It never changes, does it?
11.03.2026 02:23
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It never changes, does it?
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A fun thing happens when you kill home equity: it changes how you approach renovations. By factoring out resale value, it makes you want to do renovations that improve your quality of life, that feel yours, instead of trying to imagine what will be attractive to a theoretical buyer with no taste.
the wilhelm scream for animators is the Akira bike slide.
David Lynch came out of visual arts, painting and sculpture, and I think he has something akin to an animator's brain and his films probably tend resonate strongly with animators and illustrators.
Another show where I was sitting watching it for the first time (not counting bits of reruns I saw as a kid) in my 20s and suddenly flashed back to The Simpsons.
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And specifically the extent to which they did it in kid's cartoons, for things that were clearly going to go with over the heads of the intended audience. Animaniacs had recurring characters that were a riff on the cast of Goodfellas.
There's an extent to which this has always been a feature of popular culture, but I think the 90s (and 00s) was especially dense with that specific kind of reference and parody in a way that created an odd pre- familiarity with like the entirety of the 20th century popular canon.
A lot of characters and bits are just spoofs of figures or celebrities I didn't recognize until much later in life. The Brain (of Pinky and the), one of my very favorite cartoons, is an Orson Welles impression ("with a dash of vincent price"). Old Gill is Jack Lemmon from Glengarry Glen Ross.
Probably the weirdest one of these was being halfway through Evil Dead 2 the first time, around age 11, and being struck with the realization that it had been the subject of a ReBoot episode.
One of the "Games" they get trapped in is an incredibly specific, loving Evil Dead 2 homage
An oddity of being a 90s kid was knowing every movie through reference/parody from a very young age. Not just suddenly getting certain references or jokes, but being 10 minutes into The Shining or Nightmare on Elm Street and realizing I'd seen it before as a Treehouse of Horror parody/homage.
Everybody has their preferred light entertainment... but it strikes me as deeply sad how content, even strident, certain audiences are about their incuriousity. They approach art like it's a subway sandwich.
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Curry makes for a terrific ham, but I think he has the range he could've been compelling both as a gothic monster dracula Lecter or a Cox/Manhunter style realistic sociopath, banality-of-evil Lecter.
I'll vote for a publicly run grocery store, I'll help build it, and I won't take a cent from it. But Amazon? Why would I refrain from doing a little scamming on such colossal, horrible scammers? It's not a brave political or moral stance, but I certainly don't feel bad about it.
In a scam-based system run by scammers, naive compliance with the rules is just letting yourself be more scammed. It won't add up to a more prosocial, high trust society. That requires political change, to a social order that offers & rewards trust, instead of blatantly, relentlessly exploiting it
No one's going to give more than they absolutely have to to a social order, to businesses, governments and institutions that are obviously and blatantly pissing it all away. The ethical and political act is taking actual action to make that world, not pretending it already exists.
In the scamocracy, ethically, there's a fine but comfortably walkable line between being an amoral prick and being a naive sucker and thats the one represented with good reason by believed archetypes like the gentleman thief, the amiable slacker and goldhearted conman.
As for ethics, man just be enough of a grown up to tell the difference between Doing What's Right and Following the Rules, because they are not the same thing. I think we can all tell the moral difference between stealing from Global Scamcorp and pockpocketing a little old pensioner.
Until such a time, there isn't a politics of shoplifting, or piracy, or exploiting bugs in the punchclock at your job to take an extra long lunch. That's just what you do to get by and have a little fun as a regular course of living in the scamocracy.
Politics isn't personal rule abiding. It's the action of actually changing things systematically, organizing and contesting power. Only that will end the scamocracy and make a society worthy of the term, instill trust by providing, abiding by and incentivizing it.
I think it's a common belief that social morality is a mere aggregate of individual morality. If we all follow the rules and do our job and pay our bills then the system will reflect that. But no, it would just keep on scamming while we compliantly play into the con. No social benefit.
That's not nihilism, that's recognition of a nihilistic social order. If you want prosociality and trust, then we need to build new social relations, institutions and systems that are themselves prosocial, trusting, and not predicated on deceit, exploitation, surveillance and control.
Naively following the (obviously bullshit) formal rules of the Scamocracy, paying full price for everything, never pirating, never stealing, punching in on time and never slacking off at work, being totally honest on your resume... that's just letting yourself be a fucking sucker.
If you need to tell yourself you're Robin Hood or John Brown or Lenin for slipping some treats past the self checkout that's a self serving ego-trip. Just do it because it's fine. Because you want to. Because you live in a Scamocracy and you might as well scam-back the biggest scammers on the block.
Our social order was always pretty fucking anti-social, and our high trust, in those moments when it existed, was built on a combination of state capacity and community that has been eroded by unrestrained capitalist, market relations AND naive ideological delusion that was eroded by... reality.
"Anti-Social" "Low-Trust" this is just a conservative dork way of complaining about people not following The Rules™.
The whole damn system is an obviously stupid, nihilistic scamocracy. Antisociality and low trust are built in. The "prosocial" rule followers are all fucking marks, by design.
It's juvenile and lame to act like shoplifting is political or moral statement, especially if you're middle class. But also, if you hate all these companies and their owners, why would you fret and fuss over ripping them off when they themselves are giant ripoff operations? Theft from corps is fine.
What like, go to a store, and buy a disc, like some kind of neanderthal?
RE9 is almost $100 in Canada man. I can't afford that.
A bottle I found on the ground on my walk
The label says Dear Momma Moisture Milk
You know how sometimes you’re playing a video game like Resident Evil and you see a bottle on the ground and you zoom in to read the label and realize that you’re not actually supposed to read any of the text and what you’re looking at is something surreal and confusing