u/ennui933

I am very well versed in cinema, watched many films from many countries. Recently I watched Tokyo Story and it touched my heart by how simple yet powerful it was. Just a mundane story of an elderly couple and their children. This movie made me think about Hollywood and I noticed that Hollywood literally never produced such simple human stories. Hollywood movies always have to be some sort of spectacle: intense drama, thriller, war, horror, science fiction, etc. But there aren't simple human stories like Tokyo Story or Nights of Cabiria or Ikiru. Why is that so?

I am a progressive from Asia, I support both Israel and Palestine, I think both Israelis and Palestinians must live in peace. I shared my opinion and was accused of being a fascist by the progressives. They told me that Israel should be destroyed completely and that Hamas are freedom fighters. I have been accused of eating Palestinian babies alive for suggesting Israel shouldn't be destroyed completely.

I am honestly sick of how much anti-education rhetoric there is in popular culture. Ignorance is cultivated everywhere, people who are into reading and such are portrayed as some weird friendless nerds. The cool characters are usually rebels who hate school and don't go to classes. We cultivate this hatred for school, for learning. As a result we get an ignorant society that doesn't know anything. Social media amplifies it all, today it's extremely easy to see how ignorant people are. It's not political everyone is ignorant, left, right, whatever. Just see any political discourse online.

I am from Kyrgyzstan (deep in the heart of Asia), and it is one of the few countries on Earth where people eat horsemeat. People don't have to, cows and chickens are in abundance, it's just a cultural thing.

Мой дядя, старый консервативный человек, любит историю. Мы часто обсуждаем Вторую мировую, Холокост и он постоянно удивляется, как нацисты могли как жестоко и беспощадно убивать невинных людей. Это не укладывается у него в голове.

Но через минуту он может заявить, что миром правят еврейские богачи, которые продвигают гей-пропаганду. Будь его воля, он бы их всех, и еврейских богачей, и геев, к стене приставил и расстрелял. И никакого когнитивного диссонанса не возникает при этом.

This thought occurred to me, generative AI is getting real good and makes really convincing videos. Lots of older people like my grandfather and my uncle watch these videos on Facebook or TikTok and believe everything they see. Even I these days struggle with telling AI from real footage.

I record my acoustic songs all the time, but the problem is that I feel so embarrassed listening to my own voice. Listening to my own record is like a torture.

A girl stands in front of a closed door. Second floor, an old, 19^(th) century building. It was erected during the zenith of the imperial period. An elegant building adorned by statues and mosaics portraying the usual things that empires are known for: military conquests, giant religious temples and, of course, the divine archangels overlooking the king and his entourage, encouraging the whole military affair.

The girl’s name is Anna. She was supposed to go to the bookstore, but instead made a detour and ended up in this apartment building. The door was wide open, so she just entered it without any issues. She had to cross the small green garden before stepping onto a staircase leading up to the fifth floor. It was a quick decision. And now she is staring at the unassuming wooden door, dozens of thoughts flying in her head like missiles. When two of them collide, they end up exploding. And there is just not enough space for them not to collide. Anna crosses her arms, as she usually does when she gets nervous. It is time to go to the bookstore. The day is not infinite, of course. Soon the store will be closed and Anna will have to come back next Monday.

Anna turns around and sees a woman in front of her. Middle-aged, red-haired, plainly-dressed. Nothing special or significant about this apparition at all. Anna is ready to move towards the stairs when the woman says:

“Are you a new tenant? I think you came a bit too early.”

Anna shakes her head.

“I am not.”

“You came for Selene’s things then?”

Anna frowns in confusion.

“No, I guess.”

“Too bad… There is so much stuff left after Selene. Mainly her books and sketchbooks. I was trying to contact her parents or anyone else through school, but her family wouldn’t answer. Sorry, did you know Selene?”

“You can say that,” Anna nods, looking slightly embarrassed that she has to talk about her relationship with Selene out loud. “We had some classes together.”

“Do you know anyone who could take Selene’s stuff away?” Anna notices a bundle of keys in the woman’s left hand. It becomes quite obvious the woman is a landlady.

Like, I am watching Stranger Things Season 5 and El says something like: "That's why you don't want me here, because Vecna will catch me and we'll lose and I will die".

The main characters are a terminally ill guy named Gerard (voiced by Gerard Way himself) and his girlfriend named Barrett (voiced by Barrett Wilbert Weed). Gerard is dying in a hospital, but before kicking the bucket, he wants to see the Pacific ocean for the first time. So, Barrett takes him from the hospital one night and together they drive all the way to San Francisco to see the Pacific.

The film is animated and is filled with cool musical numbers, both songs from the album and new songs written for the movie. The heart of the film is the duet between Gerard Way and Barrett Wilbert Weed.

What was the age demographic? I didn't go because I was afraid it'd be mostly teenagers.

В дополнение вот к этим 12 командам отобрались еще четыре:

13. ЛНР

14. Куба

15. Респуликанская партия США

16. Корпус стражей исламской революции

Вот список участников:

1. Россия
2. Кыргызстан
3. Северная Корея
4. Туркменистан
5. Беларусь
6. Абхазия
7. Талибан
8. Буркина-Фасо
9. Палестина
10. Хезболла
11. ДНР
12. Мексиканский наркокартель

I am so messed up that I fantasize that Charlie Morningstar from Hazbin Hotel is my big sister. I imagine our interactions, how she emotionally supports and protects me. It makes me feel better when I feel terrible (most of the time).

Заявка КНДР была одорена ФИФА. Президент организации Инфантино заявил, что проведение ЧМ в стране поспособствует развитию северокорейского футбола. Ким Чен Ын обещал отменить расстрелы на время ЧМ и построить современные стадионы вместо концлагерей.