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Not intending to shame
I mean that I've been out of college for almost a decade, I'm not interested in dating someone who is in college even if they're my age cause we're at totally different points of life. So the inverse is true as well, someone who is a late bloomer has more in common with classmates even if they're 5+ years older than someone who is focused on their careers instead of passing exams

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Exactly, if someone who is older lacks world experience because they're still in college then nothing wrong with only going for people who will put up with that immaturity

Punished_Blinx posted...

Yeah it's really weird.

Like I'm gonna watch and enjoy this with my 3 year old daughter this weekend. I know now it's probably not going to be anything special outside of the easter eggs and references. But that's overall okay.

But people trying to say that critics are unfair towards animated movies or that they shouldn't expect to be good is so utterly baffling to me. There are plenty of really good movies focused for kids based on all sorts of properties these days. Shaun the Sheep was a great movie and it didn't even have any spoken dialogue! Both my daughter and I love it!

It's not a deep story of character development these kids movies need most of the time. The universal thing that beloved kids movies have is heart. That's usually the thing Illumination doesn't quite get in my experience and I'll see for myself if there's anything different here.

The fact that a lot of people decide to go straight for the Oscars when it comes to defending bad movies tells you enough about their media consumption, don't worry about them

The injuries in question involve choke marks on her neck. This isn't a case of accidentally bumping her head with an elbow, it was strangulation

^it's also just as considered as her dress. He has spent just as much time cultivating a persona that wears casual clothes to important events as she has making sure she wears designer dresses that could feed an orphanage
Edit: he deleted his post but whatver

Zikten posted...

Its possible to support trans and awkward people. There are even such people who are both trans and awkward. Crazy I know.....

I'm not disagreeing with that, talking about the immediate jerk response you get when you read the story tells you which one you empathize with immediately

Akagami_Shanks posted...

I don't get it, but I take it this was posted in bad faith anyway.

Not too deep, just that if your initial reaction is to think "man, the poor guy got flustered and shouldn't have been DQ'd" then your immediate thought was empathizing with socially awkward people
If your reaction was more along the lines of "how could this guy seriously forget 'him' and it's good to see pronouns becoming shared" then you're empathizing with trans people

It's interesting how you can tell who lives in a flyover state by their confusion over being asked their pronouns

Topic serves as a great litmus test for people: do you care more about trans people or for socially awkward people?

Fuck cops and fuck landlords, but are we supposed to sympathize for someone who is behind $8k in rent and came at someone with a knife?

TaylorHeinicke posted...

update?

The update is that he's been charged with multiple accounts of assault and the girlfriend has been granted a temporary restraining order
https://people.com/movies/jonathan-majors-charged-with-multiple-counts-of-assault-by-new-york-district-attorney-after-arrest/

SorakhII posted...

Though there are obviously questions here. If the cab driver really saw assault, why didnt s/he stop the car to deescalate, refuse service, and or report the assault to police (whatever is the taxi protocol in situations like this)? The cab driver seemingly continued driving Majors as if nothing significant happened. Or why did she wait until the next morning call 911 and go to the hospital for examination, instead of immediately during or after the incident had occurred? So, what we know to have transpired doesnt add up if there really was an assault

People are not robots who think clearly while under stress. Regardless of whether this incident happened or not, this kind of thinking is why so many victims of abuse don't come forward

Oh_Boy_ posted...

I see CE has closed the case yet again(lol).

Multiple witnesses and the victim is in the hospital
iNnOcEnT uNtIl PrOvEn GuIlTy

It's not a good criticism but it's worth having a discussion around

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Most recent one I've seen is with No Way Home regarding the appearances of past actors.

I've also seen it in regards to Joker in The Dark Knight

For instance with these two, TDK is elevated from a good movie into one of the best CBMs because of the Joker. It's worth talking about how it turned an otherwise decent movie into a movie that still holds up 15 years later.
NWH goes from your bog standard comic flick to a decent one that relies on nostalgia. It's worth talking about how it's not that good of a movie without those things and only barely counts as the best of Phase 4 due to the guest characters being so well done.

European history is often whitewashed, there were black people back then too

rexcrk posted...

I better not hear a single person who was stroking themselves over how gReAt Andor was complain about this episode lol.

What made Andor great was the acting, writing, and cinematography which are things Mandalorian struggles with

pegusus123456 posted...

Doesn't really matter if they could or couldn't. Joel thought they could. And he still chose to do it.

Yes Joel isn't the brightest guy and believed them and yes he really wasn't even thinking about that then he made his decision, but we're talking about our opinion not Joel's
And for a lot of people they don't think the Fireflies could have pulled it off and that informs their opinion on the situation, regardless of what Joel thinks

VampireCoyote posted...

the irony of this post

I still enjoyed EEAAO, just people treating it like it's special should have a look at even better movies, a few of which even came out last year. I'm glad it's getting attention from people who only watch blockbusters, baby steps and all

Hot take: it's baby's first "movie that's a little bit more complex than my cape shit" so some people put it on a pedestal

Not a bad user but all I can think of is his posts in a DIY topic months ago about how some basic life skills were not actually basic

The viewers knows Ellie would choose to sacrifice herself, the Fireflies are fucked up because they didn't ask and Joel is fucked up for robbing her of her agency

Perfectly bridges Oscar bait with blockbuster action and concepts so people who mostly watch capeshit can finally appreciate a good film

Kimbos_Egg posted...

this. You know how many fungal vaccines exist today? Its an easy question to answer.

And yet a bunch of half assed "freedom fighters" can somehow make one by scooping a kids brain out, when all the scientists in the world working for 20 years couldn't do shit? Sure.

Exactly It's all a big ask.
If, they can figure out exactly why she's ok
If, they can reproduce it into a cure / vaccine
If, they can widely distribute it
If, they can manage to get people to take it

Fuck that, people ego think Joel was wrong are taking a tenth of a tenth of a percent in the absolute best case scenario instead of the more likely scenario of them just killing Ellie on the operating room table with nothing to show for it

Probably because you call them females

BurmesePenguin posted...

Are you okay?

I think the kind of person who immediately jumps to a superhero movie as an example here is not the kind of person who would connect with the drama of EEAAO and probably finds the absurdism to be a turn off.
And that's ok, not everyone is going to like every movie.

CommonStar posted...

Good stuff.

The film was like a homecooked meal after spending years of eating junk food.

This is why it fully deserves the accolades. Most people don't watch good movies because they prefer blockbusters, EEAAO had just enough mainstream appeal to get people who don't watch other kinds of movies to watch it.

Both are true, in different ways. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was his comeback if you were into movies, IM was his comeback if you only watch blockbusters. He wouldn't have got Ironman if it weren't for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but he's also got mainstream appeal because of Ironman

I realize this is an unpopular opinion because most people like him, but I can't stand him. He feels like such a slimeball
I also don't like Ryan Reynolds for the same reason

Just because a movie calls out why it's a bad thing doesn't automatically give it the right to do it. Tarantino gets called out for making characters he plays in his films use the N word a lot
I don't think Tropic Thunder is racist and as mentioned multiple times, no one is actually calling for it to be cancelled, just that the argument "movie is allowed to be racist because it calls out racism" doesn't free up the creators

Thanks guys, I figured it was uncommon when literally everyone irl tells me it's weird

imjusthere4fun posted...

OP probably has depression

If I've been depressed for 30 years, sure

I don't dislike it but I don't actively go out of my way to listen to any music.
No interest in concerts and if I couldn't listen to music ever again it wouldn't really bother me, I don't have a favorite song or band either.

The way I see it, you end up with four types of men:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/0/0/AAUNNIAAEQBY.png

Red and Green guys are happy, so they're good. Pink guys can always get cut later in life, so they are doing ok. The Purple guys are the ones who are fucked, no way to get that foreskin back
Simple logic dictates you shouldn't circumcise then

The show is doing more of the same with one-note characters. It's always been fetch quests and side missions, still it's a shame that the status quo has been restored when we could have much better

I don't think he's really changed. He was saying if he was on flight 93 he would've rushed to the cockpit and saved the day only a few years back. Sure that's less extreme than blinding an innocent man, but it still shows he's a piece of shit

lilORANG posted...

What's the actual cost of paying $230k at 7% compared to $400k at 3%?

The former is roughly $1530/mo, the latter is about $1680

Rowling's names are reductive for every character.
The guy who can turn into a dog is called Sirius. The wise professor is named Minerva. The guy who is a werewolf is named Lupin. The strict teacher is named Severus. The old wizard with white hair and a beard is called Albus. The obese potion master is named Slughorn.

People can be very condescending to others regardless of gender. The reason mansplain exists as a concept is that many women have had multiple experiences with men who do that to them.

Of course it failed, there was a huge movement to convince people that it was white people who came up with it instead of students in Puerto Rico
People also disagree with the concept that having the gender neutral be male is problematic. Not to mention that Hispanic culture is overwhelmingly full of traditional individuals who aren't okay with gender fluidness and trans individuals

So yeah, not really a surprise

It's not even that dumb of world building. If you could wave a wand and make it so that it was like the poop was never there, you probably wouldn't think it was weird either

Everyone who thinks the one on the right is hotter, just believe in yourself I promise you can find a woman that large who's interested in you

Tom_Joad posted...

even worse than Iron Man 3.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Worst thing I've seen all the way through is Iron Man 3.

Hayame_Zero posted...

Iron Man 3 actually made me angry.

You're all crazy. IM3 is not even the worst in its trilogy, I'd even say it's in the top half of the MCU

UnholyMudcrab posted...

I don't know of anyone who does this except goatthief

Conflict does it because he likes his username being ironic

In a perfect world this would be because no parent would want their children to go through the hardships of being trans and actually are in the right bodies from the start