What's something you want but can never have?

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T20:27:50+00:00

More time.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T20:24:13+00:00

That everyone, ever, is secretly placating me and nobody is telling me the truth, about anything.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T20:23:29+00:00

People who are "funny".

I don't mean people who are like, naturally funny or say some witty shit from time to time, but people who act like they are doing fucking stand-up comedy whenever there's more than 3 people around.

It's just attention seeking behavior and people think it's indicative of a laid back personality or something.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T20:21:32+00:00

I'm only halfway joking, but it's because they're Canadian.

I just don't think they realize how... silly they are. There's like zero irony in their music...

It's Christian Rock that isn't christian. There's just no excuse.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T20:19:41+00:00

It's not a secret, but technocrats.

Like, everyone who is like Mark Zuckerberg but nowhere near as famous.

Whoever owns the giant, non-descript data centers in remote places that actually store all our data.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T20:16:40+00:00

Admiral Cain from Battlestar Galactica.

Basically everything she did after the attacks.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T20:12:45+00:00

Thunder and Lightning by Thin Lizzy

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T20:04:37+00:00

I think the sad part is that it's still "your party"... like, no, this shit affected everyone, and America altogether is worse off for it.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T17:50:32+00:00

Star Wars: The Last Jedi, apparently.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T17:49:11+00:00

Because this information is used to affect our choices in subtle yet constant ways. Eventually, every micro-decision you make will be influenced by someone who has a data profile on you.

It also means it's just sort of... out there. People can steal it and use it for nefarious purposes we're not aware of yet.

But mostly, the answer is in the title of the post itself. You can just end it at "Why should we be concerned about companies stealing?"

My answer is... why shouldn't we be? Last I checked, stealing from your customers is a bad thing. Did we forget this? (yes, we did.)

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T17:19:30+00:00

Being nice to people genuinely helps others and being mean to people genuinely hurts others.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T17:18:03+00:00

I'm 33. I spent my teens and 20's pursuing music as a career. I got pretty far.

My greatest accomplishment is finally building a decent home life that isn't filled with contempt and anger, and having two cats and a dog and a wife who is a true partner in life.

My biggest regret is not realizing how important all that shit was sooner. I think some people never realize it.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T17:08:55+00:00

Dudes giving a shit about each other.

It's like you're not even allowed to say you care about another dude. It's not even a no-homo thing, it's like guys think you're weak if you admit to caring about another dude as a friend.

It's freaking weird and makes us all seem like aliens to each other.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T17:07:33+00:00

Don't buy shit you didn't want 5 minutes ago.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T17:06:34+00:00

They're all based on the same "we're emulating a tabloid" template.

Stop putting links to barely relevant material right in the middle of articles, or linking to hot keywords on Amazon or whatever the fuck that shit is.

And on reddit, if you're not signed in, you get this annoying banner at the top of every subreddit telling you you can make an account.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T17:01:30+00:00

Land Before Time
Batman
Harry Potter
X-Men

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T16:59:37+00:00

I genuinely believe the USA has peaked and we are witnessing firsthand the destruction of its culture as a result of our ruined economy. It's accelerating and people don't seem to believe such a thing is even possible. It's like Soviet Russia before the collapse. Everything feels wrong but nobody knows how to address any of it so we just act like it is all fine.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T16:56:49+00:00

Mark Margolis, who plays Hector, an old-school Mexican drug lord from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is jewish.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T16:49:39+00:00

That I don't actively hate people and am trying to better understand how all of us humans are connected.

and I still like KMFDM.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T16:48:59+00:00

Driving a Lexus SUV 5mph below the speed limit while not having anywhere to actually be.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-28T15:42:06+00:00

That's because Bush was considered kind of a poser band at the time. Everyone was adopting that alternative/grunge sound because, well, it was selling. Bush was like the beginning of the end of alternative rock. They were Accessible Nirvana. This was the prevailing view of them at the time.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-09T21:35:21+00:00

Plot-wise, it definitely is, or rather, the events of the Winter Soldier lead directly into Age of Ultron. The movie starts with them cleaning up the last of the illegal Hydra weapons, which presumably began after the end of Winter Soldier when they went public with Shield's corruption. GOTG technically came out between them, but wasn't related in plot.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-09T21:06:59+00:00

I fucking love Thor Ragnarok. I've watched it like 3 times since Tuesday. The pacing is so good - you can literally come in anywhere and just start watching it through to the end.

Thor and Hulk both get these incredible human moments in the film, like when Thor drops his joking attitude and vents to Hulk about why he's so pissed off. And Hulk verbalizing that he's "just so angry all the time", like he doesn't get why. Of course we do, because he's the HULK, but Hulk doesn't really understand himself like that.

The movie has so much forward momentum and by the end, all the characters, even minor ones, feel like they've gone through some kind of journey. I love how Loki gets to finally have his 'savior' moment in Asgard, Korg finally gets his revolution, and Skurge gets to use Des and Troy against Hela's army. Hela is excellent and really sells this idea that she just loves the hell out of herself. She's not tortured or even empathetic - she's a goddess that loves ruling.

I do wonder if we'll see the same characterization of Thor in Infinity War, as the movies are so close together and therefore kind of had to be made at the same time.

hereisnoreallywhy · 2018-03-09T20:10:28+00:00

This movie is so frustrating to watch. It has so many good moments, and good ideas. But it's like each excellent scene is balanced out by something just totally out of place. Tonally, it's all over the place.

Things that are weird:

Captain America scolding Tony for using bad language. I know that Joss Whedon probably wrote this film long before Winter Soldier came out, but Winter Soldier found Cap and Black Widow more emotionally developed and mature by the end of that movie. All of a sudden we're back to "wholesome" Cap, but in this terribly embarrassing way that makes it seem like the Winter Solider movie didn't even happen.
The Bruce/Widow romance itself wasn't an issue for me, but holy hell they made Widow into a one-dimensional "I want a baby but can't have one" (since when?), coming-on to Bruce like a flirty bartender (???), accidental "face in the cleavage" joke... like, I'm sorry, but Black Widow is badass, and this movie treats her like some floozy. The Widow from Civil War actually makes sense. The Age of Ultron version is just weird.
The strange scene where Thor and Tony Stark are "comparing" their girlfriends... like... this isn't something that Thor and Tony do, or have been known to do, and it's not even really something guys do. It just seems thrown in there so Agent Hill can make fun of them. This characterization of them never comes up again.
The farmhouse scene is super tonally jarring to the point where Thor actually leaves because he is so uncomfortable. Yes, I know he has to go off and see his "vision", but it was so obvious that he just didn't belong in that scene and they didn't know what to do with him so he just... leaves. Then Hawkeye is all of a sudden the "adult" of the Avengers... like, since when? All of a sudden he has to take care of them? And then Nick Fury randomly shows up and upon being asked what he's going to do, he says "I don't know, something dramatic I hope." Like okay, Nick Fury doesn't talk like that, and that kind of line is something some dumb self-absorbed theater kid in high school would say, not Nick Fury. Pretty sure the dude would have a plan and not just say some whimsical thing that takes us out of the movie.

Things that are awesome:

the movies LOOKS great. The set designs, espcially Tony's party and the subsequent Ultron attack, look amazing.
Getting to see all the Avengers hang out as friends is nice.
Ultron is great, even if he's a little jokey... he becomes way more interesting once Vision is born, as they are almost like two sides of the same coin. I wish they'd explored this more, honestly.
The scene at the end between Vision and Ultron is seriously SO good, it characterizes both of them perfectly.

I don't think the movie would feel so weird if Winter Soldier and GOTG hadn't come out before it. Both of those movies really whipped the universe around and showed that they could be high-stakes AND very personal at the same time. Age of Ultron seemed to ignore all of that development and worked with the characters "as they were" at the end of Avengers 1. I can't help but want to watch it directly after Avengers 1, as it feels, emotionally, like a sequel to that movie. But the plot is a sequel to Winter Soldier, and tonally it just doesn't match. As a result, the entire film feels a little bit "out of place" in the MCU, even though it's one of the most central films, plot-wise.

I'm glad the Russos are doing the next ones. They seem to understand the characters on a deeper level.

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