ah okay thanks for explaining. sounds like it might have also been similar to the r/trees and r/marijuanaenthusiasts thing.

6th recall this year so far

what was the story with that?

the leopards do not eat because they are hungry. they eat because they can.

i think the best-case scenario from all of this is that trump decides to continue supporting ukraine just to spite putin. i dont even want to think about what the worst-case scenario might be

is diplomacy an option?

i haven’t seen either of those but they sound right up my alley. i’ll be sure to check those out. it’s nice when it feels like a movie isn’t in a hurry to be over.

i absolutely loved that show. i felt that the pacing could be a bit slow at times, and that the show was sometimes a little repetitive, but the plot was so unique and interesting that i didn’t mind very much. and a bit of repetition isn’t the worst thing in the world, especially not when done properly. definitely worth a watch. i haven’t seen a show with such good writing in a while, especially in such a complex setting. and i loved watching the complexity of the setting gradually reveal itself.

Tokyo Story by Yasujiro Ozu.

it’s been a while since i watched a movie that made me feel something the way that movie did. i’m not really sure how to talk about it without sounding a bit like a pretentious film snob. i’ll do my best, but bear with me here.

basically, Ozu’s style of film-making is very different from a lot of the other movies i tend to watch. it feels like he’s picking you up and putting you into his world, as a silent observer. he doesn’t mind making you sit down and watch as some mundane things happen. (e.g., ships passing by, people getting ready to leave the house, etc.) i think this makes it much easier to feel connected to not just the characters, but also the world they find themselves in. and it was honestly such a nice change of pace from the “always on” kind of movies that i’ve been watching recently. (but i still like those too, it’s just nice to see something different every once in a while.)

and i think this kind film-making really works for the story he’s trying to tell. i feel like it helped me connect and empathize with the characters in a way i wouldn’t be able to otherwise. i’d solidly recommend the movie to anybody who might be interested in something like that.

what’s step 2

no thank you, i get all my deals from quick deals thank you very much

the movie felt like a version of american psycho that took itself way too seriously and tried to romanticize the “troubled and disturbed vigilante” trope. having a bit more humor would have gone a long way i think. i’m not saying the movie should have been a comedy or anything, but something like the business card scene from american psycho would have helped. something to show that the movie wasn’t taking itself so seriously. the movie just feels like watching them point at this guy and say “whoa he’s pretty fucked up and twisted isn’t he? aren’t the streets so dirty and messy and full of crime? and he’s really messed up and he doesn’t like the grimy city.”

it felt like the whole point of the movie was just to say “this is the day to day life of somebody who is messed up in the head, and by the way, we’re going to try to make him look really cool and jaded”, but that’s not exactly a novel concept. i didn’t gain anything from that. if they wanted to show a jaded and disturbed character, i think it would have been better to have a bit of a plot, and to make it so that more things actually happened in the movie

did you read the article?

British Wikipedian, Stuart Marshall, made the final ruling in September, decisively supporting the article’s inclusion. “Based on the strength of the arguments … and it’s not close … I discarded the argument that scholars haven’t reached a conclusion on whether the Gaza genocide is really taking place”, Marshall wrote in his decision. “The matter remains contested, but there’s a metric truckload of scholarly sources linked in this discussion that show a clear predominance of academics who say that it is.”

Marshall concluded his ruling with the straightforward statement: “We follow the scholars.”

On its “Gaza genocide” page, it states that “Experts, governments, United Nations agencies, and non-governmental organisations have accused Israel of carrying out a genocide against the Palestinian people during its invasion and bombing of the Gaza Strip in the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.”

christmas wouldn’t be christmas without 42 geese

whoa now that is a crazy coincidence

i couldn’t even finish the french dispatch. i watched it for what felt like 3 hours, only to find out 45 minutes had passed. there was no way i was going to suffer through another hour. i liked some of the other wes anderson movies i’ve seen, but the french dispatch was torture.

not sure who’s listening to this, but i thought i’d throw my hat in the ring. i can also burn all my money extremely quickly, if desirable.

aren’t ironclads a type of ship in civ6? is this a civ6 reference?

surely you don’t go to the comments section because you want to see comments? you go there because you want post recommendations, right? please click on the recommended posts

it is vitally important to have bread on wood from time to time. i live and die by those words