I should've probably said this ages ago, but I've largely decamped to other platforms, guys. Click the links on my profile.
I still tweet from time to time, but I'm just... burned out on this place. Especially the creeping realization that it was always holding me back. 🤷🏿♂️✌🏿
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I think Abuelita can be forgiven for not knowing the Grateful Dead from art alone.
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He famously says he loves playing these guys. I'd infer he's typecast *by choice* to a large extent.
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He's just a dude who's been living with a particularly impactful "huh" moment for years.
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I mean, it has...just subtly.
But also the "costume" is entirely CGI, so the incentives re changing it are almost the complete inverse of a physical suit.
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I didn't even realize Ronda Rousey was a Sandy Hook denier. Add that to the list of her terrible beliefs, I guess.
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Washington Rednecks vs a revived version of the NY Football Yankees, book it for 2050.
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"Who watches these guys," asks the obsessive who clips their content and posts it across multiple platforms. Lul wut?
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Precisely. One of my main takeaways from that tweet/video was "oh, this guy had godlike luck and timing."
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Shit's crazy. They were totally like, "screw the bio dad. The kid's Gerald Ford, Jr now!"
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The Mega Man episode of Amazon Prime's Secret Level is almost enough to redeem the entire, largely mediocre anthology project. So good, so fun, so well acted. Only thing stopping me from rating it *Perfect* is that it's not longer.
MAKE A FULL MEGA MAN SERIES, AMAZON!!!
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Not really baffling to me. I think you're just giving the man too much credit, and reading introspection or depth into creative choices that he probably just saw as generically *manly* and *based.*
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I'm gonna sound like a sambo, self-hater, or whatever, but I totally see your point. Hypocrisy is bad. No one should racebend or racewash in general. Racism is racism, and it's all bad.
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I don't wanna jump on the "this is gonna suck" bandwagon yet, but everything I've heard and seen about Absolute DC/Comics has left me unimpressed (at best). I want this stuff to be good, and yet I'm often disappointed.
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Tbh, it seems like the Walz campaign picked a "friendly" locale that teed up their boy, whereas Vance's just picked a random shop with no research or quality prep. The Runza people were happy to see Walz, the donut shop people were NOT happy to see Vance.
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Jordan Peterson is not a racial segregationist, nor peddling a racist or race-obsessed agenda as part of his work.
WTF is you talking bout, dawg?
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Is the perception that NWH was overrated at release? I feel like I could rewatch it tomorrow and still have a great time.
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AI Norman is a menace, and Harry's gonna have one hell of a heel turn. It's crazy how the writing's on the wall, but I'm still loving every minute of it.
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Also worth remembering that the film briefly highlights a daily McDonald's patron who seems to be in good health. They marvel at this too, but if anything it should've given them pause re their ridiculous premise.
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The Social Network is fine as a piece of fiction. You just have to remember it's not real.
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It's technically still accessible via the courts, but the fact that it's banned otherwise is still WILD.
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It's already a meme waiting to happen just as is, so I think you're onto something.
Prepare your "those who know vs those who don't" response memes, brothers.
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Forget the animation style. Imagine What If with decent writing and an actual love of the source material.
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The rope tightening sound effect is hilarious once you realize it's there (and completely non-diagetic).
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Gary, we can just admit some people are dumb and they blindly swim in cognitive dissonance. We don't have to make their shortcomings someone else's fault.
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Reagan was the one who kicked mentally ill people out of mental health facilities, so technically...
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Also, like, the luncheon was with 900 people of various stripes. This framing makes it sound like the audience was exclusively one group.
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This is the rare case where I have more sympathy for the scammers than those being scammed. Far too many jobs are denying capable candidates due to credentialism and other factors. If the job market (and economy in general) were more fair, maybe I'd feel differently.
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#ComicsHistory:
You know how Disney literally spent billions to develop and acquire studios, IP (comics), etc?
DC/WB had it all *since the 1970s,* and largely squandered it until recently. Biggest self-own and failure of imagination in my lifetime.
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Messaging on the conviction is exactly the sort of thing that Super PACs were made for. I'm not saying that prescriptively so much as just descriptively.
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"Reach intersectionality"?
Intersectionality is a lens, a theory, a way of talking about the world. It's not a goal.
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In no particular order:
Bruce x villains (yes, even Selina and Talia)
Bruce's love life in general
Batfam bloat
Tumblrized Tim
Damian's existence
Selina being treated as *female Bruce*
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Why work on yourself—eww that's hard—when you can just call attention to your own shittiness? Self-awareness deserves at least partial credit, right?
...right?
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Incoming Clickbait headline: "Hugh Grant has 'violent' thoughts on the internet"
😂
Btw, I love Hugh. He's brilliant.
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The Occam's razor: They wanted to reduce competition in their field for protectionist reasons, they had to lie about it, and now they're stuck selling that lie in the face of mild public scrutiny and negative externalities.
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She'd done everything already. She was bored and still traumatized, she said as much. 🤷🏿♂️
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Well put. Relatedly, the appeal of the messenger is more important than the message itself. A charlatan or whacko with high charisma will be more convincing than an actual expert, simply because the former *feels* better. A very frustrating and depressing phenomenon to observe.
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Technically Community Notes preceded him. But he did certainly make it more of a prominent feature, if only as a stopgap measure to mitigate criticism around his capricious moderation policy.
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Not rude, just ill-considered. I never send texts, emails, etc after a set cutoff (usually 10ish) just because I know it might *look* weird, or open the door to unwanted late night messages from them to me.
Next time, set a reminder and contact them in the morning.
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In fairness, most of them are presumably dead or off world for the events of Doomsday, so...
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It's actually kind of remarkable how Stewart, despite being the big brother figure to all these people, has still managed to be less Ideologically captured. (He's woke tbh, but not as bad as any of his mentees or successors.)
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The compulsory leftist urge to ignore the will of the people when said people don't want what they're *supposed to* want. 🙄
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My basic read is that leftists believe it in a more earnest and straightforward way, i.e. "Trump is a wannabe dictator, look what he said and did." Meanwhile the MAGA wanna do a tit for tat, so they concern-troll, or conjure up a false equivalency about communism or voter fraud.
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This is an insanely spicy take. Probably also very in-line with the underlying psychology at play. I love it.
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Movie tickets *have* risen with inflation, but those rises aren't equally distributed. People paying full price in expensive areas are talking past people with discount memberships in cheap areas. Several factors at play honestly.
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At Disney (ik, diff corp, but still), there's purportedly a whole trash heap of Rule 34 lewds that the animators made to blow off steam, at least back in the day. Disney owns the content by contract. I'd bet the same was true for Hanna Barbera, Warner Animation, etc.
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The amount of people who hold aphilosophic views, even within elite (or wannabe elite) circles always kinda shocks me. It's like realizing that a bunch of museum goers are secretly philistines.
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I'm formerly homeless. I want to help my people (those still experiencing homelessness). You seem to want inaction. Yes, you're too woke.
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My mind goes to a pretty significant implication: With gender ratios that skewed, and the site's heyday being the Bush years, I'm wondering how many guys were effectively using it as a proto-Grindr.
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Something's really off about an account that small/new and a person that young having so much heat on them. Critical algo failure, especially if her most visible tweet(s) just became fodder for toxic pile-ons.
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Bless her heart. She's trying so hard to say what she thinks without causing offense. Very British indeed.
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I checked your TL and you seem too smart to believe that. I mean this earnestly rather than as a troll.
Skepticism of official narratives doesn't obligate you to believe bullshit. As Michael Malice often says "take one red pill, not the whole bottle."
Peace, brother. ✌🏿👋🏿
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Can I just say I really love how this chick is cashing in on her fifteen minutes?
Merch, signings, concert drop-ins. But nothing especially annoying or off-brand. Literally just "hey, I'm the meme person in the flesh." I love it.
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Artsy types have fragile egos. Derision and criticism are both gut punches in their eyes, especially the younger set. I sympathize.
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What's even the argument here? "Intended to harm him"? Harm how? Through doing her job? Enforcing rules?
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Marvel Studios took 4+ years to get Fantastic Four off the ground. This is not an isolated incident.
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This guy always finds a way to compliment the crowd and criticize the government. Most libertarian UFC fighter on the roster.
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Cannonier's ranking isn't in line with his actual skill level. Besides, both men clearly like taking fights regardless of the rankings, so let 'em have it.
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EDIT: It's only fair that I point out she did issue a full retraction and apology. Probably a rare bit of self-reflection and ownership from her tbh.
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Chael's biggest strengths as a trash talker are his willingness to lie convincingly and his extremely quick wit. He honestly hasn't missed a step mentally in over a decade.
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I've famously said his women look like men, and his men all look alike (esp on the DC side).
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I have mixed thoughts on Basil and their takes, but I don't think they themselves are the sort of cringe radical LARPer they're criticizing here.
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Nobody's hating on Stipe. They're just rightly saying he's old, and questioning why he gets an immediate title shot for no reason.
If Aldo's first fight after retirement was a title shot, people would complain too.
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