tmyakal

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[–] tmyakal 2 points 1 week ago

The way things are going, might just be 5 years.

[–] tmyakal 4 points 1 week ago

The week after I graduated high school, my father stayed charging me $150/week in rent. Moving out and splitting a place with two other roommates allowed me to actually save money.

[–] tmyakal 15 points 1 week ago

The threat has been there since Trump said he wanted to resume nuclear weapon testing even though every expert said it was an absolutely terrible idea.

He wants to order a nuclear strike on something. He's been trying to find the right excuse.

[–] tmyakal 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Halfway Post is a satire site. This is not true.

[–] tmyakal 13 points 2 weeks ago

Justice Roberts sowing: Hahaha! Holy shit, this is awesome!

Justice Roberts reaping: Oh, what the fuck? This fucking sucks.!

[–] tmyakal 19 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I've got an uncle who made a fortune during the initial dotcom bubble decades ago. He got out before it burst, and started his own charity that built plumbing in Chilean villages.

Turns out he mostly wanted to retire somewhere cheap, make sure it had the modern conveniences he was used to, and appoint his children to high-level paid positions of his non-profit.

[–] tmyakal 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For all the American hate against socialism, the military is our biggest jobs program.

[–] tmyakal 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The problem is construction. America needs millions of new homes to meet demand. And this bill doesn't stop venture capital from building new homes; it just mandates that they sell those homes within seven years.

So, yes, they'll be building barely-affordable shit boxes, but those shit boxes will be designed to last exactly eight years.

Edit: correcting autocorrect-induced typos

[–] tmyakal 9 points 2 weeks ago

Ha. Hahaha. Haha. That's cute.

[–] tmyakal 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

...his wife is in a coma.

[–] tmyakal 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

My position is that the Schumacher Batman films are better than any Batman film that's come out since, and it's because of a fundamental ideological question:

Nolan, Snyder, Reeves, all of these guys, have continually asked, "What would Batman look like in the real world?" And the answer has meant grittier, darker reboots all inspired by the same couple of Miller books. They need to constrain Batman to things that "make sense" and find ways to make him "seem realistic."

Schumacher, and Burton before him, asked the much more entertaining question: "What would the world need to look like to idolize a vigilante in a furry costume?" And that opens up so many more possibilities, so much more fun. The Riddler made elaborate pop-up clues rather than staging brutal crime scenes. Two-Face didn't mourn his almost-relationship with an assistant DA because he was too busy macking on a different girl for each face. Bane? Doesn't matter if I could understand him, because he doesn't have any lines anyway. He's still the evil lady's main henchman, but now he's actually monstrously big.

The '90s approach says yes to every wild idea the directors had, every silly gag from the comics or other TV that it wanted to steal, because it wasn't beholden to a sense of the real. It was okay to enjoy the silly superhero movie on its own terms.

Unfortunately, we're stuck in a world where each decade brings a grimmer, darker reboot of Batman.

[–] tmyakal 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. Any time he got frustrated with our manager, he'd mutter to himself, "Everyone gets one."

The way he explained it to me is, everyone is allowed to murder one person. You might suffer some real bad consequences as a result, but if you can stomach those consequences, no one can really stop you from doing just one murder.

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