You serious?

That was the point.

That’s actually a great movie, and it’s probably one of my most watched DVDs.

It’s some of the best early mo-cap cgi in cinema history. Photorealistic without diving into the uncanny valley.

And storyline is very engaging. It hits poignant notes about pacifism, environmentalism and reincarnation without coming off as preachy or condescending.

In the theater? Boogie Nights.

My friend and I didn’t know a goddamn thing about Paul Thomas Anderson when we went to the premiere. All we knew was that Heather Graham got naked in this movie about porn stars. We’d both had massive crushes on Heather ever since License to Drive… A crush which was only strengthened by her appearance in Swingers.

It turned out that the great nudity was only a bonus to what ended up being an amazing film with brilliant performances from everyone… INCLUDING Marky Mark. My friend and I ended up going to see Boogie Nights on the big screen close to 20 times. It helped that I had just gotten a job as an usher at a theater when the movie got it’s second run, so we could see it for free. It also became a point of local pride since PTA was North East Ohio television royalty, and my friend and I wanted to follow in his footsteps

You’re not wrong.

it’s not earth that’s the trouble, it’s the people that live on it.

Good bot.

We really are just the universe experiencing itself subjectively.

So much of the dialog is Deadwood is absolutely brilliant, but one scene really stuck with me.

“Pain or damage don’t end the world, or despair or fuckin’ beatin’s. The world ends when you’re dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man — and give some back.”

Ian McShane deserved an Emmy for his work as Al Swearengen. That slow stare at the end of the scene alway kills me. I know it’s supposed to be a drama, but they really go for some laughs.

I can’t wait to be one of the “I was part of the great Reddit migration” dudes when this lemmy stuff inevitably goes tits up in 15 years.

I’ve used this specific nick for 20 something years, it’s a variation on my original nick “Lingo”. The “h0e” part was from #bluelight, back when bluelight had an IRC server. One random day those of us in the channel dubbed ourselves the chat hoes. Being the l33t kids we were, it quickly became ch4th0e. We started referring to each other by adding “h0e” onto our existing nicks. I became lingh0e.

That was over two decades ago. I was an aggressive asshole when I first started using it. I keep it because I like to remind myself that I’m a better, nicer person now… but that cynical asshole is still a part of me.

That’s the beauty of most tech based work. The actual labor isn’t “real” and associated costs are whatever the market will bear.

I worked for a photography studio that did almost all of the school photography work in NE Ohio. I was paid a pittance in relation to the profits the owner was raking in.

One of my primary responsibilities was cleaning up school rosters… removing duplicate entries, spelling errors, non-printing characters etc.

They had us going through the rosters manually doing this work. I made a suite of Excel scripts and macros that automated 97% of the work. I took work that would have taken 60-120 minutes to complete and literally made it a try 2 minute job. My boss used this as an opportunity to increase his prices and fire me for an unrelated mistake that I didn’t even make.

This is the same boss who tried to give me advice when I turned 40 by saying “a man’s boat should never be less in footage than his age”. Because apparently every 40 year old has the ability to buy not only A SINGLE PLEASURE BOAT, but is able to buy a new pleasure boat every year that is a single foot longer.

This is the same boss who only hired “temporary” staff through a series of dubious sources, so he didn’t have any actual staff and never had to pay insurance or any other kind of benefits.

And yet when these greedy fucks can’t stop their turnover it’s our fault for not wanting to work for these people.

Would it help to start liking/subscribing to videos that specifically debunk those kinds of conspiracy videos? Or, at the very least, demonstrate rational concepts and critical thinking?