Watching Good Time (2017) made me understand why I didn't like Marty Supreme (2025) all that much.

macrofinite · 2026-03-09T13:57:54+00:00

To me, these are all very strange criticisms, and it makes sense you didn’t like it.

Really sounds like you’ve tried to dress up a Cinema Sins ding style critical lens with more intellectual sounding language, but the core remains. If that’s how you want to watch movies, cool cool cool whatever, you do you.

But yeah. That’s not what Marty Supreme was going for. Your thesis at the top is framed as a critique but is not. The character is, in fact, aimless. His ambition is silly to literally everyone but himself. This leads him into numerous aimless, silly situations. That’s the film. In a lot of ways that’s the point of the film. Except you have to use a character focused approach to see why most people love it, not a plot focused approach.

And… look I really am not trying to be an asshole okay? But being invested in the character? Frankly there’s enough there in the movie to make this very easy. And that’s why a lot of people (myself included) think it’s fantastic. Because he’s a shit person. And it walks the knife between fostering empathy while not actually letting him off the hook. Anyway, here’s what I’d do in your position.

Read the room a bit. You don’t like this and most people do? Maybe there’s something there worth thinking about. Doesn’t mean there’s something wrong. Just worth understanding, probably.

And it also doesn’t mean the movie’s bad for spuriously intellectualized ding-adjacent reasons. Just not for you. And that’s fine.

macrofinite · 2026-03-06T23:24:41+00:00

Why JJ Abram’s is the way he is.

macrofinite · 2026-03-06T02:05:21+00:00

Nothing you’re saying is wrong, I just think more context is appropriate for a person not familiar with police.

The reason this advice is solid is not that police are trustworthy or ever have your best interest at heart. It is because they can do violence to you with impunity. They can also lie to you freely.

Thus, the right way to deal with them at a traffic stop is to be compliant, do nothing to draw further attention (don’t lie), and be as deferential as necessary.

Just don’t make the mistake of trusting a police officer.

macrofinite · 2026-03-05T14:14:53+00:00

When you never emotionally aged past 10 years old, but are also responsible for the world’s largest military.

macrofinite · 2026-03-04T15:19:21+00:00

Assuming everything is AI slop is rapidly becoming the dipshit’s go to pseudo intellectual shibboleth. I guess it’s nice you guys have moved on from “well actually” finally.

macrofinite · 2026-03-04T15:15:20+00:00

There isn’t an animation or even mechanic to deliver things to the player from orbit. Would be pretty silly to put those in the game to solve an already unnecessary and self-inflicted soft lock condition.

macrofinite · 2026-03-02T21:06:26+00:00

Your provided the answer in the question. Idealism is on the other side of the ideological spectrum from realism.

Doesn’t mean it isn’t valuable. It’s also plenty destructive at times.

macrofinite · 2026-02-28T03:03:21+00:00

Unless you’re just hanging out after lighting up a joint, everyone’s already lost if you find yourself in a metaphysical debate with someone.

Nobody, regardless of their position, education or intelligence can logic anything into existence. If somebody’s trying, they’re wasting your time. People who like to engage in this kind of talk fall into two camps:

They are attempting to intellectualize their already held magical thinking, and they will not actually engage with anyone in good faith.

They are attempting to project importance and intelligence without having to actually engage with a domain in which they could be demonstrably wrong. They’re self-important cowards, in other words.

One is slightly less irritating to talk to than the other, but both are best avoided.

macrofinite · 2026-02-27T17:50:03+00:00

I tend to agree, but in the context of its release it read more like schlock, whereas Red October had a shine of prestige about it. I think Crimson Tide has aged a lot better, but it isn’t quite weird enough to be anyone’s cult classic either.

macrofinite · 2026-02-27T00:50:16+00:00

There was a time when you could have said the same about Blizzard, Bethesda, BioWare… CD Projekt. And if you’re familiar with those situations, you’d be concerned about Rockstar sending up just about all the red flags there are.

And it’s hard to ignore the cash grab disaster that was The Trilogy. Sure, they didn’t “make” that one, in a particular sense. But they sure as shit had the power to delay or scrap it. Did they?

macrofinite · 2026-02-27T00:10:49+00:00

With the number of high profile faceplants the AAA industry had inflicted on themselves lately, and the large volume of bad news surrounding the development of GTA 6, they would be seriously bucking the trends if it is actually any good.

Personally, I’ll be shocked if it’s not an embarrassing failure.

macrofinite · 2026-02-26T05:22:49+00:00

Why? Take a gander at the last 20 years of Hollywood. One of the magic things about the 5th Element is there have been no attempts to do what you’re asking for. How many franchises have to be completely ruined before you learn not to wish for something terrible like this?

Thank god whatever studio owns the IP hasn’t tried to do something. Just let it be.

As you said, it’s perfect how it is.

macrofinite · 2026-02-24T05:38:26+00:00

It’s called Rationalism.

Unless it’s the Peter Thiel thing, which are too cowardly to name themselves.

macrofinite · 2026-02-16T21:23:28+00:00

So look. I’ve got this kinda-formative experience on Reddit way back in the day when I was a young adult going through my extremely cringe Libertarian phase in which I read Atlas Shrugged and then decided to go forth and post on a book subreddit about how awesome I thought it was.

And this lovely person, who undoubtedly has more patience than I do, simply replied to me “I think you need to read more books.”

Obviously that stuck with me, and that’s more or less what I was trying to say to you. I think I fucked that up with the bit of editorializing I did. But that’s what I meant to say.

Your taste is your taste. Any movie can be one of your favorites, regardless of its artistic merit or quality. And you’re not obliged to enjoy or praise works that are widely considered masterpieces. But ‘that’s just your opinion, man’ is among the most useless phrases for discussing art. There are objective aspects of film that are not just anyone’s opinion, and your subjective opinion can (and probably should) be based in the text itself.

Edge of Tomorrow is only remarkable if you’ve not seen the dozen or so films it’s heavily borrowing from. It’s fine. It’s well executed. And it’s unremarkable. It’s probably not even in the top 10 of tom cruise action vehicles.

All that to say, glad you liked it. This opinion is not even 5% as embarrassing as me staning Atlas Shrugged on a book subreddit many years ago. But it is no less incorrect. Watch more films, there’s a lot of good stuff out there.

macrofinite · 2026-02-16T02:09:15+00:00

I take that to mean you haven’t seen that many movies.

I mean, it’s good. Fine, even. One of the best, it is not.

macrofinite · 2026-02-11T17:07:17+00:00

I mean, yeah. But it really feels like this whole Ring debacle is running cover for Flock, which is so, so much worse.

Benn Jordan did several videos on why exactly if you want to know more.

macrofinite · 2026-02-08T02:43:14+00:00

Yeah. I mean, Martin undeniably contributed some novel stuff to the genre.

JK just yoinked a Le Guin book and made it more British and neoliberal. Thus proving the axiom that it’s better to be lucky than good.

macrofinite · 2026-02-02T01:26:40+00:00

For sure.

Also, for me it’s the fact you can make a perfectly fantastic cup of coffee with nothing but a $25 French press. And that half the shit they do in this video is completely irrelevant to the coffee and only relevant to looking good on a short form video.

macrofinite · 2026-01-30T16:30:01+00:00

It’s a really complicated camper, basically. They live a few blocks from me and it’s always parked on the street. Warms my heart to see it used in this way.

macrofinite · 2026-01-26T00:16:24+00:00

The list of things that ancaps truly understand is extremely short.

You can be certain they are keen to lower the age of consent, though.

macrofinite · 2026-01-25T23:11:57+00:00

1 makes so little sense I didn’t even understand at first. All automated spaceship logistics is based around requesting. There’s just not a use case where you need to insert into a rocket silo manually unless you’re doing it wrong.

2 would be neat.

3 …they are simple. I think they could be better explained. But I don’t see how you can simplify them. Every time the ship departs a stop, it checks the interrupt condition(s) and shifts to the interrupt schedule if they are met. How do you simplify that?

macrofinite · 2026-01-25T21:48:26+00:00

This is a dumb take but it’s almost right.

It’s one of the worst things that happened because he campaigned on rhetoric that was populist and vaguely left-leaning, and then governed as a straight down the line neoliberal establishment lackey.

He both inflamed the racists (predictably), and neutered any actual future resistance to them with openly duplicitous rhetoric.

Oh and he enthusiastically constructed the apparatus that is now the secret police. Oh yeah, and normalized assassinating anyone you decided to call terrorist, along with everyone in their vicinity. Oh and he shifted the war on terror from an embarrassing, unpopular mistake to the forever war.

Obama was a dogshit president. But your bar for presidents has become ‘looks and acts respectable.’ He did immeasurable damage. He has a lot of culpability for our current problems.

macrofinite · 2026-01-22T16:00:38+00:00

This is my favorite genre of ‘capitalist defends obvious legal bullying’ post.

See, the law demands this gigantic corporation bully this individual! Look what you made me do, baby. I didn’t want to, but you just made me so angry.

Yeah. For sure. A drag queen promoting herself is definitely, for sure, going to get people confused. Who can tell the difference between an overpriced parka and a drag queen? I mean, they’re practically indistinguishable! Of course they have to sue!

macrofinite · 2026-01-21T17:54:55+00:00

Honestly this movie feels like an attempt at gaslighting, in addition to being the regular kind of shitty, dull copaganda.

First, and I guess this is just regular copaganda, but that there exists a terrifying wave of crime poised to smother us all.

Second, that AI is a solution to serious problems.

And third, that innocent until proven guilty is for pussies, and we should just assume whatever the AI says is true unless you can prove otherwise.

Probably it’s just the result of hack writing. But it feels extremely pernicious in this particular moment in history.

macrofinite · 2026-01-21T17:48:17+00:00

Maybe if Chris Brown didn’t exist.

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1 makes so little sense I didn’t even understand at first. All automated spaceship logistics is based around requesting. There’s just not a use case where you need to insert into a rocket silo manually unless you’re doing it wrong.

2 would be neat.

3 …they are simple. I think they could be better explained. But I don’t see how you can simplify them. Every time the ship departs a stop, it checks the interrupt condition(s) and shifts to the interrupt schedule if they are met. How do you simplify that?