Comments by "DefaultFlame" (@DefaultFlame) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. Same.
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  2. "It's more authentic if it's loaded, museum director!" "I like the cut of your jib, son."
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  3. He wants to go home, but home isn't a place he can go anymore. It's lost.
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  4. His teacher got a prosthetic arm when he rejoined. The desk guy got an arm so he could do paperwork, but he doesn't required legs to sit at a desk, so they give out the minimum required to do the job they have in the military. How kind.
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  5.  @Ghenku  I am talking about the movie, not the book. I consider them two separate universes.
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  6.  @grayeaglej  There is a phenomenon in history that has repeated itself to the beginning of recorded history, young male syndrome. When young men in a society have no way to advance, achieve, and improve their lives, and are considered useless by that society, they turn to violence and revolution. The Arab Spring is an excellent recent example. In the west, for the first time in history, this hasn't held true. We aren't seeing mass uprisings and violence from young western men. What we have been seeing for decades is a sharp rise in male suicide.
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  7. I'm not 40 yet, but I'm only 4 years away. Had to quit my job of 14 years last autumn because . . . Well, to make a long, long, long story somewhat shorter, my boss used to be pretty ok, hard, very hard, and harsh but fair. Then he got old and all his good sides very gradually vanished and his bad sides got way, way worse. The last 5 years in that job was a gradually worsening hell that I didn't even notice was going bad at first, it was so slow. I stuck to it at first because he was close to retirement age. Then he hit retirement age but he didn't retire. I tried to grit my teeth, just keep working, and outlast him. His joints and general health was getting worse, his retina detached and he was gone from work for a few months (and I was happy for the first time in years, almost deliriously so), his energy was getting lower and lower, his previously near-perfect memory had started failing him on the rare occasion. I figured he'd have to retire soon. Two years after that I broke. I had four breakdowns in about 8 months. I got [WANTING TO SELF DELETE]. I had the last of those breakdowns at work where he could see and he ordered drug tests for me because of my "mood swings," meaning the observable differences in my mood between when he was there and when he wasn't that he heard about from the others there. That turned into a whole circus, including seeing a doctor and a shrink and getting antidepressants prescribed, in the end after months of sick leave during which I began recovering mentally, after it turned out that there were no other positions for me to switch to and I'd have to go back to working for that . . . there are no words in the English language foul enough to express what I feel about that man, I instead quit. I started looking for work once my mental state stabilized enough for me to be able to. I'm still unemployed, still applying for various positions, but I'm capable of feeling positive emotions again, of having fun and enjoying things, instead of only having the "chioce" to either feel horrible or empty like before. I have no desire to [SELF DELETE] anymore. Thank fuck for being a union member and having decent unemployment benefits. I still have many months left of benefits and I'll hopefully be able to get another job before then. Soon preferably, because I'm sick and tired of not working. A few months of not working felt great. About a year if you including the sick leave to recover my mental health? It turns into a fucking drag. Sorry about the square bracket replacements, but you know how youtube is with certain subjects.
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  8. The older I get the more I understand the Roman view of actors.
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  9. I nearly started screaming at my phone from cognitive dissonance when the drinker abruptly cut off Roy Batty's ending monologue after three seconds.
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  10. It was. Just like Velma was made based on nothing but hate for the fans and the original show.
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  11. "Basically just actual New York." Well . . . Accurate.
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  12. The should just leave the dead horse be until they have course corrected sufficiently to actually produce a Star Wars worth watching. It would preserve what's left of Star Wars until they are capable of making one that won't sink the IP even deeper into the sewage.
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  13. . . . except fanfic authors and LARPers usually have some passion and put in effort, regardless of their skill.
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  14. What is "Agatha All Along"? Never heard of it.
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  15.  @FeatherineTardForLife  Well, that's nice. Have fun with your mom!
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  16.  @FeatherineTardForLife  . . . I wasn't being sarcastic. I hope you have fun with your mom, whether or not the show is any good. Maybe you can have fun making fun of it together?
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  17.  @FeatherineTardForLife  👍
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  18. Sudden bouts of crying from nowhere is one of the signs of PTSD.
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  19. That weapons facility looks like a bit like a borg cube.
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  20. "[, , ,]an insufferable droid in a failed Star Wars movie." Hey, she was the only part of that movie that was entertaining.
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  21. I've kept hearing that Wicked is actually good. I take this as confirmation that it's not just because of the paid shills. I probably still won't watch it, except by sailing the seven seas, but still.
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  22. Eternium sounds like what He-Man's sword would be made of. Edit: Am I the only one that thinks Pierce Brosnan looks a bit like Sean Connery in this movie?
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  23. I genuinely forgot that Antman exists. Don't ask me if he's Marvel or DC in 5 minutes, because I will have forgotten he exists again.
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  24. Those widely spaced eyes . . . Such horror.
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  25. 3:49 . . . What the fuck is that? That's straight out of the uncanny valley. Are you sure the picture hasn't been poorly photoshopped?
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  26. The first time I read about the Chernobyl disaster and how it happened on wikipedia and came across the term "positive void coefficient" for the first time in my life, I already knew enough about how modern nuclear power plants work (and bloody quantum physics) to actually understand the extremely overly (too bloody much) technical gobbledegook I got when I clicked the link, even if the math might as well have been Greek. My horror grew as I read what a positive void coefficient was, since I knew that Chernobyl's design had it. Building that is pure insanity.
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  27. Your interpretation is exactly the same interpretation I had when I first saw the movie as a kid/teen in the mid-late 90s.
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  28. She's fighting cancer, you bigot!
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  29. This is gonna be the first time my tastes doesn't align with the Drinker. I prefered the first movie over this one, hammy as it was. Then again, I might have liked this one more if I'd read the original comic growing up.
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  30. The thing with megacorps like Disney, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and so on is that they can't turn on a dime, no matter how hard they keep yanking the wheel. This is a cliff they've been soaring off of for more than a decade, they have managers, workers, hiring personnel, people and policies at every level that has to be chastised and/or fired, and changed. Which will take years. Years during which they have to keep producing product, despite trying to rebuild the machine from the ground up while it's running, causing delays as key people are fired and production cycles are interrupted. Even if all the top executives and investors cry out for a plug to the giant hole their money is getting flushed down they have to go over everything and everyone with a finetoothed comb. That, or fire everyone, delete and rewrite every policy, scrap every project in development or production, and hire new people for every position, rigorously vetting every person to avoid being infiltrated again, basically shutting down the entire company for years until they have their house in order. Then they'd be able to start new projects again, which would take even more years before they come to fruition. Which would kill the company.
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  31. These writers are just practicing the age old adage: Write what you know. And these writers are terrible, hateful people.
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  32. I have so much respect for Squid Game Guy. Too bad he's in this shit show. Hope his career goes up because he's actually a good actor.
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