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It doesn't matter who takes a shit in your mouth - Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, Shigeru Miyamoto etc. At the end of the day, you've still got shit in your mouth.

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Thompson posted...

I never figured out where Fury Road takes place. The previous movies were in Australia, but Fury Road seems like some kind of fantastical world, what with the weird bog, the massive sandstorms, and the Citadel being an aquifier with huge release pipes high up on the side of a tall butte.

I think it's safe to say it's still set in Australia. Furiosa's accent doesn't fit the setting, which is a shame, but the accents of all the other characters are a dead giveaway. Tom Hardy gave it a decent crack, and the guy who played Nux was dead-on - and your native Aussies like the guys who played Immortan Joe and the People Eater were dead giveaways. All of the wives had Aussie accents too.

Apparently there are prequel comics that go over how Immortan Joe came to power and the like. If it bugs you, maybe that will answer some questions.

As someone who hasn't seen the other movies, what's the deal with Thunderdome? Is it any less fantastical than Immortan Joe tapping a water vein and using it to come to power?

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ShyOx posted...

Numbers are important but an objective view of quality is as well. Most albums bought today are not a good indicator of quality for example. I mean hell big bang theory is the number one show by numbers and I think all of us have different opinions on that

Okay, watch the finale and get back to us. Even better, watch a truncated list of essential Mash episodes, then watch the finale so you're more invested in it.

It's easy to fall into the mindset of "shit must taste like sugar, 20 billion flies can't be wrong", but this show captivated a nation for nearly an entire decade and it ended on such a high note that almost half of America A) tuned in to watch it and B) made it the highest rated episode of television of all time.

Even if you don't think it's as good as something like the second last episode of Bojack Horseman, Mash's finale was still an incredible cultural moment where the end product held up to the hype. The quality of the show by its end, and the extent to which it had taken hold of the American public, is an incredible accomplishment. I think the quality of the product has something to do with that, and you're welcome to watch the show and judge the finale by your own metrics of quality if you're not convinced.

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Serious Cat posted...

Have you seen any of the others? Mad Max is great and The Road Warrior is GOAT tier.

I saw like 30 minutes of the original one when I was like 12-14. I'd probably enjoy it more now in the context of it being like an Australian indie movie from the 70's.

I'm more familiar with the franchises it inspired, like Fallout and Borderlands lol. Still enjoy the fact that Fallout 3 and Borderlands 1 both have a character in homage to the franchise named Mad Mel.

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moh82sy posted...

It's a shame we never got a sequel.

There are a couple in development. They're apparently making a Furiosa prequel, as well as a lower budget Tom Hardy Mad Max movie. As amazing as Fury Road is, it only barely broke even - so the news doesn't exactly surprise me.

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Apparently Mash got kinda preachy near the end there. Alan Alda either became a producer or a director on the show, and they played up the drama a little bit.

Mash was probably the perfect length. It might have been slipping a little bit, so they ended it at just the right time. And the finale was incredible.

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Seriously, that movie is incredible. I would need to rewatch a lot of movies to get an informed opinion, I don't watch a lot of movies any more, but it could easily be one of my top 10.

Fun fact, I never knew Furiosa was missing an arm. I also wasn't expecting Nux to be as significant as he was. It was good to see John Howard in something other than All Saints, and Immortan Joe was fucking awesome.

It was such a beautifully shot movie, too. The action was 10/10, and the sandstorm sequence was genuinely breathtaking. I love how they just drop you into the War Boy culture and show Nux reacting to it. I love all the actors, especially that old War Boy at the start of the movie who doesn't realise the gravity of what's about to happen.

I'm so glad I finally got to see this movie.

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Hope he doesn't take it out on the job.

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SolRaiderN7 posted...

You're being over the top if you believe this is Anti-Semitic, this isn't Holocaust revision or denial, it's literally a bad take.

It trivialises the horror of the holocaust and the persecution that the Jews went though up to that point and throughout the holocaust. It'd be like a white conservative comparing persecution against qanon horseshit - banning accounts, getting exposed online for calling Hillary Clinton and Tom Hanks child-killing pedophiles - to slavery.

It shows a callous disregard for the ugly reality of those historical events, and a truly disgusting inflation of one's ego to compare their life experiences to the horror that millions of people actually went through. It completely downplays what those people went though, and inflates what they're going through, which does the victims of the original event a serious disservice.

I think that's closer to anti-semitism than it isn't. The same way that comparing getting cancelled on Twitter to slavery is closer to racism than it isn't.

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My initial exposure to the band was through Nonagon Infinity, and over time I've come to appreciate their eclectic mix of sounds. Really dug Intrasport for a hot second, though I think I'm leaning more towards the CE user who thinks it's the worst thing he's ever heard. I appreciate that they gave it a crack, and I love the idea of Turkish house music.

What I love about O.N.E. is that it marries the rock sensibilities of Nonagon Infinity with this really jammy, psychedelic undercurrent. As much as I love Nonagon Infinity, O.N.E. feels so much more complete than any song on that album. The point of that album is to loop it ad infinitum, but it's like there are these long run-on sections where nothing's happening, and the stuff they throw at the wall doesn't always stick. That's how I feel about a lot of Rattlesnake as well, at least until that fucking snake-charmer-ass instrument kicks in near the end. Shit's awesome.

It's like, if I ever heard a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard song on the radio at the store or something, I can imagine it being O.N.E. over pretty much every other King Gizzard song. I really, really like this song. I hope it leads to a whole album of heavy psyche-rock.

https://youtu.be/lkZd2lBQb2c

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I'm working through a lot right now, and focusing on these long pointless screeds about stupid internet drama helps with how I'm feeling. The criticism is definitely warranted through, haha

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Joestar. I was critical of her in a thread about people who talk down to her or how she has no time for people who don't respect her, in which it seemed like she was digging herself into this big hole where anyone who wasn't emphatically on her side was being toxic.

I think the argument was about how she treats people vs how they treat her, and it was stuff like "we haven't necessarily seen eye to eye in the past, and/or we seem to be drifting apart on some topics, but I can meet you halfway on some things and I'd like to actually discuss these other aspects of what you're saying" vs "I feel like I'm being gaslit every time I'm around you, you've always treated me really bad, you challenge everything I say and I'm going to block you to save myself the hassle of dealing with you".

I'm sure she's had bad experiences with trolls and bad faith posters and the like, but I've been a part of a discord where the lengths she would go to talk about herself and bring every topic back around to herself led to people refusing to post in protest. It led to one guy simping 120% for her and alienating himself from the rest of the chat.

I've seen the way she handles any pushback over that sort of thing, at least how she handled it 2-3 years ago - before the couple-posting with smoliske and all that, before the manic posting on CE really kicked off. That doesn't sound very nice on my behalf, and fwiw I do wish for her to have a continued sense of security with the people she spends time with, but I'm critical of her in what I intend to be a constructive way despite that. The fact that I'm tip-toeing around it despite the fact that she blocked me is hopefully communicating that - I'm not trying to shitstir here.

So I commented to that effect. That while I'm sure she's had bad experiences with shitty people, she seems to be cutting out a lot of people who don't necessarily dislike her - who are outright trying to build bridges, just without conceding everything they have to say. That reasonable criticism, made in good faith, isn't an attack on her so much as it's people who have come to an impasse between them and are trying to fix that, or people who see excessively manic posting as potentially harmful to her mental health and her relationships with others.

I'm a bit of a people pleaser, I like to bring people together. So while I was being critical, I was trying to spare her feelings and address reasonable criticism she had been writing off.

I get a flippant reply that sums up to me being a hater trying to stifle her. Maybe it was a bit more generous than that, it's been a while since this happened, but it definitely came across as "kthanxbai" when I made a second post trying to elaborate on reasonable points of criticism from people who seemed to be making them in good faith - to which she made a pissy "bye-bye, you're blocked now <3" message before blocking me.

Like at this point, it's literally Joestar. She made topics with Smoliske that were just them posting back and forth like a Brangelina-type couple until people complained about them being obnoxious, at which point it was time to come out about being harassed by CE neckbeards. I didn't realise people in our mutual discord were refusing to post in protest of her monopolizing every conversation she was in - out of a basic sense of decency, I tried to cultivate a positive space in that server in the hopes that people would return. I did that for what felt like weeks, because I like it when people get along. I grew to become critical of her, but it was genuinely coming from a good place and I saw people who seemed to be coming from a similar place in that thread. Now I realise that's just how she is.

I hear she's a radfem now, so that's her business. I try to be civil about her, but the second she starts introducing points about trans women being male invaders, I'm gonna start busting chops.

Also I changed my signature to mention crackers and/or mayonnaise in relation to white people, and someone got upset at me for having anti-white slurs in my sig and blocked me. I feel like he would have gotten suspended ages ago, but I couldn't tell you because of the block lmao.

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I was playing on a friend's xbone and it was on Game Pass, liked playing it so much I bought it for my switch

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Sounds like a you problem, bucko

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bump

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@hockeybub89 - you good, dude?

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there are more good sonic movies than star wars movies lmao

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I'm level 65, attack stats are all 50+ unless you count archery as an attack stat. Not opposed to training my attack stats during my 2 weeks of membership, of course I'll have to fight things, but I won't make it a priority. I also want to raise my runecrafting level and make some nature runes and law runes. Already beat Dragon Slayer a while back.

I've heard about dwarf stuff, like there's a blast furnace and all that. I've also seen people with those big-ass cannons. Maybe I'll do some dwarf quests if there's a questline, and especially if there are rewards like mining and smithing XP. I've also heard that selling cannonballs is a decent GE grift as well.

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I have a bond that I got when they were 2m on the Grand Exchange. If I like the 14 days, I'm thinking of getting 3 months of membership.

What are some good quests I could do in a day or less? I wanna spend some time doing quests and mining - I'm level 77 mining and level 70 smithing, so I'm looking forward to all the new mining possibilities. I'm also open to any decent moneymaking strats.

Currently planning to get all of my f2p skills to level 30 before I use my bond. All I need to get up is woodcutting, firestarting, prayer and archery, which are all above level 20.

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Remember that news story about a landlord removing doors and windows from a property to force someone to leave?

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Shouldn't have enabled the guy by posting in his thread, he's brought up Jussie Smollett and he's trying to cast doubt by saying this could have been acted out afterwards by guys dressed in cop uniforms.

He's either completely serious, and he has so little empathy for black people that he'd rather believe that someone literally acted out being beaten by the police to "get" them instead of actually getting beaten by the police and being lucky enough to get it on video - or he thinks it's funny to downplay shit like this, which is deliberately casting doubt on a victim of assault because he thinks it's funny.

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Monolith1676 posted...

I will be friends with anyone. Everyone deserves a first chance.

Did that teenager deserve a chance at not getting beaten by the police for literally nothing?

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kg88222 posted...

Both sides

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Nice flopic TC

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DrizztLink posted...

Dude, your friend is an asshole.

I appreciate you saying that. fwiw, I chalk a lot of it up to his personality - he's a pretty blunt, forceful person. He gets along with everyone because he puts himself out on a limb. There are aspects that he can control which are super fucking douchey, but I also think that there's friction due to our personalities.

And while I'm pissed off about him talking over me all the time, I don't think it's because he's actively waiting for me to say something just so he can talk over me. He just does, and it sucks, and he's probably used to doing it so it doesn't phase him. Not a defense, just a clarification.

It's taken me this long to comprehend that being around him is stunting my personal growth.

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oh, I suppose that's why someone tagged me lmao

Didn't even read the OP until it got quoted

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I want to sum up my feelings with an example.

A few years ago, I got an internship at a business that buys and trains racehorses. I told my best friend the day I got the position, and he was happy for me. I went to his place to hang out and celebrate.

When I walked into his house, his mother jumped up and congratulated me, and shook my hand. This made me uncomfortable because I wanted to tell people about it - but my friend meant well, and they got me a cake, and it was nice. There was no malicious intent, and while it bugged me that I didn't get to tell people my own news, I knew that happy news tends to get spread around like that.

But then I spoke to my other friends who I was planning to tell, and he had already told them about it. I would go to lunch with someone, and they'd open up by congratulating me on the position. And it began to get to me, because when we would both hang out with someone who hadn't heard yet, he'd tell them I got the internship while I was right there. I told him that it was bothering me, and he didn't understand why telling everyone about it before I did made me uncomfortable. In his mind, he was being supportive.

Imagine I was gay, and he did the same thing. He told other people, including people I wouldn't have told about it right away, and because he told them in good faith and he told them to be nice about it, he didn't understand why I was so upset about him sharing it. Imagine if the news was something positive, but personal and private.

Then consider that when a mutual friend of ours was having issues with his sexuality and confided in my best friend with the strictest confidence - he told me about it. And he told at least three other people, which I was there for.

So why the fuck would I ever confide in my best friend, considering how he's handled information around me?

Why should I feel comfortable around him when as recently as last night, he deliberately touched me to make me feel uncomfortable?

I haven't felt comfortable around my best friend for years, and I don't think I ever trusted him. And there are people in my life who make me feel secure and comfortable, who I feel like I can confide in. One of them is a mutual friend who was in the same group in high school, and I've only come around to being comfortable in his presence because I'm not around my other friend.

I felt pressured to share information with my best friend for the entire time I've known him. I have people in my life who I feel secure in telling anything, who I've known for half as long and who I've spent a fraction of the time with. It took finding that community to realise just how fucked up my feelings are about my best friend.

Edit: I just remembered. When I had a crush on this girl who moved back to town recently, he would bring it up to a bunch of our friends and put me on the spot about it. I'd tell them if it came up and if I felt like telling them, but by alluding to it, he'd put me on the spot and I would have to tell the other person. I hadn't told her, and I wasn't sure that I would end up telling her, but my friend made it a thing around other people and I would have to let them in on it because of that.

This was happening some time in the past 6 months. We're both 25, and this sort of shit is still happening.

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I was bullied throughout the entirety of school, and in the last year or two of high school I began to assimilate into a group of people. I became best friends with one of them in particular, and in the seven years since I left school, I've probably spent more days hanging out with him than I haven't.

I'm a pretty shy, introverted person. I'm a bit better than I used to be, in that I can actually be around people and get on okay by myself - but initially, I relied on people I felt comfortable around to act as a social buffer. They made headway, I supplemented their personality. There was a point where I needed that safety net, and my best friend was that safety net - for which I'm genuinely grateful. I couldn't ever repay him for that.

That's not to say that our friendship never had issues. He's always spoken over me in social situations. For what it's worth, sometimes I'll try to interject something into a conversation, and I understand that I might not be accepted into that conversation. That's something I need to work on, but it's not solely what I'm talking about.

What gets to me is the times where I've been talking in a group setting - whether it be addressing a group or talking directly to someone - and as I go to say something, my friend will just butt in ans say what he wants over what I was about to say. Something I can be guilty of, except I realise I'm being an asshole and I stop talking - whereas he just keeps going. And then he'll finish what he was saying, and I'll go to say what I was going to say before he cut me off - or build on what he was saying - and he'll start saying something else after I've started talking. This happens three or four times in a row - I'm trying to say something in a conversation I'm already in, and a few words into whatever I was gonna say, he just talks over me. And he does it multiple times, every time.

He'll stop as if he's finished whatever he wants to say, I'll even wait for a second to see if he's finished, and when I go to speak again he just talks over me again.

It's like, there was a time when I didn't have a voice and I was lucky to have someone who could speak up and make social situations easier. But now I've found my voice, and I feel like I'm being spoken over. I didn't mind being in other people's shadows to begin with, but now I'm trying to come into my own and stand on my own two feet, I feel like I'm being overshadowed by other people in response. Not everyone - there are people in my life who listen to what I'm trying to say, and who even point out when I'm being spoken over. It's mostly just this one person who's making it this hard.

Another thing is that my friend will deliberately try to make me uncomfortable for his own amusement. He'll touch me when he knows it'll make me uncomfortable, like grabbing my arm or touching my hair, and he'll yell at his family members or deliberately try to make them feel bad for his own amusement which stresses me out. His mother is a high-strung lady, and when he lived at home, he would intentionally upset her for his own amusement - and that would make me uncomfortable, so it would be even funnier to him. He'd even tell me that he was gonna make his mum upset before calling her into his room so he could watch me squirm before he did it.

And the thing is, our relationship has always kinda been like that. Being bullied for years made me painfully withdrawn, and even if they would tease me and make me uncomfortable at points, I was glad to have friends who seemed to actually like having me around and who could make it easier to come out of my shell and adapt to new experiences. There was some good aspects to our friendship right from the start - we've always made each other laugh, really fucking hard - and there were bad aspects that - to the credit of my friends - have significantly diminished as we've gotten older.

But as I've tried to grow and become a better person, aspects I didn't mind so much have become suffocating and toxic. And looking back, I think I always knew that those aspects were toxic.

I've never been truly comfortable around my best friend. Our friendship always involved similar aspects to the bullying I went through, just with the understanding that it was in good fun and that they still liked me as a person. I used to think that I would instinctively flinch around them because I was still traumatized from the 10+ years of bullying I had been through before I met them - and to be fair, I definitely was. But then my friend began to complain about boundaries that I had put up, that I wouldn't speak to him about stuff he wanted to speak about, and there was this feeling that because someone confided something private in me, they would expect me to open up to them to a similar degree. And I never would, because I just wasn't comfortable sharing privileged information with them. I think that's a legitimate boundary to have.

It's only recently that I've managed to put all of this into words - I never really felt safe around my best friend. And I'm not comfortable in his company at all any more - being around him actively makes me feel bad.

One reason I don't trust him is because of how he's gossiped about other people the entire time I've known him. He's good at getting close to people, and he likes those deep and meaningful conversations where you confide deep seated insecurities to each other. When he ran into privileged information, the sort of shit you're not meant to tell anyone else, he would tell me about it.

A mutual friend of ours confided in him that he had gay or bisexual feelings - my friend coped with the stress of that confession by bouncing it off me. He phrased it like that, too. I knew when people were having affairs and shit, because he'd find out and he told me. He even told me about how one of his hook-ups had developed a condition where she pulled her hair out and ate it. Shit I was not supposed to know - sometimes, shit he wasn't even supposed to know. And as a private person myself, it began to make me more and more uncomfortable when he'd tell me this stuff.

So I always knew that if I ever told him anything sensitive, he would tell other people. Because he didn't just tell me any of that stuff - I saw him tell two or three more people the same stuff he was telling me. We'd go to lunch with other friends, and he would tell them the same privileged information in the same way he told me.

He's tried to get better about this sort of thing. He's tried to treat me better, and address aspects of our friendship that bothers me. He even stated as much earlier this week - he knows I get uncomfortable, and he's trying to be better about it.

But the trust has been broken. I haven't trusted him for years. Maybe I never even trusted him to begin with.

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This one still gets me tbh:

https://youtu.be/HLITQXRH70M

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It's okay to feel burnt out and hopeless sometimes, you can't hold up a resistance against an entire societal movement by yourself. It helps to vent. But I think in your heart of hearts, you know it's better to keep fighting for a better future than to give in to despair. After all, if every like-minded person gives up, the people and mindset you oppose will be free to do as they please.

You can take a step back and gather yourself, and you can take up the cause again when you feel better - however long that may take. You don't have to be switched on all day every day until you feel like there's nothing left for you to give.

My most recent breaking point was the Kyle Rittenhouse situation. I thought that event was like the right finally getting its Charlottesville moment, where they manage to handwave a killer's crimes away and normalise a standard of violence they could draw on for years to come. Where they could take the mask off, and not be shouted down from the rafters for it. I needed some time to compose myself before I began putting my energy into political discourse again.

In hindsight, it's kinda funny that I thought the Rittenhouse shooting was like the right's Charlottesville do-over considering the insurrection attempt a month or two later. I couldn't have seen it coming, but it was much more in the vein of Charlottesville than the Rittenhouse shooting, which outright veered towards fascism if enough people didn't oppose it.

Things seem hopeless now. You might feel like you've given everything you can to an ideal, to a baseline standard of decency, that the majority doesn't abide by. But embodying those ideals is how we change the world for the better. It's how we normalize them.

Take all the time you need to recharge your batteries, because burnout is a serious problem and it leads to these situations where you feel used up, decrepit and hopeless. But I believe that you have the power to change your surroundings for the better, little by little, by embodying the values that resonate with you. And that requires perseverance. Wallow now, but understand that there is a tomorrow, and a day after that.

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Somebody stop me!

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Fuck off, TC

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I got @'d by a deleted post. I'm Australian, not a New Zealander lol

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fucking finally

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RadiantJoyrock posted...

Evidence he wanted to kill someone? Simply being there is not premeditation, he had as much constitutional right to be there as anyone else. If you had some evidence actually showing intent, it would be different.

Illegally having a gun in his possession, standing at a BLM rally like a little right-wing dipshit and trolling people to instigate arguments. He wasn't there in good faith, and he killed three people.

Even if it was in good faith, he needs to face the justice system. By circumventing the legal system, it only confirms that he was there to be an agitator and that he doesn't feel bad about what he did.

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Because Japan would have fucked them up.

They still got occupied by America, but it took 2 nukes to do it.

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You know how alerted guards get the ! over their heads?

Well, the V in MGSV is a pair of exclamation marks meeting at the bottom.

I noticed that years ago, and I haven't heard ANYONE talk about it.

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Giant_Aspirin posted...

C

but remember, scalpers only exist because people buy their shit. blame the buyers as much as the sellers

And buyers only exist because their only option is scalpers. It's dumb that people buy upsold PS5s, but they were being scalped around Christmas and they wanted to get their kids something cool. People turn to scalpers because they're the only chance at getting something that someone wants - which is a deliberate ploy by the scalpers.

You also have those dumb fuck rednecks who got their stash of hand sanitizer seized by the government because they bought up thousands of bottles and were planning to sell it for a profit out of their garage. These guys went to every store in a 50 mile radius, and they bought all the sanitizer they could find during a PANDEMIC.

The fact that people do buy shit and enable scalpers is stupid. But let's not get twisted. The buyer's market literally wouldn't exist if scalpers weren't doing everything in their power to buy up stock of hot items for their own profit. The buyer's market only exists because the product is only available through scalpers for months at a time, because scalpers cheat the system to get a stranglehold on supply. No-one wants to pay double the price for a game console, or some tickets, or a toy. Or some hand sanitizer in the middle of a pandemic.

But the alternative is fucking over Christmas for your kids because these scalper fuckfaces made the game console completely unfeasible, or missing the concert you've been looking forward to for months, or forgoing adequate healthcare protections because Billy-Jim and his brother Incest bought thousands of pharmaceutical supplies to make a profit off of them. And the scalpers know this. It's how they make money.

A buyer's market wouldn't exist without the seller. Fuck them, they're the problem and they can and should get toe-punted in the fucking grundle.

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Still bummed out about Strangelove tbh

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I can feel it in my bones, I'm gonna spend another year alone.
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I hope you don't fake my uncle's death

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I can feel it in my bones, I'm gonna spend another year alone.
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ArianaGrandSlam posted...

Nah, fuck it. As long as its luxury items, let them get their bread. Ill piss and moan about em, but they dont need assaulted.

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I can feel it in my bones, I'm gonna spend another year alone.
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Solar_Crimson posted...

Incidentally, whatever happened to that Twitter account that listed off Seinfeld plotlines if it was still airing today?

idk, but there's a Tumblr blog called fakeseinfeldplots that uses user-submitted titles to create an a-plot and a b-plot for a Seinfeld episode. the further along it goes, the more absurd they get - seasons 30-50 have Jerry's apartment filled with toxic waste, for example, and the season finale of season 5000 ends with the heat death of the universe.

In the most recent post, someone sent in "S10 e8 - The DJ". The blog responded with:

"Kramer is hired to DJ his friends wedding and plays nothing but different remixes of Cotton Eye Joe all night.

George finally has enough and challenges his father to a head butting competition."

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The way I get around that is by posting explicit messages about my will to live. I had a thread recently where I talked about how I couldn't see a future with me in it, and how distressing it felt to be able to see a future for the people in my life but to not see myself anywhere in it.

I stated multiple times in the text itself that despite my feelings, I knew that there was ultimately a future for me in these people's lives - which didn't soften the blow of not being able to see it, but which established that I was sound of mind - and at the end of the post, I reiterated that despite my troubles I had no intention of dying any time soon and nothing in my post was intended to be construed as suicidal.

I get how it feels to cut loose about a visceral subject and let an audience know how much pain you're in, but once that's in text, your best bet is to hedge your feelings with a disclaimer that you're saying what you're saying in good faith and without suicidal intent in the moment.

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I can feel it in my bones, I'm gonna spend another year alone.
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conservatives: fuckin pansy ass snowflakes and their safe spaces

also conservatives: we are literally the most oppressed group in america and we want our own internet

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I can feel it in my bones, I'm gonna spend another year alone.
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The plot mostly gets resolved in the second to last episode, and the last episode is a farewell to the characters and the culmination of their outstanding arcs. It's the writers getting one last flex, and the characters getting a final goodbye as opposed to their existence ending the second that the main plot is finished.

A show that did this well was The Good Place, while a show that did this poorly was Supernatural. Second to last episode was fine, but that last episode was a big ol' pile of shit.

This doesn't necessarily apply to episodic shows like Star Trek: TNG. But despite that show being more episodic, the last episode still dealt with each of the characters getting an ending and making peace with each other in a really nice way.

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I can feel it in my bones, I'm gonna spend another year alone.
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