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    19 days ago

    I am a firm realist. There are two sides: the anti-corpo leftists of Blade II, and the hyper “where do we sign” neo liberals of Battlefield Earth.

    Blade II Leftists are sure nighttime is literally just yellow color grading except when it’s blue or they forget to do it at all, and the neo liberals are sure that you tilt the camera and the more you tilt the camera the better the movie is.

    The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. John Travolta literally cannot evaporate, and he is also probably struggling to improve his filmmaking. He will probably find ways to do both fucked up color grading and what he thinks are Dutch angles, but in a more subtle way.

    And then Del Toro will probably send him a box of shit or live bees for Christmas.

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      19 days ago

      I am a firm realist. I’d like to point out two things.

      There are two sides: the anti-corpo leftists of Del Taco, and the hyper “where do we sign” neo liberals of Taco Bell.

      Del Taco Leftists are sure Taco Bell will literally just evaporate tomorrow, and the neo liberals are sure that the secret menu has already happened and will be revealed for Taco Tuesday.

      The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Taco Bell literally cannot evaporate, and they are also probably struggling to design a burrito that doesn’t fucking suck. They will probably find ways to distract you with churro bites instead, as a reasonable fast food chain would.

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        I can’t stop, it’s like eating potato chips, and as a firm realist. I’d like to point out two things.

        There are two sides: the anti-corpo leftists who eat Pringles, and the hyper “where do we sign” neo liberals who prefer doritos.

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        18 days ago

        goddammit now I want a taco, and there’s no great options near me

        curse you, average of extremes!

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        18 days ago

        fucking… maybe if I edit it in nobody will notice

        maybe they’ll pay even more for the director’s cut

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            18 days ago

            @self@awful.systems I would like to report a bug. Sometimes reading, interacting with, or posting a comment costs several times as much as it does other times. Posting this comment was exactly one million times as expensive as the median of my other comments and reading it will cost as much. Please try and equalize the cost of using this free site so I can continue to afford alcohol.

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              18 days ago

              finally my pyramid scheme is coming to fruition

              sneerchain, coming soon to an awful system near you