#fucking silicon valley dude

[hi-rubi]

bruh i should have taken my old writing blog from 2021 as a warning sign of how things would be in my future career . like if i don't take a step back soon, i'm going to get fully lost in the sauce, and crash out in the same exact way lmaooooo

[xo-punisher-xo]

Good night to her ONLY

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

"ew why don't you leave the south, it's so regressive and racist" that's america, my dude. you are describing all of america, and if i have to live here, i am gonna stay in the south.

i did more for my community volunteering with mutual aid organizations and putting together my own fundraiser for queer Appalachians than any enlightened yankee transplant hula-hooping on our capitol steps did. that isn't me bragging on myself, it's me saying in no uncertain terms that i know none of you give a shit about us.

everytime i make the mistake of talking about my desire to move even further out of the TN valley and go to the mountains some silicon valley motherfucker who moved here so their tech start-up could take advantage of our abysmal tax code makes a face, or warns me about the people i've grown up around my whole life. fuck you! fuck your ass, bro!

every single time i help somebody jump their shitty 2001 altima in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Dekalb County or wherever the fuck, wearing my binder and a trans rights bumper sticker on my car, i do more to actually change shit here than Breathanie and her "queer friendly" yoga studio that's exclusively attended by rich cis whites.

west coast libertarians gargle my balls challenge

[kastelpls]

steam visual novel fest sale recs

i like visual novels and there's a vn fest going on, so here's a thread on titles i like:

ELIZA

https://store.steampowered.com/app/716500/Eliza

i recently finished this title and while the topic is certainly relevant, what drew me more was how it depicted the traumas of tech startup culture. whether intentional or not, the dreams and aspirations of tech workers to solve problems become tainted by capital and hubris.

the protagonist is jaded as fuck because she's seen her creation take over the world. but she's not as melodramatic as dr frankenstein; she is still gauging how things are going. her alienated view on the world around is intoxicating and i really found the pov very charming.

the experience of playing this game made me feel like i've returned to my unpaid internship days for better or for worse. it's a story that will forever remain relevant until silicon valley and the tech industry as we know it are over. wonderful title.

SeaBed

https://store.steampowered.com/app/583090/SeaBed/

i have personal stakes in seabed since i'm one of the two non-translators credited to bringing this yuri vn overseas. my bias aside, i think this is one of the most unique video games of all time.

you follow a bunch of adults aimlessly wandering around as the world around them reflects their mental states. things just happen, but everyone takes it in the most matter-of-fact fashion. the writing is intentionally tedious at times because it is in love with the mundane. it's a story all about grief, but it is also about how to approach the ebb and flow of life.

as a friend once said, "it's a mystery where the characters don't realize they're in one." or as i like to put it, "a mystery in search of a mystery".

Christmas Tina

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1049100/_/

set in the notorious bubble era of japan, this may look like a romantic encounter between a chinese dude and a japanese girl at first glance. however, it drops that premise by having them squabble forever and not learn each other's languages.

the game is instead about minorities struggling to survive. the chinese guy left china for various reasons and wanted to make a name for himself while the japanese girl got into a car accident with a person engaged in the sex trade because she was looking for money to pay for her sister's surgery. later on, you'll read about different chinese members, a woman raised by a chinese-japanese couple, and other interesting people that make up japan today.

if there is a game i like to credit for inspiring my interest into connecting with my traumatic chinese history again in my own writing, it's this title. there's a section that surprised me because it was, after all, a title mainly developed in china and it's still very recent history. but i'm glad the developers took the risk and it's an impressive episode.

i'd seriously recommend this game if you haven't tried it. it's seriously a sleeper hit.

Chuusotsu

https://store.steampowered.com/app/630870/Chuusotsu_1st_Graduation_Time_After_Time/

the first of an ongoing series, chuusotsu 1st is about a bunch of middle school graduates who can't graduate into high school for various reasons. stories about their traumas are interlinked with the chaos of japanese social media.

likewise, it's also about trying things that they are scared to try. the protagonist is an anxious girl who wants to do art, but she keeps failing at socializing. she's cute.

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1158850/The_Great_Ace_Attorney_Chronicles/

since this was featured in the festival, i might as well give it a shout. this is more an adventure game in the Ace Attorney series, but i consider it to be the best game and everyone should play it.

it explores a historical period dear to my heart: the era of meiji japan and victorian england. here are two imperialist nationstates, but the latter is stronger than the former and is secretly dictating how japan should behave.

not only does the game explore this colonial dynamic but it also looks into how racism functions in the british justice system. any pretense of democracy and fairness is ultimately failed when the british jury sees the protagonist and calls him an ape.

i credit the final chapter for changing my dissertation thesis when i was still doing my masters. if i ever do a phd, i'm going to continue studying the history of international students and what it reflects about us as a humanity.

Return to Shironagasu Island

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1156990/Return_to_Shironagasu_Island/

a surprise doujin hit in japan, this visual novel written by an ex-mystery writer is very old-school to a fault. you are exploring one of those MURDER ISLANDS and there's orthodox mystery tricks, but it's well-executed.

the main star is neneko who's a little cringe beast. she's cute.

games i've heard are good but haven't played yet

Bustafellows

Taisho x Alice

The Flowers series

Symphonic Rain

Tangle Tower

Fatal Twelve

Furikake Spacy

A Year of Springs

Narcissu 10th Anniversary Project

2064: Read Only Memories

Analogue: A Hate Story

if you are looking for more recommendations on steam, i have a curation page.

[skapediem]

you were into silicon valley at one point right? that's what got me into zach originally, i have an intense love-hate relationship with it like you do with ave 5 lol

it's sort of a potential vs execution thing + i feel like the writing sorta dropped off in the later seasons, characters got flanderized (i'll never forgive them for what they did to nelson "big head" bighetti he was just a normal dude at the start and then they decided to make him the least smart man on earth) & interesting conflicts that could've spanned several episodes or even a season were resolved within a half hour (or, often, less)

i'll be deranged about jarrich forever though especially jared like you CANNOT tell me "this is a half hour ensemble comedy satirizing the tech industry" and then hand me a character with the most gutwrenching backstory and incredible, thoughtful portrayal and expect me to be normal about him. zach woods when i find you

YEAH!!! i totally understand all of that that is very very very fair criticism esp about bighead but tbh im probably a bit blinded by how i got into it - i watched it through for the first time during the massive 2021 melbourne lockdown and then went on to watch it about. 4 or 5? more times in the next 2 weeks so it ended up being a pretty big comfort show to me lol. as stupid as a lot of it was i found it very endearing and i really liked how they were able to poke fun at so many success stories in the tech business having absolute morons behind it. while i do think some of the plots definitely couldve gone on longer i think i enjoy it being a pretty easy to watch comedy that you don't needa stay super focused on for ages especially since there aren't many quality ones like that around anymore at least compared to the late 2000s/early 2010s. i dunno i just!! i get what you're saying its absolutely valid i just really love that dumb show lol

THATS SOOO REAL THOUGH To Be Honest the ones i went more crazyinsane over were dinfoyle like What the fuck was going on there but i loved jarrich too ofc just all the dynamics in that house were crazy. zach woods is a madman though have you seen his instagram

[dieu-mange-dieu]

𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙨: 𝘿𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙝 𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙜𝙩𝙖𝙞

Has an older brother and a twin sister, but he was born five hours before her and technically on a different day

Both have always made him feel like the baby of the family

Thought that the family cat was his sister for the first six years of his life (They lived in the same house and he knew her all his life, so how could they Not be related?) , was devastated to find out otherwise

Had his first kiss in primary school with his best friend at the time; both she and Dinesh were so grossed out that they did not speak to each other ever again

Moved to the U.S. in high school, graduated early and was accepted into uni at 16

Holds the fact that he graduated college over Gilfoyle (who dropped out)'s head. Gilfoyle does not give even one (1) fuck

Astrology nerd, knows everyone in the hostel's birth chart and checks his horoscope religiously

Is the type to make no-homo gay jokes at a party and then end up accidentally making out with a dude

(this happened. he had a panic attack in the bathroom afterward.)

Favourite drink: either a piña colada or a mai tai

Strongly dislikes the taste of alcohol

Pineapple is his favourite flavour

Favourite scent is the Oasis scent from Bath and Body Works (smells like pineapple, summer, and the pool)

Swiftie

Favourite colours are orange and turquoise

Played the "Maximising Alphaness" subliminal video on repeat while working out

He credits his drastic change in physique to that video

If he weren't in the tech business, his dream job would be either an elementary school English teacher or a wedding planner (he loves weddings and would spend hours designing his own future wedding as a kid)

Wanted a lot of kids growing up; still does but he kinda hates kids so he's conflicted

Had a huge Harry Potter phase when he was younger, his Facebook bio used to say "proud Hufflepuff 💛🖤"

Did not get his driving licence until he was 25 years old

He is 3 years older than Gilfoyle

(playlist under construction)

Spoilers (?) Ahead!!!

After Silicon Valley:

Invested 70 percent of his net worth into Dogecoin

Actually made money off of his investment, got out early and made bank

Was the best man at his cousin Wajeed's wedding

Directly after the events of The Pied Piper Thing, he and Gilfoyle fell off and stopped talking

One night about a month later he showed up at Gilfoyle's apartment with a box of doughnuts and a bottle of Tres Commas and demanded they talk

They talked.

Drunkenly suggested that he and Gilfoyle start a podcast.

They did.

It lasted 3 episodes before it was removed from all streaming services due to hateful content

He and Gilfoyle started their own company

Bought the house next to Gilfoyle's in late 2019, but they ended up quarantining together at Gilfoyle's place during the pandemic to at least keep some semblance of sanity

In interviews, Dinesh and Gilfoyle say it was the worst experience of their lives (what else would they say, that they properly enjoyed each other's company and solidified their complex and deep friendship? malarkey.)

Now resides in a cabin in Southern California

Has overcome his fear of dogs.

His dog's name is Buster.

[esmae-solace]

honest to god im gonna go into a spiral with the ai music shit. i love music but more importantly i love making music. making music a career is already hellish and now this slurry of ai bullshit is gonna make that even harder if not impossible because studios dont want to pay musicians, and people dont really buy music anymore. i fucking hate machine learning, i fucking hate silicon valley, i fucking hate every do-nothing nobody white bread tech dude for trying to rip the very act of creation from me. i wanna crawl into a hole or die or disappear at this point because music is all i have its all i can do or provide. im terrified of letting my family down and being crushed by the economic machine all because i cant bring in capital. into the ground i go.

[r-tawen]

Rating Thought Experiments by How Annoying They Are

It's finals week and I'm procrastinating because I've decided my sanity outweighs the slavering need to academically perform that's been drilled into me by the education industry over the past two decades. I have no other basis for these ratings other than how much each thought experiment annoys me on a molecular level. All Thought Experiments here listed taken from GCC Libraries website. Here goes:

Trolley Problem - 8/10

Starting off with a Certified Classicᵀᴹ

I think we have bigger problems to deal with, namely that we have someone routinely strapping random people to railway tracks AND that random civilians can just up and reroute entire trains on a whim

Like why the fuck would I ever be in this situation

"you notice a very large individual whom you can push in front of the train in order to stop it" first of all, is this a philosophy major's idea of a fat joke? Second, if you had a guy big enough to bring 130 kmph of screaming metal to a dead halt at the distance pictured, they would be big enough to pick up the train and spare us all this nonsense. Thank you, Waybig from Ben 10 Alien Force

Oh, the individual is a "close relative" now? You think you've got me roped into your ethical dillemma now that it's personal? Fool. Dullard. Wipe that unsexy smirk off your smug little face because I don't love anyone stupid enough to get caught strapped to what is actually a very efficient mode of public transport like that

The Ship of Theseus - 3/10

Actually really fun to consider the little sailors milling about and fixing up the ship

They liked sailing on that boat so much that they lovingly replaced each little bit as it gets worn down over time, whistling sea shanties, making sure the parts fit just right and snug to make her seaworthy again

Doesn't matter if it's the same boat or not, it is their boat and that's all that matters as far as I'm concerned

Only downside is it brings up the weird teleportation thing, which makes all the weird sci-fi nerds (derogatory, as opposed to the good weird sci-fi nerds) come crawling out of the metalwork

As if the philosophy nuts weren't bad enough

Patient Refusing Treatment - 90000/10

Hits a little too close to home bc this shit just happens irl

Brings up the fact that people will straight up choose to die rather than offend their religious teachings

And also that said religious groups will straight up turn their backs on you as soon as you step a toe out of line

So much for loving your neighbor, divine morality, community and all that pretty shit they like to preach

Just try and come at me for this, bitches, I'm a colonized POC in the third world in a pre-dominantly Catholic country and I'm spoiling for a fucking fight

The Drowning Child and the $1000 Suit - 9/10

You honestly think the average asshole who would wear a $1000 suit to the beach has any morals?

He probably sells babies on WallStreet to fund his twice-collapsed crypto startup in Silicon Valley so he can fulfill his dreams of getting a whiff of Elon Musk's scrotal discharge

If this stark white businessbitch with the physical and moral integrity of paper mache gets anywhere near that water, we'd have two drowning children in the ocean

And how dare you compare the dude who can afford to be in a $1000 suit who can take immdeiate action to save someone, to the random middle-aged dad watching Netflix at 4AM without adblockers on? "how are the two examples different?" I'll fucking drown you in a bathtub that's how

COVID Simulator 2019 - 5/10

Vulnerable people and frontline healthcare workers first, easy, next question

The main source of annoyance is having to remember how fucking horrendously this pandemic has been handled in my country

I Can't Say Pleasure Machine With A Clean Mind - 7/10

You could build a machine that can simulate reality one-to-one, but you couldn't figure out a way to bring people out? How did you test this shit to begin with if every volunteer and the machine they're assigned to is permanently fucking unusable to anyone else on the first go?

And I'm supposed to take your "guarantee" that this will make me happy, when there is literally no one who has actually tried it who can attest to that?

If I put you in there, will it simulate a universe where you make sense and people like you?

There's no fucking way this shit isn't going to get hogged by rich old white billionaires who have nothing left to do in life but evade all of their legal problems by becoming legally fucking dead to the world

Colonized Land Problem - 999999999999999999999/0.1

See Patient Refusing Treatment, paragraph 5

Space Taxonomy - 3/10

Like, a couple thousand lesser known sci-fi writers have beaten you to this premise already

There's just nothing in this to be annoyed at, at all, it's such a Nothing dillemma

The meagre 3 it accrued is just because it reminds me of weird vegans (derogatory, as opposed to the good weird vegans) and PETA, but there's just not a lot of substance here to be annoyed by

Social Media Misinformation - 8/10

Yes? Fucking- regulate your platforms??

A 3 year old could answer this, and those little bastards can't even operate heavy machinery

Do you want more anti-vaxxers? TERFs? Neo-nazis? Sons of former dictators being elected as president?

"bUt i hAve thE RIgHt to Be rAciSt and stUpiD-" I will personally feed your unwashed ass into an old-timey woodchipper

The Merchant Vessel - 9/10

????

Are you the most incompetent sailors ever to salt the raging seas?

It's an island- you can find food there, you can find food in the fucking ocean

Wh-

Do you have no other options?

The best thing you could come up with was to eat, sleep, and shit for the duration of an entire trading season off of the rations that washed up on the beach, doing absolutely NOTHING else productive with your time?

Couldn't come up with any brighter ideas? Okay, sure, have fun out there

Immortality Pill - 10/10

Cool. Why is this my problem again?

Are the people in this universe also completely devoid of thought and agency that I have to decide what to do? I already invented the damn thing for fuck's sake

Just... let people decide if they're taking it or not??

In the first place, the premise says they can straight up still be killed- it's not like there's no way out

The only real issue here is Big Pharma kicking my doors in 0.5 milliseconds after I finish my last test and gunning me down before any of my research could ever feel the fresh breeze of outdoors Manila

I will, however, be selling placebos exclusively to billionaires

"Sorry Mr. Bezos, the pills won't take, Idk what to tell you, byyeeeeee"

Pascal's Wager - 12/10

See Colonized Land Problem, paragraph 1

Equim - 6/10

The fuck kind of worldbuilding is this

You named it "Equim"? Is that what you meant to do?

How about we leave them alone, huh, how about that?

If the North Sentinelese decide that part of their culture is killing the fuck out of any foreign culture-destroying missionaries that land on their shores, then who am I tell them they're wrong? (They're not btw)

But then again I can't expect whatever imperialist white fuck who probably came up with this to understand the concept of keeping one's grubby little hands off of someone else's culture

Wittgenstein's Game - 100000/10

See- this right here is why we don't take you people seriously

At least the above entries had flavor to them, but this? Really?

You're just agonizing over a dictionary

Like Jesus H. Fuck, get a real hobby

Or did you spend too much time agonizing over what a "hobby" truly is and now you're 46 and balding and you've forgotten what it feels like to have a conversation with someone?

Enough of this shit. Procrastination over. Might do a part two if something gets me riled up again.

[johnnyrobish]

Trump Now Hawking $47 T-Shirts With a Fake, Photoshopped Mug Shot of Himself

It seems Donald Trump and his merry band of grifters have been working overtime, tirelessly trying to cash in on the former President’s indictment.  First, by having sycophants like Lindsey Graham and Rudy Giuliani hit the airwaves and beg MAGA followers to “Please send Donald Trump money!”  Now, after his arrest on 34 felony counts, the Trump money machine is now offering “Not Guilty T-Shirts” to those who make a $47 donation or more.  The tees sport an idyllic photoshopped mugshot pic of the former President.  Meanwhile, MAGA luminaries such as George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene showed up at the Manhattan Supreme Court to protest Trump’s arraignment, with Greene comparing Trump to Nelson Mandela and Jesus.

Soooo, it sounds like yet another grift is up and running.  Soon, we’ll have MAGA half-wits sending in all their beer, cigarette, and lotto money to this “billionaire.”  My, my, its Christmas in April.  Now, as far as the Jesus comparison goes, I don’t seem to recall Jesus ever telling his Disciples, “Now, go out and rough up protesters” and that He would “pay all their legal fees,” but what’ll I know?  I mean, where’s it read, “I bid thee, go forth and fuck up those damn Scribes and Pharisees.”  And, who knew that “The Passion of Christ” was all about nailing pornstars?  

The funny thing is, the folks showing up for these Trump rallies are some of the same folks who are really pissed about kids getting “participation trophies,” and yet they continue worshipping a dude who finished “second” in a friggin’ two-person political race.  Hell, I even read they’re claiming Trump is 6’5.”  Oh, hell yes!  Sure he is - if he’s standing on a pile of his indictments or on top of one of those boxes of classified documents he’s been hiding.

You know, Trump supporters love to claim he’s has accomplished more than any other President, and I have to admit they may be right.  After all, 34 felonies is one helluva lot of accomplishments, and it sure looks like there’ll be even more of these “accomplishments” coming down the pipe soon.  Why this has poor Fox News hosts popping Xanax like breath mints.  In all fairness, Trump did work hard to deregulate big corporations whilw he was president.  You know, like railroads and banking.  How’d that turn out?  Perhaps we should ask residents of East Palestine, Ohio, or investors in Silicon Valley Bank for that answer.

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[mysteriouslyshamelessenthusiast]

Okay but this is my favorite character that fits this mold, Jared Dunn from Silicon Valley. He's extremely detail oriented, a hard worker, plain as can be, but as another character puts it, this dude fucks

Depictions of autistic characters in media almost always fall into the "insanely rude but somehow tolerated" -type, or more rarely into the "innocently pure sweet cinnamon roll who's oblivious about everything uwu"-cathegory, but I think it would be great to have a character somewhere who is very clearly on the spectrum, and also this dude fucks. Like, a lot. You start out assuming that this guy's remarks about how much he regularly gets laid are some sort of a self-deprecating, sarcastic joke, but as the story goes on and you get to know the characters better, it becomes evident that not only are women drawn to him everywhere he goes, clearly the ladies also keep coming back for seconds.

And when someone wonders how in the fuck does he do that when he literally can't look people in the eyes he just goes "they are enthralled by my pure animal energy and unfathomble autism" and isn't joking. And when asked why nobody else has managed to replicate that he just goes "skill issue." And throws out the note that a woman just handed to him - with her number clearly written on it - right in front of her because talking to two people at once is overwhelming and he is not in the mood for that now.

[wack-ashimself]

CA: Minimum wage is $16 in 2024!!

Experts: Umm, as one of the most expensive States to live in, and with the cost of living still rising, $23 should be the minimum wage at the lowest.

CA: 2024s our year, woot!

Experts: Not only is it already predicted that countless employers are going to raise their prices and/or cut other benefits, but in doing so offset the raise in minimum wage to be so minimal that people will barely be able to notice any improvement long run.

CA: We're right next to a fucking Ocean! Surfs up!

Experts: Your hills regularly light on fire!!!

CA: Oh yeah, more speed traps.

Experts: Those have practically never saved a life. Not one.

CA: But it makes us money!!! (to pay for all our useless expenditures and subsides for the rich.)

Experts:.... What did you say in those brackets?

CA: Silicon valley and Hollywood. WE DETERMINE AND DICTATE ALMOST YOUR ENTIRE PERSONALITY.

Experts: Ok, was that last part supposed to be in paraphrasing too?

CA: Tubular, gnarly dude!

Experts: ...am I talking to a 1980s politician from a Saturday morning cartoon?

[niconiconwo]

Did you see the article about a dude whose Tesla stopped working because he took it through a carwash? Absolute bozo shit going on over there. Fuck the silicon valley mindset. Unrelated - I desperately want people to explain what the fuck they mean by gender. "this is so gender" "envious of that persons gender" statements that make me utterly deranged.

I didn't but now I found an article and that's wretched lmao. We've had waterproof electrical connectors for at least half a century. Icing on the cake is this line:

"All I can tell you," the Tesla manager allegedly told Lundeen, "is we're not a 100-year-old company like GM and Ford. We haven't worked all the bugs out yet."

Like bro, y'all aren't reinventing the whole ass car concept. You put batteries and electric motors (which is a century old idea) into a sedan. May god smite Elon Musk and Tesla from this earth lol.

Anyways I feel you. It's all so tiresome. Thanks for the ask anon!

[manvindrachaudhary-blog]

18 Spicy Comments Actors Made About Their Costars

18 Spicy Comments Actors Made About Their Costars

1. Freddie Prinze Jr. hated working with Kiefer Sutherland on 24 so much that he almost quit acting altogether — and spent years taking on voice acting roles instead of on-set ones.

"Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That's not me talking trash, I'd say it to his face, I think everyone that's worked with him has said that," Prinze Jr. said. He also slightly knocked the actor's height, saying he was required to take his shoes off to do scenes with him and saying he was only 5'4.

2. T.J. Miller recently called Ryan Reynolds "horrifically mean" on the set of Deadpool — he did it in character, acting like Miller was also his character, but then seemed to insult Miller directly by saying, "You know what’s great about you, Weasel? You’re not the star, but you do just enough exposition that it’s funny and then we can leave and get back to the real movie.” Miller also called Reynolds "kind of an insecure dude," and said the uncomfortable comment left him not wanting to work with Reynolds again.

However, Reynolds reached out to Miller after the fact, and Miller later referred to the awkward on-set experience as a "misunderstanding." So...all's well that ends well, I guess.

3. Speaking of Miller...his Silicon Valley costar Alice Wetterlund once called him a "bully and petulant brat," describing working with him as "kind of a nightmare" and saying his male costars enabled him. Miller had left the show at this point, in what was said to be a mutual decision.

4. While starring in the film I Love Trouble, Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte struggled to get along. Roberts said they got on each other's nerves from the start, and called him charming but "also completely disgusting. He's going to hate me for saying this, but he seems go out of his way to repel people."

Nolte later acknowledged his own fault in their feud, but also blamed Roberts a bit: "Julia got married at the beginning of that film and it was one of those things where I just approached it all wrong.” Uh...okay, so he was offended that she was taken?

5. Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey also struggled to get along while filming Batman Forever. The problem, according to Carrey, was that Carrey was the star of the production. Apparently, about halfway through filming, Carrey ran into Jones at a restaurant. Jones hugged him and said, "I hate you. I really don’t like you" then followed up with: "I cannot sanction your buffoonery."

6. Succession actor, Brian Cox, once said that actor Steven Seagal (his costar in The Glimmer Man) is "as ludicrous in real life as he appears onscreen," adding that Seagal acts like he's "on a higher plane to the rest of us." He continued, "And while he's certainly on a different plane, no doubt about that, it's probably not a higher one," and said that Seagal thinks he's "far more capable and talented than he actually is."

7. He's also called his Succession costar, Jeremy Strong, who he's still co-starring with, by the way, "fucking annoying" in his commitment to his Method acting technique. Though, he did acknowledge it garners good results and called him a "very good actor" and "fucking gifted."

8. Tim Gunn is more a TV personality than an actor, but he did appear (as himself) on the fictional show Gossip Girl in 2010 when Jenny, played by Taylor Momsen, had an interview for Parsons. Years later, Gunn revealed he had a negative experience with Momsen, calling her a diva: "She was pathetic, she couldn't remember her lines, and she didn't even have that many. I thought to myself, Why are we all being held hostage by this brat?"

9. Not quite as biting, but Kim Cattrall has made her feelings on former Sex and the City costar Sarah Jessica Parker pretty clear. “I think she could’ve been nicer. I really think she could’ve been nicer. I don’t know what her issue is," she said in 2017, pointing out that none of her costars called her when it was rumored she was having contract issues with Sex and the City 2.

Later, after Cattrall's brother died, she posted: "I don't need your love or support at this tragic time @sarahjessicaparker" and followed it up with: "Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona."

10. Another famous Hollywood feud is between Vin Diesel and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. While shooting Fate of the Furious together, Johnson wrote on Instagram, “There’s no other franchise that gets my blood boiling more than this one. My female costars are always amazing and I love ’em. My male costars, however, are a different story,” he wrote. “Some conduct themselves as stand-up men and true professionals, while others don’t. The ones that don’t are too chicken to do anything about it anyway. Candy asses.”

While Johnson never named Diesel, many assumed he was speaking about him in the light of Diesel's response, which “I think some things may be blown out of proportion. I don't think that was his intention. I know he appreciates how much I work this franchise." and referred to himself as Johnson's big brother — which Johnson replied to, saying he wasn't.

11. Diesel also seemed to critique Johnson's acting ability, saying he had to give Johnson "a lot of tough love to assist in getting that performance where it needed to be."

12. Another actor who dissed his costar's acting was Bill Murray, who allegedly derisively called his Charlie's Angels costar Lucy Liu a "television actress." While Liu never confirmed this exact comment, she said Murray used "inexcusable and unacceptable” language and was "hurl insults."

13. Bette Davis similarly dissed longtime foe Joan Crawford — with whom Davis costarred with in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? — by saying, "Miss Crawford is a movie star, and I am an actress."

14. Ray Liotta said that out of all his costars, Sigourney Weaver was the worst kisser. The two starred together in the 2001 film Heartbreakers.

15. Jay Thomas made a similar comment — which actually may have gotten him kicked off of Cheers. On a radio show, he was asked about guest starring on the show, and said, "It's brutal. I have to kiss Rhea Perlman," though he later said he was joking.

16. And Tony Curtis once said that kissing Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot was like "kissing Hitler," though he later said they were having an affair at the time, and it's unclear if he was serious.

17. Sally Field also called Burt Reynolds her worst onscreen kiss many years after appearing with him in the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit (and its sequel, along with the film Hooper). This is especially surprising because Field actually dated Reynolds for four years. Clarifying the problem, she said there was "a lot of drooling."

18. And finally, Millie Bobby Brown spoke about her negative experience kissing Finn Wolfhard for Stranger Things, saying it made her go "kissing sucks!" Later, when asked about these comments in Variety's lie detector test, Brown agreed with a question calling Wolfhard a lousy kisser and revealed he hadn't gotten better — with her, at least.

What comment can you not believe an actor said about their costar? Let us know in the comments!

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[vamptastic]

sick of being short as well though. i got a pair of bigass hugeass platform boots and it's great being 5'8 but every time ive taken them off someone has started outright laughing at me 😭. like oh okay lets all watch mister tiny man take off his stilts. whatever. i refuse to get lifts like some sort of insecure silicon valley dude but life is testing me. we did this weird assignment for calc once where we measured trees in the courtyard using ourselves + the angle the trees were at + distance on a measuring tape and when i very bravely and stoically went to stand in front of the tree because everyone else was too cowardly to let themselves be used as a meter stick someone went "wait what the fuck you're tiny" and the whole class of eight people who showed up that day cruelly mocked and maligned me. ive suffered more than christ on the cross. my ancestors in the desert. job from the bible. whatever happened to judas idk i haven't read the new testament but it cannot compare to my struggles.

[ntrider]

this is kind of fucked up but I hope someday someone falls head over heels for me like absolutely most down bad someone can be and just cannot do anything about it because all fucking day I'm just here like dude check out this crazy fucking Nintendo 64 game I started playing it's called Space Station Silicon Valley and they never get the courage to hit on me because I mean fucking look at this woman

what if you confessed undying love to someone and they said bro fucking awesome do you want to play Turok Dinosaur Hunter later

[literallyshiv]

something so magical about watching an M rated hbo series with your usually very straight laced mother because you get moments like hearing "hey man i heard you swallowed your own load" and you're both laughing together so hard you have tears in your eyes even tho you'd never actually acknowledge to each other that you both know what load means