thethrilloftime69

@thethrilloftime69@feddit.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The power to shitpost more⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am old enough to get this joke and I didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t you lie to me⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I don’t need the money. I would probably hold onto it until I can figure out whose it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who came up with this plot?🫩⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah dude. I have reddit ptsd too but I try my best to keep it 100.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who came up with this plot?🫩⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who came up with this plot?🫩⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you even read my comment? I didn’t blame the British (tho they deserve a ton of blame). I was criticizing my grandparents generation for not having enough outrage. My grandparents were born in India and had to leave during Partition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who came up with this plot?🫩⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t blaming British, I was just trying to say that we believe very strongly in hierarchy. To the point where we aren’t even really that mad at our colonizers. This fits the culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨who came up with this plot?🫩⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Pakistani. The subcontinent is super conservative. You have to remember the British rules over us for centuries and all our grandparents want to do is to imitate them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so mad at myself for the decades I spent being a Google fanboy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your excuse for the current state of affairs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer as always is capitalism. Literally every terrible thing happening can be linked back to the desire for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Babe you hardly touch your anti-hunger protein loaf⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean no disrespect but that sounds awful. Those spices have to do some heavy lifting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect Rating ⭐/5⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How were Batman and Inception not deep?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect Rating ⭐/5⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so tired of content made to be consumed. The entire world is monetizing my attention. Putting your eyes on anything is giving into the corpos. Art should make you feel human not “satisfied”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consume⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have no hope to change large systems. Too many people depend on them and most people don’t have the time or energy to even think about questioning them. Eventually the system will collapse. We will have to build something in the rubble. Think about how we can prepare for that time and what you can do individually to contribute to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government. What caused them to turn into the party of big government over reach? When did it happen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget, we have not 1 but 2 corporate interest parties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨that’s why it’s just a summer fling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re single…. Be single. Date multiple people until there is mutual interest in something more.

  Think about what you want out of life. Non relationship wise. Where do you want to live? Who do you want to be? What kind of things do you want to do regularly? What do you want to achieve? What does it take for you to be like happy? Be intentional. Think about what it might take for someone to complement that. What kind of temperament? What kind of activities should this person enjoy?

  Life should be whatever way you see it and you need to find someone who gets that.

  When you date a bunch of people, you get a sense of what it actually takes for you to be happy hanging out with someone all the time. What kind of partners take your energy away? What kind of partners give you energy?

  I will say, dating IS a skill. You can learn how to do it better. Everyone is working with something different and so obviously it will be harder for some people. That’s life, but you can always learn different ways to be more effective at dating. And by trying to date a bunch, you can iron out the kinks in your strategy. The fact is it is a game, and you gotta play to learn how to play better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anobody seen Odyssey?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do want to point out that “legitimate artistry” doesn’t equal “deep thought 100% philosophical” all the time or even most of the time.

  Like I think Indiana Jones is legitimate artistry. Same with The Terminator. Or Alien. Or Mad Max. Even Sinners is legitimate artistry. Get Out.

  I haven’t seen it yet, but I get the impression that “The Odyssey” was made because Nolan thought the subject matter was interesting.

  People have made cool movies for the love of the game forever. I think the big difference is “did an executive come up with this idea in a boardroom?” Or “did a real creative person come up with this idea?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anobody seen Odyssey?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy… Actually just the first 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anobody seen Odyssey?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes that’s true but I have a pretty simple algorithm for movies that were “made to sell tickets”

  • franchise movies, especially if the story ended already
  • comic book movies
  • remakes
  • movies based on a property that doesn’t translate well into movies(video games, certain kinds of books)
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anobody seen Odyssey?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a very simple system. If the movie was made for legitimate artistic reasons, then I think it was worth the effort to make it. If the movie was made to sell tickets, I don’t bother.

  I decide which artistry is legitimate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Official refuses to answer basic question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do guys like this get confirmed anyway? Are all words meaningless?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stereotypes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is so good at absorbing all critiques of itself into itself. Punk is rebellion. Turning punk into a fashion trend got rid of all it’s teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[politics] in case you're not already rooting for Norway⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I already didn’t like England but this made them worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the water to make the medication work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctor here. What medication is it? Why did they prescribe it? Do you have kidney problems?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major media company asks itself why major media companies aren't exposing what's going on--"Where's Mitch McConnell?" mystery exposes media failures⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These media failures have existed for the majority of the past 40-50 years. It wasn’t so brazen but they’ve been lying for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old so I’m trying to piece this together. I believe main character vibe means someone has to have to behave like their problems are THE problems of “the story”. And by doing that, they are more successful at competing? Competing at what? Like getting more money?

  Idk man, there a million ways to skin a cat. You have to feed yourself and whoever you are responsible for, so you do need to compete in “the marketplace” or whatever. I guess if you’re an influencer, it probably helps to portray “main character” energy. It feeds the illusion that your opinions should matter and therefore your product recommendations matter. But I think for most average people, hustling and birth luck are what help them succeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First off, I just want to thank you for your thoughtful response. One of the reasons I continue to use Lemmy or Mastodon is because of the actual thoughtful human beings like yourself.

  words evolve over time

  Absolutely so we shouldn’t have to stay married to older definitions.

  I’m primarily writing this comment because I abhor the idea that an idea – it could be anything, from rocket science to theorrtical mathematics – is perceived as being an arena where everyone is just making up stuff, and if that should lead to people becoming turned off the idea of studying it for themselves, that’s a net-negative. No doubt, some countries, politicians, and agencies want to denigrate or prop up their own definitions, but that just makes it easier to identify fake socialists and “communists in name only”.

  Part of my motivation for looking into a more precise definition was the desire to truly understand the debate around socialism. And in order to have a proper debate, we need to be able to explain that we mean by certain terms. I think the modern medias failure to properly define these terms for everyone is an intentional strategy to obscure the conversation around socialism and communism.

  The merits and failures of socialism and communism deserve to be comprehensively hashed out in the public mind, and it only serves the status quo that this not happen.

  Exactly. The way our society is structured is to prevent having a real conversation. Tho obviously we both know the reason why they don’t want precise definitions floating around in the public consciousness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man I actually read Lenin and now this thread is making me question what I know. I guess theres what Marxist philosophers say and what is considered in the modern usage.

  Marxists say that communism is the ultimate end point. A stateless classless moneyless society. Something so different from our understanding of society as it is currently conceived. I think Ursula K Le Guin probably best imagined what this might look like in “The Dispossessed” (she calls herself an anarchist, but I think this what Marx himself envisioned). Where the way labor roles are divided up by the needs of the group and the choices of individuals. Socialism is said to be the transition state from capitalist society into a communist one. Where the machinery of capitalism is no longer used for the benefit of individuals and is used for the benefit of all. Marx imagines that a society that uses it’s tools for the good of all will naturally evolve into a communist society.

  Then there is the modern usage of the terms which seem to vary based on who invokes the them. For example, Republican politicians will use the term socialism to mean communism and vice versa. Some politicians like Mamdani or Bernie will describe socialism to mean a more humane type of capitalism that has other priorities other than pure profit seeking. Some people use communism to describe an authoritarian system that has no regard for human agency. I’m not an expert on this particular topic, but I think this thread is proof that multiple people will have multiple definitions that most often don’t align with how Marxists describe communism and socialism.

  I think part of the problem is the history of the Soviet Union. It billed itself as a communist society, even tho it never really achieved anything described as a stateless classless moneyless society. I think at best it probably achieved a form of socialism. Guy Debord(who is a Marxist philosopher) criticized the Soviet Union for creating a new type of class without intending to do so. So a lot of people today hear the Soviet Union call itself a communist country, and so that’s the popular misconception of communism.

  I personally think the lack of consensus around these is an intentional bit of propaganda that makes it easy to demonize these terms because most people who grew up in capitalist centers of power have been fed a steady diet of red scare propaganda for decades. It’s easy to throw these terms around to scare people into not even exploring the academic thought that devised them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donkey Kong Bananza (Switch 2)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved the game. I think the gameplay is genuinely innovative when you consider the scale of the destructive environments and the material properties. The music was incredible and the story was Pixar esque. Easily the best game on the Switch 2 right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She really was⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I rediscovered being creative in my 30s. I started doing improv and stand up. Cracking jokes with your friends is always fun.

  I tried to learn how to make video games when I was 12. I recently restarted learning how to do that in my 30s.

  I started reading again. I have better taste in books now than I did when I was a kid, but some of the books I read as a kid were bangers.

  I started playing basketball again. I used to play basketball everyday from age 12 to age 25. It hurts a lot more but it is so good for my soul.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sonic Game Recomendation?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Op, I do endorse spinball and mean bean machine