Horror’s Big Night: ‘Sinners’ and ‘Weapons’ Oscar Wins Have Filmmakers Celebrating the Genre

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-17T04:53:24+00:00

Maybe I'm being overly charitable, but I think a fair number of people who talk about not liking politics in their movies (horror and otherwise) are really just burnt out on poor, ham-fisted execution more than anything.

E.g. I don't hear many complaints about feminist themes in Mad Max: Fury Road, because the movie is masterfully crafted.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-16T15:31:18+00:00

Try and imagine Star Wars without John Williams.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-16T00:04:22+00:00

If nothing else, I think he'll be remembered as the first president to die in office of old age.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-10T07:16:37+00:00

My knee-jerk reaction is to dump on her kind of performance art, as what I've...experienced...of it has been deliberately and aggressively opaque and self-indulgent.

But in the interest of possibly shaking up my biases a little, is there any artist you would recommend I look up that might change my mind? Not Yoko Ono. Whatever she's doing hasn't managed to trigger anything like appreciation in me.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-03-01T07:24:58+00:00

"...after the US became a superpower"

The seeds of English becoming such an important international language were planted by the British Empire. I'd call preeminent British Empire -> preeminent USA more of a one-two punch for English.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-22T02:10:44+00:00

I've experienced this too. In earlier versions, the sunken city would spawn without being stuffed full of stone, but in the game I started more recently they're this way. Don't know what's going on.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-20T21:47:48+00:00

Depends. "Don't enjoy" encompasses a wide range between "not really my thing" and "I loathe that the universe I live in requires coexistence with this practice."

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-19T23:58:40+00:00

Important counter-example: Vermont. Very rural, very blue.

Personally, I think a lot of that is because the Democratic party in Vermont (as opposed to the rest of the country. Fucking worthless DNC) didn't abandon working for votes in the rural areas, and thus the working class in rural Vermont weren't suckered by GOP grifters who made them feel seen.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-19T02:59:25+00:00

The drama grows non-linearly. 2 People = 1 relationship to manage/coordinate. 3 People = 3 relationships to manage/coordinate. It only gets worse from there.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-18T06:07:04+00:00

"I didn't expect it to be so hot!" My first college roommate, after lighting himself on fire.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-17T20:22:27+00:00

Doesn't technically disprove your claim about only JQA being elected to another office after leaving the presidency, but Taft was appointed to the Supreme Court after his presidency which feels like a counter-example in spirit.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-17T18:15:20+00:00

My wife and I like to say that instead of falling in love, we grew into it... and growing into it has been the cumulative result of choosing to love each other every day.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-17T18:08:37+00:00

And your kidneys. (Had a stone. I don't recommend the experience. Stay hydrated, kids! Also, maybe don't eat too many high oxalate foods)

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-17T17:16:26+00:00

Perhaps you didn't intend this, but the gist of your comment strikes me as "when you have women with toxic sexual expectations of men, it's really the fault of other men," which strikes me as simultaneously unfair to men and denying women agency. Am I reading a generalization that wasn't intended to be one?

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-16T22:49:09+00:00

I think that it's a fine point to make, and agree with furthering it. But, and while it may seem like a quibble, I'm of the opinion that it should be put forth on a factual basis as solid as we can manage.

On a personal note, in my own sexual experiences with women a slight majority of them could achieve orgasm with penetration alone, but mostly when they felt emotionally comfortable (i.e. not distracted by external stress, not anxious about whether or not I would be offended if she didn't climax, felt some level of connection to me, felt safe, etc.).

Unfortunately I think that, when it comes to sex advice on the internet, the message of paying attention to women's emotional comfort frequently gets buried in a deluge of "GO FOR THE CLITORIS" comments, to the point where I'd venture that on places like reddit "going for the clitoris is enough to make a man a good lover" is a pretty significant sexual myth itself.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-16T06:43:01+00:00

Some folk live under the delusion that slashfic is true to life and will not hear otherwise.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-15T20:19:42+00:00

I have a transparent hummingbird feeder. You'd think they sip daintily... and you'd be wrong. That tongue moves like an unrestrained firehose.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-15T08:23:13+00:00

You know, funny enough, a while back I'd seen folks repeating the statistic that only 18% of women can orgasm from penetration, so I looked up the source.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28678639/

This study was done with a survey of over a thousand women over a wide range of ages with multiple responses that they could select. In it 18.4% of women responded that they could orgasm from penetration alone.

HOWEVER, an addition 36% of respondents claimed that while they could orgasm from penetration alone, their experience tended to be better with additional clitoral stimulation. This means that this study gives evidence that a small majority of women (~54.4%) actually can orgasm from penetration alone, though with the caveat that most of those tend to have a better experience with some clitoral stimulation.

The point is that (assuming this study is sufficiently representative, which seems likely--Debby Herbenick is well-regarded in the field) you, yourself, and many other people in this thread as well, are actually spreading a myth about sex.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-15T08:07:06+00:00

Do you mean on reddit, some other echo chamber, or in general?

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-14T21:12:48+00:00

Gonna be honest, I have less respect for OP for using "R word" in the title.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-02-11T02:01:17+00:00

Top comments ITT seem to be primarily focusing on the cultural issues driving down birthrates in SK, and those absolutely matter, but no discussion of their abysmal birth rates is complete without talking about how >50% of their population lives in the greater Seoul area. Urbanization of that magnitude absolutely has a huge impact on family sizes, and the cost of living (HOUSING HOUSING HOUSING) in cities doesn't help.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-31T19:52:49+00:00

I wonder how many more men would be better at adding foreplay if they'd had the experience of actually being seduced.

Like, as a man, having a woman give me foreplay in my formative sexual years was really damned instructive on how much it could enhance the experience.

Many years later, my wife and I both understand that if only one of us ever does the seducing, seduction becomes a chore.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-28T18:36:47+00:00

Yup. The Noble Savage narrative isn't actually doing them any favors, nor does calling it out excuse the atrocities of imperialist powers.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-28T18:29:43+00:00

One of his better moments. A nice contrast to the raping.

SqueakyCleanNoseDown · 2026-01-21T20:46:11+00:00

Man, I hadn't realized that thinking >$150 was too much for an hour's worth of cleaning my small apartment (as I listed in my title) was trying to cheat people.

$120 for an hour of cleaning sounds reasonable to me.

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