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I was twice contacted by recruiters to apply for a position that was reporting to me Triple your salary with this trick HR hates! [more]
favorited 21 times, recently by jordantwodelta, ManyLeggedCreature, Richard Daly, grandiloquiet, Blue Jello Elf, kokaku, Rock Steady, young_simba, cendawanita, genpfault, ovvl, salix, lizard music, Ickster, Reverend John, Audreynachrome, General Malaise, wenestvedt, Dip Flash, Phssthpok, mazola
MeFi comment - 3 days ago

The Chair
favorited 6 times, recently by clavdivs, Tesseractive, silverstatue, snsranch, Saxon Kane, skald_kennings
MeFi post - 11 days ago

This prequel series is ok, but the writing gets a lot better in The Expanse season 1. [more]
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FanFare comment - 12 days ago

Helen Vendler, 1933 - 2024
favorited 14 times, recently by virago, hototogisu, banterboy, BenAstrea, burntbook, nicolin, KingEdRa, Saxon Kane, languagehat, The_Auditor, clavdivs, trip and a half, Pandora Kouti, pracowity
MeFi post - 12 days ago

Well, I did it. I watched all 30 episodes of the Tencent adaptation. I think it would have been faster to just read the first book, and I had some trouble staying awake watching it late at night, because it mostly consists of various characters… [more]
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FanFare comment - 14 days ago

Just saw this and really liked it. I agree that it's very skillful at setting up the general comfy feeling of a 70s late-night talk show, which works tremendously to it's benefit once the spookiness starts to creep in. The kind of faux-documentary… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

I've been thinking aliens with a Prime Directive to follow or possibly time travelers who are trying to prevent something but not mess up the time stream too badly. The reference to The Thing last week would seem to point towards aliens, I… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

Movie: Blackout
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FanFare post - 2 weeks ago

and then they did Dark Phoenix again, and blew it again Yeah, because they hired the same writer who had previously botched the same story in X-Men 3, and also invited him to direct it as well! I guess in fairness, he also did… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 weeks ago

Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps, two film critics from the AV Club's glory days and subsequently The Dissolve, have a joint substack, The Reveal. Much of it is paywalled, but reviews of current movies are generally free, and I find the writing to be… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 weeks ago

My all-time favorite ONN bit is probably 'Just Give Me The Damn Sepak Takraw Ball', which I often think of when a coworker starts getting into the minutiae of football. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I'll stand up for ClickHole, not to say they land every joke or that I always think what they're going for is particularly funny, but I've admired their willingness to stick by their brand of vaguely anti-comedy weirdness even after being consumed by… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by Johnny Assay, hydropsyche, Kattullus, Schmucko
MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I didn't make it very far in the first book, so maybe this is explained better there, but if the aliens see everything that's happening on Earth and they can prevent scientists from completing experiments and thus advancing science, why don't they… [more]
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FanFare comment - Last month

I'm another person who bounced off the first book, mostly because I found the writing style kind of dull and the characters poorly fleshed-out, but I also have friends who liked it a lot and have wanted to give it another shot. I guess getting the… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

This is probably the least imaginative movie about dreams that has ever been made. Apparently the one guy's dreams are all just the beginning of that James Bond movie where he skis around shooting goons. The only really uncanny element it has is the… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

I always appreciated that "No Scrubs" defines its terms very early on. What is a scrub? The singers will explain! Yeah, but their explanation is a tautology! "No, I don't want no scrubs / A scrub is a guy that can't get no… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I didn't get the impression that the people were jumping back and forth constantly between the different timelines, just that they had switched the one time, after the experiment happened, so Rapace's character is now suddenly in the timeline where… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

I'm wondering if the Dune civilization's emphasis on developing superhuman memory techniques post-Butlerian Jihad would slow down language change at all. That seems like it would be a factor, and also you have the Bene Gesserit who can… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

this is an exceptionally poorly-written piece I couldn't agree more, and honestly if it didn't have the "segway" typo in it I would think it was LLM output. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I admired the ambition this had in marrying a "spooky bartender from The Shining turns you against your family" scenario with a near-future conservative red-state dystopia, but ultimately didn't think it succeeded. Like, the racist… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

I really liked this, having not seen the earlier movie. It's very sweet and has a kind of homemade feeling, along with a healthy helping of classic Japanese themes about work and the role of individual goals in society. The Vaseline-lens… [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

This show really took off at the end [more]
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FanFare comment - 2 months ago

This was great, much more well-written and interesting than I was expecting it to be, though I have to admit I'm a sucker for a "movie within a movie within a movie" premise. I agree it didn't totally stick the landing, and actually I… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

It's too bad they weren't given more antipsychotics [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I liked this season a lot, but I also felt the "forgiveness of debts" epilog was heavily undercut by all the prison rape innuendo in the immediately preceding scene. [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

So Tommy just left the baby at the front door, and then his plan was just to tool around town for a while? [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

Oh, also! I love what a shitty dad the protagonist is. Take the kids? Fuck no, I just got a six-pack! Time to investigate mysteries with this recently-bereaved hottie! [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

I really like this so far. One thing occurred to me about the Ferris Bueller thing: it's a little odd that the movie is stuck on repeat but we only ever see/hear the Twist and Shout scene. I'm fine with that just being movie magic, though, I… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

The article indiexy linked is a very cogent (and infuriating) analysis of the financial resoning behind this move. ...both corporate alt rock radio and Conde Nast turn towards men as the audience that will supposedly rescue their tanking media… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

This was fantastic, thanks. I actually just bought a copy of Lerner's latest book, The Lights, though I haven't cracked it open yet. I think the reviewer's conclusion about the significance of the "ChatGPT" ending is wrong… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by chavenet, i_am_joe's_spleen, Proofs and Refutations
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Maximum Rocknroll is still going strong, FWIW, and is far less doctrinaire about what types of music it covers than it was back in the days of Tim Yohannon and the print edition. I had an intense, intense dislike of Pitchfork and its… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

What is it about Stephen Strait that with a shirt off he's a cut Adonis, but the instant he puts a shirt on he looks like a consumption victim who should be getting sand kicked into his face somewhere? [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

I finally watched this, what a great little movie! I really loved the bits of wry humor throughout, like the Satanists meeting in the back of a public library and the one guy living in his mom's basement. [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

I really hated this, starting with the classic boring white dude who would be able to lead such an amazing actualized life if it weren't for the clingy, controlling woman holding him back, and then leading up to the love interest whose personality… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

I really admired this, but it was hard to watch. Nathan Fielder seems to be going for the Michael Hanneke miserablist niche of Adult Swim alt-comedy. Slow closeups of the producer silently weeping alone? I did think the bit at the end where Asher… [more]
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FanFare comment - 4 months ago

Ha, I love these. I still think "Man in Wheelchair Killed by Train, doo-dah, doo-dah" every time I hear Camptown Races. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Victor Timely hiding out from gangsters in the Egyptian-themed exhibit was a nice tip of the hat to Original Formula Kang's origins as Pharaoh Rama-Tut. I remain confused by what people's motivations are in this show, especially Loki, as someone… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 months ago

Would it be too obvious just to name the entity "MetaFilter Nonprofit"? (I guess people who wanted to abbreviate could do it as MeFiNoPro?) [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 5 months ago

the country which by decree of apple cannot be mentioned I assume you mean China here - I know about how Apple dropped John Stewart's show when they learned he was going to do some stuff about China, but is there something more concrete… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 months ago

Yeah, everyone should act like Cynics, that's going to turn out great [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Jezebel's founder, Anna Holmes, has an essay in the New Yorker reflecting on the site and "the question of women's anger." [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I liked this episode a lot - the new family is way more interesting to me than any of the characters from the first season, and it's nice to actually see people laugh and act like there is some enjoyment to be had in this universe rather than just… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

I'd also like to volunteer for coding and related technical stuff (if that's not premature). * 25+ years of engineering experience, back-end, front-end, infrastructure * Used to write a lot of ColdFusion I could also be on a tech-related… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 6 months ago

I think it's more that the Innocents was cold in its heart. That's an interesting comparison. I was also a lot more disturbed by the violence in The Innocents than I was in this movie, despite it being in many ways less gruesome… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

what should a new entity be called? 20 dollars, same as in town [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 6 months ago

I thought this was great, and probably one of the most original horror films I've seen this year. I thought the world-building and lore was pretty skillfully done, when the movie starts you have no idea what's going on, but the characters… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

I actually just read this for the first time just a few weeks ago, it's amazing. I'm a big fan of the 1963 movie adaptation too. It's very faithful, right down to the queer subtext. I have read that Shirley Jackson seems to have continually denied… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

This is kind of tangential to Loki the show, but Variety has published an interesting piece on Marvel's current troubles which touches on Loki and Jonathan Major's role in the future of the MCU. [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

I really liked this! One nice thing about Ti West is that he's obviously a devotee of the genre, so when stuff like this happens you know it's on purpose: - A woman breaks out of a door with an axe, neatly reversing the iconic scene from The… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by queensissy
FanFare comment - 6 months ago

I overall liked this show for its tone, though I found it was much easier for me to enjoy when I saved up a bunch of episodes and binge-watched them. This ending just didn't add up for me, though. Did I miss something? Stewart claims they have fixed… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

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