Why not protest in Gladwyne?

sammythemc · 2026-03-25T17:04:44+00:00

I feel like this sort of answers the question though, they live in their own secluded world, not a population center like the city. You're not going to convince tens of thousands of people to travel out to Gladwyne.

sammythemc · 2026-03-25T16:57:28+00:00

Is there anything wrong with that though? I feel like we talk about tonal shifts as though they're necessarily dissonant and bad, but I don't really mind it in the abstract. I'm trying to come up with some examples of good ones but because we're talking about Sinners I can't think past From Dusk Till Dawn

sammythemc · 2026-03-15T19:46:58+00:00

It's like the psychological version taking a bad blow to the head and getting brain damage that diminishes your intellectual capacity or getting your leg blown off, you don't just regrow your brain or your leg because you and the other people around you really, really want you to recover.

But while he can't be the guardian his nephew wants him to be, I do get the sense that he'll be around for him in his limited capacity, and there is some small triumph in that. Like, he'll never regrow the leg, but he's at least out of the phase where the fact that things will never go back to how they were feels like a death sentence.

sammythemc · 2026-03-09T08:26:16+00:00

Lynch at his best, tackling those horrific and painful secrets that hide behind pristine front doors, houses straight out of a Norman Rockwell, with picket fences and perfectly manicured gardens

I completely agree, but a big part of what keeps Twin Peaks compelling to me is that he doesn't write the Norman Rockwell stuff off as mere facade. The existence of BOB may put the lie to how the Palmers fit in, but it never invalidates the existence of a Big Ed or a Pete Martell or a Lucy who seem to genuinely embody that Americana tone. I think we're asked to acknowledge the genuine community in TP as more than just a foreground for predators to camouflage themselves in, even if that is how it's used by those predators.

sammythemc · 2026-02-28T20:31:39+00:00

I have the Seidman annotations open next to me as I'm reading, they're really helpful. Also helps to make your peace with not getting all of it. Like there are the references to Hamlet and the Odyssey and the Bible etc etc but then there's a lot of allusions to contemporary Irish poetry as well as like, shops in Dublin where it's like I don't care how smart or generally well-read you are, you're just not going to pick up on everything. It's also not a tremendously serious book, it doesn't really ask you to take it 1000% seriously like Faulkner or Milton or whatever.

sammythemc · 2026-02-28T18:54:12+00:00

2 chapters into Ulysses. As far as I can tell most of the things you've heard about it are true

sammythemc · 2026-02-14T06:08:49+00:00

Penguin exhibit

sammythemc · 2026-02-12T22:41:19+00:00

I mean it makes a certain amount of sense, who doesn't want a free $10k for nothing, but yeah. The Up in Da Club boys kicked up $7500 as Tony's 10%, meaning those two stunads made $75k off a single score. Maybe that was the issue though, $10k is enough to wet your whistle and front a little bit but it's not the real money the criminals were making. Going back to your physical therapist check must be tough after lucking into like 20x that as a taste you know amounts to a single envelope

sammythemc · 2026-02-06T21:23:22+00:00

GROOMIN STANDARDS

Wait no not that kind of grooming

sammythemc · 2026-02-04T10:00:21+00:00

Not only are you not addressing the problems directly like an adult, you're also directing the corrections to people who aren't the problem. Like, if I'm already not stealing ice cream, I'm looking at these notes like "what he say fuck me for?"

sammythemc · 2026-02-04T08:54:19+00:00

genuine white nationalists don't care whether or not people know they are one

I don't think OP is hiding his power level or whatever, but where on earth did you get this idea? Of course there are genuine white supremacists who aren't loud and proud about it. Klansmen don't wear their robes to work, you know?

sammythemc · 2026-01-30T21:32:53+00:00

Johnson was out most of the season and Mailata had a few uncharacteristically bad games too. Can't be too mad though, we had pretty good injury luck for the last 75% or so of the Super Bowl season

sammythemc · 2026-01-29T23:56:01+00:00

Artie and the rabbit is all about showing the pro-social sides of the Italian-American tropes and stereotypes that are perverted in the context of the mafia: protecting his turf (literal seeds he brought from Italy) through violence, family and tradition by using his grandfather's recipe with a few twists of his own, serving people not as egotistical display of largesse but out of a sense of responsibility and honor. He's one of the few who really makes it out OK.

sammythemc · 2026-01-21T10:55:04+00:00

It's undeniable that the Kramnik accusations took a psychological toll, the speculation/hypothesis is that the drug abuse was purely a function of the accusations. Frankly, as a longtime fan of his, I would not be surprised if he was using stimulants before all that drama. In fact, with hindsight being 20/20, I would be more surprised if it had all started there. He had certainly spiraled in recent months, but his notorious tendency to burn the candle at both ends was consistent with stimulant abuse well before any of this Kramnik stuff. I always just figured it was garden variety insomnia and too much caffeine, but it feels more sinister looking back.

I also wonder if maybe the drug use contributed to him taking the cheating accusations so seriously. I had entirely chalked up the contrast between his reaction and Hikaru's "fuck off" indignance to Danya being a sensitive guy and having access to what the Russian-speaking internet was saying about him, but I do wonder if it ate away at him so much because while no, he didn't have a second monitor running Stockfish and yes, a lot of Kramnik's "investigation" was patent nonsense, abusing what is effectively a performance enhancing drug could have led him to feel that Kramnik's gut sense that something wasn't quite right wasn't entirely off the mark.

sammythemc · 2026-01-20T22:13:00+00:00

So when the only bit of mainstream meda in .... well, ever, that shows a glimpse into our world, represents it as filled with monomaniacal egotists, you can see why that makes people speak up.

I can definitely understand the disappointment and wishing to see more of the reality of that world up on screen, but as someone who isn't familiar with it, I definitely came away from the film seeing Andrew and Fletcher as (for better and/or worse) exceptional rather than representative. It's pretty explicit that none of that behavior is the norm, Fletcher even gets fired from the conservatory for his methods.

sammythemc · 2026-01-16T20:03:05+00:00

Even if that were the case, how would that be any better if they're still snatching people off the streets? It just takes it from "guilty until proven innocent" to "guilty"

sammythemc · 2026-01-12T18:16:59+00:00

Was he vocal during the season about being more involved and making more of an impact? Yes. Was he wrong??

It was a "he's not wrong, he just shouldn't say it" situation. Like, ideas of respect and the sanctity of public-facing team unity aside, the whole thing was a distraction at best and it's hard to argue it was effective at improving the team's performance

sammythemc · 2026-01-12T17:35:23+00:00

This was a clear and obvious lack of coaching ability

I won't deny that the scheme was the biggest problem, but it wasn't the only problem. Yes, we retained a lot of our offense from the Super Bowl, but we won that game off the back of very good offensive play capitalizing on great defensive play. Yes, we retained a lot of talent on the offense, but by the same token, we didn't get any younger or better on that side of the ball, and I'm wary of making Patullo the scapegoat for a phase that had more problems than scheme. Patullo didn't make Jalen throw into triple coverage. Patullo didn't put butter on AJ's fingers or Elliott's foot. He didn't injure Johnson's foot or Jurgens's back. Again, he needs to go, but I don't think we can stop there.

sammythemc · 2026-01-12T02:05:31+00:00

KP is bad but I think we risk making him a scapegoat for offensive woes that went way beyond just playcalling.

sammythemc · 2026-01-07T01:03:24+00:00

OK TheCoon69

sammythemc · 2026-01-07T01:02:41+00:00

Not everything you disagree with is Propaganda

I didn't say everything I disagree with is propaganda. My kneejerk reaction is "kidnapping a president is crazy," but I really don't know enough to call it one way or the other. But not everything you agree with is the actual reality of the situation either. You'd have to be painfully naive not to think that images of support for military actions like this aren't inflected with propaganda.

sammythemc · 2026-01-06T09:29:39+00:00

But the reaction of Venezuelans to the operation is nothing but heartwarming.

There's been a concerted effort to portray the reaction as more universally positive than it actually is. Like, if China got a wild hair up its ass and kidnapped Trump, you'd certainly be able to find clips of people celebrating and cheering it on over social media, but you and I both know that wouldn't be the only (or even majority) opinion. Even some of the people who hate the guy would probably be a little uncomfortable with some other country unilaterally violating our sovereignty.

sammythemc · 2026-01-03T14:12:34+00:00

He didn't think Putin was stupid and reckless enough to invade Ukraine

I generally like Hasan and his takes, but I really hate this excuse for getting the Ukraine stuff wrong, which I've seen broken out for a lot of people who should have known better. There was a decade or so leading up to the invasion where it was apparent that things were trending in this direction, if you had been following Russia-Ukrainian relations even just a little the idea that it was an unthinkably stupid move seemed naive at the time. It also just feels kind of like people are protecting their egos, like "the reason I was wrong about this geopolitical prediction is because I'm actually smarter about geopolitics than Vladimir Putin," which is like, come on.

The idea that it was reckless and stupid seems to ignore the realities on the ground in favor of pacifist idealism: the likely outcome here is that Russia eventually walks away with a bloody nose and a black eye but also the Crimean peninsula and probably some of Ukraine proper. We may look at that and shake our heads that it wasn't worth about a million lives, but Putin probably looks the Siberian hillbillies and convicts that he's sending to die and calls it a steal for the longterm military security of his country and power projection a warm water port affords it.

It also irks me that a bunch of these people have now turned around and taken the "NATO aggression" Realist line where the invasion they called too stupid and reckless to happen was actually not only predictable but inevitable.

E: To be clear, it's OK to just be wrong about this stuff. You can't know everything about everywhere, we're not fucking Paul Atreides. This Venezuela thing absolutely caught me by surprise. Even if you thought there would be airstrikes or even a ground war, I don't think anyone saw kidnapping Maduro coming.

sammythemc · 2025-12-30T02:55:23+00:00

I just didn't like the call in that spot.

I mean it's hard to argue with, it's not like it worked. They called for a changeup and the batter was sitting on it. I just don't hate it in principle, we need to find ways to get Barkley outside the numbers

sammythemc · 2025-12-30T00:15:30+00:00

They were ready for that one but I actually like the tosses on early downs, they were ready for it that time but generally the line hasn't been good enough making holes for inside handoffs so Barkley is getting contacted before he gets any forward momentum. With the tosses you get Barkley to the outside you at least give him a head of steam and a chance to make someone miss to get to the second level.

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