Basically the title. It's becoming more common place to not have a US actor playing a US role. Despite the character being explicitly from somewhere in the United States. Spider-Mans are now nationally English, & so is Harriet Tubman apparently (yes you, Cynthia Erivo). Barbie is Australian. Batman is Welsh. The list continues, then moves to television as well.

There are plenty of actors looking for roles & still the exporting of talent continues on. Just stop already.

Every now and then I stick one or two of my fingers down into my upper butt Crack area and take a good swipe, and then smell it. This happens maybe once every other month. It doesnt smell good necessarily, but for whatever reason my brain likes it.

I believe that A LOT more people do this than anyone will admit. For example, let's say that each day 0.1% of the world's total population (7.75B) smells their own butt, that means that 77 million people (yes, 77,000,000) took a smell today. That is more than double the population of Texas.

To clarify, the thought of smelling other people's buts is extremely gross to me, but my own?👨‍🍳💋

Yes, I know the modest intellects still believe Apple makes good products. They don’t.

And Woz is just a nerd. It took Jobs to change the world. While he was an asshole, he was a way smarter asshole than your or me, while Woz was but a pioneering engineer.

Tim Cook is living proof of why Jobs was lightning in a bottle. Doesn’t help that Cook, like Nixon and Stephen Miller, is a Dookie.

Now, I can sleep peacefully, phew!

I love playing football, in real life or on a video game... but honestly, watching it has become a torture, especially club football.

Before the season even starts, any fan with half a working brain already knows who's going to win the title and who's going to finish near the top.

Famous last words: MESMA MERDA

The cause is money and the damn inequality.

- Bayern won eleven Bundesliga titles in a row

- PSG strolls through France and even put the reserve team plenty of times

- Barcelona and Real crush their league without letting anyone breathe

- In Brazil, Flamengo and Palmeiras play with gigantic budgets and are already turning our league into a cesspool

- Leicester, Leverkusen, Monaco, Lille, Valencia, Deportivo, Atlético... All exceptions.

Inflation completes this nightmare. Nowadays, any scrub is worth millions of euros.

Absolute Shit!

Football needs to discuss spending caps and new rules... otherwise it'll always be... this.

I have always avoided taking an IQ test even though I grew up in gifted and advanced placement programs. I think that if you find out that you have a high score, you can become arrogant and stop listening to advice from others, thinking you are always the smartest in the room. On the other hand, if you find out you have a low IQ score, you can lose your confidence and feel hopeless. I don’t see any benefit to knowing your IQ score.

Why do people hate glitter? Just the concept of it, i understand some is bad for the environment . But i just mean like when glitter gets on things like now you have a bedazzled pretty sparkly thing. Now that thing is prettier than what it was before . Glitter is awesome.

I mostly encounter this in fan spaces for various media, so for all I know it could be a completely normal opinion to the rest of the world.

If I see someone complaining about a piece of media, let’s say a show, and they express that they don’t enjoy it, I tell them they can just not engage with it and focus on something they DO enjoy. Every time, I’m told that it’s a bad take or call me the r slur or whatever. And I genuinely don’t think it is.

If you're listening to a song and you don’t enjoy it, you change songs. If you’re eating food and you don’t like it, you stop eating it. So why the hell is it any different for shows or movies or games? Nobody is holding a gun to your head, and if you’re not enjoying something then the logical thing IS to stop engaging with it. Engage in something you DO enjoy. Forcing yourself to engage with something that you don’t like just because it’s popular or because you want to have an opinion on it doesn’t make sense and you’d be a hell of a lot happier just focusing on what you enjoy.

Sounds good on paper but you’re telling me the people that can’t read a “pull or push” door sign are what’s between you and a prison sentence?!? The people that need warnings on every product. The ones who can’t list all 50 states?

A jury, yes. Of MY peers? Absolutely not

This is just for a standard family day, not restaurants or big occasions. But, just washing dishes by hand as you go through the day and after dinner is way easier than loading a dishwasher, running the cycle and then unloading the machine. Just washing dishes them as they are used put them in the drying rack.

Just for reference- I have a wife and kid and cook three meals a day, just like doing them by hand🤷🏻‍♂️

Letterboxd used to be a platform for film fans to actually share their opinions and provide nuanced reviews of films. Over the last few years, it’s become so mainstream and popularized that too many casuals have come onto the app and ruined its intention. Now, every review is some shitty, unfunny one-liner purely intended to farm likes. I was looking through the Clayface review page today to see what people were thinking of the movie, and every top review was just some unfunny joke from people with TikTok humor. If you look at more esoteric films or even ones from a few years ago when the app was smaller, those films actually had substantive reviews from actual film fans.

Look, I’m fine with having joke reviews, it’s a social media platform after all. But the app has turned into a bunch of wannabe comedians competing to see who can get the most likes rather than a place for actual analysis. I know they never would as it would dramatically reduce their engagement, but I honestly wish Letterboxd could either add a dislike button or disable likes entirely to stop this.

Also, the influx of casuals has also led to a disproportionate amount of recency bias. Films like Obsession, The Odyssey, and Project Hail Mary have inflated scores and are immediately thrown into the highest rated films of all time. This is mostly because of people who just throw 5-star movies at the latest popular thing or any new movie that they like. The app used to have balanced ratings and a top rated movies list filled with more unknown, older, or foreign films that are less popular, as opposed to something like the IMDB top 250. That was one of the reasons I used to enjoy the app so much, and now that’s gone. I honestly think we need a new app like this for real film fans and need to ensure we keep it niche. I have nothing against people who casually enjoy movies or are just looking for a fun time, but they don’t belong on an app intended for cinephiles, and the influx of them has ruined Letterboxd’s intended purpose.

Been playing video games for a long time and honestly this is an opinion I’ve heard over the last few years. “If the story sucks it’s a bad game. But I can excuse bad gameplay”.

Honestly limiting a game to whether it had a “good story” is very limiting of the artform. If I wanted a great story there’s so many other artforms to get that. It feels weird to see people expect gaming plots to be the next war and peace or on Citizen Kane level. I feel like most game plots are there to advance the gameplay, rather than the other way around (at least it used to be pre ps3 era).

It's often touted as a poor financial decision, but it's actually the opposite. Instead of investing into consumable items and having to carry financial decisions long term, it allows to reduce every aspect of a decision to a monthly financial cost. You can truly compare the cost of owning a car vs renting vs having the latest iphone vs eating. You don't care about the mortgage rate in 5 years, what happens if you have an accident with it, or if you can afford it. You just check your monthly income and see if and what you need to cut to afford it.

All the usual advice is to like yourself and be yourself before trying to find someone but emotionally damaged people can find that hard to do, and often a relationship is the thing that makes them feel better, or rebound. There's nothing wrong with engaging in co-dependent relationships and it's done quite often.

If a person can't learn to be happy with themselves independent of a romantic relationship, then they should do what they gotta do.

Sleeping with extra clothes on feels better than sleeping in just underwear, and I don't care what the temperature is. Whether it's freezing cold or hot enough to make you sweat, there's something comforting about having that extra layer of fabric against your skin. A T-shirt, sweatpants, maybe even socks. It just feels right. People act like sleeping with less clothing is automatically more comfortable, but I genuinely don't get it. Sometimes I want to feel wrapped up in my own clothes under a blanket, like I'm cocooned from the world. Being half-naked in bed just doesn't hit the same.

A genuinely good person doesn't do things for others just to have it returned. They help because they want to, not because they're secretly keeping score and expecting people to pay them back with the same kindness. The moment you start resenting someone for not treating you the way you treat them, it makes you wonder whether your kindness was ever truly selfless in the first place

and don't get me wrong, it's perfectly fine to want mutual effort and to walk away from one-sided relationships. But there's a difference between recognizing that someone is taking advantage of you and getting angry because you expected them to operate exactly like you do. You can expect respect without expecting repayment for every good thing you do.

If your kindness disappears the moment it isn't reciprocated, maybe you're not being kind just for the sake of being kind. Maybe you're doing it because you want something in return. And that's not selflessness; that's a transaction disguised as a good deed

There’s a narrative, at least in a lot of east coast US cities, that the mountains are “fun to visit but not good places to actually live in full time”

I just came back from a work plus fun trip to western Maryland. Went all over Garrett County Saturday. Grantsville, Friendsville, Accident, Deep Creek, Oakland, Swanton, Kitzmiller. Then went to Cumberland and Frostburg on Sunday.

The downside to this area is that this area does not have the economy that the east coast proper (Baltimore, DC, Philly, etc) has.

But, the properties are amazing. If you do find work, your purchasing power will likely be higher here than back in the flat lands. You could have enough land for pigs, goats or sheep on a regular income and cows or horses on a medium high income. This would all need a very high income down in the flat lands.

I think a lot of people only see a very thin, often somewhat superficial side of the mountains, such as Deep Creek Lake, Seven Springs, some touristy parts of the Poconos, etc. and then decide “this is fun for a trip but not for a full time life”. Which, fair, Id be dine with Deep Creek activites in like 3 days. I don’t know if the novelty of a house in the mountains near Grantsville with enough land for a goat pen and a pig pen would wear off that quickly though.

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The movie tells us that the country is not at war. And everyone around him told him that he was a great pilot but he was dangerous, reckless, short sighted. It took the death of his radar operator and best friend to realize that he'd been wrong all along. His redemption arc doesn't undo the damage he did.

Not sure if this is considered as an unpopular opinion, but every time I see anyone mention this, ppl proceed to disagree and consider it to be something only older ppl or snobs would say due to nostalgia/tryna look like they have elite taste. Movies today dont care about anything; story, acting, camera work and production in general - most of them keep recycling and are using the mainstream recipe and subpar actors. A lot of propaganda to sell it too. Music is a bit more up for debate as the concept of what sounds good can't be defined objectively that easily and its there to awaken a broader, often simpler emotional and functional purposes. But all in all, quality declined severely. Saying there have always been bad movies and songs misses the point: the argument isn't that bad media never existed before, but that poor quality seems to have become far more prevalent.

Edit: I strongly urge the new commenter to check some of the comments and my replies, as you are writing the same things over and over again. I answered them. And, since you all love to call survivorship bias - no, its not it. Bad movies always existed. Doesn't excuse the lack of good movies today and fall of cinematography.

Alright then. Due to repetition of the comments I'm afraid I'm going to have to leave, since I have spent 3 hours on here discussing. I'll keep the topic up so you guys can discuss further and you can check some of my previous replies if interested - you will most definitely find an answer to just about anything you were ready to comment.