u/Anstigmat

The comments here are spectacular. I've been monitoring NR commenters (god knows I don't subscribe) to get period Trump vibe checks. All over NR these people are over the Orange Man. When they put out conservative catnip in the form of Islamophobia or fear of 'the left' you get the usual sneering, but any time they check on on the ol' Trump Train, the commenters are pretty brutal these days.

Also, the author has got to be fucking kidding. Just acting like moving the goalpost to the Straight of Hormuz is completely acceptable is A M A Z I N G.

just posting this to show a classic establishment fumble. This clip is going viral because people think he’s saying he doesn’t support universal healthcare. What he is actually saying is that he’s open to other pathways but not currently behind M4A. But the problem here is the atrocious Politician Speak Answer. I mean wtf man you’re the leader of the party in the House and you don’t have a good answer on the #1 issue for Democrats?

He could have said “I support universal healthcare but am not committed to a single pathway to get there at this time.”

But no. Word salad. These people are bad at their jobs.

I love this reality check from Jamelle Bouie. Do yourself a favor and take the 10 minutes to watch it.

I’m kind of anti Scott these days because his one-note performances get a little old, and he’s incapable of being objective on certain subjects. But I still found it kind of funny and strange that Stevens would just be like, ‘btw fuck this guy’.

This is coming to a specific Pontoon boat brand but I could see independent head units becoming available. I found Savvy Navvy to be pretty darn good but I know Navionics has more adherents and detailed maps. OTOH as someone was just posting about, I also find traditional nav head units to be pretty crap from a UI perspective and frequently requiring attention to get them talking to your instruments. Anyway kind of interesting!

Phenomenal reporting by the times which paints Collins as many things. My stand out descriptors would be naive beyond belief, also extremely thin skinned AND pig headed. She really seems to believe in the myth she’s created about herself, and is shocked when someone calls out her bullshit.

Also the anecdote that GW Bush called her to lobby in favor of Kavanaugh. Get fucked to the moon and back, you sack of shit Fail-Son. Your impact on this green earth is nothing but death, destruction, and suffering.

As an elder Millennial I don't love 'kids these days' commentary. However, I just want to put a flag in the ground about streamers since the Bulwark hosts have started to engage with them.

Two mediums have emerged with Gen-Z that I consider to be regressive and manipulative.

1. Short form video (Tik Tok/Reels): Algorithmic manipulation in action. These mini dopamine hits can be harmless but just as often they present garbage info, and while they're at it they create an army of ADHD addled doom scrollers who can't. ever. be. bored.

2. Streamers: my main target here. See above 'can't be bored'. While Tim Miller is my parasocial friend, I can cop to that, Streamers are your all-day-long parasocial hang out. But you're not really listening to an audiobook here. It's just a capital P - Personality...talking...for hours. The format rewards the Gish Gallop or something like it. The rhetoric is an inch deep and 8 hours long.

When people criticize these folks they often have a list of quotes which of course also lack the context of whatever they said 5 minutes or an hour earlier. If you're just spouting off for 8 hours a day every day, on a long enough timeline you will say that The Klingons are the true overlords of Earth and that you eat socks for breakfast.

Nobody on Earth, not even the most decorated scholar or veteran journalist, has the mental bandwidth to deliver accurate, nuanced, deeply researched expertise across international relations, macroeconomics, constitutional law, and culture wars for 50 hours a week in real time.

So when Sarah Longwell belts off her list of all the horrible things a Streamer has said, I typically think...yeah well they talk all day! They say crazy shit. It's their job. But that's also not a defense of the Streamer, who in my opinion is wasting their talent as a theoretically intelligent 'Personality' on hot takes and blather.

Maybe it's just too old school to commit to a 1hr per day/week show that is deeply researched and backed up with adequate sourcing and/or guests that have subject matter expertise, I don't know.

But the Bulwark hosts don't need to reach out to these people or their unfortunate medium. Sometimes a little bit of high minded snobbery is actually warranted.

I'm seeing a lot of 720Ps and a few 'complete' sources but the resolution is not listed (they're like 70gb though so maybe?). Just looking for a HQ source for a rewatch.

Honestly, respect. 🫡

They mentioned X-Files being shot on 65mm, which is so rad. I'm sure exotic formats like 65mm are indeed pretty expensive, but lots of other productions have used film recently. Euphoria, Succession are some big ones that come to mind. Also we should remember that The Odyssey cost as much as your average Marvel movie, but was done under budget and early.

Digital cinema does let you shoot basically non stop so if you want to do endless Fincher takes, yes I can see how that's a big money saver. But if you know what you're about like Nolan seems to, I'm not sure you can really say that it's more expensive.

I have somewhat significant expertise in the film side of photography, and I can tell you there is nothing really cheap about high end digital.

I would love to see that explored maybe in one of their mail bag episodes. I just think film productions are a story of budget line items and the film side of it is just one item of a million things that are expensive, and swapping it for a digital production doesn't make all those costs go away.

r/CriticalDrinker is a subreddit for fans of the "eloquent intoxicated wordsmith" youtuber Critical Drinker. Critical Drinker is a movie-reviewer on Youtube that heavily features a lot of "anti-woke" content. He and his fans lean in a particular (see: bigoted) direction.

If there's anything members of the Critical Drinker subreddit hate the most, it's black people and LGBT people. So as soon as Christopher Nolan announced Lupita Nyong'o (a black woman) and Eliot Page (a trans man) would be featured in his then-upcoming film "The Odyssey", they began a multi-month-long tirade against it.

Now the film has recently come out and has been received with incredibly positive reviews. This does not sit well with them.

This drama isn't centralized to a single thread. More-so it's spread across the entire subreddit and now 80% of the posts are complaining about the movie and coping, so I tried to single out some threads and comments to highlight this. But this is only a sample-size portion of what's going on in that subreddit.

bought and paid for long ago

> "Professional" reviews : Woke = good, Male gaze = bad, Masculinity = bad, Historical accuracy = bad

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey debuts with an A CinemaScore from audiences. Joins Project Hail Mary as the only live-action films to do so this year.

>Normies have been brainwashed for years now

>I personally don't care if this movie makes money or not. I still won't go see it because of lupita nyong'o and ellen page

The odyssey getting review bombed... but in reverse

>Never underestimate the determination of those with an agenda to push...

Anyone glazing this absolute turd of a film is either coping hard or lying through their teeth.

>Reminder that critic just means paid shill

The Odyssey ratings are so incredibly botted its hilariouis

>As someone whose seen the film, and went in with an open mind, there is no way these reviews are legit. It's a shockingly bad film. I don't even mean the woke parts

How Reddit feels after the Odyssey does good numbers at the box office.

> "We have sacrificed Chris Nolan to the altar of Wokeness! Finally a movie that checks all the boxes has made all the money! We have found the formula that works. Go forth and put it into every movie for the next 10 years!"

Uh have they thought about stronger doors? Maybe they could wear backpacks with bullet proof plates in them. An active shooter drill would go a long way in preparing their children for the possibility of someone exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.

Bootstraps, Judges. Maybe cut back on the Avocado Toast and you can afford security.