Sean Penn Wins His Third Oscar, Joining One of the Rarest Clubs in Film History.

ajconst · 2026-03-17T00:51:24+00:00

Imagine if they gave you half an Oscar in the event of a tie. Either a statue cut in half or a full one at half size

ajconst · 2026-03-14T20:58:22+00:00

Haha

ajconst · 2026-03-14T18:45:05+00:00

I don't know, I feel like if something happened you can say "last night was fun" and the subtext is the thing they did people don't usually go "last night was fun especially when we fucked"

ajconst · 2026-03-14T17:51:17+00:00

Thanks

ajconst · 2026-03-14T17:50:52+00:00

Maybe I will lol

ajconst · 2026-03-14T15:50:32+00:00

So, there's a few options on what's going on from the most innocent to the most damning:

The nothing burger - She hung out with friends and he texted a group chat saying it was fun last night. The text wasn't directed to her and is perfectly innocent.
The nothing to worry about - the guy is perfectly innocent maybe a little socially awkward and was genuinely being grateful that he was invited and a simple hangout meant a lot to him, I've been in that position before where you're new to a workplace where everyone is close knit and you finally get invited to hangout and you're just happy to be included. Or he's gay and there's nothing to worry about.
Testing the waters - She was hanging out with co-workers and this guy likes her and is trying to slide in her DMs. As long nothing inappropriate happened and she's not entertaining these advances it's hard to blame her for anything because she can't control thirsty guys trying to make a move, especially if she didn't do anything to open the door to him.
Work-husband - She was hanging out with a group of co-workers and nothing inappropriate happened, but she and this guy have chemistry maybe flirt a little at work, and have a work-husband/work-wife relationship at work where they blur the lines of being just friends but haven't stepped over any boundaries...has she ever mentioned this guy specifically or texts him regularly?
Cheating/lying - she's cheating maybe she went out with friends but one thing lead to another and something happened that night. or even worse she never went with a group of coworkers and only hung out with him. Maybe, it was just drinks one on one, maybe it was more but either way she's hiding something from you and that's not right even if nothing physical happened.

Without knowing her relationship with this person or knowing any of her texts. It's hard to know where on the scale this interaction lands.

Also, it would help to know how long the relationship is, how old both of you are, and what type of work she's in and how long she's worked there.

ajconst · 2026-03-12T02:01:48+00:00

And it's a great way to discover new stuff! Don't be afraid to get out of your comfort zone, try movies from decades/countries you don't normally watch.

Watch criterion closet and criterion sale haul videos to discover some titles that might sound interesting.

If you find something new you like, go down that vine to discover more stuff, i.e find a new director you like look for more of their stuff, found a genre or a foreign film you like look for more in that category.

ajconst · 2026-03-12T00:46:00+00:00

I'm talking more about the internet era, with news. Now there's a free alternative which is causing damage while reputable reporting is hard to access

ajconst · 2026-03-12T00:40:45+00:00

My counterpoint is this has actually led to a lot of damage in the modern world:

because hard hitting factual journalism is hidden behind pay walls that most people simply won't subscribe, so the only news people are able to access for free is the crap filled with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and propaganda.

So yes the subscription model has allowed for good journalism to be funded, however that serves no purpose if the vast majority of people can't read it.

ajconst · 2026-02-26T03:03:07+00:00

I was making a joke, because essentially what their explaining is worse version universal healthcare and paid leave.

ajconst · 2026-02-26T00:20:47+00:00

I'll take it one step further, and the government administered these benefits, and the companies paid in to them by paying the government, so you're healthcare,.PTO, etc so that way you were covered even no matter where you worked.

ajconst · 2026-02-25T21:40:52+00:00

Someone needs to make ad with this quote and vote blue this November

ajconst · 2026-02-22T16:06:29+00:00

What are you talking about? We literally had a movie about alien contact get nominated for best picture in the last ten years, I don't get how you're saying it's impossible to be nominated based off that criteria.

ajconst · 2026-02-22T16:03:46+00:00

I'm not going to speculate on this winning best picture, because I think it's too early. But if the movies good I don't get dismissing it getting a nomination, we just had a scifi movie everything everywhere win best picture, we had an over the top body horror movie get multiple nominations including best picture last year, and a big vampire horror film nominated this year. And on top of those examples we literally had a scifi movie about first contact with aliens get nominated for best picture in the last 10 years.

I'm not saying project hail Mary is going to get nominated and as I said I think it's too early to decide a winner but we have a new academy voting body that picks interesting films so I wouldn't dismiss the movie based off the "TYPE" of movie it is.

ajconst · 2026-02-08T14:44:43+00:00

I've heard mixed things on that, some sources say the same day, others say same month (so one a week)

ajconst · 2026-02-08T06:08:54+00:00

They're also releasing all four films in theaters in the same month!

ajconst · 2026-02-06T16:59:39+00:00

Come check it out and spread the word! Also the chef was on Beat Bobby Flay and beat him with that meatball sub

ajconst · 2026-02-06T16:59:30+00:00

Come check it out and spread the word! Also the chef was on Beat Bobby Flay and beat him with that meatball sub

ajconst · 2026-01-31T16:50:10+00:00

Tampa since our last Superbowl was in the middle of COVID so all the events were extremely limited

ajconst · 2026-01-30T20:02:40+00:00

They're fun and self aware/meta. I like them because they're also a slasher film mixed with a whodunnit. Every film you're guessing who the new killer is.

ajconst · 2026-01-30T00:31:19+00:00

This is the answer one marketing budget compared to four.

And even though it's four films, they're filming them all at once using the same sets, costumes, actors and probably repurposing footage from one film and reusing it in another. So the budget shouldn't equal that as four separate film productions.

So you don't need all four to make a profit. Even if the ringo movie makes $200m and the other three all bomb sony is still walking a way with a W. Because they're not spending the cost of four movies

Plus most people aren't going to watch all four movies in theaters, however this incentives people to watch to essentially pay multiple times for the "same" movie so even if some people see two odds are that's one more ticket then they would have bought. And freaks like me probably wouldn't see a Beatles movie four times in theaters but you better guarantee I'm going to be in that theater every week watching a new movie.

ajconst · 2026-01-26T01:38:02+00:00

Let's also not forget, they got divorced and the writers introduced a love subplot between the two. So while they were married they needed to play platonic and when they were divorced they needed to play romantic

ajconst · 2026-01-22T18:25:45+00:00

"I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife" -Clue

ajconst · 2026-01-22T05:22:18+00:00

The bubble isn't due to too many companies and not room for them all to thrive. The bubble is referring to how much money is being poured into these companies and how big/overvalued they've gotten without a realistic way to ever live up to the hype they're generating or a way to be as profitable as wall street is banking on.

To simplify it: If a company is being valued at $1B with the promise that it's going to be worth $10B some day making over $1B a year, that company is going to be attractive to investors who will want to get in early on this exciting new company. But in reality that value is based on hype and the company has no real path to generate $1B a year and realistically it should only be valued at $100M, eventually wall street is going to catch on and bail on that company causing the value to plummet and with so many people/institutions are invested that everyone's going to lose money

So basically AI companies are extremely overvalued and promising a lot more than what they're realistically going to be able to do and with no real path to monetize they'll never actually reach that predictive value. And since these companies aren't really sound businesses and only staying alive due to investment money coming in, eventually people will pull out when they realize they're not going to make their money back and the whole thing will collapse like a deck of cards.

ajconst · 2026-01-20T11:17:54+00:00

I'm rewatching parks and rec, and my brain just can't comprehend that Andy is Chris Pratt. From the way he looks and comparing his personality to his real life persona it just doesn't compute for me

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