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My Criterion copy of Gilliam's "The Fisher King" arrived over the weekend. I haven't seen it for some years now, so I could hit it with a fresh perspective. I just think it's a great movie (aside from Mercedes Ruehl pulling in a Best Supporting Actress)... as others have noted, it's one of...

mine was on Chrome in android smartphone, it was a popup for one of those "your computer has a virus, please click these links and call us to fix it" scams.

Today I was getting a number of popups too on my smartphone when clicking Today's Posts. They aren't showing up on my laptop but I have blockers in place.

Did those ever work here? I can't remember... They're actually a plugin, i believe, in vBulletin; so if the site doesn't have the plugin installed they won't work. This site is running off old versions of software, although I think it's been stabilized a bit in the last number of months...

It's contextual, and lots of things feed into it. For example: 1. Tone of the school. 2. Grade level (elementary? middle? high? university? grad school?) 3. The subject matter. 4. Personality of the teacher. 5. The focus of the students. For example, if the students can't handle the...

That's good she was aware enough and articulate enough to do that. it can be frustrating -- we have to translate our feelings into ideas and relay them that way because often having an observable spontaneous feeling response isn't a natural thing. (It can happen, sure, although it's usually...

I don't think this forum has ever had trouble being silent when they have had an issue with the moderation. At least, not the people who normally voice their opinions. (We do have a lot of lurkers, I'm guessing, but they just lurk anyway.)

What was your DISC outcome? (I'm mainly an SC.) One thing about why DISC isn't more popular is that it's a test you typically have to pay for while MBTI has proliferated all over the net and simplified greatly. Also, the two systems aren't the same thing. DISC was designed to look at your...

White guys here in the US seem more attracted to Asian women as "exotic" while African-American women are seemingly not to them... although dark-skinned women with exotic accents might be more palatable. Asian women are typically also much smaller than white guys. FWIW

I know we're INTPf, so life = theoretical; but maybe it would be better to wait until the policy is actually applied to a specific case before getting all riled up over the vast range (including the extremes) of potential implementation. At that point, there would be some substance to see...

Episode 8 was kinda typical AHS. The board is cleared of two more pieces to make room for endgame shenanigans, there was a potentially nutjob plot development that the show decided was too much even for it to pursue to its conclusion, one of the leads goes completely wingnuts, and suddenly...

Inside (2007): Geez. For a 2000's french gore horror flick centered on a woman trying to steal another woman's unborn child, the drama/music aspect + directing approach was actually great... it's what allows the movie to not feel exploitative. But for those who couldn't handle the original...

I've noticed that too, anecdotally. I don't have any specific answers, although there are conjectures based on white American physical preferences, social power, comfort levels and all that. As a corollary, I'm tall (around 5' 11") and I am invariably hit on by black guys, not white guys...

Okay, so I noticed "The Good Place" getting really decent reviews, and with only thirteen 25-minute episodes in Season 1, I figured why not. The first ten minutes, it seems like it will be dumb. Then there's a reveal that makes the show seem interesting. And it keeps doing this stuff -- it's a...

It depends on the cause of the depression. But that's the trick for anything -- you are in charge of your own recovery and mental/physical health, regardless of any roadblocks and who one goes to for help.

I think it's funny one character is called Ally, and the actress who plays Ally's wife is Allison Pill. That must be confusing on-set. We definitely have inequities in our system that need to be remedied. At the same time, I just feel like we're all going batshit crazy unnecessary, especially...

I think people hope they will learn something new and insightful about themselves... or at least "feel known" if they can use the test as a mirror to reflect things they already believe about themselves. And since it's a test, it justifies their self-impression. That can also be another...

Rofl, damn. IT'S A SHAM! IT'S ALL A SHAM! STORM THE RAMPARTS OF PHOENIX UNIVERSITY!!

East Coast mid-Atlantic USA: This is the first week that the weather actually feels like "Fall." We had a cold week back in September, then it went back to summery kind of stuff and even as of last week we were hitting low 80's. But leaves started to turn a week or two ago, and my...

We can be town... you know, to be nice and give them lots of chances to find us.

A PhD for answering those questions? lolz. It's all pretty much entry level stuff in various fields... about on par with the Scarecrow's doctorate in "A Wizard of Oz."

QT is gonna be lynched, har har. :rolleyes: And it just started. ---- How are we gonna play INTPc at mafia? I'm not sure how that works.

Diabolique: I wouldn't necessarily call this "horror" especially by today's standards, although I bet in 1955 that "money shot" later in the film shocked audiences world-wide and is even a bit unsettling nowadays. What it is is great filmmaking in terms of story. Half the film covers the murder...

Episode 6 was more of the same (taking things to the next logical step), including the plotline with Meadow. Although now as the seasons has become more explicable, it feels diminished a bit because you can foresee what might happen next. For whatever reason, Ally is now far braver this...

Pretty much that. It bores me. I'm not really talking about reading things, because I like reading, but it's got to be in service to the whole rather than for its own sake, and I tend to remember the big points of what I read rather than all the detail unless the details are particularly...

What did you find absurd about "Holes"? I don't think it's as good as "11/9" but is still one of the more coherent episodes so far. I was really happy NOT to see yet another episode focused on Ally going batshit crazy, as I get the point -- there was about ten minutes of it, and that was fine...

I have the same experience with big-picture thinking, I am much faster at acquiring a holistic understanding of something... I can sense the coherence in the idea (or the incoherence, which to me is a sign that it's off). I have trouble investing in long-term experience to pick up the details...

Okay, episode 4 is vintage AHS and easily the best episode this season I've seen so far. Evan Peters has come a long way since serving as the personality-less sidekick from Kick-ass in 2010. He had a breakout role in Season 1 & 2 of AHS the next two years, but this is the most mesmerizing he's...

Generally that is my approach. And I raised my kids with the sense that one day I would not be there to watch over them and they would be adults -- so my job was to prepare to be able to face whatever problems challenged them, maximize their capabilities, encourage their curiosity, take care of...

Okay, I'm three episodes in (and three to go). I'll be honest, and this is a problem for me with every AHS season for a few seasons now... I don't really feel like there's a lot cohesion within episodes so they tend to just drag. Like, where is it going? What is it doing? Is it actually building...

Don't Look Now (1973) -- Great acting and some really novel edit techniques (esp for the time period). Also it's clear that a lot of the story and filming was thought out ahead of time, with recurring imagery (the color red, the theme of water, the purposeful lack of subtitles in spots, and so...

don't be that guy

you are always welcome back! You're one of the few people who just pretty much immediately cracks me up with your posts. I never quite know what to expect. What's the animator's name who you swiped your avatar from again? I was looking for the clips and now cannot find them.

Red is the color of my true love's hair... .... and lots of other crazy stuff too.

Give 'em no quarter, peeps! Fire until you see the whites of their eyes!!!

noooooo you are fraternizing with the enemy and just let the wolf inside the fold! they want to destroy us cuz we were smarter than them Oh wait this was a trick, rite there is some trap in mind? hahaha good one I won't tell anyone about our trap!

In the broad sense... yeah. We even have that now with the Boomers in the USA, although people are living a lot longer. It comes down to the cycle of life. Birth -> Growth -> maturation -> decay -> death. Not that old people have to be gotten rid of, but there should be a sense of "passing...

We have sessions where there is no (or little) combat. It's never clear until most of the evening has passed whether we'll ever have to roll initiative. Our party is actually pretty "talky" and/or investigatory. It's all determined by how our characters handle the various scenarios that arise...

The "level" thing is just a holdover from very initial stage D&D, and is a matter of convenience even though no one ever suddenly "Dings" during an adventure in real life and suddenly has a whole new platform of abilities and endurance. The skill-based systems allow for incremental changes over...

it doesn't sound very promising. Just too much distance and too much difference. Pursuing her would feel invasive to her, I think, and she doesn't want to live in a virtual world as she has said. That idea of "flying out" would definitely be invasive. It sounds like there was some kind of...

^^ That. The problem isn't in whether or not to protect the kids, it's simply that in my practical experience, the people who habitually go for that bullhorn are trying to win an issue by emotional manipulation on some level and not actually interested big-picture in protecting kids. Or their...

As a parent, sure, I had to look out for and raise my kids... ... but when this type of argument is made in some kind of discussion, it usually means the argument doesn't have much weight on its own. When I've seen it used politically, it is usually used by the side that most dominates/controls...

Re: INTPf Policy Change what type of phone are you? (death to the iPhone overlords)

Re: INTPf Policy Change maybe this deserves a split. It was supposed to be a thread to just discuss the broad policy Hado was trying to implement, and instead it's just become a rehash of the trans thread between the folks you'd expect.

nice red shirt you have on there. tugh qoH nachDaj je chevlu'ta'!

more serious answer... kinda hard not to feel a bit more cynical when you go on to school, it's like seeing how the sausage gets made. There's stuff you might not have been exposed to, you learn more sides of a topic, and you also are seeing more of how the real world works. Idealism gets...

Lose lots of games of beer pong. You won't feel cynical until you wake up sober in a dumpster after graduation with a useless degree stapled to your forehead.

QT, I suggest you also read the affiliations and values of the sites you hang out on, just so you can properly frame data: https://www.mercatornet.com/info/our_ideals https://www.mercatornet.com/our_partners Here's one of their "partners" for example: Regardless of whether you agree with...

Yeah, it's powerful for me -- I think mortality and how we grapple with loss is a theme that has always resonated with me. I think watching all the stars emerge during the closing credits is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a movie... truth and beauty are merged. It's been on my...