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[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/travis-scott-utopia-out-now.747148/page-5#post-109677901

Is this the artist that people got crushed to death at one of his concerts?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/travis-scott-utopia-out-now.747148/page-5#post-109685095

Yeah. Isn't he a piece of shit? Oh well, guess people are all, "Yeah, but... he makes music that I like!"

But the track featuring Dave Chapelle is great!! I’m glad Kanye “Jews ruined my life” West is getting paid for it as well. /s

Cyberpunk was banned for transphobia. Here’s an album that features a transphobe, and to one up that has Kanye all over the credits.

[Jansen]

This is very disingenuous.

People -- not just MCU fans but like, literally everyone -- make fun of DC movies bombing because it's been a decade of very poor quality, repeating the same mistakes and fans wanting to simply move on and get to the reboot. People make fun of all kinds of movies for bombing. Are you going to pretend that Quantumania hasn't been the butt of jokes in the months following its underwhelming box office performance?

There is a difference between making fun of something for bombing or underperforming (as we saw many people here do with both Shazam and Quantumania) and wishing for a movie to bomb.

For you to use The Flash as an example of "MCU fans wishing for a movie to bomb" is to purposefully ignore the context surrounding that movie, such as the star of that movie being a literal groomer and abuser.

There have been plenty of people celebrating Dead Reckoning's disappointing box office performance specifically because of their understandable issues with Tom Cruise. Are those "MCU fans" as well?

This need some people here have to turn everything into Marvel vs. DC nonsense is ridiculous. We should all want movies like The Marvels and Blue Beetle to do very well at the box office because it advances opportunities for more diverse casts in future blockbusters.

Guess who

[Polident]

Is IMAX actually better than Dolby Vision? Hard to beat ATMOS and that insane contrast.

My low stakes conspiracy theory is the other “large format” options are theater chains attempting to get a larger cut than they do with IMAX.

I wonder if Barbie was bad but had the same basic plot, the woke squad would turn on it or still embrace it.

A more interesting question, arguably the same question, is what’d be the reaction to a Diablo Cody written Barbie. Potentially starting Anne Hathaway or Amy Schumer.

From what’s been said, the hang up was trying to make a transgressive take that made Mattel uncomfortable. They wanted the LEGO Movie. So much so they got Will Farrell back for this new one. Very safe toy commercial with the feminism of Hillary’s “I’m with her.” Clearly that was the right play from a business stand point. And now we’re getting a Chutes and Ladders from S Craig Zahler. Movies are back.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uap-ufo-ot.745789/page-35#post-109732945

User Banned (2 weeks): ignoring the staff post, conspiracy theories

Would ETs intervene if we accidentally almost extincted ourselves?

My new theory is they just have some of our embryos collected and will reseed the planet when it eventually unfucks itself. They can't interfere in canon events, but they think we're cool enough to give another shot at it.

This may be an interesting read for you: https://palisuttas.wordpress.com/2016/05/14/buddhism-and-the-ufo-phenomenon/

The great and still unresolved question of course is what are these objects? Vallee suggests that the UFO phenomenon acts like a control system, and that UFOs appear more frequently when the fundamental ideological paradigm of human civilization shifts toward scientific rationalism and materialism. Vallee also associates the appearance of UFOs with apocalyptic images and the end of civilizations. Vallee suggests that UFOs seem to be interested in convincing human beings that higher dimensional beings exist, but do so in such a way that the human social order is not unduly disrupted. That is to say, they seem to have regard for the limitations of human cognition. Since Buddhism is at least in part a result of UFO influence, and is ancient, untainted by modern influences, its explanation is of interest with the caveat that it is well-known that at least some UFOs also lie, or combine truth and falsehood in various ways designed to disrupt the same expectations that they create. This suggests that they have a sophisticated agenda insofar as human beings are concerned, which is far from understood.

As I have already mentioned, Jacques Vallee hypothesized that UFOs have a long-standing historical relationship with the earth and with humanity. This alone explains the historical frequency of UFO sightings and contact experiences, their apparent interest in people, their apparent function as a control system, their ability to communicate with us at all, and the quasi-humanoid appearance of their inhabitants. Interestingly, the Aganna Sutta (the Primordial Sutta, DN 27) supports just this view.

Vallee in particular has argued that if these things turn out to be extra-terrestrial, he will be disappointed. His own view seems to be that they are intelligent higher-dimensional beings with a long association with humans and the earth, possibly originating beyond the space-time continuum as we understand it. Even if they originated in our universe their civilization is potentially billions of years old, compared to a mere 10,000 years for human civilization. Vallee speculates that they may have learned to master both space and time, in which case the question of their "origin" may be factually meaningless. Since civilization grows exponentially, the qualitative difference between these beings and ourselves is clearly on the order of millions of times. Such a civilization will have harnessed the zero point energy and therefore be trans-galactic, even trans-universal or extra-dimensional in nature and not merely extra-terrestrial.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/uap-ufo-ot.745789/page-35#post-109733137

What proof does this Vallee have for all of that nonsense? I think we're veering away from the Disclaimer in the OP about the new thread.

I'd say one of his books, Passport to Magonia. Is it definitive proof? No, but it's his collection of unexplained phenomena, including UFO's.

All of this may be dismissed as mythology in our age of fasco-corporatism and scientistic nihilism were it not for one singular fact, which has been extensively documented by Jacques Valee in his magnum opus, Passport to Magonia (1969, reprinted 2014), and this is the detailed and extensive similarity of the experiences associated with these beings, including descriptions of the beings themselves, with the modern UFO phenomenon, including the contact experience, as well as clear descriptions of the distinctive traits of the UFO phenomenon in the early Buddhist texts themselves. The latter confirm Vallee's thesis, of which Passport to Magonia is an elaboration, that the UFO phenomenon, whatever else it is, is an archaic and possibly primordial human phenomenon that has been experienced and described throughout human history and that has psychological and physical aspects that clearly identify the UFO phenomenon as a real, distinct phenomenon that cannot be entirely reduced to conventional causes, including error, hoax, optical illusions, hallucinations, and mental confusion, as is widely claimed by skeptics who have not studied the data deeply or objectively.

[Daffy Duck]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/travis-scott-utopia-out-now.747148/page-5#post-109677901

Is this the artist that people got crushed to death at one of his concerts?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/travis-scott-utopia-out-now.747148/page-5#post-109685095

Yeah. Isn't he a piece of shit? Oh well, guess people are all, "Yeah, but... he makes music that I like!"

But the track featuring Dave Chapelle is great!! I’m glad Kanye “Jews ruined my life” West is getting paid for it as well. /s

Cyberpunk was banned for transphobia. Here’s an album that features a transphobe, and to one up that has Kanye all over the credits.

Lol they just can’t help themselves, they advocate for banning anything and everything, they really did open up Pandora’s box with Hogwarts. Mods please ban

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/has-anyone-gone-no-contact-with-a-parent.748072/

I'm not in a position at the moment to do that, unfortunately. I would just tell your co-worker that you are there for him whenever he needs someone to talk to.

I'm guessing it's because they put a roof over his head.

[Besticus Maximus]

Excuse me, are you NOT wishing that the blue beetle does well?  

[Colonel Mustard]

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/has-anyone-gone-no-contact-with-a-parent.748072/

I'm not in a position at the moment to do that, unfortunately. I would just tell your co-worker that you are there for him whenever he needs someone to talk to.

I'm guessing it's because they put a roof over his head.

I’m saving that thread and comparing it to the upcoming, ‘I’m spending Christmas alone and am very lonely,’ thread this December.

[Uncle]

I've never had the best relationship with my parents, but I still see them from time to time (about once a month). However, I've got a coworker whose father moved in with him and his wife after his mom died, and things came to a head with racist behavior. Now, he's kicking him out, and going no-contact. I was hoping to get some advice on what kind of support I should be looking to offer for this.

I understand that everyone's situation is different, and you don't want to have to live with someone who annoys you daily

but if no one in the house is of whatever race the guy is being racist against, how is it causing a problem

unless the guy's wife is the disparaged race, or they have a kid and don't want him exposed to it

when you kick a miserable old guy whose wife died to the curb, you're not teaching a valuable lesson which will cause him to change his ways and he'll tell everyone at his church to stop being racist like him

also did you try talking to him nicely or just scream obscenities at him

but rehabilitation is never the idea anyway, it's whatever is most convenient

[Eric Cartman]

Got to hand it to Disney. They got millions of shills like ClickyCal, FJ0823, and ZeroVagina to preach how watching the latest mass manufactured MCU slop is some moral imperative. And if you don't give the MCU your time and money, or even dare make fun of the MCU, you're a rightwing Nazi incel chud.

The best part is that they aren't even trying to suggest it looks like its actually any good, so they're trying to push the idea that three women as leads, some of whom are WOC, is some fucking milestone in cinema. That's not even a milsetone in the fucking MCU but I guess wakanda didn't quite stick the forever part.

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-accused-me-of-some-heinous-accussations-over-twitter-was-i-in-the-wrong-in-my-actions.748099/post-109741270

I'm not gonna defend the OP, but you're really gonna lock up the thread while basically calling the OP a creep so they can't respond and that's now Official Endorsed Opinion?

Let's have another wordswordswords essay from Bormie in the constructive thread about how hard mods work to strike the balance of professionalism and personality and totally not power tripping assholes

[Eric Cartman]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/media-content-to-help-dispel-my-qanon-q-anonymous-friend.748093/

"Hi era, a friend of mine is heading down a bad road, any advice on bringing them back?"

Don’t waste your time. There is nothing you can show them that will change their mind.

it’s too late

Better to go low contact

From now on, facts can't compete against his "facts". You won't get to him rationally because his reasoning has nothing to do with what is true, only what he is emotionally conditioned to believe

First months of covid?...Yeah they're far gone, sadly. I'm sorry.

They're gone OP
Your thread might as well be "Options to help my Clicker friend deal with his infection"

You can't fix people. They have to want to work on themselves. It sucks but seriously forget it and move on.

OP, you can't fix people. It's a painful thing to realize, but it's true.

All you can do is live your life, and live your morals, openly and authentically. People can only be inspired by the example you set.

You're only setting yourself up for more disappointment as the conversation progresses to adjacent topics in the right-wing media sphere like George Soros created trans people.

There isn't any, and they have no interest in it anyways.

Good you got out, and the best you can do is continue to make sure to take care of yourself first and foremost.

I'm sorry but your friend is gone and there is not much you can do but look out for yourself.

You don’t believe them. Take that win, and don’t feel bad that you can’t solve this problem.

They're gone.

It sucks to lose a friend, but he's too far gone to be pulled back at this point.

Cut ties and move on.

Good talk.

Also interesting how some of era most demonstrably miserable cunts are in this thread begging company for their misery telling OP to just immediately cut all ties

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-accused-me-of-some-heinous-accussations-over-twitter-was-i-in-the-wrong-in-my-actions.748099/post-109741270

I'm not gonna defend the OP, but you're really gonna lock up the thread while basically calling the OP a creep so they can't respond and that's now Official Endorsed Opinion?

Let's have another wordswordswords essay from Bormie in the constructive thread about how hard mods work to strike the balance of professionalism and personality and totally not power tripping assholes

They also said this to me (also over comics)

"....also your argument and debate skills are shitty and you honestly should be ashamed of the fact that you somehow got through law school with that level of skill. Spamming panels over engaging in thoughtful conversation and using them to actually back a point up, refusing to listen to what others are saying, and deliberately refusing to READ THE ROOM and understand that making people uncomfortable to the point that they disengage from the conversation isn't the same as making a valid point are all exceptionally awful behaviors to have as a lawyer."

reseteta

[Daffy Duck]

1690803725[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-accused-me-of-some-heinous-accussations-over-twitter-was-i-in-the-wrong-in-my-actions.748099/post-109741270

I'm not gonna defend the OP, but you're really gonna lock up the thread while basically calling the OP a creep so they can't respond and that's now Official Endorsed Opinion?

Let's have another wordswordswords essay from Bormie in the constructive thread about how hard mods work to strike the balance of professionalism and personality and totally not power tripping assholes

Lmao, you never go full ResetEra

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/media-content-to-help-dispel-my-qanon-q-anonymous-friend.748093/

"Hi era, a friend of mine is heading down a bad road, any advice on bringing them back?"

Don’t waste your time. There is nothing you can show them that will change their mind.

it’s too late

Better to go low contact

From now on, facts can't compete against his "facts". You won't get to him rationally because his reasoning has nothing to do with what is true, only what he is emotionally conditioned to believe

First months of covid?...Yeah they're far gone, sadly. I'm sorry.

They're gone OP
Your thread might as well be "Options to help my Clicker friend deal with his infection"

You can't fix people. They have to want to work on themselves. It sucks but seriously forget it and move on.

OP, you can't fix people. It's a painful thing to realize, but it's true.

All you can do is live your life, and live your morals, openly and authentically. People can only be inspired by the example you set.

You're only setting yourself up for more disappointment as the conversation progresses to adjacent topics in the right-wing media sphere like George Soros created trans people.

There isn't any, and they have no interest in it anyways.

Good you got out, and the best you can do is continue to make sure to take care of yourself first and foremost.

I'm sorry but your friend is gone and there is not much you can do but look out for yourself.

You don’t believe them. Take that win, and don’t feel bad that you can’t solve this problem.

They're gone.

It sucks to lose a friend, but he's too far gone to be pulled back at this point.

Cut ties and move on.

Good talk.

Also interesting how some of era most demonstrably miserable cunts are in this thread begging company for their misery telling OP to just immediately cut all ties

Hey, Reeeeesetera lurkers, this is the advice you should be following relating to anyone that posts in the JK Rowling is Hitler thread

[Eric Cartman]

heres some music videos the plebs could use to lock up nepenthe posts in an alternate timeline

[Eric Cartman]

The biggest problem with this fascist from what I'm told by a Salvadoreñan friend / coworker is that what he's doing is actually reducing enormously gang violence and the general population doesn't give a fuck about those innocents paying for it because a really big part of the population was living in gang ruled hellhole and they see as the price they have to pay for for peace and some chance at prosperity.

This dude has risen because the state has been failing the population for decades now.

fuck this dudes effective and popular policies

[JoeBoy101]

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The biggest problem with this fascist from what I'm told by a Salvadoreñan friend / coworker is that what he's doing is actually reducing enormously gang violence and the general population doesn't give a fuck about those innocents paying for it because a really big part of the population was living in gang ruled hellhole and they see as the price they have to pay for for peace and some chance at prosperity.

This dude has risen because the state has been failing the population for decades now.

fuck this dudes effective and popular policies

Nah, you lost me there. It’s effective, sure, but also being abused wholesale. I mean, I get his popularity. He’s president of the country that had the highest murder rate in the world, but even if you view his policies as necessary, it doesn’t make them any less draconian or… well… fascist. Shockingly, this is a case where the label isn’t being unfairly used.

I mean, fuck, the predicate for their post is the Congress approving trials for up to 900 ‘gang members’ at once. Really think there won’t be a good handful of innocent people in there?

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/travis-scott-utopia-out-now.747148/page-5#post-109685674

I've now listened to the album three times.

It is the definition of mid and completely forgettable. Its most memorable moments are actually Kanye songs from 10 years ago. And the fact that he put a fucking Dave Chappelle feature on this adds a dusting of transphobia to the album that everyone should be calling out as the bullshit that it is.

Even the at-times terrific production is cancelled out by Travis himself just being kind of boring. He's not saying or doing anything interesting.

- Doesn’t like album.
- Listens through it 3 times anyways thus enriching him thrice (I’m assuming he’s streaming it).
- Still has the gall to complain about the problematic elements DESPITE LISTENING THROUGH IT 3 FUCKING TIMES.

Now please pardon my language, but I’m starting to think this ZeroVagine fellow is a real jerk.

[Eric Cartman]

I mean... this falls under moral relativism imo.

If your baseline standard is a functional society, yeah, this is abhorrent. In a completely broken society though?

I'd also say, given the underpinning of fascism is 'might = right', what's the lesser of two evils?
Organised crime who use violence to enrich themselves, or the state to enact the will of the people?
Its not like you have a vote in your local crime boss whereas the el salvadorean authorities are at least to some extent elected, held accountable, and expected to uphold a mandate.

Most countries with functional societies have rocky spots in their pasts they needed to go through to get to our current standards of what civlisation and society means - I don't know if uniting disparate gangs and warlords into one concept of a nation is a mandatory step in becoming a functional society, but theres enough historical precedent that its something you seem to have to get through that I can't sit back and sneer at their 'backward ways' because I was born after my country went through all that shit themselves, or condemn extreme measures in extraordinary circumstance.

[Uncle]

there's a balance, right

like something obviously needs to be done in california right now

people who previously were able to load up their backpacks in stores and just walk out, or almost kill someone and then destroy their car and face no charges, may at some point lose these privileges they currently enjoy

[JoeBoy101]

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m no Angel. If I was living in that society as it were, I’d probably be cheering it on as well. I think the argument is not whether it’s fascist but whether those policies are necessary. And I think a very reasonable, even moral, case can be that they are. I think the president’s relishing in the role as a kind dictator though, as well as no time limits or plan to scale back such policies should be given consideration as well.

I mean, is it any better for the state to stamp down/out organized crime if it elevates the state to being those same mobsters with an equal level of violence? I’m not saying that’s the case yet, but you can see it from here.

And to bring it home before someone else does…

[Greatness Gone]

The latest Sony first party title is criticized and on cue Ree starts malding.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spider-man-2-looks-like-a-movie-ive-already-seen-twice-dualshockers.748219/

[Taco Bell Tower]

We are now in the phase of “Marvel makes more money so they deserve it better than Dune”.

Wrong!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/imax-press-release-the-marvels-will-simply-receive-not-a-single-screen-zero-all-of-them-will-be-dedicated-to-dune-2-for-more-than-a-month.747988/page-2#post-109727488

Disney needs to keep taking some Ls. The less influence they have over screen allotment the better.

ClickyCal'

A movie led by three women, two WoC, doesn't need an L.

[Propagandhim]

Also consider that the mods are just regular ass people like us who do this on a volunteer basis and in addition to legislating on larger decisions that affect site-wide rules, they also have to handle a deluge of reports and tickets while also being ready to react when some random bullshit happens out of nowhere that they have to jump on like firefighters. If the mods didn’t let a little frustration leak into their responses where they need to enforce the rules or set the tone, I’d be concerned that they’re not human.

Why do they act like any of the things listed here are difficult to do?

I'd maybe feel a little sympathy...IF THE MODS WEREN'T THE ONES WHO CULTIVATED THIS BEHAVIOUR IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!

We are now in the phase of “Marvel makes more money so they deserve it better than Dune”.

Wrong!
https://www.resetera.com/threads/imax-press-release-the-marvels-will-simply-receive-not-a-single-screen-zero-all-of-them-will-be-dedicated-to-dune-2-for-more-than-a-month.747988/page-2#post-109727488

Disney needs to keep taking some Ls. The less influence they have over screen allotment the better.

ClickyCal'

A movie led by three women, two WoC, doesn't need an L.

 I'm glad we came off of Barbenheimer showing that moviegoers have wide and diverse interests that let two polar opposite movies thrive on the same weekend by deciding that this movie with the WOC leads and director (her name is Nia DaCosta, and she very much makes "real movies") in particular needs to be destroyed. Always fun when this forum takes its mask off outside of February.

[Propagandhim]

My theories and knowledge on how to organize society are the best, says local man who can't manage to root out the underground secret racism operatives in his favorite tiny shitball forum for the past 5+ years.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/paul-reubens-aka-pee-wee-herman-has-died.748270/page-3#post-109767769

Not trying to derail, but his relationship with Jeffrey Jones and that whole mess leaves a pretty dark cloud hanging over his legacy.

https://ew.com/article/2002/11/18/paul-pee-wee-reubens-charged-kid-porn-probe/

[Boredfrom]

1690807145[/url]']

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https://www.resetera.com/threads/someone-accused-me-of-some-heinous-accussations-over-twitter-was-i-in-the-wrong-in-my-actions.748099/post-109741270

I'm not gonna defend the OP, but you're really gonna lock up the thread while basically calling the OP a creep so they can't respond and that's now Official Endorsed Opinion?

Let's have another wordswordswords essay from Bormie in the constructive thread about how hard mods work to strike the balance of professionalism and personality and totally not power tripping assholes

They also said this to me (also over comics)

"....also your argument and debate skills are shitty and you honestly should be ashamed of the fact that you somehow got through law school with that level of skill. Spamming panels over engaging in thoughtful conversation and using them to actually back a point up, refusing to listen to what others are saying, and deliberately refusing to READ THE ROOM and understand that making people uncomfortable to the point that they disengage from the conversation isn't the same as making a valid point are all exceptionally awful behaviors to have as a lawyer."

reseteta

What the fuck, he is lawyer? I thought he was just a Slayven.

[JoeBoy101]

1690826314[/url]']
https://www.resetera.com/threads/paul-reubens-aka-pee-wee-herman-has-died.748270/page-3#post-109767769

Not trying to derail, but his relationship with Jeffrey Jones and that whole mess leaves a pretty dark cloud hanging over his legacy.

https://ew.com/article/2002/11/18/paul-pee-wee-reubens-charged-kid-porn-probe/

Not trying to derail, but don’t mind if I do.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-are-the-biggest-concerns-in-your-life-right-now.748108/#post-109745446

Trying to find some semblance of happiness after 3+ years of nothing constant loss, death, loneliness and chronic depression.

Anyway, I'm fine. Life is great.