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Or “one bit wonders” if you want to be smart with it. Basically comedians who have built their whole career and image around a single bit or routine and are largely known only for it.

The two most notable examples that come to my mind are Bert Kreischer with his whole Machine bit that there is now even a movie based on, and Gallagher with the watermelon smashing (which was officially called the sledge-o-matic).

It’s really annoying that it wasn’t just on the disc like the original Wii Fit Channels.

It’s been like this for a few years actually, had my Wii U since 2015 but now when I turn on the gamepad it acts like I’m holding a finger in a random spot on the screen for 2 minutes or so before working flawlessly after. I’ve tried calibration several times but this still happens whenever it comes on. Anyone else had this issue?

Whenever I play an official tab on Safari the sound is always a bar behind the visual marker which is a real pain, Anyone know how to fix this?

I started reading it around 2 weeks ago around the time my existential crisis started and had to put it down after about 35 pages because I could tell the themes of illusion of choice were just going to feed my suicidal ideations at the time. I should say the prose is absolutely beautiful, way denser than any previous Pynch books I’ve read (V, VL, L49, SL), but way more rewarding. I just fear it might make me spiral again, and I want to know what your experience was.

I will say I was thinking of other Pynchon work when I was at my worst, at one point I was just wandering the streets at night like Oedipa Maas thinking I was going completely insane

(Ahead of time, I'm sorry if this only comes off as venting, take this with a grain of salt, I'm going through an existential crisis.)

Yeah yeah, I know "human nature" is the typical argument people against any sort of collectivism use, but it's hard to understand a world completely free of desire as long as life exists. Since the second single-cell organism to form ate the first one, all life has existed to some extent at the expense of other life, at a certain point it's all just thermodynamics.

I don't care if it makes me a coward, but I consider myself a socialist who also understands that by life existing desire will too, at some level. Of course, if you take it to the other natural extreme of "if someone's gotta be on top it might as well be me" you just become a fascist. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (a socialist) grapples with this idea rather well, in that Dorian still ends up killing himself from a lack of meaning despite being able to live for nothing but pleasure with no consequence, hence why fascist movements don't last. At the same time, I think the idea of the elimination of desire is antithetical to life as we know it. Without desire of any kind to sustain itself how could life exist at all?

Maybe I'm just a selfish coward trying to grasp with the fact I decided to put my life into a career in an artistic field because at a subconscious level I just wanted to try and understand why we're here. If I believe in the idea of a communist utopia then all art and pleasure feels like nothing more than "bourgeois individualism" and I might as well just kill myself because nothing I know is real and I'm simply Pavlov's dog, conditioned by market forces into believing an illusion of feeling. Maybe I just am too much of an empathetic softy who believes that somewhere there's a good in everyone. I don't really think there is an absolute solution at either extreme. There is no true meaning of life, but I find solace through recognizing this and embracing the absurdity that it is, because otherwise I see no point. I guess straddling that line is the only way I can continue to live. In the words of Bowie, "Should I kiss the viper's fang or herald loud the death of Man? I'm sinking in the quicksand of my thought."

I don't see the elimination of desire as possible, but I just want to do my best to reduce the suffering it causes. If I can make people's lives better in some way, whether it be trying to make sure they don't have to sleep on the street or helping them better understand the human condition, then I will not simply be another memory, lost in time like tears in rain. Maybe that's just bourgeoisie individualist selfishness, but it's the only way I can truly justify staying alive.

The scene where Matt sees famous Jay performing live. I imagine this scene was probably done by them having friends in an actually famous band and having them bring Jay out to cover Never Come Down, but in that case who was the real band?

(I know some people interpret it as Jared just being in Matt’s head but this is going by him being a real character in the film)

If Jared was a passive observer who chose to document the planning and execution of a school shooting that (probably) left 2 people dead, what crime would that be charged as exactly? He’d definitely have some legal culpability because if the footage was presented as evidence in court no jury would buy that he didn’t know what was going to happen. I’ve been wondering this since I first watched and remembered everything we see including the actual shooting is through the lens of a camera being held by a character (besides a few shots from Matt’s GoPros).