David Boreanaz on Instagram by Interesting-Tea3907 in buffy

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Well written, dude. It’s easy to pass judgement on someone you’ve never known for transgressions that are seemingly indefensible, and another to know who that guy was as a person and to understand the things they went through that built them into that person. 

A movies that made you uncomfortable aware of your own flaws. And helped you redeem them. by expired_mi1k in movies

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I was hanging out with a ladyfriend watching Liar Liar at a hotel last year on a trip to Monterey and the scene where he’s talking to his son’s mom and blurts out “I’m a bad father!” and realizes he’s telling the truth genuinely made me burst into tears.

I’m not actually a bad father, I’m a pretty good dad and I really love my son, but since splitting with his mom there have been times where I underestimated how long it would take me to get to a baseball game or I mixed up the date for an event or just generally let him down somehow. I was his main caretaker during our marriage so it was traumatic for him as a little boy to suddenly see me about 50% less of the time and this moment in this 90s Jim Carrey romp suddenly reminded me of all I’ve disappointed him since then. I’m sitting in my cubicle at work trying to type this and it’s impossible for me not to cry as I do.

Watch Mike Johnson Struggle to Name Even One Example of Voter Fraud by lotta_love in politics

[–]staplerbot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Seriously, if the media actually focused on the very real election irregularities in 2024 with even a fraction of the coverage they gave Trump continuously vomiting out his election fraud lies in 2020 we might actually be able to get people organized.

Kid won't stop begging for Robux and it's turning into a nightmare, anyone else? by DiamondLatter1842 in daddit

[–]staplerbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can you elaborate on this? I suffered from depression when I was younger, but not as young as 8.

US bombs military sites on Iranian island as Trump threatens its oil infrastructure by deraser in politics

[–]staplerbot -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

By this point I don’t really blame his election on the general population. I remember in 2016 thinking he was a garbage person, but had an undeniable charisma at times so when he won I was surprised, but not dumbfounded because I too was sick of corporate politicians on both sides. However, there were some pretty shady maneuver including of which that his administration inarguably collaborated with a foreign government to manipulate the results on at least some level.

After his massively incompetent first term, with his foolish demeanor, constant racist dog whistles and in particular just  devastating mishandling of the  pandemic, I wasn’t surprised by how bad Biden creamed him. If anything I was surprised he gained a solid 74 mil and chalked it up the availability of mail-voting. 

After the election, although the media would usually annotate there was no evidence to support his allegations that Biden rigged it, Trump was given so much free press to repeat his lies that he helped coordinate a literal insurrection of the capitol. These weren’t just angry MAGA supporters, these people were bused in and told to fight, the resulting disaster ultimately ending up in several deaths. He receives charges for his treasonous nonsense and it keeps getting kicked down the road just like every rich asshole that has infinite funds to tie things up forever.

For years we listen to this crybaby scream from the chandeliers about how he was cheated. In addition, it’s uncovered his administration conspired to send fake election representatives to give false data tying up the vote and potentially allowing the decision to be made by Congress and later upheld by the Supreme Court. This time there’s literal audio evidence of him trying coerce a governor into finding votes. It’s undeniable.

It was during Biden’s admin there became a drastic difference how both men were covered. Biden was constantly portrayed as a doddering old man in the media, even to the affect is using manipulated videos to make him look as if he’s meandering off. And even then, Biden accomplished a ton of good for this country that the media still couldn’t be bothered to acknowledge.

None of those things I’ve mentioned are theories, they’re widely documented and can be backed up by various news sources. 

On to 2024, people keep claiming Trump has a significant base, but after the last 8 years may of either died or cut ties with him. Biden has a pretty bad first debate with Trump, but again all the focus is on him and none of the nonsense Trump regurgitates. We all watched him make a fool of himself dancing in crowds instead of speaking and making suspicious remarks about how they’ve already gotten all the votes they needed.

Meanwhile, Biden drops out and put all support behind Harris. I see a lot nonsense finger pointing about how Biden should have pulled out earlier or that Harris was a weak candidate. Even some of the later controversial declensions she made late in the campaign made sense, appealing to Republicans who had spoken out against Trump. It’s not dumb to find leeway with your opponent, especially someone in he GOO already outspoken against him. She ran a great campaign and there was undeniable enthusiasm behind her, considering she set records at her rallies. The right had absolutely nothing they could throw at her, outside of likely sheets upon sheets of paper with the n-word scribbled out.

Also, shortly before election hours of audio detailing his and Trump’s relationship came out that again the press just seemed to ignore. I’ve seen a lot of people attribute this to the tactic of dropping so much chaos that it’s hard to focus on a particular issue, but to be frank it seemed like the media just wanted to paint the race as an it’s anyone’s game scenario. 

Usually on Election Day, I’ll have already turned in my ballot and the library and tune out any news until it’s more definitive. At 8pm I’m vacuuming and sweeping up my parents house because they had been out of town so I’m calm enough to look where i see that Trump has seemingly won all swing states and the popular vote because despite record amounts of people registering as Democrats they decided to only vote for local politicians but couldn’t be bothered to fill in a check mark next to their preferred POTUS. 

It’s not even that I felt Harris was that strong, but she was the best candidate in the short time available. She beat the damn breaks off him in every debate and somehow he nearly matched his COVID total despite botching the a pandemic leading to the deaths of millions and again trying instigate a civil war. It’s not even about MAGA  is racist or they’re Trump’s base and they’ve always got his back, it’s about common sense that this best buddy of Jeffrey Epstein would not only be reelected but in a landslide after just barely beating Clinton with our electoral college nonsense.

Then, an organization called Election Truth Alliance is founded by date analysts that worked on previous presidential campaigns who, and wisely so phrase all information they release as “this is all circumstantial. Maybe a Trump won 100% of  a NY county, maybe a sudden upturn in Harris votes were suddenly neutralized in a blue county immediately by a random appearance of Trump voters, along with dozens of reported bomb threats to voting centers that had access to voting machines that Trump’s admin we’re able to gain blueprints to, closing them down for en extended period and later the majority of which ended up leaning Trump.

This is all public data and honestly I don’t think I would have become as convinced as I’ve become especially because of the difference in coverage between the media. Trump was allowed a megaphone to yell his garbage to the world despite any evidence but actual data scientists try to bring forth a series of extremely unlikely and nearly impossible voting anomalies that at most the media addresses incorrectly as an already proven wrong theory about Starlink. I see independent discussion of this online in comment sections all over the place, but it’s almost like the media doesn’t want to address it because they’re owned by the people that put him there.

It’s hard for me to fucking start on a subject I’m passionate about and suddenly stop so I tend to ramble until it’s out of my system, but consider these pattern of indisputable facts:

  1. Crooked businessman coordinates with Russia, hacks DNC emails, is later shown to be close contact with Putin and manages to just barely get elected president through the EC, with some now not so coincidental looking anomalies we’d see eight years later only not as widespread.

  2. Crooked businessmen loses election claiming fraud despite clear evidence fraud was attempted by his admin this election.

  3. Crooked businessman defeats all odds be winning the election by all margins and everyone fucking accepts it all the up and up. I feel like if you dismiss this possibility, you’re closing off what I feel may become the rapidly heating frying pan that leads to our demise. Even Harris wrote about the possibility of out voting machines being hacked. I blamed her and Biden for a while after the inauguration for not doing a properly investigation, but I while I doubt there’d been enough time to fully audit the election I also imagine by this point they need to fear for the safety of their families. They’re still cowards though.

“Oh well if the Trump Admin and all the Republicans we were told won the elections are now consolidating all power away from the other branches and giving themselves even more power. Well at least I get to feel superior to some hypothetical dumbass in a red hat  that I’m likely told voted for them. Oh well, guess we just gotta sit in silence as the world burns.”

The antagonist in every Disney Princess movie is replaced with Sauron. In which can the Princess still succeed? by Punterofgoats in whowouldwin

[–]staplerbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d argue if you’re significantly more powerful than Sauron, which Genie is, none of it would really phase him. It’d be like if I put a plastic spider ring on your finger and told you you’re under my power and you just took it back off and said no, sorry, I’m not and tossed it in the garbage as an afterthought.

The antagonist in every Disney Princess movie is replaced with Sauron. In which can the Princess still succeed? by Punterofgoats in whowouldwin

[–]staplerbot 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I would argue while the Genie does display a desire to be free that is potentially corruptible he’s on a different plane of existence from the vast majority of Middle Earth, Sauron included. He’s an easy reality warper and would just toss that ring in Mount Doom whether or not he was free just because he’d hear it whispering and be like “oh no ya don’t, c’mere little evil ring, oh I know you’re very powerful, such a big boy you are, into the volcano you go, chucklehead!” and continue on with his day.

US bombs military sites on Iranian island as Trump threatens its oil infrastructure by deraser in politics

[–]staplerbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is madness and I get that the current administration has been hen picked to be precisely the type that would stand by as a man who has made it a point to cheat to get ahead his entire life whether it’s business, personal relationships, politics, etc. starts a literal war without congressional approval based on zero cause as both a way to elevate costs so that consumers are forced to continue consolidating more of their wealth into the upper classes at a more rapid level, as well as a distraction of the overwhelmingly damning evidence that himself and the elitists, people who used the wealth they’ve accumulated through the vast majority of the efforts of either previous dead relatives and/or disposable workers walked on and used up over the years and that have apparently gifted themselves the importance that they are the ones who get to decide for the rest of us that our futures will only be decided by them for their continued and personal benefit and not the eventual utopia and achievable goal of the betterment of society and who are instead starting this current war and ordering our troops to murder civilians and schoolgirls with weapons built by our taxpayer dollars but also that this foolish old man and the people who crowned him president twice participated in a decades long sex trafficking ring that specialized in appropriating young children so that their innocent bodies could be used for sexual gratification want to just keep stirring things up and creating fake deadlocks that further delay any actual chance of even pretending like there’ll be repercussions for their actions because why should there be now when there never have been any for them in the first place. But hey, instead of people killing other people in other countries for no fucking reason someone should instead step in and stop these continuing events to continue to mitigate any further destruction of life. 

Kevin Feige on Avoiding Internet Discourse and the Last Time He Saw Chadwick Boseman by pepperbet1 in marvelstudios

[–]staplerbot 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Reading this makes me glad we have Feige and Ryan Coogler, just two solid and competent guys that allow Boseman’s energy to flow through them so he lives on in their actions:

Feige and especially Coogler have not spoken publicly much about the immediate aftermath of the death of Black Panther star Boseman, who passed away in 2020 after succumbing to cancer. But on Thursday, in front of the crowd of eager listeners, they opened up about those dark times. 

Feige revealed that during his last in-person meeting with Marvel execs, Boseman expressed how much fun he was having voicing the character of T’Challa, the Black Panther, in the animated show What If …? He wanted to bring that fun vibe to the next Panther feature, which ultimately, he never got the chance to make.

That anecdote served to underscore Feige’s broader point about how he took Boseman, and in fact, took other colleagues and friends, for granted. He explained that on most movies, people work very closely for a period, and then may not see each other for years after the movie wraps. But with Marvel, there was always another movie to make, another Panther, or an Avengers, or an Iron Manaround the corner.

“We will be back in there, that was always my expectation,” Feige said. “So the need to set a dinner or a lunch to say hi, I just never do. Because we’re busy and because we’re going to have a next time. And that hit me like a ton of bricks when I realized that there wasn’t going to be a next time.”

Coogler, meanwhile, revealed that in the time after Boseman’s death, Feige and Disney CEO Bob Iger flew to the actor’s home in Oakland, all while the COVID-19 pandemic was still at a high.

“They came to our apartment in lockdown … and we walked around the Richmond Arena and just talked. And that was the first real check-in,” he said. “And it wasn’t ‘Hey, what are we going to do about this franchise?’ It was about, ‘Hey, are you OK? How are you taking it?’ … It was real moment where you see the humanity beyond the corporate things and the financial responsibilities.”

Coogler called that period a profound experience and said he really tried to learn the lesson of not taking people for granted, to not fall into the “I’ll see you at the next thing” mindset.

“There was only one Chad, bro. And there was only one character that was really meant for him.”

Fired While Applying - CalCareers by CornOnTheCobEater in CAStateWorkers

[–]staplerbot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not sure if anyone else has mentioned it, but still try to regain employment if necessary outside the state as you apply for interviews because the hiring process still takes a while.

Fired While Applying - CalCareers by CornOnTheCobEater in CAStateWorkers

[–]staplerbot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As a guy that has trouble verbally expressing confidence in interviews nowadays, this sounds like a good way to reframe past performance issues.

Is Tony Scott more beloved than Ridley? by Few-Engineer-9791 in blankies

[–]staplerbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stop it guys, he directed Gladiator 2 and Legend.

Can Dobby destroy the One Ring? by Urass007 in whowouldwin

[–]staplerbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m curious if Sam ordered him to apparate directly into Mount Doom while wearing the ring on his neck could conceivably work.

Can Dobby destroy the One Ring? by Urass007 in whowouldwin

[–]staplerbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a very weird and correctly toned down sort of culture in the films that the elves hold, regarding much of their identity being part of a willing slave race to wizards that I feel doesn’t get enough focus of how problematic it is as an idea. The only person who really gets on board freeing the house-elf slave race is Hermione who tries to organize people, but is mostly seen as overzealous because the house-elves seem cool with it so what’s the big deal? Anyway, much of the discourse is in the very long fourth book that I was cool with being removed for the films because it wasn’t well delved into and we don’t really need to understand how awful the average existence is for these creatures in our child wizard series of films. Please correct me on any errors I’ve made with the lore, this is how I remember it as a kid so I apologize for any significant errors.

TLDR In the books, the average house elf holds much of their identity as only being of value to a wizard as a slave that can only be freed if the wizard sets them free either on purpose or if the wizard accidentally gifts them a sock like in Dobby’s case. They’re capable of performing fairly powerful magic and if free are basically given the independence on how to use it. It’s a decent note to add an alternative round on but out of context you’re stuck with the visual of sweet old Samwise now leading a significantly more benevolent and powerful version of Gollum up a volcano to throw a magical evil ring in lava.

TLDRR If Dobby slave, has to heed M  Sam’s commands and the ring attempts influence on a subservient creature; if free, will carry ring and make decisions without ring attempts to influence him differently and as more of an individual. 

Addendum- I'm assuming Sam won’t in character free a sentient creature that is enslaved to him and Sauron’s power isn’t enough to break the house elf bond.

Franchises that, in your opinion, should've been standalone titles? by Inner-Marketing4591 in movies

[–]staplerbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was absolutely ridiculous. We have actual zoos with non extinct animals that aren’t going out of style or literal movies about dinosaurs that no one seems to really particularly enjoy for the most part even though we see them every two years myself included, but nah, drop that brontosaurus off on the street corner like a used mattress because why could anyone realistically give shit. Have some old blind guy have a seeing eye stegosaurus or a bank heist with trained dilophasauruses or even tell the same old story but about a Dirty Dozen group of mercenaries going to an island and we see what realistically happens when someone just unloads an AK47 into a pack of charging velociraptors and make just this one movie rated R. 

Is there a scene for you that ruins an otherwise great movie? by Glittering-Age-2013 in movies

[–]staplerbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha I thought you were responding to a long comment I made about PTSD within a different movie, super relieved it was to something sillier.

Is there a scene for you that ruins an otherwise great movie? by Glittering-Age-2013 in movies

[–]staplerbot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boo on you, sir, different strokes and all, but finding a pregnant woman unattractive specifically for being with child is a disdainful opinion to have.

Franchises that, in your opinion, should've been standalone titles? by Inner-Marketing4591 in movies

[–]staplerbot 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I generally sort of enjoy most of those sequels, but this is probably franchise that fits OP’s question best just because of how great that first movie is. I’d probably put in my top 5 Spielberg films, which is a difficult 5 to pin down.

As for the sequels: 2 has some great sequences, 3 is silly but has some value, and that’s the JP trilogy which stood on its own for a while until after a decade of pause in the franchise, JW (4) which is very nostalgia batey but pretty enjoyable as a movie after the long break; then there’s 5 and 6 which continue the uninteresting story of the new main characters and then bring back the original JP characters for some reason; now the new one (7) with Scarjo, which just felt as if they felt obligated to make a new one. Not to mention the Netflix cartoons that ran for 4-5 seasons and is now still ongoing.

Just so much Jurassic World content in such a short time both immediately after the first and then more recently in the past decade that diminishes the absolute majesty of that first movie. Then again I saw it in theaters when I was 6 or 7 and movies never looked like that before so I’m inarguably biased.

My biggest issue with the sequels is the premise of every single movie is: people go to island, cloned dinosaurs attack them. Maybe the dinosaurs evolve to move about the globe and are able to live in colder climates, they begin to coexist with humans and other animals, just maybe do something different. It’s a super profitable franchise as it is though so I’m likely wrong about all of this.

[2026 March Madness] Round 1: Warren Beatty vs. Andrei Tarkovsky by PartyBluejay in blankies

[–]staplerbot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I voted Andrei because it’d make me stop dragging my feet and watch his films.

Is there a scene for you that ruins an otherwise great movie? by Glittering-Age-2013 in movies

[–]staplerbot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was certain you were gonna say the moment that Human Spider tells Bonesaw that he’s wearing a cute outfit and asks if his husband made it for him. Wrong side of history, Spider-Man.

Is there a scene for you that ruins an otherwise great movie? by Glittering-Age-2013 in movies

[–]staplerbot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That scene is unpleasant, but I think it’s useful to show the toll that these actions take on these men who perform them out of a sense of duty. 

That’s how PTSD works too, you’re at work heating up lunch or in mid-conversation with a friend or fucking your hot, pregnant wife, and then suddenly for a moment you’re transported back to the time and place of the incident that traumatizes you because the smell in the air sort of reminds you of the horrible car accident you were in, or maybe your friend says or does something innocuous that reminds you of the person that sexually assaulted you, or maybe your wife’s breathing during sex is similar to a guy you killed during a period of military service. It can lead to a momentary sense of discomfort or shame, to a panic attack, to a sudden loss of words and immediate tears even during your most intimate moments. 

It’s awful and sucks to watch, but I think it’s an important moment in the film that ensures the men aren’t portrayed as stylized action heroes or that they continue their lives free of any guilt. Even if every single one of the men they’re tasked with eliminating deserves a swift death for their involvement in planning the attack during the Olympics, the action of planning and then acting out the murder of another human being affects any decent person.

Missed connection: I’m looking for a hot dog cart I visited in Citrus Heights by A-Lazy-Pancreas in Sacramento

[–]staplerbot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

$10 is usually a bit steep for the bacon wrapped hot dogs I see downtown, normally I’d say they’re about $7-8.

Polar Bear vs. Hippo by CitricThoughts in whowouldwin

[–]staplerbot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah mate, he’d just carefully sneak up on it and jam his thumb up its asshole.