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  1. 15 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:
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    Are they all dead or did they get taken down to the sewers? I mean I know one is missing most of an arm…

    I’ve been watching a lot of horror this month and that was right up there with what I’ve seen. 

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    The Vulture review mentioned that the showrunners weren't allowed to release the main cast list, so I think they're actually gone. They'll probably pop up in the sewer or through someone's bathroom drain at some point, as one does.

     

  2. Didn't love it, but it's a pilot so I'll definitely give it a few more episodes, especially because of

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    The bait-and-switch at the end. I was kind of rolling my eyes at how they kept hitting the exact same notes as the book and movies, but then I realized why.

    I'm not super interested in the military storyline, but ok. Let's see what happens. I'm much more interested in the Hanlon family story and I hope they go into what happens at the nightclub. I'll spoiler this next thing just in case, but it's something interesting I noticed in IMDB.

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    Dick Halloran is listed as a character - I think he was driving the Jeep when Hanlon and his friend first show up, but I don't think he has any lines in the first episode.

     

  3. 2 hours ago, field said:

    We stayed at the Grand Minerva and it was nice.  Not Four Seasons nice but nice enough.   Good location to walk to everything.  Rooftop bar has cool views of the Duomo and the city.  Second 4 Leoni rec.  We also liked 13 Gobbi, a cool little trattoria.  To be honest, though, not sure Firenze is a get away from touristy stuff if that's your goal?  Of course I've never been there in December, so maybe I'm off on that.   

    Really, the goal is to get away from everyone else for a bit. If y'all have recs for other places to visit close to Rome, I'm all ears!

  4. We'll be in Rome in December with our kids, my in-laws, and @HornOnTheBayou's sisters. We'd like to get away one night on our own, maybe to Firenze. Is there a good quick overnight trip for us to take by train, where we can chill and drink good wine and food without the kids or the rest of the family. And take a break from the full-on touristy stuff the rest of the family wants to do. I speak about an intermediate level of Italian so regions where very little English is spoken would be ok.

    Any recs for places to stay and places to eat/things to see?

  5. On 10/19/2025 at 3:55 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    They should retire the Domingo sketch, but they probably won’t because of the YouTube views. I think the episode was mostly fine. Sabrina Carpenter dancing around in her panties didn’t hurt. 

    Snacks Homiez was really funny. Even Wickline was good. 

     

    22 hours ago, A-Tex Devil said:

    This. If you have kids that age it was a dead on impression of how 12 yo boys talk to each other outside the (likely intentional) exclusion of “six-seveennn”. 

    All this. I loled when they called that kid unc.

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  6. On 10/18/2025 at 11:13 AM, Slacks said:

    Is there an afternoon dove hunt? 

    The day of the wedding, I actually had a conversation with someone about the dove hunt they'd gone on the day before. 😂

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  7. On 10/18/2025 at 12:29 PM, mdmost said:

    Finally watched Hereditary. What a wild ride that last act was. mdleast sold it to me as having the most audible dread in any movie he's watched. 

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    The part where you see the mom in the corner and then she floats by. Just great at amping up the tension. The part where she starts chasing her son made us scream which my oldest and I rarely do while watching these.

    So far we've watched, The Birds, Psycho, The Thing, Longlegs, Se7en, Talk To Me, and Weapons. We still need to get through The VVitch, Event Horizon, American Werewolf in London, Bring Her Back, and the youngest wants to watch The Shining. 

    Hereditary is my 17-yo's favorite movie - we watch a lot of horror, and he compares everything to it. Highly recommend Midsommar too. I haven't enjoyed Ari Aster's last two movies as much, but I'm hoping he goes back to his horror roots soon.

    On 10/18/2025 at 2:17 PM, Stringer said:

    I am by no means an expert in this area, but I really like Ready Or Not from a couple years ago. No higher themes, it just rips.

    This is one of my favorite horror movies. A couple of Halloweens ago, I dressed up as Grace. Carried around a Red Ryder BB gun for trick-or-treating.

  8. 14 hours ago, FORTY NINE TO ZERO said:

    their wildlife refuge is amazing, i highly recommend you swing by, assuming it isn't shut down due to stupid ass trump 

    Thanks for the rec - we won't be there that long this time but I'll remember this for future trips to SETX.

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  9. 15 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    back to this anuhuac family reunion / wedding, @austingirl

    1. are the bride and groom related ? Not that we know of, but also probably, in the way that everyone in SETX whose families have been there for generations are probably cousins several times removed 

    2. do you plan on being uppity and wear shoes ? Yes

    3. straw hat ? No

    4. is it an anuhuac faux pas to chew tobaccy during the ceremony ? No idea, this is the first time I've ever stopped in Anahuac on purpose 

    5. what covered dish are you bringing ? Reception will be catered! There's an open bar, son!

    6. how pregnant is she ? They've been together forever so that's not off the table, but unlikely 

     

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  10. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    And they JUST.  DON'T.  GET THAT.

    They think they can simultaneously wave around the "I'm a constitution-loving conservative" flag while also waving (in practice) the Wilhoit's Law flag (in-groups the law protects but does not bind, vs. out-groups that the law binds but does not protect).  Once you create and iimplement the Wilhoit dichotomy, it's all over but the shoutin'. 

    Well, fellas, it's all over but the shoutin'.  Your precious Second Amendment means precisely as much to this admin as MY First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, etc.  When you decided to light the whole fucking thing on fire, don't be fucking surprised when everything burns.

    This is tangential, but did y'all know that the Frank Wilhoit who originally said that line is not the political scientist, but another Frank Wilhoit who was posting a comment to a blog post? This Slate article goes into it more, but it's such a weird coincidence.

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  11. Saw it yesterday. 

    It reminded me of Skinamarink in a lot of ways, being a similar high-concept film. You never see the humans' faces clearly. Since it's shot from the dog's POV, most of what you see is from about knee-height. I watched it with my 13-yo and we both really liked it. It didn't stick the landing 100%, IMO, but it's still a good movie. The filmmakers do a great job of conveying tension. 

    The Drafthouse had a good post-credits thing, about 5 minutes long, where the director talked about how they shot the movie with a dog who - and he could not emphasize this enough - did not realize he was in a movie. It took 3 years to film it because they spent so much time getting the reactions they wanted out of Indy, who is adorable.

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  12. 3 minutes ago, mchookem said:

    i was coming to ask if anybody had seen this and ask about this specifically because 

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    if the dog died there'd be no fucking way i could watch this rn, hanging by a thread daily as it is, i'd absolutely lose my shit 😕

    so thank you for spoiling lol

     

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    I haaaate spoilers but I had to check it for this movie for that exact reason.

     

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  13. 3 hours ago, futureman said:
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    I thought it was odd that they made perfidia a rat who directly got her comrades killed in the interest of saving her own skin.  seemed out of line with her character. 

     

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    When she was leaving Bob, she said she always put herself first. Snitching was an example of that. I think she liked the rush of everything she was doing with the rebels, and when that was gone and the reality of having a kid hit her, she bounced.

    1 hour ago, Bateshorn said:
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    I don’t know your familiarity with progressive politics, and I’m not CR-ing, but the core rule of the left is “don’t name names.” But it’s never really been true, or at best, it’s a guideline, not a rule(see Kazan, Elia).  To me Perfida followed a long line of left wing radicals who talked the talk, walked the walk…right up until she was staring down the barrel of life prison. 

    Putting aside the above, Perfida’s activism was more about the action being the juice (to paraphrase Heat) than any true political ideology. 

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    I mean, I thought it was the rule in every revolutionary group or gang; they just say "snitches get stitches" instead.


    I mean, I thought it was the rule in every revolutionary group or gang; they just say "snitches get stitches" instead.

  14. This is a fascinating, if long, Wired article about Peter Thiel and the philosophical beliefs behind everything he does. It goes into his background with Vance and touches on his reasons for investing in Facebook, and all that eventually converges to provide a ton of insight into his political leanings.

    The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel's Antichrist Obsession

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    You know you live in strange times when one of the most influential billionaires in the world—an investor who lit the financial fuses on both Facebook and the AI revolution, who cofounded PayPal and Palantir and launched the career of an American vice president—starts dedicating his public appearances primarily to a set of ideas about Armageddon borrowed heavily from a Nazi jurist. (As in: the guy who rapidly published the most prominent defense of Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives.)

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    Girard’s core insight, Palaver would learn, is that all humans are imitators, beginning with their wants. “Once their natural needs are satisfied, humans desire intensely,” Girard wrote, “but they don’t know exactly what they desire.” So people mimic the aspirations of their most impressive neighbors—“thus ensuring for themselves lives of perpetual strife and rivalry with those they simultaneously hate and admire.”

    According to Girard, this “mimesis”—this relentless copying—builds as it ricochets across relationships. In groups, everyone starts to look alike as they converge on a few models, ape the same desires, and furiously compete for the same objects. And the only reason this “mimetic rivalry” ever fails to break out into omnidirectional warfare is that, at some point, it tends to get channeled into a war of all against one. Via something Girard called the “scapegoat mechanism,” everyone aligns against an unfortunate target who is held responsible for the group’s ills. This mechanism is so essential to cultural cohesion, Girard wrote, that scapegoat narratives are the founding myths of every archaic culture.

    But the arrival of Christianity, Girard believed, marked a turning point in human consciousness—because it revealed, once and for all, that scapegoats are actually innocent and mobs are depraved. In the crucifixion narrative, Jesus is murdered in a heinous act of collective violence. But unlike nearly every other sacrificial myth, this one is told from the perspective of the scapegoat, and the audience cannot help but understand the injustice.

    With this epiphany, Girard wrote, the old scapegoating rituals instantly started to lose their effectiveness, having been unmasked and discredited. Humanity no longer gets the same relief from collective acts of violence. Communities still scapegoat all the time, but with less and less unifying cohesion to show for it. What awaits us at the end of history, then, is the unchecked, contagious, and ultimately apocalyptic violence of mimetic rivalry.

     

    I kept thinking about the concept of mimetic rivalry as I watched clips of the right's reaction to EscalatorGate. It started off with fairly typical MAGA outrage, but as more and more people joined in, the outrage got worse and worse ("we should bomb the UN and Trump should put piece of the rubble on the Resolute Desk!"), as if they were competing for a title. Thiel explained that he was "betting on mimetic rivalry" when he invested in Facebook - people have called him the founder of the Like button. 

    Anyway, I think some of you will find it as interesting as I did.

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  15. 6 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Bad Bunny doesn't strike me as being nearly as activist as Kendrick Lamar. I think he's still trying to carve out his place in entertainment.

    He's actually already a huge deal. He's been the most-streamed Spotify artist three times in the last five years and has 49 million Instagram followers. He's also hosted SNL and was in one of my favorite all-time sketches. If MAGA doesn't fuck around and get him pulled from the Superbowl, I would bet that his halftime show will be one of the most-watched ever.

    5 hours ago, hpslugga said:

    It really does suck.

    Last year I went to JerryWorld to watch my alma mater compete in the state title game. Saw a pack of old geezers a few rows in front all donning the red MAGA hats. Sickening. Like…I’d never been to a football game at any level and saw more than one person (if any at all) wearing a political shirt/hat, and yet in total I saw a dozen of those stupid trucker hats at just that one fucking high school game. Seriously there was more political bullshit at that one game than in all 36 years I’d been attending sporting events combined.

    My HS was there last year too (did we go to the same high school?), and while I didn't make it to that game, I went the year before. I'm sure if I'd gone last year I'd have seen the same thing you did - everyone back home is super MAGA. And yeah, it would've affected me the same way it did you.

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  16. On 9/26/2025 at 8:33 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    Thoughts. 
     

     

    What about SP's character makes it hard to believe someone like him exists?

    On 9/26/2025 at 9:25 PM, UpperWestside said:

     

    The chase was just incredible in how it was shot. That alone needs to get it every cinematography award possible. How it got set up was genius.

    The Alamo had a great pre-show about the history of VistaVision and why he chose to film it like that.

    Very light spoilers.

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    No mention yet of the Christmas Warriors, or whatever they were called? I laughed every time they said "All hail St Nick". Plus, the king from the old Bud Light commercials was the assassin.

     

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  17. 2 hours ago, bolverk said:

    It is not uncommon for various individuals and groups to predict specific dates for the Rapture, sometimes through interpreting passages and events in the Bible, and sometimes claiming they received visions. None of the predictions have obviously come to pass. In recent days, a prediction spread through social media that the Rapture would occur Tuesday, and on TikTok, the hashtag #rapturenow has over 311,000 videos — some of which endorsed the prediction, while many others poked fun at it.

     

    Grade A reporting right here.

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