Scruffy

re: For all the Millennials crying about housing costs, here you go

Posted by Scruffy on 5/13/26 at 12:03 pm to Antonio Moss

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The same house, half a mile away, across Causeway, would go for $300K

Which is still retardedly expensive.

re: For all the Millennials crying about housing costs, here you go

Posted by Scruffy on 5/13/26 at 12:02 pm to WG_Dawg

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Another major issue to me is the concept of a "starter home" is lost on this younger generation. When I think starter home i think of like 1000 SF, probably 2 bedrooms with maybe a full sized 2nd bathroom, no frills. Basically a place to call home while you're in your mid 20s.

How many times do we have to point out that those homes don’t exist anymore?

And the areas that do have those homes are generally shitholes.

The average home size has increased, yes, but it isn’t Gen Z or the Millenials building them.

The corporations are building them that size and it is all those generations have to purchase.

re: The Odyssey Trailer #2

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 12:00 pm to BluegrassBelle

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I mean that’s generally a fair predictor of whether a movie is successful. Once you get passed that first weekend.

Sure, but I’m am referencing the boosting of “ratings” on sites like IMDB and RottenTomatoes.

re: The Odyssey Trailer #2

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 11:36 am to BluegrassBelle

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In this economy, I’m not spending money on a movie I don’t want to see just to boost its ratings on principal.

Oh, I’m not talking about ticket sales.

I’m just talking about ratings. They will be boosted or dropped simply to “own” the opposition.

re: The Odyssey Trailer #2

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 11:14 am to SlowFlowPro

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Yeah there are lots of signals screaming this movie will have issues having nothing to do with casting.

The question now becomes, will it become another “cultural divide” issue where one side defends it to death despite its flaws?

If the only aspect that is hyper-analyzed initially is the casting, and that results in a “right vs left” division, will it be defended and will its ratings be elevated simply due to that?

That is almost always the trajectory in these situations.

I expect very high critic ratings no matter how good or bad the movie is.

re: NYC woman previously declined to press charges against subway shover because he’s black

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 10:55 am to The Third Leg

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And there is no fixing a lot of these people. But before we go the prison route, we should spend the money trying to get them clean.

If there is no criminal act, you cannot simply force them into these facilities.

We should be able to, but you cannot, largely because of progressives and progressive women.

It is the same as psychiatric issues. If they aren’t a threat to themselves or others, you cannot force them and, at best, you can hold them for 72 hours.

Our society is not willing to make the sacrifice in order to truly better this situation.

Therefore, we are left with 2 choices.

re: NYC woman previously declined to press charges against subway shover because he’s black

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 10:41 am to The Third Leg

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We should be sending these people to mass rehab facilities if we going to spend money housing them.

How dare you force them into rehabs against their will? It isn’t prison for breaking a law, therefore you cannot do it. Drugs are decriminalized. You can’t make do something I don’t want.

- Said every progressive ever

You cannot do that.

The stupidity of our society does not allow it.

So, again, we are back to the binary.

Take your pick.

re: NYC woman previously declined to press charges against subway shover because he’s black

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 10:30 am to The Third Leg

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And? You act like jailing these people has done anything to curtail demand. It hasn’t.

And letting them roam won’t curtail demand either.

But between the two only choices that exist, jailing them is the better option.

Instead, I’m assuming you want the freedom mindset like that seen in Skid Row, Portland, Seattle, and Kensington, Philadelphia.

The true way to address this would require tough decisions, forced long term rehab, easier psychiatric holds, and significant consequences, but we can’t go down that road.

Therefore, pick between your two choices.

The stupidity of our society has forced a binary choice.

re: NYC woman previously declined to press charges against subway shover because he’s black

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 10:21 am to The Third Leg

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Over 300k people are currently incarcerated on drug offenses. They’re not all dealers, home slice. 35-50k are not in there for dealing and at the state level, most of the “dealers” are users who flip drugs in small quantities to fuel their habit.

90% are meth, cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin.

The bigger issue is psych, but everyone wanted to shut down psych facilities, therefore they can only go one place.

re: NYC woman previously declined to press charges against subway shover because he’s black

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 10:14 am to The Third Leg

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You think 20% is some immaterial number?

That is ALL drug crimes, of which only marijuana is ~2%.

Drug crimes are not causing “prison overflowing”.

We need to lock up more people.

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In 1980, it was 25,000 people

Ok…

And?

Our population also increased by 120 million people.

re: Elon Musk chimes in on Helen of Troy being black in Nolan’s Odyssey; now confirmed by Time

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 10:04 am to Roaad

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Not that big a deal, considering Helen is unimportant to this story

You should read the Time article.

Nolan apparently made significant changes, including Helen’s involvement in the story.

re: The Odyssey Trailer #2

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 9:40 am to SlowFlowPro

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This was reasonable UNTIL we saw Chadamemnon

True.

Reasonable casting would have brought everyone on board, except for the weird fringes who are too small to matter.

His name and “The Odyssey” would have easily done that.

Now, the retarded casting will immediately result in wide swathes of people avoiding it.

It will still make money, but it’s a stupid self-inflicted wound.

re: NYC woman previously declined to press charges against subway shover because he’s black

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 9:35 am to The Third Leg

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Wouldn’t it be awesome to pay even more taxes for the sake of jailing junkies?

Another white woman who thinks that prisons are just overflowing because of junkies.

At best, it is ~20%.

And marijuana is something like 2%.

Oh, the overflowing!

:lol:

re: The Odyssey Trailer #2

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 9:24 am to Fun Bunch

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How does one know what is a stupid decision if they haven't seen it?

Because I can make an inference with available info.

I knew Scarlett Johansson’s casting as Major Kusanagi (a Japanese woman) was a stupid decision without seeing the live action Ghost in the Shell.

Can you not make a determination with the available facts?

re: The Odyssey Trailer #2

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 8:55 am to Fun Bunch

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Why would someone obsessively comment on a movie they say they will never see?

Because it is fun to discuss the stupid decisions made around movies.

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Once you have made that decision, what would be the point?

To continue pointing out the stupidity of it.

:dunno:

re: NYC woman previously declined to press charges against subway shover because he’s black

Posted by Scruffy on 5/12/26 at 8:54 am to cgrand

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the jails are full because of the utterly disastrous “war of drugs”. The prison population should be 100% violent offenders. If you commit a crime of violence, life imprisonment

This notion that “jails are full because of weed” is propaganda that white females fall for.

No, jails are not full because weed.

That is retarded.