RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
Married to a tomboy, so I have that going for me, which is nice.
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RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
I think lots of modern viewers have trouble with how non-optimized older movies are, and it's not necessarily an attention span thing. Almost every scene or bit of dialog in modern movies is Doing Something or Establishing Something. There's very little fat. Many older movies have stretches that are doing nothing but hanging out with a character or doing some non-essential worldbuilding or spending time on a sideplot that ultimately goes nowhere. This was taken to extreme lengths at times (like The Deer Hunter or Heaven's Gate) but many 60s-70s films have stuff like this. This is probably not applicable to you if you enjoy films like Psycho or The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
I'd be curious what you thought of any Robert Altman movies you've seen. His audio mixing is atrocious and his pacing is all over the place, but it's usually intentional. His framing, presentation, and scenes can all be top-notch.
I've always found The Sting to be stuffy and airless. It's a big studio crowd-pleaser that sanded off too many rough edges to hit the mass-market middle ground (and box office receipts show they nailed it). Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid had amazing scenery, great cinematography, a script by William Goldman, and the ridiculous chemistry of Newman and Redford, whereas The Sting was trying to get by on the latter. I agree with the 70s stink on that one.
There are a number of cop movies from the 60s-70s that suffer from "one-hour police procedural stretched into 2 hours." Bullitt is the prime example. I don't think I'd say French Connection is like that, but maybe it feels that way when the first half-hour of a 1:44 movie is a bunch of stuff establishing what kind of person and cop Hackman's character is.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
The action parts of Nolan's films are by far the worst parts. The snow battle scene in Inception drags the film to a total halt. I was bored senseless during the tunnel/truck chase scene in The Dark Knight. It's almost impressive how his action scenes can be so dull.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
That tweet by her rep under the Daily Mail tweet about this story tagging Howling Mutant is more proof we live in the weirdest timeline.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
It was when New Hollywood started really exploding in popularity that I truly find films start appearing very overly indulgent; apart from a select few movies that are classics, there's an almost intolerable amount of sloppy poorly-framed low-budget guerrilla cinematography passed off as grittiness, horrible audio mixing that renders the voices barely audible, bloated pacing that includes extraneous shots of lazy improvisation and oceans of irrelevant dialogue that are kept for "authenticity's sake", and other such elements that make them difficult to watch.
What are some of the offending films you have in mind here?
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
which is that the manosphere is low status.
This is a large part. Men complaining about the dating market is low status. Men noting it's low status for men to complain about dating is low status. Men coordinating with other men to complain about the dating market and discuss solutions is low status.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
The Lord knew that David was about to use the results to do some gerrymandering.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
The Chads strategize too; they're just naturally good at it.
Correct. I've heard my lothario friend lay out his exact method. He has it down to a precise series of steps and it is brutally effective. When he runs those steps, though, it appears effortlessly natural, and that's the trick.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Once you see it, it's impossible to miss how much internet discourse is dominated by people who never interact with the bottom quintile/decile and have zero idea how those groups think or act.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Science says that diets high in sodium are bad for you. What do you do about this? Or do you disagree with The Science?
I disagree with the Science. I am active and sweat profusely and do not fear sodium. I avoid most premade foods (for all the other crap in them), so I'm not worried that I'll somehow get too much sodium in the few I do eat.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
This sounds like the first sentence of a horror story.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
I'm sure it was natural for a guy in his mid-30s to put on 40 pounds of lean muscle in a short amount of time.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
400+, 15-20+ miles at under 7 min/mile paces.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
consider that people naturally at the tail of the work capacity distribution get amplified on social media.
It takes a serious suspension of disbelief to consider people have not just found a workaround to "big, lean, natural... pick two," but also doing so while simultaneously putting up big run distances at fast times.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Did we talk about that Ryan Hall video where he deadlifts 500 pounds while standing on a track and then immediately attempts to run a sub 5 minute mile?
If so, I missed it. I watched the video now for the first time. Talk about a guy on the most extreme end of the distribution tail.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
The weather has been nice for the past month and I have been trying to increase my running days/amounts, but even with a day of rest prior, it seems to be negatively effecting my deadlifts. I think I complained about this recovery time problem around this time last year. It's one of those things that makes me strongly suspect the "hybrid athletes" who are running huge miles one day and deadlifting big numbers the next are on all gear.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
What I mean is, it's a giant void and someone was going to fill it eventually.
adjusts tie nervously
But hey, enough about my wife...
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Easy walk to the start line instead of a bus ride and meandering around for an hour.
I strongly dislike the "wait in line, take a bus to the start, meander around for an hour, race, wait in line, take a bus somewhere else" races.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
Whereas the comic book artist/writer Randy Queen has joked he can never visit England.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
I realize that typing that out makes me sound like a schizophrenic, and it sometimes makes me want to tear my hair out that as it turns out the people who were most right about Communism and Communists were McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Don't leave out the John Birch Society. Going back and reading books from One Dozen Candles can be unnerving in their prescience.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
I can't tell if this is an exceptionally well crafted troll effort
It does read like something written by Dr. Strangelove.
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
It's been like this ever since Covid. Between remote work and unemployment and who knows what else, the traffic never abates. If I take time off work to run errands, it's an infinite sea of people clogging everything (and I doubt they have also all taken the day off).
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
I know what you mean by saying "heavy," but it's strange to look at photos of her face and be unable to identify what exactly the "heavy" is describing, or what a better description for it would be. Something about her jawline, nose, eyelids...?
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
We can recognize them when we see them, and make efforts to move away from them, but those are doomed to just ooze out in other, often less well-understood places. New Atheism thought it had defeated God, but it really just built its own idols and called them something else.
As usual, there is nothing new under the sun. Bonus amusing phrasing from wiki:
YHWH told Moses what the Israelites were up to back in camp
"Psst, Moses, you won't believe what those rascals are up to!"
RoyGBivensAction
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1mo ago
There are dangerous animals here, but they're in cages and can't do anything unless you jump in the cage.
Cue the classic tweet.
I was going to make a comment about you fumbling a win, but then I remembered the one I met who had a swastika and SS bolt tattoos. A man's got to know his limitations.
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