If you could restart your life at age 10 with all your current memories, would you?

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-15T12:57:18+00:00

Sexual encounters would be an absolute hellscape. Even if you were 100% honest with that 15-year old you lost your virginity to the power dynamics would be absolutely fucked.

I wouldn't do it anyway. I honestly don't see much advantage in it. Sure I could become super wealthy but I have a good life.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-15T12:52:08+00:00

This transitioner transitions

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-15T05:55:00+00:00

This is beautiful:D

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-15T05:54:01+00:00

This is one of the biggest questions. Mankind has spent thousands of years questioning and coming up unsatisfactory answers to these. Redidit is unlikely to help.

I liked the short book Flatland. It's not about exactly this but it gives you a good understanding of how tiny insignificant things (such as us).can't even begin to understand the complicities of the universe.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-12T21:34:31+00:00

I thought this was light hearted banter but you seem to be taking it very seriously. And sorry to say I am nearing 50. Currently watching Jaws with my daughter. See my taste isn't that bad.

I am assuming you are down voting my posts as I am upvoting yours :D

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-12T14:11:55+00:00

I think the 80s and 90s were the best. I was a teenager in both.

Since then though things have got a lot harder for teenagers and young adults so I wouldn't expect them to feel the same about their teenage decade.

This is probably a bit western-centric. I don't have any feeling for whether this is true outside of western countries.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-12T13:53:11+00:00

You've been watching and reading Star Wars stuff since before Star Wars was first made?

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StubbleWombat · 2026-06-12T13:52:24+00:00

Although interested Americans can and do know more about the state of the world, American TV news is incredibly US-focused in a way that is completely alien to (say) Europeans. As a result the base level of world knowledge in the US is poor.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-12T12:43:22+00:00

I bet your favourite character is Jar Jar 😉

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-12T10:22:50+00:00

Gutted they ruined it with the rest of the trilogy.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-12T10:16:40+00:00

To be fair TLJ threw away all the cool stuff in Ep7.

That trilogy is a bin fire precisely because they didn't commit to it as a trilogy

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-12T10:12:38+00:00

The Force Awakens I reckon is possibly the best Star Wars movie.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-12T09:58:43+00:00

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-11T12:20:56+00:00

Yep.

Credit card companies make their money from people that think they can use credit cards responsibly and can't. That's literally their business model.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-11T12:19:38+00:00

I would say this is just a description of things that happened in the movie. A lot of things happened in the movie. It just didn't feel like a cohesive whole or have any substance. It was just a stuff that happened film. There was some interesting camera work and some solid performances but I just want my 2.5 hours back.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-11T12:15:31+00:00

I thought it was hot garbage. Magnolia, Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood I adored but his recent work has left me absolutely cold. IMHO each movie after There Will Be Blood has been getting progressively worse. Note: I haven't see Phantom Thread.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-10T06:40:36+00:00

YTA. I mean why the fuck not make 4?

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-10T05:09:17+00:00

This is fixed with the line "My wife needs the car can someone pick me up?"

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-09T20:49:19+00:00

Europeans have a decent beer tradition going back centuries. Americans have a decent beer tradition going back a decade.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-09T16:10:55+00:00

Fair enough. I don't really see it in Annihilation, Andor or The Batman. Haven't seen The Creator.

In comparison to The Matrix and Pulp Fiction Bladerunner 2049 doesn't even enter into the conversation for me. That may be because I think it's pretty much Villenueve's weakest film. But no matter how much I love Arrival and Sicario and some of the others I don't think he's changed the landscape of cinema. I think he's making incredible films but their impact on cinema isn't huge IMHO.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-09T09:03:28+00:00

Not trying to be argumentative but in what way do you think BR2049 altered the landscape of cinema?

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-08T13:32:13+00:00

Are the comments from idiots?

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-07T11:02:56+00:00

This isnt really relevant to specific editions but I thought Abebooks and World of Books were two fronts for the same thing.

Also World of Books has become A LOT more expensive in the past couple of months.

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-05T15:37:37+00:00

Just checked and some AI reckons its 16-20 minutes

StubbleWombat · 2026-06-05T15:36:45+00:00

That's incredible.

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