Ilandar

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[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

That's rarely how donations work, though. Ultimately you need to have some level of trust that the people at the organisation you are donating to know a lot more about where, when and how your money can be effectively used than you do. Your pre-donation requirements/demands are extremely unrealistic and I'm not sure if people like yourself are genuinely delusional about this fact or if you just use it as some sort of moral bargaining tactic to never feel bad about the fact that you don't donate any of your money to the causes you supposedly really want to.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

“My favorite season — and I feel like I can say this objectively — is Season 1.” He’s picking up steam here, sounding tickled by his own admission. “I happen to be in that one, so I thought that was incredible, incredible television and a great series. I watched it weekly, like everyone else, on Sunday night, and that was an event for me. And I got to sit back and enjoy that. I loved the water cooler talk on Monday morning. Even though I made it, I sort of forgot what was going to happen next. It was one of the great events in TV.”

I think this might be one of the only times I've seen an actor not only admit that they watched something they were in, but actually watched it as everyone else would watch it. Like he was a fan of the TV show he helped create and already knew everything about. Kinda weird but it's cool that he can enjoy it in that way, a lot of actors seem to either hate watching themselves played back or just don't see the value in reliving a project for a second time.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mullvad. Its only real downside is its lack of port forwarding and it passes all the Lemmy purity tests. You will never be downvoted for recommending it.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Prior to 2019, any film where the actor committed the cardinal sin of not speaking English.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

To be fair to you, there was a Bourne reference in there I missed initially.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Also was annoyed with Pattinson’s voice.

I have the complete opposite take, I thought the voice he created for the character was great.

spoilerThe narration was hilarious, he sounded so stupid and resigned to his tragic comedy of a life and the way they paired that with a lot of visual gags made the first two thirds of the film so enjoyable for me. To me, where it really fell off was the final third which became a very slow, linear trudge towards a very predictable Hollywood happy ending. Every scene from the post-attempted assassination arrests onward dragged so badly.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are we gonna ignore the entire series of films where he repeatedly saves himself?

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Well there you go, mystery solved! Very interesting piece of trivia, thanks for sharing.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's way less egregious than the Brave co-founder making donations in support anti-gay marriage amendments, and even that has been massively overblown (the real reasons to avoid Brave are a) Chromium, b) shady crypto stuff and c) its financial incentives as a for-profit company with investor backing to compromise on its claimed ethical principles). I'm getting so sick of these purity tests on completely irrelevant and unrelated issues standing in the way of genuine alternatives to big tech. People are so eager to let perfect be the enemy of good.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In 2008, a former member of the Goto-gumi yakuza group told reporter Jake Adelstein: "We set it up to stage his murder as a suicide. We dragged him up to the rooftop and put a gun in his face. We gave him a choice: jump and you might live or stay and we'll blow your face off. He jumped. He didn't live."

In the first season of Tokyo Vice, which is loosely based on the life of Jake Adelstein, there's a scene where this choice is offered to a yakuza member. I wonder if the writers took inspiration from your piece of trivia or whether it's just a common way of covering up murders over there.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

In Australia Paramount+ has the A-League broadcast rights, so I subscribe purely for that. It is very cheap by streaming standards here ($7 for the base tier with ads) and has a pretty good collection of films too. TV series are really where it struggles.

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