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I always want to pronounce it to rhyme with "kite" due to the E at the end. But apparently you're supposed to ignore the E and pronounce it to rhyme with "bit." You almost never ignore the E at the end of words like this. Frustrating.

Ori and the Will of the Wisps has a pretty cool desert area with a sandworm boss. Only one part of the game, and not actually Dune, but feels very Dune-inspired.

spanky1 posted...

@TheOnionKnight this is what you harp on a lot right?

Yeah, I think about it a lot. Something can be well-intentioned but then have the total opposite effect. The Godfather and Apocalypse Now are the two examples that always come to mind for me. Even though these are critical movies, The Godfather wound up leading to real-world glamorization of the mafia, and Apocalypse Now is literally used as a recruitment tool for the military, playing "Ride of the Valkyries" to hype up soldiers and etc.

alfred_ashford posted...

Not watching those vids but thats a shame if the tiktok generation really thinks that obscure/not universally agreed upon good(aka NEW) is pretentious.

Getting real sick of the "its popular so it has to be good and if not EVERYONE likes it then no one likes it" mindset.

Good, Bad, and the Ugly is not even obscure, and is universally agreed to be good. It's one of the stereotypical "big famous Western" movies. Honestly it's the guy on TikTok who comes off as being pretentious here: pretending to know what he's talking about. Which is usually the case whenever someone calls something "pretentious." That's turning into a red-flag word for me.

Only really with one of my partners if she buys Nestle products. I wouldn't say "criticize" though. More like "point out," since she's anti-Nestle (rightly so, in my opinion) but she'll sometimes buy their stuff without realizing they manufactured a certain product.

I love The Scarlet Letter and basically everything else written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but I read his books either in college or on my own. Not in high school. Not middle school. And especially not elementary, which is when my sister was forced to read it. This is one of those books that you really need to read as an adult, and it's a disservice to both the book and to the students that schools make kids read it when they're way too young.

One that I was forced to read in high school, and that I hated, was Moby-Dick. This was one of my most-hated novels for years -- until I reread it in my 20s, and then I fell in love with it. Now it's one of my all-time favorites. I've reread it like 8 times.

Never much cared for To Kill a Mockingbird, though. Didn't like Death of a Salesman either.

Way more than 35. No clue about the number, but it's atypically inflated from attending kink parties that revolve around making out with everyone.

I know a quite a few Davids. One is 100% an irritable asshole. Another one is literally a Buddhist monk who's super calm, soft-spoken, and will occasionally withdraw from the world to meditate for months at a time. The rest run the gamut of temperaments.