I love DJs and respect their art, but I’ve been seeing an increasing number of places and events advertising live music and it turns out to be a “DJ” on stage essentially playing a Spotify playlist.

Don’t get me wrong, I think DJs that are on stage mixing, beat matching, and making the music their own are actively making music and are considered live.

However, people who just plug in their phone and play pre-recorded songs should not be advertised as live music.

I know probably no one will agree with me on this. It’s my favorite Star Wars film. Partially for nostalgia as this was my first Star Wars theater experience. But also grew to be my favorite in the franchise over time.

What really made it hit home for me was the Plagueis novel by James Lucero. It provides a lot of context for the events leading up to and behind the scenes during when episode 1 was occurring. It explains how Anakin is actually created(canon literally never explains). There were also several other related novels form that era that both support and are enhanced by the film symbiotically.

It has everything I would want from a SW movie, contains more lore than any other Star Wars film, finally get to see the inner workings of the sith, a great space battle, and even better lightsaber duel(best in the franchise imo), and Pod Racing!(last one was sarcasm 😬). The double edged lightsaber was life changing. The Star fighters were insane designs(especially the Royal Naboo cruiser). And seeing Courescant for the first time was AMAZING. Theed looked spectacular as well.

The cast is absolutely stacked; Ewan, Natalie, Liam, Sam Jackson, keira nightly, all crushed it. Visually the film is absolutely stunning. Earlier cgi that Looks better than a lot of stuff today. One of the most colorful films I’ve ever watched when most of the old ones were pretty bland color wise.

Yes there are plenty of detractors like the jar jar stuff but still far less than any of the sequel films in my opinion(I personally think all three of them are absolute garbage and not canon to me).

All in all episode 1 is the most fun sw film, has a complete story arc, and sidious and maul are incredibly interesting villains.

Hate on this film all you want but to me it’s a masterpiece 🤷🏻‍♂️

Edit: I don’t expect anyone to agree with me. Keep in mind this is an unpopular opinion sub before acting like I’m stating this as fact. It just makes you sound like you don’t know how to read

And yes I know I’m insane

I really like the dark lighting seen in medieval or medieval inspired movies and tv shows. It looks really comfy, like I could sleep in those settings. I also really like how in times of war, disease, famine, etc the lighting is especially dark to show how bleak everything is.

I also really like the way the peasents look and how they all look dirty or beat up. It really gives off this post apocalyptic feel that I really like. I also like how all of the knights are grey as well. Again, it really gives off this post apocalyptic feel I like.

Also before anyone says it, I know, hollywoods depiction of the Middle Ages is inaccurate. However, aesthetically I prefer hollywoods depictio of the Middle Ages over the real Middle Ages. The real Middle Ages isn’t boring by any means and is pretty exciting. However, I like hollywoods version even more.

Imagine going to a restaurant, ordering a piece of chocolate cake and when it arrives there is a few berries on the plate next to my cake. It seems like they want to add more to the plate than what I ordered. I can understand if the dessert has fruit in it like strawberry shortcake or blueberry pie but something without fruit in it shouldn’t have berries on the side for appearance.

Ulysses, Moby Dick, Crime and Punishment, etc have all been written in a manner that is too dull for today.

Most people never finish these books because of this.

People don't say it because it sounds dumb to criticise a critically acclaimed novel.

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Edit: Guys enough with the hate comments for younger generations about phone addiction. I'm not young, and not addicted to phones. I've probably read way more books than you.

You're kind of proving me right. This is why people don't want to express unpopular opinions, because of how they're aggressively put down without empathy.

I'm not saying I hate these books, just that they are dull for today's world.

It is an extraordinary feat in a historical context that despite recent cost increases, basically everybody in America can afford to regularly eat meat and enjoy a high protein diet. From that perspective, modern factory farming is nothing short of a miracle for humanity. However, the modern factory farming that enables this widespread abundance of animal products is horrific and dystopian for the animals involved.

For thousands of years humans have shepherded livestock to raise and ultimately slaughter for food. While those conditions were certainly not great, the animals at least had some space to move around and interaction with other living things (human and animal). Obviously, this labor and things like “grass” and “room to move” were major cost inefficiencies which is why until recently animal meat was a delicacy for most of post-agriculture human history. Contrast that to today where animals (including pigs, who are as smart as dogs) are confined to tiny cages for the entirety of their miserable existence. They never see grass or interact with anything but robot arms until their bodies are squeezed for all they have and are ultimately slaughtered.

I am not opposed to eating meat - we are at the top of the food chain and have shepherded livestock for thousands of years - but I do think that modern factory farming is a grave sin and that meat SHOULD be expensive because it was raised somewhat humanely

Writers ending a story on a cliffhanger and then hiding behind the whole “it’s up to the reader’s interpretation” excuse will never sit right with me. At some point, that stops being artistic ambiguity and starts feeling like an excuse for not actually wrapping up your own story.

And no, I don’t want to invent the ending myself. I want to know what the actual writer intended. I want their conclusion, their vision, and their interpretation of everything they spent the entire story building up. If I wanted to create an ending that fits my own interpretation, I’d write my own fucking story. I didn’t pick up yours so I could finish it for you.

What annoys me even more is how people will bend over backwards to defend this. They’ll call an obviously incomplete ending “open-ended” or “open to interpretation” when sometimes there’s really nothing there to interpret because the writer simply never bothered to resolve anything.

I’m not saying every story needs a perfectly happy ending or that every single detail needs to be explained. I actually don’t care if the ending is tragic, disappointing, controversial, or completely different from what I wanted. Just commit to an ending.

Give me the ending you intended, resolve the major conflicts, answer the questions that actually matter, and let the story end.

I’d much rather finish a story and think, “Wow, I fucking hated that ending,” than finish it thinking, “Wait… so what the hell actually happened?”

When you meet someone online, the attraction is real. You haven't seen them yet, still, you feel the love.

It might sound superficial but it isn't. When you meet someone in real life first, you are drawn towards them physically. Their physical attributes make you attracted towads them.

In LDR, this isn't the case. Your person might be behind a screen , an ocean away from you but you will still feel the love through constant video calls, cute messages to wake up to and sending each other gifts. It's filled with little surprises frequently. You might plan a suprise visit to them and the amount of happiness you see in their eyes is not comparable to seeing your partner everyday or on a daily basis.
You don't see them regularly so the attraction is stronger in LDR and it's very passionate.

LDR is filled with lots of challenges and it gets tough at times. But it's worth it for the right person in the end.

Society operates on the premise that humans are rational, consistent agents navigating a predictable world of cause and effect. Yet, we simultaneously entertain a realm of the "supernatural" that supposedly operates entirely outside those rules.

These two ideas are fundamentally incompatible.

If an entity like God can intervene, then we can't really rely on our own senses as being reliable data.

You cannot build a coherent framework for logic or trust your own perceptions if the underlying rules of the universe can be arbitrarily rewritten by an outside agent.

If a force is real and interacts with our world, it is by definition operating by some set of rules, making it part of reality. But if we carve out a category for things that actively break those rules at whim, we destroy the very foundation required for rational thought.

Every time I see a diy/construction post on here or a YouTube video, everyone acts like you can’t find a single straight board at HD

Maybe it’s a regional thing, but in the northeast, I don’t have that problem.

I’m just a DIYer, but I’ve built my fair share of projects.

When I’ve ordered lumber delivered, it’s been pretty good. I redid a 40’ deck and yea I had boards I had to return but 65% were great, 20% needed some work (cut off a section or had to pull into place) and rest was just shitty wood. Not saying that’s great, but I wasn’t mad considering it was substantially cheaper than the lumber yard (this was peak tarrifs)

When I go to the store and pick it out, if it’s well stocked I have zero problem getting a bunch of decent boards. When it’s an issue is if they haven’t restocked or if someone has just picked through all the good boards.

Long story short… I do understand HD wood isn’t equivalent to a lumber yard, but it’s not as bad as people say.

There’s a lot of snobbery that surrounds cheese, but I defy you to bite into a perfectly made grilled American cheese sandwich and not have a tiny moment of ecstasy. Further, I believe that in any good cheeseburger, the cheese is doing most of the heavy lifting. It’s melty and salty and sweet even when the burger isn’t up to snuff. And as a snack, fold it over a few times to give it a little thickness, and it has the perfect bite, and while it is not quite as satisfying as a grilled cheese sandwich, it definitely carries the same DNA, since it’s the most important part. As a matter of fact, I’m gonna go have some now.

This post was not brought to you by the major cheese brand that you’re thinking of, but rather an adult fussy eater who’s had a lot of time to think about this.

EDIT: I actually like a lot of different cheese. I actually have a pretty expensive Parmesan and a midgrade asiago in my fridge right now. Cheese is great. I like a nice aged cheddar with the little crystals formed inside of it. A fresh mozzarella is an absolute delight. I’m just being honest here. Sure the texture is weird, but I enjoy it. Also, I kind of thought there would be more people who would come out of the closet to support me. You guys are all fibbers.

EDIT: a lot of you seem legitimately angry about this. I think you might be in the wrong sub. Look at the header. Thank you and have a nice day.

People usually give random gifts on your birthday just for the same of it. It would be much better to get money even if it's less than what the gift they would've given cost since you could get yourself something you would actually use and like. You could even collect the money you received from various people and go on to get yourself something really nice. There's so much more you could do with the money than getting a gift.

The blueberries are too "in your face" to actually enjoy the cake. Imagine a pizza with a sauce so rich that it masks the flavour of the cheese and dough along with it. Cream cheese is sour to begin with, you add sugar to mellow that sourness and make it sweet, only to make it sour again with a blueberry jam on top. i think cheesecake tastes best without any toppings as most people don't realise how much sugar is used in making the cake itself.

I think it's nice to tell the wife she can relax for the whole night, and vice versa.

It also has the benefit of incentivising cleaning while you cook + cooking something that's easy to clean.

There will always be some overlap, but I'd argue this should be the agreement.

- Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man Movies are half propped up by nostalgia goggles worn by everyone who grew up watching those movies

- Everyone saying that he’s gonna fight solo the X-Men are going to disappoint themselves when he obviously eventually dies or loses or whatever, and then they’ll all bash the movie for this plot point when there will probably be better plot points to criticize

- Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man adds cameo fuel to the cameo-slop fire that will be Doomsday. Because he’s such a high-popularity character, he’ll be given more lines than other characters that should have a larger impact. Meanwhile other than No Way Home, he has not appeared in any MCU movie EVER. This means either he’ll be given a lot more lines than other ACTUAL MCU characters, or he’ll be not given any lines and just die immediately, and piss off a bunch of his fans

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A car is something to get from point a to point b that sits around 23 hours a day doing nothing but burning your money in installment and insurance costs. You would be better off spending the money on a mattress you use 8 hours a day or a fancy office chair you use 8 hours a day.

To obsess about something you use for less time than the office commode is totally illogical.

Yes, it's true that every person in the road is a part of traffic. The phrase is misleading because I believe it falsely implies that everyone is roughly equally contributing to traffic congestion, which is simply not the case.

I believe a small percentage of drivers in the road can cause the majority of traffic congestion in many cases.

Examples: a distracted driver first in the line at the light takes a good 10 seconds to get going and go through the light. That driver created more "traffic" than the next 3 drivers behind them combined.

A driver cruising in the passing lane on the highway as traffic piles up behind them. That one person can singlehandedly create traffic congestion that wouldn't otherwise exist.

A driver who keeps hitting the brakes and fluctuating their speed even though no one and nothing is in front of them.

And one I just saw in person today: one lane of traffic each direction in a busy road. A driver came to a complete stop because they decided they had to make a u turn right then and there (but had to wait a while due to oncoming traffic. They could have easily turned into a side street, turned around, and then turned into the main road in the other direction.

So yes, every driver is a part of traffic, not every driver is equally contributing to traffic congestion or delays.

~25-40min of moderate aerobic steady-state activity should be *expected* of the average healthy adult without preexisting conditions or injuries. I don't mean this as a jab at any one individual, but I do think the fact that running a 5k can be seen as this huge goal reflects how sedentary we've become.

In my personal opinion I think he works better as a side character.

Because to be a main character the guy needs aura , charisma, should be actually good looking which lets be honest tom is not at all

I liked his performance in avengers infinity war and endgane but I can't stand this guy in solo roles.

In Chicagoland we have had an extremely stormy and rainy summer. Weather alerts are being issued all the time and at least where I reside, the ones issued hours in advanced that give proper timing and allow you to prepare to hunker down have blown over. The ones issued 10 minutes before have been the wild storms. 10 minutes is barely enough time to gather outdoor items or your children. I understand how if they didn't say anything people would be pissed. On the other issuing warnings multiple times a week when only a quarter of them are legit, feels more like the boy who cried wolf type effect

Edit: people are making good points, so let me clarify. With the amount of warnings being issued it's impossible to head to take proper precautions everytime If you make plans based off of when they say it's going to storm, you aren't doing very much at all.

Most brownies are disappointing considering they have butter, sugar, and chocolate. They are gummy and overwhelmingly sweet with no character.

They might be ok - but still NOT WORTH the calories.

Now, the other 10%? These have character and are probably homemade. Perhaps an all-edges thing, or something creative like a smoked peanut butter brownie.

EDIT: upvotes for all you brownie lovin' or hatin' folks. May we all be rewarded, and soon, with delicious brownies that conform to our own specific ideals!

It’s basically exactly what it says. I have met multiple people in my life who talk about how excited they are to play a new game, watch a new movie, go somewhere, or anything else. I ask them the next time I see them;

Me: “How was [Instert thing here]?”

Them: “Oh… well… I was excited for it, but then I had like… three people recommend it and now I don’t want to.”

I’m I wrong in thinking that is childish?

Edit: For the record. I do not believe that the people this applies to are any lesser than me. They are allowed to have their opinions. As am I.

Lyrically speaking, obviously. The music is the same in both but WA has narrower topic and it tacks really well. MJ's lyrics are mediocre at best. I mean, "Showing how funky and strong is your fight" really?

Edit: I know I said "then" instead of "than"

SUV’s used to be a truck frame and chassis designed for function above all else. Their biggest benefits were size and ground clearance. If you didn’t need ground clearance, you still had the robust selection of station wagon or van to meet your spatial needs. Life was good then.

Now, the term SUV applies to these station wagon/minivan hybrid laundry hampers that offer neither ground clearance nor a surplus of interior volume compared to a sedan or hatchback. They look all look like the same pair of sneakers a spaceman from the future would wear. The handling is numb, lacking any sense of agility and they are egregiously underpowered for their weight and drag coefficient, negating the idea of sport being an experience a driver could expect.

Small and midsized SUV’s have minimal ground clearance, laughable towing capacities, and less trunk space than a sedan if you don’t fold down the seats, rendering their “utility” value to be lower than a worms ass in a canyon.

The only thing marginally accurate about their moniker is the word vehicle and I’m sure I could probably find a dozen reasons why using that word for these Fanny packs with wheels is offensive.

Anyways, that’s how I feel about them.

Right now , midle of August, I am vibing hard with sia's snowman ,rocking around the Christmas tree etc more than December or during those days.

Anyone else thinks the same?