AmericaDeserved711 18h ago • 100%
brat EXPLAINED IN 30 SECONDS
it's a very good pop album by charli xcx, who has been making good pop albums for years but brat is the first to achieve mainstream success. her music is more risk-taking and experimental than other more well-known pop stars, and up until recently she has had a largely young queer fanbase.
the memes are mostly about the album cover, which is just the word "brat" in low resolution stretched arial font in front of a bright lime green background, like something you could make in ms paint in 30 seconds. charli changed all of her past album covers to a similar design on streaming services, replacing the original covers which tended to feature sexually charged images of her. thus the memes were born, with people putting other words/phrases into this image format
AmericaDeserved711 5d ago • 100%
this will be my fourth general election and I've voted for a woman every single time. Jill Stein in 2012 and Gloria La Riva in 2016/2020. now Claudia De la Cruz in 2024. but I wanted Bernie to win in '16 no naturally I'm a misogynist bro
AmericaDeserved711 5d ago • 100%
so Russia is not a "world superpower" but can get all these other countries to do their bidding at the drop of a hat. which is it?
AmericaDeserved711 5d ago • 100%
hell yeah I just bought some for the first time and put it in a black bean soup, along with some new mexico ground chiles, good shit
AmericaDeserved711 7d ago • 100%
I probably watch too much porn but that doesn't mean I need hyper-sexualization in every piece of media, why would I? if I want that I can just, ya know, watch porn
PS as a non-gamer I have no idea what the context here is, is that an actual screenshot from a video game?
edit: nvm figured out it's the Silent Hill 2 remake and presumably some ridiculous mod or fan-art
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
the first doofus fucked it up for everyone, now security is too tight. sad
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
accurate term because LLMs have the intelligence of an 🍏
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
perfect time to finally watch Lincoln (2012)
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
I drink tea, but the one time in my life when I truly enjoyed coffee was in Costa Rica. they use a pour-over method with a simple wooden device with a cloth filter called a chorreador
maybe the coffee itself was just really good but I loved how natural and cozy the experience felt compared to the sterile plastic modernist efficiency of the coffee makers I was used to
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
if not for this image I would have gone the rest of my life without thinking about Alien Ant Farm
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
I too would face the pretty naked lady instead of the pretty naked man. call me a coward, see if I care
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
it's however you pronounce pussy but with a 🅱 so it depends on your accent
to me it's "buh" as in "book", and not "buh" as in "bus"
in IPA terms:
bʊs.i (not bʌs.i)
it definitely isn't boo-see unless you pronounce pussy like poosey
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
you want me to vote for a president who's probably not gonna die while in office? where's the fun in that?
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
we already knew he was sexually harassing his employees at his fashion company by making them look at hardcore porn for "inspiration". didn't know it was this bad but can't say I'm surprised in the least
I predict this won't affect his status and artists will continue to work with him. every single artist with a feature or production credit on this nazi predator's album is dead to me, fuck every last one of them
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
glad I grew out of the tendency to form an instant take on everything single thing that happens, including things I've never thought about up until that very moment. reddit and twitter did a number on my brain
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
I knew it was over when I saw a Jeep with a giant OK KAREN decal on the front windshield. I'd bet anything that the stupid man who owns that truck is shitty to service workers.
PS I feel bad for people who just happen to be named Karen but are perfectly nice people
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
His performance isn't good but neither are most of the performances in the film, even by talented, well-established actors. The writing and direction is really to blame here. It's hard to be a good actor when you're delivering terrible lines in front of a green screen, talking to a tennis ball on a stick.
As a side note they really should have aged up Anakin to around 13 or 14 instead of like 9. It would have allowed them to find a more charismatic child actor, and removed the weirdness of the Padme age gap.
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
The Ritual (2017)
pair it with Midsommar for a "Sweden is fucked up" double-feature
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
"well my brain isn't 99% tapioca pudding so that's one major difference right there"
AmericaDeserved711 1w ago • 100%
without knowing the book my first thought was "the edgy Rockstar game from 2003? kind of a weird choice"
I'm a big horror fan and I like anthologies though they can be very hit-and-miss never seen a single V/H/S movie because the reviews for them are fairly mid, but are there any genuinely good segments that make these worth watching? damn there's like 7 of these things now
I know there's some SOPHIE fans here so I'm wondering what you all think of the new posthumous release, which seems to be quite polarizing. Personally I really enjoyed it for what it is, which is an unfinished album, sadly. The production and composition is stellar but there are some issues with the mix and mastering on some tracks that makes them feels a bit lacking in sauce. Sorry to say but there's a leaked version of Reason Why that blows the album version out of the water. Criticisms aside I'm glad this album was released because it's still really great, I love the way it starts out darker and more abstract / experimental and gradually becomes poppier and more accessible and then gets weird again at the end, but there's a mix of both throughout. It's not just a collection of tracks, it really flows like a story in the way it continually builds and releases tension. The whole second half is good and has some of SOPHIE's greatest bangers which I'm very grateful have gotten an official release. My Highlights: "Why Lies", "Berlin Nightmare", "Exhilarate", "Always and Forever", "My Forever", "Love Me off Earth" PS I recommend finding a flac on soulseek or something, YouTube is pretty bad with audio
Recently it has come out that [Coppola has inappropriately touched and kissed extras without their consent ](https://web.archive.org/web/20240726233638/https://variety.com/2024/film/news/megalopolis-set-video-francis-ford-coppola-kissing-extras-1236082653/) on the set of his latest film. This is obviously reason enough not to support the film, but if you know anything about Coppola's history with abusers, this should come as no surprise. In 1989, Francis Ford Coppola's protégé, Victor Salva, sexually assaulted a child actor, a 12 year-old named Nathan Forrest Winters, on the set of a film that Coppola produced. Coppola defended and protected Salva, hooked him up with expensive lawyers, resulting in a reduced prison sentence of only 15 months, most of which was spent in a cushy rehabilitation center for sex criminals. Coppola remained friends with Salva and visited him in jail. After his release, Salva returned to Hollywood with the help of Coppola, who would continue to produce several of his films. After Salva's arrest, Winters was forced to complete ADR on the film he was abused on, in Coppola's own home. Coppola, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in Hollywood, threatened to sue 12 year-old Winters for breach of contract for trying to leave the project. Coppola told Winters he'd never work in Hollywood again, and he didn't. In 2006, Coppola said, >"You have to remember, while this was a tragedy, that **the difference in age between Victor and the boy was very small — Victor was practically a child himself**." ***Salva was 29 at the time while Winters was 12.*** In fact, Salva had been grooming and sexually abusing Winters from the age of 6. To hear Winters tell his story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M9ATFAYsEk
these guys sure spend a lot of time holding an incredibly phallic object real close to their mouths. idk, seems pretty gay to me bro
I don't mean to be all "woe is me" but damn it really drives home the loneliness when literally the *only* texts I ever get are trying to get me to vote for some shit. or like, texts from my cell carrier trying to get me to upgrade my phone and the only texts I ever send are just "STOP" lmao
yesterday I made a post in c/chat lightly making fun of ICP, because I heard about this movie. ended up watching it last night and it honestly fucking blew me away it's genuinely sincere and heartfelt while also being funny as fuck, like several parts got an audible laugh from me, and I watched it alone. it does get super dark towards the end and there's some gross, disturbing stuff that might not be for everyone, but it's never mean-spirited or cynical and knows just when to pull back and ease the tension with comic relief it's also very ACAB, as the plot revolves around our two protagonists getting hassled by small-town cops on their way to the Gathering. I don't want to say too much more other than that you should watch it. my only regret was not grabbing a bottle of Faygo first *WHOOP WHOOP!*
I love the idea of dressing up like a scary clown and hanging out in a big field with a bunch of other scary clowns, getting high and listening to music... just not *that* music
for example, *Talk To Me* (2022) first premiered at the Adelaide film festival in October 2022 and therefore it's considered a 2022 film, even though it didn't get a wide release until 2023. It was one of my favorite movies of last year but you won't see it on many "best of" lists for 2023 because it's *technically* from 2022. but you won't see it on any lists from 2022 either because practically nobody saw it that year except a few Australians the same thing is now happening with *Strange Darling* (2023) which was just recently released in theaters, well into 2024 this happens with a lot of smaller "indie" type movies because it takes time to get distribution after hitting the festival circuit IMO the official release year for a movie should be based on when normal people can see it and not just a couple hundred film bros and industry people who attended some festival
1. the IDF has W rizz 2. Hamas is in its flop era 💀 4. still being a Zionist in 2024? that's brat af 3. Gaza is not the vibe y'all... 5. campus protesters are giving the ick 6. settler colonialism is goated 7. "from the river to the sea" is cheugy share this with all your besties and remember - Gen Z stands for Generation Zionism!
haven't seen it yet but I'm shocked that it's supposedly good. anyone seen it and can confirm? I'm pretty hesitant to watch anything by a wealthy aging comedian at this point, but it would seem he's at least avoided going down the anti-woke path or doing political comedy at all, although he's friends with Rob Schneider and had terrible politics in the 00s... >Sandler has not publicly discussed his political leanings. It has been reported that he is registered to vote as a Republican. He performed at the 2004 Republican National Convention, and he contributed $2,100 to Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign (the maximum amount allowed at the time).
I don't recommend doing this actually had no idea this show even existed until I saw it on Netflix and put it on out of morbid curiosity and self-punishment and needless to say, it's not good why did they think a rehash of the most boring events of 2016 would make for a compelling TV drama? they're trying to go for the tone of House of Cards (they even got that one guy!) but it feels more like a bad soap opera like, I shit you not, there's literally a shot of two Russians, vodka flasks in hand, toasting to rigging the US election also Michael Flynn meets Putin and Putin's all "I can't wait to have you at my dinner, you're gonna be seated next to *Jill Stein*" lmao I just got to the election results so I'm looking forward to seeing Brendan Gleeson in grotesque Trump prosthetics
so I don't know a lot about this topic other than that some fascist freaks are concerned about "overpopulation" as an excuse to cull the people they perceive as inferior, while *other* fascist freaks support population growth to satisfy their breeding fetish and seed the planet with their "superior" genetics my perception then, is that we should just be normal about population growth rates and it's probably chill either way, like stop being so weird about it I don't believe the overpopulation myth because there's plenty of room if we build cities smarter, most scarcity is artificial and our impact on the climate has more to do with the capitalist mode of production than the number of people. underpopulation doesn't concern me either with 8 billion people on the planet, idk seems like a lot to me but again I haven't actually researched this subject at all, are there any genuine / non-fascist concerns with regard to population growth or degrowth? edit: guess I should add that population growth is bad in say, a settler-colonialist state and population decline is obviously bad if it's the result of genocide or oppression
2024 was so cringe because we only got ONE Marvel movie this year. but next year we're getting FOUR (count 'em) - FOUR MCU movies in 2025! talk about awesome-sauce *Captain America: Brave New World* is going to be epic of course, but I'm even more stoked for *THUNDERBOLTS\** - cannot fricking wait to see what they do with that IP! and don't even get me started on *The Fantastic Four: First Steps* - finally this franchise is in good hands with the MCU! Pedro Pascal and Vanessa Kirby are in it, so it'll probably be good because they're both super hot. also that one guy from The Bear and the girl from Ozark? noice! and yes I'm still hopeful for *Blade* coming out next year even though it doesn't have a director. they'll figure something out - Kevin Feige can do no wrong!
"X post" sounds so much better than "tweet" , it just rolls right off the tongue! why say you "tweeted" something when you can say "I posted it on X" did you see that funny X post? haha I love posting on X!
I never go there but I have a gift card and I need to go there to replace some garlic naan that I stole from my dad edit: I have completed my trip to Trader Joes and got: Garlic Naan x2 Roasted Vegetable Pizza Chocolate Pretzels Roasted Cashews (50% less salt) Mango Smoothie Aloe Vera Juice Chili & Lime Chips Moroccan Mint Green Tea Soft & Juicy Mango PS the cashier was very pretty 
it's a bummer that I'm not the reincarnate of Kurt Cobain but hey, on the bright side at least I'm not Jeffrey Dahmer either
had no idea this was even in the works, but the first part (of 2?) came out on streaming (i.e. torrents). anyone seen it yet? seems like it could be good if it's just a straight adaptation of the graphic novel and they don't fuck it up like The Killing Joke
