SnotFlickerman

@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I don’t dispute any of that. There’s tons of media in that vein, and it is indeed all a turn off.

  Hell, most of these just seem like movies that all want to be 2008’s Taken with Liam Neeson really badly. Even Taken was honestly very silly and absurd. Like, he just walks away from these situations where he fucks up half the city and the cops somehow can’t find him? It just cuts away and suddenly he’s fine and on to the next bit.

  However, it was an incredibly popular film, spawned multiple sequels, and there’s definitely a whole genre of films in this vein. Nobody said Hollywood was very original, even when it comes to an original film. They still want formulas that they think will sell. Action tends to be the most popular, and to make action believable you have to have some backstory that makes these guys top tier fighters.

  At least the John Wick films didn’t rely on him being ex-military, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood Is Cranking Out Original Movies. Audiences Aren’t Showing Up.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  military-themed movies turning off more leftist moviegoers? I feel that way to some extent

  I suppose that depends on how war is depicted in the film. War is hell, but sometimes it’s necessary. I don’t love the idea of war, but Slaughterhouse Five lives on as one of my favorite books about war. Understanding war and its impacts are important, even if we don’t like a world in which we have to resort to war.

  Sure, a lot of American film makes war movies all “RAH RAH RAH USA USA USA,” but that doesn’t mean all films about war have to be that way, especially films about war made in other nations, who perhaps don’t have their military so deeply ingrained in the film industry.

  Hell, Three Kings is still an underrated war film which has an undercurrent of themes regarding capitalism and consumerism and how it relates to war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨honk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honk in the tronk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poop. Now in multiplayer.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same image without the useless red circle

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  I found it with tineye.

  I wanted to make a rude joke about the useless red circle, but I just don’t have it in me, so tired of this shit ruining good media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s your favorite “flop” of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kiefer Sutherland at his best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to yeet your smartphone into the long grass⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …or you could just use a PC with a secure operating system (Linux) and use a secure voice chat (Matrix) to achieve the same result without needing a loicense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  neutrons and electrons reportedly very upset as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good ol' Reddit, at it again (and again, and again, and...).⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I’m personally convinced it’s astroturfed.

  They should be spending time building community that does something other than make signs. Like, you know, Mutual Aid Groups.

  Instead they’re going to piss away precious time telling themselves their protests are doing something.

  The largest worldwide protests in history (at the time) preceded the War in Iraq, to try to prevent the War in Iraq.

  The war happened anyway. Nobody learned anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should we boycott games with loot boxes?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t play CounterStrike or Team Fortress 2 because I’m not a god damned masochist.

  In the end, I’m technically already boycotting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions, tech CEOs say⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus fake job postings now I’m competing with fake fucking job candidates.

  When will this fucking nightmare end?

  As if there weren’t enough reasons for a general strike already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, you’re right. I had this weird false memory of there originally only being three of them. I just checked Wikipedia, and she was for sure in the first episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the tariffs lead to a recession?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every ten years, now even less.

  2000 - Dotcom bust

  2008 - Housing Market crash

  2020 - COVID

  2025 - Trump just being a fucking dumbshit who wants to tear down everything other people built

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the tariffs lead to a recession?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Four Times a Lifetime, to the tune of Three Times a Lady.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is not the post you're looking for⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You will never find a more wretched hive of GIF and compression artifacts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the tariffs lead to a recession?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Millennials:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So am I supposed to mail it in like a rebate or what?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dont worry about your retirement plan, simpsons never fail⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what season this is from. Can’t really say the Simpsons Did It rule applies to the last fifteen years or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this picture idea immature?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Precisely why I said that he should do it for himself because it is fun. It’s also why I consider it third date material. Not something you bring up spontaneously, but more that they’ve come back to your apartment and see the photo hanging on your fridge. A casual introduction to it, not forced. It’s hanging on your fridge because it’s genuinely something you had fun doing, not because you wanted to use it to get women.

  But, agreed, if the core of the reason for doing it is to attract women, it’s going to backfire spectacularly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They “weren’t thinking stereotypes” but in the original cast the only woman in the group was the pink ranger as if that wasn’t also a stereotype…

  K, sure, gotcha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this picture idea immature?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dating website: probably way too soon to share, just looks cringe.

  First date: too soon to share, painfully obvious ploy for attention/trying to stand out.

  Second date: getting closer, almost there.

  Third date: probably safe to share as something endearing and silly.

  My suggestion is to do it for yourself because it is fun, because trying to use it as a token to stand out from other men will be seen as a desperate attempt to be funny/quirky, if you bring it out to early.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Black Mirror’ Creator Charlie Brooker Doesn’t Want to Hear Your ‘Severance’ Comparisons⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Brooker is better at comedy anyway.

  He wrote all the Philomena Cunk specials, as she started as a side character on Newswipe. She and Barry Shitpeas were regularly interviewed as “Man on the Street” type caricatures for Newswipe. Cunk was so popular she got her own Moments of Wonder series, and then eventually spawned the “Cunk on…” Series of films and shows.

  The end of One Million Merits has Daniel Kaluuya essentially doing a Charlie Brooker on Newswipe impression, while holding the shard to his throat. A nice little callout to how Brooker feels about his own career.

  Also, Brooker’s A Touch of Cloth is a fucking riot, too. Some of the best puns you can ask for.

  I’d take more Newswipe or any of the various Wipes over Black Mirror at this point, but that’s just me.

  Also Severance is already running out of steam. Season 2 didn’t measure up to season 1, in my personal opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a whole field of philosophy rooted on the idea that the world is never perfect, there is no end to history, and thus we must always be critical of the status quo.

  It’s called Critical Theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You may also like Bill Maher?

  What a slap in the face. Maher can eat shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re so smart, explain this, Clarissa!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you Gary ❤️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, Gary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, Obama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’M PICKLE DIIIIIIIICK!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marathon | Save the Date Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite possibly because it shared a lot of DNA with Halo which they don’t own anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft movie spawns ‘annoying’ cinema trend that viewers claim ‘ruins’ the film⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I watched the pirated version at home and thought it was dogshit… but…

  I get it, this kind of stuff makes it actually enjoyable. This is like when people brought snakes in a can to Snakes on a Plane and got wild. You have to make your own entertainment sometimes. I probably would have ended up enjoying this movie had I seen it with an audience like this.

  Good on these people and boo-hoo for the crybabies who can’t handle other people having fun. They’re not hurting anybody doing this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice try⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would prefer this over McDonald’s trash any day of the week. Apples, watermelon, bananas, kiwis? This isn’t like raw broccoli or something, it’s all fresh delicious fruit.