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- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 3 days ago:
Especially when he ditches Karen in NYC while she’s waiting on him to meet with her friends. Even if I was Pam I’d be put off by that
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 4 days ago:
It’s a fair enough requirement from the union
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Needs to Go Away and Think About What It Did 1 week ago:
The show was getting too focused on fan service way back in Matt Smith’s time, already. It’s unwatchable by neutral observants lately
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 1 week ago:
Parks is just more americanized, it isn’t “better”. Later seasons of The Office look and feel much more like it, as the writers pandered more and more to mainstream audiences
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 1 week ago:
Your image of the show is pretty distorted, it’s not at all some edgy middle schooler show. The humor is (generally) in how much of a dumbass Michael (the boss) is and how much he ruins situations trying too hard to be funny, and the witty jokes are generally well performed one liners by Jim (John Krasinski) or malapropisms by Michael, like “I’m not superstitious, but I’m a little stitious” or “his cap was all pitated!”
The show repeatedly makes fun of Michael’s prejudice, too, like how he feels superior to the warehouse guys despite having the same education as them and not even earning that much more. It isn’t edgy to make fun of the stereotypical middle-aged white male boss being insensitive - Comment on The solution to many problems 1 week ago:
As a tobacco fiend I couldn’t ever get into smoking cigs. The only time in my life I’ve smoked consistently was when I was extra depressed and trying to microdose suicide. Guess I’m lucky
- Comment on buddy of mine is in a horrible mood 1 week ago:
I was this guy in my teens (minus the hoping girls get abused part…) and it 100% comes from depression and self loathing. He probably had a tough time getting along with the “normal” kids early on and decided to self isolate. Maybe the now normies had a part in that too back then, bullying him and so on, I know it happened to me… It’s a rough and very hard situation to live through, but there’s hope
- Comment on Anon is an automaton 1 week ago:
Maybe speedruns too could be a good fit.
- Comment on DAN DA DAN Season 1 Was America's Most Watched Anime Series For 18 to 49 Year Olds, Says Nielsen Data 1 week ago:
It’s generic power fantasy with no substance. The art is pretty cool though, and it’s well paced for what it is. I have read the entire thing, btw
- Comment on Anon is an automaton 1 week ago:
Maybe have better hobbies? I like videogames as much as the next guy and do play them, but they are literally “pay for dopamine” as an industry. If your main past time is playing through a carefully engineered dopamine machine, it’s no surprise you feel no long term achievement
- Comment on Realistically 1 week ago:
I’d Jim the camera and say “logs, amirite?”
- Comment on Jenna Fischer Says the Later Seasons of ‘The Office’ Are ‘Really Good’ Despite ‘Belief’ that the Show Was ‘Treading Water’ After Steve Carell’s Exit: ‘There Were Still These Amazing Storylines’ 1 week ago:
Early The Office is up there with some of the best comedy ever written IMO. The later seasons are a spin-off doing slapstick cartoonish comedy, which is funny in it’s own way, like actual cartoons are funny still as an adult.
The storylines aren’t and honestly weren’t ever good, except for Michael Scott Paper Company which was an amazing idea - Comment on Anon gains a superpower 2 weeks ago:
I see this explanation very often but have not encountered textual evidence (either for or against this hypothesis). The feats we see from every ringbearer (be it the Sauron, the Witch King, Galadriel, Gandalf and even Frodo) can more easily be explained by the rings just enhancing magical feats of all kinds, and maybe the elven ones are better at preservation magic. I wouldn’t be surprised if I was wrong, though
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 2 weeks ago:
Sauron still has a physical form during the events of LOTR. Frodo sees him through the tower window when walking towards Mount Doom, and Gollum remarks he was personally tortured by him, and that his hand has 4 fingers
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 weeks ago:
Celeste. Emotional narrative that seamlessly blends with the gameplay, which implementa never before seen accessibility configuration, enhanced by one of the best soundtracks ever. All while being cheap, indie, and one of the best speedrun games ever made
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 2 weeks ago:
Can’t forget immortality, which is shown pretty clearly in the movies with Bilbo and obviously Gollum, but also:
The Ring enhances the wearers “presence” and ability to influence others. Sam observes in the books how elf-like and majestic Frodo has become by the time they get to Mordor due to carrying the ring. At around the same time as this scene, we see Frodo impose himself on Gollum and the book remarks how powerful he looks and how his words seem to influence Gollum.
Later on, when Sam is carrying the Ring, this effect is noticed even more clearly when the orcs see his shadow not as that of a small hobbit but that of a powerful elf lordThe effects we’ve seen are on the pretty low race of hobbits, and would be even greater in someone of numenorian descent, but assuming it stops at those: Boromir would become an immortal, ultra charismatic leader who can also become invisible to everyone but the Wraiths and other spirits, which he can pretty easily take on 1v1
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 2 weeks ago:
After you smoke cigarettes for a while the smell becomes good to you
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 2 weeks ago:
For some reason clothes soak up the nasty smells the most, but to my nose the room ends up smelling quite nice for a few days. Talking about cigars
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 2 weeks ago:
Apparently there are some people that live under the illusion that nicotine doesn’t actually do anything, I saw one of these guys in another thread. I’m sure whoever placed them under that illusion did it with good intentions, but the implication that there are people getting hooked on it every day just to look cool is so funny
- Comment on (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 2 weeks ago:
Long wedge are the juiciest ones
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 2 weeks ago:
It should have been marketed as the moba you play casually with friends, and it would have done great
- Comment on Streaming Ad Tiers Catch Fire, Make Up Nearly Half Of U.S. Subscriptions For SVODs That Offer Them, Study Says 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, people just don’t really seem to care at all
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 2 weeks ago:
The correlation between code quality and game quality is almost negative. When you’re doing groundbreaking stuff or going for your own artistic vision it’s tough to code well, even more so when you hit a jackpot and have to expand quickly (e.g. League spaghetti, Palworld)
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 2 weeks ago:
Do you yell at waiters by any chance?
- Comment on For the little guys. 3 weeks ago:
How will any system fjx this, though? There will always be disasters, hunger, war, crime…
- Comment on For the little guys. 3 weeks ago:
There’s something to be said about choosing not to care about some stuff, though. Being constantly contemplating every single crisis in the world and worrying equally about them all will be damaging to your mental health… And these days there are more pressing issues than the moths to me. It’s not that I don’t value them
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
In my sector it’s just incompetence. Bosses are under the illusion that being able to see the workers in and out makes them better at managing their hours (false) and that being able to physically reach someone makes the communication more efficient (also false)
- Comment on Bill Skarsgård Returns as Pennywise in Chilling First Trailer for HBO's 'It: Welcome to Derry 3 weeks ago:
I’ll just keep pretending the first reboot movie is the complete story, thanks. That mix of kids on bikes with subtle cosmic horror and some surrealist stuff is damn good
- Comment on Max changing name back to HBO 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I’m in a “global” market (Brazil) and HBO is by far the best service around. Over here they have all the best shows I would want to watch, tons of good animation and all the non-Disney big budget geeky franchises (Batman, Superman, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, etc). I’ve never heard of a new series by them, but why would I even care? What is there to watch is already more than I need for my lifetime
- Comment on What are you watching and, what do you recommend this week? 3 weeks ago:
Just finished season 4 of The Wire. They really turned it up the depressing nature of the story with this season, damn