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Accurate in so many ways

Jokes on you, I'd probably enjoy that so I wouldn't argue. Especially if I'm crazy rich, what else would I have to do?

Lotto cashier. "I'm definitely going to hit the jackpot on this one, ya big dummy."

He's not, but that doesn't mean he should be arrested for opposing Trump's power grab.

That's also a fair point. Oligarchs aren't seeking out shady methods of funneling money to candidates to run progressive campaigns. In general, money always has motivation, which is one of the reasons Citizens United was so catastrophic.

Oh I agree with you. I'm just saying it's far easier to find crazy people willing to spout nonsense than it is to find a reasonable, persuasive person who is willing and able to shout into the void.

I'm not defending the DNC at all, but it is a tough process. Running candidates that lose takes a toll. The candidate is putting themselves at risk, painting a target on their backs, and they have to be passionate and persuasive in their campaign knowing they are going to lose.

Conservatives are much better at it, primarily because Conservative losers aren't afraid of being lynched, and they're permitted to say whatever bat shit nonsense happens to rattle around in their skull. They aren't required to be consistent or nuanced or honest, so finding sacrificial nazis in progressive regions isn't that hard. Chances are, people in the community already know who they are and what they stand for because bigots aren't usually quiet.

Progressives have to actually make an argument, one that resonates and establishes a foothold for reason. It's like climbing a muddy slope. Conservatives don't need to reach the summit, they just want to stop you from getting there.

Aaron Rogers.

I can empathize with having my stuff taken, but if you had $1.3 million in jewels, I'm going to bet you're still better off than almost everyone I know even after the theft. This is a minor inconvenience, and that's before we even begin to discuss the ethical implications of the jewelry trade.

Nobody got hurt. Money and jewelry can be replaced.

Yeah, the entire story follows the major beats of a group of people playing DND. Everything that happens would be familiar to a player. Your party always gets captured and thrown in a prison from where you must escape. Dungeon Masters (the people running the game) will frequently introduce an overpowered "helper" NPC to move the party along in the right direction, but that character won't engage in the fights. Parties will find several puzzles that the DM has spent hours creating, only for the party to use some magic or tool in a creative way to bypass the entire puzzle.

To someone expecting standard fantasy storytelling, it's jarring and weird. The anachronistic language, the character decisions that don't make sense, the magic artifacts that seem to just happen to be exactly what the party needs in the moment, it's all stuff that would happen around a table in someone's basement. It helps to think of each character as a regular person you know today playing a game where they make all the decisions for the character. Convenient contrivances or frustrating failures are the DM having fun with the story. Sometimes the dice rolls 20 and you do something miraculous, and sometimes you roll a 1, trip over a pebble and stab yourself in the face.

You don't have to be a dnd player to enjoy the movie, but you do need to understand the lens through which you're watching it. Otherwise, the tone and pacing seem really strange.

I think I still have my google voice number.

The "law" has been pretty clear on what happens to Trump, which is not a fucking thing.

It's kind of weird we don't have the option to create multiple voicemail boxes. How hard would that be?

Did you mean to just post a still image? Or is there more?

Nobody should be blaming the cast. This wasn't a situation where bad performances failed to connect the viewer with an otherwise excellent film. Madame Web was quite possibly the worst tentpole film by a major studio ever. It was definitely the worst comic book movie ever made, and that's a competitive field.

It might not stop them, but sometimes it should.

Isn't that just the definition of a parasocial relationship?

Boiling gets the sweet carrot flavor out of the carrot and into the stew. It's like onions and celery, the point is not to have mushy bits of formerly flavorful vegetables, but to have those flavors in the food. If you're making a mirepoix for soup or stew, it is a mistake to leave big chunks or slices of carrot intact.

Roasted carrots are different, though, I agree.

I'm not reducing anyone to anything. Conservativism is always exactly the same, which is why it's called "conservativism." If a conservative isn't conservative, then they are something else.

It's not a generalization, it's the name for the phenomenon.