The Pitters' Place

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Yeah my problem was that it much more of a standard horror movie than the surreal psychological horror the story was and it what it seemed like it was going to be at first. 28 Days Later - This movie is alright. It's not anything really special; I don't know why I have it as one of my favorite movie...

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Yeah I remember thinking DK1 is really hard and punishing. I guess I like that in video games, though. Cuphead was insane but that made it much more fun. Another of my favorite games is Jak II, which is famously hard. I don't consider it that hard, probably because I'm always so into it that it does...

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Yeah, I was only a kid when I played it last but I remember I hated Banjo-Tooie and quit at like the second or third level. Everything was too fucking big and slow and it took too fucking long to do anything. I felt like one regular world from Banjo-Tooie could have housed at least five or six of th...

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It has some mild hiccups but I think it's pretty great. I've watched it multiple times and it has no diminishing returns for me. I think it's one of the few films that remains just as compelling to people sixty years on as it did when it first came out. It's probably gonna remain just as good sixty ...

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Just want to say I do read these posts, I just never have anything to add to them. DKC2 is the only game from that trilogy I haven't played; I really like the third one. Played it over and over again when I was a kid. I loved the music and the world designs. Also I don't play video games much at all...

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Gonna do something different here. Instead of seeing a bunch of random movies for the first time, I'm gonna go down the list of my personal favorites in alphabetical order and rewatch them all, and say what I think. Some of them I haven't seen for a decade, so my opinion on them might change. 12 Ang...

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There's been threads like this popping up on this board occasionally for like the past six years.

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I shut everything off after Texas came in, I think. For the rest of the night I was fully convinced Trump was actually going to win again. It was a sickening, nauseating, unbelieving feeling. I felt sort of how I felt in 2016. Anxiety and nausea. Even taking into account the fact of the "red mi...

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I've seen like a hundred things in the past few months, but I didn't note them here, because... I just didn't feel like it. Felt like a lot of time and effort. But I'll just say some stuff about some of the ones I remember. Nightcrawler - This is one of my favorite movies ever. I think it's perfect ...

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So I just heard that Trump might run again in 2024. Here I thought some ghoul like Tucker Carlson or Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz or whatever would be most likely to be the R nominee next, and I didn't even think of the possibility of fucking Trump running again. Why wouldn't he? He's likely to run again....

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I'm very sorry to hear that, Rax. I hope it turns out all right.

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Wait, there's an election today?

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He got tested like right after it, maybe he was showing symptoms before and suspected he had it. It's possible!! Also, he wasn't close enough, that's why he was trying so hard. That's what all the shouting and interrupting and stuff were all about. It was all about trying to infect Biden. That's my ...

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Holy shit it's looking like Trump might have been trying to actually infect Joe Biden at the debate. Like, he was actually trying to outright kill his opponent during the debate. I am laughing my fucking ass off as I type this. This objectively rules and is one of the funniest things to have ever fu...

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And that wasn't even in, like, the top fifty of horrible and insane things that were said. It was amazing.

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My only thing here is that if you want to reduce abortions, you should vote for whoever promises to strengthen the social safety net and increase spending on education and so on. Higher socioeconomic standards of living translates to lower rates of negative personal behavior like teen pregnancies. S...

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Prestige television is when shows star brooding angsty white men doing very bad things but feeling bad about it sometimes and it's very serious and morally complex.

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The timing here is impeccable. Someone is fucking with us.

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I haven't seen The Quartering's videos (never heard of him), but I have seen videos where people basically show decontextualized clips of the movie and point and stutter at them in performative shock and outrage. And they do indeed seem gross and vile, but context and intent really matters, I think....

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The problem people have with this movie is the cinematography. It shows extended close-ups of body parts of children in sexualized poses and whatnot. (I haven't seen the movie, but I've seen some clips.) The complaint is that the camera itself sexualizes children, not just that it depicts children d...

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And, again, in case it needs to be said, it's not Trump himself I'm shocked by. It was incredibly easy to tell exactly what kind of person he was over a decade ago; it's not like he tried to hide it. Nothing about his Presidency has been in any way unexpected. But just because it's not surprising do...

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Let me clarify something: I'm not endorsing apathy or anything like that. What I'm saying is we should have been enraged/shocked a long time ago. The incredulity you're expressing shouldn't be new. But, even if it is, welcome to the party. I've been enraged/shocked by this asshole for going on ten ...

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Oh, and I almost forgot that Donald Trump literally killed Herman Cain and it was news for, like, a day.

I don't know. I guess I need to hone my nihilism and apathy, apparently, to fit in with the rest of this country. I still think things matter, and they clearly don't.

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I didn't say I was surprised, I said the fact that we have incontrovertible proof that the POTUS intentionally murdered hundreds of thousands of citizens and it barely registers to most people and that elected officials can just casually dismiss it on television marks some sort of moral tipping poin...

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I'm having a hard time dealing with this whole thing about Trump knowing how bad it was back in February and then not telling the public about it. He outright told Bob Woodward that he knew it was deadly and that it was deadlier than the flu, and that it was airborne, and then he spent the next seve...

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lmao

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Just finished The Twilight Zone. Out of the fourth season, the only two episodes I liked were Miniature and On Thursday We Leave For Home, both of which I thought were perfect hours of television and easily two of the show's best episodes. On Thursday We Leave For Home, while not unpredictable, pack...

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First Michael Brooks and now David Graeber, a little over a month apart... depressing. There are so few public leftists who are worth anything that each one's death represents a huge loss. Michael Brooks' in particular was wrenching, since he was so young and intelligent and was just starting to get...

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That's how much this country's ruling class fears and despises even extremely mild social democracy. The current Democratic nominee has promised he would veto a universal healthcare bill in the middle of a pandemic and that he would strengthen the police in the middle of an unprecedented wave of pro...

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Gendo wrote:Fair point. It just seems strange that people would think that after what happened in 2016.

Yeah, that's the understatement of the decade right there.

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I saw SNW a long time ago when I was younger but I don't remember it much and I should see it again soon.

BJM is possibly dark comedy, but it wasn't really "dark", it was just mean. That's different.

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I mean, to be fair, he said it was just unique, not original.

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Most Dems voted Biden because they thought he had the best chance of beating Trump; it was not a conscious rejection of progressivism. The overwhelming majority of Dems said they would be enthusiastic if Bernie were the nominee and that they supported progressive policies. They were just convinced B...

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Thanks for the rec; I'll check it out. I was more bothered by BJM's juxtaposition than anything else, the fact that its tone was so happy and wacky and casual and the things it depicted were so horrific and nasty and disturbing. I felt like the movie itself was horrific and nasty and disturbing. It ...

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You sound very different from last time we talked about this. A bit angrier and more cynical. Did the 2020 primary red pill you or something?

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Yeah... I saw someone make the point that if Biden/Harris loses, they (the Dem establishment and whatnot) probably say it was because they moved too far left. LOL. It'll be hard to figure out whether they'll actually believe it or whether they'll say it out of purely self-interested reasons. And Dem...

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Lol, see, they're literally courting Republicans and giving the shoulder to progressives and millennials. They're not even being subtle or underhanded about it. They're doing it openly. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/dnc-biden-clinton-cuomo-democrats" onclick="window.open(this.href);return...

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They're calling Kamala Harris a Marxist, lol. I support pragmatic voting. I even support "lesser evil" voting to a limited extent. That's why I would have voted Bernie in the general, despite my many problems with him. But it has limits. Where do people think unconditional "lesser evi...

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Yeah when it comes to Democratic elites the worst possible answer is almost always the correct one. Evidently they don't consider millennials or progressives or the poor as part of their constituency anymore, since they seem to be trying their very best to alienate us. And they don't care, because t...

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Serious answer: They're trying to appeal to Republicans. That's their actual strategy. Millions of traditional Republican voters are currently fleeing the GOP like a sinking ship and they're trying to draw them in.

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I just think it's amusing, in a very dark and sick way, that the two most recent popular nation-wide protest movements were against male sexual harassment/entitlement and police brutality/systemic racial oppression, respectively, and the Democratic ticket is now led by a boorish, entitled serial sex...

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Secretary (2002) - A movie depicting an D/s relationship between a typist and her boss. It's known informally as the original and superior version of Fifty Shades of Grey. It's cute. Nothing special. It was probably considered edgy when it first came out. It started off awkward and rocky. Her boss ...

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"check out this jerk" lol

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bringing this thread back

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If I remember right I made a review of Vivarium that went kind of like this: Vivarium - this sucked ass. It was excessively boring and stupid. Literally nothing here to recommend at all. It wouldn't even have worked as a half-hour Twilight Zone episode. Twilight Zone episodes at least usually give y...

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I am wise beyond my years, it's true.

And thank you everyone.

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Have either of you ever seen The Good Place? It has time warps and time reversals and shit that sound somewhat similar to Endless Eight. The first episode of the second season IIRC just flat-out erases all the events of the entire first season completely and throws the entire premise of it in the tr...

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It's been a long time since I've seen either, but I thought Edge of Tomorrow had basically the exact same premise as Groundhog Day. Edge of Tomorrow just gives it a sci-fi explanation, while Groundhog Day gives no explanation. But they each go back in time a bunch, so I think they're time travel.

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My issue with Fury Road was only that it wasn't more than "pure exuberant fun" but that people were talking about it like it was some artistic masterpiece. I liked it just fine as a piece of pure action-entertainment. Though I do think BTTF is better as entertainment, if only because it a...

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Uncut Gems - very, very good film. Did absolutely nothing for me whatsoever. I did not enjoy the experience of watching it, and I felt nothing at the end except glad that it was over. It was highly unpleasant and almost everything about it from the soundtrack to the filming to the characters was gr...

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