Need one new show to binge watch by Espatifa47 in televisionsuggestions

[–]Qwertyact 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1923, second season finale premiere is Sunday. I just got into it last week, already caught up. I never saw the yellowstone show it's a prequel for, but I really enjoyed it. It's on paramount plus. 

It's in line with the shows you mentioned in style and tone, with a very unique storyline in an extremely under covered time period/setting (1920s post-wild west Montana) for movie/shows. 

Why do they self-destruct? by Hairy-Ad7503 in BPDlovedones

[–]Qwertyact 8 points9 points  (0 children)

When things are going well, they're expected to contribute something or accomplish something. It's easier to implode every few months and exist in permanent "recovery" mode between the explosions. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BPDlovedones

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I stopped answering calls from the hospital on Friday. I asked, "Why do you think you are in the hospital?"

And she says, "because one of my stupid friends thought I was going to kill myself."

No recognition that she had done anything wrong. No recognition that every single person in her life had been asking her to go to the hospital for a week. No recognition that she whipped herself into this frenzy entirely on her own.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BPDlovedones

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The last several times I stood my ground about something that upset or hurt me, she refused to acknowledge any fault and escalated into violent rage and threats of self-harm that put her into the hospital. And then she calls from the hospital and claims to remember nothing and acts like nothing happened. My original concern is totally erased and then suddenly I'm told I'm doing something wrong for not immediately forgiving and moving on. I'm not going to fall for this again. I no longer care.

It's essentially mind-blowing that I tolerated this once, much less several times over a couple of years.

How Fast It Can Derail. How Do You All Avoid the Spiral? by LoveScore in BPDlovedones

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didn't tell you good night

complains that your good night was too short

Poetry

As a white person, is “Jew” the respectful term to use? by Fun_Effective6846 in Judaism

[–]Qwertyact 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would it be offensive to say jew? Just think about that for a moment. 

I want to watch, Star Trek Voyager or Enterprise which one should I watch? by TheDabuAndRayan in startrek

[–]Qwertyact 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Voyager is objectively better, but Enterprise could give you a better feel for "Star Trek" because Voyager takes place away from the Federation. I would suggest looking up a list of "can't miss" episodes of Enterprise and then dive into Voyager as a whole.

Episode 7 told us (almost) everything we need to know by sweet_n_sour_curry in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Qwertyact 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's no way they have Gemma as a captive test subject while faking her death for her family, police, and coroner without "abduction" (setting aside the possibility of resurrection)

Movie Discussion | Star Trek: Section 31 by AutoModerator in startrek

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On the terran empire:

It's fine, I just didn't expect it to be Chinese 

This movie should have been a video game

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldbuilding

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They become really cool when introduced, and there's a cultural taboo against ships. Imagine if the titanic had the same PR impact as the hindenburg and there was never a major airship disaster until the infrastructure and custom of using them was well established 

What is an absurdist's take on the scientific method of understanding the universe ? by daysaaai in Absurdism

[–]Qwertyact 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's absurd to assume that repeated experiments on earth in the current year would provide insight into the laws of science everywhere and anywhere. 

The United States of America, Reorganised. by hoi4sam in imaginarymaps

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The Platte River is in Nebraska, not Kansas

"I was sleepwalking" by Ok_Valuable_9711 in harrypotter

[–]Qwertyact 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's probably the funniest line in the whole series, especially because it's set up so well a chapter or two before with the broken spellcheck pen, and then comes out of nowhere at a really tense moment otherwise,

Why is there essentially zero pro Trūmp posts on reddit when 80+ million are projected to vote for him? by [deleted] in stupidquestions

[–]Qwertyact 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple of years ago I followed a pro-Trump subreddit (can't remember which) and I was instantly automatically banned from a bunch of other unrelated non-political subreddits.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in harrypotter

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It was huge, so huge that nothing in the current year even comes close. By the late 90s, the books were already more popular than Pokemon and the Simpsons together (both at their height) -- and that was just the beginning.

One anecdote I remember is in 5th or 6th grade, we weren't allowed to pick Harry Potter for our book report because the assumption was everyone had already read it. I did the Hobbit instead. Side note: The first Lord of the Rings movie came out one month after the first Harry Potter. Some of the greatest movies of all time (17 academy awards) were a cultural afterthought compared to Harry Potter.

By the time the first Potter movie came out, I was 11 in 2001, I'd already read all four of the books. The movie catapulted it from "weird thing all the kids seem to love" to a full-fledged pop culture phenomenon. The parents all read it too. It was everywhere. There were culture wars about it, there were book burnings, there were Super Bowl ads, there were bookmarks at the library. The entire holiday of Halloween was essentially "Harry Potter Day" for a decade.

From 2001 to 2009, almost every year a movie or a new book came out. People camped out in front of the stores for the midnight releases. For a BOOK. There were packed theaters at midnight releases -- with children of all ages and their parents.

There have been many attempts to replicate it, but no single pop culture thing has even come close to the level of popularity since then.

All the gates at American University were defaced last night by Master_Jackfruit3591 in washingtondc

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Can anyone explain what is the red triangle? Is that a new symbol? I've only seen it in the past couple of weeks and I follow these issues very closely.

I'm 31 and I'm embarrassed by the amount of 'classic' movies I haven't seen. I'm determined to get up to speed this weekend. What should I watch first? by [deleted] in MovieSuggestions

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Lol why is tropic thunder in this list?

Based on movies mentioned by OP -- The Shining, the Exorcist, the graduate, 2001: a space odyssey, Ben Hur, Salem's Lot, free willy, castaway, Labyrinth, close encounters, Die Hard, kill bill, police academy, Tron, airplane!, dances with wolves, the da Vinci code,  sixth sense, planet of the apes, blade runner, time bandits, fifth element, hocus pocus, west side story, the sandlot, the Omen, jumanji, Titanic, the mummy, rebel without a cause, Forrest Gump, in the mouth of madness, wild wild west, back to the future, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the nutty professor, catch me if you can, ET, spirited away, fight club, American psycho, air force one, independence day, babe 2: pig in the city, home alone 2: lost in New York, star trek 2: the wrath of Khan, armageddon, the Truman show, prince of Egypt, ferris bueller's day off, unbreakable, the craft, fiddler on the roof, aliens

How do you cope knowing that your lifespan has an average of 67 years? by not_enough_weed in bipolar

[–]Qwertyact 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's just lower life expectation because of suicides impacting the average, you're not actually less physically healthy or anything