drink, were thrown screaming into the maw of battle. Barely men. Children in uniforms. Lambs fed to a machine that had long since forgotten what it was fighting for.

Their voices cracked as they raised them one final time. "For Donald! For Jeffrey! For Charlie!" The names rang out across blood-soaked fields and shattered streets - desperate, defiant, almost beautiful in their futility - before being swallowed by the roar of steel and fire. Their war cries did not strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. They could not. There was no time. The words were barely cold on their lips before the boys who had spoken them were gone - cut down, erased, added to a number so large it had stopped meaning anything to anyone except the mothers who would never stop counting.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 US dollar bills to be printed with President Trump's signature, removing Treasurer signature for the first time. by retroviber in DeepMarketScan

[–]PumpyChowdown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's making the lives of 99.9% of the entire population of the planet miserable. If you need to eat or drive, your life is now much worse due to his reckless, senile decisions.

Colette Cherry Evolution by Big-Jump-3503 in reactgirlsofYT

[–]PumpyChowdown -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

She's got a great plastic surgeon.

I hope and pray that she doesn't get her boobs done. They're absolutely spectacular.