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Seeing the mandate of heaven becoming the mandate of people turning into a mandate of the shareholders and their political figureheads fueled by unjustifiable societal fear and hatred just makes me sick... We have worked way too long as a mankind to let our creation of science, philosophy, art, order, justice and enlightenment to come to what it is going to be.

Do we really need Siberian Traps 2.0 or Chixulub 2.0 to actually pull our collective heads out of out collective rear-ends before realizing what matters? I seriously hope not... It is time to end the polarization and forget about rewarding the initial emotional response and be pragmaric in the name of peace, justice and order.

My life has been buying books on eBay. Not reading them. Repeat

i miss when the word bootlicker meant people sucking up to an authority figure who were actual threats to their wellbing. but now it just means "you like something I don't?????????????"

ok I know I go on a lot of anti white posts. but genuinely its so weird when white people decide what is racism and what isn't. like why is it racist if you judge it to be? like you will literally never experience what its like to be a minority. you don't need to validate if what they're facing is racist or not because you literally cannot perceive privilege.

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awww that sounds fun. our local mall got gutted a few years ago. at least the big outdated department store is still open so i can microdose being in the 80s

Is it Kmart or Sears? I've heard those are practically abandoned in the US.

Everyday I think about the Robbie Williams Monkey movie.....

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awww that sounds fun. our local mall got gutted a few years ago. at least the big outdated department store is still open so i can microdose being in the 80s

Is it Kmart or Sears? I've heard those are practically abandoned in the US.

neither! it's Boscov's. a chain that's primarily in PA and has stayed pretty successful over the years. my local one has a ton of neon signs and mirrored ceilings everywhere

I found a video of one like that and that looks sick as, I wish things were still as bright as the 80s colour wise.

I had a dream where someone said "I'm cooked".

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awww that sounds fun. our local mall got gutted a few years ago. at least the big outdated department store is still open so i can microdose being in the 80s

Is it Kmart or Sears? I've heard those are practically abandoned in the US.

neither! it's Boscov's. a chain that's primarily in PA and has stayed pretty successful over the years. my local one has a ton of neon signs and mirrored ceilings everywhere

God I love Boscov's. Didn't realize it was mostly in PA haha that would explain why nobody I talk to has heard of it.

The anora discourse is genuinely why you should never trust online opinions because people love making opinions on things they never interacted with

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The anora discourse is genuinely why you should never trust online opinions because people love making opinions on things they never interacted with

I remember Poor Things had a very similar discourse, the current sex bad cultural shift is concerning.

ok watched mickey 17 because i want robert Pattinson to kiss me.

spoilers not a review

I enjoyed the movie but I don't think it is a masterpiece that I was expecting. was it my fault for having high expectations? probably. but the film tackles way too much content but doesn't tackle them enough. for example, the trump analogy was pretty one note and got pretty tiring after a bit IMO. like its super obvious that this is a trump parody with people in red hats begging the former politician to save them. they also had him get shot in the face in a failed assassination. which is pretty crazy because this was filmed in 2020. but there's no real commentary. it pretty much the caricature trump is portrayed as is bad. and yeah trump is pretty bad but the movie pretty much makes it out like a chad vs virgin meme. him being into eugenics and having a nazi like logo is pretty on the nose lol. and they use gas to kill aliens.

the director is known for political messages in their movie against capitalism and this movie does the same thing. i really enjoy how an authoritarian figure keeps track of everyone's calories while feasting themselves. or how he gets people in the lower class to fight each other instead of him. its a pretty surface level analysis on why capitalism sucks but it gets the message across.

there's also messages about anti-colonialism, anti-animal abuse, and anti-genocide represented by a worm monster. there's a lot of topics this movie discusses. but because of this I feel like I don't really gain much from it. i agree with the statements this movie makes. but I don't gain from it.

movie wise the 1st act wasn't the greatest. i think it went a little too slow and had a little too much narration. i get that Americans are dumb so we need to tell them how to think. but at a certain point we can kinda connect the dots on why this character feels this way. it also dragged a little because we already know the plot and we're just waiting for it. the 2nd act however, is really fun and went by. i love the mickey 17 and 18 interactions so much. and I really wish the movie focused more on the personhood and identity themes instead of an easy anti-capitalist message. for example, I have seen people asking "why is mickey 18 more bruting than mickey 17?" when the movie tells them why. the 3rd act however, I didn't really care for as much. the film changes from anti-capitalism to anti-colonialism and anti-animal abuse and it gets much slower as it introduces a new character to care for after an already pretty big cast. and because of this the movie kinda drags. speaking of cast.

there is just way too many characters. there's mickey 1,2,3,4.......17, and 18. which makes sense cause he's the star. but the movie doesn't really tell you what happens to a lot of the mickeys. i think a quick montage of mickeys dying could have been fun. there's also mickeys girlfriend, mickeys friend invincible who doesn't really do much in this movie, mickeys friend who tries to sleep with him who disappears in the 3rd act after having a pretty big chunk of screen time in the 2nd act, the woman who recruits mickey in the 1st act who disappears forever, scientist girl, trump, trumps wife, and alien worm. there were just too many characters kinda just doing nothing for most of the movie until their side quest popped up. like imagine playing wizard 101 and you're about to fight Malistaire. but then wizardguy8297897 decides to talk to you for a second and that's really it. wizardguy8297897 doesn't really do anything just talk. that's pretty much what invincible and mickey's friend who tried to sleep with him did in this film.

also after trump dies there's like more of the movie and it doesn't really feel needed. like did we really need a dream sequence?

overall I enjoyed the film but it is not the strongest movie ever. like a 7.5 due to feeling unfocused.

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I really love the movie 500 days of summer. It is a work of art where different people can have different interpretation. Sure you can understand the surface level analysis of "guy has unrequited love with a girl". But imo it's revealing for a person to say both Tom and summer are in the wrong.

This movie takes place in toms pov. When. You hear the narrator it isn't about summer it's about Tom. When the narrator describes summer it's stuff Tom makes up about her. For example, summer says she's from Michigan. The narrator says she's from a city in Michigan that doesn't exist. When Tom listens to summer open up personally he doesn't listen. Instead the narrator takes over talking about how Tom is the special man in summers life.

Summer is not a character. She has no personality. She has no goals. She is only toms interest. And it's done intentionally. Tom doesn't know summer so why would his pov know? This movie is a bunch of memories from Tom. Not a recreation of the events.

Tom plays himself as the lost romantic and the hero of this love story. Summer doesn't feel the same about love and Tom wants to get her to love him back. He has an image of summer and when it isn't her he gets mad.

Sure summer can be in the wrong because she lead him on or wanted a **** buddy. But in the end why does her being in the wrong too matter? Like if a student fails a test do they blame themselves for not studying? Or do they blame their teachers?

By saying both are in the wrong or if summer is the villain than you are playing the blame game. Remember this story is toms not summers. We are here to learn from his mistakes. Not hers. How can someone mature by admitting that they're in the wrong but also blaming others?

Had a dream where the mods would login and delete 90% of my posts.

Working outto messers security+ cram videos :)

I was always more into Spyro/TLoS, so I never thought I'd actually miss Skylanders. But after all these years, I kinda do

I want to live in an abandoned mall why is that not allowed

people didn't really care about coyote vs acme.

i'm vegetarian yay

i was veggie for 2 years a few years ago then **** happened and i went back to eating meat but nearly 2 weeks ago i decided to stop being a hypocrite (bc i've still always held veg/vegan morals/opinions even while eating meat so, yeah, big fat hypocrite) and realised, what's actually stopping me? i've moved out now and no one can give me grief on iT's nOt sUsTaInAbLe etc. question is when/how do i tell my friends. it's only been just under 2 weeks, might just pop out with "o yeah btw i don't eat meat anymore" in another month or so if it hasn't come up by then.

anywayssss exciteddd

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Must have been the wind

Somethings missing...

Sonic the hedgehog is mentioned in my medical records .

HELLO


YOUR QUEEN IS BACK.


they tried to be rid of me more thrn one time but i lived. this can only lead to one conclusion which is that either someone or a collective of people or the forum have done something very very bad and the appropriate karma was that i would indeed live and then return to the forum.


the haunt of leewee has not been lifted.


no one lift it.


it is too heavy.


HOORAY


IM BACK.





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keep getting a free coffee with my cigarettes and i have noticed that a french vanilla coffee when you forget about it for 6 hours then remember it is there and finally drink it and it is cold as sheet that it tastes exactly like chocolate milk which for me as i am kind of hooked on chocolate makes it more addictive made myself sick twice already from using my throat as a drain for large cups of coffee. yun... but ewck

glad you're back!

WELCOME BACK QUEEN

i really hate honkai star rails story telling. and people who defend the trash story with "its a story based game" are actually the reason why people like trump get elected. because for some reason people think that longer = better. in theory yes, a longer game means there is more time to develop the story or characters. however the story telling of hsr is so bad in both a gameplay aspect and writing aspect.

story:
let me get this straight. having lore is good. lore doesn't always make a story good. bright is a movie about mystical creatures who live in new york city. that movie is still bad. i feel this way with hsr. the game just throws in a bunch of nonsense lore at the player and you just have to take it. like a character will just say "this is the penis blaster master plaster" and you're just forced to figure out what that means. does this actually mean anything in the grand scheme of things? maybe. by the time you figure out what this is the game will introduce another lore thing to remember.

animation:
the animation is trash. literally every cutscene is | |. for a story focused game the story gets no focus.

gameplay:
power creep is bad. selling incomplete characters is bad. having to buff characters because you realize the characters are bad is bad.

length:
the story is too long. there's too much time given to disrespect the players time. the reason for this? to keep the player engage. however, engagement is hard when every single cutscene is | |. its so exhausting clicking the space bar, reading, repeat. sometimes you have to walk to increase the playtime. does this add anything? not really. and whats really annoying is that the story is used to sell characters but for some reason they can't fit in the characters in the story. like half the cast in peancony didn't do anything

tl;dr people who say that people complaining about length have tiktok attention spans are stupid

^ This is part of why I left Star Rail. The storytelling is so...weird? I am familiar with HoYoVerse's weird storytelling being a fan of Genshin since 2020. This made me excited for Star Rail, but...everything is in the lore? Random items and stories you find all over the place? And then those cutscenes... They are long and tedious. I am all for subtle storytelling, but when the story itself has no sustenance...hm. And the power creep in EVERY HoYoVerse is insane. They just want money at this point in my opinion, but it is not my place to judge here. I have spent over two thousand dollars on Genshin, lol.

The TikTok attention span is ludicrous. Many people just lack BASIC game design understanding. Game bores you to tears? The story is bad. Most people play Star Rail for its unique mechanics and the "waifu" and "husbando" designs; they do not want to sit through boring cutscene after cutscene. At least add more action to break up the cutscenes, for goodness sake!

Did we not have a forum April fools day thing or did I miss it

Not to get emotional but…

I log on here every so often to check on Ds and every time I do it makes me feel older and older, I annoyed a lot of the people on here as a kid but that nearly 14 years ago but most of you had a lot of patience for the dumb kid I was. This place taught me a lot about the internet and how to be tolerant of other people. I miss when all I had to do was refresh the browser to see a new post on stuff and nonsense. It was a simpler time for me and one of the last few childhood memories I made and some of the first I made as a teenager. Not sure if very many of the O.G.’s will remember me or still be here but I remember you all and think of you often, I hope life is going well and I wish you all happiness. And if any of you need to hear it, life is precious and someone loves you.

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Did we not have a forum April fools day thing or did I miss it

Not sure if you mean a banner change, but this year's April Fools "prank" was having gradient text. The text looked a little shiny and "gleamed" across the words.

say what you will about them, but the weabooos at the anime cafe have never given me boba balls that are too rubbery and chewy. they are the only ones who havent failed me.

unlike my mother and father....

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say what you will about them, but the weabooos at the anime cafe have never given me boba balls that are too rubbery and chewy. they are the only ones who havent failed me.

spoken like someone who didn't regret eating at an anime con's maid cafe

i do it every time yet i keep coming back because it's so fun to see them make do with literal classrooms and zero equipment

Asmongold is a streamer who should have never gotten famous

ive been chain smoking for like three days and have now opened like 15 boxes of cigarettes i remembered how enjoy the fresh smell of cinnamon i smell for some reason when i open them

we live in an era of memes being created by astroturfing corporations to promote their products

I got into ultra ball 2 in pocket tcg and I am very conflicted about tryharding through rank or not

What has this site come to? We do not even celebrate Gem Day anymore.

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What has this site come to? We do not even celebrate Gem Day anymore.

i just noticed at the bottom of the page the copyright date is 2004-2023 so life actually ended in 2023

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What has this site come to? We do not even celebrate Gem Day anymore.

i just noticed at the bottom of the page the copyright date is 2004-2023 so life actually ended in 2023

The way things are going lately, I could believe that.

Actually, I believe 2023 was the last time user registration was open. Are we trapped in time?

You can make any media politically align with you if you project hard enough

i wanna talk about the new f*n g*me but i don't want it to get shut down again

and i miss my partner in crime dragoncamo <3 we owned this place fr

I will love you till the end of time
I would wait a million years
Promise you'll remember that you're mine
Baby, can you see through the tears?
Love you more than those *****es before
Say you'll remember, oh baby
Say you'll remember, oh baby, ooh
I will love you till the end of time

i'll close and reopen the soundcloud app 567845 times before listening to an advert.

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I will love you till the end of time
I would wait a million years
Promise you'll remember that you're mine
Baby, can you see through the tears?
Love you more than those *****es before
Say you'll remember, oh baby
Say you'll remember, oh baby, ooh
I will love you till the end of time

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I kinda realized that there's a reason why you shouldn't tell people your pay. In theory sharing pay allows people to realize that they are not getting paid enough and to unite for better living conditions.
But every single time someone asks me and I tell them I never get told "congrats" or "that's good". It's always awkward silence and telling me that I don't do anything at my job, i'm bragging (I never brag about my pay, at most I just say "I got a nice raise"), or how i didn't earn it.
And that's when it hit me. When people ask how much others get paid it's not "oh hey hows your job" it's "how do I measure up" and when people cant't (in this case pay) it's easy to get envious.