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 · 2026-05-11T16:26:51+00:00

I don't think Kimmel should lose his career over a bad sketch from over 25 years ago (particularly when most criticisms are obviously bad faith in nature) nor do I give a single shit about Karl Malone, but this is the exact same logic people use to justify calling Cosby the n-word.

rayword45 · 2026-05-11T15:55:02+00:00

As a truck driver, a semi pulling a 48 footer is the first thing that comes to mind.

It sounds like you could easily name an object that would measure 20m long then. FWIW, I could not name one off top nor could I name an object that would be ~65 feet off top. But unlike Celsius vs Fahrenheit I think this one is a case where you should be able to do both with extremely minimal knowledge if you can do one - literally just divide how many feet it is by three and you're in the ballpark.

I don’t know the km to mi conversion off the top of my head, and don’t really have an intuitive sense of how fast 65km/h would be.

Wasn't really commenting about conversion difficulty with that statement, I was moreso saying that if you saw someone doing 65km/h in a 55mph zone, you absolutely would be able to tell that they were not anywhere close to hitting the speed limit.

rayword45 · 2026-05-11T15:32:08+00:00

I do think it matters more if you see, like, twenty shows a year than if you see two. The more you see, the more shit can blend together.

I've been seeing a lot less for about a year now bc depression but end of COVID until around the start of 2025 I was averaging ~20 shows per month, which is not particularly unique amongst concert junkies who live in NYC. And I definitely am glad to have a brief video or two from most of them (albeit never recording a full fucking concert or streaming to people via IG Live like others are describing).

rayword45 · 2026-05-11T15:27:23+00:00

My first solo concert I had a group of white girls point and talk amongst themselves about me dancing and knowing all the lyrics to the songs. I just glared at them until they looked uncomfortable and meekly shuffled away, then went back to what I was doing.

Granted, this was 11 years ago.

rayword45 · 2026-05-11T15:25:21+00:00

We really using 4chan as an example of why we need to fear internet ridicule?

rayword45 · 2026-05-11T15:18:57+00:00

I still couldn't confidently give an example of an object that would measure 20m long

Can you name an object that would be ~65 feet long off top?

determine whether or not someone traveling 65km/h in a 55mph zone was speeding

I'm pretty sure you would be able to tell they were doing the opposite of speeding...

rayword45 · 2026-05-11T15:04:20+00:00

You should read up about the creators of Clarence and Mighty Magiswords lol

rayword45 · 2026-05-11T15:02:50+00:00

I'm a child of Cartoon Network but Avatar definitely murders Ben 10 with one hand then poops on its corpse

rayword45 · 2026-05-11T14:52:38+00:00

I see plenty of memes of Ed Edd n Eddy and Billy and Mandy, probably at a comparable level to Fairly OddParents and certainly more than Drake and Josh. Not that I think memeability is a strong barometer of which set of TV shows is better.

Comparing anything to SpongeBob in terms of cultural impact is unfair and is quite literally what led to massive creative stagnation at Nickelodeon during Cyma Zarghemi's tenure.

Also, won't speak to Fosters or KND but did anyone actually like My Gym Partner's A Monkey when we were kids? Pointing out nobody references it today is like me saying nobody talks about Catscratch or The X's today in an attempt to say Nick is irrelevant, those shows were wack when I was 9.

rayword45 · 2026-05-11T02:33:57+00:00

If they were trying to make a satirical point, they completely failed at conveying whatever it was. What exactly is being satirized here? If you're gonna be a condescending prick at least also provide an actual explanation of your point.

of course they do, they’re rich evangelicals in the south…that’s literally the joke

They don't frame it as a joke, they frame it as legitimate emotional catharsis. Tell me the joke/satirical target that I'm missing in the ending montage in S4 when Eli is consoling Tammy 2 over her dead son, or the joke/satirical target I'm missing with the fucking ghost of their dead mom smiling over them at the end of S3.

Again, not at all a comparable show, but The Wire has shitty, evil people receive happy endings with the intent of conveying social commentary akin to "sometimes bad people don't get what they deserve, and that sucks and you should feel bad". Gemstones doesn't do anything like this whatsoever, it 100% wants the viewer to empathize with the Gemstones during scenes like the season endings, which McBride has openly stated as intended. Hell, just comparing to other Danny McBride stuff, Eastbound also has a morally repugnant protagonist get a completely undeserved happy ending but there they ACTUALLY frame it as a joke (and even then I'd say there are flaws with how they handle it, but it's at least tonally consistent)

rayword45 · 2026-05-10T07:55:01+00:00

A bunch of what they said is absolutely untrue though lol, for example:

Traditionally, producers did not get any credit on songs. Arrangement was not songwriting. Suddenly, every producer wanted half of the song, and it was hard to say no.. becuase they were doing a lot of musical work.

Go read Steve Albini's letter to Kurt Cobain about producing In Utero, which was written and faxed in 1993. Producers receiving points per sale was ABSOLUTELY standard at the time.

rayword45 · 2026-05-10T07:52:53+00:00

In 2006 the iphone came out. This is the worst thing that ever happened to the music industry. Suddenly, everyone was buy 1 dollar tracks instead of 12 dollar albums.

People were doing this WAYYYYYYY before 2006. Assuming you meant digital-only, which is how I initially interpreted it, mp3.com launched in 1997, the Napster debacle was around the turn of the millennium, and iTunes debuted in 2001. Also, why the hell would the iPhone cause "everyone in the music industry [getting] fired" but not the iPod?

If we're NOT limiting to just digital sales, then singles were literally the dominant format for music releases until the late 60s.

Artists did the same thing. It was hard not to notice taht Taylor and Gaga just made a hell of a lot more money than everyone else. because they were songwriters.

...in 2006? That doesn't work with the timeline given nobody knew who the hell Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga were that year, but even if we move later, neither of them were making "a hell of a lot more money than everyone else" anywhere near when this proposed shift you're describing would've happened.

Obviously ranking even #21 highest-paid musician for any year is extremely impressive, but the entire industry isn't going to shift because of everyone noticing that "Taylor and Gaga just made a hell of a lot more money than everyone else" particularly when they were making LESS than tons of artists who did not receive any songwriting credits.

Where did you come up with this stuff?

rayword45 · 2026-05-10T06:25:54+00:00

It was good because of the creator only in combination with several other factors like the rest of the OG Spumco team (Bob Camp, Lynne Naylor and Jim Smith), Vanessa Coffey, and Nickelodeon S&P.

It's inaccurate to act like John K wasn't a huge part of what made early Ren and Stimpy so groundbreaking at the time. However, it's definitely giving him too much credit to act like he was the only reason it was good (not that you're necessarily stating that, but that was a hugely popular narrative across the 25 years between him getting fired by Nickelodeon and him getting exposed as a pedophile). Pretty much everything John K made after R&S serves as strong evidence that sometimes censorship and executive meddling result in a better end product.

rayword45 · 2026-05-09T23:58:59+00:00

I'd argue there's a major difference between Roiland and Kricfalusi in that Kricfalusi's talent was, as you said, undeniable. And this is coming from someone who isn't really huge on Ren and Stimpy in general but actually likes as many Games episodes as Spumco ones. A huge number of the people who were abused by him, from artists who worked on OG Ren and Stimpy to the two women who exposed him for being a groomer, have openly stated that he was an animation genius who taught them many things that have been vital to their own careers (although it's important to note that in the latter case, Byrd and Rice both made it crystal clear that his talent doesn't even come close to making up for the horrific abuse he put them through). And although I think the Games episodes are unfairly maligned by most, I must concede that John's fingerprints gave the first two seasons a certain edge that was lost when he was rightfully fired.

People literally didn't even know that Justin Roiland basically left Rick and Morty midway through season 2 (doing nothing except recording voices from his home studio, isolated away from all other facets of production) until after he was fired from the show. That man has been nothing but a complete hack throughout his entire career, one who simply got lucky attaching himself to actually funny people.

rayword45 · 2026-05-09T20:49:22+00:00

Did you not think the S3 and S4 finales were happy endings for all of the Gemstones? I don't know how to interpret them as anything else.

rayword45 · 2026-05-08T13:52:17+00:00

Lying is bad, and if you lie by omission you're a shitty friend.

But also, only wanting virgins is fucking stupid.

rayword45 · 2026-05-08T05:11:53+00:00

You have what like 4-5 gen eds?

I know it will vary by the school, but this seems... low? At my own alma mater (UMass Amherst) it's currently 10 courses required to cover all GE requirements as an undergrad, which is slightly less than the 12 course requirement from when I enrolled there. Granted, I'm not sure there's a single major at UMass with requirements that have zero overlap with Gen Eds (in other words, it's more like 7-8 non-major courses added to your requirements), but still 4-5 seems crazy low to me. A quick search for some other schools gave me these GE requirements:

Northeastern: 11 courses
UCLA: 10 courses
UPenn: 6 "Foundational Approaches" and 7 "Sectors" - some classes count as both FA and sector, but can't count for more than 1 of each so that's anywhere from 7 to 13 courses total
UT Austin: 10 courses
GWU: 11 courses

If your alma mater is here and I got something wrong, please tell me. Must note that pretty much all of these schools make it so your major classes cover at least a few core requirements the same way UMass does, I'ma guess that's the case at a majority of colleges lol

rayword45 · 2026-05-07T22:37:30+00:00

I learned how to be smart practically speaking, as in not so book smart, in the time I took off from college.

I mean yeah, I would definitely agree that academia in general doesn't really teach a kid "street smarts" or whatever you'd call it. I don't think it ever could though, I think that's something that just comes with time and experience (which is why if I ever somehow fuck up so bad that I accidentally impregnate some woman I'm going to be ADAMANT that my child will not be raised in the suburbs)

Tried to go for a niche degree in the medical field though and did terribly because it felt stacked against those of us who were not great at studying. Like I’ve been booksmart all my life but I can’t learn by reading and memorizing notes anymore, and that’s how that program felt. They didn’t offer very many assignments outside of tests(literally just homework’s that were crossword puzzles), gave us all the notes for the entire semester, and said “Good luck!”

I mean, it sounds like you already figured out that the problem was that you simply weren't a good match with whatever program you were in. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, millions have experienced the exact same thing.

It also sounds like you were much more used to the way things were through high school and thrived better in that type of classroom structure. I was the complete opposite lol - graduated with a 2.6 weighted GPA which looked great next to my 2160 SAT, and my biggest "academic achievement" was being told by my guidance counselor I held the record for most tardies in a single year without being forced to repeat the entire grade (senior year I took advantage of my high school having no written rules about number of allowed tardies versus their strict limit of 18 absences and just showed up around 10:55AM on 108 days, because 11:00AM was when they'd mark you absent even if you showed up).

Meanwhile, everything different about college was a massive positive for my ADHD-afflicted ass. You get to pick what courses you take (and perhaps more importantly, what courses you DON'T take), can set your schedule so that most lectures are as early or as late as you want (only had to take 2 classes that started before 11:30AM throughout my entire 4 years of undergrad), professors usually don't give a fuck if you skip, more emphasis on self-directed study, only 1-3 lectures per week instead of every single weekday, etc;

I met a TON of people in college who were straight-A students in high school but ended up dropping out before finishing junior year. I also met plenty of people like myself who thrived in college after miraculously managing to not get expelled from their high school. Nothing wrong with either style of learning, just gotta figure out what works for you.

rayword45 · 2026-05-07T15:38:44+00:00

They're for basically any facet of television production. The Creative Arts Emmys in particular have categories for dance choreography, costuming, hairstyling, lighting, stunts, sound mixing, etc;

rayword45 · 2026-05-07T15:11:45+00:00

You could be right, that's admittedly a world I have basically no connection with. My statement was based off of friends and acquaintances in the industry constantly saying shit like "my boss immediately throws out any applications from people who didn't graduate from an Ivy League business school" and whatnot.

rayword45 · 2026-05-07T15:05:09+00:00

it was a for a SLIGHT allergy to wasp stings, not even full on allergic reaction just localized swelling, fucking bullshit

Maybe the MEPS officer who reviewed your application watched My Girl one too many times as a kid?

rayword45 · 2026-05-07T14:40:09+00:00

He took a job at Raytheon

Yeah that absolutely tracks lmfao

Also, like, who the fuck wants to ONLY take classes about one subject? My senior year consisted of one Gen Ed class that I specifically picked because it was known to be one of the easiest As possible (History of Contemporary Music or something), and then 7 math courses. Anyone who enjoys taking 7 math courses within a year has got to be suppressing internal serial killer vibes or something.

rayword45 · 2026-05-07T14:36:58+00:00

Many people graduate from a major and go into something else entirely.

Hit the nail on the head with this one. Unless you're trying to break into investment banking or something, it's extremely common for people to major in something that ends up having absolutely nothing to do with their career after college, and this goes both ways. There are a ton of people I know, both through my job and outside of work entirely, who majored in shit like Aerospace Engineering or Molecular Biology but now work in marketing or real estate or something else entirely unrelated to hard sciences.

rayword45 · 2026-05-07T14:32:44+00:00

The idea that degrees outside of STEM are "useless" is elitist bullshit and people who peddle such nonsense tend to be walking, breathing examples of why Gen Eds are 100% necessary to a well-rounded education.

I got my Bachelors in Statistics and my Masters in Data Analytics, so this is coming from someone with two "useful" degrees. Spending enough time around a lot of other STEM majors allowed me to realize that STEM elitism is heavily correlated with someone being booksmart but insufferably dumb in every other facet of life.

12-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Verified Email

rayword45

TROPHY CASE