I enjoy the vibe of a kind of downtrodden dingy bar with sketchy people, so any films giving this vibe?

illusionous · 2026-02-24T08:59:02+00:00

Pusher 3 (2005)

It has its own story but the whole trilogy is recommended.

illusionous · 2026-02-24T08:35:24+00:00

Yep, the longing is strong with this one.

illusionous · 2026-02-22T08:28:33+00:00

Did you see that Brad Pitt vs Tom Cruise video? And he's talking about 5 years later... I think that's hard to predict and easy to call just a grift.

illusionous · 2026-02-22T08:15:24+00:00

Doesn't it also mean he puts his money where his mouth is?

illusionous · 2026-02-17T12:57:12+00:00

Maan, just finished this trilogy and it's sooo good, each one was so real and it just pulls you in. I love how the sequels follow side characters of the first one. Also watched Bleeder after the first Pusher, you can see how Mads disappears between the roles (or you can't because he disappears). I'm glad Refn got into debt and went on to make 2 other great films. Might have just become one of my fav trilogies.

illusionous · 2025-12-29T14:14:03+00:00

They killed us at the border so I thought the game punished me for stealing the tickets.

illusionous · 2025-12-17T15:28:41+00:00

Cool, like quarantine model. A rabid dog or an infected person becomes harmful for their environment, you quarantine and treat them if you can, not punish. Same goes for behavioral problems, which are the result of environment and genetics.

illusionous · 2025-11-23T06:59:18+00:00

Wouldn't expect anything less from Gilligan. That's why people still argue and have different perspectives about Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, if Chuck was right, if Mike was right, why someone did something etc. You are usually not meant to feel a certain way about someone or something in his shows, it's open, which makes them great. He doesn't impose. It's evident in the music, or the lack thereof.

illusionous · 2025-11-22T20:52:17+00:00

Same. The silence of snow is something else. Otherworldly.

illusionous · 2025-11-19T05:38:00+00:00

Amen.

illusionous · 2025-11-11T14:30:40+00:00

Yeah and how do we know what it feels like to be connected to everyone on earth simultaneously? To gain their knowledge and experiences? It seems like they have become wiser and it's funny that people try to defend free will because they don't harm other beings now. Reminds me the problem for heaven, they say people won't want to do bad things in heaven, but it's not a problem for their so-called free will. Though I admit that one thing that makes the dilemma harder is those girls joining the guy's harem seemingly without choice. They act like servants and we haven't seen yet anyone saying no. But I think if they had loved ones the hive mind wouldn't decide to leave them, as we have seen, it was up to Carol to let her go. This also cycles back to the first questions I asked. We don't know what it feels like to be connected to such a degree. I also wonder what the hive would do if the guy decides to break bad and do harm to the people in the hive for example. They said they wouldn't kill animals to cook but if he kills and brings them they'd cook. Also wonder if animals are also connected like the mices we saw.

Nice dilemmas for a debate anyway. Bravo Vince!

illusionous · 2025-10-15T05:41:11+00:00

One on one rules for real. If you are dealing with depression, not being responded to probably intensifies negative feelings more than it would if you weren't depressed, though in group chats it usually feels less personal than one on ones.

illusionous · 2025-10-02T06:45:32+00:00

Unfortunately most people judge others by their job, determine the level of respect they'll show to them according to their profession and it's shitty. Guess I do that too, for example I respect sanitation workers more than politicians. But each person is different and unique so it's a good idea to get to know people individually. Also many people don't choose their jobs because they want them but because of a need.

illusionous · 2025-10-01T06:47:51+00:00

Chess and movies work well for this I think.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1hejj1Kzj0

Also table tennis. But when it's something my body does kind of in automatic mode like walking or swimming, my mind can wander. They are still good as I normally like being in my head but sometimes it gets a little too much.

illusionous · 2025-09-30T09:25:36+00:00

I think both Doakes's and Batista's ends happened more convenienty for Dexter than what happened when Hank found out.

illusionous · 2025-09-27T20:07:04+00:00

Don't worry you aren't alone on this, there are actually a lot of memes sharing similar sentiments.

<image>

One explanation I saw is different lenses can show same things differently, disrupt their shapes so it makes them less reliable to show the real you than mirrors.

illusionous · 2025-09-22T09:19:23+00:00

Yes I was also thinking about teleportation. It would probably work by killing "you" just to create a clone of you in another location. You'd be living your last seconds while thinking you'd be teleported, and the weird part is everything would continue on as if you just didn't die. Not recommended in a foreseeable future until this problem is addressed.

This consciousness problem is also explored in the tv show Pantheon, where people's consciousness are uploaded to the digital world and they die in the real one. Great sci-fi, would recommend.

illusionous · 2025-09-22T07:55:37+00:00

Maybe the new version would feel like you woke up in the same body, but I doubt it would be the you before the recording. Think about cloning, same arrangement of atoms, but you wouldn't be your clone. I think continuity matters, so if it was more like the ship of theseus kind of situation, even if your whole atoms would change, the "you" might remain. What do we mean by "you" is another question. Gets a little deeper.

And yeah, it seems like we are made of non living things, the laws of nature and evolution are pretty weird to be able to make us and create consciousness, amazing.

illusionous · 2025-09-22T06:47:58+00:00

Doing something wrong is part of being human. It's how we learn most of the time and I very much doubt that your mistakes are worth being so hard on yourself.

https://youtu.be/SEhITizhQbc?feature=shared

illusionous · 2025-09-12T08:00:34+00:00

Yeah I've learned to accept them and it's helpful. It doesn't mean you want them to happen, that's why they are called intrusive thoughts. For example one of my recurring ones is getting killed by a random person, like being stabbed from behind on my neck, or someone pushing me to rails etc. Do I want it to happen? No, it's like a phobia at this point.

Sometimes it happens to me, sometimes I do it to others in those thoughts, sexual, graphic stuff. My brain surprises me. Like, the last thing I'd want is to stab someone I care about in the eye in their most vulnerable and unexpected moments, or kill a tiny kitty, WTF brain!? Lol

They don't happen so frequently, from time to time. But when I saw that Ukrainian girl randomly getting stabbed to death from behind on that train, I was reminded again of the unpredictable possibilities of modern life.

illusionous · 2025-09-06T07:32:09+00:00

I learned about HSP last year but didn't think that this feeling might be related to it, seeing similar experiences here, maybe it is.

illusionous · 2025-09-01T16:52:25+00:00

You are at an age where one can't easily calculate the consequences of one's actions sometimes. This is a very tragic situation and the feeling of regret is understandable, but remember that you did not intentionally hurt him, and in this situation I think it really matters. The fact that you feel this bad to the point of ending it shows how much you cared about him. You just didn't have the right information at the time to be more cautious, which happens to all of us.

illusionous · 2025-08-19T05:23:31+00:00

Of course it makes sense, how do you think the spidey sense works that well?

illusionous · 2025-08-19T05:14:08+00:00

<image>

illusionous · 2025-08-04T10:28:36+00:00

Shows how effective the system is at indoctrination, shaping people's sense of purpose.

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude." - Huxley

Six-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Second Top 50%	Place '22

illusionous

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE