FringeTheory999
I can’t even think of a good recent movie, let alone a good movie that couldn’t have been made twenty years ago, when movies had to actually try.
Movies follow predictable formulas and trends, over time this becomes more true, not less true especially with fewer and fewer lines being written by humans every year. As a format, they’re too short to tell an in depth story and too long to tell a short punchy one. The design and market optimization priorities that shape movies tend to disincentivize originality. Even inception, which was all the rage for being oh so trippy and original was just a lame heist story with stupid flat uninteresting characters, and a boring sci-fi twist. Movies will only become more boring, loud and terrible as time goes on.
Sometimes people would buy me coins if I posted something they liked. It took me forever to find some sort of use for the coins, since I never did any of the shit that people might spend coins on. 15 years on the site and I never had an avatar or anything like that. THEN I finally figured it out. The only acceptable use for reddit coins. Buying cute teddy bear awards for people that hate you. It was fun, and it pissed them off. When they’re trying to have a vicious argument about “marvel movies” or something, and getting all worked up sending them a cute teddy bear icon that attaches to their name, whether they want it or not, is exactly the right thing to do with your stupid gold coins.
Yeah man. It’s why I made the meme. Norse dude bros believe that they’re the descendants of viking warriors, usually because they have a scandinavian last name or they have blue eyes and blonde hair. typically they have no connection at all, or a very distant connection. They’ve never left the united states, which is understandable because it’s hard to leave the united states (our culture doesn’t really accommodate time for travel or anything other than working). They often have no idea about northern european cultures that didn’t come from movies and television. They home brew their own mead “to connect with their viking heritage” and often practice a revival religion inspired by norse mythology, called Asatru, or Norse heathenry. An embarrassingly high number of them are also white nationalists.
It would be like if you were to identify as a Texan, because you heard a rumor that one of your ancestors might have been a texan. So you model your lifestyle after a “Texan” lifestyle that you saw in historically inaccurate cowboy movies that were mostly filmed in Italy.
Here in the US we get very hung up on “National Identity”. Most American’s don’t see “American” as a national Identity. People will, for example, claim to be “Irish” even though they’ve never been to Ireland, don’t know anything about Ireland, don’t know any Irish people etc. They might have had an ancestor who stumbled off the boat from Ireland, and that person was Irish, but the “Irish-american” you’re speaking to today is certainly not Irish. But they know they love to drink, and that’s an Irish thing right? So obviously they love drinking because it honors their Irish heritage.
Many atheists I’ve spoken to still believe in free will, which is a faith based belief with no scientific basis. So I’m not too surprised that some of them also believe in ghosts and shit.
