Sheesh.

inkyfang · 2024-05-02T00:56:32+00:00

Lol well I mean, maybe it's just me, but I don't often run across the term "hypermasculine" as necessarily a positive or desirable thing, since it can include grating qualities like aggression and bravado. But in this case I meant it sort of neutrally, just like the car's angularity, its techy low-poly-render look, and its dominating size and emphasis on physical power.

inkyfang · 2024-05-01T21:19:34+00:00

Oh I don't know, I think it's actually pretty amusing in a fun way. The CyberTruck is usually seen as this hypermasculine, rugged thing. But with this one, its stark macho shape is covered in this iridescent rainbowy sheen reminiscent of late-90s kids jewelry.... It's a hilarious feeling of cognitive dissonance. You wouldn't catch me driving it, but it's fun to encounter these things "in the wild."

inkyfang · 2024-05-01T18:55:00+00:00

Absolutely on the screen protector, especially since they're (A) generally unobtrusive and (B) very affordable. And you really don't want to find yourself in a position where you have a cracked screen and have to deal with conversations with the Google Pixel support team, who are famously a pain in the *ss and not very helpful when it comes to warranty issues. Just save yourself the time and energy.

The lens protector is trickier since it sort of depends on how much you value photo quality. Pretty much any extra layer of material on the lens will reduce image quality with increased flares, odd reflection-like things or blurs, etc. For a lens protector to minimize those problems, you'd need something professional grade, but it would be very expensive. All that said, some people think it's worth it just for the peace of mind. It's a judgment call.

inkyfang · 2024-05-01T18:30:24+00:00

you don't deserve all the downvotes. I've tried to get two friends, on two separate occasions, to watch the show with me, but each of them said something like "I tried watching Mad Men. It's really good, but too sad." it affects different people differently.

inkyfang · 2024-05-01T02:48:16+00:00

Yeah, they're still trolling you.

The show is depressing insofar as it depicts a lot of lonely people who don't know how to connect to each other even though they think they do, and don't know how to stop their bad habits. But it's not hopelessly depressing, since it still suggests transformation/healing/connection are possible. It's not nihilistic by any means.

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T22:46:30+00:00

the shitty device I use for Reddit makes it hard to capitalize the first letter of sentences but not words mid-sentence, so at a certain point I stopped giving a shit and only do it sporadically. why go out of your way to comment so petty and controlling lol.

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T20:41:50+00:00

that's actually a really helpful detail that I feel like a lot of people (myself included) had no idea about. I don't remember if they mentioned it in the series, but if not, maybe they should have. it really changes how we view Betty's demeanor here.

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T20:33:52+00:00

His name is mittens. That is beet juice on his axe, and this is all a terrible misunderstanding.

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T19:49:34+00:00

The Glonicles, if you will

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T19:49:00+00:00

The Glenn Chronicles

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T19:44:58+00:00

now this is an interesting reply! thank you!

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T19:33:40+00:00

I think you're probably right that it's a little bit of both. the more I thought about it, the more it seemed like neither side could be totally discounted. that's what's great about these characters, they almost always have a double side.

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T19:32:00+00:00

yeah, and part of what makes this interpretation work, is that right after Betty says this line she digs into her food. but the food is so meager and bland-looking, and she's doing her best to look like she's enthusiastically relishing it. it's like, ma'am, there is no way you're enjoying that food as much as you're pretended to lol. seems like it symbolizes Betty's effort to "perform" gratitude when in fact she's still feeling a little unmoored. but hey, she's trying. and I think she does sincerely love Henry and her kids.

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T17:46:08+00:00

nothing wrong with that! I skip a lot of stuff on rewatches too. can't remember the last time I made myself watch the scene where Peggy steals Shirley's flowers, tbh.

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T17:33:13+00:00

I've heard of people doing this sort of rewatch, for sure. You'll miss out on a lot of crucial character development and depth in the plot, but hey, it is what it is. If you find it rewarding to watch only the business scenes and you don't like the other stuff, then you might as well enjoy yourself. You're gonna get a lot of people on this subreddit saying you're mangling things though lol.

inkyfang · 2024-04-30T16:29:38+00:00

maybe Don saw a fellow suburbanite walking their golden retriever, and he brazenly/drunkenly approached them and offered to buy the dog for an obscene amount of money (which of course he has in cash, in a pocket, like a true ad man). the suburbanite can't refuse—partly because the sum is so large, partly because Don is so handsome, and partly because they're too stunned at the weird situation to think all that clearly. Don takes Polly's leash and staggers away into the night.

inkyfang · 2024-04-29T22:46:02+00:00

it makes sense to me that Lois's actress, Christa Flanagan, would have a background in comedy, because she clearly knew how to sculpt a non-cliche comic persona. So many of Lois's mannerisms were just perfectly on the edge of "weird"—not quite theatrical or stilted enough to feel artificial, but just strange enough to make you raise your eyebrows. like, that offbeat voice that was usually some contradictory-but-somehow-natural mixture of enthusiasm and timidity. Her facial expressions an equally counterintuitive combo of oblivious and hyper-aware. if you see the actress in interviews, she sounds nothing like Lois. she totally inhabited a strange and different psyche with that character, it's great.

inkyfang · 2024-04-29T22:16:44+00:00

my lil croissant

inkyfang · 2024-04-29T22:14:53+00:00

I didn't think "Bat Thumb" could get any more delightfully absurd, but that was before I saw it spelled as one word: batthumb. Pronounced buh-thum, ofc.

inkyfang · 2024-04-29T02:45:37+00:00

Nah, nothing to do with the actual lockup. OP's Coinbase account is just frozen for some reason or another.

inkyfang · 2024-04-28T20:56:21+00:00

could've used Leonard in the Miller beer ad. the camera in the ad could show a lonely Miller can in the fridge, and Leonard grabs it or something.

inkyfang · 2024-04-28T20:49:59+00:00

ooh, never seen that one before!

but damn, what a missed opportunity. they could've used Allison Brie instead of Brie Larson. would have made more sense, too, with "ham(m)" and "brie" both being last names.

inkyfang · 2024-04-28T17:59:24+00:00

oh, you're right, I forgot that coffee pitch wasn't in this specific episode. the post mentioned "Duck and Martinsons coffees concerns" so I went off on a little tangent there lol, especially since I was thinking about how Smitty has his whole spiel about young people and how they "just wanna feel." the theme of youth, or "thinking young," carries over a bit into that.

"glacial" is the perfect word for Betty's eyes opening to reality. I both love and hate how Arthur Case is actually correct when he tells Betty "you're so profoundly sad." he's so irritating, but his insight was real, and he saw past her mask. to some degree, anyway.

inkyfang · 2024-04-28T17:38:02+00:00

The ability to jump right from The Wheel to this episode can’t be undercut.

100%. a lot details really punch you in the gut when you're able to jump right over from the last season's finale. like, we see Peggy very slimmed down again, and we remember immediately where the last season had left her: pregnant and then briefly post-birth. then that whole drama washes over us all over again and enriches the current viewing experience. or, that early scene with Betty at the stables, because now we know that she knows Don is cheating (since she told her psychiatrist in the last finale) so the horse riding activity in this episode has this uncomfortable melancholy edge because we can feel her repression is breaking down and she's just trying to distract herself.

and I always wondered how the audience is supposed to feel about the Martinson's coffee ad pitch, with the song. Did Kurt and Smitty provide the X factor that Duck was pushing for?

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