APiousCultist
APiousCultist t1_jdwey12 wrote
Reply to comment by Electrical-Act-7170 in PsBattle: Wolf in a car next to a guy by Zetheryian
Alpha males do not apply to natural wolf hierarchies, let alone domesticated dogs. If you're out there trying to 'dominate' your pet at every time, expect weird behaviour from your confused, unhappy animal that expects to be intimidated every time it tries to engage in social play behaviour. The fuck. These are animals selectively bred for thousands of years to interact well with human owners anyway.
APiousCultist t1_jdtn71n wrote
Reply to comment by ActuallyWorthless in PsBattle: Wolf in a car next to a guy by Zetheryian
"It" meant "the situation of being hit by an animal for not petting it", not my dog.
APiousCultist t1_jdtdnz0 wrote
Reply to comment by WetCoastLife in PsBattle: Wolf in a car next to a guy by Zetheryian
My dog starts to smack me with its paw if I stop prematurely. Don't think it'd be as funny if it was a massive wolf.
APiousCultist t1_jdtdl0d wrote
Reply to comment by awesome_smokey in PsBattle: Wolf in a car next to a guy by Zetheryian
Great job with this one.
APiousCultist t1_jdt5dmu wrote
Reply to comment by Resistyrox in Apple TV's subtitles are awful. by cmrdgkr
After watching all seasons of The Americans I set my subtitles to 'visible from space' size and it's wonderful. Does it look stupid? Yes. Is it effortlessly easy to read the subtitles now? Also yes. I can read normal sized ones just fine, but there's absolutely a processing cost to that still. Switching to small discreet ones is like switching to a book written in a fancy font. You can read it just fine, but it's not as smooth and effortless to do so.
APiousCultist t1_ja6ke33 wrote
Reply to Game over man by rastroboy
When the sheeple actually wake up
APiousCultist t1_ja68br1 wrote
Reply to comment by DayVess in Homicide: John Munch - did he do it? by Chief7064
Yeah, his presence in Law and Order is just as a very extended crossover. He was invented for Homicide and is in 100+ episodes of it.
APiousCultist t1_ja3zv01 wrote
Reply to comment by Seaborgium in Pantheon is fascinating by ryhaltswhiskey
They'd need to buy the rights for S1 too, sounds like it was a write-off though. So unless someone manages to sneak S2 into a torrent, it'll never be seen. sigh I really love 2023 TV/film culture where completed good content just gets yeeted into the void by executives who are just beginning to realise people don't want to subscribe to 23 streaming services at once.
APiousCultist t1_ja3vr5i wrote
Reply to I've never read any books(actual serious literature), i wanna start now, any advice on how to? by Ozymandias808z
If you aren't 'a reader' then starting with dense allegorical 1800s Russian literature is setting yourself up for failure. Read fun stuff and start to push your boundries from there. Your tactic is like if you'd never seen a film since childhood so you decide to start with 1960s new wave french arthouse films. A bold choice, but very likely to just bore and confuse you.
APiousCultist t1_j9picm1 wrote
Reply to comment by fonkordie in TIL NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,000 days between March 1979 and October 1997. The first shot was of his girlfriend at the time and his last photo was on his deathbed, dying of cancer by Ok_Copy5217
Lying and saying something incorrect are two different things.
APiousCultist t1_j6jv5py wrote
Reply to comment by RamboBashore in If you’re enjoying The Last of Us… by Just_Browsing_2017
I'd say episode 2 dragged for me a little. But episode 1 from what I remember was pretty representative of the rest of the series. If the looming tension of that didn't grab them, none of the rest of the series is all that likely.
APiousCultist t1_j53p231 wrote
Reply to comment by nighthawk911 in Will we ever see a Wayne Season 2? by Lenny2theMany
The name, though. The name was a mistake. It sounds even more Batman-adjacent than the actual Batman-adjacent shows.
APiousCultist t1_j29b6i9 wrote
Reply to comment by Bushgjl in The original SW trilogy is an unintended comedic goldmine by Intelligent_Be
Pretty sure he does bury them or at least create a funeral pyre, though it may be a deleted scene or content added to a book - it's been over a decade since I've watched it. He's also not reacting because he's stunned and shellshocked. Not everyone's reaction to horror is "Oh my god, nooooooo! sobsobsob"
APiousCultist t1_j1wgeq3 wrote
Reply to comment by Twicenightly00 in Is 4k blu ray worth it? by G00bre
DVD isn't even close to 1080p...
APiousCultist t1_j1vbpd1 wrote
Reply to comment by Quirkyusername420 in 'BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War' Part 2 Premieres July 2023 by MarvelsGrantMan136
> He is petty and has a massive ego and it hurts when enemies stomp him.
I think being upset about being stomped is pretty universal across everyone. Most of the examples you've listed are more a sort of dramatic irony than the character actually turning to camera and shouting "You see what I just did?"
APiousCultist t1_iy9rtw9 wrote
Reply to Woman sues Kraft for $5 million, saying Velveeta microwave mac and cheese takes longer to make than advertised by 08830
She might have an honest argument for damages if she'd bought $5,000,000 worth of Velveeta.
APiousCultist t1_ixvpc70 wrote
Reply to comment by sirbissel in Marvel Studios’ Special Presentation: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special - Discussion by PhoOhThree
I mean I'm not 100% certain but I'm sure there must be.
APiousCultist t1_ixrfqi8 wrote
Reply to comment by After_Hovercraft7822 in What is the best post-screening comment you’ve overheard? by ioftd
This is a scenario where someone needs to just throw out a "Yo, shut the fuck up." (or fetch a member of staff)
APiousCultist t1_ixr18ez wrote
Reply to comment by inksmudgedhands in Marvel Studios’ Special Presentation: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special - Discussion by PhoOhThree
Tonally there's no reason it couldn't, it'd fit Tony Stark's mood well. But I'm surprised they'd throw in the song considering the original version (featured in your link) has the singer calling someone a f----t. Actually they still often play that version on UK radios and it still throws me. We might not really use that an insult here, but it's not like the singers are using it in another context either.
APiousCultist t1_ixksh3n wrote
Reply to comment by austinrose7 in 'Tokyo Vice' Season 2 at HBO Max Casts Takayuki Suzuki by MarvelsGrantMan136
Wasn't he responsible for memory-holing several highly rated multi-season animated shows though? Like Infinity Train or Final Space might not be things you've watched, but they ran for multiple seasons and had very high ratings. I suppose that's different than cancelling them, but it's also much worse. Now the only practical way to view them is yar-har-yiddle-de-dee.
APiousCultist t1_ixkrszf wrote
Reply to comment by beachguy82 in 'Tokyo Vice' Season 2 at HBO Max Casts Takayuki Suzuki by MarvelsGrantMan136
That's definitely more of a 'huge fucking cash sink' sort of a show. Sucks that people are losing out, but it's not one that got memory-holed like all the cartoons.
APiousCultist t1_ixdxz65 wrote
Reply to 1899 Is A Phenomenal! A Worthy Spiritual Successor To Dark - It Succeeds Where Dark Failed by AnakinRagnarsson66
Not watched the show, but I feel like Netflix throwing the 'cyberpunk' tag up front and centre before the show even came out really does limit the number of mindblowing twists quite significantly. I don't want it spoiling, but if it turns out they're all in a computer simulation I don't think I'll be terribly surprised.
APiousCultist t1_iujt4g4 wrote
Reply to TIL there used to be an anti-masturbation device with teeth used to treat nightfall. by carbondioxide-7
TIL wet dreams were called 'nightfall' for some reason. Makes for a confusing headline.
APiousCultist t1_jefjh0k wrote
Reply to comment by youdidanaughty in Hollywood’s Covid Protocols Get Expiration Date; Vaccine Mandate Will End by LordHyperBreath
> Covid is NOT over
Covid will never be over. In the same way that the flu was never over.
As much as long covid is still fucking up people's lives, unless you want people masked up and socially distanced for the rest of human civilisation's time on this earth you do need to have a return to some version of normalcy on some level at some point.
This isn't a problem with some simple solution that people are too weak-willed to stick to. In a thousand years, people will still be getting some version of COVID-19. The only thing we can do is invest in ventillation in buildings and better attitude towards sickness and screening so that its harder for disease outbreaks to spread. Expecting people a decade from now to still avoid social gatherings is unrealistic.
That does mean people are gonna have their lives ruined by stuff like LC-induced CFS, pneumonia, neurological and heart issues, or even die as a result of the infection itself (not to mention the heartbreaking situation for immuno-suppressed people). To some degree that already happens with the flu. But short of shutting down civilisation permanently and returns to nomadic hunter-gathers, it's not a problem that can just be avoided if we went back in lockdown for another year.
Understanding that strict covid-protocols can't last forever does not have to mean indifference to the problem.