u/Maximum-Artist448

It's easy to remember that for years, when you thought of international football greatness, Italy, Brazil, and Germany came to mind.

Azzurri failed to qualify, and both Brazil and Germany have been eliminated In embarrasing ways. Needless to say all three have declined, particularly Italy and Brazil, though Germany isn't great either. As a Brazilian back then, I would usually support Italy if Brazil were out or not playing, but right now, I don’t have either of those teams to root for. Is this decline due a lack of tactical development, or have other countries simply caught up to the big three?

Its easy to remember that For decades, if you thought of international football royalty, you thought of Italy, Brazil and Germany. What do you think is the biggest reason behind their obvious decline? Itsly didn’t qualify, Brazil and Germany have both been knocked out,

they’ve all declined especially Italy and Brazil, but Germany isn’t that great either, Is it a grassroots issue, tactical growth, or have other nations just caught up?

O brasileiro médio que tenta diminuir o Pelé para exaltar qualquer jogador europeu ou principalmente argentino atual sofre da síndrome de vira-lata.

“Ele foi um pai ruim.” **Fodase** Ser jogador não é eleição para o Vaticano. Se a gente for usar a vida pessoal para medir legado, o Maradona, que é uma divindade intocável na Argentina, com igreja e tudo, não passaria no primeiro filtro de moralidade de ninguém. Teve uma vida pessoal absolutamente caótica e problemática.

Ninguém está aqui pra passar pano. O Pelé transformou o Brasil em uma potência cultural. Ele é julgado por um tribunal moral ultra-rigoroso que só existe aqui dentro, O Muhammed Ali e idolatrado por muitos Americanos mesmo tendo traído a primeira mulher, todo mundo adora os Beatles, o John Lennon era um babaca.

Ai vem com o argumento com o argumento mais preguiçoso da internet: "Ah, mas na época dele era fácil, ele só jogava contra pedreiros e alfaiates".

Irmão, se era tão fácil assim, por que nenhum europeu daquela época fez igual? Por que os "superatletas" do mundo todo,enfrentando os mesmos supostos pedreiros nas Copas e nos amistosos mundiais, não chegavam nos pes do Pelé?

Respeita a historia do seu pais, porra, nao e difici.

The man preached loving your enemy, helping and walking alongside the poor, and fighting materialism. He told people to turn the other cheek, not hoard wealth, and stood against the political elite of his time. Now imagine him showing up today and unarmed Middle Eastern pacifist preaching compassion over nationalism in modern day America lmfao?

For thesame of my sanity I would love to believe im wrong, but Fox News call him a radical, the GOP would brand him a socialist threat, mega churches with billionaires pastors would hate him to death. This is why I absolutely hate phrases like “god bless Trump.”

I am not a die-hard Batman fan or a comic book purist. I actually just recently binged all the live-action Batman movies over a few weeks minus the 60s one. Coming in with fresh eyes and zero nostalgia, I was shocked by how much I loved Batman & Robin. People bash this movie for being goofy, but it’s not trying to be The Godfather. It’s a self-aware, live-action cartoon. The movie embraces the campy, neon, ridiculous and runs with it to the end. I unironically Arnie as love Mr Freeze too and you can’t tell me that suit and makeup aren‘t REALLY cool.

Also score and the main theme are catchy.

The Schumacher films are the only live-action Batman movies so far where Robin exists. They definitely deserve some respect in that sense.

Freeze's headquarters is a giant snow cone shop. This film isn't shy about visually standing out, if you saw this on TV you can instantly tell what you’re watching, in the dark knight movies literally everything looks the same as every other 2000s and 2010s action drama in a NYC clone. And contrast to the Affleck movies, where literally everything and everyone is just completely dark, miserable and batman is a self brooding, alcoholic mess.

I know this is blasphemy to film bros, but The Dark Knight feels like a It’s so desperate to be taken seriously.

This is my ranking:

1 Batman 1989 

2 Batman & Robin

3 The batman (2022)

4 Batman Begins

5 Batman Forever

6 The Dark Knight

7 The Dark Knight Rises

8 Batman Returns

10 Batman v Superman

A few weeks ago, I came across a blank DVD in a thrift store. After checking it out, I discovered it has a digital transfer of old, silent 8mm or Super 8 film reels. Judging by the cars, clothing, and settings, the footage seems to be from the late 1960s or mid-1970s-ish.

The first part is mostly a mother and daughter on vacation. Footage of their hotel, the young woman riding an escalator, walks around Magic Kingdom, a daytime Snow White parade, them eating together, and a few riree. The daughter hugging her mom, and the overall vibe is very cozy, im guessing they had money. im just describing a few seconds that stood out to me of maybe an hour of Disney World footage.

The second part is someone sailing a boat, possibly in Florida, the Bahamas, or somewhere similar based on the disney world footage maybe it was the same trip but idk. The camera later pans to what appears to be a posh resort or a private beach house, the same woman from the disney part appears too.

Later in this clip, the person is recording just outside a bar. Then a bunch of chairs start flying everywhere and you’ve never seen so many chairs flying, I’m guessing a large bar fight broke out and he/she just recorded it.

The final part is just footage of a regular family Christmas party. It’s mostly people sitting around on couches, chatting. There’s not much more I can say about it.

I’ve never done anything like this before, but if I figure out how to scan and upload the footage online, I’ll definitely share a link so others can check it out.

Hey everyone,

There’s a ten-year age difference between my sister and I, she was 10 when I was born, I’m 22 now, and she’s 32. Growing up, we fought all the time, but I know we cared for each other. She always did things for me, took care of me, and I appreciated that. Recently, though, a lot of hidden resentment and jealousy has started to come to light, and it’s becoming harder to overlook.

When we chat, she sometimes (though less frequently now than a few years back) mentions the things she “could no longer do” after I was born, like waking up to our parents singing cartoon songs or jumping into their bed because I slept in the same room as them for awhile, her little library had to be turned into my room, and the fact that I was a sick child for a significant part of my childhood, which meant our parents had to travel around the country to different doctors while she stayed behind with our grandparents.

The major shift in her life happened when she turned 16 and our parents sent her to boarding school. Honestly, I think sending her to a strict, conservative Christian boarding school halfway around the world was an awful decision. But what do I know, I was a child.

After that she transformed into a completely different person and she absolutely hated that school and ended up staying for 2 years. Nowadays, she’s quite bitter, struggles to connect with people in general, and doesn’t really have any friends aside from her boyfriend.

She also has a very tense relationship with our parents and tends to clash with them a lot. I think she was so used to constant academic success that when she transitioned to a 9-5 job where she was just another face in the crowd, she fell into a depression of sorts. That’s why she quit her job and moved back home for a while.

The confusing part for me is that by every objective measure, she "won." She was always a significantly better student than me, a much better athlete (state champ by the age of 12), and incredibly accomplished.

But where things differed is that I’ve always been able to connect with our parents and people in general on a deeply personal, emotional level, which is something she struggled to do, which is why I think she constantly snitched on me every chance she got during my teenage years, something I no longer hold against her, but did growing up.

Recently, my mom flat-out told me she thinks my sister is jealous of me. Hearing that made me feel absolutely awful. I love my sister, but our relationship is strained.

Parents, looking at this from the outside: Do you think her resentment is actually directed at me, or is it aimed at our parents and just getting projected onto me?I’d love to hear your perspectives. Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to figure out my relationship with my older sister, and honestly, I’m feeling really guilty and confused.

There’s a ten-year age difference between us; she was 10 when I was born, I’m 22 now, and she’s 32. Growing up, we fought all the time, screamin, crying etc, but I know we cared for each other. She always did things for me, took care of me, and I appreciated that. Recently, though, a lot of hidden resentment and jealousy has started to come to light, and it’s becoming harder to overlook.

When we chat, she sometimes (though less frequently now than a few years back) mentions the things she “could no longer do” after I was born, like waking up to our parents singing cartoon songs or jumping into their bed because I slept in the same room as them for awhile, her little library had to be turned into my room, and the fact that I was a sick child for a significant part of my childhood, which meant our parents had to travel around the country to different doctors to save my life while she stayed behind with our grandparents, as if her life was put on pause because of me being born. When we argue now she’ll randomly describe me as “the golden child” sarcastically of couse.

At the same time, during our childhood and even into my teenage years it felt like she tried to mimic everything I did that earned praise from our parents, and I always noticed that, whether it was doing the dishes, changing a tire, a lightbulb, or whatever… almost like she was crying for their approval, I never cared for praise when doing any of this and would have done it regardless, but I always got it and don’t remember her getting it, maybe she did and I just don’t remember.

**The major shift in her life happened when she turned 16 and our parents sent her to boarding school. Honestly, I think sending her to a strict, conservative Christian boarding school filled with people much wealthier than us halfway around the world was an awful decision for someone who despite her issues, had been sweet, loving and creative up until that point from what I remember, despite being me so young. But what do I know, I was a child.**

After that she transformed into a completely different person, she absolutely hated that school and ended up staying for 2 years. Nowadays, she’s quite bitter. You can tell she’s a control freak and struggles to connect with people in general, and doesn’t really have any friends aside from her boyfriend who she’s currently doing long distance with.

She also has a very tense relationship with our parents and tends to clash with them a lot on just about everything you can imagine. I think she was so used to constant academic success that when she transitioned to a 9-5 job where she was just another face in the crowd, she fell into a depression of sorts. That’s why she quit her job and moved back home for a while.

When I went off to uni she was helping me pick classes and I asked her how did she know how to do that alone and so fast and her one word response was “trauma”.

The confusing part for me is that by every objective measure, she "won." She was always a significantly better student than me, a much better athlete (state champ by the age of 12), and incredibly accomplished, she was an A+ student and I usually got B-Cs.

But where things differed is that I’ve always been able to connect with our parents and people in general on a deeply personal, emotional level, which is something she struggles to do, which is why I think she constantly snitched on me every chance she got during my teenage years if I was doing something stupid to earn points ig, something I no longer hold against her, but did growing up.

Recently, my mom flat-out told me she thinks my sister is jealous of me. Hearing that made me feel absolutely awful. I didn't choose to be born and I didn't choose for her to be sent to boarding school while I got to stay home. I love my sister, but our relationship is strained, and example: I recently got the intership I wanted and everyone was in my room celebrating and she randomly started bringing up that it was messy, just small thing, I also have a temper but I try my best to no longer argue with her like we used to.

Parents, looking at this from the outside: Do you think her resentment is actually directed at me, or is it aimed at our parents and just getting projected onto me?I’d love to hear your perspectives. Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone,

I’m reaching out to parents for some advice. I’m trying to figure out my relationship with my older sister, and honestly, I’m feeling really guilty and confused.

There’s a ten-year age difference between us; she was 10 when I was born, I’m 22 now, and she’s 32. Growing up, we fought all the time, but I know we cared for each other. She always did things for me, took care of me, and I appreciated that. Recently, though, a lot of hidden resentment and jealousy has started to come to light, and it’s becoming harder to overlook.

When we chat, she sometimes (though less frequently now than a few years back) mentions the things she “could no longer do” after I was born, like waking up to our parents singing cartoon songs or jumping into their bed because I slept in the same room as them for awhile, her little library had to be turned into my room, and the fact that I was a sick child for a significant part of my childhood, which meant our parents had to travel around the country to different doctors while she stayed behind with our grandparents, as if her life was put on pause because of me being born.

At the same time, during our childhood ans even into my teenage years it felt like she tried to mimic everything I did that earned praise from our parents, and I always noticed that, whether it was doing the dishes, fixing the care or whatever… almost like she was vying for their approval.

The major shift in her life happened when she turned 16 and our parents sent her to boarding school. Honestly, I think sending her to a strict, conservative Christian boarding school halfway around the world was an awful decision. But what do I know, I was a child.

After that she transformed into a completely different person and she absolutely hated that school and ended up staying for 2 years. Nowadays, she’s quite bitter, struggles to connect with people in general, and doesn’t really have any friends aside from her boyfriend.

She also has a very tense relationship with our parents and tends to clash with them a lot. I think she was so used to constant academic success that when she transitioned to a 9-5 job where she was just another face in the crowd, she fell into a depression of sorts. That’s why she quit her job and moved back home for a while.

The confusing part for me is that by every objective measure, she "won." She was always a significantly better student than me, a much better athlete (state champ by the age of 12), and incredibly accomplished.

But where things differed is that I’ve always been able to connect with our parents and people in general on a deeply personal, emotional level, which is something she struggled to do, which is why I think she constantly snitched on me every chance she got during my teenage years, something I no longer hold against her, but did growing up.

Recently, my mom flat-out told me she thinks my sister is jealous of me. Hearing that made me feel absolutely awful. I didn't choose the age gap, and I didn't choose for her to be sent to boarding school while I got to stay home. I love my sister, but our relationship is strained, and example: I recently got the intership I wanted and everyone was in my room celebrating and she randomly started bringing up that it was messy, just small thing, I also have a temper but I try my best to no longer argue with her.

Parents, looking at this from the outside: Do you think her resentment is actually directed at me, or is it aimed at our parents and just getting projected onto me?I’d love to hear your perspectives. Thanks in advance.

I (22M) need some outside perspective on a situation.

My father owns a mid-sized business. A few months ago, he got a few new interns and one of them (21F) started talking because I help out around once in awhile, we end up interacting frequently. She is incredibly smart, funny, and we share some interests. Over the last few weeks, we have evolved into texting on off hours, talking about movies, music, etc. I have developed a crush on her. **I should note I just went through a breakup**
I mentioned to my dad that I was thinking about asking her out. He shut the idea down.

He claims that this creates a massive conflict of interest. According to him, even though I am not her supervisor or have any power over her. He believes it puts her in an unfair position where she might feel pressured to say yes. Furthermore, he is worried about workplace gossip and potential legal liabilities if it goes badly. We never argued out loud about this but He basically gave me an ultimatum: leave her alone, or stop helping at the office entirely.

We are both consenting adults of roughly the same age. I am not her boss, and I have no say over her salary, position or life.

I want to respect his boundaries regarding his livelihood, but I also feel he is overstepping into my personal life. If I bypass his warnings and ask her out and I genuinely believe she would say yes, WIBTAH?

I am literally at my breaking point. I run a creator/fan page that pulls in millions of views and have been doing so since I was 14, this page means the world to me and I’m so proud of it, it really has history and I’ce stayed anonymous throughout all of it, and for the last few weeks, pary of my livelihood and hard work have been completely bricked because Meta’s backend is a broken piece of garbage. I have now cried over this because it feels completely hopeless and unsolvable. What hurts the most is that this isn't just some random account to me. I started this page when I was like 14 years old. @fallout_mr_nuka_clla

It's difficult to articulate this strange, hollow feeling. To be honest, I've been contemplating living without this app for some time - yet I can't help but think about all the edits I made that vanished. the video edits I had saved, the footage of my first ever cons, the small brand deals, the notes filled with ideas I dmed myself.

It truly stings, and I thought it would hurt less since this is the second time I've faced such a loss but last time it got solved fast, this time it twists my stomach in knots, especially because everything I've created in the past year is so much better the older edita and was getting a ridiculous amount of engagement compared to before, and I was genuinely proud and content with it.

I loved videogame lore, the storytelling, and making dumb meme templates to share with a tiny corner of the internet and that’s all it’s ever been. Over the last eight years, I poured my absolute soul into it.

Out of nowhere, my account got hit with an identity verification checkpoint. Fine, whatever, I’ll just upload the photo/selfie right? It happend once before and got fixed and less then half an hour, but Wrong.

Every single time I select a photo it flashes a generic, bullshit "Something went wrong" or "System Error." Because I refused to give up, I have spent weeks trying every single underground workaround the community has ever come up with I tried it on 3 different physical phones (alliOS). Same error. i tried it on a laptop. Same error. icleared my cache, cookies, and tried a completely fresh Incognito window. Same error. i used the F12 Developer Tools to fake a mobile browser view on desktop. Same error I literally downloaded BlueStacks emulator on my computer, messed with the device settings to route my webcam, I tried downloading Instagram Lite and used a VPN to set my location to Singapoure because people said the lighter app script bypasses the broken UI. The button is still completely dead. I waited 1 week to see if it refreshed and nothing.

It is NOT a hardware issue. It is NOT a device issue. It is a 100% hard, account-wide server lock. Meta's verification API is fundamentally crashing on their end the second it looks like their automated spam filters have completely blacklisted my IP. **I even tried executing a strict 72-hour total blackout where I didn't touch the app, hoping the server rate-limits would reset. Logged back in today. Nothing. Still broken.**

What makes me want to scream is that there is absolutely no way to talk to a human being. The public appeal forms are a total void you just type into a box, hit submit, and never hear back again.

At this point, the standard public apps and troubleshooting guides are useless. I have a Meta Verified friend who tried to talk to them for me and nothing. So yes, today I crie, fuck this.

I am literally at my breaking point. I run a creator/fan page that pulls in millions of views and have been doing so since I was 14, this page means the world to me and I’m so proud of it, it really has history and I’ce stayed anonymous throughout all of it, and for the last few weeks, pary of my livelihood and hard work have been completely bricked because Meta’s backend is a broken piece of garbage. I have now cried over this because it feels completely hopeless and unsolvable. What hurts the most is that this isn't just some random account to me. I started this page when I was like 14 years old. @fallout_mr_nuka_clla

It's difficult to articulate this strange, hollow feeling. To be honest, I've been contemplating living without this app for some time - yet I can't help but think about all the edits I made that vanished. the video edits I had saved, the footage of my first ever cons, the small brand deals, the notes filled with ideas I dmed myself.

It truly stings, and I thought it would hurt less since this is the second time I've faced such a loss but last time it got solved fast, this time it twists my stomach in knots, especially because everything I've created in the past year is so much better the older edita and was getting a ridiculous amount of engagement compared to before, and I was genuinely proud and content with it.

I loved videogame lore, the storytelling, and making dumb meme templates to share with a tiny corner of the internet and that’s all it’s ever been. Over the last eight years, I poured my absolute soul into it.

Out of nowhere, my account got hit with an identity verification checkpoint. Fine, whatever, I’ll just upload the photo/selfie right? It happend once before and got fixed and less then half an hour, but Wrong.

Every single time I select a photo it flashes a generic, bullshit "Something went wrong" or "System Error." Because I refused to give up, I have spent weeks trying every single underground workaround the community has ever come up with I tried it on 3 different physical phones (alliOS). Same error. i tried it on a laptop. Same error. icleared my cache, cookies, and tried a completely fresh Incognito window. Same error. i used the F12 Developer Tools to fake a mobile browser view on desktop. Same error I literally downloaded BlueStacks emulator on my computer, messed with the device settings to route my webcam, I tried downloading Instagram Lite and used a VPN to set my location to Singapoure because people said the lighter app script bypasses the broken UI. The button is still completely dead. I waited 1 week to see if it refreshed and nothing.

It is NOT a hardware issue. It is NOT a device issue. It is a 100% hard, account-wide server lock. Meta's verification API is fundamentally crashing on their end the second it looks like their automated spam filters have completely blacklisted my IP. **I even tried executing a strict 72-hour total blackout where I didn't touch the app, hoping the server rate-limits would reset. Logged back in today. Nothing. Still broken.**

What makes me want to scream is that there is absolutely no way to talk to a human being. The public appeal forms are a total void you just type into a box, hit submit, and never hear back again.

At this point, the standard public apps and troubleshooting guides are useless. I have a Meta Verified friend who tried to talk to them for me and nothing. So yes, today I crie, fuck this.