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Anybody recommend a novel to a VERY picky reader who loved 'The Monkey Wrench Gang'? I seek: exciting, irreverent, eccentric, funny, intelligent. No pulp! No procedurals or thrillers! Max. c. 400pp. Thanks!
Mine has gotta be the affection reader bit, especially when Lee jihye gets 6 points
Every year, I try to go the movie theater as much as possible. Usually 3-5 times a week but significantly less over the past 2 years. I like to keep stubs/dates/scores/etc for fun. In theaters, I saw 5 movies in 2015, 9 movies in 2016, 140 movies in 2017, 162 movies in 2018, 192 movies in 2019, and 44 movies in 2020. This is my full ranking of every movie I saw in theaters in 2021.
My reviews/scores are not meant to be anything serious, and it's really just a personal enjoyment scale, I don't keep a checklist or anything, just a ticket stub and a rating when I leave the theater, sorted at the end of the year with a few random thoughts. Scores sometimes change after re-watch and ranking, but most stay the same. I'll admit that my scores this year are probably more inflated than usual because being back in theaters on a regular basis was amazing. I try to stay away from reviews and trailers as much as possible so I can go in blind for most movies.
I got COVID in mid-December so I'm running behind on a lot of the more recent big movies and/or award-contenders (Spider-Man, Nightmare Alley, Licorice Pizza, Passing, Matrix 4, Red Rocket, The Lost Daughter, Tender Bar, etc), but I should get to most of those in the coming week or so. I also skipped on a few other big titles (Annette, The Suicide Squad, Godzilla vs. Kong, etc). Hopefully next year will be better and I'll get close to my 200 goal. I don't rank anything I've seen outside of theaters.
Dune - 10/10
Asia - 9/10 - Depressing, heart-wrenching, and a closing scene that'll make you want to curl up into a ball and cry. I love a good punch like this once in a while. The pacing is a little bit off and it's very depressing, but it works. This movie came out of nowhere and is probably the one I regularly think about the most from 2021.
Pig - 9/10
Nomadland - 9/10
King Richard - 9/10 - This could have been another cheesy, shallow ego project (ahem, like American Underdog that I saw on January 1st, and will be low on the 2022 list), but it did so much more. I cried like a baby at the end, and Will Smith/Aunjanue Ellis/Jon Bernthal were an amazing trio and elevated this to be one of the best sports-biopics of the past decade.
The Father - 9/10
The Green Knight - 9/10
Murina - 8/10 - *Biggest surprise of the year and the best debut film
... keep reading on reddit ➡My friend (let's call him "N") proclaimed his feelings for me while we were in college back in 2017 by telling me how he always imagined us together and how wonderful he thought i was and we kissed. We had been platonic friends for two years at that point. I was ecstatic when he told me because I always really enjoyed spending time with him, we had incredible chemistry, and I felt like we brought out the best in each other and was looking forward to exploring a romantic side. Immediately after he told me he started avoiding me, acting distant and telling me that maybe we shouldn't go down the dating route. I was heartbroken but respected his wishes. In the months after that our friendship had completely shifted, even though he told me he didn't want to date he still tried initiating sex and tried hooking up with me but I didn't feel comfortable having sex with him without commitment (as I was a virgin at the time but I really wanted to lose it to him!). After a couple months of this back and forth, I told him I didn't want to be strung along like this and told him either he commits to dating me or we need space from each other for a while. He broke down and told me, and I quote, "You're too good for me, I sit on the couch and eat ramen while you travel and make money, I'm only going to hold you back. You'll never consider me a real romantic prospect." It was honestly one of the most gut wrenching moments because I swear I always thought we would be perfect together and I always voiced to him how much I cared about him. After that I found it difficult to really be vulnerable or open up to him and figured I would try to move on. Since then we have both dated other people, but the what-if of "what if N and I actually gave each other a real shot instead of being scared" is always in the back of my mind. I used to think he might be the one. It's just been hard to see him date other girls the last few years, because it feels like he will give other girls an actual chance and wont take the chance on me and then I can't help but feel like he has projected all his insecurities on me and is preventing us from having a really wonderful relationship. One particularly awful comment he made to me was when I told him I donated money in the pandemic he said “you’re not generous.” For context I work 70 hours a week at a very demanding job for my money so I don’t come from money in any way. I tried brushing this comment aside Bc I thought he was just projecting but all his
... keep reading on reddit ➡"Humanity views their five year assault on what they call "Anthill" that we called "Mantid Prime" to be a complete disaster. Of throwing good money after bad.
"However, from a Mantid point of view, it was the most terrifying thing that had ever occurred.
"We had struck at their 'queens', going after their seats of power. According to our intelligence we had caught a majority of their fleet 'at anchor' and disabled it. Of course, we were unaware that a full 80% of their fleet, who's numbers were extremely guarded and we did not have sufficient intelligence on, had mobilized with full troop loadouts to fight what would have been the Third Colony War.
"The Terrans had resisted our invasions, stopped us dead. Every system was still under contention.
"Then, out of the blue, when they should have been devoting all of those troops to take back their home systems, just like every other race had, they directly struck at Mantid Prime.
"They jumped in and fought their way through the Mantid System Guard, then made orbital landings on Mantid Prime. A full half of the first wave mat-trans'd to the surface, the other half came down in orbital strike pods.
"Within hours the humans had carved out beachheads, were landing their seconds waves.
"They had suffered thousands of casualties.
"We had suffered millions. Four Hive Cities were under direct assault.
"Within a month they landed wherever they wanted. Their K/D ratio was 1,257:1.
"A month in and they destroyed a Hive City. The Queen had been evacuated, but they destroyed it outright, detonating one of their powered armor suits inside the Hive City. Sergeant Steakley's biography, Armor, goes into more detail than I shall here.
"Suffice to say, the Terrans were having more success on Mantid Prime than we were having on TerraSol.
"It was terrifying, horrifying, and utterly impossible to the Mantid. The Mantid were the ones who attacked the Queen, who crushed all who were before them. Never had anyone assaulted out core worlds. Never had anyone landed on our Hive Homes and brought the fight to us.
*"We had soldiers without number, we could grow
... keep reading on reddit ➡I admit, I preordered the game and played it day one. I had zero issues running the game and was impressed how my GTX1080 was handling the game fine at 1440p. A year later and 2 graphics cards later, I am playing the game again, and let me tell you, its still great, in my opinion.
General info:
There are 3 intros to pick from, Nomad, Corpo, and Street Kid. Each of these is mostly a quick 30m intro and gives you the ability to chose certain dialogue the the game that other's do not. I played Nomad on playthrough one, and playing Corpo in playthrough 2. The corpo gives way more dialogue options in the rest of the game than nomad. I feel like nomad only gives you perks in one of the quest lines with Panam (one of the characters). Corop seems to have some sleezy know it all one-liner everywhere you turn at best, and a way to really piss someone off by exposing them at the worst. But the corpo intro is kind of meh, its shorter and a lot less interesting.
Yes I know there is a lot of controversy about this game, and on one hand I am on board with the CDPR hate, on the other, I just enjoy the game man. There are bugs here and there even today, but I never had a "game breaking" bug. I feel like most of the bugs are very funny actually. I had a character drive his car straight through my car after finishing our convo, and he didn't bat an eye. F*cker just slammed my car into the wall and kept on going. How on point with the fact that I was rude to him!
Personally I haven't had much complaints with over all game play or graphics. I had some issues with my 2080 super, but a quick reinstall of drivers and I was on my way. This second play through I am playing at 4k medium/high with a 3060ti. If you are having random crashes mid game, downclock your GPU/GPU memory. I find that the game is very demanding and if your GPU is highstrung, you will have a crash here and there. I would say if you have a 2070 super through a 3070 you will be getting a great experience at any resolution, but anything bellow that, you are pretty much not going to play at 4k, and you are definitely going to need to turn the settings down. But see the "pros" section bellow.
Pros:
The game is gorgeous. Even at low settings the game looks fantastic. And at medium you are getting an even better experience, with high/ultra pretty much being a 1-2% improvement for a 50% performance hit.
The music and sounds are great. I wish car engine sounds were louder, they all seem very muted, but other
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I am not OP. This was posted in r/amitheasshole 2 years back
Hello, all! Well, if it isn't obvious already from the title, I am dying. I don't feel the details are super relevant to the issue at hand, but for those who are curious about my ultimate demise, I have cystic fibrosis and after two rejected lung transplants, I've been told there isn't anything else they can do except keep me comfortable in my last few weeks. I've begun my preparations for my funeral and such and while I was thinking it would be a breath of fresh air in this whirlwind of death, I could not have been more wrong.
Now, on to the title! My parents are both STRICT Southern Baptists and want a very traditional funeral. This includes; hymns to be sung during the memorial, a casket and graveside service, a viewing, countless prayers during the memorial, scripture to be read, etc. My issue with this is...well, everything. I am the complete opposite of my parents; not religious, curse like a sailor, drink like the Irish, you name it. Everything they are wanting and attempting to plan is not me as a person. I've somehow made it to 25 and managed to meet the man of dreams and marry him last year and he is torn. He wants me to have it exactly as I want, he just doesn't want to have to deal with my parents after the fact while actively grieving. I have two siblings, one of which is a clone of my parents and one that is a mixture of my parents and myself.
I want my service to be one full of laughter, funny stories and pictures, upbeat music, cats (my husband and I are avid cat lovers), I want confetti and shit! But, more importantly, I want to be cremated and put in a fucking cat-shaped urn. I told my husband I wanted my ashes to be handed out like party favors (so my family and friends can take me with them because I love to travel) and he looked horrified.
My parents are absolutely NOT on board and are essentially planning everything how they want. Attempting to take me "shopping" for a casket, flowers, picking out hymns and verses, the whole deal. I'm obviously not very pleased.
So, I guess my question would be, WIBTA if I took control of my own funeral and wrote a will to be followed exactly how I want it? I understand my parents are grieving and I've tried to compromise with a mixture of both my views and theirs, but, they aren't having it. I never thought dying woul
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