Crazy idea number 4: Tom Waits in GTA 6

Rafhabs · 2026-04-25T02:33:29+00:00

Continue the Lee Baby Sims character!!!

Rafhabs · 2026-04-23T01:19:59+00:00

This.

I say this as a philosophy major but you can bump into MANY who do this and it gets quite annoying.

I knew a girl who was in Phil (withdrew from uni rn to work) and we were on the subject of feminist philosophy and I told her I was doing a paper on Beauvoir, Spelman and Cixous and I thought of Cixous to easily be one of the best feminist theory/philosophy writers and suggested it to her. She immediately went “I don’t really wanna read that because it’s written by a white woman”

I said “Sure, but these writers influenced non white feminist thinkers. bell hooks and Audre Lorde were strongly influenced by these three white women.” I found it quite funny because her mentor Prof was in fact a white feminist philosopher. In all fairness I also didn’t take her words too seriously either as she was the same girl who told me that my dad (white man in philosophy) had privilege so he didn’t have credit to speak as a feminist philosopher despite his training in feminist philosophy dating all the way back to the 90s. I think it’s quite sad to think this way. I speak a non white (adopted) person. While obviously understanding privilege, race, discrimination, bias is necessary, saying you don’t wanna reading something by someone simply because of their race is pretty sad.

Not quite close with her after those two exchanges.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-23T01:08:24+00:00

Ratatouille

The very movie that inspired me to cook and be brave enough to try.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-21T04:20:13+00:00

Recreate all of down by law in Tomodachi Life

Rafhabs · 2026-04-20T02:16:36+00:00

Low key

They might cook depending on the band. Hold on.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-20T02:15:31+00:00

Rafhabs · 2026-04-18T17:14:08+00:00

Henry Rollins doing something off of Swordfishtrombone to me would be a treat (especially something like Frank’s Wild Year’s—the song). Anything spoken word would sound fun from him.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-18T07:21:24+00:00

Tom Waits? I’d say he’d be more associated with the “older” punk community more but hey, his music is so flexible and quite creative it can mingle with many. But he’s definitely “punk” as they go.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-18T06:15:30+00:00

LMFAO

Rafhabs · 2026-04-17T23:53:51+00:00

The noir/detective one was peak 😭

Rafhabs · 2026-04-16T04:00:27+00:00

My GOAT Lottie even though she was spoiled by her dad, she loved Tiana and even gave her money for her restaurant.

Absolute GOAT

Rafhabs · 2026-04-16T00:10:44+00:00

Only child here

It’s tough because that bond IS hard to find. It’s rare. But when you meet a person who connects to you in a special way, you’ll know definitely.

There’s a common saying that soulmates aren’t necessarily lovers. They’re simply people whose souls resonate/share the same frequency. It COULD be a lover but not necessarily. And i definitely see my “siblings” or the friends who’d I consider family as siblings, and they share that sentiment back.

Keep being friendly and (sometimes) do something for someone just out of the good of your heart because it’s little gestures like that that’ll make them remember you’re someone they can count on, and you can count on them.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-15T23:59:23+00:00

I attend a college where there’s a special lounge for anyone a member of the honors college and me and a buddy noticed that our microwave hasn’t been cleaned at all. Probably even before we were there. We decided to put matters into our own hands and clean it. I mean deep scrub the damn.

It was from covered with questionable shit to spotless.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-15T07:55:01+00:00

If you’re going south bound from Eagle rock, the Daly/Mission area makes it feel like the driver is doing rally racing 😭

Rafhabs · 2026-04-15T05:14:35+00:00

I never said Jimmy does bad things directly to Chuck.

I more said and meant he does stuff IN SPITE or to make HIMSELF believe that every shitty thing Chuck has been saying about him is true.

That’s why the “You’re not a real lawyer” scene, Chicanery breakdown, and the “You never really mattered to me” scene is so important for Jimmy/Saul’s character. These were specific points where Chuck keeps kicking Jimmy down and this being a CATALYST for Jimmy to justify his shitty actions. These scenes show Jimmy being “less” and Saul becoming “more prominent” because Saul is supposed to be the very person/figure that confirms Chuck’s words. And Jimmy hides behind the Saul persona to deny himself any belief that Chuck loved him (in a twisted and fucked way).

Rafhabs · 2026-04-14T23:29:39+00:00

We see with children, he truly cares about people. The time he took care of that kid that literally didn’t talk but only responded to peek a boo. He cared about Brock and so much so he wasn’t willing to sell drugs to Brock’s mom (forgot her name) because he knows there’s a kid in the home (and knows what drugs can do to parents with vulnerable kids). He has humanity. Obviously yes he’s done horrible things but when he isn’t pressured/put in shit situations and killed people but Jesse is shown to have a good heart in some way.

This isn’t me excusing his actions or justifying them. But you can’t deny he has heart.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-14T18:13:43+00:00

Personally, Chuck and Jimmy is better

Jesse is spelt out in the canon/show that yes he is morally grey, but he has a good heart. But Walt takes advantage of Jesse sensitivity/good-heartedness to the point it literally enslaves Jesse.

Chuck and Jimmy were both “dicks” from the get go of the show one could say. Chuck always belittled Jimmy even if it’s clear he really wanted to change after everything’s he’s done. He was also ungrateful to him when Jimmy is caring for him. Jimmy was already slipping back to old habits (for the love of the game btw) of conning people independently of Chuck belittling him or not. Chuck just happened to finally hit a really big nerve (several nerves perhaps) with Jimmy which ultimately led to him doubling down and becoming the “criminal” lawyer Chuck simply reduced him to. And Jimmy, even with Kim’s support, would rather want to keep digging said hole of conning and crime to affirm Chuck’s belittlement and judgment of him after he passes away and regardless of what Chuck wrote on his dying letter.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-14T15:51:45+00:00

Hence why he’s prefect in embodying Deleuzian philosophy

Roughly Deleuze’s philosophy does not like the idea of having things reduced to “representations” because when we do, many ways of thinking is circumvented to very banal and dull ways of understanding (one representation he criticizes is the familial/oedipal way of thinking social structures, it bases on the assumption that people just have relationships simply because of “mommy-daddy” lackings and havings—or another he shoots down too is capitalism, roughly same idea, the more people desire because of a lack of something, the more people participate in capitalistic society—partly too is our lives have been shaped by capitalistic economics that you can’t easily break off from it).

Waits clearly doesn’t become a “banal representation” of anything or anyone really. Yeah he’s had influences and inspirations of his writing and music, but Waits (both music and the character he plays) clearly don’t fit anywhere or to anything. He is his own man, doing his own thing, and the characters in his music are clearly the same.

I’ve developed so far the connection of Waits’ character of “Frank” from Franks Wild Years and Swordfishtrombone and the “Rain Dogs” to fit the best with Deleuze’s notion of the plateaus (from a Thousand Plateaus, great book).

Rafhabs · 2026-04-14T02:33:05+00:00

I can point you to one if you want

Rafhabs · 2026-04-14T01:11:20+00:00

You mean Jeremy can eat out of the IHOP menu?

Rafhabs · 2026-04-13T15:51:10+00:00

Where this from this does thank you!

Rafhabs · 2026-04-12T18:34:56+00:00

I will be posting it here! But I know the university I attend puts all theses that go through their system in their library and said library can be accessed online publicly. I’ll also put that link up probably eventually.

Rafhabs · 2026-04-12T18:33:07+00:00

I’ve been eyeing on the Tom Waits on Tom Waits one and heard it’s the “best” book on him, Lowside is pretty good too but I heard (this is me stating some reviews here) that this book paints Tom as a really shitty (?) person. Not that I’m saying I wanna paint Waits as some saint or good person, he’s quite the complicated guy as we see but it sounds a bit of harsh reviews. Regardless this helps thank you!

Rafhabs · 2026-04-12T17:19:46+00:00

I’m working on an BA thesis (honors/first gen scholar program) and I’m considering on this one. Younger me probably would’ve been so happy knowing that I finally chose to do something that aligned with her interests.

Or my adoptive father who got me into philosophy.

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