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  1. Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes

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    I don’t really pay attention to the blog posts but what caught my attention was that he titled the post “To Those Who Can’t Read” and I had never seen someone schizoposting on here before.

    I don’t really pay attention to the blog posts but what caught my attention was that he titled the post “To Those Who Can’t Read” and I had never seen someone schizoposting on here before.

    11 votes

  3. Comment on Does Tildes welcomes “self-promoting” links to personal blog posts? in ~tildes

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    People have done that. There was a guy who wrote fiction and then posted it here as a link to his blog. And then when people criticized his writing he wrote another piece attacking them and linked...

    People have done that. There was a guy who wrote fiction and then posted it here as a link to his blog. And then when people criticized his writing he wrote another piece attacking them and linked it again and then he was banned. So as long as you don’t do that you’ll probably be okay.

    18 votes

  4. Comment on How A24 spurred a meme craze and got the many to watch ‘You Can See Everything’: documentary opens to $15m milestone in ~movies

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    Yeah it seemed to have a sort of resurgence as well. I much prefer it to his current “deep” stuff. The last episode of Nathan For You is definitely the transition to this more...

    Yeah it seemed to have a sort of resurgence as well. I much prefer it to his current “deep” stuff. The last episode of Nathan For You is definitely the transition to this more psychological/philosophical stuff he does now. But I preferred the more comedic aspect of the show.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Zach Bryan - Lies ft. Lana Del Rey (2026) in ~music

  7. Comment on How A24 spurred a meme craze and got the many to watch ‘You Can See Everything’: documentary opens to $15m milestone in ~movies

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    Yeah Fielder’s built up a strong following this decade thanks to The Rehearsal and The Curse. He’s respected with the extremely online crowd who can get things to these numbers when there’s enough...

    Yeah Fielder’s built up a strong following this decade thanks to The Rehearsal and The Curse. He’s respected with the extremely online crowd who can get things to these numbers when there’s enough interest

    4 votes

  9. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    It was a tv show. I’ve been an extra on a few things and they all differ. The Curse in particular was a long one where they had us check in at about 4AM and we didn’t leave until almost 8PM. I was...

    It was a tv show. I’ve been an extra on a few things and they all differ. The Curse in particular was a long one where they had us check in at about 4AM and we didn’t leave until almost 8PM. I was still overweight at the time so I was uncomfortable lugging so much weight around outside of my home and I was having some serious allergies in my eyes. We spent a lot of hours in the holding room. And the shoots for each scene were the longest I ever did.

    I did a network television show once and that was highly efficient. We were only there four or five hours and got like five scenes done.

    I did two other movies as well. One was Ari Aster’s Eddington and that was fucking BRUTAL. We were playing teenagers at some dirt road party. Even though we were shooting in May it was freezing since it was a night shoot. There were high winds so dirt was getting in our eyes, crew members wore safety googles and masks but we couldn’t. And a lot of the crew members really did not like Ari and would make fun of him saying “this is written by someone who’s never been to a party before.” That was a 14 hour long shoot, from 5PM to 7AM.

    The other was a movie called Trap House which was a pretty easy shoot and I got to meet Inde Navarette. Obviously, I didn’t know who she was at the time. My memory of her only came back when I saw an edit of her in the movie I did.

    I love movies and I sometimes see people say what a magical experience it is to be on a movie set. But, for me, it just felt like I was in someone’s workplace.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I was gonna try and watch You Can See Everything but I saw that it’s three hours long, and I’d have to pay for a ticket to watch it since it’s not at the AMC here, and I already don’t care for...

    I was gonna try and watch You Can See Everything but I saw that it’s three hours long, and I’d have to pay for a ticket to watch it since it’s not at the AMC here, and I already don’t care for Holmes. Though I liked Nathan For You and actually met Fielder when I was an extra for The Curse (he’s incredibly shy and awkward irl).

    Sense and Sensibility

    Before I go into the movie itself. Focus Features was probably thinking this was going to be their main awards contender before Obsession really blew everyone’s expectation and this ended up getting a lukewarm response.

    I really love Emma Thompson’s version of Sense and Sensibility. I’m not a huge Austen fan (I find most of her protagonists annoying). But Thompson’s charming script and screen presence, mixed with Ang Lee’s direction and Hugh Grant made me fall in love with it.

    Strangely, despite being the same story, with the same runtime, I found this one boring. None of the actors here carry the charisma of the original cast. I’d go as far to say that most of the people here are miscast, especially the men. George McKay has this villainous intensity to him that works well in stuff like The Beast but does not work at all here.

    The cinematography is being praised, and while I think the movie is “pretty” overall and has a nice texture to everything, it looks drab and dreary because the colors are washed out.

    The editing is bad. There’s moments where it attempts to have the unmotivated Malick-esque editing to varying degrees of success, but then suffers when there’s anything more complex than a simple shot-reverse shot.

    It’s clearly inspired by Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. But it doesn’t have the technical sophistication that Wright brought or the personality and modernity that Gerwig brought.

    There’s a warmness to this, I can see it being a comfort watch. I’ve heard Austen’s work be described as being pleasantly boring. So in that sense I can understand the appeal of this version.

    (2.5/5)

    Street Fighter

    Whoever cut this teaser deserves an award because it made this movie look significantly better.

    This reminded me of Suicide Squad. The editing is horrific. You can’t tell what’s going on. The teaser editors used better shots and understood timing more.

    The story doesn’t make a lick of sense. The jokes don’t land. Despite the director being an Eric Andre alum and the director of Bad Trip, he doesn’t even properly cut the comedy and undermines his own jokes. And there’s a oh so random sense of humor to everything.

    They should have gotten David Leitch to do this. But looks like the Talk to Me guys dodged a bullet.

    (1.5/5)

    2 votes

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  14. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I was reading posts on literature subreddits and everyone was celebrating it since it talked about the duality of man and it’s a metaphor for addiction and whatnot. And I guess I have to give it...

    I was reading posts on literature subreddits and everyone was celebrating it since it talked about the duality of man and it’s a metaphor for addiction and whatnot. And I guess I have to give it credit since it was the first one to do that.

    But the actual content of the book is mostly stuffy guys sitting around in rooms and talking about stuff happening outside our purview.

    I didn’t know he was the same guy who wrote Treasure Island, which made me less keen to read it.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on iPhone Duo sells out immediately, now backordered until next year in ~tech

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    The thing a lot of techies don’t understand is that convenience is a factor. So often you’ll get people going “oh but if you get this it’s so much more customizable and it performs similar if not...

    The thing a lot of techies don’t understand is that convenience is a factor. So often you’ll get people going “oh but if you get this it’s so much more customizable and it performs similar if not better than apple products on benchmark tests.”

    But normies (I’m one of them) don’t care about any of that. Convenience and style are at the forefront. And phones are a status symbol that is relatively more affordable than say buying a nice cars.

    I’m someone that tried to do the tech thing and getting alternatives but I got much more comfortable with Apple’s ease of use and how smooth its ecosystem works across different products.

    8 votes

  16. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    Just dump it. Some people English teacher themselves but we don’t have to read anything we don’t want to anymore

    Just dump it. Some people English teacher themselves but we don’t have to read anything we don’t want to anymore

  17. Comment on Sam Smith - Everlasting Love (2026) in ~music

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    I’ve been doing a song a day (ish) and I was planning on posting Tate McRae’s new song yesterday but I didn’t like it lol. So here’s Sam Smith.

    I’ve been doing a song a day (ish) and I was planning on posting Tate McRae’s new song yesterday but I didn’t like it lol. So here’s Sam Smith.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on iPhone Duo sells out immediately, now backordered until next year in ~tech

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    There was a blind item back in September that the new Apple CEO went to a bunch of Emmy’s after parties where he offered a bunch of celebs the Duo for free and all of them said no. But, I guess...

    There was a blind item back in September that the new Apple CEO went to a bunch of Emmy’s after parties where he offered a bunch of celebs the Duo for free and all of them said no.

    But, I guess they didn’t need that advertising after all lol.

    8 votes