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What is your unpopular flim opinion

I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds

neptune,

That’s unpopular?

neptune,

This is exactly what happens in The Boys too

Spoilers for the first few seasons: the righteous non supers find drugs to give themselves superheroes so they can battle the corrupt super heroes. Yes, this cheat code to power begins to corrupt them too.

Further, the super hero Council and corporation works hard to replace the roles the military covers. They then become an unaccountable shadow agency that the people want to keep doing the work of the government… But then democracy is slipping away.

neptune,

Consequences aren’t the only thing that cause people to act they way they act. It’s certainly one reason some people don’t do certain things.

One reason Homelander is the way he is is because how he was raised. If tomorrow I got all Homelander’s powers, I wouldn’t instantly become a psychopath. I mean it might occur to me that any action I might take, and no one could stop me or punish me. But as Homelander observed (at least in the prior season, I’m not entirely caught up) that alienation from his fellow supers is actually a consequence he deals with.

neptune,

What town did they match you with?

neptune,

Change the top text to remove the word “random” and instead explain how people actually talk about evolution.

Change the bottom text to say “statistics may imply the universe is a simulation…”

And then you remove the straw man argument.

neptune,

Always good to know what you are worth and keep interviewing skills sharp. But yeah, you could wait years for a promotion (more responsibilities!) and it only be 10% whereas a lateral move at a new company could be higher pay for the same type/amount of work. Crazy, right?

neptune,

Isn’t “coming from you” a put down? Or does it more mean “you care about fashion and looks, so obviously you know”?

neptune,

I just got a bottle of malort. Yes. It’s vile. Bitter, herbal, barely sweet, acrid, astringent… It’s bad.

I have a whiskey aged on chestnut. It’s very good. Different than all the oak whiskey out there. A little earthier?

I have a bottle of aquardiente. It’s kind of a minty drink. Not good or bad persay.

Ouzo and absinthe are pretty typical I guess. Rhubarb liqueur and I’m not sure what to do with it.

neptune,

Wake me up when we are posting Hyperdrive memes

neptune,

It’s for emphasis

neptune,

Even still, weren’t their dozens of people shoveling gravel and only a couple of vice presidents? The pyramid structure of corporations imply that not everyone can go from the entry level work to the c suite. It’s an attrition and numbers game.

Plus, most companies now outsource their grunt work. The janitor cannot become the CEO anymore, because the janitor is a contracted worker, making minimum wage, not invited to the Christmas party, and prevented from speaking to anybody in a position of authority.

neptune,

OG version of this meme

neptune,

Learn about one religion and you may become faithful. Learn about many and you may become an atheist.

There’s some truth and some idiocy behind this meme. Just because, for example, the US political system tends toward a two party system, does not mean you can always or always not find some amount of truth or good ideas based on what two parties tell you. In fact, the framing is irrelevant toward truth, and is even it’s own type of bias. There are certainly some third rails neither side of a debate will touch, or some things both find the need to lie about. But in some cases someone is sort of right about something and sometimes people are just wrong.

neptune,

Unless you don’t know his position

neptune,

Can you be more specific?

neptune,

I use mine to work on my novella at starbucks

neptune,

A half dollar coin. A condom.

neptune,

It’s the shorter day, akshually

neptune,

There are three things that every Greek woman must do in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone blue foods.

Something disturbing about Hallmark movies

I was talking with a friend today about Hallmark movies because we all seem to have at least one grandma who loves them around this time of year, and we’re hashing out the tropes they all share because they’re so formulaic that you could probably boil it down to a mad libs prompt, and something dawned on me because of one...

neptune,

I mean, it’s a fantasy. It’s going to tend to be transgressive or unrealistic, or else it would just be reality. Yes, it is sort of sending an anti feminist message that women can’t have it all. But you pretty much have to make holiday movies where the whole point is to stop being greedy and pay attention to what matters (family).

So you aren’t the target audience, combined with the movies being poorly written, combined with the very real situation where modern feminism has achieved its pyhrric victory of everyone getting to head towards equal participation in capitalism…

neptune,

Re post it tomorrow

neptune,
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neptune,

Apparently everyone thought having terms to describe friendship, even though he had written extensively on the different types of “love”. It seems like a put down, but if everyone else thought friendship wasn’t worth considering at the time, he’s probably pleased that people now think his time well spent.

neptune,

Hey! I post occasionally!

neptune,

Thank you!

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