🎥│entertainment

[fallow wraith]

also peak isekai is back too

[fossil burrow]

we got B2B OPM webcomic chapter these past weeks, ONE is cooking

[vital vigil]

been a looong time since i watched it but i enjoyed it back then

[latent flame]

yeah i heard the fight scenes were good

but if thats how the plot is then idk

[vital vigil]

i dont remember the plot

[latent flame]

heard the adaptation wasnt the greatest

[sage thunder]

Holy fuck invincible episode 5

Lmao

Gave me major anxiety haha

Invincible ep 5 spoilers || It's one thing that annoys me about the show is how people are able to come back from shit they simply shouldn't be able to.... ||

[pure hull]

Well mark had a lot of help in past by cecil, and keep in mind he is traumatized mentally every time. || He is not happy go luckyanymore but he wishes to be remember the suit in the episode.||

[sage thunder]

|| My dude, his literal guts and probably even the heart was ripped out lmao ||

[pure hull]

no just the first

[sage thunder]

Also || they are way too far away from earth to get help ||

[sage thunder]

I don't think this has happened before to this extent lol

[pure hull]

|| An adult human has approximately 25 to 30 feet ( 7.5 to 9 meters) of intestines in total.- Cleveland clinic||

[latent flame]

just finished the expanse it was good

[pure hull]

there was a recorded soldier from the Vietnam war that carried his own believe it or not

he got put in a bodybag as he boarded the helicopter

[fallow wraith]

||i mean his guts are strong they might not be that damaged||

[pure hull]

https://www.thenmusa.org/biographies/roy-p-benavidez/

[latent flame]

||Probably be something to help him. He wouldnt die this early ||

[sage thunder]

|| I know he won't die, I'm just saying it bothers me he can get away with so much and come away from it unlike Eve who has a genuinely good reason she survived whereas mark is constantly on the brink of death but comes away fine but this time holy crap I can't think of a good way of dealing with this ||

[latent flame]

||yeah thats just the story writing for the show. I hate how he doesnt even feel strong at this point like he cant handle his own||

[sage thunder]

Bleh

[pure hull]

true story

[sage thunder]

|| that to, sometimes he's like a god but most of the time he's fucking stupid/weak oh and the kid is useless ||

[sage thunder]

I know but still, this is very very different lmfao

[latent flame]

||yeah thats why i been lowkey thinking about dropping the show||

[pure hull]

it is only gonna get better

[latent flame]

||tired of these unintelligent weak super heroes||

[sage thunder]

|| I have no desire to drop the show, I just have some frustrations but overall I love it ||

[pure hull]

aye now take that back about Zoe

[latent flame]

honestly we are like what four seasons in and the show takes forever to come out

i aint trying to relive fire force bs

[pure hull]

would you rather them release slop?

[sage thunder]

|| or when they are strong they are basically gods but the writing gives them a reason they can't use their full power lol

Its clear mark is strong, we've seen it in other realties, I still get sad and like fuck man that's so horrible when I remember what he did to Eve, crippling her to be his play thing ||

[sage thunder]

Tbf they are already doing that with the animations lol

This episode has some baddddd animation

[pure hull]

nah apparently the scene near the end is better animated than in the comics

is what people are saying

[latent flame]

i mean last season was slop no?

[sage thunder]

Not visual representation

As in being lazy on scenes

[latent flame]

remember a lot of people hating on the animation last season

[pure hull]

last season ended with a bang i would say

[latent flame]

or was that two seasons ago

i cant remember tbh

[sage thunder]

Ye last season was bad but tbh I almost never notice on first viewing which makes sense but this episode it was kinda bad lol

In some places

[pure hull]

they can read the comics then i guess and play it out in their head🤷‍♂️

i also had no idea jeffrey dean morgan voiced conquest

[sage thunder]

https://youtube.com/shorts/JZYNqz55urw

I don't exactly like the fan made but it shows how lazy the original was lol

[pure hull]

coquest put a shadow over mark

anyways i do not get what you two mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZZeItIBtk4

like they did not immediately go to battle, really seems like the clip above is fradulent represenation of what occurred

19 seconds

[sage thunder]

https://youtube.com/shorts/609yl4vecsI

[sage thunder]

I don't think you're getting the point

The term people have been used is "PNG"

He doesn't naturally turn around, it's like in this episode when || omniman is talking to his ex, when it's close up he's looking in the completely wrong direction and the background is wrong and when it pans back to her he's in the correct position ||

[pure hull]

maybe they need to do more proofchecking then

i just watch the show to enjoy

not to pick at, so i did not notice that before

[sage thunder]

Not really, it's on purpose, afaik they also use cheap labour like a lot of studios do these days.

I don't care that much

But sometimes it's pretty bad 😅

[pure hull]

i guess that is on them to look back at and regret🤷‍♂️

[sage thunder]

Like to be clear

I absolutely bloody love this show

It's been one of my favourites since release

[pure hull]

maybe it is a management/shareholder issue to then?

[sage thunder]

Budget

[pure hull]

ah

[sage thunder]

And rather than work with it they find cheap ways to deal with it

Iirc the atom special had very good animation

[pure hull]

perhaps those in charge are the wrong people🤷‍♂️

[sage thunder]

The voice cast probably takes a huge chunk though

[pure hull]

i remember having a manager withholding buying nicer tools

probably to keep the budget down

even though he poked people to work harder sometimes pushing stuff a month ahead

[pure hull]

yeah some that cast is a lister

[sage thunder]

What I will give the show leeway for is also how long an episode is

It's one of very very very few animated shows with such episode lengths

[pure hull]

for now yes

[sage thunder]

Also lol

[fossil burrow]

she would crash the market if people found out lol

[pure hull]

Which would devalue that asset too

[sage thunder]

Selling one ain't gonna be an issue

You're acting like she's gonna sell hundreds of apples lol

[pure hull]

They probably chose the high road to be humble in my opinion

[fossil burrow]

Mark could rob a bank zero effort

[pure hull]

||Eve set up a company for their funds out of choice and mark went along with it.||

[wicked aspen]

I mean to buy a home she would need to seek atleast 20

[sage thunder]

Still wouldn't crash the market

[sage thunder]

Quite different lol

[pure hull]

Would it not be suspicious though

[fossil burrow]

but it's just as easy for both of them

[pure hull]

Plus then again Cecil probably could provide them a home, but it seems like they rather earn it.

[sage thunder]

Mark doesn't want their help

He's made that very clear

[pure hull]

Exactly

But he could have a house without effort at all!

[sage thunder]

Massive difference between robbing a bank and selling gold eve made lol

[sage thunder]

It's so so different

Mark doesn't deny help because he's being moral etc

He does it out of hatred

[pure hull]

Sure

[sage thunder]

And also to protect his family

[pure hull]

But what could Eve think if Mark asked her to crap out gold?

And if Eve does so

Actually why has she not already done so for the poor?

[sage thunder]

I doubt mark would, however the fact she offered the golden apple to her dad contradicts this scene

[pure hull]

Maybe that was a lesson to her?

Not to take the easy way out?

[sage thunder]

There is no indication of this

That's my problem

She went from here's gold to sell to I'm struggling with money

Lol

There was 0 hesitation before

And no development to show why she wouldn't after

The only thing is when she || builds the park that kills people and when she lives in the forest, but again nothing was mentioned about money etc ||

Maybe I'm looking too much into it, I just saw it on Reddit and chuckled

[sage thunder]

Huh?

What's your point here

[pure hull]

Adam is responsible

[sage thunder]

That's not the point of the meme tho

[pure hull]

It is the same scene

[sage thunder]

It's the logic in writing being funky

[pure hull]

Well point is he is responsible for them and he will not let her provide

[sage thunder]

Being ok with using her powers for money to struggle about money after lol

Is the meme

Makes no sense writing wise

[pure hull]

I see your point

It seems like an inconsistency

[sage thunder]

That's the point

Apparently the writer for eve struggles to well write for her

So it doesn't surprise me there's inconsistencies with her.

[pure hull]

I mean the way imma take it

Is she learned the easy way out is not the best way

[sage thunder]

Also remember

She literally moved out of her parents and made a home using her powers lol

[pure hull]

Right

[sage thunder]

Like a whole home with laxaries and shit

Point is it's a weird conversation in the first place 😅

[pure hull]

||Well now she has lost her power temporarily||

[sage thunder]

Based on last scenes

[sage thunder]

Oh bugger off XD

[pure hull]

||she is pregnant you now that||

[sage thunder]

|| She has had time before it started happening to do this ||

[pure hull]

Too late now though, anyways perhaps the show is not saying this to us

Perhaps it is proof though she should not abuse her powers

I guess you could argue she coulda stockpiled a bunch of assets beforehand

[sage thunder]

It's just writers being writers

They have a hard job and shit becomes inconsistent

[sage thunder]

Nah that would be lazy

[pure hull]

See

But fine I will agree that they should be more consistent or follow up

[sage thunder]

|| What she did with the business is very much logical but to then struggle about getting a house is ||

[pure hull]

Tiz okay, she can stay with her parents or Debbie

She is not homeless

[sage thunder]

It wouldn't make sense even remotely for a character like her to || stockpile but we've clearly been told she's more than happy to use her powers for financial reasons without thinking about it but never an indication of greed etc ||

[pure hull]

They technically do not need a house of their own

[sage thunder]

Based on past scenes she comes across as if || she'll do what needs to be done in the moment to live comfortably or help those in need , not that she is greedy ||

[sage thunder]

Ok it's not about technicalities

[pure hull]

Perhaps that choice one could argue will make more sense later

[sage thunder]

Maybe but it's most definitely just inconsistent writing which the show definitely has, even the comics did

It's not the biggest issue

It's just funny

[pure hull]

You read the comics too?

[sage thunder]

I did not but I've read about the quality of them

[pure hull]

All of them?

[sage thunder]

Just in general, I try to avoid anything comic related.

[pure hull]

Alright then nevermind

Was gonna draw a parallel had you

[sage thunder]

I don't really wanna be spoiled so I just read discussions about it Vs the show.

[pure hull]

It is fine

[sage thunder]

And how they handled it in comic Vs show

[pure hull]

You can watch it as it is

Well obviously people say read the book

Sometimes the visual and audio versiok matches the energy

Or adapts it better to its needs

But it is not a guarantee

Sure Harry Potter did it well

Also have you seen Series of Unfortunate events?

Not the movie

[sage thunder]

People argue they didn't

[sage thunder]

Great show

[pure hull]

Okay fine Hagrid was supposed to be black happy

[sage thunder]

Not what I meant

[pure hull]

Okay so you seen it

It is well done

[sage thunder]

There are tons of things from the book that don't end up in the films

[pure hull]

Sure

[sage thunder]

And changes that kinda derail

And dragging the films/script to milk it

[pure hull]

Master Cheeks

[sage thunder]

And the half blood prince was just so meh

[pure hull]

After watching them all

It makes more sense

At least in my opinion

[sage thunder]

Goblet of Fire wasn't particularly good either

[pure hull]

I liked it

[sage thunder]

I re watched them all too

[pure hull]

It showed the magic world was bigger

[sage thunder]

Did you read the books

[pure hull]

No

But I read the Series of Unfortunate events a long time ago

And Inheritance series

Alex rider

[pure hull]

I thought the books were too big

I was in elementary school bruh

[sage thunder]

They were but they also weren't

I didn't read them all

But I read a few of them and I've read about stuff in the books Vs movies too

[pure hull]

https://tenor.com/view/harrypotter-gobletoffire-diduouputyournamein-dumbledore-albus-gif-19251191

[sage thunder]

Haha

[pure hull]

I do not know about you

But the way that plays in the movie makes sense to me

[sage thunder]

Ye it isn't a bad thing but they portray him as super calm like the books early on but then he becomes very dramatic later on

You can excuse this due to well it works

[pure hull]

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ns4V4pCRrLE

[jagged tiger]

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/animorphs-tv-series-disney-plus-ryan-coogler-1236678435

[sage thunder]

Oh god

[near prism]

Awful.

Needs more meat.

Luffy loves meat

If had more meat

more meat = fantastic

https://tenor.com/view/luffy-monkey-d-luffy-one-piece-chicken-fried-chicken-gif-5393805

[fossil burrow]

only 2 pieces? Needs like half a chicken

[vital vigil]

Ye it should only be one piece

[fossil burrow]

one piece of fried whole chicken

[near prism]

This guy gets it

Or just a giant tender

[fossil burrow]

Another opm webcomic chapter and it's peak

[uneven bramble]

Watch Takopi's Original Sin they say, I'd be great they say, it's nominated for anime of the year they say. 👁️👁️

[vital vigil]

Didn't like it?

[uneven bramble]

Oh it was great

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1374022302215442502.webp?size=48

[vital vigil]

I still gotta watch it. Im expecting sadness

[sage thunder]

Watching high school dxd and um

Damn they must spend a lot on clothes

[sage thunder]

Also male clothes never come off lol

Apparently past me watched this but I don't remember, it's so well, it's that type of anime lol

[near prism]

https://tenor.com/view/man-crying-stan-twt-yasmeen-oxytocin01-gif-7758390120728511248

[vital vigil]

the show was actually a lot better and more entertaining than i expected

[sage thunder]

It has it's fun and good parts

But the etchi aspect is just so fucking much haha

I can't remember how that's spelt

Ecchi apparently

[vital vigil]

its.. a lot. ive not watched a lot of ecchi but that one was for sure the closest to actual hentai

[sage thunder]

And through googling that I just found out there's an anime called lesbian brothels

Ofc there is

[vital vigil]

i thought it was kinda funny how they linked the ecchi part to his powerscaling

[sage thunder]

Haha I've seen clips that are borderline hentai form other animes

It made me question why they just didn't make it a mental

[sage thunder]

That was kinda funny I will admit

And the training montage

[vital vigil]

did you see.. i dont remember the name

the brothel reviewers

https://myanimelist.net/anime/40010/Ishuzoku_Reviewers

[sage thunder]

No, I don't really watch anime much, I just found the brothel one googling the correct spelling for ecchi lol

[vital vigil]

i dont even remember almost anything about it. just that it was entertaining enough to watch it

[sage thunder]

I also hate harem stuff tbh

That's probably the worst thing about hsdxd for me

[vital vigil]

ye i generally find most romance stuff really cringe in anime

[sage thunder]

Romance can work, I always loved Sao with asuna and kirito.

Even the whole people falling for kirito was OK but borderline harem

I know everyone hates sao

But i loved s1 and 2 so so much

[sage thunder]

I'm dead, I'm now convinced this dub is outstanding 🤣🤣🤣🤣@vital vigil

[halcyon nimbus]

Just watch ebichu

[naive rampart]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKx1VJsLsfk

[vital vigil]

[sage thunder]

I'm probably gonna drop it tbh, it's getting to harem for my liking

[grizzled drift]

a harem ecchi show going harem route, who would've guessed?

[vital vigil]

isnt it only like 2 or 3 seasons

[sage thunder]

4

@near prism FOrgot to mention i binged it all

https://tenor.com/view/edp-i-mean-its-all-right-gif-26702511

[latent flame]

https://tenor.com/view/jojo-bizarre-adventure-jjba-jojo's-bizarre-adventure-meme-gif-14047819627040647883

[vital vigil]

finally watched the grand budapest hotel. great movie

[rich cipher]

That director has several gems, if you liked Grand Budapest Hotel, you'll enjoy more of his works

[latent flame]

i'll give it a watch

30 seconds into the trailer I'm already laughing

[vital vigil]

movie definitely wasnt what i expected

[latent flame]

"She was dynamite in the sack"

[latent flame]

The new darth maul show aired today

[jagged tiger]

https://fxtwitter.com/toonhive/status/2041526635355152598

ToonHive (@ToonHive)

First trailer for ‘Rick & Morty’ Season 9.
︀︀
︀︀Premiering May 24th on Adult Swim.

**🔁 19 ❤️ 92 👁️ 4.0K **

▶ Play video

FxTwitter · Apr 7, 2026, 2:40 PM

[jagged tiger]

Time for the normies to taint Witch Hat

[fossil burrow]

Looks comfy

[jagged tiger]

You should 100% watch it if you don’t read manga

[fossil burrow]

I usually prefer to read the mango

[sage thunder]

https://youtu.be/JZXkmCEjXxc

https://tenor.com/view/why-persian-room-cat-guardian-but-why-trendizisst-anyaboz-gif-2156104475561014590

[pliant forum]

You didn't say stop at Star Wars, Indiana Jones etc...

[rich cipher]

Their safe word is "original"

[vital vigil]

idk if i grew out of it or it just got a lot worse over time

probably both

[latent flame]

Anyone watch the new darth maul show yet?

its good

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-darth-maul-what-fun-star-wars-rebels-maul-gif-16192108

[sage thunder]

All the hate aside

https://youtu.be/0TsRwfhgeYc?si=s4YpFpT_YnkDmAjX

The sets etc are incredible

[latent flame]

lowkey they should have wait longer to recast

[sage thunder]

Why? Tbh the kid for harry is an insanely good actor for his age

[latent flame]

Is he?

i havent seen him before till this

[sage thunder]

Ye, he's kinda the lead in lord of the flies

Oh nvm

I got mixed up lol

[latent flame]

OOOOOOOOOH

they redid that?

https://tenor.com/view/wut-nani-gif-25387499

[sage thunder]

It's draco who I've watched and he was incredible in lord of the flies

[latent flame]

hooooooly sheeet

[sage thunder]

The kid on the right

Extremely talented

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27557666/?ref_=nm_knf_t_2

What I'm on about

[latent flame]

i remember watching the og film in school

lmfao

[latent flame]

i'll give this a watch thanks

👍

[sage thunder]

Genuinely I think he's good for Draco

Tbh though it was the same shit for the films, they had next to no experience and the acting wasn't really good

Even Danielle Radcliffe is vocal about how he hated his acting, especially the older he got.

[latent flame]

i think the harry potter movies still hold up

[sage thunder]

I don't disagree, I'm just saying acting wasn't exactly super great either

[latent flame]

fair

[sage thunder]

The racism is exhausting tbh

[vital vigil]

low key i dont think theres a reason to ever remake em/retell the same story

[vital vigil]

racism? in og harry potter?

[sage thunder]

The new one

[vital vigil]

why whatd they do?

[sage thunder]

Everyone keeps making ai memes of black snape

Basically making everything harry potter gangsta

[vital vigil]

ye ive seen some of those

imagine people memeing on race swaps in one of the biggest ips ever made

[sage thunder]

Like don't get me wrong it's kinda funny but at the same time it's so shitty

Personally I think he looks ok

[latent flame]

american wizard

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-ah-shit-cj-gta-gta-san-andreas-gif-13933485

[pliant forum]

Disregard bad remakes. Spend energy on something more worthwhile.

[rich cipher]

Ooeh is it out? Full season or just an episode?

[latent flame]

2 episodes out now

i think they're releasing two episodes per week

go watch mark itzzzzzzzzzzzz guuuuud

[rich cipher]

Aight

[sage thunder]

I'm planning to watch them over the weekend

They are the sort of shows I want to watch while snacking

[rich cipher]

Aww Maul isn't tracked yet in my source of Linux isos...

[sage thunder]

It's up somewhere else 👀

Ready to watch

[rich cipher]

Too late, already watching something else

[sage thunder]

@jagged tiger @latent flame (peaky blinders later seasons spoiler/meme)

[wicked aspen]

Finished watching bocchi the rock loved it!!!

[edgy stone]

Oh, right, S05 of The Boys today

[vital vigil]

What was the schedule again? 3 eps and then weekly or smth?

[edgy stone]

2 eps then weekly

[vital vigil]

So when is it done? End of may?

[edgy stone]

Looks like 20th May

[near prism]

Better be damn good

Waited so long for this

[near prism]

Invincible Season 4 ep 6 is pretty good, I would say it’s just as good as the last episode but a different kind of good

[vital vigil]

I'm happy it's coming to an end

Hopefully it's a satisfying ending

[near prism]

I am very concerned.

[fossil burrow]

Could make or break the spin off

[near prism]

Gen V season 2’s ending was not good. I know it’s a spinoff but holy shit was that ending super mid

[fossil burrow]

But game of throne spin off does well even with the bad ending so maybe not

[near prism]

Idk how either cause everything leading up to it that season was good!!!

[fossil burrow]

Cuz the main villain

[near prism]

But man that ending felt like corny hogwash to connect the spinoff characters to the main series

[near prism]

Literally best part of the show that season

[fossil burrow]

That "change" couldn't help carry the rest show

Felt very rushed at the end

[near prism]

I get what they were trying to do but man they definitely could’ve done it in a better way :/

Just felt like keys jingling at me

“Oh look at beloved character!”

[fossil burrow]

Basically threw caution to the wind once the "change" happened

[near prism]

Spinoff character development was decently good tho that season.

||starlight felt very shoehorned in ngl :/||

||oh whatever godolkin wants with you it’s important and we know you’re good so join good guys, alright Im gonna disappear for the rest of the season until the last 10 minutes of the last episode||

[fossil burrow]

The last scene felt like a marvel show lmao

[near prism]

IT REALLY DID

You put it into words so well

[fossil burrow]

I'm sure it was intentional (parody and such) but it didn't have the intended effect

[near prism]

If it was the case that was a terrible joke that fell so flat 😭

[fossil burrow]

Kekek

I'm interested in the Malcom in the middle reboot on Friday

Hopefully it won't suck

[near prism]

Never watched the original series but it has piqued my interest, as for the reboot there hasn’t really been many bad reboots or revivals recently that I can think of. I’d be hopeful if I were you

(Don’t quote me on that if the show ends up bad )

[latent flame]

gen v and the boys plot been going downhill

all they show is just sex scenes like how game of thrones went

[rich cipher]

Is that so? Curious, very curious

[latent flame]

then people are surprised the show finales arent amazing

[latent flame]

https://tenor.com/view/vorzek-vorzneck-oglg-og-lol-gang-gif-24901093

[sage thunder]

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/best-humble-bundle-avatar-legends-20th-anniversary-physical-rpg-bundle

this is cool

[errant flower]

yooooooooo another avatar boardgame!

[rich cipher]

Thanks boss

[sage thunder]

I am looking forward to watching them

[rich cipher]

Only took twenty minutes of raging about codexes but that's on my end

[sage thunder]

No audio?

[pliant forum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkJUk6Lak_I

[near prism]

Wanted to watch the boys season premiere tonight but I have been spoiled on a joke so I have to watch it now before I get spoiled even more

[near prism]

Starlight:

https://tenor.com/view/mog-statue-mogger-mogging-mewing-gif-4726236665805485045

[latent flame]

yeah idk why she did that

and acting like "I didnt get anything done"

[near prism]

Noticed the straw hat jolly roger in the first episode of the boys s5

[vital vigil]

she used to look cute. now she looks like a monster

[pliant forum]

I'll say she definitely hasn't had luck with cosmetic procedures. She looks completely unrecognisable from the first season.

[near prism]

I don’t really care all too much tbh, just think she looks a bit silly. Who am I to judge lol

[pliant forum]

Indeed.

[vital vigil]

she changed her looks specifically so that people judge her looks more positively. so id say its ok

[vital vigil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmvGdzMSEtU&list=WL&index=10

[jagged tiger]

How's the Blackberry movie?

[latent flame]

so glad the boys is ending

||s5 already stupid and the plot is horrible. Why does Kimiko sound like generative A.I||

[near prism]

I really liked ep 1, I haven’t seen 2 yet.
I wouldn’t say she sounds like ai but she definitely says a bunch of bullshit

She speaks like an autistic theatre kid with unfiltered internet access

[vital vigil]

dont wanna click the spoilers. is it a new char or one we already know?

[near prism]

One we already know

[vital vigil]

which one sounds like AI according to him

[near prism]

Its just s5 ep1 spoilers so you wanna know?

[vital vigil]

hmm maybe not

ill find out next month

[near prism]

Your philosophy on TV confuses me…

Good luck avoiding spoilers

[vital vigil]

how so

[vital vigil]

im only in 2 discord channels where i could get spoilered and they are very good about not just randomly posting shit. ive almost never been spoiled on the shows i wait on

[near prism]

It’s mostly just social media tbh

[vital vigil]

basically dont use any. only reddit and there i only browse the subs i follow

[near prism]

I am so sorry for your soul 😔

[vital vigil]

wdym. im free

little brainrot

[near prism]

R/Kitchencels is really funny you should check it out

[vital vigil]

no idea what that might be ill check it out

[near prism]

Basically sad loser dudes or fake sad loser dudes and their meals

And it’s usually bullshit meals accompanied by bullshit story

[vital vigil]

ye im seeing it rn

maybe ill try to come up with smth to post

[near prism]

Yeah it’s really good, me and my friends browse it every now and then to see what’s new

[vital vigil]

wtf im seeing one that is so very obv fake and it got 4k upvotes

[near prism]

Yeah it’s a bit easy to tell, the good ones are usually the ones that go into detail, a bit difficult to find because there’s a lot of “fakecels” in the sub

[fossil burrow]

finally got to watch the first 2 eps of The Boys S5 and they were bangers

[vital vigil]

https://i.imgur.com/ZZbdaXv.png

[pliant forum]

I mean... of course.

Ideally you'd want to please both the fanbase, people who are into gaming - And people who aren't. But whether that's possible or not will definitely depend on the writing. 😄

-I- think Halo failed, because it tried to reinvent Mr. Chief. It was well shot, the plot was good - But it fucked with a lot of established lore, and didn't connect with the "Normies"

They should have done a Starship Troopers approach - Focusing on new characters, not the hero on the pedestal.

[vital vigil]

yes thats what im mostly expecting. them rewriting bullshit for a "broader audience"

the typical shit of trying to make it as bland and inoffensive as possible, making it unappealing to everybody instead

[sage thunder]

That's annoying

Apparently the latest episode of amazing digital circus is out on YouTube but not Netflix and I didn't notice all this time rip

[pliant forum]

It's not easy writing a hit show 😄

[sage thunder]

did you just call him mr chief

[pliant forum]

Yes.

[sage thunder]

https://tenor.com/view/getout-gif-16327023334064302194

[rich cipher]

Strong Father/Son, "How's it going there, Chief?" vibes

[vital vigil]

its pretty easy if you have the story already written out and you just gotta adapt it to another format without tryna make it something it wasnt

[pliant forum]

Can't say I agree. Not all stories have wide appeal. And it's obvious they want the wide appeal.

You can make a show fans will watch. But making non-fans jump in? Rare. Witcher failed at it (And at catering for fans), GoT succeeded until the darker parts of the story were finally unleased on people expecting happy endings 😄

[vital vigil]

so theyre taking an ip with name recognition cz they know that makes it sell automatically and then they make something that it isnt for more "wide appeal", which usually makes it bad/worse because what they think doesnt have "wide appeal" made it popular in the first place

its not like gamers have some weird taste that show/movie watchers dont have. it stands to reason that if the story is good itll also succeed if adapted well in another format

"wide appeal".. the kind of idiotic language suits that dont understand customers use cz in their mind checking their own made up boxes guarantees viewership

[vital vigil]

witcher s1 and even s2 were massively successful until they made it "more wide appeal"

got was massively successful until they made it more wide appeal as well lol

once the books were done and the writers took over the show got massively worse

not killing main characters nonstop is what they thought was "wide appeal" but it made the story boring af ||not a single important a or b cast character died after they took over until the last couple eps||

adding 3 dick jokes per minute apparently was also considered "wide appeal"

[flat mural]

Didn't GOT just run out of books to follow and they were just given an "overview" of what would be in future books and then just shat out a shit script themselves?

[vital vigil]

question remains how close they stuck to that overview

i havent even read the books and the changes were immediately noticable

[flat mural]

I'm still shocked HBO even green lit their ideas, it killed the entire legacy of the show, it will forever be a shit and tainted show.

[vital vigil]

they started implementing those hollywood tropes like saving people at hte last second from dying in some action scene for example

the whole tone shifted too

[vital vigil]

must be one of the biggest show blunders ever. going from one of the most popular shows to not even being able to recommend it to people because the ending was so bad

[flat mural]

Winter is coming buildup? Irrelevant.
Frost King or w/e his name was? Irrelevant.
Jaqen Hghar and the whole No One thing? Irrelevant.
Character development for the main cast? Irrelevant.

Yawn

Shit show, will never watch again

I'm never watching an HBO show again until it's finished

I was disappointed in the Merlin 2008 ending, Fringe ending, How I Met Your Mother but nothing beats GOT. I can rewatch and and still enjoy the others but GOT can rot in hell.

[sage thunder]

I still rewatch Merlin and the ending makes me sad

[flat mural]

I know Merlin ending follows the books or whatever

But I wanted a different ending

[sage thunder]

Same

[vital vigil]

ive not watched any other got related series cz of how badly main one ended

dont get me started on how i met your mother...

[flat mural]

Same, I have no interest in checking them out.

[flat mural]

The alternative DVD ending of HIMYM is good, the one that aired on TV is ass.

[vital vigil]

what was the dvd ending?

[flat mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhB5oQgQpOI

[vital vigil]

ye i mean.. its definitely better

idk who signed off on the og ending. tho i think they kinda wrote themselves into a corner from the first ep on because the show went longer than expected to extract money

it turned from himym into: how i fucked 200 bitches and ||then i met your mom had a 15 minute flashback summary of how we met and she died after 9 season of other bullshit and a full season of a wedding that didnt matter and now ill go fuck robin thanks||

[flat mural]

Me and my friend watched it together every week as it was airing, we were so hyped for the finale and planned for it weeks ahead, to say it was a disappointment is an understatement.

[vital vigil]

ye.. i was also following it as it was coming out

ngl i thought it got weaker as time went on but it was at least still watchable enough to want to finish it

[flat mural]

It has 9 seasons, probably 3 too many, should've ended earlier but you know money.

[sage thunder]

Me and my friend watched GoT final season every week at 3am which is when it aired here. Beers and pizza with a dash of very very huge disappointment.

[flat mural]

I watched GOT home alone, after the episode I had to sit down at the PC and google to see if this was actually the ending...

I couldn't believe it was that shit.

Denial

[vital vigil]

all im wondering is if the books are gonna end similarly

but george doesnt seem to want to finish em

[flat mural]

There is no way he finishes the book series before he dies.

[vital vigil]

maybe its done and its released upon death

so he doesnt have to deal with the aftermath

[flat mural]

He saw the end of the show and thought it even ruined the legacy of his books, might as well give up.

[vital vigil]

unironically i think the show might have actually ruined the legacy

depending on how they end

[pure hull]

https://youtu.be/gFH0Qqlgbao

[old patio]

I haven't seen this show so I really thought this was an actual US political post

[rich cipher]

Those go in #🐸│memes

[pliant forum]

I mean... it is technically an ad for The Boys (the TV show)

[vital vigil]

https://img.pr0gramm.com/2026/04/10/2d5685a327899897.jpg

[sage thunder]

Spoilers?

First episode of Malcolm in the middle reboot

[fossil burrow]

its like the very first scene of the first episode, so not too much

[sage thunder]

Still though

[pliant forum]

I doubt you can call that a spoiler, given how she's in trailers 😛

[sage thunder]

Ah i avoided the trailer

but thats fair game

[strange siren]

I've used 8 hours of my day today binge-watching the first season of the K-drama Bloodhounds
Where did my 8 hours go, how is it already 4 AM

[pliant forum]

[jagged tiger]

Here we go again

[halcyon nimbus]

K. I don't know either of those, but they feel extreme rightish

[rich cipher]

Karl Jobst exposes cheaters in videogames on youtube, not extremist at all

He always starts his videos with "Hello you absolute legends" and that's nice

[flat mural]

Billy Mitchell I really high on the loser liar chart.

Elon Musk on there as well with his "I totally played my POE character myself."

[halcyon nimbus]

You mean:
hyperloop
Full self driving (next year!)
Mars
Tesla truck
Starship
Poe

How can I forget doge

[flat mural]

Hyperloop is one of the stupidest things I think I've ever seen, shit idea just to stop public transit efforts.

[halcyon nimbus]

Yup. And then the promise of it being cheaper. Ridiculous

[vital vigil]

cz they dont have blue hair?

[vital vigil]

why is hyperloop a bad idea? a sort of train that is faster than planes sounds pretty cool to me

just doesnt seem very possible with current tech on a large scale

[pure canyon]

Sort of train = just commit to a train already

But the vegas hyperloop? Just a glorified underground city street with all the same problems you‘d expect of a street with cars

[pliant forum]

That's not what the hyperloop is though.

[pure canyon]

Except you dont even get to drive the car yourself iirc

[pliant forum]

It's a shitty, short tunnel that's breaking down, with cars that can barely follow a straight path 😄

[pure canyon]

It‘s replacing your personal car with taxi for single people. Utterly pointless

[vital vigil]

feel like that is not how he tried to pitch it

[pure canyon]

Obviously not

You promise everything people want to get the funding. Then you dont care anymore and realise „zhere where unexpected difficulties so we had to compromise“

[vital vigil]

i dont remember how he pitched it but the idea i had in mind was like a huge underground network that is intercontinental with stops in every big city where you could drive at high speeds faster than taking planes

[pure canyon]

You can do that already.

With trains.

Doesnt need to be underground either

[vital vigil]

im not aware of any trains going faster that 800kmh

gotta show me those

[pure canyon]

You definitly not gonna manage that with rubber tyred cars

[vital vigil]

no.. but with hyperloop

if that shit actually worked as he claimed it would

[pure canyon]

But yeah maglev trains manage 600kmh
Though the current fastes in constant operation is a 460kmh maglev china last i checked

[pure canyon]

I‘m just curious as to how he wanted to achieve it

[vital vigil]

i never went that deep. all i know is something about tunnels that use vacuum to get rid of air resistance. that alone would make super high speeds more achievable

[pure canyon]

Because especially in full on tunnels you push all the air infront of you. Even more if there is barely an opening around the train or pod or whatever object goes through

There is a reason highspeed train tunnels have muzzles like guns

Hah. Good luck getting thousands of km of tunnel vacuumed. Especially when trying to get endless amounts of people transported. Especially in individual pods or whatever. Air locks en masse.
At that point the queues will be worse than at airports for boarding your plane

[vital vigil]

ye and if somewhere an issue arises it gets even worse. the whole idea is super dangerous

but itd be really cool if it did work

[pure canyon]

It‘s tech bros trying to reinvent trains. Lol

[runic bluff]

Most of the companies that were researching it have stopped or gone bankrupt lmao, its also proven to be a plan from musk to stop/delay California to build a high speed rail network

[pure canyon]

Like genuinly, in my mind, maglevs are pretty much the best bet currently for something like that

[runic bluff]

Same that GM did after America was built on trains, just to make people car dependent

[pure canyon]

And even conventional steel wheel and rail trains manage like 350kmh

Which already is rather competitive with planes tbh

[halcyon nimbus]

I. Meant the vacuum tube with pods.

[pure canyon]

huh?

[halcyon nimbus]

The hyperloop

[pure canyon]

yes

but yeah. if you want new fancy and fast public transit:

✨ T R A I N S ✨

something the US used to be amazing at.

[vital vigil]

trains are pretty fucking slow and in germany extremely expensive

unless you drive with flix trains

[rich cipher]

Judging all trains by the DeutscheBahn isn't a very fair comparison

[vital vigil]

then theyre just slow

[vital vigil]

well i gotta judge it by my options

[pure canyon]

but prioritising cargo trains (because the cargo companies own the rails) and then also politically working on making it horrendously expensive to build anything new... bada bing bada boom, car lobby happy

[vital vigil]

i dont have a 500kmh train like china here

[pure canyon]

what do you mean expensive?

i can go munich to hamburg for like 30€

[rich cipher]

The trains in Taiwan are incredible

[vital vigil]

all trains here are slow af and expensive but you can pay even more for trains that are a little faster

[vital vigil]

with db?

[pure canyon]

that's less than a tank of fuel cost before fuel cost spiked high and hard

with db

you just dont have to book 5 minutes before departure

[rich cipher]

Trains are moderately competitive in pricing if you drive alone. The moment there's two people going somewhere, driving is still cheaper.

(At least in NL, where the NS is absurdly expensive)

Even with the monthly subscription I have that cuts the price of tickets in half for non-rush hour travel

[flat mural]

Is this for single ticket trips or someone who has a "train pass" and rides the train every single day?

[rich cipher]

Which I hate having, but if I take the train anywhere one time in a month, then it pays for itself...

[vital vigil]

https://i.imgur.com/FC1Caub.png a couple months in advance

[pure canyon]

just typed in, frankfurt to hamburg on the 25th, the prices are around 50€ for someone aged 27-64, no discounts and whatever

[rich cipher]

That makes it out of reach for most people to do a spontaneous day trip

[pure canyon]

so would be driving from munich to hamburg

especially because you cant do munich to hamburg in 6h by car

and, even disregarding the spiked fuel prices, not for that money, unless you drive a very economy car

[rich cipher]

Sure, but trains should be the enabler of low cost transit

And they aren't doing that

[halcyon nimbus]

That's because cars are heavily subsedised

[pure canyon]

so we got 800 km. let's say the car uses up 5l per 100 km, that's 40l, at a price of 1,50€ per L, we're at 60€, and more time.

also disregarding insurance and paying off the car

[vital vigil]

my car is 12l per 100km

[pure canyon]

so, yes. in theory, cheaper if you are more than solo travelling

[rich cipher]

Sure, and the moment there's two people in the car the per-person cost is halved whereas with a train ticket each person must pay the full ticket price..

[vital vigil]

also depending on the train lines you book you also gotta switch trains multiple times and db is always late so the waiting inbetween could be brutal on top

especially when your train is late but the next one isnt

[pure canyon]

in the very least, if you truly got time, get a D ticket, use regionals. 49€ and you can literally take near every single regional train whenever however you want for the entire month

[vital vigil]

ye but the point of hyperloop is not to take 8 hours to drive from munich to hamburg

[pure canyon]

for DB: there are also often discount deals for weekends, like weekend ticket or something.

that said. if you wanna be cheap: flixtrain is a thing too.

[vital vigil]

flix train is cheap and i do use it but im more concerned with the time it takes more than anything

[pure canyon]

forget what i said. for some reason the flix train tickets are more expensive

[vital vigil]

flix stuff im seeing is 55-70€

for the same date

25.04

even down to 32€

[pure canyon]

but you know a secret to make DB ICE tickets cheaper?

stop making it a private company that has to make a profit

[rich cipher]

Take the revenue from petrol tax and apply it as a subsidy to train tickets

[pure canyon]

that said, DB Fernverkehr actually acts at a loss for a bit

[vital vigil]

they get heavily subsidized by the state and yet are insanely expensive

prices seem to have come cown but the last couple years it was legit cheaper or same price to fly between cities

[pure canyon]

i agree

sadly we cant

because "unfair competition" according to EU law

[pure canyon]

careful. Fernverkehr doesnt.

[vital vigil]

db gets a ton of money from the state afaik

[pure canyon]

nope

the EU scolded germany for that several years ago

the only thing the german state pays for is the infrastructure side

[vital vigil]

"die Deutsche Bahn (DB) wird vom Staat, insbesondere vom Bund, massiv finanziert und subventioniert. Der Bund ist 100-prozentiger Eigentümer der DB AG und gewährt jährlich Milliardenbeträge für Infrastruktur, Instandhaltung und Investitionen. Dies geschieht über Gesetze wie das Bundesschienenwegeausbaugesetz (BSWAG) und Leistungs- und Finanzierungsvereinbarungen"

[pure canyon]

INFRASTRUKTUR

not train operation

[vital vigil]

ye so why is the infrastruktur so ass

[pure canyon]

because mehdorn

and nimbys

[vital vigil]

how is it possible that 25°c sun or 1 snowflake will fuck the whole grid

[pure canyon]

i dont know where you are, but it doesnt here

any train i drove was perfectly fine going through snow. and the sun didnt cause a thing

however, the rails are metal. and sun and hot weather does cause a thing called thermal expansion

it's usually accounted for

though considering we in a bid to save costs, are always hiring the cheapest contractor, because we have to by law, is probably making things worse

[vital vigil]

yes ive also seen trains drive in every weather. but trains have also been cancelled due to weather conditions that really werent that harsh

[pure canyon]

do you want to know what train drivers hate the most while driving?

it's not snow. or sunny weather

[vital vigil]

its passengers

[pure canyon]

it's a long period of dry, followed by very faint rain

because the dust gets bound by the little moisture but doesnt get washed off the rails, creating a slidy film, causing the very little point of friction between wheel and rail to be basically gone

[pure canyon]

and yes, passengers who are rude and constantly try to make the drivers responsible for stuff they have no effect over

[vital vigil]

either way not only is db pretty expensive especially if you dont book weeks/months in advance they also get billions up their asses by tax payers. they mismanage the money

[pure canyon]

gotta love passengers "asking" the driver why there is constantly delays, but when the driver tries to answer, just keeps yelling at the driver not letting the driver even actually answer the question, because all the passenger wants is to complain and yell at people.

get some anger management folks.

[halcyon nimbus]

/me Looks at roads

[pure canyon]

do you know what i think is the biggest mistake?

that the leader positions get a monthly wage that could pay like 7 train drivers ANNUAL wage.

[pure canyon]

oh yeah, and that too

[vital vigil]

ye.. the top people get insane salaries and bonusses

same with gez. they get billions and what is on tv? old ass shit. nothing is put into good or interesting productions

[pure canyon]

not gonna lie, if i'd get a monthly salary that allows me to completly buy a house every other month no problemo, i'd be set for live after... not even a single year.

and then the ordinary person, like me, cant even dream of owning a house with the current pay

and I'm paid pretty decent tbh

[vital vigil]

meanwhile the board and other high position people of gez get paid literal millions a year

[pure canyon]

i think i'm already above the average salary. or around it.

[vital vigil]

whats avg salary

according to what you know

[pure canyon]

last i checked it was somewhere around 3200€, been a while tho

[vital vigil]

gross or net

[pure canyon]

gross i think

[vital vigil]

avg is definitely higher

[halcyon nimbus]

Source?

[vital vigil]

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Arbeit/Verdienste/Verdienste-Branche-Berufe/_inhalt.html

https://www.wiwo.de/finanzen/steuern-recht/durchschnittsgehalt-deutschland-2026-so-viel-lohn-erhalten-arbeitnehmer/26598720.html

[pure canyon]

still. i think it's ridiculous that i cant even afford to take a loan on an ordinary house that needs some renovations, if i dont want to move into the middle of nowhere with the next grocery store 45 minutes of driving away

[vital vigil]

median salary gross is 4500€ in germany

[pure canyon]

like, looking at who owns the majority of apartments already tells you how horrible the situation is.
Vonovia my beloved landlord, pls dont kick me out. i couldnt find a place in like 40% of germany.

[pure canyon]

well. good luck trying to get above the average gross salary then

[vital vigil]

surprisingly not a lot higher at 47xx€

[pure canyon]

i'm definitly further away than i figured

[halcyon nimbus]

But didn't you choose extra days of instead of more pay?

[vital vigil]

extra days as in not working on holidays?

[pure canyon]

but yeah, what was it we learned about economy at school?
Saving up money is bad for the economy. money needs to flow.

so lets pump all the money to a select few people, so much so they dont know what to do with it other than bathe in it in a grand money storage.

[pure canyon]

i mean. yes
because the extra money is laughable compared to having 12 more holidays annually

[vital vigil]

shoulda come up with a way to join those people

[pure canyon]

i wish

i'd be happy with owning a house

like, 2 million euros, and I'd be set for live, never having to work again.

doesnt take much actually

it is truly entertaining

[vital vigil]

feel like 2mil is not nearly enough for a house in a city and then live the rest of your life off it

[flat mural]

Quick bank heist

[naive rampart]

I’d like a nice apartment in the city. Zone 1/2 in London near a good tube line. Don’t think I’d play a video game ever again, there’s always something to do in the city.

[pure canyon]

oh it actually is. you'd be suprised

[flat mural]

If you don't have to work anymore and just live on interest just move into the woods somewhere

[vital vigil]

well she talked about not wanting to move into the woods

[pure canyon]

if you dont need a grand villa, you could get a house in the city close to downtown frankfurt for roughly 800 000€

sure. it might just have like 4 rooms, bath and kitchen

but... do you need more?

[vital vigil]

a house in frankfurt 800k? aintnoway

nvm maybe im wrong

[pure canyon]

ye

[vital vigil]

but ye if something breaks or you have other issues you also gotta fix em out of your own pocket

[pure canyon]

that is true

honestly, if i had a million?
i'd get a house, fix it up real nice, put some aside, and keep working. but with the knowledge i aint got a thing to worry anymore

[halcyon nimbus]

Having a paid off house would free up a lot of money for us

Alas, it's not paid off

[pure canyon]

money i then earn is all going to the upkeep, which will be laughable to rent in that sense, and fun. and the remaining saved up stuff can be left in an emergency

exactly

[rich cipher]

Yea same, mind getting one for me while you're already at it?

[vital vigil]

i feel like owning a house is super overrated. only worth if you have kids to give it to when you die

[pure canyon]

even if i'd get a loan for a house: I'd basically pay the same as rent, PLUS the extra responsibility of fixing everything. while working my ass off.

i mean, yeah.

the reason i'd want a house is mostly because space for cars actually. lol

[vital vigil]

if i "only" got a million im not sure if id buy a house. at least not to live in myself.

[pure canyon]

and maybe having some friends live with me for a lower rent while having people i trust and like around me and help with "the estate"

but alas. i'm poor.

i have like 600€ left this month

[vital vigil]

left after you paid everything or left to live

[flat mural]

I spent all my money this month on old video games, I get money again in 7 days though so then I can buy more shit.

[pure canyon]

left after i paid everything, except some groceries i didnt get yet

[naive rampart]

That’s more than a lot of people have. Even if the wider economy is frustrating.

[pure canyon]

i mean, valid

[vital vigil]

600€ extra in a month is pretty good id say

[pure canyon]

oh no i mean, thats all my savings.

minus some saved up 2600€ in an ETF i am not touching though

[naive rampart]

Oh

You made it sound like you’re saving that much per month.

[pure canyon]

nah

depending on my payout, i have between 150 and 500 left after each month

most of it then either goes into buying a bit more grocery than usual, sweets. or into my car

admittedly, the cars are a huge cost point in my finances atm.

[vital vigil]

constantly breaking?

[pure canyon]

soo... lowkey my own fault

[vital vigil]

also.. carsssss?

you have more than one?

[pure canyon]

yes

[vital vigil]

[pure canyon]

even without them i couldnt afford a house btw

cars are suprisingly affordable i figured

[vital vigil]

well with income around 3500€ no chance

[naive rampart]

The cost of being a motorist is why I’m glad to have given mine up. Public transport is pretty good here I live though.

[vital vigil]

wdym. even just having 1 car is a huge luxury

[pure canyon]

now careful, i'm not saying i barely get to live.
it's that i find it sad i cant afford a house no matter how much i try with a salary i consider to be good. just wanting to clarify

[vital vigil]

its the cost for car + gas + tax + insurance + tüv + maintenance

[pure canyon]

yes. even just 1 car is luxury

the reason i can afford carS, is because i actually mainly use public transit to get to and from work.

[flat mural]

By design, and any efforts to build more housing gets shut down because "it would ruin the current market" OK BUT WHERE DO I LIVE!?!?!

[vital vigil]

why do you have em then

[pure canyon]

meaning, i am not dependant on car, nor do i need to drive it lots

[naive rampart]

With these oil prices, I’ll keep getting the electric buses and trains.

[pure canyon]

oh for sure

i take the tram to work within like 10-15 minutes

[naive rampart]

My commute is 80-90 minutes when I’m in the office.

Commuter town life.

[pure canyon]

and for 59,85 a month too

[flat mural]

Hell nah

[halcyon nimbus]

my commute is 30 seconds up 2 stairs :p

[naive rampart]

40- ish minutes into London, then across zone 1 on the District Line.

It’s around £25 a day.

[pure canyon]

how many minutes???

[halcyon nimbus]

0.5

1 if im lazy/tired

[pure canyon]

i used to do that in one of these middle of nowhere places. but moved closer to work (right into the city), because i couldnt stand having to take anywhere between 60 to 100 minutes to work

haha yeah home office life

i cant do home office, for various reasons

[naive rampart]

I work from home most days

[flat mural]

Only way I'd accept that kind of commute is if I got paid for doing it.

[pure canyon]

like, i couldnt do work from home mentally already. just. cant.

i need to seperate work from home/private tbh

which... funny enough isnt as easy for me actually

and besides, my job is a bit difficult to do from home 😅

but yeah. i used to have 4 cars at once btw.

and i can confidently say: cheap cars are the most expensive ones.

[vital vigil]

why do you have multiple cars if you dont use em to commute

[pure canyon]

well, you see, i think they're neat

not being dependant on cars makes you appreciate and enjoy them more

https://tenor.com/view/i-just-think-they're-neat-i-just-think-they-are-neat-neat-neato-potato-gif-13037576960641876940

i scrapped the shitbox though

my ex bought it for 1k after getting the drivers license, and gifted it to me when i was inbetween cars. i got a whole euro for it at the scrapper

its insurance was higher than anything else i drove so far

[vital vigil]

1€ at the scrapper?

got scammed

[pure canyon]

well. technically i should have paid the scrapper. so i went to wirkaufendeinauto and they gave me a euro for it

it was a very bad state

the seat belt started mold

tüv was gone 3 months

brakes were... irregular at best

was an old skoda fabia with like 400 000km, it was done.

rust

completly damaged everywhere (not from me)

[vital vigil]

damn that car held up for very long

[pure canyon]

i initially wanted to drive it to the nordkap as a last event with it before it goes to the road in heaven

however... my ex wasnt really on board and instead just went to australia with his family instead. and i didnt wanna drive on my own. for multiple reasons.

would have been a fun thing i bet. with all the failures and what not

but agree, it held longer than anyone probably expected. but eventually it was time for it to drive on

we only had it a year ourselves. it was already in that state when my ex bought it. and him learning to drive on it probably didnt help anymore

anyway, the damn thing cost me, despite 10 years of license and no accidents, like 80€ monthly just for Haftpflicht.

[vital vigil]

been working at a job i commute on foot to for almost a year now so my car is barely ever used. i should sell it but i make enough to eat the cost for when i do need it every couple weeks/months

my mom lives a city away and just not wanting to take the fucking train im keeping the car lol

[pure canyon]

in comparison: my leasing car (a van) costs me in full coverage (vollkasko) 106€ monthly. and that thing is tremendously more expensive, useful, and has more power. (and is electric)

[vital vigil]

electric is only nice if you can charge it at home or work

[pure canyon]

yup

i mean i like driving it

and i can charge it infront of the apartment

speaking of, i think its still at the charger

[vital vigil]

i cant, so id never get electric

[pure canyon]

but you wanna know the most ridiculous bit?

[vital vigil]

that youre leasing a car?

[pure canyon]

which car i pay the least in insurance?

[vital vigil]

a lambo?

[pure canyon]

i mean, yes but no.

there is thought and reason behind it. besides it being cheaper. mostly, because it is an electric and i didnt wanna be locked to it in case it turns out a horrible experience or the tech being outdated super fast.

[pure canyon]

i wish

no, it's my skyline

i pay 430€ for full coverage ANNUALLY.

[vital vigil]

how is leasing cheaper. you basically rent the car, spend thousands for the duration and then own nothing afterward

[pure canyon]

aka, like 36€ for vollkasko for a skyline

[vital vigil]

ye insurance is also based on how many people drive it and how many make accidents. so cars like this or super expensive luxury cars have surprisingly low insurance

imo leasing a car is a super rich people game that is used by tons of people that really shouldnt because they think it makes cars they cannot pay for affordable

[pure canyon]

because i'm only paying a fraction of the cars worth. the car dealer ship has to keep it in good condition for me, vs it being my obligation, plus i get money back at the end, because i'm definitly not reaching the kilometer limit in the contract

[naive rampart]

Luxury poverty

[pure canyon]

and as i said, i dont have to keep it in the case of the EV when it turns out to be a bad thing.

[vital vigil]

youll still have paid however many thousands for however many years and then you dont even keep it and you need to pay the next couple thousands for a couple more years if you want to keep having a car

[flat mural]

You're very limited on long you can drive per year right?

[pure canyon]

depends on the contract

i went for the lowest km. and i'm probably going to undershoot it by a long shot

i'm not dependant on having a car

[vital vigil]

they usually try to fuck you with either the km you drove or at the last check theyll try to extract as much money as possible with every little thing or scratch the car has

[flat mural]

Friend is leasing a newer S-class and he is only allowed 10000km per year.

[pure canyon]

again. not my only car. nor dependant on it.

[vital vigil]

ok then why invest so much money^^

[pure canyon]

wow.

maybe he selected that though?
because the lowest i could go in the contract was 12 000km, highest was like 35 000 km

[flat mural]

He probably chose it, I didn't ask that much.

[pure canyon]

i like having an electric van i can use whenever. it already helped with 4 different moves within this year too. lol

[vital vigil]

renting a van for those woulda been cheaper

[pure canyon]

maybe. if he didnt wanna pay too much monthly i could see it

[pure canyon]

yesnt

[vital vigil]

idk everyone can use their own money how they see fit. just seems like a ton of cost for the income you described

not like i needed to spend the money i did last year either

[flat mural]

Spend all money, pension will not exist by the time we need it anyway.

Work until you die.

[vital vigil]

either way. youll never be able to buy a house but on the other hand your income is good enough for you to pay for these luxuries

[vital vigil]

thats why youd save up money since the state aint helping you

[pure canyon]

yep. and that is what i criticise about the current state of the economy

like i said, i consider myself to be earning decently

[flat mural]

After all monthly spending doesn't leave much left for saving. Even just the "bare minimum" is enough to leave a lot of people with nothing left each month since the pandemic.

[pure canyon]

save up the money, and then end up passing away before my pension.

or worse

inflation

[vital vigil]

well at minimum wage youre not saving a lot no

[pure canyon]

besides, by the current ongoing trend: by the time i hit pension, i wont be able to enjoy life anymore either

funny enough: cars are kind of a money investment if you keep good care of them. lol

[flat mural]

After all my monthly spending with everything paid and food, I have like 1000 euro left as play money, that's more than most but also fucking nothing when it comes to buying somewhere to live.

[pure canyon]

can always sell them if i need to

[vital vigil]

well not most cars and they need to be in really good shape

[pure canyon]

true

still. i find it ridiculous that i can afford carS, but not a house.

even tho i like cars

[vital vigil]

well as soon as you have multiple hundreds bucks a month left after paying all your monthly cost you can afford that

[flat mural]

The worst part is houses keep going up in value even when nothing is being done to them, like they don't degrade by some magic force.

[vital vigil]

homes have become investments + influx of people the past 10 years

[pure canyon]

everyone wants a house.
not many can afford one.

and a select few are willing to pay incredible amounts.

so why not demand what these select few are willing to pay for your house?

not like you can magically create more land and building plots at will, so they cant easily find something better

[vital vigil]

if i won millions id buy houses to rent out as well

[pure canyon]

same

i'll become what i was meant to destroy:

landlord.

[flat mural]

Since the pandemic at least EVERYTHING has to be an investment, every purchase has to make money at the end.

It's exhausting.

[vital vigil]

imagine not wanting to slave away a 9to5

couldnt be me

[pure canyon]

"DeR dEuTsChE aRbEiTeT nIcHt GeNuG"

meanwhile me in my 6 day a week 12h work days:

[flat mural]

Why it's been accepted as normal to me will never make sense, I feel like an alien in this world looking at people do nothing but eat, sleep and work for someone else to get rich.

[vital vigil]

i actually need to start saving for my pension tho.. apparently theres a new thing that doesnt seem like a scam in germany starting next year. where you can save into etfs and they will subsidize it by a good amount

instead of the riester rente bs

[flat mural]

Like a 401K in the US or what?

[vital vigil]

im not sure how the 401k works but you pay however amount into an etf monthly and for every € you get x amount of cents up to a certain amount

[pure canyon]

can it be the etf i already save every month?

or is it a specific from the state itself?

[vital vigil]

it has to be an extra depot im pretty sure

i think it can be any etf

[pure canyon]

hmmm

i pay 50 monthly into an etf already

[vital vigil]

im not sure tho. i only heard about them making it available in 2027. i havent looked into conditions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp8CMUPiGfA

so apparently for 1800€ a year you can get 480€ ontop

tho idk the specific conditions and obv youre not allowed to take from it until youre in pension

also when do they give you the bonusses? im not trusting these fucks to pay all of it in 40 years

id want it every year

[pure canyon]

same

can already see them do a 180 in like 6 years or something

[vital vigil]

but ye. its not here anyway. ill wait for more info but in theory this sounds pretty good

better than the riester disaster

[pure canyon]

i dunno, just needs some fdp folks be like "but that would cost the state too much, better invest that into companies, cuz they pay workers too right????"

[vital vigil]

i need to just start paying into an etf or smth generally <.<

[pure canyon]

you should do it
it's fund

[grizzled drift]

or another reign of cdu or spd which goes let's cut corners at the pension and healthcare programs so we can get in more refugees that won't be allowed to work for at least a year and get 3 times the support compared to anyone else

[pure canyon]

or even better: we dont allow them to work, cuz they immigrants.

and if they work, we just abschieben them

because it is easier to deport those we know have to go to the same location 5 times a week, aka work

like... the actual contributing ones get sent away. those willing to stay, learn german and integrate

it just aint right i tell ya

and i promise you, all the immigrants i found working in the hospital whenever i ended up there, are all so lovely people

[grizzled drift]

more or less the point, like they get absurd amounts of financial support, like that one family that moved in next door before i moved, 2 adults and 1 child, they got almost 3000€ a month, a state covered car and a few other benefits, the man actually wanted to work for their living costs, but nope, wasn't allowed to...

[pure canyon]

there is this fun thing:

by rejecting any and all immigrants, because we think they dont integrate, we make the prophecy come true.

because how should people integrate, if we already reject them and dont even let them?

[pure canyon]

exactly that too

[vital vigil]

theyre refugees not immigrants

[pure canyon]

refugees can and sometimes want to be immigrants

i mean they didnt flee their homes because they felt like it was a fun thing to do, most of the time typically

[vital vigil]

theyre supposed to go back asap. thats what it means to be a refugee.

[vital vigil]

ye because of war or being prosecuted etc. not because we are a "better" country

[pure canyon]

well. no point in going back if the problem back there isnt solved. or improved for these people

especially if we talk stuff like lgbtq, or god beware being a woman

[grizzled drift]

meanwhile i was living off of 800€ disability pension plus a lil topper ups for rent, which ultimately boiled down to being at the social minimum of about 500€ after rent was paid thanks to ruining my neck, back, knees and suffering from a rather severe PTSD for working in absurd conditions for 15 years and simply not being able to anymore, neither physically nor mentally

[vital vigil]

its our responsibility to give haven to anyone when we arent even paying for our own?

[grizzled drift]

well, that's how it normally should be, but the german government never got that memo apparently

[vital vigil]

accepting refugees because of war or other insane circumstances is one thing

but as soon as the reason over there is settled its time to go back. they gotta rebuild their own shit and if they do wanna emigrate theres ways youre supposed to take

[pure canyon]

oh dont get me started on that, haha

i think it's a real shame how all this is being held at barely acceptable living conditions a lot of times

i'm just glad i'm still capable of working despite points at the own body

i was very close to being unable to work generally

[vital vigil]

as long as we have big issues with healthcare and paying for our own in need i dont see why we would pay for strangers

[pure canyon]

the issue isnt that we pay for others.

the issue is that these strangers want to work and we dont let them. when we sorely need workforce.

[vital vigil]

we really dont

[grizzled drift]

i mean the "barely acceptable living conditions" is one thing, but seeing foreigners that came to germany with nothing but their clothes on them getting far more than natives that worked off their asses is just a perfect recipe for resentment

[pure canyon]

and yes. german healthcare needs to be increased and improved. not whatever they're doing right now

[vital vigil]

we really dont need people coming in from the outside making it so we make even less money

[pure canyon]

yes. that is very much true. and i hate that too

[pure canyon]

then why are these lovely germans not working these open jobs?

oh right, because we think they are beneath us, and / or dont wanna pay it adequately enough for most germans.

[vital vigil]

my brother is a deputy general manager for a rewe in an inner city. apparently most theft is done by pensioners

[vital vigil]

ye because we keep importing cheap labor, so the money paid for such jobs keeps going down

your solution is to make it even worse

[pure canyon]

which gets boosted by us not wanting to pay more for "little things"

which, in turn is also just kind of a sign of the unequal distribution of wealth. but what do i know

[grizzled drift]

it's usually not even that we don't want to pay more, but that we simply can't afford to pay more

[vital vigil]

maybe if it wasnt so easy to import people from 3rd world countries to do the jobs and pay them nothing, the jobs wouldnt pay nothing

[pure canyon]

sadly not how it works

maybe we should start by first, not using certain jobs as a threat to kids if they dont do well in school or dont behave

[grizzled drift]

well, it kinda is, actually was refused a rise several times with the note that if i would complain about it i'd get replaced by 2 people that would work for the same money i'm getting

[vital vigil]

youre saying angebot und nachfrage is not how the world works?

[pure canyon]

no i'm saying companies will always find a way to not have to pay more

and if they have to move production and service and everything abroard instead then

[vital vigil]

if theres noone taking the jobs at those absurd wages then theyll increase wages

but why would they increase wages if they get all those free eastern european and otherwise financially poor workers from other countries to do the job for nothing

[grizzled drift]

well, strip companies the opportunity to cut costs by replacing 1 german worker with 2 foreigners that cost them the same and it would balance out again (would also help with the phrase "made in germany" to be actually worth something again)

[vital vigil]

if thats not how it works how comes that now actually going to university for some garbage everyone does these days get paid less and less while actual manual labor skill jobs are paying more and more

[pure canyon]

i see the problem with too high cost of living. and with the big company leaders wanting to have an exorbitant amount of payout out of making the workers fight amongst each other for blaming each other to work for too less money

[vital vigil]

jobs just like any product are mostly offer and demand

[pure canyon]

i'm sorry but i worked manual labor before and i didnt really get much, so i switched jobs

[vital vigil]

what kind of manual labor

im speaking actual skills. not being a cook or waiting tables

[pure canyon]

i learnt welding. which is actually considered one of the better handwerke

[vital vigil]

welding idk actually

the more people are able to do any given job the less itll usually pay

[pure canyon]

afaik not that many people can weld

[flat mural]

I taught myself how to weld because in school I wanted to design and make my own PC case and then I never ended up doing it, I also hate welding.

[pure canyon]

i kinda enjoyed welding

probably out of practice now though

[rich cipher]

Welding would be more fun if it was a seamless experience

[pure canyon]

sigh

mark.

[rich cipher]

[pure canyon]

i'm gonna show up at your door.

and I'm gonna weld it shut

and you know i can and will

anyway. should i bring you chocolate? or a cheesecake? :P

[flat mural]

I feel like, if you're somewhat competent you can do welding, plumbing, renovating and all these kinds of things yourself doesn't require "skill".

I could do these just fine but if you're going to ask me to be a cook or waiter I'll tell you to eat shit, I'm not dealing with the stress.

[rich cipher]

Cheesecake

[pure canyon]

cheesecake, got it

will be there in 4h and 28 minutes

[vital vigil]

ye but most normies cant do any of these and need to pay services

which is exponentioally more true for every newer generation

[rich cipher]

Let me know at least 30 but no more than 120 minutes before arrival, as I've got some cat sitting to do tonight

[pure canyon]

hahaha