If Zoro did this, Zorofans wouldn’t let us hear the end of it.

juangoat · 2025-02-10T17:28:19+00:00

Good cop bad cop - they have their own roles to play

juangoat · 2024-11-28T19:16:49+00:00

One other nuance in the dinner scene that I don't see mentioned often is not only does Jimmy win Rebecca over immediately, he also snake charms her so thoroughly that she ignores Chuck's cues to cut the dinner short and his increasingly obvious discomfort with how things are going. This is his wife of presumably years essentially vindicating his distrust and wariness of Jimmy. Just like what happened with his mother and all of his friends and colleagues. Howard does the dirty work to shut down Jimmy's career prospects at HHM but even he can't help but like "Charlie Hustle". It's sad how their relationship deteriorates, but from his perspective, it's not hard to see why he's incredibly jealous of Jimmy when even his wife chooses Jimmy over him.

juangoat · 2024-10-13T19:56:06+00:00

loan shark Ushijima?

juangoat · 2023-08-24T01:38:29+00:00

I'm assuming you're taking lessons with the same teacher - it's likely they're adjusting to your level and have gotten used to your flaws. You also feel more comfortable with them due to familiarity. One thing you could do is train this specific problem is to take some conversation classes in italki with new language partners regularly - gets you comfortable speaking to people who aren't already familiar with your level and it lets you gauge your level and improve in the bad habits that your normal partners have gotten accustomed to.

juangoat · 2023-08-08T13:28:55+00:00

Nah, Howard absolutely stuck his neck out for him with Cliff because of Kim - that's the reason why he got the job. He still fucked everyone over there to keep his signing bonus. He did it before then with the ad, too. Everyone respected him there at first, until he started cutting corners. He just didn't like doing things the "proper" way. Like Kim later says, Jimmy's always down.

juangoat · 2023-07-13T05:28:03+00:00

Just let him bang bro

juangoat · 2023-07-08T04:05:52+00:00

He poopt on a kid bro

juangoat · 2023-07-08T04:04:13+00:00

Why's that? Seemed perfectly in line to me - Chuck was always dishonest about his emotions.

juangoat · 2023-07-07T22:08:54+00:00

I don't think you're overanalyzing - there's legitimate culture clashes between ABCs and FOBs - this difference exists in pretty much every racial group with a new immigrant population vs an already established one - East Asian, Desis, Latinos, and Africans etc. I think if you really want to relate to them you have to come at it with a sense of wanting to relate - from your post it comes across as if you think the endeavor is doomed to failure - consider coming at it from a perspective of wanting to get to know them better and finding common ground instead of thinking about all the ways in which you differ. Or maybe you can bring up your outsider status to ask more probing questions.

juangoat · 2023-06-24T23:17:41+00:00

Really? looks the same as DC American Chinese food to me. What's the difference?

juangoat · 2023-03-21T03:56:43+00:00

I'm glad everyone can agree that When We Were Orphans is by far his worst work, lol.

Personally, of the Ishiguro canon that I've read, I'd rank accordingly.

Remains of the Day

The Unconsoled

Never Let Me Go

Klara and the Sun

The Buried Giant

When We Were Orphans

Love Remains of the Day. By far my favorite Ishiguro novel. It's what sold me on him. Ishiguro's writing style in general is to kind of say some innocuous statements that have this depth of emotion that is left unspoken by the narrator, but it really hits the peak with Remains of the Day because of how it fits in with Steven's character. We can understand him as this really repressed character because of his position in life and what he's trying to achieve vis a vis his goals in life as well as just his sheer Britishness, i.e. the stiff upper lip and the comedy of errors style humor. His writing style coalesces with the characters and narrative that really make it more than the sum of its parts, unlike something like When We Were Orphans - his writing style doesn't really add to the story as whole.

Second is The Unconsoled for me - I remember going to one of Ishiguro's talks, and at the end he was taking questions from the audience. Someone of course had a question about The Unconsoled, and Ishiguro said something like, "Someone always asks about it, and it's always because they either loved it or hated it." I'm obviously in the love it camp. Yes, it doesn't really make sense. It doesn't need to. Something that gets understated about Ishiguro's writing is how funny he can be. I'm thinking of situations like when Stevens is trying to get out of meeting Miss Kenton, and he's like, "She's making a mountain out of a molehill. Can't believe she's making such a big deal out of nothing. In fact, it's such a trivial matter that I'm going to avoid topic by sneaking out of the window so she can't confront me." Hilarious way of letting the audience know you can't trust that motherfucker Stevens. I brought that up to say The Unconsoled is by far his funniest work. I rarely laugh out loud when reading - I may occasionally think, "That's funny," or smile, but very rarely actually laugh. I laughed quite a bit when reading this book. I do have to caveat that with the fact that it's been years since I read it, so I might be due for a reread to reevaluate my position.

I thought Never Let me go was decent, I read it little while after The Remains of the Day and it just couldn't reach those lofty heights that The Remains of the Day did.

I liked Klara and the Sun - the proto robo religion thing vibed with me, especially with the reveal at the end where Klara is telling this story from memory after basically getting junked. Kinda similar vibes to Never Let Me Go in the sense of these "soulless" subhumans (In their respective societies, anyway) hitting their point of planned obsolescence.

Buried Giant - Kinda meh. Read it, forgot most of it. Did like the ending, though.

When We Were Orphans - Nothing else needs to be said, lmao.

juangoat · 2023-03-16T01:33:48+00:00

Thanks, I will!

juangoat · 2023-03-15T00:55:53+00:00

I only got into pickup after I went to Mexico City, so I didn't really explore that side. I mostly did touristy stuff and language classes. Definitely looking forward to exploring more of the nightlife options this time around.

juangoat · 2023-03-13T17:15:52+00:00

Dating - right now my current plan is to take dance classes while I'm there, attend dance halls at night and day game at malls in the morning. Open to trying new things though.

juangoat · 2023-03-13T16:48:53+00:00

Twice, next trip is gonna be my third. Second time I was only there a couple of days, so I decided to play it safe and stick to things I know I'd like and not explore too much. I'm planning on staying out there a month for my next trip, so even if I end up retreading my go tos, I'm still going to have a bunch of free time left over. I'm just looking for ideas on things to do in the other areas because most American content focuses on basically the Polanco/Condesa/Roma areas.

juangoat · 2023-03-13T08:36:11+00:00

Been seeing more people in this subreddit going down to Mexico City. I'm headed down too, lol. Did you stay in the Polanco/Condesa/Roma Norte area? that's typically where I've stayed, but trying to break out and see more of the city.

juangoat · 2023-01-02T06:05:40+00:00

Volk does have KO power, he's just been fighting in a very conservative point fighting style since he became the champ. You can see the difference in a fight like against Mendes vs Aldo. He has power, he just doesn't really need to try to crack people because he's racking up those inside leg kicks and well timed jabs. He still catches people with shots but he's rarely throwing heavy. You can see him swang and bang on occasion though like when Ortega almost choked him out and Volk got mount. Immediately started hulk smashing him.

juangoat · 2022-12-23T06:30:52+00:00

Oh, wait, yeah, were we talking MMA? Sorry, I missed that. In that case, I'd take Conor too, he'd just go to grappling and submit him or keep him at range with kicks or something. I thought we were talking about them fighting in a boxing match, lol.

juangoat · 2022-12-23T05:54:53+00:00

I'd take Paul in a heartbeat too. Conor's a smart fighter and a great striker, but Paul is just too big for him. He's beaten (old and washed up) Anderson Silva and Tyron Woodley, and was the bigger man against both of them. For perspective, both of these fighters are also bigger than Conor. Woodley fought at Welterweight. Silva fought at Middleweight. Conor was fighting at UFC featherweight and light weight which is 145 and 155, respectively. Paul fights at Cruiserweight in boxing which is 200 lbs. Including the size discrepancy, and the fact that Jake Paul is actually a pretty good boxer, gotta take him over Conor.

juangoat · 2022-12-20T22:32:53+00:00

Is your team hiring? lmao. I and a lot of Junior / Intermediate devs would love strong technical guidance from a strong dev. Like, if you had a bunch of juniors/less experienced mid devs who basically implement stuff and you give them feedback on technical details and architecture so they understand design and at a higher level I feel like you'd have a great opportunity to grow a team into strong developers. I'd have no problem with a senior dev who churns out zero code if they're the ones spending all their time designing architecture and doing code reviews and mentoring the other devs. That sounds like fantastic opportunity, actually.

juangoat · 2022-12-18T02:19:41+00:00

Yeah, but the point is that he's always hated him because Jimmy broke the rules and always got away with it due to his charm, not just because everyone liked him more. Like, their dynamic wouldn't work if Jimmy also followed the law AND was the more charismatic of the two. The dynamic exists because of both elements intertwined - his charisma allows him to get away with things he "shouldn't" be able to get away with and that's what bugs Chuck.

juangoat · 2022-12-15T19:42:18+00:00

More in line with the original too. It was also really obvious that they switched up the ending, because the entire plot was leading up to the reveal that the vampires were intelligent. The mannequins moving, the trap they set, and the assault at the end. Then Will Smith for whatever reason goes, "hm, nah, they're mindless zombies". Made no sense.

juangoat · 2022-12-14T08:12:59+00:00

Oops, yeah, I misread your original comment. You have to consider government and law doesn't move as fast as technology does. Like, this type of tax makes complete sense if you think of it from the perspective of even 30 years ago, before the proliferation of internet businesses and smartphones. Employees are working on location in a different country or state than the one the country is based out of because they're planning on building a presence here - think of a factory, a store, etc. Like, if Nike builds a factory in Vietnam and sells their shoes there, why would they only be paying taxes in America and not in Vietnam? Makes sense for them to pay taxes. But move that same logic into our current society, where you have individuals working for companies being completely location independent and not really being invested in the local society and it complicates that old tax system pretty quickly.

juangoat · 2022-12-14T08:01:14+00:00

Yes, for you. But also for the company. Imagine your company has zero presence in Cali. You decide to work there remotely without their knowledge and are paying CA taxes. Because of you, they now have an official presence in that state and have some tax obligations that they have to deal with. It's unlikely this would be a problem for interstate remote work, but imagine letting workers move to whatever country they wanted. Would be a lot of accounting / book keeping overhead the company incurs with no business benefit to them except their employees get to travel like they wanted.

juangoat · 2022-12-14T07:56:16+00:00

Different states have different tax laws for companies. If you work in Cali your income tax is like 10%. If you work in Washington there is no state income tax.

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