IchNichtenLichten
@IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bunny-Man: First look at superhero movie featuring Mike Tyson & James Franco revealed 6 days ago:
I’m confident it will leave a lasting impact on the global market.
I’m not.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
It’s not just the US, it’s been happening for years in other countries like the UK as well.
Traditionally there has been one party that is for working people and another for capital and the owner class.
The right has been getting further and further into far right authoritarianism. That posed a problem for the Dems going back to the Clinton Presidency: do they stick with being the party of working people or do they try to have their cake and eat it by tacking to the center and assuming that the working class will continue to vote for them no matter what?
It largely worked for a time and gave Obama two terms but ever since then they have been susceptible to criticism that they’re out of touch, elitists, entitled, and that they look down their nose at working people whilst still assuming that they will get their vote, which opened the door to Republicans.
You can’t serve two masters for very long, you can’t be the party of working people while being run by upper middle class graduates. You can’t claim to care about the people with the least while cozying up to CEOs and megadonors. Sooner or later it all falls apart, as it did with Hillary Clinton’s run, where working people disliked her elitism and she didn’t have enough support from elsewhere to make up the shortfall. That should’ve been a warning. Instead they doubled down.
The problem in the US is that there are only two viable parties. The Dems won’t go back to being the party of working people because they wouldn’t know how to do that even if they wanted to. What happens when the Trump Presidency turns out to be a disaster?
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 1 week ago:
See, this is why I rent.
- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 2 weeks ago:
He’s got to appeal to the Tory base who are mostly racist boomers who were never taught about colonialism outside of how the British showed up and tried to civilize the savages.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
And then actually shooting something into the sun is harder than just blasting it out of the solar system.
This is fun to play with: trinket.io/embed/glowscript/6642756b52?toggleCode…
- Comment on UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’ 4 weeks ago:
… or a chihuahua.
Little bastard psychopaths.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] It's Wednesday, which movies have you been watching? 4 weeks ago:
Agreed, it was just fine. I found the fan service callbacks to the previous movies pretty distracting and unnecessary.
- Comment on Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone? 5 weeks ago:
Firewatch - Story driven rooted in character relationships, about being alone but trying to stay connected.
My pick as well. It’s well written with a nice relationship at its center.
- Comment on ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Makes $7M In Thursday Night Previews, Receives 36% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score – Box Office 1 month ago:
Sounds like people were expecting another Scorsese
rip-offhomage and they got a musical instead. - Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 1 month ago:
Wake in Fright.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0067541/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
An Aussie movie from the 70’s that was thought lost until a print was discovered and a restored version was released.
I’m not going to spoil it, it’s well worth a look but there are scenes of a real-life kangaroo hunt which might put some people off.
- Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 1 month ago:
Of course not.
- Comment on Is Trump Made of Teflon? 1 month ago:
“He was later given the nickname “The Teflon Don” after three high-profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals …”
- Comment on Is Trump Made of Teflon? 1 month ago:
The original Teflon Don was John Gotti.
He died in jail.
- Comment on "Constantine 2" Script Has Been Delivered 2 months ago:
I hope they have a role for Stormare, he killed it in the first one.
- Comment on NHS must reform or die, PM warns, after critical report 2 months ago:
The last guy to suggest something like that got branded an antisemitic commie and was kicked out of the party.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
I think it’s DOA without an upgraded game engine. I started playing Starfield right after coming off Cyberpunk with RT enabled and immediately requested a refund from Steam, it just looked like absolute shit in comparison.
- Comment on The First Reviews of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Are Wildly Encouraging 2 months ago:
This review isn’t great but it’s The Guardian.
- Comment on Fish and chips price rise tops UK takeaways 2 months ago:
“tariffs on seafood imports”
Will of the people, etc.
- Comment on Dredd (2012) - Fedi Film Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
I really enjoyed that the story was set as ‘just another day’ in Mega City One. There’s nothing special about what happened. Shits fucked.
I wish the movie had done better. There’s nearly endless scope for all kinds of sequels and Urban was down for making more.
- Comment on Dredd (2012) - Fedi Film Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
Also, I’ve seen some people claim this film is a rip-off of The Raid which isn’t true as I believe both were in production at the same time.
There is an internet rule that whenever someone brings up Dredd, another person must mention it’s a rip off of The Raid, facts be damned.
- Comment on Ray-Traced Doom 2: Path-Traced Lighting! Voxel Sprites! Particle-Based Fluid Rendering + More 2 months ago:
Cyberpunk with RT turned on is absolutely gorgeous.
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
Given how well that game sold, it’s even more baffling that we don’t seem to be getting another Deus Ex. Don’t they like money or something?
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
Just give me a new Deus Ex game please.
- Comment on 9 Greatest Cosmic Horror Movies of All Time 2 months ago:
There’s a theme in the movie that some of the crew become obsessed with the sun, without any rational reason being given.
“Cosmic horror has been established as one of the most chilling sub-genres in horror cinema. With a focus on the unknown, isolation, and the human mind, cosmic horror … these stories focus on the endless possibilities of the universe’s fictional horrors.”
Seems to fit.
- Comment on 9 Greatest Cosmic Horror Movies of All Time 2 months ago:
Sunshine would be a great addition, great cast and fantastic score.
- Comment on Giant spiders the size of rats making a comeback in UK 2 months ago:
I thought they looked like the dock spiders we have in Minnesota, turns out they’re the same thing. Utterly terrifying but completely harmless.
- Comment on Caligula: The Ultimate Cut and the 45-year mission to mine a better movie 3 months ago:
If…
- Comment on Caligula: The Ultimate Cut and the 45-year mission to mine a better movie 3 months ago:
I’ve always wondered if there was a decent movie hiding in the absolute mess that was the original cut. Now we get to find out.
- Comment on Has anyone here ever been permanently banned from reddit? If so, is there any way to get unbanned? 3 months ago:
Reddit uses fingerprinting techniques to track you across accounts
If this is true, they’re doing a terrible job at it. For my sins, I help moderate a small sub for the city I live in. I’m 99% sure there are one or two right wing assholes with multiple accounts but I can’t prove it.
- Comment on Southport stabbing: Man held as eight taken to hospital 3 months ago:
After 14 years of Tory cuts I doubt the attacker could’ve accessed treatment even if he wanted to.