Genre – Drama Series
Movie Total Runtime – 7 Hours 31 Minutes
Spoilers – Yes
So we come to a new category of media not covered in the pilot article – Stuff I acquired after starting this series. I have picked up a few pieces after I began writing these which were thus not part of the backlog but I can still call “Unwatched” as I hadn’t watched them prior to the review. This category will give some more legs to the tail end of the review series, as I do periodically acquire new media. This particular review is also an emergency substitution. This slot had been reserved for an anime (Mad Bull 34), but I realized I didn’t actually want to review it. I’m also fairly sure that I would not be able to maintain the family friendly rating of this website if I gave it an honest review. So I’m going to put the ultraviolent, occasionally borderline pornographic cringe fest from 1990 back on the shelf and look at something made in a more puritanical age – 2024.
Before I even watch the content, I have to address my own background and biases. This is the BluRay of a streaming series set in a video game setting currently controlled by Todd “It Just Works” Howard, the biggest videogame liar who hasn’t made Fable. The video game series has had a bunch of entries made by a pack of different companies, these being 1, 2, Tactics, Brotherhood of Steel, 3, New Vegas, 4, and 76. Of these games, I have played three to completion (3, New Vegas, 4) and failed to complete three others (1, 2, Tactics). I have not played Brotherhood of Steel (console only) or 76 (multiplayer only). I do not have any fondness for the isometric titles (1, 2, Tactics), because, quite frankly, I suck at them. If I can’t make progress in the game, the story makes no difference. That said, I did soak in a lot of the story of those titles secondhand, so I am not ignorant of what happened in them for the most part.
On the topic of my biases, I have seen Amazon ruin franchise after franchise in pursuit of the mythical modern audience and contempt for my demographic. This reputation makes me despair when anything I even remotely like gets near their fetid morass of failure. Which is why I have not watched this offering before. I go into this full of dread, but hoping to be surprised. I was going to joke about the season being made up of only eight episodes, being accustomed to thirteen and twenty-six episode seasons. But on a rational basis, a limited run might be a blessing. Well, I’ve procrastinated long enough, time to hit play.
We start in a retrofuturistic 2077 where the first indicator that it is not the 1950s is a robot in a glass case not being used for the birthday party going on. This is at least visually consistant with the established prewar United States from the games. The divorced white guy with the mixed-race kid would normally not raise my hackles if not for my aforementioned biases against the studio. I will try to judge on the merits. So far, there is no reason to get worked up. At around the six minute park, the nuclear bombs start to fall. Now I only knew the year as 2077 from the games, the show hasn’t mentioned that part explicitly yet. It didn’t even have anything to indicate that it was October. After all, this is Los Angeles, and the weather doesn’t really show October.
After the title card, it is “219 Years Later”, or 2296, or, after all of the entries in the video game series by a decade. We are introduced to Lucy, our Vault Dweller for the show. Vaults are underground long term habitation complexes sold as places to live out the post apocalypse in some semblance of civilized state. The secondary purposes of the vaults vary by production company to production company. Early on they could realistically be described as doing amoral science for the development of long term spaceflight of the sort needed for evacuating a nuclear-scarred Earth. As the games went on, the concepts became sadism for sadism’s sake as often as they had any scientific relevance. So immediately, my brain was asking “What experiment is being run here?” because I doubted they would use another Control Vault. (As in Scientific Control where no special variable was introduced).
From dialog, Lucy is trying to get married, but the population of Vault 33 is too closely related to her. Though they do appear to have underground connections to Vaults 31 and 32 and do periodic exchanges for this purpose. However, my “Something doesn’t add up” alarm pinged. If it’s been 219 years, and even with the population exchanges with the other two vaults the population is barely above inbred, then it should be fairly well homogenized genetically regardless. But they have the typical modern day Diversity casting. Unless, of course, one of the rules the vault abides by that puts this pressure on the population is strict non-miscegenation. I’m going to go with that as head canon – because it is funny and certainly not what the film makers intended.
I do have to give credit to the production designers. The Vault sets look like they lifted the tileset from Fallout 4 and brought it into the real world. While that may not be everyone’s preferred vault aesthetic, from a technical standpoint, credit where it is due. I have no doubt the directive was “Make it look like the current games,” and they did so. There is one shot where you can tell CGI was used to add some floors to the physical set, and it doesn’t look quite right. In another case of something not looking quite right, the delegation from Vault 32 is unusually unkempt and *gasp* lacking in table manners. One even sports a quite extensive neck tattoo. Even if I didn’t have meta-knowlege from other sources (for these reviews I want to go in blind, but don’t have the luxury all the time), I’d be going “these don’t look like Vault dwellers.”
The shifty looks and reaction to the overseer’s speech pretty much confirms it in my mind. Though It’s not long before the show confirms that 32 has been overrun by raiders, and the entire delegation is simply wearing the clothes of the now-dead 32 dwellers. In case the name wasn’t obvious, raiders are marauders living entirely off the fruits of plunder. Often disfunctional, internal or external stife usually prevents settling down into a more organized society. An intact vault or two would be a gold mine. Though the show immediately makes a mistake by name dropped the term “Raiders” from Lucy when she realizes one is carrying more radioactive load than would be expected of a vault dweller. The behavior thusfar would not suggest the name from historical context.
Another point of credit. in her unarmed brawl against raider she just married, Lucy loses handily. No sudden girl bossing, this man clearly lived a lifetime of violence, and it was not even close. She only escapes when weapons get involved, though not without getting stabbed. At that point the attack on the vault is in full swing, and there is carnage galore. Another point of credit to the makeup artists. Though not the people throwing strawberry jam “blood” splatter. Raider queen could have used an actor with gravitas. The character was not intimidating when the show runner intended. Raiders kidnap Lucy’s father and blow up the tunnel they escape through.
We smash cut to Maximus, our Brotherhood of Steel representative for the series. On paper, the Brotherhood of Steel sounds like an interesting concept. You have a militant order founded by military men around the time of the nuclear exchange who are of a mind that the unethical use of technology was the cause of the war, and that they, as the righteous, are the only suitable people to decide who can use advanced technology. They seek out and hoard remnants of the past, and are extemely insualar – except when they’re not. A lot of problems with the Brotherhood comes in the execution. First, the depiction is exceedingly inconsistant from installment to installment with the degree of adhereance to those precepts being quite variable. Second, they are overused, being shoehorned in to geographic areas and time periods where they have no business being. 76 is the most egregious, contorting themselves into knots trying to doctor up a reason to include a faction that should have no presence in its time and place. To top it off, if I recall correctly, the west coast Brotherhood had been kicked around quite a bit in the time leading up to when this show is supposed to take place.
So we see Maximus getting beat down by a multiracial clique of fellow aspirants until they get bored of hitting him and wander off. There is no indication of why they decided to pummel him. Maybe they think he’s a witch. Anyway, his only friend, the androgynous ‘Dane’ shows up to see if the beating has knocked the witchcraft out of him. Given how superficial the injuries are, the clique didn’t put much effort into it. The next few scenes go by fairly quickly, but not fast enough to be a montage. We learn Maximus has no technical aptitude, is antisocial, and ends up on latrine duty. So when ‘Dane’ gets picked for elevation to squire and he is not, Maximus beats up a toilet. Cut to ‘Dane’ screaming in pain and bleeding because someone fitted a boot with internal razor blades. Given the way he’s dragged off, we can only assume the higher ups assume Maximus did it. We get no more character development as it goes back to the vault where the survivors are patching things up.
While they’re still picking up corpses and spackling bullet holes, Lucy wants to go outside after her dad. The others point out that opening the outer door isn’t something they do. So she goes anyway. We do not get the popup asking if we want to change any of our character appearance or SPECIAL stats. I suppose the player modded the question out.
Outside Lucy finds a wasteland of ash and skeletons and… plasterized voids? The outside location has a number of ‘corpses’ designed to resemble the ‘bodies’ at Pompeii. That is, the plaster casts of the voids in the ash left by the bodies. Those Pompeii bodies are not directly the product of the volcano, but of archeologists pouring plaster into the spaces left by the bodies. But apparently someone decided that flash heat turns humans into dust mummies. Take away a point of credit for “Did not do the research.” Lucy wanders and sees the sea, along with a bunch of ruins and a somehow still standing wooden peir with a Ferris wheel. Not sure if this is supposed to be Santa Monica or not.
Switch back to Maximus being interrogated by the Brotherhood. He denies using witchcraft to summon boot razors. And I am severely irked when the elder uses a plural pronoun to refer to the androgynous ‘Dane’. Minus one hundred credit points for leftist fuckery. The worst part is that if the tone hadn’t been ruined by this, the scene and following sequence were well done. Just leave your stupid modern audiences garbage at the door. My tolerance is very, very low. Maximus is assigned to replace the now lamed ‘Dane’ as a squire to a power-armored knight, and they go off in search of an Enclave scientist on the run with an unspecified “something”.
This mission brief bugs me in a different way. It grates on my pedantry. They say it comes from “the highest clerics in the commonwealth”. There are no clerics in the Brotherhood, only Elders. Why deviate from established terminology? They then refer to the group as “this legion”, also new terminology deviating from standard. And the Commonwealth in-universe typically refers to the Boston area. Okay, I can rationalize that part away. While there was no Enclave presence in the Commonwealth, they were a major player in the Capital (DC) wasteland, where the east coast brotherhood was before heading up to Boston. If there were Enclave bases which escaped the purge after the events of Fallout 3, there might therefore be an escapee whom they are concerned about. How said person ended up on the west coast is unknown. Or if they started on the west coast, why this missive came from the Commonwealth is unknown.
It’s past time to revisit the cowboy from the opening.
But that was 219 years ago, how is he still alive? Well, he’s been turned into a ghoul. In Fallout, ghouls are the result of radiation exposure for a certain subset of the population. They’re effective immortal and immune to radiation, but their minds degrade over time. And they tend to be ugly as sin. Our ghoul friend is apprently repeatedly buried by someone we’ve not met and gets dug up by a trio of unknown new characters looking for a payday. They’re interested in a bounty on the same enclave scientist the Brotherhood is after. Rather than sign up with the trio, the ghoul kills them and takes their weapons. Roll credits on episode one.
I’m past 2k words after one episode. I’m not sure how much rambling I’ll get into with future episodes, so I will try to get more onto a single article. But to summarize the initial episode, the technical teams – set design, makeup, wardrobe – they did a great job. The writers and the casting director could have used a few slaps upside the head.
Addendum – The pronoun game kept gnawing at me, and I had to rant on why it makes no sense in-context. To start with, the real world people who play the pronoun game are the results of pampered excess – the non-contributing people of a society so rich in surplus that it can afford to support millions of unproductive people with nothing better to do than to try on new identities like they are outfits. In-universe the Brotherhood lives in a brutal wasteland that will end you if you make even a minor mistake, or even just get unlucky. There’s no time to waste pandering to this inanity.
On top of that, we’re talking about a militant order whose precepts do not lend themselves to catering to deviant ideas or individuals. Their primary response to any ghoul, mutant, synth, or other non-purestrain human is to end it. An actual intersex person would be taken for a mutant and shot. Convincing them not to is the hard part. Even in the same episode, during the annointing ceremony for Maximus, they repeated a set of priorities – Brotherhood first, Mission Second, Superior Third. None of these say “we will pander to your preferred pronouns”. Then there’s the game lore. In New Vegas, a lesbian couple was split up, and the first thought of everyone else was that it was to allow for a more reproductive union. (I was unclear as to whether one of the couple was thrown out of the order, but research says no.)
If there were any uncertainty, ‘Dane’ would be pantsed and the pronouns would match whatever was found there.
Inappropriately, I’ve been playing Fallout 4 today
Also, I realize I misspel Vault-Tec throughout these reviews. I noticed, but decided to leave the error in.
I play some FO4 most days.
I generally wander to different video games, and occassionally come back to some.
I will admit to buying an Xbox series X or whatever the new one is as an upgrade to my 360 just so I can play Oblivion Remastered.
::feels validated in decision not to waste money nor time on Prime::
I pay for prime delivery. They tacked on other crap, but the cost/benefit still says I’m getting enough out of my subscription for what I do use.
Same here.
I refuse mainly out of principle.
I guess two-day or whatever it is now versus somewhere between four- and seven-day delivery would be nice but I don’t really need it. I don’t particularly want any of that other stuff either.
I’ll say they did a decent job on Wheel of Time, it got better as it went, up until they cancelled it.
The delivery is the main reason, but the video and music is just a bonus
Bosch was great.
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But is it full of moral turpitude that will lead me off the path of righteousness and into the briar patch of sin and… um… more sin?
Half of me is disappoint, because it sounds like we should watch it Thursday night.
*returns to perusing the article
If you are cringe tolerant, Mad Dog 34 is insane.
kinnath, from Ded Thred:
I am indifferent to traffic circles in theory, and, like you, enjoy them in England and Ireland. But that is because the population of those areas are used to them, as they became the standard there at the same time as the adoption of the automobile. In other words, they are as natural to the drivers of those areas as, well, driving. Introducing them here has been spotty, with poor implementation, abnormal traffic directions to use them, and drivers unsure of the way to handle them.
In other words, the social engineering aspect of them has not been handled in any good sense of the word. And that is what I donβt like about them. I have seen ones in Sacramento where they just plopped it in the middle of a residential intersection, a figure eight (two right next to each other) in Springfield Oregon, round-a-bouts that have dedicated lanes keeping you in the dark about were you have to turn out and not knowing which street you are exiting to until you are turning through it. I have also seen drivers cut right out in front of me when they are pulling a trailer which doubles there length thinking that no matter what the get to cut in. I have also seen cross walks put right at the street that meets the circle, which when used by pedestrians stops traffic in the round and negates the effect of it. None of those issues are the concepts fault, but all of them are the fault of implementation.
Which gets me to my final point. I donβt think they work especially well with one of the core features of American traffic law: the pedestrian always has the right of way. Unless a way is made for walkers to be able to cross the intersection without slowing the flow, it will always be an issue that disrupts the the main benefit, the free flow of traffic.
Traffic circles are absolutely not intended to allow traffic to flow freely – they are there intentionally to slow everything down, thus always resulting in congested interchanges.
They have the added benefit of being an obstacle for drunks to run into. The first one that went in by my house, which I think was the first in the county, snagged its first drunk before two(?) weeks had passed. I saw the impact point. No skid mark at all.
Fair.
The roundabout in my neighborhood has improved flow from the side street. Before it was built I avoided using that street because I had to wait a long time for a gap.
The social engineering is the point in the U.S.
You will stay in your pod because we made driving slower and more obnoxious.
True. At least J. Salke is gone. Her position was so valued that it didn’t get filled (to the best of my knowledge.).
I am going to have to see a positive track record for several years before I regain a neutral opinion.
Pronoun games? Blech. Do not want. Kudos for soldiering on.
The character is minor, and doesn’t show up often enough to make me give up.
Same. It is clearly pandering to vanguard woke sensibilities and I don’t have time for that.
Funny thing, I never even noticed, and it certainly didn’t carry on or I would have.
That’s impressive because a grammatically incorrect “they” is immediately obvious to me. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Guess I’ve become a little desensitized?
Oh, how I laughed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbaZncGfPT4
I haven’t been to Limeyland, so I don’t know how big their traffic circles are. There are a few around here. My major issue is they are too small. It’s almost impossible to tell what the person in the circle is going to do until he’s right on top of you.
Smallest “roundabout” I ever saw as a circle painted in the middle of a intersection. This was in London.
I saw one of those in Nottingham.
I also saw a grotequely large one which needed stoplights because you couldn’t see the traffic.
I am reminded of this one near me. I think it’s supposed to be a “traffic calming” measure but it does have feature favorite traffic sign ever.
We’ve got two around here, one at either end of I-587. The one at the Thruway end used to be a larger traffic circle, and isn’t so bad if you only want to go to the “next” exit on the roundabout, eg. the Thruway to Rte. 28, or 28 to Washington Ave. The one at the other end of 587 replaced a horrid intersection: there was enough space along Albany Avenue to have two sets of traffic lights way too closely spaced together. It’s not the best thing in the world if you want to go straight on Albany Ave., but there were no good alternatives for that intersection.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgX6qlJEMc
(Rhywun, you’ve never been to Trader Joe’s? Go check it out!)
Wegmans supermarket is closer so I have never found a reason to go out of my way. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
The center of that roundabout is asymmetrical. Boo. Hiss.
my favorite area roundabout
We have some waaaay out in the boondocks, visibility about a 1/2 mile in all directions, very limited traffic, as in I’ve never seen anyone entering from the side roads.
It’s almost like “We’ve got all this money, if we don’t spend it, we’ll lose it and someone else will get it.”
Another one was at a T, they made the roundabout too small and the 18 wheelers couldn’t make the turn. It had low curbs so the trucks were running over the center. It was taken out.
I drove over one like that at about 35 mph one night in Spokane. Thankfully it didnβt have a sign in it or a big rock. Zero warning that it was there.
This is generally considered the worst of them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
LOL that is ridiculous
The dipshits here added a requirement to signal leaving a roundabout. Which is downright stupid.
If I’m entering, I would like to know if the person in the circle intends to leave or keep goung. It is a turn, so you should signal it. Mandated? Probably not.
Continuing in a roundabout is an actual turn. Leaving is just going straight. Ergo, not a turn signal.
That’s nonsensical and backwards. In the circle, the road is curved, but you are staying on the road. When taking an exit ramp, you are: A turning, and B: chaning lanes, and should therefore signal.
I have enjoyed the fallout series, but not the series.
The brotherhood is made to look like idiots. Not something that makes sense in a post apocalyptic world, the idiots are long dead.
ugh an edit button.
Enjoy the games. Not the show.
In the interest of fairness the Brotherhood are kind of stupid in the game as well.
Which games? And which Brotherhood?
Bethesda doing the several hundred year time jump and moving across the country was dumb for money reasons.
The whole concept. The idea of a high tech dependent anti-tech group is a fun joke, but it is silly. The game glosses over the obvious issue that a high tech military force requires a technologically advanced industrial economy.
(((Jarflax:
In the first two games, they were a secret organization keeping the technology and hiding, waiting to rebuild the world. They were not anti-tech, they were against sharing knowledge with those they considered “unworthy”. That’s where they became puritanical.
I enjoy the games, but they are less believable than Elder Scrolls lol. I can conceive of a world with magic more easily than a world where the economy is based on scavenging 84, 120, 167, 200, 204 and 210 years after the war. One, nothing would still work or be salvageable, and two, people would have rebuilt a society before Fallout 1, and by 4 it would be ancient history.
I have stated that Bethesda’s biggest problem is that they’re stuck in a “Five Minutes After the Apocalypse” mindset, when the setting was long past that phase before they acquired it.
Everything salvagable would have been picked clean within a generation. Memories of the prewar should be just that – memories.
(((Jarflax:
Play the first two games. The first is set 84 years after the war, and the second is 80 years after that. In that time, small villages become cities, trade routes become caravans, technology has increased, and mankind has started to tame nature again.
Canon is important in Tolkien because he actually created a world and a history. In stuff like Star Wars and Fallout everything happens ad hoc, and trying to have a coherent vision of canon just means you made up a story yourself and get annoyed when the people creating the new game/show/movie, who are not the people who created the first, or often even the most recent installment, diverge from your mental image. I think it’s a waste of anger to get mad in those cases, you knew it was coming and all you can do is decide if you are still having fun. I still enjoyed 4, haven’t played the multiplayer game or watched the show, and find 1 and 2 too annoying to play. New Vegas was the best π
(((Jarflax:
*clears throat*
The Fallout Bible
There was a full canon written for the games, and they had originally licensed the GURPS role playing system for the CRPG. There were disagreements with Steve jackson (who I’ve heard is an ass), so they came up with the SPECIAL system (which was written out with full TTRPG rules). That’s why the Bethesda extra time jump and using the same items from the other side of the country that had no reason to be anywhere else was dumb.
Mistaking nostalgia for quality is a risk of our age. Morrowind is still my favorite game, but I realize that much of my love for it is my memory of 1. being younger, and 2. the quantum leap forward it represented over the state of the art before it.
snort yup
Most of the time when I re-play an old favorite I realize “this is crap”.
I believe I’ve made my opinion on the show clear. They fucked with the canon enough to irritate me.
And it’s looking like the first rookie QB making their first start for the Browns will win for the first time in 30 years.
The benefit of starting against a 2-8 team.
He’s your future now! My Bengals future is wasting a top 5 draft pick on a scrub. It is good for things to stay constant!
I agree that visually, they knocked it out of the park.
βThis mission brief bugs me in a different way. It grates on my pedantry.β
Oh, I donβt think thatβs really a different way.
[zing]
βWhile there was no Enclave presence in the Commonwealthβ
Not counting the outposts, anyway. I mean, if weβre being pedantic.
Was that in the vanilla game? I don’t recall any enclave presence without mods.
My copy is so heavily modded that I’ve got an enclave-Brotherhood war going on before even getting to Diamond City.
They added it in last year in the update
If it came from a “Creation” it’s not in Vanilla, those are just Mods.
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A Dutch car enthusiast transformed a Bentley into a Packard.
I like it. I’ve wished for a modern Mercury M-series badging on pickups.
It do be like that.
Mr. Stancil
I quite enjoy your devotion to documenting you trove of ‘most likely shit but not sure, yet’ media.
This kinda goes into what I said the other day about games and I hope ‘far behind’ I am. I *did* play GTA III when it came out, and that was also a gamechanger. Damn fun, but I’ve never seen seen Fallout, the games, outside the cover or a random screenshot or two. So I sadly have no context to this one.
Almost entirely OT- I’m *not* shocked there’s been no fallout from Euros shutting down nuke plants in their bullshit quest for Net Zero. I rather *am* shocked this isn’t used as a spearhead of attack *against* the doomsday govt’s by political/etc entities that aren’t in on the bullshit.
“You want clean energy? We have it already. WTF are you doing?” followed by how 3Mile Island, Fukushima, etc weren’t radioactively dangerous, coupled with Chernobyl’s failure was a Communist one, not a nuclear one.
Obvious, concise shit they could be using. But they ain’t? I s’pose that’s why I ain’t makin’ the Big Bucks. I assume I’m too much for the casual mind. *primps self, ascot; microwaves beetle-bug stew w/ saffron* Nukes ya can use.
They are pretty fun if a bit kitsch. The color scheme makes my eyes hurt. I havenβt played 4 or 76. I donβt do online gaming.
The most pretentious thing I ever heard from a wine snob was that he just wanted a merlot that was “poignant, but not overbearing”.
Oh, how I laughed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxY3ICYHf4
I pretended to like Merlot and a classic films scene for some guy a couple decades ago. It was almost a relief when he shot me down for some woman. π
Me as a gamer, yes was irked with Amazon on their ideas…
My wife as not a gamer and only know FO via me, was entertained by the show and the world they built.
My wife liked it.
I have played through New Vegas. Liked it. They granny thing almost killed it for me.
Tranny. Damn you autocowreck.
It was so fleeting and such a minor character….
Now Maximus…terrible character.
So much this. I hate that character.
I’m with your wife – not a gamer, was reasonably entertained by the show.
I’m surprised.
Stop
Logging
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Out
You tell the squirlres!
Just wait til they bastardize Mass Effect and destory a lifetime worth of FemShep porn
Is mass effect the game where you control several characters with the wheel control thing on the screen?
If you bother. I just let the AI get itself killed.
Seeing assholes rail against tipping makes me want to jump aboard the get rid of tipping train. Just pay them a real wage and watch the price of food go up so most of these entitled fucks could eat out less.
Tipping etiquette was dead simple until some generation younger than mine took the reins of society and decided to left-politicize the fuck out of everything with their bullshit about “equity” and “living wages” in a vain pursuit to avoid expressing what they really want which is fucking Communism.
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Fuck Square. They pushed tipping on their POS platform and brought it to situations that were never tipped, along with covid era “niceness”. Square still takes their transaction on the tip amount too.
They already are paid a “real” wage here. No tip credit. The tip entitlement is just as strong.
Fuck Square.
Interstellar is a shit movie. Change my mind.
Goddammit this movie is fuckin horrible.
You’re not the boss of me.
de gustibus
I’m a fan.
I liked Interstellar. Gets a bit wonky or devolves into pseudo intellectual wankery towards the end, but at the least it was original and tried.
Oh yes… it definitely descended into pretentious twaddle. But it did so with glorious conviction.
Plus the soundtrack is amazing.
Now, Tenet? That was a real piece of shit. Actually walked out of that one.
That one is one my wait list for some day. I don’t really know anything about it but I bought the blu-ray anyway.
Dean Withers, the young strapping buck who was going to convince men to rejoin the left, has come out as bisexual. Spare me your shock. I know none of us saw this coming.
How long until he transitions?
Also, he debated Nick Fuentes. He was called gay by Nick Fuentes. That’s like really really fucking gay.
I have no idea who or what that is which is going on there… and I don’t care.
Dean Withers is some little Tik Toker who the mainstream left was championing as the solution to their man problem. Basically he was supposed to be their answer to Joe Rogan. He’s a laughably retarded obnoxious little shit from everything I’ve seen.
The name just makes me think of that guy from Oz and from all the insurance commercials with the band-aids.
That right there makes me hate him. Probably talks with his hands. Bird hands. peck peck peck
On a serious note, interactions with women that I don’t know who have started shoving their bird hands in my face while talking AT me is becoming more common. It does not make me happy at all. I blame selfie videos on tiktok. Fucking things.
saying Bird hands is misogyny
Then don’t go pecking at the screen like you’re trying to pluck the viewer’s eyeballs out in imitation of a vulture.
There’s a trend on social media where…ahem…inconvenient videos are instantly dismissed as AI no matter what. Saw a video that has been circulating for a year where a black dude trying to use EBT at a Subway punches the sandwich artist in a fit of rage. It would be the most passable AI I’ve personally seen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1oqfuw1/guy_punches_a_subway_sandwich_artist_after_his/
Redditors refuse to believe it could be so.
Much worse happens every single day across America. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Weβre not quite there yet in the technical sense but it wonβt be long before AI vids are a huge issue but this is just a case of people wanting confirmation of what they already want to believe.
People are stupid.
Most Redditors are those people.
SimpsonsCPRM did it first.The weekend’s about to begin. Hope all goes well for y’all on the beginning of your trudge. Don’t go shopping. You didn’t forget anything. There is nothing there. (Carry that regression on until you doubt *you* are really there. Once there, my job … really begins.
Onward, soldiers. Join Pie in the vacancy in the mirror.
Kid and wife are taking the week off from homeschool and everyone is sick.
Happy holiday week Monday.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg
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I will disappear to the basement to work in quiet.
Mad scientist stuff?
Good morning, Sean, EfE, Roat, Ted’S., and U!
Morning.
How goes?
So far so good! Ninja Cat was bothering me earlier, trying to climb my leg as I was pouring my coffee, but now that I’m sitting down, he’s nowhere to be found. ππ±βπ€
How are you?
I’m tempted to lie and claim Ninja Kitty came to see me – but he hasn’t π₯
I have breakfast, I have a few minutes before I am required to log in to work. It’s a remote monday, so I only have to be in the office wednesday and friday this week.
Yes, I know it takes me a day and a half to drive down, I just assumed he’d use some sort of ninja teleportation power.
Anyway, I suppose I’m all right, if not being visited by a distant feline is my worst complaint.
I recommend a sturdy pair of pants – maybe these Duluth Trading Men’s Fire Hose pants – in case he shows up, claws out. π±βπ€
…aaaaand he just jumped up on my lap.
*scritches*
He wants coffee.
As if an uncaffeinated isn’t energetic enough.
Oh, lordy! He’d be bouncing off the ceiling! π³π±βπ€
My cat is warming her butt on a register.
If your registers are warm enough to attract cats, add heat sinks to your processors.
https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-first-death-from-h5n5-bird-flu-strain-reported-in-us
The apocalypse is upon us.
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No. Fuck no.
Nobody gives a fuck. Cull the people calling for a panic.
Shut it all down. Wear your mask. Get your vax.
#Weβre all in this together.
How long is 15 days in bird days?
About 12 minutes.
Are those African swallows or European swallows?
Doesn’t matter, they run off the same model clock crystal.
Last day of dog sitting. She “slept in” until 5:50, so I’ve got that going for me. The two doggos together wake each other up early.
On the plus side, they owe us now and I won’t mind saving 4 nights of boarding when we go away next.
I *do* have Thurs off, so 3-day wknd begins in.. 5.5 hrs!
Chilin’ in the car on Break 1, perfectly timed for the sunrise. Was really blood-red before opening up. Pretty, pretty, preeeetty nice.
Extra pep in step, no coke involved. Coke zero, yes, but some Colombian snow wouldn’t be turned down. Ex in NYC got it delivered to her for shockingly cheap. I think $20(!) but maybe up to 40/g. Still. Damn. Jelly.
Isn’t capatalism great. Delivered phamacuticals.
Crazy on many levels.
Good morning Glibbernam!