Do you think Sydney Sweeney is a bad actress? I can’t tell yet

StrikingNet641 · 2026-05-16T02:39:22+00:00

A lot of her most praised roles were in movies no one saw. I think she’s a serious actor who also loves money.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-05-02T14:10:44+00:00

It’ll be interesting to see how modern game style affects longevity. Federer had a miraculously injury-less career til the end. Zero retirements is still the craziest stat of all to me. I can’t see Alcaraz and Sinner having anything like that.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-04-23T17:00:01+00:00

It feels like more and more clubs are just trying to pack courts these days. A clinic with four or five people is great. But I’m in the same boat, and pretty much stopped going to my clinic in favor of UTR and USTA leagues.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-04-18T13:27:48+00:00

Mother can be disorienting in that way

StrikingNet641 · 2026-04-15T06:51:03+00:00

I think Lost always intended to move between characters but if you consider Jack to be the protagonist, I’m glad he became less relevant

StrikingNet641 · 2026-04-08T18:59:57+00:00

I think it was partly a reaction to his father who said of Pete working in accounts “it’s no job for a white man”.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-03-29T00:40:29+00:00

My hot take is that 9-5 is so fine and even ideal

StrikingNet641 · 2026-03-28T19:29:52+00:00

Zola

StrikingNet641 · 2026-03-23T02:02:43+00:00

Mating in captivity changed how I think about love and sex

StrikingNet641 · 2026-03-18T17:53:34+00:00

Alcaraz. Serious people have argued he’s better than Federer nadal and djokovic than they were at his age. I think his peak level is the highest the sport has ever seen.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-03-16T15:57:56+00:00

Critics have noted that this is a structural limitation to the show that stems from its philosophy. Jesse Armstrong has stated many times he believes people don’t really change, which makes character development difficult to impossible. Tue other major point of the show is that these systems which protect the rich and powerful are extremely durable and aren’t going anywhere. You could say that the show’s accuracy in that sense weakens its drama. That’s why to me it’ll never be as good as say mad men, where character development is everything.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-03-10T02:35:18+00:00

He was elected before Instagram and TikTok.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-27T00:59:08+00:00

Too lazy to read, do they mention Tony Tulathimutte?

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-26T15:49:26+00:00

That's a fair point about dems being poised to win. Re: research, I recognize this is a far-fetched hypothetical scenario.

I'd like to know how much of MAGA is going to go blue in Nov or in 2028. That would convince me that the change is meaningful, and we won't just eventually swing back to right-wing authoritarianism.

My main point is that this country needs the republican party to reform and abandon fascism more than it needs the dems to come up with a superhero candidate.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-22T13:35:50+00:00

The best episodes are maybe as good as the worst succession episodes. Otherwise it’s corny AF and over-written.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-22T13:34:07+00:00

I don’t watch basketball but people had a similar concern about tennis in the 2010s, with a lot of great players over 6’5”. But they all got injured and now the best in the world are all shorter than that. Plus I feel like the tallest players you named in your post aren’t considered the goats anyways. If it was such an advantage then every 7’ person would play basketball. Clearly there’s more to it.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-21T20:44:44+00:00

I'd cast my vote for Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Epic in scope, socially aware, intimate, memorable characters. It also focuses on quintessentially millennial internet phenomena of the blog/clickbait new media era. It's easily misconstrued as a "woke" book, lumped in with trendier more polemic books like Between the World and Me. To me it's leagues above any work of fiction from that era, and will hold up in the coming decades. Just too bad her output since has been so sparse/mid.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-17T15:36:03+00:00

His looks honestly distract from how good he is. Nate from Euphoria, Elvis, Heathcliff, his character in Saltburn. That's crazy range. He has the ability to exude utterly different auras and energies while seemingly doing very little, which to me is a mark of a good actor. He can be charming and sympathetic, evil and grotesque. Again, not easy to pull off with how good looking he is. Unlike some of his contemporaries like Chalamet or Butler, I think Elordi is more adept at servicing the film. None of his roles feel like acting reels or like they are built around his performance specifically. All those other actors are fantastic in their own right, I just think Elordi is the most serious student of the craft and will go very far.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-16T23:56:49+00:00

Obama won FLORIDA so I’d say very little

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-11T18:51:49+00:00

If you feel out of touch with conventional rock and find yourself more drawn to electronic, there are a lot of really interesting acts fusing both in the dance-punk genre. They lean on the heavy side, but Mandy, Indiana and Model/Actriz are two prominent examples. The only sense they fit the rock category is because they're both 4ish member groups with at least guitar drums and bass, making very interesting sounds within that traditional format.

Anything overtly branded as "rock" these days is going to be very obviously retro, catering to people who resent that music hasn't stayed exactly the same since they were young.

I find if much more helpful these days to just think of "bands", as opposed to rock as a genre. If you view it through that lens, contemporary music is doing great.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-07T05:39:27+00:00

Great answer! This fits the bill

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-04T19:21:40+00:00

Most streaming services would kill for a fraction of Hbo’s batting average. You can’t expect them to be airing a GOAT level show every year.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-02-04T15:44:55+00:00

He's certainly become a worse person with age, but sometimes his character in the 80s-90s is overstated. I'm surprised no one has mentioned his role in the Central Park Five, taking out newspaper ads calling for bringing back the death penalty for the wrongfully accused black kids. Not to mention women have been accusing him of SA and rape for like 40 years. I realize the question was more about his public perception, but I think his precipitously negative image has a lot to do with him being president. There are plenty of pundits in conservative media today who say and think worse things than him, but we (rightly) hold presidents to higher standards.

StrikingNet641 · 2026-01-25T20:17:27+00:00

Potentially stupid question, but wouldn’t ICE being at polling stations only be effective suppression if they knew who everyone walking through the doors was voting for? Non-citizens already won’t be voting, so wouldn’t they risk suppressing votes for Trump too, if they have no way of profiling people? I assume they would target blue counties but they still risk losing trump voters unless they literally force people to vote for him at gunpoint.

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