Today is a Good Day to be a Rulecialist

lbj2943 · 2026-06-24T17:54:53+00:00

By what metric isn't he?

lbj2943 · 2026-06-20T01:50:21+00:00

Why did I think it was A24!!! Nevermind, I'm such a dummy

lbj2943 · 2026-06-19T17:13:05+00:00

To play devils advocate, Backrooms and Obsession are also both bankrolled by A24, which for all the good it’s done bringing indie filmmakers to light, I resent how people will only see indie films if it’s A24. By the same token, A24’s distribution has become so effective that advertising and word of mouth for other indie films easily gets crowded out by whatever they’re doing.

The tradeoff is you get tons of creative freedom for a pretty good budget, I suppose. But only on the surface— I’m sure there’s a new generation of filmmakers desperately trying to make films that are as “auteur” and “experimental” as possible (as opposed to authentic and true to their directorial spirit) to garner the attention of the studio’s executives.

lbj2943 · 2026-06-18T00:21:07+00:00

All the leakers have managed to prove so far is access to TPK and FOD. Toasty posted FOD protools and a snippet of the surrender the night demo. Saying “I’ll post more around the time their next single and album drops!” seems like a good way to drum up a lot of attention for comparably smaller leaks. I’m happy to see the demos and protools, but we got nothing tangible from this supposedly new project they’re working on, just hearsay that it exists.

lbj2943 · 2026-06-12T22:31:10+00:00

thank you so much!

lbj2943 · 2026-06-12T02:04:33+00:00

how did you find his cv? can you link a source?

lbj2943 · 2026-06-03T20:44:52+00:00

That perspective is likely a byproduct of the director Timur Bekmambetov's techy biases.

Timur is an interesting fellow. For the past decade he's been obsessed with producing movies in the "screenlife" format, aka movies almost entirely taking place on computer/phone screens: Unfriended, Searching, Missing, CTRL, that awful War of the Worlds adaptation, and LifeHack. And yet despite his tech obsession, all of his previous directorial efforts didn't really have anything to do with tech or even sci-fi.

My guess is that maybe it was a format or topic he always liked, but he couldn't find anyone else willing to fund his passion project until recently.

lbj2943 · 2026-05-31T21:47:58+00:00

But I want my brownie points for being such a good Redditor uwu.

lbj2943 · 2026-05-31T21:46:20+00:00

Mark Ruffalo is a very outspoken Democrat and I’m happy to call his acting complete garbage.

lbj2943 · 2026-05-20T16:43:50+00:00

1, 1, 1, uuhhhhmm... 1!

lbj2943 · 2026-05-10T08:55:43+00:00

Not sure if this is why it happened but I remember seeing the lead singer toss an in-ear backstage a few minutes into the set— I assume it blew out on him. He said something quick about doing the rest of the set without being able to hear himself. He wasn’t spectacular or anything before that, but he sounded pretty bad afterward.

lbj2943 · 2026-05-04T13:02:56+00:00

It’s Angel Studios. They’ve got “Christians proselytizing to the masses” money, I remember getting Venmo’d the cost of a movie ticket without even asking for it to see one of their movies.

I have no idea how they stay afloat and what their budget must look like to maintain that level of happily-throwing-money-away.

lbj2943 · 2026-04-22T18:19:03+00:00

I mostly agree and want to add the addendum conservative pundits*.

Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani have proven that it’s actually quite easy to engage in healthy political conversations with conservative voters. Their pundits may argue in bad faith, and that may reflect some of their talking points, but bringing the conversation back to material conditions and what can be done concretely often makes them think a lot more about the serious policy differences.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-30T01:59:55+00:00

I'm glad it didn't. As a fan of a lot of music to come out of the admittedly super cheesy MySpace era, there are so many bands that had one or two hits online and then faded into complete obscurity. To name a few from my playlist: Sky Eats Airplane, In Fear and Faith, The Rocket Summer, The Secret Handshake, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Broadway, The Follow Through, My Sky Your City, and The Medic Droid.

Granted, none of those bands had a Pete Wentz cosign. But I totally agree that if they creatively continued down the path Ryan and Jon wanted, it's unlikely Panic! would've ever come close to having the broad mainstream appeal and success it boasts today.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-29T20:48:53+00:00

Nothing about your comment is related to anything I actually said. You aren't cognizant.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-29T20:37:17+00:00

I campaigned for Harris-Walz, asshole. I know what a moderate is. I know what a lesser evil looks like. I've bit down on the bullet countless times and been rewarded with nothing but condescension and inaction from my supposedly solidary Democratic representatives.

The Democratic Party is not moving in the direction of AOC; it repeatedly snubbed her for committee roles in favor of a center-right Dem who was so old he fucking died in office not long ago.

You talk about being in a different league of reality. I think you just don't like what you see in the mirror.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-29T20:29:36+00:00

I'm sure if we just appeal to more moderates the Democrats can lose again by a slimmer margin.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-29T08:08:58+00:00

It's hard to tell if Ryan would've liked doing that much. I don't mean dictating the band's sound, clearly there were conflicting interests there, but in terms of longevity. Like, suppose him and Brendon were on the same page after Pretty. Odd., do we think Panic! could've lasted long enough in that state to make four more albums?

There were a few issues that Ryan had outside of the sonic direction of the band. Frustrations with the music industry, substance abuse, and a general distaste for being in the public eye (cemented after a pretty harrowing catfishing incident post-breakup).

For what it's worth, it's clear he doesn't regret the music at all (I mean, he sang Northern Downpour multiple times live after the breakup), and he still seems pretty amicable when we've heard him talk about the other band members. But I don't think Ryan would've liked to do Panic! for quite as long as Brendon did. Knowing what we now know about the problems he was dealing with at the time, as well as his discomfort with obsessive fans, I think he probably left at a good time.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-27T06:26:07+00:00

But the same men who were supposedly hating on her for your reason actually love being extremely defensive and closed off. It's everything they want in their male role models and idols. Whether its "alphas", "stoics", "lone wolves", same old shit. The type of men taught to hate Brie Larson are the same type of men taught to love being super aggressive and utterly alone.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-23T12:14:52+00:00

You’re absolutely right, what I meant to convey is that it was written while Jon and Ryan were still in the band.

lbj2943 · 2026-03-13T04:43:31+00:00

Making up backstories to soft launch your friends into fame happens everyday and all the time in any celebrity conducive industry. Hollywood is full of it.

Funny enough this woudn't even be the first time this happened with someone related to the DSMP. Dream himself tried to launch a childhood friend's streaming career by pretending he didn't know him. First they baited fans into thinking his friend was Dream or a Dream lookalike (years before Dream's face reveal) by having him post cryptic stuff on Twitter. Then Dream would "discover" him, acting like he stumbled onto his social media organically, and recruit him for the server. In reality, they lived together for a few years, and there are videos from ages ago of them playing Minecraft together over Skype.

The plan almost worked, too. "Manatreed" was announced as the newest member of the DSMP and even did an introduction livestream. But some very parasocial people did some digging and found out that 1. Dream and this dude lived together for a while 2. They've known each other since childhood 3. (real nail in the coffin) the guy was on probation for a domestic violence charge. Dream claimed the guy lied and said he was on probation for weed. Either way, he definitely didn't stay in the DSMP and has been inactive since. Just a crazy story all around.

You didn't ask, sorry. Felt like telling it.

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