I do, but only if it's built up properly. This is also true of musical numbers and fight scenes. If built up properly, they can be incredibly cathartic and the best parts of the film, but if not, they grind the plot to a halt.

The reason so many people hate these kinds of scenes is that most screenwriters are really bad at creating tension. The purpose of these scenes is to release emotional tension, so without building this, they feel pointless and jarring. The best parody of this is in Men in Tights when Robin bursts into a love song out of nowhere and it scares the hell out of Marian.

I'm trying to provide examples of love scenes I actually like in films, and to be honest, I'm coming up blank. I think it may just be a lot more difficult to generate romantic tension in the average timespan of a film. It's easier in television, where you get more time to tell the story. I think my favorite intimate scene in tv is in Game of Thrones season 3 when John and Ygritte are in the cave.

He's not saying they're right wing governments, just that they're highly authoritarian, which is something that leftists, on average, tend to be against, so if someone claims to be "left" but supports Russia, they likely have a poor understanding of one of those things.

Futurama: Bender's Big Score may not be the deepest film, but it's never failed to make me smile. "I can wire anything to anything! I'm the professor!"

I am so tired of this sentiment. You're not wrong about the corporate stuff, but blaming people for wanting it to get better serves no purpose. For all its flaws, Reddit had something that no other site, not even this one, has been able to remotely replicate. I didn't use the site for news, politics, memes, or mindless scrolling. I used it because it was literally the only place to discuss niche topics and interests.

Whether we like it or not, it's the only place where a lot of these niche communities exist. Users that were here since Digg will find a new home, but the one who can barely use a Macbook may not. And I'm all for helping as many of those communities migrate, but the truth is that for many communities, especially the ones less technically inclined, the death of Reddit means the death of that community, and that's really fucking sad.

I'm so tired of the "just change instances" argument that comes up every time mods make a bad decision. It's as bad as "just watch something else" for movies. Like yeah, literally everyone recognizes that you can choose how to spend your time, but that fact isn't a magic buffer against critisism.

Not in a way that's accessible to casual audiences. You can watch literally any show, and chances are there's a sub where you can go talk about it. That was not the case 10 years ago. Unless your show had a cult following, the only people to talk about it with were people you knew. I hope that someday we can turn this site into the same kind of thing, but we aint there yet.

For fuck's sake, can this debate die already? It's one those made up words that no-one agrees on the meaning of, so people with the exact same views about the real world will fight to the death over it, because they're using completely different definitions of the word.

It used to just mean "progressive" with a positive connotation, then it got oversaturated and some progressives started using it to describe the kinds of people who fake having progressive ideals just to make themselves look good or sell shit. Then conservatives started using it to describe all progressives again, but this time with a negative connotation. Then some of those conservatives started using it to describe literally anything they don't like.

The problem is that the meaning's changed so fast that whatever meaning you're using, chances are there's someone around you who defines it differently, leading to a lot of pointless conflict that could be resolved if we just all agreed on a meaning, or stopped saying the fucking word.

In other words, you have the right to be an asshole, but if you do it too much, others can invoke their right be assholes right back to you.

Who in the actual fuck uses notepad?

You've obviously never been in the military, because it's definitely "females".

Gotta love how it's somehow simultaneously "I'm so annoyed everyone's talking about it" and "nobody gives a shit". Make up your mind. You don't get to have it both ways. Maybe you don't give a shit, but a lot of people do, and they want to discuss it. Not everything is about you.

I mean Jim Jones was pretty damn effective at convincing a large group of people to commit mass suicide. If he'd been ineffective, he'd have been one of the thousands of failed cult leaders you and I have never heard of. Similarly, if Hitler had been ineffective, it wouldn't have takes the combined forces of half the world to fight him.

At least that scene is funny and develops the plot. I think they're talking more about stuff like all those 90s movies that have the plot grind to a halt so two characters can punch each other for ten minutes.

Whether or not you personally agree with the military's choice of language is not relevant. You're assuming the trainer agrees with your political views, but you weren't there, so you have no idea what they said or didn't say.

This is the real answer. It's easy to forget that for most people who are famous for their unusual political views, most of their overall content has nothing to do with that. There's something about politics that can turn even the most open-minded of individuals into raging idealogues.

It's hilarious to me that Joe Rogan is now known for his like 3 conservative views when I mostly remember him as the guy who hosted Fear Factor, did every drug known to man, interviewed scientists in every field out there, and did that really popular interview with Bernie Sanders a couple years ago.

The point is that every hobby and niche interest has someone who gets way too hung up on one particular issue and devotes way too much time to talking about it, dragging the whole community down with them.

You're coming dangerously close to re-inventing the kilt

I don't think the Ford and Apple examples apply, as these companies make primarily physical products. Both of these companies really do want you to use their products for two reasons:

• Most of their marketing is literally just people seeing their products being used.

• Cars wear out with usage, as do computers, so the more you use their products, the sooner you'll buy a new one.

Digital media is unique in that it's not highly visible and using it more doesn't make it degrade.

I mean I agree with this part. That's why I'm commenting on this site and not the other one, but that doesn't mean we have to pretend the other one doesn't exist and that we don't care what's going on there. I agree that everyone should move here, but nevertheless, most of them aren't, and I cannot control that. The fact is that most people are not deep enough into the internet to make a pros and cons list of social media sites. They just use what other people use, or what pops up first on Google. We are neither of those things, and until we are, I have a vested interest in what happens at the other place.

Are you having a stroke?

+1 for GraphineOS, but I can't get behind NFTs. The technology is cool, but for me, the definition of "owning" something includes not only the ability to view it, but also the ability to modify it. If I own an NFT of a song, then I could listen to the song, but I still couldn't, say, make a remix of it, which for me is the entire point of owning it in the first place.