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#36790

On 4/3/2024 at 9:16 PM, Cult Icon said:

Indiana Jones Whips Up $130 Million Loss For Disney (forbes.com)

Indiana Jones Whips Up $130 Million Loss For Disney

Not surprising.

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#36791

This month's covers of French women's magazines are great

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#36792

Taught never to retreat, never to surrender.

The rest is confetti

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#36793

16 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

Awesome !!!!!

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#36794

5 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

Taught never to retreat, never to surrender.

I saw this movie in the theaters when it came out. It is very loyal to the comic that it is based on.

Definitely a film that cannot be made today..

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#36795

20 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

Dr. Grande's take is pretty bad. I watch Huberman's videos or podcasts sometimes and Grande is far from the truth. There's one or two claims that Huberman had that are contested by other scientsits and there's no clear evidence of who's right or wrong.

The rest of Huberman's takes are really and extensively sourced.

Grande says that Huberman's podcast want to make his listeners polygamous gigachads... this is completely false and a huge caricature. Grande let his emotions (jealousy, maybe?) speak for him this time.

The truth is that "cancel culture" morally condemn Huberman for his (supposed) private life. I can't condone that. The NY magazine behaved like gutter press on this one. The "cancel culture" rise in the US is despicable IMO. This is not the West I like. I hate this gradual shift towards the woke dystopia. This new "holier than thou" mentality is shit.

It appears that Hubermann got targeted by Feminist cancel culture. The 6 women harem he made for himself is similar to a sub-genre in Romance films/books where the alpha male has multiple girlfriends and even wives. The women don't even know that the other women exist.

Dr. Grande is an old school Christian conservative.

Dr. Grande's subscriber base are mostly socially conservative people with traditional values who like how he breaks down and mocks deviants and degenerates. He also has a big dislike for popular self-help gurus, there are many videos where he tears them apart one by one.

So Hubermann being a player and having a 6-women rotation is prime material for him. He probably as you say does not know enough about Hubermann's content to say some of the things that he did. I think however that Hubermann being a player-pimp in real life while having a self-help 'be your best self' educational channel degrades and makes him look like a hypocrite. So I think Grande's point here is apt.

Some of Hubermann's fans watch my channel btw, the algorithm links him to me. I am not really interested in the subjects that he covers but it appears that his audience crosses with Joe Rogan's fanbase.

My first thought is that he probably got a lot more subscribers since this happened lol.

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#36796

22 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

The "cancel culture" rise in the US is despicable IMO. This is not the West I like. I hate this gradual shift towards the woke dystopia.

Western 'civilization' is currently declining- socially, economically, militarily, culturally and politically.

History is cyclical, not a never-ending rise forward like the grey mass of people believe.

I would have never believed my 18-year old self if I went back in time and told myself that you were living in the twilight years of the American empire!

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#36797

5 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

I saw this movie in the theaters when it came out. It is very loyal to the comic that it is based on.

Definitely a film that cannot be made today..

Same for me. Watched it in theater. Loved it.

It's an awesome movie.

Hollywood is today mostly garbage, but there are a couple of exceptions (Oppenheimer and Dune were great for example).

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#36798

1 hour ago, Cult Icon said:

Western 'civilization' is currently declining- socially, economically, militarily, culturally and politically.

History is cyclical, not a never-ending rise forward like the grey mass of people believe.

I would have never believed my 18-year old self if I went back in time and told myself that you were living in the twilight years of the American empire!

What strikes me is that if western civilization is declining, it's because of internal collapse (and a very quick one). Kind of like the Roman empire, but this time the barbarians didn't even need to attack us. There are people within the West that seek self-destruction.

This is really weird and I can't see other historical example (maybe the Roman empire's decadence, but it seems to me that there are lots of differences).

Who knows what happens next

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#36799

I love Arthur Morgan's story

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#36800

Doing the audiobook for the second half of "Tower of the Swallow" Witcher book 6.

It's really impressive how CDPR managed to create the world of Skellige & all of its personalities from these chapters. I understand the background of Yennefer & Crach being there better now.