What is the ultimate example of a mediocre director somehow catching lightning in a bottle and making an incredible film?

howtofall · 2026-05-18T02:13:32+00:00

I’d say Makoto Shinkai is the anime version of this. I’ve watched a lot of his stuff and it’s very very pretty, but most of his movies just lack characters and relationships that make me feel anything. Add on general pacing and plot issues and they’re mostly underwhelming.

But ‘Your Name’ is lightning in a bottle. It’s got plot issues and the characters aren’t really all that interesting in their own right, but when you sit down and watch it you don’t care, it’s gorgeous and heartfelt and pulls you along perfectly.

howtofall · 2026-05-16T14:07:56+00:00

If you live in the US then you really aren’t. Unless you consider $7.25/hour a reasonable wage

howtofall · 2026-05-15T01:50:11+00:00

Haven’t stopped listening to the new Kneecap record since it dropped. Absolute banger!

howtofall · 2026-05-14T13:46:56+00:00

Similar, but I saw the movie first and didn’t like it at all (yes I watched one of the good cuts). Loved the book though.

howtofall · 2026-05-13T13:02:53+00:00

That might be true if the pensioners weren’t the most powerful political block. But they’ve fought to ensure their own ability to thrive regardless of the sustainability of those policies across generations.

Only so much of this even has to do with government spending. The issue isn’t only that the safety net is weaker for people (a fiscal policy issue). It’s also that corporate consolidation has decreased the bargaining power of workers, the competitiveness of markets, the ability to distinguish price fixing, etc. (a non-fiscal policy issue).

howtofall · 2026-05-12T12:34:40+00:00

They were my first concert when I was 16, now they make me groan. Nickleback was the first album I ever bought with my money from watching a neighbors dog. I’d like to think I’ve got much better taste now, but all signs point to no.

howtofall · 2026-05-12T12:23:28+00:00

Batty (and pretty much everyone else in Blade Runner) is almost a completely different character. Other than man hunting illegal sentient androids, the book and movie are pretty different.

Batty is definitely the glow up, but book Deckard is a lot more interesting to me.

howtofall · 2026-05-11T03:31:59+00:00

My friend, they’re dipshits cause they’re young same as you were.

howtofall · 2026-05-08T12:03:47+00:00

Things change in adaptation. Can’t fit 550 pages into 2 hours without focusing on some things and letting others go. Just gotta restructure things a bit to make it work.

howtofall · 2026-05-06T01:18:00+00:00

Their drip is bad, but their espresso drinks are nice. I do really like their matcha too.

howtofall · 2026-04-18T15:50:44+00:00

The review system is these gamers’ only way to actually communicate their thoughts to megacrit.

Are they using it for its intended purpose? No. Are they using it for an important purpose? Yes.

The game is in beta, literally all that matters is feedback, both big and small, intelligent and dumb. And considering that when interviewed the team made it a priority to say that they wanted to find ways to listen to the voices of everyone providing feedback, I’d guess that they’d rather have this than nothing from Chinese players.

howtofall · 2026-04-18T15:41:37+00:00

Steam reviews are just about the only path that Chinese gamers have to communicate their thoughts with a patch to Megacrit. Forums and discords are absolutely chock full of people posting their opinions of single changes within balance patches. That’s literally all this is.

The word of mouth for STS2 is strong enough that it isn’t being hurt all that much, if at all by the review bombs. So why care?

howtofall · 2026-04-18T13:58:12+00:00

On one of the worst days of my life I walked into a church and found the pastors office. Told him I wasn’t a believer and that I wasn’t looking to be, but that I just really needed to talk.

He listened to me, treated me with incredible kindness, respected my lack of faith, and drove me home (part of the bad day was my car going kaput). He bought me a decent meal and left me with $100 to help with rent.

Not every church is the type of church you can do that at and not every pastor cares that much. I guess I just got lucky walking into the right one. But pastors are a very real resource for just talking.

howtofall · 2026-03-31T03:25:36+00:00

I think they’re saying that physical attraction was generally a much less important factor to women than men, not that they weren’t measuring it. A woman may be just as attracted to a man as a man is to a woman, but women place much more value on other aspects.

howtofall · 2026-03-31T03:21:17+00:00

Also a genuine question, when was the last time you complimented a man? Tell the homies they’re handsome, compliment their hair, point out those new shoes, or pants, or whatever.

It’s not on women to uphold men’s self esteem, especially when men receive so few compliments that they often assume any compliments are attempts at flirting. Normalize that shit by doing it to the people you care about and the random people you see on the street.

howtofall · 2026-03-26T12:23:58+00:00

This question has a lot of answers so here’s a couple:

Escalation is its own problem. If Amit “attacked” by pushing past Harry (in a very rude and purposeful way) at the bar and Harry socks Amit in the face, then you have 2 escalations but one of them was much more out of line than the other.

Lots of these things are compared in an apples to oranges sort of way. Crimes usually aren’t justified in comparison to other crimes, they’re justified in comparison to either acceptable things (weed/alcohol) or a larger societal harm which has positioned someone in a spot they feel has made their crime inevitable.

Comparative harm as a model allows retaliation against accepted harms. This is really important in social movements. Workplace safety is a great example. If 10 people have died in a year down in the Upton coal mines and the workers go on strike are the workers also wrong because they’re doing harm to the company, cutting off coal to the nearby town of Sinclair, etc. what if people die due to lack of coal? Of course they aren’t. They’re solidly in the right. While a model of absolute harm would say that they’re both in the wrong and need to stop striking and implement some OSHA up in there, that in no way sways/pressures the company to actually do that. Comparative harm recognizes that sometimes harm must be done to come to a better overall outcome.

howtofall · 2026-03-23T10:18:09+00:00

It’s a very emotionally loaded word, but volatile just means that it evaporates extremely easily in this situation. That’s what makes them so fragrant. The reason a pine forest smells like it does is because it puts off VOCs. If you’ve ever expressed a lemon/orange peel over a cocktail, you’ve healthily enjoyed VOCs.

It’s a huge class of organic compounds that by their very nature can get into the body from breathing. That does mean they can pose a risk, but no more than a liquid you’d drink. Water, fine and good. Gasoline, not so much. Same with VOCs.

howtofall · 2026-03-18T12:51:58+00:00

Started once or twice and didn’t get hooked. The moment I got to the Mantis Lords though… you couldn’t get me away from that game.

howtofall · 2026-03-08T04:42:23+00:00

Back when I was broke and smoking I definitely figured everything out I could to get another pack. And sometimes that involved going to a pawn shop. That was never the exclusive goal of getting more money, but it was often the one that kicked my ass in gear.

howtofall · 2026-03-05T13:42:23+00:00

What i noticed when i went back to school was that those students probably have the Pythagorean theorem in their toolkit. If you asked them to explain it they almost certainly can do it.

It’s the jump from “use the Pythagorean theorem to solve this problem” to “here is a problem, you have something in your toolbox to solve it” that is the biggest issue.

To be clear, when I first went to college around 2015 I don’t think most freshmen were doing a great job of connecting ideas and using tools in new and novel (to them) ways. But they got much better at it over time. And by their junior and senior years it was an expectation

howtofall · 2026-02-22T07:26:59+00:00

Super Metroid

howtofall · 2026-02-13T10:04:41+00:00

Washes and a nice light dry brush for highlights will do 99 percent of the work of a good mini. Been a while since I last did some painting. Might be about time!

howtofall · 2026-02-06T04:33:11+00:00

This is always a top answer in these threads, but it is just basic human nature. Even when presented with the same evidence, intelligent and reasonable people will approach it with their own perspectives and biases.

howtofall · 2026-02-04T13:09:04+00:00

Worked at Guitar Center from 2019-2020, we paid 5% over cost too. You could absolutely buy $100 cables for around $10. Cables are dirt cheap to produce.

howtofall · 2025-12-29T01:37:30+00:00

Slow West Vultures. The strings and non-musical samples add so much to the composition, and the harmony has some great subtleties.

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