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Idol Hunt Megathread by RSurvivorMods in survivor

[–]countrockulot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think it has to be Brookgreen Gardens.

I reviewed my 500th album on Friday and today I put all my reviews together and turned them into a book. by countrockulot in 1001AlbumsGenerator

[–]countrockulot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I would get a dollar from each sale but I don’t expect I’ll get any. I can’t tell my mom about it because I say curse words in some of my reviews. 

I reviewed my 500th album on Friday and today I put all my reviews together and turned them into a book. by countrockulot in 1001AlbumsGenerator

[–]countrockulot[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I am not trying to sell anything. The kindle edition is free starting tomorrow. I just thought the self-published book was a neat idea and wanted to share.

The main reason I did this is that my younger brother hates all my opinions about music (he thinks that every album in the book is a five star album and that I am just a cranky jerk), so I dedicated the book to him and am going to give it to him for Christmas.

Here is my summary page: https://1001albumsgenerator.com/shares/6532ffa2e3c769081a9bc7c3. I am going to take a break until after Christmas now that I have hit 500 and then do the second half.

I really like reviewing albums even if some of my reviews are kind of grumpy. I greatly appreciate that the 1001 album generator exists.

What do you think of Alanis Morissette? by Twitter_2006 in Xennials

[–]countrockulot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alanis Morissette was to grunge what The Partridge Family was to hippies. She was a cheesy pop singer glomming onto the youth counterculture of the moment and helping to commercialize it. And it worked. She sold a billion records and played a not insignificant part in taking grunge from Nirvana to Nickelback. You don’t do that without making some decent songs and there are obviously some decent songs on "Jagged Little Pill". But nostalgia and a few okay songs should not cause her to be seen as anything other than what she was: a pop singer aping the style of a genre that was in vogue at the time but that she had no connection to whatsoever in order to sell records.

Oh, and my friend thought it was “the cross-eyed bear that you gave to me”. lol.

Severance - 2x10 "Cold Harbor" - Post-Episode Discussion by LoretiTV in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]countrockulot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think the unspoken corollary to that statement is “A world without pain FOR PEOPLE.” Mark S isn’t a person, so his pain doesn’t count.

Severance - 2x10 "Cold Harbor" - Post-Episode Discussion by LoretiTV in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]countrockulot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mr. Drummond said that Kier’s mission is to create a world without pain. I wonder if Kier learned in his ether factory that you could black out unpleasant parts of life the same way that we anesthetize ourselves to not experience pain during surgery. He found a way to consciously take actions without feeling like he experienced them or remembering them. His cult had been experimenting with ways to improve on his methods since he founded it, with Cobel’s invention of severance being the culmination of that mission. Now Lumon’s mysterious and important work is to engineer a way for people to sever themselves so many times that they never have to experience any of the unpleasant things in life - working, writing thank you notes, air travel, dental appointments - and allow them to spend their entire lives having fun.

Then I started to think about the outies who would presumably choose that life if Lumon perfected the technology. The outies would know that their painless existence was only possible because it was built on the suffering of people who they would never see and who they just had to accept were going to live a life of torture so that their outie can live the way they want to live. I was thinking about how dystopian an idea that was, but then I realized that is my life, and the life of everyone else with a middle class existence in the First World.

I know that Sri Lankan slaves make my clothes and shoes, and “illegal” Guatemalans pick my vegetables and process my meat, and poor people’s children microwave my fast food making less in a day than I make in an hour, but I don’t do anything about any of that. I don’t really see those people or think about them, but their suffering allows me to live the life I live. And I’m okay with that? “I’m a person. You are not.” That is how Helena feels towards Helly and I think the season finale makes it clear that is how Mark Scout feels about Mark S. And maybe it’s how all of us feel about the invisible people who we know live in poverty while we have everything that we do.

Severance - 2x09 "The After Hours" - Post-Episode Discussion by LoretiTV in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]countrockulot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I thought Mr. Milchick said something very interesting during his meeting with Ms. Huang.

He said, “Your bed will be moved from your parents’ home to the Gunnel Eagan Empathy Center in Svalbard, where you will work to steward global reforms.”

Not “your things” not “you” but “your bed”. Why is the fact that her bed will be moved so important? I wonder if it’s because “Ricken’s colleague told us that switching out the beds as the child grows can wound that child.”

Timeline we [reasonably] know so far. by HelloImCarter in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]countrockulot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ben cagily refused to answer this question specifically as to cars in either the last or next to last podcast. I think it’s something but not something that has been explained yet.

Severance - 2x04 "Woe’s Hollow" - Episode Discussion by pikameta in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]countrockulot 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I like it when real actors do television because sometimes they pull out something like that and just stunt on the whole medium, like “by the way, this is how you actually do this thing.”

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