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2hr ago
I agree with @Skulldrinker that "beyond normal levels of shitty" seems like an accurate way to characterise Platner's behaviour based on this description.
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2hr ago
Funnily enough, while watching the video in which he denied the allegations, it occurred to me how little editing his political speech would require to make it sound like something a libertarian populist would say.
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6hr ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that he killed himself just a few hours after an angry row with his girlfriend in which she admitted being unfaithful to him but dismissed his feelings about it. No doubt the lifetime of drink, drugs and mental illness didn't help, but I suspect this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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7hr ago
Also, you didn't ask a question.
Surely there was an implied "why the hell did they think this was a good idea?" undergirding the entire post.
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7hr ago
Antichamber, Aragami, MiniLAW, Transistor, Neon STRUCT. Largely based on the criteria of not paying more than €5 for any individual game.
Over on GOG I picked up Second Sight and Kane and Lynch: Dead Men (both for nostalgia's sake; curious how the latter will hold up) and Broken Pieces.
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7hr ago
if you're not one of the confirmed wife guys around here
The purpose of the holiday I'm currently taking was to meet my future in-laws, so I suppose I am.
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11hr ago
If he were a Republican, there’s a good chance he would still be standing
I wonder if this will prompt Platner to jump ship.
Platner officially denies the allegations, but you can tell from his statement that deep down he knows it's true.
What about this video gave you the impression he knows the allegations are true? He just recited a paragraph of legal boilerplate and a stump speech, in the exact same flat tone of voice.
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12hr ago
I'm feeling this one lately, though in terms socio-economic rather than romantic. Not that the romance is going all that well, mind you.
I understand why you feel the latter way. If you don't mind my asking, why do you feel the socioeconomic path you've taken isn't working out for you?
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12hr ago
Same: the whole time I was watching the movie I was thinking
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13hr ago
I think the picket-fence life works better than the alternative for the vast majority of people, and that you should not gamble on being in the minority unless you have a very good reason to believe otherwise.
It's known that he killed himself mere hours after learning that Asia Argento, the woman he loved (and to whom he'd offered generous financial assistance by paying off the man threatening to sue Argento for sexually exploiting him when he was a young boy) was fucking someone else, and that she had so little respect for Bourdain that she didn't even bother being discreet about it. I don't know Bourdain, but it wouldn't surprise me if he thought of himself as a sad loser.
Great post. I have my own thoughts about the specific catalyst that prompted Bourdain to kill himself. Pleased to see that @coffee_enjoyer seconded it in the linked post (before I changed my handle).
I've met some of these people who are addicted to "wanderlust", and they often seem rather unstable and unreliable. They remind me of a Reddit thread I once read about underrated red flags, and one comment said if a person often says "I used to have this friend..." (Good example, even if I felt a little personally attacked by it.) Or one of de la Rochefoucald's maxims (I'm paraphrasing): we get excited by making new friends because we feel we aren't sufficiently admired by our existing ones, and hope that our new friend will admire us as much as we feel we deserve. Living your life on the road is advantageous for dysfunctional people, as all the people you meet will only know you long enough to learn about your good qualities: you don't plan on sticking around long enough for them to find out that you're careless with money, short-tempered or have a bad relationship with your family. As Chuck Palahniuk would say, they're single-serving friends.
People who struggle with long-term intimate relationships instead opt for short flings and holiday romances, but it's a vicious circle, because the longer you spend behaving this way, the less practice you're getting at the skills you'll need for actual relationships. By the time you decide you're getting too old for this shit and want to form a real relationship and settle down with someone, you may find yourself wholly at a loss for how to comport yourself in this context. Habitual womanisers know exactly what to say to get a woman into bed within a few hours of meeting her, but don't have a clue how to express their affection for her in the context of an actual romance. This is equally true of platonic relationships: I bet Anthony Bourdain would seem effortlessly charming the first time you met him, but I imagine people who'd known him for years might say he was a bit of a shitty friend.
It's not unlike how socially awkward people find social situations stressful and emotionally taxing, so instead they retreat into video games and social media – but the longer they spend in those spaces instead of in the real world, the more stressful and emotionally taxing they find social situations in real life, causing them to retreat...
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14hr ago
Like when Starbucks used "tall" instead of "large" for their coffees
Doesn't it go "tall – grande – venti" for "small – medium – large"?
Oh, I see what you mean. Using PS5 games was a bad example, I'll amend.
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16hr ago
Not always: it was recently a big news headline that Sony plans to end physical disk production in 2028.
Are we disagreeing? In the OP I said that even if you buy a game that comes in a DVD case, it usually contains no disc and just a slip of paper with a download key on it.
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1d ago
I wish they'd used a more descriptive term like "additional content" or "extra content". "Downloadable content" is just stupid.
Pedantry warning.
Sometimes game developers will release a full game, then a few months later release a few additional missions or scenarios sold separately from the base game. For decades, the standard term for such content was "expansion pack" or "mission pack". If the expansion pack can be played without having previously bought the base game, it would be referred to as a "standalone expansion/mission pack".
At some point in the 2010s (?), around the time that physical media began being phased out in favour of digital releases, "expansion/mission pack" was deprecated in favour of the new term "downloadable content (DLC)".
This term is stupid.
Any PC game purchased via Steam or similar digital storefronts will be downloaded to the user's PC: it is entirely accurate to describe any base game as "downloadable content" by virtue of it being content which one can download. Likewise games purchased via the PlayStation Store. Even if you buy a game in a DVD case from a brick-and-mortar shop, it often just contains a slip of paper with a download key.
"DLC" is an idiotic term to replace a perfectly descriptive and useful one. The only kind of video game content which can't be accurately described as "downloadable content" is video games released via physical media (discs, cartridges etc.). Bring back "expansion packs".
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2d ago
I enjoyed the miniseries a great deal, although sadly I felt that Gooding was the weak link in the cast. The actor who played Johnnie Cochran was brilliant, and even Ross from Friends did okay.
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2d ago
Right now I'm trying to write a post about how Fender is in the middle of a lawsuit that's threatening to upend the entire midlife crisis industry, but I don't know if I'll bother to finish it.
Please do. The most recent guitar I bought was a Fender.
Pay close attention to the way she acts before the willow. Her affect is already a little bit off (glib charm suddenly snapping into hostility).
I read somewhere that, for the scene where Bear drives Nikki home (immediately before he uses the willow), they shot it twice: once with the actress given the direction that Nikki was romantically interested in Bear, and once with the direction that she only thought of him as a friend or perhaps a little brother. Then, they intercut between these two takes. (American Psycho did something similar in Willem Dafoe's first scene with Christian Bale.) I thought it was a clever way of representing Bear's uncertainty about whether it's a good idea to confess his attraction to her, but it also fits with the idea that Nikki is troubled.
To my understanding @HereAndGone2's knowledge of the dynamics of intimate relationships is entirely secondhand, but I'm open to correction.
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