I love The Barkley Marathons! I rewatch it at least once a year.

I’ll add a few.

American Movie (1999) - An amateur filmmaker has spent years trying to finish his magnum opus. It’s a hilarious and endearing portrait of a distracted visionary. The most Milwaukee movie you’ll ever see.

Gates of Heaven (1978) - Errol Morris’s first feature about a small town’s relationship with a pet cemetery. It’s under 90 minutes and full of characters.

Into the Abyss (2011) - Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide in Texas and its two perpetrators - one sentenced to life, the other sentenced to death. Conversations with everyone involved in the execution process - the killers, the victim’s families, investigators, the chaplain, and the executioner.

The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) - Alex Gibney’s story about Theranos, who scammed investors out of billions of dollars for a medical device that didn’t exist.

Roxy: The Movie (2015) - A 1973 concert by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. I know almost nothing about Zappa and his music, but it’s a marvel to watch everyone’s musicianship.

The Summit (2012) - 11 climbers on K2 die within about 24 hours. A mix of interviews with survivors and very well-produced dramatizations.

Tim’s Vermeer (2013) - A software engineer tries to recreate the famously mysterious painting techniques of Johannes Vermeer. A movie about technology, tinkering, and obsession.

I got a TCL last year and it wouldn’t let me use the TV until I set up the internet. After 4 factory resets I figured out how to put it in store demo mode, and plugged in a separate streaming device that connects to the internet. Now I realize I could have connected the TV to the internet and then blocked it at the network level.

There are lots of vulnerable people who are coerced into this. It’s not because they’re dumb.

I remember trying to run Spider-Man on my 1080p monitor and wondering why it looked like complete shit even at 30fps. You’re right that the strength is limited, and lots of AAA games will need the settings lowered quite a bit to run smoothly.

In 2020 Bernie and Biden were the front-runners, and then all the other candidates dropped out and endorsed Biden. So it wasn’t ratfucked in an illegal way, but in a “torpedo a popular leftist in favor of a right-of-center establishment neolib” way.

I believe you need a separate Google account for the separate space, just FYI.

This would have been my top line comment. I wish anime wasn’t such a glaring blind spot for me, because it’s something so many people connect on. But I see it like reality TV. There’s 1000 shows with 1000 episodes each, and some shows are probably great, but I’ve never been interested.

I was wondering about this exact thing. I know Greig Fraser used them extensively in the Dune movies and The Batman.

It’s so special and it has a lot of really important messages. Everyone has parts of their lives you don’t see, it’s okay to laugh at yourself, and we’re all in this together.

They did such a good job with S02E01, I wish we got a chance to see how they’d portray the pandemic.

High Maintenance on HBO. It’s an anthology show (different characters every episode) that centers on a guy who bikes around NYC selling weed. It manages to be hilarious while focusing on some very sad and strange experiences. It feels very grounding to me and I always feel a sense of “we’re going to get through this.”

Those people perform at such a high level. And they do it every night without missing. I can’t wrap my head around it.

It’s an unbelievable gift. You can pretty much play anything on Criterion and it will be somewhat nutritious (as the Buddhists would say)

Sorry, you said insurance and I missed it somehow. I agree that laymen and insurance companies treat it as a bible, but I also think that’s how the APA presents it. If the goal is to compile “symptoms that tend to present together” the DSM does a poor job of making that clear.

I have several problems with the DSM. This isn’t an exhaustive list but off the top of my head:

-It’s based on the idea that there’s a clear line between “normal” and “disordered” mental functioning, and that we can quantify all of a person’s experiences to land on either side of that line. There are a handful of diagnoses that are discrete enough for me to say “you either have it or you don’t” but the majority of them are so arbitrary that they’re not useful. Mood disorders are especially vague.

-Inter-rater reliability is notoriously poor. I can diagnose anyone with a disorder to argue medical necessity for therapy.

-It includes conditions that cannot and should not be diagnosed by mental health professionals, like narcolepsy. It’s good for providers to know what narcolepsy is, but unless they’re going to include every other medical condition, I don’t know why they include the ones they do.

-DSM-5 broadened the criteria for several disorders, possibly to increase access to insurance coverage, but it’s edging ever closer to categorizing every human experience as a disorder. According to DSM-5, if you’re having depressive symptoms for more than 2 weeks after a loved one dies, it’s no longer grief and it’s considered a major depressive episode. When people criticized that bereavement clause, DSM-5-TR included “prolonged grief disorder” which extends the time you can grieve the loss without a MDD diagnosis. But grief is absolutely a normal response to loss, and sometimes it can be really disruptive and long-lasting. Why are we pretending that’s disordered?

-The majority of every DSM task force has been older white men, and we should be very skeptical of what they consider normal or not.

I mean… insurance companies also treat it like the bible, as do many psychologists. It would be useful to have guidance like “these are symptoms that tend to present together” but that’s not how the DSM is written.

Yes. They project the text from an angle so it reflects towards the speaker. Just like windows are transparent but can still reflect images in the right lighting.

What?

Gambling addiction is the scariest kind of addiction, IMO. You can get sober but you’re still in the hole.

I’ve had several from the a series and I’ve liked them. I currently have the 9a and I hate it. The corners are very round, and important real estate (e.g. buttons, text fields) are regularly cut off and unreachable. There’s no way to fix this that I’ve found.

This guy found that his production software had a hard time isolating the tracks, probably because the music was all generated at once, rather than track by track. I’m not smart enough to know any more detail than that.