quetzaldilla
@quetzaldilla@lemmy.world
- Comment on Peak flirting 1 week ago:
How does it work? Never heard of it.
- Comment on Listen and 1 week ago:
Not should anyone, honestly. They are a travesty.
- Comment on Listen and 1 week ago:
To clarify, my comment specifically is about superficial movie reviews, critiques, & recommendations.
Criticism within the context of a movie discussion, presuming everyone involved actually engaged with the movie, is part of healthy dialogue & idea exchange.
I’ve had my point of view changed plenty within such discussions, and brain dead people do not usually bother to participate in such forums so it’s a win-win.
- Comment on Listen and 1 week ago:
I think blatant cash grabs are fair game for harsh criticism.
- Comment on Listen and 1 week ago:
Movies are made to tell stories that the directors and the producers feel inspired to tell. And unless they are a Marvel or DC movie, they aren’t always meant to appeal to every audience member, and it’s childish to think that movies should always cater to your every whim-- especially when people are so goddamn quick to judge things others worked really hard on so goddamn harshly.
And before the “but mah money, tho!” shit-- that’s fucking capitalism, and not unique to movies.
Not every movie is going to be to your taste, and that’s cool. What’s not cool is shitting on a movie just because you didn’t like it or it didn’t make sense to you.
Reviews are meant to help you choose which movies you want to bother watching. Using the terms in the green column is helpful in giving the reader a sense of what to expect from a movie while avoiding a negative personal impression.
The red column is very reflective of modern online critiques:
Harsh. Impulsive. Thoughtless. Black & white.
Often made without fully engaging with whatever is being critiqued:
“I haven’t watched the movie, but based on the trailer I bet it’s trash.”
“I hate Darren Aronofsky movies because they don’t explain what is happening and they’re stupid.”
“I heard this movie was great, but I watched it and it sucked. Therefore, everyone else is wrong.”
- Comment on The only way to be 2 weeks ago:
It’s nuanced due to the nature of the work, so the gravity of the situation would only really stand out to those in the public accounting industry.
For example, we provided payroll services for dozens of construction companies in the area receiving federal grant money, and that payroll could not be completed in time without me.
Before I created the database, client contacts, client billing, project status, and client login credentials to reporting portals & financial institutions were being tracked in an unsecured Excel spreadsheet (as is tradition). I built a database in MS Access and it was pretty straightforward. The owner ended up hiring his nephew who was studying CS, but since he didn’t have much experience or an accounting background, so he was of little help.
There were other things, but my colleagues started leaving for other opportunities, whom he replaced with questionable people until the firm was sold about a year or two later.
We used to refer to him as detestable Michael Scott, as he was always blundering and blaming others for problems he caused.
- Comment on The only way to be 2 weeks ago:
Lol, I worked for one these assholes once. He bought the small public accounting firm I started my career at.
He loved to go on and on about “business is a warzone, you must be ruthless” bullshit, liked to make it really hard to get any PTO approved or obtain new hires.
Before he came along, I had built an entire database for that business even though my job role did not require it, simply because I got tired of doing things the stupid way and the previous owner made it worth my while.
One day, the asshole new owner pissed me off when I asked for time off to go camping and denied it citing business first, so I simply resigned on the spot and took off to the mountains. He was like “you can’t fault me for putting the business first” and I was like “whatevs, I’m putting myself first”.
Stupid motherfucker called me all week, dozens of times each day, because nobody but me knew how the fuck you build and maintain a database.
My coworkers, who are still my friends to this very day ten years later because they are awesome, regaled me with tales of the clusterfuck that ensued after my departure. Turns out, it’s really hard to find someone with an accounting and a computer science degree.
I still cackle to this day.
- Comment on 'Sinners' Passes Box Office Milestone No Original Film Has Reached in 8 Years - at $200 million domestic, it is the highest-grossing original movie since Disney's "Coco" 2 weeks ago:
It’s so fucking good. We watched it three times at the theatre.
Last time I did that was when Blade Runner 2049 came out.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 weeks ago:
Convenience is not worth all the spyware and disrespect.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 weeks ago:
You guys still use Windows and Macs, lol?
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 2 weeks ago:
Dang ol’ Wallace over here. 😂
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 weeks ago:
The wording you chose did not adequately reflect that you were referring to the CEO.
Rather, it sounds like you are criticizing the OP for sharing an article you do not understand or agree with, as it invited no discourse and only served to criticize, similar to the comments regularly posted below news articles.
I do agree fully with you that CEOs rarely do work of any value, and their role is basically to siphon money from an organization like the parasites they are.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 weeks ago:
The wording you chose did not adequately reflect that you were referring to the CEO.
Rather, it sounds like you are criticizing the OP for sharing an article you do not understand or agree with, as it invited no discourse and only served to criticize, similar to the comments regularly posted below news articles.
I do agree fully with you that CEOs rarely do work of any value, and their role is basically to siphon money from an organization like the parasites they are.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 weeks ago:
Go back to watching Fox News, boomer.
- Comment on It Was Just a Rumor on Facebook. Then a Militia Showed Up. Residents of Oakdale, CA have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. Now they’re often unsure what to trust 3 weeks ago:
There’s no both sides.
Just facts, research, and interviews with people directly involved and field experts.
- Comment on Banker At US Firm Hospitalised With Pancreatic Failure After 110-Hour Workweek 3 weeks ago:
I got a double kidney infection after a 65 hour work week.
Never again.
- Comment on The smash success of "Sinners" could shift Hollywood's power balance 4 weeks ago:
We have watched it twice, going again next Saturday with a different set of friends.
Best movie of 2025 thus far.
Music is unbelievable good.
My favorite piece was the one the vampires sang out in the field. It was full of longing and then ecstasy-- excellent juxtapose with the blues with its sorrowful lyrics yet intoxicating rhythms.
Amazing.
- Comment on Google’s Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them 4 weeks ago:
Don’t comply.
Happened to us, we checked out mentally and now we do not bother to get anything done.
They are trying to buy us back, threaten us, beg us.
Sentiment all around my team is:
“I don’t want to work like this anymore.”
- Comment on Going on Reddit today be like... 2 months ago:
I have long speculated it’s a way to keep copyright control of IP that may be entering the public domain, and people who enjoyed the original are more likely to watch the remake.