I personally believe that both things can be true at the same time. Like, one of my favorite movies of all times is The Blues Brothers and I love that movie so much because it has no other pretense than showing you a good, fun, absurd way to enjoy music. Does it challenge the viewer at any time? Nope. Is it a lot of fun, possibly the most fun you'll ever get from a movie (if you're like me)? Yep.

Honest to god, while I do love Letterboxd, it is a terrible site at doing what it does. Especially its search features. It's comically paradoxical than even something like RateYourMusic, which is 1) old as fuck and 2) not even made for movies, is able to build an arguably larger, more detailed and better chart-adjusted database for flicks than what a dedicated site/app does.

Just to be clear, this government isn't trying in any way to masquerade itself as centre-left. FdI is right wing through and through, it demonizes the left all the time and treats insignificant changes such as this one or occupational rate (obtained through Draconian revision of national contracts) as "real work for the people", not "like the elitist left". They are populist, that's what they are.

Technically, Half Life is correct. Armor, which constitutes half of your entire life points, is also 100, and you don't have it from the get go.

Baba Is You :)

no, but for real. Puzzles are your best bet

I know this is a meme, but the only service I've found that doesn't follow this exact pattern is MUBI. Too bad piracy is way more convenient than that, anyway.

why are cucumbers wrapped in plastic? WHY ARE THEY WRAPPED IN PLASTIC?

I'm the groom!

I'm from Italy as well. I always like to remember a quote from Charles Mingus, who at some point in his career had an entire black band with the exception of his sax player, Charlie Mariano. When asked about it, he answered something along of the lines of "He's not white, he's Italian."

S-silk... S-silk...

Knight moves to C-2, black responds by expanding the chessboard with rook to H11.

Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

the fact that "80% of Turkish people use it for pure Turkish symbol", when it is clearly associated with a paramilitary fascist group, should really make you think about why Turkey isn't looked upon nicely by the EU in general. And I'm frankly surprised that even as a "non right wing Turkish", you still think it's fine to use the symbols that are now widely associated with that political group. I can't think of a world where I, an Italian, would use the Roman salute because it's a "patriotic" salute and because "everyone does it here" (even if a large majority of Italians don't, thank god).

never found Joyce to be pretentious (the man knew what he was doing, and definitely succeeded in doing so) or obtuse (I mean, how many writers you can think of that could pull out the mastery of language and human sensibility out of nowhere like he does). I might be biased because I believe Ulysses saved my life: it's definitely one of the funniest, most touching, humane books I have ever had the pleasure to read. I'd push Ogre to keep up with the good work.

Disco Elysium.

While it's true that "all elections are won on lies spewed by the parties", it's always a matter of context. The media landscape of the past 10 years has both shrunk and inflated at the same time: centralized social media now overwhelmingly represent the main source of information from which people read news and shape their views of the world. The fact that some of those social media have more or less explicitly stated their affiliation to some sort of government which might make their interests offers a worrying scenario: in one case, the state can require the manipulation of information so as to steer the results of election towards governments that might create strategic geopolitical tension or sweetened deals (i.e. China and TikTok). On the other, through the "loaning" of centralized social media to the highest bidder can create enormous echo chambers which corrupt the results only for symbiontic, growing entanglement of social media corporations into forms of government (i.e. Elon Musk in 2024).

Tl;Dr: Social media are a bigger problem than good old politicians' lies because they can be easily manipulated by external forces and because everyone uses them.

The "white" tie actually has a small deep blue pattern in it, the photo really doesn't make it justice (but I'm still open for changing things up). I tried some double breasted but none of the models I tried on felt "right"; and yeah of course I'm going to try to fix up some of the hair ahahahah

• Netflix lighting
• Generic, Zimmer-stolen OST
• Franchises
• Standard blocking
• Overexposition
• Whedonisms
• More broadly, anything that's been big budget Hollywood for the last 30 years or so.

taught me once and for all that while death might be always near, a fear that's constantly devouring our lives and paralysing them to the point where it feels like our deepest, inner self is a husk shell of what we once were, we can still find the reason of our existence in the joys of living a life that's devoted in equal part to mystery, sensuality, knowledge and wonder. And it says this in the most democratic way you could think: everyone is entitled and deserving of the complexity of life. Oh, and also: it's an absolutely hilarious book to read through.

Hey, at least this year they didn't get last place!