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[guideoflife]

[taffywabbit]

I finally watched breaking bad (all within the past week or so while I worked, finished it and watched el camino last night) and I'm confident this isn't a new thought I'm expressing or anything but genuinely how DID an entire generation of dudes convince themselves Walter White was cool and admirable and intended to be sympathetic. I know ppl just lack media literacy sometimes but I'm still so confused

I don't think I've EVER watched a piece of media that so blatantly depicts a guy making the worst possible decisions at every turn and having his life ruined for it and not being redeemed or made sympathetic in any significant or lasting way. the kinds of justifications villains USUALLY give that make people consider them "morally grey" or "tragic" or whatever (everything I did was for my loved ones, I did what I had to to survive, once I was in this I couldn't get out, I just needed you to trust me so I could keep you safe, etc etc) is ALWAYS framed as complete self-serving bullshit when Walt says it, and one of the only shreds of personal growth he ever exhibits in the whole series is when he finally fucking admits that. every time he does something even remotely cool or drops a quotable one-liner, something terrible immediately happens that makes everything worse and makes him look like an unreasonable idiot asshole again. by the end of the series the ONLY characters they can still contrast as being morally "worse" than him are literally a bunch of bloodthirsty neonazis who kept a guy in a cage for several months. this show is practically SCREAMING at you the entire time not to admire Walt. why did every dude I knew in highschool have his face on tshirts and Facebook pfps.

I just don't get it. at least with The Dark Knight's Joker it was like, a feature-length movie and that's it. you spend a lot less time with the Joker and it has a lot less time to delve into his motivations, so there's way more room for flanderization and misinterpretation as people extrapolate the few cool/interesting/sad things they saw into a whole nuanced misunderstood guy in their heads and online. Walter White has 5 seasons' worth of 45min episodes to convince you beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a miserable fucking loser who ruins everything he touches because of greed and selfishness. if you weren't watching it for that, what WERE you getting out of this. what DID you think this show was about. am I just missing some key piece of context from 2012 or whatever that would help me understand this

[thesilicontribesman]

The Great Stone Of Fourstones, Tatham Fells, High Bentham, North Yorkshire Border

[novelistparty]

so homestuck is a big deal for a lot of people but if really feels like it was a "you just had to be there" sort of thing. (I was not there and barely know about it beyond what you get by just existing on tumblr) I'm curious if any of you know people that have dived in and "read" it all in recent years. How did they do it? How was their experience? Is this something that is even possible? How so?

[essektheylyss]

Important question: how does the cataloguing and storage of all this memory work? This is an absolutely massive amount of data and metadata. A major crisis of Big Data these days is that it becomes literally impossible to parse it all. Given the vibes, I'd imagine that this data was monitored coming in for any subversive content or useful intel, but otherwise, did they actually have the capacity to use that data, or was it merely stored in the same way that data is stored now—with a foolish belief that it will become useful before it degrades in technology or meaning? Was it organized in any meaningful way, and what does that recall look like? And if it wasn't, or if it was done in such an esoteric manner (or the context was simply lost to time) that it cannot be properly utilized now, does Ludinus actually know what he's showing them, or is he relying on the grandeur of a past that can never truly speak for itself to dazzle them to his side? And have these memories truly been preserved, or have they been subject to the erosion of time that has subsumed so much of the physical city itself?

[rabbitcruiser]

Ghostbusters was released in the United States on June 8, 1984.  

[goodluckclove]

Saw that post about that person who couldn't name a bunch of African countries. Figured it was a terrible argument on both sides.

Thought about how many African countries I could name. It was about as much as the amount of countries I could name on any other continent (but more than Asia probably which is troubling considering my background).

Proceeded to have to ask my wife whether or not New Jersey was a city or a state.

Turns out it's a state.

Don't tell the Geography People I'm here they would kill me and then kill themselves for having to witness my insolence.

[jm-photos]

Not in Rome.

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08.31.24 El Jem Colosseum El Jem, Tunisia

[848ellie]

Flatiron Building 🗽 My first trip to New York City was one I'll never forget. As I walked through the famous streets and took photos with the Flatiron Building, I couldn’t help but think about all the history and culture the city has seen. It feels like the past is still alive.

[hersterical]

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

I'm starting Mission to Zyxx Season 5 now, and I have feelings about that.

First, it generally scares me when people hype anything up at all because there is no guarantee that anyone values the exact same thing I do to the same degree. Even if I trust the creators of a thing to value something and try to do right by it, that doesn't always necessarily mean it will be successful, especially if that involves doing something wildly different than what made it good in the first place (I have been burned this way before). I guess I'm just hoping they continue the format of goofy improv shenanigans for the majority of it with something more planned and emotional in the finale if they want, like they've been doing all along. I'd think they would, and I've heard nothing bad about the ending, but I guess it still makes me nervous because I'm so close to the end and I want it so badly to stick the landing. I'm setting my expectations on the floor so I can be surprised instead of disappointed, but honestly, I don't need it to be better, I just need it to be on par with the rest.

Second, and more briefly, I'm happy it's (hopefully) ending before it has a chance to decline. I am so on board with that philosophy. But on the other hand, finishing a thing that I really, really like and knowing there's not another one out there gives me a special kind of heartache. Like, I know there will be other good media, and stuff that's good and unique in other ways, but I know for a fact that there are no other podcasts out there that have the same mix of a balance of off-the-wall improv and structured narrative, quality comedy, fantastical sci-fi setting and loveable characters, and high quality production. There are other things out there with many of those qualities, but nothing that checks every one of those boxes. It's a lightning-in-a-bottle thing that very much feels like the right people had to be in the right place at the right time to do it. Attempts to do it again would feel hollow because it had to be born out of necessity and passion and the talents of the people involved, so if you switch out the people it loses the reasons it's great, and if the same people tried to do it again it'd feel tired. That makes me so, so grateful it exists, but also so, so sad that it doesn't, and I'm 80% of the way done. When it's over, it's over.

Anyway. Now that that's all out there, I'm just gonna finish listening and have fun. Wish me luck.

[hoorayezenglish]

🇺🇸 #9 - 50 Facts About The USA - The US Flag - Facts About The United States of America for ESL EFL - English Learners

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Fire breaks out at Copenhagen's stock exchange | REUTERS

16 April 2024

A fire ripped through Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange, one of the Danish capital's best-known buildings, engulfing its spire, which collapsed in a scene reminiscent of the 2019 blaze at Paris' Notre-Dame.