steeznson
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- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 3 days ago:
delightfully devious
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 3 days ago:
The phrase “in minecraft” must trigger alarm bells in some intelligence agency at this point
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 3 days ago:
Does anyone remember when the writer googled a recipe for their historical novel and copy pasted the first result - which turned out to the from Zelda BOTW lol
- Comment on What movie was this for you? 5 days ago:
I was dragged to see this and was extremely confused because the last marvel film I saw was Revenge of Ultron
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 5 days ago:
Extremely unlikely and possibly physically impossible
- Comment on Moviegoers Want More Comedies, Thrillers and Action Titles, Global Cinema Study Finds 5 days ago:
Comedies seem to bomb at the box office which is why we have seen fewer recently. Horror is the only pure “genre” that seems to have consistently good profits.
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 6 days ago:
Probably Metroid Prime but some days I think it is Dark Souls 1. Both are similar in terms of trying to embody an adventure with strong environmental storh telling.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural 6 days ago:
Thank you for ending the debate humourously. I’m so sick of having debates on this forum where my interlocutor gets all up in their feelings and spurns any sort of olive branch from me.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural 6 days ago:
Ok, I feel like we’ve both explained our positions here. Let’s agree to disagree.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural 6 days ago:
It’s pretty much the 2025 equivalent of a Che Guevara t-shirt/poster
- Comment on Anyone else found Mickey 17 embarrassingly bad? (Just watched it) 6 days ago:
It’s a messy movie. I think a lot of the more current jokes/references are going to age badly like when Futurama came back and made iphone jokes to be topical.
That said, I really enjoyed 60% of it so gave it 3 stars on letterboxed. At least it tried something new in its genre mashups. My personal theory is that big Bong struggles to direct English language films like this and Snowpiercer because he misses a sense of how the script sounds to a native speaker.
- Comment on Sir Gareth Southgate: Boys need role models, not gaming and porn 6 days ago:
Was going to comment something like imagine being GenZ and growing up with Mike Adriano and Trevor from GTA as your role models.
Actually as a millenial I remember spending my time getting Tommy Vercetti to use prostitutes in Vice City while the free porn sites were far less moderated and contained extremely questionable content.
Maybe these external influences are less of an issue if people realise they are “entertainment” and not reality. I could picture a kid who struggles to separate the two but they’d be a minority.
IMO parents/caregivers need to step up to ensure kids are raised properly but I think that’s the main point Southgate is making.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural 1 week ago:
I don’t want to mass respond to all the replies but what I meant was:
- The UK healthcare system is as predatory as the US one
- This is a crime (arguable justifiable) which has taken place in another country
- We shouldn’t transpose politics from other countries onto our own where they don’t fit. A lot of the moral intricacies of this case are idiosyncratic to USA’s crazy system.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, accused of US CEO murder, depicted in London mural 1 week ago:
How is this related to the UK?
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about many Americans constantly calling people "black" and "white" and making such a big thing about it? 1 week ago:
I suppose my point was that phenotypes are real regardless of what you call them. Totally agree that the normative sense of the word “race” is a social construct.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 week ago:
Watching some Bong-joon Ho in prep for Mickey 17 at the weekend: Mother and Snowpiercer.
Mother was sensational! Maybe better that Parasite. Similar gritty drama motifs.
Snowpiercer was pretty good but not great. I like his fantastical work and The Host is probably still my favourite film of his. (Okja also great but did not watch it this week.)
I also re-watched True Grit and LA Confidential this week. Both solid, True Grit better.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
I thought I was alone with this opinion. There are dozens of us!
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
Both of them are kind of playing themselves in every film. Murray in particular has this brand of sardonic humour which is really distinctive. I could imagine someone not vibing with it but it just never crossed my mind until it came up in a similar thread to this one that some people hated Murray.
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about many Americans constantly calling people "black" and "white" and making such a big thing about it? 1 week ago:
Scientifically race does exist in the sense that humans with certain genotypes can present certain phenotypes but we are all the same species. I don’t think you can really quantify it at the individual human level though without ending up with all this old fashioned racist concepts coming into play, i.e. someone with 1/8 asian hertiage is “still asian” or whatever.
Race seems to be a bigger deal in the states because it is more politicised in terms of voting blocs. That’s not to say we are immune to it in Europe like people with south asian heritage often vote for particular candidates in the UK for example.
I think one major factor in perceived differences is that our larger cities in Europe tend to be more genuine melting pots with fewer segregated areas. There are probably other reasons like having a stronger sense of civil society too.
tl;dr: race is real in a fuzzy sense but not particularly important. Europe has a different culture to the USA in some key senses.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
The directors cut/final cut does improve the plot line but admittedly the original movie is more vibes than substance. I think a lot of the “neo-tokyo” cyberpunk aesthetic we take for granted had tropes which originated in this film.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
Hmm I’m a mid-millenial and always liked both of those actors and their schticks. I guess that’s my theory debunked!
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
This is a polarizing film. A bit like a live action cartoon.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
Did you think The Martian was similarly problematic?
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
The Sadness is another Korean movie which is fucked up beyond belief
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
What generation are you btw? I was horrified to discover that a lot of zoomers hate Bill Murray’s comedy/acting so wonder if it’s an age thing.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 1 week ago:
I hate 20th Century Classic that has been so impactful on film making that it suffers from the Seinfeld effect. Every aspect that it pioneered is just so cliched now in retrospect - how dumb were people back then to have been entertained by something pop culture has completely imbibed over the past XX years.
I found the special effects to be laughable; especially the practical ones. How could you watch anything made before CGI matured to a decent level?
Don’t even get me started on the actors. None of them went method and abused their fellow cast and crew in the name of art. Additionally the script did not past the Bechdel test which completely ruined any sense of realism that the characters might have been attempting to portray.
20th Century Classic is just one example. There are hundreds of films that don’t even have colour cinematography. Pretentious people try to tell us black and white cinematography is “more dreamlike”, pul-lease! Why would you want to watch something that doesn’t look like real life? You might as well be reading a novel at that point - and the whole point of movies is to completely replace novels so we can consume stories more efficiently.
Don’t @ me on any of this. Just hop on your penny farthing bicycle and ride off into the sunset to your hipster neigbourhood.
- Comment on Petition Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible 2 weeks ago:
We’ll rejoin but you need to be patient. Give it 10 years and we’ll be in the customs union, 15 and we’ll be back to where we were in 2016 with less opt-outs.
- Comment on Is it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices? 2 weeks ago:
Also effects last for nearly a day
- Comment on Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of James Bond 4 weeks ago:
Bald man in a suit sips cocktail while sunshine glares off his scalp Name’s Bezos, Jeff Bezos.
- Comment on Sean Baker calls for return of 90 day theatrical windows 5 weeks ago:
Anora was a cracking film. Rooting for it to win best picture.