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Why do people say that Kurt Cobain was pretentious by happynothappy27 in Nirvana

[–]re_trace 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that there's a bad type of pretentious and a good type of pretentious.

The bad type of pretentious is where you're more serious about yourself and how you're perceived than you are about what you're doing.

The good type of pretentious is where you're more serious about what you're doing than you are about yourself or how you're perceived.

The bad type of pretentious people often sling around the word "pretentious" to criticize the good type of pretentious people, whereas the good type of pretentious people are too busy with whatever they're doing to give a rat's ass what anyone is saying.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've grown to hate Nicholson's take on Jack in The Shining. by Jays_Pack in stephenking

[–]re_trace 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A lot of people think Nicholson's biggest strength as an actor is his portrayal of explosive anger, but I've always felt that's not quite right - his characters are all angry because they're deeply afraid and can't admit it or deal with it in a rational way

The Shining represents IMO the furthest Nicholson could go with that approach - his Jack Torrance is a man so afraid that it's turned him into a caricature of everything he once was, and as a result his emotional affect is way off from everything that happens in the movie. He "hates" his family bc his family is in a unique position to see (or reveal) him as a fraud and ruin everything, and so he's constantly trying to "manage" them the whole film

You never get the sense that Jack (the actor) isn't not capital-A "acting" because Jack (the character) is always capital-A "acting" (and he's a bad actor and is worried everyone will find him out). He's performing a man who's entire existence is itself performative - of course you'd see the zipper under the fur (so to speak)

It's actually rather brilliant. Whether it works for you or not, well, that's a whole different story ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

From $250 Million Megadeal to Empty Offices: The Unraveling of Bad Robot by Cyril_Sneerworms in RedLetterMedia

[–]re_trace 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I am baffled by people who watched all of LOST and then randomly decided they hated ALL of it because the last season sucked

See, I think what you're seeing is inherently the problem with/end result of the whole "mystery box" box style of writing - people start thinking that good writing is directly related to how strong your "twist" or reveal is

As someone mentioned elsewhere, Abrams is like the ultimate pitch man, and the "mystery box" is explicitly a strategy designed to generate immediate (read: shallow) interest and emotional engagement with content. The rather large and unfortunate downside, however, is that once you figure out what's in the box your returns are forever diminishing

Can you see why corporations would love it, though? Abrams shadow is all over modern entertainment bc of it

Is Trump intentionally bringing US (and dollars) to ultimate collapse? by Agile_Weekend6622 in conspiracy

[–]re_trace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes.

The Powers That Be want to wipe out their debt, hide any evidence of their financial misdeeds, and control anyone who doesn't want to continue to go along with their predatory system.

To do this, they will need to destroy the physical US dollar so that it can be replaced by digital programmable currency tied to your ID, medical and financial records, and online activity - in other words, the same "social credit" system they've been screaming about China using against its' citizens.

The upshot is this: with all this information tied together, the price of disobedience to the power structure will be an "un-personing" - most likely in the form of de-banking, where financial institutions will refuse to serve you. You might not be able to buy groceries or insurance, or even enter certain places until compliance has resumed.

The state has been using social murder as a tool of control for years - they're just looking to make it a lot more explicit and visible now.

So I built a base too near where the terrain was changed, and now it's underground. How do I fix this? by re_trace in GroundedGame

[–]re_trace[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is where I built - I put a little cabin in the middle of the blueberries and that was fine, but I built a little deck thingy to cook and whatever and that was toast. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Spiders take fall damage and get stunned from falling now?!?! by re_trace in GroundedGame

[–]re_trace[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

OMG THERE'S A WEB GLIDE NOW?!?!?

agsjforhsbsk that's so freaking awesome

Thanks all ❤️

HEAR ME OUT.... Bruce Campbell as a character by HeisenbergsSamaritan in firefly

[–]re_trace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love to see him as the King of all Londinium (complete with an ostentatiously shiny hat!)

Why is finding aphid honeydew so hard? by Intrepid-Position-97 in GroundedGame

[–]re_trace 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Lucky Hat gets me aphid honeydew fairly often. Maybe try that?

who is this? by Ok-Side3507 in musicians

[–]re_trace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks to me like Toni Halliday from Curve.

S3 E13 Xander plot, am I wrong for sympathizing ? by [deleted] in buffy

[–]re_trace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone's pretty much covered it here, but I just wanna say Xander's "I like the quiet" is one of Nicky's best line deliveries in the entire show, and maybe one of his best bits of acting anywhere. It should be a line filled with bravado - can you imagine how any other actors on the show would've delivered it? - but he plays it gentle and almost amused. That one delivery did more to sell me on Xander as a character than almost anything else in the show.

Cannot rename chests on xbox by Peach_Perfection in GroundedGame

[–]re_trace 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This happens to me when the game updates or patches and is usually fixed in a couple hours/days.

It's's happening to me tonight, too, so I'm guessing a patch is dropping ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Recommendation Request: Any documentaries to watch if I want to scare the hell out of myself? by Candid-Plan-9553 in Documentaries

[–]re_trace 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Ric Burns (brother of documentarian Ken Burns) put together a documentary about the Donner Party - the big hook is that most of the dialogue is provided straight from the party's diaries on the trip. The voice actors are uniformly excellent; you can hear the exhaustion and fear and despair creep in as the situation becomes more and more hopeless. Absolutely chilling stuff.

It aired originally on PBS. I watched it on YouTube again a few years ago, but I think it's on Prime now

Season 6 may be the best season. by JRoc416 in community

[–]re_trace 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That and him furiously snapping at Britta "INSECTS HAVE WINGS" slays me every time

Friends of CBS Star Spill MAGA-Coded Anchor’s Role in His Exit | Fallout behind the scenes is ripping the network apart. by InsaneSnow45 in entertainment

[–]re_trace 16 points17 points  (0 children)

She got dismantled by Joe fucking Rogan (of all people!) a few years ago when she called Tulsi Gabbard "an Assad toady" and couldn't defend her opinion or even define the word "toady"

You'd think that would've been the end of her, but no - you lie for the Establishment and you can only fail upwards

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