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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are they still defending the fact they host Stormfront?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’ve seen a British comedy that had this as a joke. But the movie was a sleezebag of a comedy. All about a dude that works at a grocery story at night, gains the ability to freeze time and messes with the women he sees shopping. I am glad I can’t remember the title.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

I think I work with Raymond. He refuses to say women’s and men’s restroom. He only says female and male.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The major problem is the ethics of tipping. In the U.S. tipping puts (all if not most) jobs into a category which employers now pay a sub-minimum wage. Legally the employer isn’t responsible for a federal minimum wage anymore because it is assumed tips will cover the rest of it. In actuality with taxes, many people don’t get a paycheck because of how little they earn. It just went to taxes.

EDIT: Imagine working full time (40 hours) and getting a piece of paper that says “THIS IS NOT A CHECK” telling you how little you earned.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I was 12 when the U.S. went into Iraq. I remember watching cable news the moment that began. I think I was too young to understand. Why was Blackrock there?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Didn’t anti-virus, spyware and/or malware apps flag Epic as malicious when it first launched?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are the chances this plane, being a Boeing, will have major safety issues?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Please leave The Matrix out of this. Seriously, do not compare any of that to The Matrix. It is a trans-allegory. If anything, not enough people know that. So many fucking Red Pill douchebags who would renounce the franchise once they learned that.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I read somewhere that Texas is trying (as in someone in the legislature) to make transgender people legally non-existent. Apparently the same shit I read is being attempted in the UK.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That doesn’t necessarily mean Saddam wasn’t bad, but why not let the citizens of Iraq decide that?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Didn’t that actually happen (not the Blackrock part)? I thought it came out in a Congressional hearing that there was oil which motivated the whole thing. The U.S. went in to find WMDs but after many years could not find evidence of any.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought that was mice?

 
 
 

The Voyager episode “Bliss” has always been a wonderful story in my opinion. Naomi Wildman and Seven of Nine, two individuals who joined the ship’s crew after the events of “Caretaker”, find solidarity in their respective distance to life on Earth. They also in a time of crisis bring comfort and assist each other.

 

I am looking for suggestions on how to tackle a large reading list (currently at 556). A big part (maybe smaller than I think) is a collection of Ann Rule, Stephen King and Star Trek novels (currently just the Pocket TOS and movie novelizations). The way I go about things is to just read whatever I am in the mood for. Makes it hard for me to keep a consistent reading progression. I do read by publication date.

I want to hear how others pick what to read. My current idea is to take a chunk of one selection and alternate with others in between.

 
 
 

Hi there. I was told to share this here. Hope you enjoy.

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/15311216

Hello. Every year I enjoy watching The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock on Halloween. So I decided to expand my watchlist and checkout movies I had never seen. So I am doing a 30 day marathon from October 1-30, watching only horror movies I have not seen. The only qualifier is that I haven’t seen them. My list may change for whatever reason. Since it is now October 11, I have seen ten movies. I’ll post them with my reviews (not all are intensive) and update two more times with 11-20 and 21-30. Hope you enjoy reading about my marathon.

30 for 31

  1. Ring directed by Hideo Nakata (1998) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ A straightforward supernatural story. The American remake in contrast is flashy in comparison, utilizing more graphic imagery than this adaption (it’s based on a novel)

  2. Evil Dead directed by Fede Álvarez (2013) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ What if The Evil Dead was redone without Ash and all the continuity connecting it to the previous movies had to be explained by the director because textually none of it is in the movie?

  3. Jennifer’s Body directed by Karyn Kusama (2009) ⭐️⭐️ I don’t think due to the dialogue that this movie wouldn’t get made today. Overall this is a product of its time. Couldn’t imagine such a movie being made without going hard on a satirical angle. Would teenagers want to watch this? The soundtrack itself even is from a decade of music that just gets seen as cringe.

  4. Poltergeist directed by Tobe Hooper (1982) ⭐️½ I fell asleep. Less than amusing. Might as well have been a weird rendition of Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

  5. Martyrs directed by Pascal Laugier (2008) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A deeply violent story with little in terms of a plot. However, the plot that is present does take time to reveal itself. The disjointed two halves make you unprepared. The first half is a rough tale of revenge that leads to a second half that is a polished approach to what the story is trying (or possibly succeeds) in accomplishing. A hard movie to recommend, but certainly a provocative one. Many people who can handle the gore might be unsettled by the philosophical horror. At times I kept wondering what the endgame was. The graphical display of violence is purposeful. It doesn’t try to upset you for the sake of scarring you. It goes deeper. But does it adequately achieve that goal? Maybe the audience is meant to question what it all was? Maybe we are meant to question existence as a whole? Maybe the violence itself was the only way to manifest that goal? What was the goal? Without spoiling it, you have to be prepared for something grounded in reality but very unexpected.

  6. We're All Going to the World's Fair directed by Jane Schoenburn (2021) ⭐️⭐️ A atmospheric dud. Nothing innovative or truly substantive occurs. The plot feels like a mental body horror mixed with found footage/web cam story telling. By the end you feel like the tropes of genre have been done better before this. At some point I wondered if the actual horror part was not seeing anything really occur. Felt like over the course of the plot, I had to take for granted by on limited dialogue that something was progressing. The indie rock vibe eluded the climax of an actual narrative. Or maybe I did not understand the type of movie this was trying to be.

  7. Event Horizon directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (1997) ⭐️⭐️½ A bland but visually decent space horror. The one big flaw is the graphic intensity of story never last long enough to sink in. From moment to moment you want the visuals to be on screen longer. Much of the acting fails to sound more than simple line reading. The only time I truly had a sense of scare, it was taken away almost as fast. The story has an unbalanced pace with a rush to meet an arbitrary plot deadline. It was like being told to expect the tone of Alien but given the speed of Apollo 11.

  8. The Fog directed by John Carpenter (1980) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A campy ghost story mixed with collective fear. A wonderful movie.

  9. Carnival of Souls directed by Herk Harvey (1962) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½ A errie score with an atmosphere of an unknown force make for a spooky time.

  10. Skinamarink directed by Kyle Edward Ball (2023) ⭐️⭐️½ A visual unorthodox movie that works better as an art piece than truly a horror movie. Unconventional angles, unconventional plot structure, unconventional use of actors (you rarely saw more than someone from the waist down) can be frightening to those unprepared for what I would considered very experimental. At times I wasn’t sure if the plot was advancing. Other times you have to trust what is on screen is from the prospective of the characters. Other times you just take in an abstract lack of visuals. If anything is truly horrifying, it would be not getting a clear understanding of what is being shown. Feels like someone trying to explain the plot of a movie they experienced within a dream and trying to explain that plot from the perspective of that dream, being very disjointed and twisted.

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Hello. Every year I enjoy watching The Birds directed by Alfred Hitchcock on Halloween. So I decided to expand my watchlist and checkout movies I had never seen. So I am doing a 30 day marathon from October 1-30, watching only horror movies I have not seen. The only qualifier is that I haven’t seen them. My list may change for whatever reason. Since it is now October 11, I have seen ten movies. I’ll post them with my reviews (not all are intensive) and update two more times with 11-20 and 21-30. Hope you enjoy reading about my marathon.

30 for 31

  1. Ring directed by Hideo Nakata (1998) ⭐️⭐️⭐️½ A straightforward supernatural story. The American remake in contrast is flashy in comparison, utilizing more graphic imagery than this adaption (it’s based on a novel)

  2. Evil Dead directed by Fede Álvarez (2013) ⭐️⭐️⭐️ What if The Evil Dead was redone without Ash and all the continuity connecting it to the previous movies had to be explained by the director because textually none of it is in the movie?

  3. Jennifer’s Body directed by Karyn Kusama (2009) ⭐️⭐️ I don’t think due to the dialogue that this movie wouldn’t get made today. Overall this is a product of its time. Couldn’t imagine such a movie being made without going hard on a satirical angle. Would teenagers want to watch this? The soundtrack itself even is from a decade of music that just gets seen as cringe.

  4. Poltergeist directed by Tobe Hooper (1982) ⭐️½ I fell asleep. Less than amusing. Might as well have been a weird rendition of Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

  5. Martyrs directed by Pascal Laugier (2008) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A deeply violent story with little in terms of a plot. However, the plot that is present does take time to reveal itself. The disjointed two halves make you unprepared. The first half is a rough tale of revenge that leads to a second half that is a polished approach to what the story is trying (or possibly succeeds) in accomplishing. A hard movie to recommend, but certainly a provocative one. Many people who can handle the gore might be unsettled by the philosophical horror. At times I kept wondering what the endgame was. The graphical display of violence is purposeful. It doesn’t try to upset you for the sake of scarring you. It goes deeper. But does it adequately achieve that goal? Maybe the audience is meant to question what it all was? Maybe we are meant to question existence as a whole? Maybe the violence itself was the only way to manifest that goal? What was the goal? Without spoiling it, you have to be prepared for something grounded in reality but very unexpected.

  6. We're All Going to the World's Fair directed by Jane Schoenburn (2021) ⭐️⭐️ A atmospheric dud. Nothing innovative or truly substantive occurs. The plot feels like a mental body horror mixed with found footage/web cam story telling. By the end you feel like the tropes of genre have been done better before this. At some point I wondered if the actual horror part was not seeing anything really occur. Felt like over the course of the plot, I had to take for granted by on limited dialogue that something was progressing. The indie rock vibe eluded the climax of an actual narrative. Or maybe I did not understand the type of movie this was trying to be.

  7. Event Horizon directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (1997) ⭐️⭐️½ A bland but visually decent space horror. The one big flaw is the graphic intensity of story never last long enough to sink in. From moment to moment you want the visuals to be on screen longer. Much of the acting fails to sound more than simple line reading. The only time I truly had a sense of scare, it was taken away almost as fast. The story has an unbalanced pace with a rush to meet an arbitrary plot deadline. It was like being told to expect the tone of Alien but given the speed of Apollo 11.

  8. The Fog directed by John Carpenter (1980) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A campy ghost story mixed with collective fear. A wonderful movie.

  9. Carnival of Souls directed by Herk Harvey (1962) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½ A errie score with an atmosphere of an unknown force make for a spooky time.

  10. Skinamarink directed by Kyle Edward Ball (2023) ⭐️⭐️½ A visual unorthodox movie that works better as an art piece than truly a horror movie. Unconventional angles, unconventional plot structure, unconventional use of actors (you rarely saw more than someone from the waist down) can be frightening to those unprepared for what I would considered very experimental. At times I wasn’t sure if the plot was advancing. Other times you have to trust what is on screen is from the prospective of the characters. Other times you just take in an abstract lack of visuals. If anything is truly horrifying, it would be not getting a clear understanding of what is being shown. Feels like someone trying to explain the plot of a movie they experienced within a dream and trying to explain that plot from the perspective of that dream, being very disjointed and twisted.

 

I saw this question posed on Mastodon. If you got lost in space and rescued by aliens who made you live in a simulation for the next 40 years based on a book, what would it be?

For me: The Great Gatsby. I would have to play the part of Nick and just get drunk all the time.

 

Did Captain Janeway do the morally right or morally wrong thing refusing to let Seven of Nine return to The Collective?

 

EDIT: I just want to make clear this is sarcasm.

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