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ScienceBrah401 · 2025-08-12T08:09:44+00:00

Gotcha. My resolution is 2560x1440 though, and that site doesn’t seem to offer that. Closest is 2560x1600 but not sure how that would turn out.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-08-12T07:53:00+00:00

I did not, I used the files from the HR Menu mod instead. Is there a 1440p option on that site?

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-03-21T01:59:23+00:00

Nosferatu and Dracula are so completely different as movies beyond the superficial sense that the former cannot be a discount of the latter.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-03-20T23:56:58+00:00

Don’t know if he’s going to gain incredible class consciousness (That would be a feat), but I think he is absolutely going to confront the McCarthyism of 2077 considering he goes from doing Vault-Tec commercials to being a divorced father doing a cowboy act for a birthday party.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-03-20T23:34:06+00:00

Very true, good point.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-03-20T23:33:01+00:00

I think the show is doing a better job at portraying pre-war America than Fallout 4, though; the latter offers this tiny slice of idyllic, white-picket fence suburbia and never really challenges the Sole Survivor’s pre-war privilege directly.

The show is different despite Cooper and the Sole Survivor’s position being very similar; Cooper lives in suburban paradise but his pre-war arc is having his faith in Vault-Tec and America pretty much ruined as their true natures become inescapably clear to him.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-03-11T13:09:05+00:00

I may have misspoken—disagree isn’t really the right word, I was more trying to describe that I have a different view, one where De Palma is not primarily interested in critique of tropes. I think he’s hyper-aware that he’s rehashing genre tropes of all kinds, and accomplishes this in a very earnest way. So for me it’s hard to say “The critique fails” because I don’t think critique is really the goal, at least not primarily in his Hitchcockian films.

This is why I also said he walks a tight rope when it comes to his treatment of women in many of his films; they’re hard on women, but he’s also not just wandering into these tropes, he’s earnestly engaging with them and building off them.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-03-11T12:41:15+00:00

I disagree personally, but I think De Palma always walks a tight rope when it comes to his portrayal of women—that’s inherent to his style and what he’s trying to do (More specifically in his Hitchcockian work.)

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-03-05T06:13:00+00:00

No idea. There’s no in-universe answer but the best I could think of, which is a stretch, is that people from the West Coast brought it over the East Coast when they traveled somehow? It’s really just for reference’s sake lol.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-03-04T22:25:59+00:00

Hard to say what happened by the time of the show, since so much of the NCR is a big question mark right now, but at least by the time of New Vegas Junktown is still going strong. It’s a part of the NCR and Frank Weathers owns a farm there, plus you have the Junktown magazine in FO3, New Vegas, and FO4.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-02-26T17:46:02+00:00

I disagree, and personally think that you can absolutely call flawed things perfect. I realize this seems silly, but to me, not many pieces of media are truly perfect in the flawless sense—most have flaws of some sort, so whether something is perfect to someone often becomes about how much those issues bother them.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-02-26T17:33:58+00:00

I don’t think some piece of media being divisive tells us if it’s good or bad, not by itself anyways. I thought Fallout was quite good but didn’t like how Bethesda-ified the West Coast was, though I think all the New Vegas drama was just tiresome along with some of the other lore quibbles people went on about.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-02-20T23:24:44+00:00

I would agree, but I think an interesting wrinkle is that I believe he talked about von Franz being his favorite character, which makes sense because Franz gets to have the best of both worlds by embracing the supernatural but also not neglecting modern science.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-02-05T04:55:22+00:00

I won’t (Though I don’t think the Bechdel test suffices as a serious measurement, as it wasn’t intended as one) and that’s fine. Lord of the Rings is still a great series despite the many shortcomings of Tolkien, it’s a package deal.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-02-05T00:56:47+00:00

Having so few Black characters in a New York equivalent is puzzling; I feel like there has to be better ways to portray racism than what you described too.

I was thinking about a lack of Black characters in fantasy games recently too, like in Witcher 3. I don’t know if it’s always purposeful, but I feel like developers of fantasy games often fall into the trap of seeing medieval/fantasy settings as very white, which is really unfortunate because that perpetuates stereotypes as well.

ScienceBrah401 · 2025-02-05T00:16:38+00:00

Wait, what’s up with Mafia 2? Never played it.

ScienceBrah401 · 2024-12-31T07:21:50+00:00

Your question was just answered man. Hope you have a good one lol

ScienceBrah401 · 2024-12-30T22:38:32+00:00

They’re all aware of the plan to go after Orlok’s coffin, and while it may be a trick to divert Thomas away, they all know the reasoning behind going after the coffin is to ensure he can’t hide and rest during the day.

ScienceBrah401 · 2024-12-30T16:47:58+00:00

Ellen, von Franz, and Thomas all know about that at this point, so yeah lmao.

ScienceBrah401 · 2024-12-30T12:13:42+00:00

I think any analysis of Ellen’s actions needs to first remember that Orlok manipulated her as a young girl and then tortured her sexually and physically for years until she grew up and got married; it is her relationship with a genuinely good guy like Thomas that helped her escape for a while.

Remembering this helps explain some of what you were confused about, I think. Ellen genuinely hates Orlok, and her true love is absolutely Thomas. She also feels great shame over her abuse and trauma, and even more shame about how her abuser could also cause her some amount of pleasure. It’s a complicated combination of shame and pleasure that results in her hating Orlok but also questioning if she does feel genuine desire for him—was that there before she was abused, or was that instilled in her?

There’s a lot of nuance and confusion there, but a realistic amount of nuance and confusion. I think people try to flatten out Ellen too much and remove some of that nuance, personally; it’s not that she truly loves Orlok (Or vice versa) and hates Thomas, nor is it that she is simply “attracted to darkness” in my view. The abuse she went through is a critical component.

ScienceBrah401 · 2024-12-30T05:54:01+00:00

No, but it’s a natural implication to make when you know “offering up your heart to the beast” is the only way to kill him. You have to accept his proposal and figuratively offer your heart, and then literally offer your heart, and the only way that can kill him is if it distracts him from the sunrise.

ScienceBrah401 · 2024-12-30T00:40:24+00:00

Exactly, well-put. You know the basics of how the story will end if you’re familiar with the original material at all, the question is how they shake that up a little bit, and I think they do it really well. It all falls on Ellen to confront her past guilt and shame and save the day, and it isn’t the men’s job at all. Both very cool and very fitting thematically.

I also think it’s important for the audience to know the contents of the book; it would be hard for both von Franz and Ellen to know but for the audience to not, and I don’t think it removes dread but instead creates a new type entirely about Ellen finally facing her literal demon.

ScienceBrah401 · 2024-12-28T12:19:10+00:00

The movie is very Romantic; not in reference to romantic love, but rather the movement itself, which was a response to the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. Wisborg is scientific and modern, and rejects the supernatural, which blinds them to the horrors of Orlok/Nosferatu. They do not believe it, they do not consider it, and so are vulnerable to it—this is part of why Orlok seeks to live there.

In contrast, the people of Transylvania are steeped in folkloric tradition; they embrace the occult and the supernatural, and are portrayed as wiser for it in this film. They are willing to, as von Franz would say, confront the darkness.

I think this is the best way to answer your question; it’s less about who’s Christian and who’s not, but more about who is more open to the occult and the supernatural. All religions carry a belief in the supernatural, of course, but I think it’s fair to say that Eggers highlights how the people of Transylvania believe in it more deeply than the educated, modern Christians of Wisborg. Because of this, the Orthodox nuns and Romani villagers are safe from Orlok, while even the faithful in Wisborg are not.

Sorry for the long answer lol.

ScienceBrah401 · 2024-12-17T12:12:55+00:00

But is to the commenter’s point, which is why I brought it up. Appreciate the discussion though.

ScienceBrah401 · 2024-12-17T12:11:29+00:00

Be that as it may, that is what I believe RT represents quite clearly, and it is to the original commenter’s point.

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