johnthebeboptist

@johnthebeboptist@lemmy.world
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Joined 1 years ago

They're blocking the dashcam or something? I think.

I’m glad this is happening while most of the Boomers are still alive, they can see exactly what kind of world they’re passing on to their grandchildren before they go.

LMAO as if they give a shit. I talked with my parents about how they're so privileged to be able to be so carefree (read: careless) about everything while I probably won't ever see retirement or necessarily be able to drink water from the tap (we have excellent water) like they do and it was like I was talking an alien language. They don't give a fuck.

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Yeah, in good and in bad, this place is a lot like "the old days of the internet", but thankfully more in the good way than the bad. People keep complaining about shit I haven't seen for a second, constantly there are actions from the mod/admin side about shit I've never even seen etc. Even without proper mod tools and shit it seems like everything is working out quite well. To which I and all of us owe a huge thank you to the people working on this stuff.

Thank you people! Thank you for making this place feel like home and something greater than what we've had for a long ass time.

I was honestly a little shocked to find The Fountain rated so low, Tomatometer (fuck the tomatometer anyway, audience score is where it's usually at) was 52% with scathing reviews, the audience score fortunately remedied the situation with 74% cause I was seriously starting to look for another site.

And for it's opposite: The Blair Witch Project is 86% vs 56%. I haven't seen it in ages, have been planning to, but it was one of my favorite movies for a while.

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I guarantee you that's not the reason. They did/do similar shit with Facebook and people were pissed, now anyone barely remembers or cares. People don't care and facwbook/meta/zuck certainly doesn't.

Exactly. Like, I get that people want to have fun and all and I'm all for it even if it's not my thing, but any relevant discussion was constantly drowned out by the pun chains and copypasted shit to the point that it was fairly obviously often just bots, but as long as a few people have their fun fuck the discussion right? Right... but I/you/we gotta be less cynical, as was said above the lemmy algo is apparently better with this stuff. So I'm at least going to try to be a little hopeful.

The Thing,

Naked Lunch,

Evil Dead 1 & 2,

The Big Lebowski,

Videodrome,

Alien,

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,

For a Few Dollars More,

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,

Lost Highway & Mulholland Drive,

The Fountain, Pi, The Holy Mountain, El Topo, Princess Mononoke, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Big Trouble in Little China, The Wicker Man (the og)

And I probably watched Donnie Darko and Ichi the Killer enough times as a teen that they both reach the top

God I watch a lot of movies still.

e:typo, not Donnie Dario

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If you have a problem with the sub, maybe you should make your own sub? It's that simple. There is a reason for the rule and it was already explained to you.

My folks had a stove with two (electric) heat elements in the same way I assume OP has, to use both, you had to go 360° all the way to a full circle where it "clicked", then go back to where you wanted it at. Much easier and sensible IMO than whatever the hell this headache is.

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee and the sequel Abe's Exoddus. Easily one/two of the best games I've ever played. They're available on PC and other systems these days, but they're still the definitive Playstation game for me. Unique and one of a kind and even today, absolutely great to play.

I also give a vote to Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and Medievil. Surprised no-one's mentioned Oddworld though.

Edit: Ooh I have to add, Rayman! And if you have a friend to play with - Team Buddies.

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There is a number though. And some apps show the overall amount of upvotes and downvotes someone has. If there is a number that's enough for far too many people. There are literally games people play that are simpler than making the number go up with comments. "Number go up, me happy.". There is incentive.

Out of all the things that Spotify is shitty for that's the least of my worries about them, and I fucking hate right-wing shitheads. People would rather see the artists they love starve if it gave them convenience to enjoy their art without actually paying for what they do.

It's honestly kind of baffling to see people go up in arms enough to side with fucking Disney "in support of artists" because AI is supposedly stealing from them and the same people go on with their lives and put on Spotify and feel self-righteous. People fucking suck.

/rant

Yeah this seems like some selfawarewolves shit. And even in this whiny tirade they just couldn't leave some sort sexist/ableist/hateful insult off. As much as spez is a fucking tool, people like turtle are the bigger reason honestly the whole site had turned to diarrhea IMO - rampant assholes taking over the site.

Well I mean, while Gen-Z humor and memes are mostly a lot more abstract and surreal and while there are elements of that in the beans meme it's not really just that. It's a concept piece. In a similar way Warhol's Campbell's Soup was and similar pieces of art.

The whole point was to make a point about something, namely, like the title of the post lays it out itself "I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans". What it says about the lemmy community, maybe nothing, maybe it's just a fucking can of beans and there really is no intended or inherent deeper meaning and that is irrelevant really.

My point being, it's kind of all things you talked about, but even more, but also just beans. Schrödinger's beans.

Some apps already have collective upvotes and downvotes and karma is just math after that. There is unfortunately going to be apps with "karma", unless I'm mistaken.

Yeah, my parents went from chucking EVERYTHING in the same bin, food waste, cardboard, paper, batteries, whatever it is it went in the same bin and it smelled like death and leaked every single time. Now they recycle cardboard, at least milk cartons. I mean sure, there's some change, but what use is it when the change should be pretty fucking big to make a difference - like you say, too little too late.

Oh my god thank you, been trying to find something that does exactly this for a while. Subscribed to hundreds of communities and blocked even more and I was seriously considering adding and blocking everything manually to another account on another instance. Thank god I was lazy with that.

You just introduced me to a completely new concept to me and like magic, made my one of my all time favorite games (and a bunch of others) unbelievably more replayable. I was fine with only playing it once or twice a decade, but I guess I gotta play it more now.

Lol, haha, I never thought about that. I used to watch a shit-ton of movies as a teen. Got into horror movies, David Lynch and weird stuff early on so I kind of dove into the deep end very early and with no social life there was a lot of time to watch a lot of stuff.

I seem to be having a phase where I don't really watch movies that much (series more than ever), but when I do it's usually kind of "comfort food" so I'm mostly watching all-time favorites over and over again.

Ooooh I completely forgot Primer!

Greg does the best impression of Wiseau ever. You can find him read the whole book. It's hilarious

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No way, where are you from? Over here it's 50% farts, 30% air, 20% chips.

It is! Clint Mansell and Aronofsky are a match made in heaven, but The Fountain is one of favorite soundtracks of all time and the one I listen to the most. I don't tend to listen to soundtracks all that much, but I find myself listening to the Fountain all the time

Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo The Residents - Commercial Album or Animal Lover or Mark of the Mole or God in Three Persons

Ween saved my life. They're the best.

A similar thing would be great over here too, but I think it shouldn't be in some way reddit-adjacent and I don't think this community could ever shift to that. Not after what's happened. There needs to be a new thing especially since this community is more about bitching about Reddit you know? If it was that easy a ton of subs on reddit would be about something completely different than what they were established for. You don't just change an established agenda just like that.

Lemmy in general often feels a lot more like old Reddit already, which is what TrueReddit tried to hold on to.

e:typo

probably my favorite Aronofsky movie along with Pi Same! I think a lot of it has to do with it being a kind of a sad, sappy and dark from the start or something, I don't know. I just feel like people don't necessarily like the vibe and mood of it (as if something like Requiem for a dream is any more hopeful or upbeat). It's a very powerful movie.

Castlevania, Zelda and Silent Hill (though I'd say all first 3) mentioned so I'm gonna say Alundra. Sure it's very Zelda/JRPG, but that game had some amazing music that just sticks with you.

Also a little tongue in cheek, but Adventures of Lolo. I'm not sure if there's just one song throughout the trilogy, but it sure feels like it. Weirdly it doesn't bother you. It's like a hypnosis that just makes you play one more level. One more try. Kind of like the Tetris soundtrack, but it never gets old.

And that is cheap in your mind?