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Not once. I've seen videos of other events, but none of it beats the sheer spectacle of 20 Japanese pitilessly climbing over each other to ascend a slime-drenched staircase while you're trapped in a hotel room with a rattling air conditioner.

e: oddly since it was brought up, I have been to one or two highland games. the men there should really consider underpants. kilts are gross.

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interest has dropped in the oscars because cinema attendance has plummeted. people are no longer seeing movies due to the pandemic. big marquee titles have had cautious and tepid releases. i feel like there's only been a handful of movies in the last few years that have made a big enough splash at the box office to warrant any pop-culture attention (bond, spiderman, etc.). for the rest of the time the vast majority of movies and their reception has reflected the general mood: glum, cautious, unimportant in the circumstances.

the idea that the oscars will fail because they're starting to recognise non-mainstream voices, or foreign films, is so laughable. it's a good fucking job they do considering the parlous state of most major studio productions thesedays. we're a long way from scorsese greats and de niro grandstanding over native americans.

pandemic does lend itself to tv series binging. the sopranos had a huge resurgence in the first year, i recall. succession and other recent shows have caught a big wave too, i think, because of a large captive audience who prefer the stay-at-home binging model.

i purposefully subscribed to a few online streaming movie services, as it occurred to me that i literally hadn't seen a new movie in like 1.5 years. who could possibly want to seek out a new blockbuster movie when they're likely seeing it at home on their laptop or living-room TV?

i recall a few people talking about missing Dune because they couldn't/didn't want to go to the cinema to see it. not really much to see on a laptop.

i like watching my ‘boring’ art house dramas at home. works well on a laptop or tv, in bed with the gf. they scale well.

too bad if you like marvel schlock and can’t go to the cinema because it’s full of snotty virus-bearing schoolchildren.

Last edited by uziq (2022-02-23 10:30:09)

Jeez, Dune is the only best picture nominee I've even heard of this year. Parasite is still on my to-watch list but other besides that I have to go back to 2013 and Twelve Years a Slave for a winner I've actually seen.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Watching things at home also leads people to not finishing something. I stopped watching Dune like 20 minutes in. If I was in a theater and with a guest I would have stuck it out. Maybe film makers need to adapt to the new way people watch movies.

"This is at least the second time you've mentioned not finishing Dune here on these forums, GOLLY!"

Anyway, it was fine. I don't get what the deal is with "laptop underwhelming." At close range, my old laptop takes up about as much space in my field of vision as a TV across the living room, maybe more, and about the same as a movie screen across a theater. Probably about matches the dolby size:distance ratio.

Musk really tweeted that? Intentionally clueless.

It isn't just Iron Man. Movies and TV shows are up to their ears in wealthy heroes and super beings sometimes enormously wealthy beyond anything we currently have, or at the very least completely liberated from all possible material want. What's a car or an apartment when you could just eyeball precious metals out of the asteroid belt whenever you want.

The Justice League has its own personal space station and fleet. The world's most expensive yacht club.

Forbes has written about net worth of the likes of Scrooge McDuck and the Monopoly Man. Just stop, Musk, or at least become a hero. You've been at the prologue stage for years now without having your Iron Man epiphany.

Musk could be taxed like 99% and still dry his tears with disposable wads of cash.

Lots of propaganda floating around these days.

I would like to hear the various members' takes on the current conflict. Please limit it to 5 sentences if possible.

world war 3 started in 2014, we just didn't realize it then. we will in time come to recognise crimea/donbas as a tentative first step in the same vein as hitler's annexation of the sudetenland or the anschluss. we will, in retrospect, be seen to have been alternatively naive, negligent, or even complicit in our treating with putin/putinism in this time, much like the established order of the early/mid-1930s had their flirtations and accommodations with nazism. merkel and other world leaders of stature will be questioned for their strategies of appeasement, much like neville chamberlain was.

Last edited by uziq (2022-03-02 13:16:00)

ww1 was the final stage in many european empires' collapse.

ww2 was the final stage in imperial germany's collapse (may as well say it finished off the remaining european imperial powers too).

etc.

i am only being facetious, anyway. i don't think china or india will swing behind russia and kick off a global conflagration. i do think, however, that the only way out of this bloodbath is for putin to go. and i also think that there is nothing that anyone outside of russia can do, ultimately, to effect or compel this change. the bloodbath will continue until something gives within the internal dynamics of their political system/society.

the ability for us to depose the leader of a nuclear-armed state from without is basically nil. we haven't even considered it with the kim dynasty in north korea, with their handful of nukes and their economy on a permanent state of life support. we stand zero chance against a foe like putin who is ideologically committed to their position.

crises like this make it perfectly clear, if it wasn’t already, why rogue states like iran or north korea so ardently pursue nukes. they really are the last redoubt in terms of self-preservation and self-determination. the UN/NATO is totally feeble in how it counter-acts russia because of this.

Last edited by uziq (2022-03-02 13:39:16)

the soviet union had a politburo. there was a circle of higher-ups who could stage coups/soft coups or call the show. modern russia is a one-man-show.

cringe