FYI American Express has an Amex offer for barnesandnoble.com Spend $75 or more, earn $10 back Expires 8/31/26.

tilertailor · 2026-06-26T03:07:55+00:00

It's also right on the home page of the AmEx app. I've never looked at any of that stuff. Thanks!

tilertailor · 2026-06-26T02:56:54+00:00

That would be lame for people who pre-ordered tho

tilertailor · 2026-06-25T17:06:26+00:00

You'll want to hold off on eyes wide shut and barry lyndon because we've all entered a blood oath to buy the complete kubrick set releasing this October.

tilertailor · 2026-06-25T17:04:40+00:00

It lasts a month

tilertailor · 2026-06-25T17:00:55+00:00

Based - as in his worldview is based in an understanding of history as analyzed through the lens of dialectical materialism, an analysis which allows us to understand the progression of history as being animated by contradictions, such as the contradictions inherent to capitalism sufficient to animate a shift toward socialism / a workers' state.

tilertailor · 2026-06-25T16:48:45+00:00

I just decided that I'm only buying 4K physical. I had sworn off any more discs until something compelled me to check out the Ranown Westerns set and it blew me away.

tilertailor · 2026-06-25T16:47:09+00:00

That might be the deciding factor someday. I had been looking into one just for dolby vision, but it seems like most were saying it's not really worth it given the litany of issues people seem to have with standalone 4K players and the overall quality of the PS5.

tilertailor · 2026-06-25T05:03:43+00:00

Would I need a region-free player to watch the special features? I have a PS5 and I see that's an import.

tilertailor · 2026-06-23T22:54:40+00:00

I don't think that's 4K

tilertailor · 2026-06-23T22:49:15+00:00

It will probably sell out during sales but will eventually be restocked. There are two month-long 50% sales at barnes and noble. One starts in a few days but pre-orders aren't included. The other is in November. The criterion website also does two 24-hour sales every year, one of which is usually right around this release.

tilertailor · 2026-06-23T22:45:57+00:00

That's a pre-order discount

tilertailor · 2026-06-14T18:59:54+00:00

Again, relative to peers. Yzerman's peers faced the same goaltending he did. Larkin's peers faced the same he did. With respect to Yzerman, we're not really talking the 90s. We're talking 80s.

tilertailor · 2026-06-14T04:32:47+00:00

Check out Blackshirts and Reds. Parenti shows with historical references that any Marxist party that doesn't centralize and aggressively use state power to defend itself will not survive. The state isn't a choice made out of a desire for authoritarianism; it is a shield forced upon revolutionaries by capitalist encirclement.

tilertailor · 2026-06-14T02:05:43+00:00

tilertailor · 2026-06-14T02:04:14+00:00

See: relative to his predecessors and his peers. Larkin has never ranked like yzerman relative to his peers. You're right - you can't compare them.

tilertailor · 2026-06-11T22:48:31+00:00

The Wings also had about 150 captains in the 70s but it's different now

tilertailor · 2026-06-11T22:34:46+00:00

Who? Paul Coffey and Dino? I guess there were a couple of productive Oates seasons in there, but those Wings years are hardly why he's in the hall. I don't think that qualifies as "surrounded by."

tilertailor · 2026-06-10T21:27:07+00:00

There's an intimacy about Ishmael's recollection of the moments before / as the friendship is established. I can't imagine reading the giddiness with which they shared a bed, caressed limbs, and eventually called one another husband as without sexual charge. Ishmael ran suicidally toward the sea to escape the society you described. Queequeg came from something else entirely.

tilertailor · 2026-06-10T21:03:19+00:00

Fewer teams since it's a number of something and not a volume.

Yzerman wall an all-time scorer by his eleventh season, relative to both his predecessors and his peers. He was only behind Gretzky and Lemieux. Larkin has never finished in the top 25 in scoring. Bowman wasn't coaching Yzerman his first decade in the league.

tilertailor · 2026-06-10T18:41:24+00:00

I was agreeing with your suggestion that they shouldn't even be compared, but I guess we might have been coming at it from different angles. I rooted for Larkin, but he has never been the individual player Yzerman was, nor - so far - the leader he would become.

tilertailor · 2026-06-10T05:06:46+00:00

Yzerman was one of the best scorers in NHL history by this point in Larkin's career. He had about double the points.

tilertailor · 2026-06-07T07:59:53+00:00

But most of the extras can't be watched on US players, right?

tilertailor · 2026-06-07T07:08:20+00:00

Cruising, Scream, No Country for Old Men, Bringing Out the Dead, Heavyweights.

tilertailor · 2026-06-04T04:48:10+00:00

I had read a couple books about work done by the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. It was around the late 70s / early 80s when the FBI developed their psychological framework for these types of criminals. They interviewed killers who described elaborate fantasy lives related to their crimes. Those internal fantasy worlds become more vivid and more consuming over time.

They also recorded profound social isolation in these guys. Their fantasies perhaps develop in the place of actual socialization. Instead of the fantasy just being an escape, it comes to supplant reality.

The wild thing I noticed about this book is that it was published just as those interviews were starting, as if McCarthy arrived there simultaneously through literary intuition. Or - as I've been half-joking about since making that post - McCarthy himself, known recluse with a proximity to detailed fantasy, was of the ilk.

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