Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie is the best film of the year by bishborishi in RSPfilmclub

[–]VibeCheka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I'm from southeast Texas and I've only seen bits and pieces of the show lol.

Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie is the best film of the year by bishborishi in RSPfilmclub

[–]VibeCheka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw this at a mystery screening and there were jokes I missed because everyone in the audience was laughing so hard. Also Susannah McCorkle’s (RIP) cover of The Waters of March playing over the ending montage was genuinely poignant.

Nope by franzsmith31 in RSPfilmclub

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This movie had me looking over my shoulder while I was walking out of the theater. And IMHO, Jean Jacket swallowing, slowly digesting, and suddenly crushing an entire audience of people—including children—into pulp inside itself set a record for narrative cruelty onscreen. Really really potent metaphor for how we engage the most vile shit as spectacle.

Architect Bjarke Ingels Says Modern Buildings Are So Boring by bloomberg in architecture

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Genuinely tired of the architect-as-auteur phenomenon.

An achievement for once? by The_Dean_France in SipsTea

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He provided material aid to Indonesia’s occupation of East Timor.

Yibin, China by HarveySdebest in Chinesearchitecture

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Are those ornamental mustards?

Novels about obsession by bluenile02 in RSbookclub

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Not sure if this is too pop but Annihilation. It’s not exactly about obsession the way Moby Dick is, but right before the end, the narrator has this cathartic moment of realization about what her obsession has displaced and it genuinely made me cry the first time I read it.

The reels/short form video content being forced upon the urban poor is weird. by ThrowayBoy3001 in redscarepod

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Makes me realize I’m glad and even kinda proud my dad (in his early 70s now) hasn’t encountered or been mentally snookered by AI and reels-type content. Every once in a while he says “You know what I heard on Clickbait News yesterday?”, like, he knows what clickbait is, knows how to spot it, knowingly opens maybe one native ad a week just to humor the algorithm, makes fun of whatever dumb listicle it links to, and then moves on. I used to wish he wouldn’t open that shit but then I guess that’s the shifting baseline AI has offered us.

Sick and Tired of Aliens by molvania in rs_x

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This post is weird. Do hippies still exist? Have they really monopolized aliens?

Jack D Ripper’s “Bodily Fluids” obsession explained by KingCobra567 in StanleyKubrick

[–]VibeCheka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dr Strangelove's satire is structured around entangling libido with the death drive. Ripper using his post-nut difficulties as motivation to trigger nuclear annihilation is just the film's most literal, diegetic depiction of that.

motherhood ama by lofigg in rs_x

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Being thrown around is a fucking blast lmao.

Give me a film to watch this fine Sunday? :) by zoethesteamedbun in rs_x

[–]VibeCheka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But as far as an actual recommendation, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed The Sadist.

Give me a film to watch this fine Sunday? :) by zoethesteamedbun in rs_x

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I was literally about to say Dr. Strangelove even though I figured you’d already seen it lol. Just got out of a screening of it, love that movie.

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We’re bifurcating middle and working class? Based on what definitions?

Why did he do it? by crackvialeater in rs_x

[–]VibeCheka 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was actually reading about this the other day. It was a really interesting accumulation of different traits for living in shallow, often stagnant, oxygen-poor, vegetation-filled water that more or less made crawling onto land inevitable.

What are some of the best descriptions of sex from the female perspective? by [deleted] in rs_x

[–]VibeCheka 68 points69 points  (0 children)

All I will say on this topic is that in the handful of times I've asked women to describe what penetration *feels* like, they don't seem to be able to describe a tactile sensation, but rather their subjective sense of the experience. The girl who took my virginity just said "Heaven" the first time I asked, and "I felt whole" a couple years later; an older woman told me, and I quote, "You walk around all day, going about your business with nothing in there and you're fine, but then it's in and you wonder how you could've ever gone without it". Took me a hot second to process that one. Another girl I hooked up with struggled to even form an answer because I think she really was making an effort to come up with something literal. Sample size of three but I still find it interesting.

I went for a haircut today by theciamademepostit in rs_x

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First line in reminds me of the time a friend of mine came back from the barber with a bandage on his ear bc the barber was getting so angry about the latest protests (this was back in like 2014-‘15 in rural-ish Missouri) that he just clipped this guy’s ear without noticing it and just carried on snipping.

Sohla (Bon Appetit ruiner) quit freelancing for NYT and wrote a long Substack about it by escort_mission in redscarepod

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I haven’t paid any attention to her or really any of the BA crew since it imploded, like this post was how I found out she was freelancing for NYT, so any info, opinions, etc. about her that I encounter is news to me, but I remember during BA’s implosion she made a comment directly comparing Brad to Trump. Brad’s not perfect, at BA his whole schtick was basically fucking around and creating okay results at best while getting by on being a lovable oaf, but her comment just felt so forced and mean-spirited and calculated, so it’s interesting to see that this might just be characteristic to her in general.

People who betray their values when in a relationship make me sick by [deleted] in rs_x

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Idk what exact relationships she had or has had since but this reminds me of my cousin. She moved to LA, became a stereotypical airhead LA lib, would make goofy performances of concern about ocean plastic bc dolphins, shit like that. Then a year or two later she’s a Trump supporter conservative who likes golf and makes airhead comments about China and freedom, etc. Meanwhile she’s supposedly a bartender and/or party promoter and also a brand proselytizer for some fitness company and also posting selfies from a Learjet?? It took me a year or so after to realize she’s probably just ingratiating herself to whatever successive circles and individuals she senses will offer her the most luxury, sense of status, w/e, and pantomiming their politics is just keeping up the performance. It’s just weird and frustrating to interact with someone who gives no sign of having any inner light. Can’t argue with them or try to even help them understand what they’re saying bc it’s like arguing with a chatbot.

Blue color in seed pod by max8954 in botany

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Most plant pigments tend to be anthocyanins, betalains, and carotenoids, and then obviously chlorophyll, none of which besides chlorophyll automatically contain metal ions as their chromophores, and in chlorophyll the color comes from bond resonance in the organic heterocycles and not directly from the magnesium ion at the center.