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Podcast journalist, editor, train nerd, unapologetically trans and queer. Will likely rant about a movie or Discworld at some point. Ride or die physical media defender. 35 (they/them). pfp by @clove.bsky.social
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Let's try the Socratic method: It's a gimmie to context clue the original post is referencing Taco Bell's "taco supreme" where the "supreme" is just the addition of sour cream/tomato.
With that in mind: what other topic involving the word "supreme" would everyone be talking about right now?
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He's really talking about Cuomo getting his ass beat in NYC. Trumps' new bugbear is Zohran Mamdani being too ethnic for his tastes AND popular, so he's been amping up the "brown people scary" racism the last couple days.
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Season 2's 911 call involves a dude taking a bank hostage in the least efficient way possible. To get the sound of it right, they straight up had actors go stand in an office as if at a bank and then recorded an actual phone line into the room. No half-assed phone filter preset, an actual landline.
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For the uninitiated: the premise is you're listening to a true crime podcast hosted by someone obsessed with listening to 911 call recordings, so each season is focused on one BONKERS 911 call and her interviewing people involved.
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Is Discover inherently bad? No, just like hope people who want "it just works" iOS stuff aren't inherently bad. But it also means you bought the ticket on automated slop coming down the slop trough you chose to hang out at.
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This is brought to you by the opinion Barry Manilow would have been an excellent Columbo villain.
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It's why it's so important to be loud and annoying when something like "They're eating cats" becomes a "joke" outside specifically conservative spaces. That's them testing the fences. There's a reason stuff like that, even in our current climate, is a "look over your shoulder" joke. Resistance.
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As with all conservative humor, it's based purely off things hack comedians didn't actually experience but knew would sound right to lowest-common-denominator audiences.
"DMVs suck" used to be a joke that was obviously an exaggeration of a not-that-bad experience. Then it became the ONLY joke.
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“no kink at pride”
your existence is a kink to the fascists who want to murder you. shut the fuck up.
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That too, it sucks!
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If the best the medical industry at large can give me is vague "be active for at least 20 minutes a day" and most specifics like 10,000 steps a day turn out to be bullshit, then I need not concern myself with the metrics and tools that do nothing but enforce Goodhart's Law.
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Of course, I'm a fat autistic who's going to the gym regularly but specifically NOT weighing myself along the way because I know the second I weigh myself any real evidence of progress (better mood, more flexibility, more stamina) will be canceled out by an arbitrary number.
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Also I do wanna stress that "badly", the more I learn about commercial heart rate monitors the more I hear they're fudging things to make up for the fact they can't be THAT good for the price point they're going for.
Listening to your body and operating within those constraints works every time.
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Oh he's MAD-mad about the saying fuck on camera thing isn't he
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The darkest irony of them making the exact same decisions as OnlyFans, the company that gave Fansly market share for free by being a little weenie about kink while Fansly held strong, is now going to hand all that market share to another site who will crack the code by simply not taking Mastercard.
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EXACTLY. The fact they got away with some of the more drug coded songs while also being kept pets for NBC is wild.
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From where I'm sitting, it feels like The Monkees were baby's first time most folks ever called a band fake but the older I get (and the more farted-out surf rock from labels trying to find the exact middle spot between Beach Boys and Beatles) I feel like Monkees keep surfacing near the top.
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Not to be ultra-cynical but I genuinely would not be surprised if someone came out and said they just loaded the low-rez 2005 images that exist online into Photoshop and used the built-in generative AI bullshit to upscale/airbrush it into this crap.
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Yeah they airbrushed Summer Glau to the point it doesn't look like her.
Which is wild 'cus that is absolutely traced artwork over actual promotional photos they did of her with those goofy-ass weapons River uses like once in the entire fucking movie.
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While I largely agree with your point we must also not whitewash history: the U.S. didn't use nuclear bombs against "an enemy," they specifically dropped on civilians. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military targets, they were chosen specifically to terrorize Japan into submission.
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Update: The genuinely are arguing it has so much nudity it's uncomfortable.
As if a movie that's clearly rated R for nudity has some sort of magic percentage where it goes from being artistically acceptable to egregious.
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I'm guessing the radio started playing Carole King the second you crossed the state border.
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We're at a point where the highest-price games sometimes aren't even real prices.
e.g. Sea of Thieves and Red Dead Redemption 2 are, for all intents and purposes, $20 games. But they keep the price marked higher so during the (very common) sales it's a higher percent off the "standard" price.