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I have a ziploc bag full fo money. I feel like a drug dealer. But my life isn't that cool.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:35
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I've know a few drug dealers IRL and they aren't really any cooler than anyone else.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:37
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In my experience drug dealers tend to own small dogs and wear Adidas.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:38
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Kramjacks posted:I've know a few drug dealers IRL and they aren't really any cooler than anyone else. I know some drug dealer irl and they have mad stacks of cash and live in penthouses in downtown Chicago, so...
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Apr 1, 2015 01:39
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Literally The Worst posted:I have a ziploc bag full fo money. I feel like a drug dealer. But my life isn't that cool. I got pulled over a couple times coming home after a shift and got questions. poo poo is annoying. Kramjacks posted:I've know a few drug dealers IRL and they aren't really any cooler than anyone else. Yeah all the dealers I've ever known have been pretty lame dudes.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:39
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morestuff posted:Strange Days is appealingly weird. A story where the male protagonist is made to understand the psychologically traumatic effects of rape by being transported into the mind of a rapist and his victims. (Not coincidentally, the movie was directed by a woman!) You don't see the power of a science fiction framework leveraged so skillfully every day. Plus Angela Bassett kicks people's asses, that's pretty great too.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:39
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Josh Lyman posted:Just saw this for the first time. It's pretty great (slightly NSFW thumbnail): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Wn48geCJ8 This is terrible and you should feel terrible for thinking it's great.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:42
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Frozen burritos are the worst food on this dumb earth
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Apr 1, 2015 01:42
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Yaws posted:Frozen burritos are the worst food on this dumb earth Nah, lime tortilla chips are worse.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:48
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FishBulb posted:I got pulled over a couple times coming home after a shift and got questions. poo poo is annoying. I never run into cops around here, my thing is not looking like a delivery boy carrying home a hundred bucks in cash.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:49
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Corek posted:It's really weird that CD hates Whedon more and more as he becomes successful. [...] there are literally three dozen+ books written analyzing Buffy alone, and a quarterly journal, in a whole academic subfield still going strong: That is actually the trouble. Whedon's work is expressly targeted at the 'cultural studies' crowd. All of it (outside of, maybe, his earlier work as a script doctor) centers around the fact that there is a thing called 'patriarchy', and that it harms girls. The references are blatant: characters like Buffy and Black Widow are given phallic weapons with which to penetrate the misogynist enemy, and so-on. If you trainspot the references, the essay about subverting the male gaze (or whatever) writes itself. Now, this is not really bad. It's more frankly unremarkable. Besides the fact that Whedon can't direct for poo poo, he's not doing anything different from, like, Kill Bill. Or, more to the point: he's not doing anything different from Zack And Mirri Make A Porno. What is bad is that, unlike Tarantino (and, even, Kevin Smith), Whedon does an impeccable job of disguising the fact that he's making exploitation films - an I Spit On Your Grave for the PG set. And I mean exploitation in the financial sense. Criticisms of Whedon are mostly isolated to his alleged 'personal failings' - like, that he gets an old-man boner watching skinny leather girls hurt bad bullies. And even then, Zack Snyder got branded history's greatest monster for satirically exaggerating Whedon's femsploitation in Sucker Punch. This reveals an ideological process whereby exploitation is masked by fixating on individual sex perverts and rapists who disrupt our way of life. What gets lost in the mix is what characters like Buffy are actually empowered for. So you end up with new-age paganism in uneasy coexistence with Marx-derived feminism. Imagine a nominally communist propaganda film where the heroes are practicing wiccans. Whedon's attacks on 'patriarchy' amount to an appropriation of the language of progressive struggle. It reaches such a point that Avengers is a film explicitly about ideological critique that, nonetheless, ends with everyone uniting to expel the 'jew' Loki. That's the underlying problem, in a nutshell.
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Apr 1, 2015 01:53
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Oh no, Robert Z'dar died. 
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Apr 1, 2015 01:58
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Lurdiak posted:Oh no, Robert Z'dar died. Going to watch Pocket Ninjas in his memory.
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Apr 1, 2015 02:00
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Kramjacks posted:Nah, lime tortilla chips are worse. I agree with you to a degree I doubt you would understand.
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Apr 1, 2015 02:01
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Lime tortilla chips are rad
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Apr 1, 2015 02:02
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FishBulb posted:Lime tortilla chips are rad No they are not. Please kill yourself. This is a well thought out and rational response. Edit: Are you trying to fight scurvy or something? There is no rational flavor reason why you just want powdered citric acid all over the simple joy that is tortilla chips. Did you forget limes for your guacamole? Fat Lou fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Apr 1, 2015 02:03
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I think they taste good. What's really good is to get a bag of them and a bag of jalapeño ones and mix em together. Mmmmmm I also like to mix m and ms and Reese's pieces. I'm overweight
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Apr 1, 2015 02:14
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morestuff posted:Strange Days is appealingly weird. Kathryn Bigelow is one of the best directors of all time
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Apr 1, 2015 02:32
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Kathryn Bigelow is one of the best directors of all time I can't speak on Point Break because it's been forever since I saw it, but Strange Days and Near Dark are super great.
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Apr 1, 2015 02:35
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FishBulb posted:I can't speak on Point Break because it's been forever since I saw it, but Strange Days and Near Dark are super great. Point Break is also super great, as are The Loveless, The Hurt Locker, and Zero Dark Thirty. the Weight of Water is on netflix and i'm mad curious. i hear it's real bad but it also sounds real weird and i like that.
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Apr 1, 2015 02:37
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Fat Lou posted:Did you forget limes for your guacamole? maybe he lives in one of those places that can't get decent Avocado. therattle posted:I'll be safe, since I never watch horrors or slashers. I'm much more likely to die in an independent or foreign-language film. Probably not as a main character though. I don't know, I'm pretty sure I'd rather be stabbed to death than die slowly of consumption, or being hit by a car in the rain after finally deciding to declare my love to my childhood best friend. FishBulb posted:I got pulled over a couple times coming home after a shift and got questions. poo poo is annoying. Why the hell would it even come up, were you dumb enough to leave a giant pile of cash in plain sight? Throw that poo poo under your seat. I bike home from my serving shift and if it's late I put enough in my wallet so that if I get mugged the mugger will think he got a decent score, then put the rest in my sock.
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Apr 1, 2015 02:37
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One time I fumbled to get my wallet and a couple hundred bills fell out of my pocket onto the street so I mean I was pretty dumb when I was 20 yeah
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Apr 1, 2015 02:39
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Point Break is also super great, as are The Loveless, The Hurt Locker, and Zero Dark Thirty. I didn't think 0 Dark or HL were that great, but Near Dark is so good it don't matter. Edit: sorry meant to put those on 1 post
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Apr 1, 2015 02:40
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I'm imagining the producers of InAPPropropriate Comedy trying to convince the director that shooting on digital would be cheaper, and him going, "No, man, it's just gotta be on film. It's about the integrity, man!"
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Apr 1, 2015 02:56
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Whedon's attacks on 'patriarchy' amount to an appropriation of the language of progressive struggle. It reaches such a point that Avengers is a film explicitly about ideological critique that, nonetheless, ends with everyone uniting to expel the 'jew' Loki. That's the underlying problem, in a nutshell. Also because he's a nihilist who's dialogue is based around constantly undercutting anyone who believes in something or takes themselves seriously, with ironic detachment. This happens at least three times in the last theatrical trailer of A2? Which fits in with the philosophical lesson of all his movies and franchises "evil chaos and corrupt order are equally bad, so you might as well give up". Can anyone tell me what the Browncoats were fighting *for*? Freedom... to do what?
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Apr 1, 2015 02:59
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4 just came out. Don't know how they go over but I feel like this one is a bit more fresh after 3 being a little disappointing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9FGgwCQ22w
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Apr 1, 2015 03:05
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Lurdiak posted:Oh no, Robert Z'dar died.  Had they filmed all of Samurai Cop 2 yet? Or just put out a trailer for it while they were in production?
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Apr 1, 2015 03:12
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Water Sheep posted:Which fits in with the philosophical lesson of all his movies and franchises "evil chaos and corrupt order are equally bad, so you might as well give up". Can anyone tell me what the Browncoats were fighting *for*? Freedom... to do what? same thing the rebel alliance in Star Wars was, i presume
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Apr 1, 2015 03:19
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Water Sheep posted:Can anyone tell me what the Browncoats were fighting *for*? Freedom... to do what? State's rights, obvs
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Apr 1, 2015 03:25
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Water Sheep posted:Can anyone tell me what the Browncoats were fighting *for*? Freedom... to do what? Practice space racism.
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Apr 1, 2015 03:52
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:audiobook heads: should I listen to The Pearl by Steinbeck or A Briefer History of Time by Hawking? looking for something short. If it isn't already too late: I haven't read Briefer History of Time, but if you want depressing, The Pearl is a nice go-to. mr. stefan posted:State's rights, obvs wyoming posted:Practice space racism. 
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Apr 1, 2015 04:05
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Strange Days is a couple tweaks away from being a favorite of mine instead of pretty good. I greatly admire it conceptually and ideologically but something about the execution is lacking for me and I'm not sure exactly what.
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Apr 1, 2015 04:38
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Josh Lyman posted:Just saw this for the first time. It's pretty great (slightly NSFW thumbnail): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Wn48geCJ8 Define "great". Literally The Worst posted:But my life isn't that cool. We're all hyper aware of that.
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Apr 1, 2015 05:30
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Every time I see a Fast and Furious 7 ad and they show Paul Walker I get a little choked up. At this point the main reason I want to see it is to complete the grieving process.
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Apr 1, 2015 05:32
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Source your quotes
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Apr 1, 2015 05:33
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everybody watch this week's episode of The Flash. To use the parlance of the subforum, it is dope. It has Mark Hamill as basically the live action version of his Joker from Batman the Animated Series.
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Apr 1, 2015 05:36
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Skwirl posted:Every time I see a Fast and Furious 7 ad and they show Paul Walker I get a little choked up. At this point the main reason I want to see it is to complete the grieving process. I can't wait for Thursday. e: And also racecars driving in and out of the upper floors of high-rises. And Jason Statham. Rageaholic fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Apr 1, 2015 05:39
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Same, but also because I want to see expensive souped-up racecars fall out of a massive fuckoff cargo plane from thousands of feet in the air. Oh yeah, there's definitely that aspect, and Vin Diesel drifting through an art exhibit on the billionth floor of a sky scraper.
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wyoming posted:Practice space racism. That's the common joke, yes, but it's so easy to accuse them of that motivation *because the show/movie leaves any other explanation out*. They could have mentioned any other sorts of goals that have been oppressed (the right to marry non-traditionally, to drink tea without taxation, etc) but if they did you could see Zoe or Mal snarking about an actual ideal within five seconds. It's what any Whedon character does. So the "freedom" has to be left vague and generic. The Star Wars Rebel Alliance is fighting for the freedom to: be a princess, be a Jedi, and the rights of anyone who isn't a white human male. Some of these goals are better or worse than others, but at least it's a thing. Insert obligatory Big Lebowski reference.
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