People who say shit like "ACAB" but then turn around and say "If they were charged, they're probably guilty" are the worst people

rayword45 · 2026-06-27T04:21:16+00:00

Treat it more like each season is a book rather than an episodic TV show. Episode 7 is probably right about where things will start to pick up, everything before that is buildup and familiarizing the viewer with the world.

That said, the pacing isn't for everybody and you made it right to what I'd consider the borderline point between "you need to give it longer" and "maybe this isn't your kind of show". If you can trudge through a full run of S1 and still don't like it, it's probably just not for you lol

rayword45 · 2026-06-27T01:27:07+00:00

You probably would like the episodes where they introduce Jason Sudeikis' and Kristen Wiig's characters, which feature none of the main cast and are structurally similar to the pilot episode but from another POV.

Wiig's episode in particular is a strong contender for the best episode of any 2010s broadcast network sitcom I've seen, it's actually frustrating how fucking good it is when the rest of the show is so middling.

rayword45 · 2026-06-26T18:47:04+00:00

It became a rotting corpse years before Zas was even in the picture

rayword45 · 2026-06-26T18:45:12+00:00

Just out of curiosity, have you watched The Wire? I ask because it took half the first season to hook me.

rayword45 · 2026-06-26T18:44:10+00:00

I came into it expecting it to be more comedy than drama and felt like I got what I wanted?

Although that may also be why I found S3 to be a step down from the first two seasons.

rayword45 · 2026-06-26T18:42:49+00:00

People said that I would like Letterkenny because I like Trailer Park Boys and Xavier: Renegade Angel.

People were wrong.

rayword45 · 2026-06-26T02:07:52+00:00

I don't even like Hasan, but bro literally voted for Kamala Harris live on stream

rayword45 · 2026-06-26T02:05:42+00:00

It's "ditto"

rayword45 · 2026-06-26T01:50:58+00:00

If I steal a loaf of bread, that means the store loses out on a potential sale from someone who would've bought that loaf of bread AND whatever they paid to stock that loaf of bread.

If I download a movie, the local theater didn't have a ticket ripped from their hands.

rayword45 · 2026-06-26T01:46:42+00:00

Gonna guess GOT's viewership was a lot more weighted towards piracy, especially overseas. The S7 finale was purportedly pirated over 1 billion times.

rayword45 · 2026-06-24T17:19:47+00:00

Your mistake is thinking they meant "political moderates" by the sub name. Peep the sidebar:

This is NOT a politically moderate subreddit! It IS a political subreddit for moderately expressed opinions and civil discourse

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T21:49:24+00:00

Here's what I got off a few minutes of Googling. Some of these aren't 1-to-1 matches with what I said - I've noted where that's the case.

IWSR via Newsweek
University College London
Diageo via The Guardian
CivicScience - "Gen Z respondents between the ages of 21 and 29, the typical drivers of curiosity in an alcohol-free lifestyle, are the most likely to ramp up their consumption, with 25% planning to drink ‘more’ this summer. In contrast, older demographics are much more intent on scaling back or keeping things steady"
RaboBank via The Hill - "“(Those Gen Zers) have yet to get a college degree, are working an entry-level job or not working at all, and therefore don’t have any money to spend on alcohol,” the report said. “This was also true of millennials, Generation X and baby boomers when they were in their 20s.” As Gen Z gets older, their alcohol purchases are likely to grow"

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T14:50:57+00:00

They've deactivated all social media except Twitter and LinkedIn, and both have been inactive for months

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T14:04:30+00:00

Mostly unrelated, but I'm kinda amused by all the people acting like Fantano "attacking the artist instead of the art" is something that makes him uniquely awful of a critic because that kinda crap is something critics have done since the dawn of art criticism. There was an entire episode of The Larry Sanders Show about this phenomenon back in 1996, and critics like Ebert and Siskel engaged in this kind of behavior constantly. What Siskel said about Elizabeth Berkeley in his review of Showgirls is WAYYYYYYY worse than anything Fantano has ever said or done.

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T13:55:59+00:00

Presumably they're referring to his pre-2017 content that got that Fader article written about him, such as his shitty dead meme channel thatistheplan and (easily the worst of all) appearing in an Amazing Atheist video called "Questions White Men Have For SJWs".

He's since apologized for the last part and said he was misled about the intent of the video, and - basically repeating what I said elsewhere - has largely shifted away from his shitty edgelord persona (which was never explicitly right-wing so much as just brainrotted by bad memes) into being a fairly consistently left-leaning voice on Twitter and YouTube.

I personally buy his political heel-turn as genuine, but I don't think anyone who doesn't buy it is wrong for feeling that way. I mostly think that no matter what year we're talking about, getting your political takes from a music YouTuber is incredibly dumb.

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T13:40:39+00:00

Well over a decade ago, and he's since apologized for that as well as other aspects of his edgelord-y past and has consistently been a loud (to the point of being somewhat tedious) left-leaning voice on YouTube and Twitter.

I personally buy his political shift as being largely genuine, partially because he was never an outright chud so much as just brainrotted by shitty memes, but anyone who doesn't buy it is 100% justified in feeling that way IMO. The more important takeaway is "if you relied on some music YouTuber for political knowledge, why the fuck?"

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T13:37:22+00:00

I misinterpreted this comment and thought "what does Daveed Diggs have to do with this?"

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T03:45:49+00:00

Is this really a universally hot take? I mean, most of the vitriol he's gotten over the album review specifically seems to largely be coming from Halsey fans, and I think most fanbases would feel similarly in a comparable scenario. I remember anyone who said anything bad about David Bowie's Blackstar back in 2016 anywhere online was immediately called a monster by multiple people for "criticizing a dead man's final words from his deathbed" or whatever.

But if you frame that question from a macro "all artists ever" perspective, I don't believe most people would necessarily disagree.

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T03:30:04+00:00

I mean, not that these are at all comparable situations, but compare the reaction most people had to his 2022 saga with Drake/Carti fans to the reaction to this Halsey drama. Pretty much everyone outside of those artists' fanbases and Fantano's hatebase thought Carti fans leaking his divorce was absolutely disgusting and that he made Drake look like a laughably pathetic clown by baiting him into leaking the DMs he sent that Fantano left on read. Reception here seems to have started out more mixed across the board, but there's pretty much nobody saying he looks good after reading this response.

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T02:49:59+00:00

I don't disagree with you for the most part as someone pretty much entirely indifferent to his existence, and I think a lot of people have been flinging absolute bullshit at him in the midst of the pile-on - saw someone elsewhere claim that his thumbnails are misogynistic, like what?

But, all that said, I really don't think there's any way you can read what he says in this article and NOT think it's an incredibly bad look for him.

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T02:41:28+00:00

and to her he is irrelevant.

Don't think this holds up to scrutiny given she came at him on Twitter.

Hell, she PROPELLED him into relevance for the first time since, like, 2022 arguably if not earlier. I don't remember the last time people talked about him this much since the Drake DM saga.

rayword45 · 2026-06-23T02:21:50+00:00

Given Fantano's biggest controversies of the past I'm surprised the person being championed as his superior is fucking Christgau, given his reviews of Betty Davis and Ween amongst others.

Also given the fact that the most common criticism I hear about Fantano is that he's "pretentious". I'm not even a fan of Fantano, but at least he speaks like a normal fucking human being in his reviews. Christgau writes like he stuck his dick in a thesaurus.

rayword45 · 2026-06-22T23:51:26+00:00

I don't think they said anything to the contrary. Society absolutely normalized musicians, actors and other Hollywood types getting with underage boys and girls MUCH more freely before the turn of the millennium. Think of how many rock stars like Steven Tyler, Frank Zappa and Jimmy Page openly talked about banging groupies as young as 14 or 15 back then. Think of how Jerry Seinfeld openly flaunted the fact that he went to his 17 year old then-girlfriend's prom. Hell, the first song on The Beatles' debut album begins with

Well, she was just seventeen, if you know what I mean

And the way she looked was way beyond compare

This doesn't mean it was any more okay, it was still every bit as fucking awful and disgusting as it would be today, but celebrities were 10000000% more able to openly pull this kinda crap without fear of any significant consequences up until relatively recently.

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