The part in Player of Games where Flere-Imsaho takes Gurgeh on a tour of the Azadian ghetto feels prescient.

I’ve been to places with a similar feel. Uncomfortable, disgusting, incredibly sad. Man, I really hope we make it past this point in our history.

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 1 month ago
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Any and all recommendations for movies similar to Synchronic would be greatly appreciated!

I just watched Synchronic and was blown away. I really dig the time travel aspect and it’d be cool to see another movie where the character(s) travel not back in time not just within the past 100 years but back hundreds, even thousands of years. I’ve seen time travel movies before but none that touch the breadth of this one.

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 2 months ago
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My 1st thought watching S1E20- They could have gotten Locke to deliver Claire’s baby by telling him he couldn’t possibly do it.

Reverse psychology. Tell Locke he’s no obgyn and he’s not cut out for this kind of thing. He’ll be so incensed at being told what he can’t do that he’ll do it super quick?

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 2 months ago

Did anyone read Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice in middle school? It’s basically ‘No Country for Old Men’ for kids.

It takes place in the 1830s during the Indian removal act. In short, the US government deputizes a psychopathic Native American man known as the Weasel to hunt down and kill the remaining Shawnee in Ohio. This backfires for them as the monster they’ve enabled starts hunting down white people as well.

When I read this in 6th grade it sent me down the rabbit hole of government conspiracies; Tuskegee experiments, MKultra, cointel and the like. Definitely worth a read.

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 3 months ago

The concept of ‘manifesting’ is ruling class idealistic garbage and a pox on society.

It’s toxic, vibes-based hogwash that negatively impacts decent regular people.

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 3 months ago

Has anyone else seen the West Virginia episode of Bourdains Parts Unknown?

What were your thoughts? For me, I was struck by the opposing class perspectives, the regular working class people, I liked a lot (whether I agreed with them or not) I found them down to earth, warm and funny. Starting about 30 minutes in Tony talks to some rich gentry class people… and they stuck out like a bunch of sore thumbs. They were overly clean-cut/manicured with honestly WEIRD personalities and affected accents.

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 3 months ago

You’re at a karaoke bar and Kirk Van Houten gets on stage, what song is he singing?

Olympia, WA by Rancid

Edit: Yes, yes we all know Kirk Van Houten wrote the smash hit “Can I Borrow a Feeling.” He’s drunk as hell at karaoke, and he’s NOT singing his own song!

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 3 months ago
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What are your thoughts on In Time 2011?

So I watched this movie last night and I loved it. Is it the best movie I’ve ever seen? No. Is the dialogue sometimes cheesy? Most definitely. However, I loved the story because it’s a bit rare nowadays. You don’t see many movies explicitly about class war anymore. Something else that seems increasingly rare these days is having a protagonist who’s just ‘some guy’, not a cia agent, not an fbi guy, not a merc, just an average man or woman struggling in a hostile world. And honestly I miss that. I miss the days of Bruce Willis playing the every-man action hero. And I miss Sci-Fi that makes a statement beyond spectacle and forgettable storylines.

u/SmellsonMuntz — 3 months ago
▲ 40 r/fo4

I wish Dogmeat had a loyalty mission.

I was just thinking how awesome it would be if he had a gritty backstory like Killer the Rottweiler from Half Baked.

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 3 months ago
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Serious question: Is this the funniest moment in television history?

u/SmellsonMuntz — 4 months ago

So I’m a really big fan of space ghettos. Are there any good books that utilize this concept?

Anything about alien societies with seedy underbellies- crime, gambling, drugs. Basically extraterrestrial cyberpunk.

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 5 months ago
▲ 28 r/Ska

You guys got any recommendations for non-Jamaican rocksteady bands/songs similar to The Slackers and Hepcat?

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u/SmellsonMuntz — 5 months ago