SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
Honestly, who gives a shit?
This is a ridiculous flogged to death hobby horse some Americans insist on sticking to. Clinton had bad taste in women? So fucking what? That's completely and utterly irrelevant to literally anything at all other than keeping up juvenile kindergarten level "Clinton is a poohead"-rhetoric that mostly just tells how the complainer doesn't know when to give up when they have no actual criticism left.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
Hugo Weaving and Liv Tyler are just bad - the films in general just cannot do elves
Liv Tyler / Arwen simply shouldn't have been featured in the films beyond perhaps one short scene in Rivendell and another at the end. Expanding that role was a prominent example of how the film series was completely needlessly hollywoodized.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
My issue with the Hobbit trilogy is that it is abundantly clear that the studio wanted more LotR movies but the Hobbit is a very different work from Lord of the Rings in both tone and content.
Much of the WTF-ness of the Hobbit trilogy is explained by Del Toro noping out less than a year before the shooting started with the result that Jackson didn't have the preproduction or script finalized by the start date and the problems only got worse for the second and third installments with Jackson essentially having to go "Fuck this, let's just shoot something and hope we can edit it to something coherent".
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
7d ago
Should western powers have banned all political parties that took money and instructions from Russia
Yes. Alas, we can't change history, but better to start now than never.
Of course this has nothing to do with the parties being populist, communist or whatever.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
I can't help thinking of a recent Ladbible Stories video I watched where they interviewed a British porn director named Dick Bush. That's not a stage name. His parents Christened him Richard Bush and nominative determinism took care of the rest.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
In terms of policy, how is Trump any different than Bush 2.0
Bush didn't go out of his way to alienate every other US ally than Israel. That's a pretty major policy difference.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
This would be more convincing if the Maori weren't well ahead in civilizational terms, despite being even more remote from Eurasia.
You are aware that the Maori only arrived in New Zealand in the 13th century, right?
Taiwanese indigenous people had agriculture back in 3000 BCE and took it with them when they spread to Philippines and around Melanesia (and then in the 13th century to New Zealand). The distances in Melanesia much smaller, so a bunch of related cultures with centuries / millenia of seafaring had no problem exchanging ideas and technology between them. That situation is completely different to Australia.
The revisited Harry Potter by Balenciaga is both hilarious and surprisingly a genuinely good parody. There are still AI tells all over the place but they honestly don't distract from the short film itself.
It also desperately needs a fanfic that tells the back story of how
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
10d ago
I can read the wikipedia article on gun politics in the EU.
I don't think you can because there is no such thing as "gun politics in the EU" (something people on The Motte very often fail to realize). There's gun politics in country X that happens to be in EU but those are all different between the countries.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
11d ago
cloud of violence
That’s climate change for you.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
13d ago
What did Azatoth ever do to hurt you so much that you have to compare him to Trump? That’s just rude, man.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
13d ago
Best to just go with "rained in".
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
14d ago
in most of Europe that still requires Russian gas
In what alternate reality?
Most of Europe is very much not dependent on Russian gas for generating electricity, particularly for electricity that is at least somewhat time flexible.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
17d ago
Comrades, we found the fake Russian!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
18d ago
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
19d ago
Not only is it not the greatest Irish song ever, it's not even the greatest song by the Cranberries: "Dreams", for one, is obviously superior.
Zombie doesn't even sound like other Cranberries songs and is a clear outlier.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
20d ago
This is the first I’ve ever heard of such campaign.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
20d ago
the “happiness surveys” that show that Finland is the happiest country in the world.
FWIW, the reaction here in Finland to those surveys is always ”Lolwtf? Are you fucking kidding me?”
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
21d ago
If they were ”as the writer intended”, they would be unedited. Clearly there is significant benefit for books to not be literally as the author wrote and abridged editions are just another point on that continuum.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
21d ago
If that was actually the case, editors wouldn’t exist. Frequently the author is blind to their own follies and very often one of those follies is not knowing to cut things that are irrelevant and pointless digressions (see Scott’s writings for an extreme example).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
25d ago
as there is no person on earth worse at MS paint than me
I bet I could challenge you in that...
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
25d ago
Thanks. Now I just need to figure out how to do that on ipad and make it persistent...
You're just really unlucky or surrounded by autists in a particularly woke environment.
I've worked in tech for the last 30 years and personally know of exactly one (1) trans person (and that's not via anything work related). She had obvious autistic tendencies (severe enough to prevent holding a steady job for very long) before transitioning.
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