What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
Working out. Used to think it was too hard and I didn’t have time. Pushed myself, started exercising at home and it’s snowballed to protein loading, supplement taking, and lifting to failure. It’s good to feel like jelly.
Cats. I used to be a dog person until I rescued this little red oxytocin potato.
awwww that sounds adorable
Saving money. I take pride in doing my research and getting the best deal instead of just stumbling into the first store I come across and paying for whatever the sales person talks me into. The latter wouldn’t even hurt me financially, it’s just a thing of principle.
This is me with travel I typically spend 2-3000 less than other couples when going to the same destination and end up in the same hotels.
Nickelback. I don’t know why they get so much hate, their music is actually decent
It was like the stars aligned when Nickelback guy married Avril Lavigne. Canada’s finest together at last!
They just got played to death on the radio and his voice is pretty distinctive so all the songs sound the same. And it’s a bandwagon thing.
For me it was the radio and that a lot of their popular songs sound the same-ish (not hard to do with that voice). The radio has ruined a lot of bands for me simply by having a 40 minute playlist on repeat. Like The Killers.
Some of there songs are dope
High school of the Dead. I watched the anime because of that titty/bullet gif. I freaking loved that show.
Not so much the piss scene, but still.What piss scene? I Must have pushed it out of my Brain…
Bluesky and AT proto
The idea that you can just take your account and migrate it to different PDS is awesome.
Gun Control lol
Charlie Kirk would approve… Well, he would now I mean. SCNR
Too soon?
I saw someone say charlie kirk used the getting shot tactic to avoid the question.
💀💀💀
Charlie Kirk getting fucking holed
If he’s so pro life, why is he dead?
If he was anti-vax why did get a shot?
Brave and contrary.
I saw this tread when it was just posted and I remember thinking “there is no way this is going to be still relevant tomorrow”
welllll you are right lol
The ends of a loaf of bread are the best slices
Now that’s a spicy take
Especially toasted. So much crunch.
Vlogging is not vanity. It’s a special way to capture memories to share with others currently. And to view yourself and others in a time capsule, a stasis where you can view the old world
I want to view my vlogs as an elder and appreciate my memories, even more than I thought I did when I filmed them
If that’s your motive sure. If your motive is to become a social media influncer then…no.
Idk I’m 50/50 in this one. I feel the production of video can have negative effects on being present in the moment and enjoying things while they happen instead of looking back nostalgically
I don’t vlog enough to have this issue. I live in the moment
What about live streamers walking around public?
I don’t really give a fuck to be honest. Livestreams are weird
Superman
A lot of people dismiss Superman as being “too powerful” or “unrelatable.” They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers. But seriously, how many of us can actually relate to being a billionaire playboy with unlimited resources? In contrast, Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America. He is as much Clark Kent as he is Superman.
People call him a “boy scout,” as if that’s a flaw. But that misses the point. The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary. He sets an ideal for people to strive for.
Yes, in the hands of a bad writer he can become a walking deus ex machina. But in the hands of a good writer, Superman becomes the core of some of the most powerful and iconic stories in comics. His greatness doesn’t come from what he can do, it comes from the choices he makes.
Superman has the ability to remove Capitalists from power and chooses not to. That is why I don’t care for Superman.
He doesn’t live in our reality. He was also invented at a time when government functioned at least somewhat, and social progress was being made.
Superman probably pays more in taxes than Batman.
That is probably because Batman doesn’t pay taxes, Bruce Wayne does.
And Bruce Wayne is known for spending tons of the Wayne foundation on helping the poor and criminalized. Tons of charities, schools, orphanages, homeless shelters, … are funded by them.
And if Bruce gets tax breaks because of that, it is because that is how the law works, not because he wants them.
Bruce is far from the average Billionaire you get in our dimension.
Bruce Wayne doesn’t exist, it’s merely a disguise Batman sometimes wears.
Overly Sarcastic Productions has done a number of videos they call detail diatribes that have focused on Superman. The summary of many of them is that Superman is his most interesting when saving people and not when punching villains. Even in larger team fights, he could save everyone or hold off the threat, but he can’t do both so he needs the help of others.
I actually love superman being a normal dude who saves people with a smile. He should be a good person in stories, because his strength isnt the point, his willpower to help everyone is.
They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers.
Okay, but he’s a billionaire super-scientist who occasionally uses occult magicks. How does none of this qualify?
Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America
Sure, but how many modern day Americans could relate to growing up on a farm? Or getting a job in journalism?
The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary.
I think superheroes are largely defined by their villains. And Lex Luthor - as an individual who regularly does struggle to dominate the world (and periodically succeeds with mixed results) - makes an excellent foil for this exact reason. Superman is, at his heart, just a guy trying to do the right thing. Luthor is an ego-maniacal fascist who cannot conceive of having less than total control.
The best Superman stories are ones that illustrate the practical limits of a seemingly omnipotent individual. It’s Superman’s struggles - his poor choices, his desire for human affection, his naive optimism, his inability to be everywhere at once - that make him relatable. The idea of Superman as a maximal human who still can’t do everything has a way of taking the load of us, comparably weak and vulnerable people, who strive for just as much as a fictional demigod.
Have you ever read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman%3A_Red_Son ?
I’m not a big fan of Superman stuff, but I found that one to be pretty interesting.
It’s a good one. That one and All-Star Superman are the two I always recommend to people.
All star Superman the DC movie is easily the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen. Every moment is dumber than the one before it. I laughed so hard I nearly died. Seriously go get messed up and watch it with your friends!
It definitely wasn’t one of DC’s best adaptions. They really tried to squeeze too much in for the run time. They totally could have dropped the whole Atlas and Samson thing and concentrated more on the main story.
I was gonna ask, thank you!
I’ve not read All-Star yet, but I keep getting it recommended to me. Thanks!
All-Star is what made me change my mind on Superman. I never really liked him when I was younger, and it was for all the same complaints that people have already listed above. But All-Star was a blast to read, not in spite of it’s (at times) cheesiness, but because of it. All-Star Superman is relatable because he embodies the best traits in all of us; he is incredibly intelligent and kind, leveled and patient. Without going into spoilers, I think what I love most about All-Star is that it shows that even the best among us have our weaknesses, and that it’s not the huge, planet-level threats that define who are and what we do, but the small, innocuous things that can most affect who we are in the moment.
AMD > Nvidia
There’s simply no reason why a GPU should have proprietary drivers, when that is a core, basically inseparable part of a computer. You literally NEED one to see what you’re doing with your computer (yes, integrated graphics also count).
I mean, imagine if your sound card had proprietary drivers. The world would go nuts.
Speed Racer (2008)
Uniquely colorful, silly, wholesome, every single one of its frames oozes style and creativity. It’s exactly what an animated adaptation should aim to be and will forever stand out against the blue and orange, brown and bloom palettes that plagued that era of media.
It’s simply so visually exciting and fun.
Not a great movie but the villain speech is one of the greatest of all time
This was the video essay that won me over to that film.
Also this video (much shorter) is just funny: https://youtu.be/WC0YAJR6xQQ
I was an early adopter of No Man’s Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
lololololololololol
I actually preferred the early days, I don’t like most of the recent updates and I haven’t played in probably a year. I can’t really explain why except now it feels too busy.
Dude, next time use a healthy badger and you’ll only have to deal with blowback from NMS.
What is no man’s sky
A space exploration video game. It had a famously bad launch, because the director had over-promised on basically every single feature. It was massively anticipated because the director had hyped it up so much. And when it launched, players quickly discovered that many of the promised features were only half finished, or were missing entirely. The backlash was swift, but the company said they planned to keep working on the game.
And now many years later, the game is actually fairly solid, and basically meets the original promises. But at launch, it definitely didn’t.
I have a lot of respect for the Devs, as shining example of “how to recover from a mistake and make it up to your players”
Many other dev teams would have probably taken their payday and disappeared into the wind after that launch.
