Why I must feel like every single week I must just try and unfuck something on top of having usual chores to eat up my time.

Also realized yet again today I'm tempted to just make know your countryballs.

>>54748

> I'm talking about doing everything in a conscious and willing state, not experiencing social immediatety without any thoughts put into it.

Which is what I'd basically preempted as the caveat to that when you said

>the reason behind me watching it is that I fear to live my real life.

i.e. the intentionality behind it mattering in that certain specific sense.

Of course all that being stated I am still largely a kind of utilitarian. Ultimately when it comes to getting things done I really don't give a shit that you're a shit person with shit intentions if the outcome is positive. "all things are rectified by the Lord" and all. Meanwhile some really great people can have these really positive intentions and all it does is just fucks somebody's day up. I'm exceptionally outcome oriented which means that if the outcome is the same, intentionality is of lesser concern to me. Like if you are fearing to live and that is why you watch NetFlix, as opposed to some other dude banging bydlo or raising kids and building a career or whatever and he comes home to watch his same show on Netflix as you are watching, at the end of the day you two are still watching Netflix. I fail to see the relevance to any of this behind some sort of meta philosophical commentary about the ways in which you mean to lead your life not just outwardly but also inwardly, and if your self criticism is a perceived failure to live life internally with conscious intentionality then so be it and go do that.

>But again, you also define the quality of your drinkings.

While this may be true it also is however true that alcohol is a shit drug, but that what really matters is those around you which can be just as fine without the booze. Sadly that being stated most of the people actually worth drinking with outside of like college or medschool tend to be more private bars and private situations. But you are entirely correct however and it is you personally that ultimately determines that, which even if you are your surroundings and get stuck in a situation it is also you who must choose not to be part of that and extricate yourself from it.

Sorry I've also been watching this dude and prison videos all weekend which may be subtly influencing me at this point in ways I'm not aware of. I also need to be less aggressive towards others online I think I still have no clue how I come off to people in written text which is probably bitchy, irritable, and offputting than I am by spoken word

>You make a strawman by pertending I have the same intentions and ideal as your bar boomers.

No what I mean is I didn't know if you had either that or for whatever reason social media and let them begin to influence you in their retarded mentality. I have also watched and come to agree with certain things richfags say about the unsuccessful and poor person mindset, which doesn't detract from all my many criticisms of those born into wealth and most others not having those opportunities, just like some dudes become mobsters because who their fathers are, however there definitely is a distinct "I am an employee" mindset of people waiting to strike it rich on the lottery rather than choose their own fate. Meanwhile often the same people try and say banalities about "living life."

I am a grumpy as fuck thirty something boomer and can safely say how full of shit however many people are at this point, and the retarded mindsets people get about "that is what I should be doing" when in fact the solution frequently is the opposite. I cannot say for certain your exact definition of "living life" means but I've watched as this whole toxic culture pollutes people through the media about becoming gangsta pimps this or going jetskiing that, consooming this or the other and sleeping around and how most people get in this mentality like "I want that." In point of fact one of the most ridiculous, retarded things I heard at an AA meeting was this guy trying to say something about "do you want what I've got? so people need to come to this group and see what I have" and it's like they lump even their life experiences into just another consumable product, and do it hoping to generate envy. It's stupid. Like fuck no I don't know what you have and I don't fucking care I want a stable job and sobriety.

I should point out that you're swiss and I'm American so there's probably some huge other disconnect there. I don't know what you mean by living your life and don't know what to tell you other than if you have an objective just go and do your mission or don't bother worrying about it so long as it's something worth doing. My problem with it is ultimately about 90% of people seem full of shit to me when they use that exact phrase and either don't go and do it like bernds who just wanted to sit there moping around bitching about everything, or people whose idea of "living my life" really amounted to only "I want to live their life" and make sure they could be seen taking selfies at a bar with the newest iPhone or some dumb shit like that.

So my apologies if I came across as being a dumb fat cunt to you.

Finally had my meeting with a wise elder of the central committee.
We discussed the teachings of the great educator, the future of Marxism in the 21st century and the problems facing the party - as well as the Marxist left as a whole.
A pretty sober and self aware conversation for a couple of hours. It was pleasant, really. Despite on the outside the party being your average ultra-left 'class war cosplay' movement that stands against revisionists, in his later years, their main theoretician espoused views that could only be considered revisionist. Notably that the Russian revolution and the Chinese revolution were doomed to fail since [abbreviating tl;dr marxist diatribes], you guessed it - there were no material conditions.
This comrade asked me to reconsider my decision to leave the organization, even dangling the prospects of central committee membership in the very near future - as we were in agreement in our disdain of those blinded with petty ideological fanaticism and the need for Marxism to update itself. I suppose he also took a personal liking of me.
I was handed another book written by the great educator and the party's guidelines. After this pleasant and interesting conversation, I open the party's guidelines to see the calls to take arms and prepare for the class war among other tone deaf revolutionary word salad. This 'party' is a great microcosm for the 21st century marxist identity crisis.

>>54608

>They do write stuff I agree with sometimes, but often their officialism and larping as a powerful Central Committee that "Demands" the government do such and such reform is amusing.

I suppose the Hungarian commies carry the aura of having at some point been masters of Hungary. Imagine a party whose greatest achievement was something 1.2% of the vote claiming to speak in the name of the "Portuguese masses".

I have no idea about gamin PC. I ordered the following:

(80cm) Samsung Odyssey G5 C32G54TQWU - LED-Monitor - 144Hz – Curved , 344,90 EUR

Casing: Corsair Carbide Series 175R RGB schwarz - Glasfenster
Power Adapter: Corsair RMx Series RM750x - 2018 Edition - 750W
vollmodular - 80 PLUS Gold
Mainboard: MSI B550-A Pro
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 6x 3.70GHz
Cooling: AMD: Standard Lüfter AMD
RAM: 16GB DDR4 RAM
SSD M.2 Speicher: 1000 GB Kingston A2000 NVMe SSD
(Read: 2200MB/s | Write: 2000MB/s)
1. HDD / SSD  : 1000 GB HDD , 39,90 EUR
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 - 8GB
OS: Windows 10 Home

rate pls

Casing: Corsair Carbide Series 175R RGB schwarz - Glasfenster
Power Adapter: Corsair RMx Series RM750x - 2018 Edition - 750W
vollmodular - 80 PLUS Gold
Mainboard: MSI B550-A Pro
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 6x 3.70GHz
Cooling: AMD: Standard Lüfter AMD
RAM: 16GB DDR4 RAM
SSD M.2 Speicher: 1000 GB Kingston A2000 NVMe SSD
(Read: 2200MB/s | Write: 2000MB/s)
1. HDD / SSD  : 1000 GB HDD , 39,90 EUR
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 - 8GB
OS: Windows 10 Home

>>54738

>rate pls

oh do I ihappentobeanexpert.tif whyyesthisismyturboautistichobby.ini

>Corsair Carbide Series 175R RGB s

I really can't say much about this because a) I don't personally like anything about Corsair beyond power suppliesI think a lot of their stuff is overpriced for being so cheap and shitty and take particular issue with their shitty fans ecosystem you can't mix and match with anything else and costs an absurd amount of money and b), I personally don't like that style in case which is not to say you should get an overbuilt case or buy something I like it's just not what I like. Because I cannot deal with not having my 5.25 inch drive bays and muh optical drives I'd never get this and I take particular exception to the fact those front panels are neither muh ARGB bling glass nor are they front mesh for better airflow so I just particularly hate that case design however that being stated it only costs $65 and it's Corsair so it's not going to be a total piece of crap which means basically if you haven't got a problem with the particular design it's fine and moreover there isn't a huge point to wasting tons of money on a case. Why yes I do have an autistic passion about PC cases and motherboards I personally spent $110 on mine and got one of these which isn't right or wrong just what I got for me and personally don't think you should overspend on a case you do not want or need which is stupid if you're not going to get like two CD drives therefore it's exceptionally stupid to spend twice as much for a features you do not need or use, which is the rule of thumb for PC shit.
...I typed all this out and just realized you probably got a prebuilt so my opinion on "choosing your case" is irrelevant oh well

>Corsair 750w

That's perfectly fine and good. Corsair is known for making some of the best PSUs and with a really good wattage you're going to need that for the nuclear plant requiring GPU upgrades in years to come. Nice.

>MSI B550-A Pro

Eh, it's not quite a piece of shit board, and you literally don't need more, and I'd not suggest people do what I do and spend $300 blowing a GPU size hole through your budget just for a board, but it's not what I'd get. See this here is actually how I now know for a fact it's a prebuilt because SI's just love to use motherboards as their dumpstat. I wouldn't totally call it a shitboard but it isn't good. They always try and ram a miniATX tiny ass board as cheap as possible into these massive cases lacking any real features and of dubious overclocking ability. If you want to upgrade in the future that board is probably going to eventually become the limiting factor to your entire system's upgrade path.

>AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 6x 3.70GHz

It's considered to be a pretty good CPU so much so it's now basically considered "standard" afaik, which you're not likely to need more than 6 core/12 thread for quite awhile although I'd question the maximum extent you can OC on that board. Overall that system begins to remind me about my old Dell, which had a not great board and a very limited EOL upgrade path. Rather than get a used 5900x in the future you're probably going to need to build/buy new platform altogether on a new board with new socket. Mind you, it's literally all you need for just gaming and is overall a high end-midrange setup which should last you for years to come.

>Cooling: AMD: Standard Lüfter AMD
>Lüfter AMD

a fuggin what
Uh err I cannot find what they even mean by this but I'm beginning to guess they cheaped out on the fan too. You're going to need to upgrade that to overclock on depending how bad "standard" is, unless it's a Wraith Prism which is exactly what I have and works pretty well on AMD's efficient CPUs.

>RAM: 16GB DDR4 RAM

A definite prebuilt. Actually I'm kind of amazed they didn't completely cheap out on the PSU too because every prebuilt has got some kind of super cheap generic RAM, super cheaply made mass produced motherboard, and cheap shitty PSU. It does not list timings, speed, or brand, which means I cannot say much on this beyond 16gb is the minimum for modern gaming (it's likely a 2x8gb configuration) which is only going to matter on certain games. Flight sims, Total Warhammer III, these are the kinds of games where having fast RAM matters. I have no clue if it's fast or not but you can't mix and match RAM so a day may come in 7 years you may be better off replacing with cl16 3200mhz or something, not sure. It's probably going to be fine for now though even if it is 2666mhz or something.

>SSD M.2 Speicher: 1000 GB Kingston A2000 NVMe SSD

Oh man is this pretty fucking stupid now. Yeah granted that is actually still a tb of NVMe so it's going to be fast regardless, but it's among the cheapest shittiest NVMe they could possibly cram in there which is now making me think I hope you didn't overspend because it's shit for an NVMe. Why it is shit? Because why would you put such slowass storage if you're going to be building an AMD PCIe 4.0 platform? Like literally that was one of the features of 2020 was because Intel didn't have 4.0 speeds. It's super super slow for an NVMe drive and clearly they figured they'd make their selling point "a whole terabyte" while making sure it was the slowest, cheapest storage they could find that's still NVMe.

>HDD / SSD : 1000 GB HDD , 39,90 EUR

No brand, no speed, no matter. You probably should've spent a few extra quid on a 2tb drive though they're something like $54 for 2tb HDD or cheaper. I really do think you should've had 500gb PCIe 4.0 as the boot NVMe instead of that because now you're saddled with this slow ass NVMe you can't even replace as the boot because it has the system on it and now looking at it you see even more why not to get a cheap board because it looks like the cheapass MSI board literally all you can have on it is one NVMe, which is dumber because now you can't use NVMe speeds to swap huge files back and forth to a second NVMe which I guess makes part of the point of having a fast NVMe now pointless.

Look I gotta say lad at this point I am really super unimpressed with what this System Integrator (or SI) is selling, which makes me thankful I learned to build PCs rather than suffer prebuilts anymore. I spent ten years suffering Dell and putting up with their shit because of that prebuilt which to this very day even with customization I still have got to suffer no overclocking my CPU and that absolute piece of SHIT board with that shitty case and that shitty windows version and shitty slow HDD Windows OS install because had I changed motherboard it'd deactivate Windows which basically that whole thing became an insufferable pain in the ass eventually.

I don't wish to make you feel bad about your system, and accidentally did that with my dad, but well when you know how to do something it's easier to find faultalso I'm a usual overly critical *chan shitposter so thus far what I can say is, yes it is actually going to game spectacularly for 2021 no doubt, but as it ages you're going to have more and more problems and get subjected to further and further insult. Like that boot drive is going to be fine now and way faster than most people's systems, but it's still a very cheap NVMe stuck on a cheap shitty board which you're now going to get stuck with forever and which is going to be fantastic now but over the years each aspect of that is going to just piss you off more and more.

Oh wait a minute what the fucking shit, 4 SATA connectors? Seriously only four? Okay yeah nevermind it's a shit board. It's worse than I thought at a glance/from memory. MSI cheap boards are shit and that is definitely the cheapest board you can possibly get, which put it to you this way it's like putting a V8 muscle engine in a rusted out $500 shitbox with bald tires, and they do this to say "yeah but we got a V8 engine 5600x gibe money plox" and ultimately it's only the GPU and CPU which is actually a valuable component to the system. The thing that annoys me personally is because you cannot even rip the board out without voiding your entire Win10 install, because it's registered to the shitboard 99.9% of the time, so even if you could clone the C drive to a new NVMe you're stuck with the board.

This is the point at which I remind you that there's ultimately no such thing as "a shit computer" just what works for you and what is the cost. Like if that system cost $4000 it's a piece of fucking garbage. If that system cost $900 it's pretty fantastic. In PC hardware what it really boils down to is cost however my strong suspicion is they price gouged the shit out of you and charged you like 2,500 euros in which case it would be shit.

> NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 - 8GB

Like I said usually SI's will just slam a decent GPU and a decent CPU into a kinda shitty system overall because most kids have got literally no clue about anything beyond "which GPU" "which CPU" "what big number RAM in gb it is" and that's it though lately kids have gotten wise to PSU wattage too and RAM speed but still not timings or boards afaik. In today's market obviously that "$500" GPU is great but it's still a midrange card which is using last gen VRAM capacity among the many reasons I dislike nVidia is because they routinely do this shit 8gb is Pascal tier, they had 3.5gb lawsuit inducing VRAM with Maxwell when AMD was ramping up to 8gb and now AMD is 16gb standard, though it should be added that speed, bus, jayztwocents did a pretty good layman explanation of how VRAM works and how huge VRAM doesn't matter if its overall speed and bandwidth is slow as shit and likely jacked the cost to $1000 of the budget on GPU.

Personally I think that were you to buy today, it would in theory make sense to just get a prebuilt because shit's out of stock and overpriced everywhere provided they're not jacking you. The better thing is to just wait 6 months until shit calms down if it calms down then or if you just really need a gaming PC to deal with the fact shit's overpriced everywhere and build on a much older platform just to game on. It's not hard to get like Ivy Bridge CPUs, get some older GPU, deal with not having beyond 1080p monitor or having to turn down the settings, and just spend like $800 or less to build a really noice PC with 7 to 10 year old parts, get a price gouged Maxwell or something or some ancient pre-Pascal Fermi tier Titan whatever and stick with that, or just build a nice new machine with all new parts and overpay for an older GPU until prices calm down.

>OS: Windows 10 Home

I mean it's Windows. I dislike 10, but 8 was SHIT and 7 is way too old at this point. I have no idea why anyone would get professional.

OH

>(80cm) Samsung Odyssey G5 C32G54TQWU - LED-Monitor - 144Hz – Curved

This looks good to me. I bet you bought this separate. If that's a 27" 1440p 144hz monitor then yes it's actually a fantastic looking monitor although I question pairing a FreeSync monitor with nVidia GPU although frankly it's irrelevant I never use FreeSync or Gsync anyway. A 3070 should power that display plenty. I've never used a curved monitor and can't say a lot on it beyond it's alleged to be really noice playing on large curved screens, but what I can tell you is that that's a FANTASTIC resolution with buttery smooth 144hz framerates for just about anything but like brand new games with RT on ultra settings you're likely to get 140fps avg on a ton of games at very high res. I've got half that display speed. Also, for whatever weird reason mining pay went up this week so that's $10+ per day on that card

Overall it really boils down to cost. You're objectively going to have a fantastic gaming experience on that machine and as a gamer it's all that really matters, so people with autistic hobbyist interest like me you should ignore and just enjoy your PC because objectively you're going to be gaming at the top 5% of humanity if not better than that. Like 96% of humanity is having a shittier experience than you.

You are still ultimately running a much better system than I have which I built last year, a better GPU, a largely better CPUI've got 2 more cores/4 threads but you literally don't need that for gaming and my 3700x is slower and a far better monitor with twice the top fps that I have but my concern is the usual with all prebuilts that they overcharged you for something that's largely valuable in the CPU and GPU department. It's going to remain an awesome gaming system for years to come but it's not going to have legs and will show its age and limited upgradeability within 5 years.

I rate cost/10
It depends what you paid. That's a $400 CPU + $1000 GPU in today's market so I'm assuming it's like $2100 or something like that, which is fine. If it cost a lot more though, eh.

>>54567

> Bbbb...but what about other stuff that is bad!!!

Yea, you go on and make an awful lot of money but since you didn't read one of the links about I will leave you with this.

> There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of cryptocurrency scams and ponzi schemes
> trussed up to look like some kind of legitimate offering. Even if the project you’re
> working on is totally cool and solves all of these problems, there are 100 other
> projects pretending to be like yours which are ultimately concerned with transferring
> money from their users to their founders. Which one are investors more likely to invest
> in? Hint: it’s the one that’s more profitable. Those promises of “we’re different!” are
> always hollow anyway. Remember the DAO? They wanted to avoid social arbitration
> entirely for financial contracts, but when the chips are down and their money was
> walking out the door, they forked the blockchain.

> they forked the blockchain.

But I might have some tulips to sell you if you want to make it big. You can plant them on the moon.

>>54570
And yet I'd literally just doubled my money if I liquidated now and if I'd just gotten hundreds of dollars worth of dogecoin like I'd intended to a week earlier than I was planning on it I'd have gotten to sell it for thousands of dollars.

Which yeah you're entirely correct, because there ARE scams, many of which are operated by either ching chang scammers or retards at 4krebs which is a nice place to go and laugh at fucking idiots because all of /biz/ is nothing but just a bunch of scams and cheap plastic Chinese copies of everything.

Meanwhile I also happen to agree with you because I personally think that a legitimized site like coinbase is eventually going to turn everybody off to crypto as they realize ethereum is garbage and so is every single one of these retarded Eth token based forks and scams. I automatically distrust anything based in shitty ETH tokens.

But meanwhile lots of this shit actually do serve a purpose, namely things like Ripple and Lumens, because fuck wire transfers and fuck Western Union. Like seriously why the fuck would I use any of these financial services when I can just use a stabler crypto? It's a globalized financial world now and that alone is a use case, as is privacy coins at least until crackdowns on tax evaders etc. get harder which complicates moving money into and out of the country but regardless it's always going to serve a purpose now. See also
>>48384
except I haven't got much to say about Augur and I think that Ethereum is fucking garbage. It literally takes longer than bitcoin to process a transaction now and costs me HUNDREDS of fucking dollars on gas fees which itself is a crapshoot if you're trying to adjust the fee and get it to go through than get lost in the digitalether. Which is hilarious to me that all of these tokens and other shitty coins have sprung literally to serve no other purpose than actually make ethereum useful to anybody. FUCK I fucking hate ethereum what an absolute shitcoin. Which yeah. It's going to take down all its other shitokens eventually too.

Regardless there are a great many others with actual use cases with actual value and besides the fact you. can. make. lots. of. money. on. this.

>bbbut muh bags!

Yeah I agree there's always going to be shitty scam artists, many of them the fucking Chinese, and many trying to just cash out however

>dogecoin

yeah and that guy made it completely as just a joke. And I wisely bet on it ballooning because I get peoples' mentalities about things. And because I am literally betting on the internet taking a joke and a meme and using it as the default e-currency because why because it's the internet. I spent the last almost twenty years online and so I get things like crypto booms and crashes and the dotcom bust, but I also saw the power of memes since earlier on and I predicted back in '08 that 4cancer was eventually going to help drive American politics someday and I was right about that too.

Regardless you can cry about it all you fucking wantand I will someday because I'm likely just going to be a hodler until the next crypto boom in a few years I could already cash out at double my money and meanwhile this week all my fucking stocks are down, again. Why the fuck should I keep throwing my money at these faggot oligarchs and their shitty companies hoping to get some scraps? This is the one damn time poorfags and actual middleclass people can cash in and cash out.

You know, this is why nobody takes liberals seriously anymore. They haven't got anybody's backs but these faggot pieces of shit like media moguls and oligarchs these days and turned their backs on the middleclass and poor people and now that those people can make serious money and take opportunity out of catastrophe that's fucking killing usliterally in the pandemic all some of you people want to do is cry about it.

>>54744
I should add I am now actually butthurt about this because never take bread off another man's plate. I'm now down $5 on my AMD stonk and none of these people running these companies in their boardrooms or hodling millions of dollars in bluechip stock need that money. They scam the middleclass out of their savings and retirement here, they scam poor people out of what little money they have in massive taxes on shit like cigarettesit costs fifteen fucking dollars for a pack of cigarettes in NYC or whatever while richfags practically pay no taxes through loopholes, they scam these poorfags out of up to thousands a year in lottery tickets, and now here sits this next wave of the future which is digital transactions in a globalized economic situation. Here is an actual chance to make some extra money especially before inflation really hits, because I'm not even sure on the legal mechanics behind them confiscating everybody's gold in the early 20th century after richfags fucked us all yet again. Anybody who bought into bitcoin earlier on made fuckloads of cash so now they don't have to be serfs basically owned by other men doing shit they hate because they have kids to feed or they need a roof over their head, and here you are bitching about it.

You know I actually contacted someone I knew back in the day to float something and first thing out of his mouth was almost verbatim some of the shit you said. Very first thing. It made me realize I turned my back on these tranny enablers long ago for a reason, and it wasn't just because I couldn't trust them on certain things. Their whole head was in a different, retarded direction, with no realistic approach to anything imo. They'll sit there and bitch about wealthy elites, and bitch about $15 minimum wage, and have no realistic approach to anything at all, say forgive all loans on their basket weaving with no idea how to pay for any of it, and cry like faggots about shit I wouldn't even expect them to be butthurt about like crypto and act like you're a bad person for investing in it while they all run up their credit cards and waste their money on stupid shit, and then get in the way of anyone actually trying to better themselves.

It makes me think of Ted K, and what he said, and the idea of some people just don't want anyone to get better. They're like bernds. They'd rather be toxic assholes with a crab bucket mentality because their whole problem isn't strategizing a better life, but bitching about theirs, being envious of others, and wanting to see anyone climbing out of it fail.

Maybe a lot of this isn't even directed at you certainly, and I'm being incredibly unfair to you ranting on an unrelated tangent, but yes I'm actually irritated now. You want crypto to end? Fine. Give me a better strategy for someone with some extra cash to make money in America or on the Wect and climb out of the hole of poverty or board up that pitfall they're standing on top as middleclass just one hospital visit away from becoming a poorfag, and I'd especially like you to actually suggest a strategy to fix this in the middle of a goddamn pandemic where everybody in the boardrooms made a fuckton of cash and the middleclass is going bankrupt left and right and a few people made a lot of money on shit like dogecoin this year rather than standing in a pantry breadline hoping to get some goddamn soup.

La Haine (1995)
Pleasantly surprised by this one, it's blatantly political, yet also just a great fucking movie in its own right. Nice cinematography, fast-paced editing, stylized yet also authentic acting.
Made me reminisce about hanging out with friends after you've missed the last train home.

Boogie Nights (1997)
First things first, I fucking hate Mark Wahlberg.
Some cool steadicam shots that make you feel like you're right in the middle of things (e.g. the opening in the nightclub), Julianne Moore was pretty good, but I couldn't really care for the story much, too formulaic. Also despite critical moments towards the porn industry, it still felt too whitewashed.
The ending shot is notoriously ebin, but I'm not gonna spoil it :D

Network (1976)
Some very energetic acting and memorable writing that shines in many monologues, but weirdly anti-climatic plot that just seems like it's there to tie together the many iconic speeches.
This one's probably the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuBe93FMiJc
Feels quite ahead of its time with its criticism of TV, considering e.g. Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death book came out only in 1985.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
The title alone should get an award, no surprise it's been parodied quite often.
Really liked it for awesome performance by Warren Oates (reminded me of Nic Cage a bit), naturalistic Mexican scenery with all the run-down shacks and seedy bars, quite unpredicatble genre-bending story.

>>54689
Glad you liked it!

>"Benjamins angel"

So ugly yet memorable, haha

>>54666

>it was very obvious in its symbolism and such at times, which I did not like

That's also how I felt about A Touch of Sin, by same director Jia Zhangke

>>54640

>spoiler

Definitely top contender for horniest movie moment

Hey britlad, not sure wherever you went but I just wanted to formally apologize to you about that and how you were right last year for telling me to invest. That is literally the fourth fucking time in my adult life I missed a rather major, epic chance to cash in because I was retarded and/or too poor to do anything about it. When you told me I should stop paying my rent and just invest you literally told me that right before this huge crypto bull run, judging by the charts. I mean yeah I eventually ran out of money anyways by new years. Yeah it was actually quite noice to push myself so far ahead on bills and rents that for once in my life I knew I could quit my job and live with myself playing vidya for months on end without any job and not even so much as get pestered with a bill in the mail. It was actually a noice feeling, but I should have listened to you. Had I actually taken that gamble back then I'd of had thousands and thousands of dollars extra now per just a few hundred which I could've easily written off as a loss, and I think a huge part of it is in being both stupid lazy. That, and because I pretty much just did not think it could justify sinking into investments then.

I would also just like to point out in the medium to short term I am absolutely expecting to be getting hosed, which is fine by me because I don't think anybody should ever actually invest money in anything particularly this volatile without mentally and emotionally having already written it off as a loss. I still consider my financial exposure well within acceptable limits, with say 5k junkcoins for $5-10 being at once the lowest possible financial exposure as well as the rather unlikley chance of it going up being the maximum returns for such a small bet.

I don't know much on investing however and I was actually disappointed to see how much airlines and cruises particularly Southwest Airlines being either up already or outright largely unaffected. It figures Southwest would be up.

Meanwhile I want to absolutely bet against myself in the longer term with quantum computers as well as genetechs if I can find the right IPOs. Apparently a megacorp holds a company literally called Genentech as the subsidiary and which now holds the 23andme databases you're a moron for paying someone to harvest your genetic data if you did that for frivolous reasons btw but which isn't what I want, and sadly it's likely going to be a bunch of chink companies to be most profitable because PRC corps don't give a shit about the rules and will just keep doing unethical or dangerous gene editing. The bigger problem is they lie, as a whole. I don't trust a word that comes out of a Chinese mouth. I will never speak the language so I can't even verify not being conned, but if I can find genetic engineering to buy into that will be the next tech rush. We are exiting the digital era and the future will not be nano, it will be genetic. The gene age will immediately follow the digital revolution and I want to cash in on that.

The other thing I'll say though is that the Quantum computing rush is likely to break crypto. Crypto mining and encryption, breaking anything without qubit level encrypts, I really don't doubt that it can just adapt with the times but I think a lot of coins won't which is what will cause even wilder speculation along with my expectation of crypto being stabilized as trash in the longest term as a result. Its primary beneficiaries are just going to be all the megacorps and Chinese government. I have no idea why morons want to do away with fiat, because crypto is more traceable than cash. When I pull fistfuls of fiat out of my account it simply disappears. Even if it's harder with Monero, you still leave a digital trail that can get used to track all your purchases. They're literally building the 666 New World Order they rant about.

But regardless, I should have invested. Even if I was risking losing lots of money, which I clearly am now and that is why I mostly picked up cheap shit and new shit even if BTC and ETH will crash and take down all the other cryptos with it. Yet even those shitcoins went up over the past year. Literally I could have made 10x my money back had I listened to you, Britain gov employee with the Titan card.

As for anything else I'm just starting to look into longer term stocks, which like my dad told me he got returns on stock from 20 years ago but I am not betting on America 20 years from how. 10 year stock sure but nothing 20-30 years unless that is also money I especially never expect to see a dime back. I'd much rather invest on European companies. Those do have a great future ahead of them. I suppose whatever the hell African Nasdaq/DOW would also be a good bet for something cheapest that will grow like crazy while being highly volatile, but I'd rather look at EU blue chips now to just hold value.

My thinking has continuously been evolving for months now and it has occurred to me I think the most efficient use of my time would be forking a blockchain somewhere to try and create my own crypto. My main problem is not even the ineptitude with code afaik but rather the legal exposure I could plausibly incur particularly given that it is now "regulated" and depending how I do it could be running afoul of the Securities Exchange Commission. I think that ironically the best bet for ass covering is fortuitously also the laziest, in that I could just release some shit into the wild and buy into what I made like crazy after announcing it rather than promising anything at all nor in having any actual stake in it whatsoever outside of being just another investor. I have already figured out exactly what to do and how I could do it minus the actual part about learning to use Putty or some shit like that, and also because ETH forks like what I was looking at wanted a facebook account. like seriously just what in the absolute fuck? Why. The fuck. Does anybody. Keep pushing crypto like it's some grand solution. So far as I have seen they are rapidly accelerating the New World Order cashless society dystopia they've been ranting at me about for years now. So far as I have seen immediately following the wild west crypto phase we'll have a total Chinese style control over everything linking to your social credit score. It's beyond retarded.

Like, I am pretty sure what I have in mind is actually workable, especially if I could set up some kind of cheapass home server on a Pi and just set up my own website. All of this takes way more technical acumen than I have but luckily at pre-birth character creation while I did use a bunch of retarded things as dump stats and took a few negative perks to free up more space I pretty much just rolled on a high /INT/ character under the assumption I could work my way out of any jam the negatives cause. I know I can do this if I overcome my own laziness and enforce the strictest of discipline to singlemindedly pursuing this project.

>but isn't this just some retarded get rich quick scheme where you'll only end up losing money

Plausibly yes that could happen however I am utterly convinced if I do it this way I don't even need to win the lottery, which even at a low yield of $400k would free up so much time and wealth I could start exponentially growing my money. I am still phrasing it like this because I know that there's really only a couple of avenues that could work and am amazed no one figured out this shortcut yet, so I want the idea to sound as absolutely retarded and crackpot as possible if or until I have executed it and then either I don't do it or people would eventually see why my way would work. I have had lots of other ideas that had nothing to do with crypto but this is by far the most efficient and high yield angle.

All that notwithstanding my bigger fear is securities commissions in case there is some obtuse federal regulatory law I might trip on. I know for a fact you can get arrested if it mimics securities instead of commodities, also that ICOs are regulated which in the case of ICOs I don't want that anyway because most people will think it's scams. Just a flat out commodity where I buy my own blockchain.