Hemingways_Shotgun

It makes me feel old to admit it’s retro, but Gran Turismo on Playstation.

Portugal - Bacalhau á Gomes de Sá Salted Cod Cassarole

Absolutely my favourite meal ever.

Bowtie pasta.

It’s alphaghetti for yuppies.

Tsunami

Gen X - Dazed and Confused

I’ll give you a hint. It starts with an “e” and ends with “mbezzlement”

His entire plan is to cut as much as he can and funnel it back to himself and his billionaire friends. He’s not looking to cut waste, he’s looking to redirect it.

Define “outdated”.

My main workstation desktop that I use for most of my heavy lifting was bought in 2016. In the years since, however, it’s been maxed out on the RAM that the motherboard can support, the ssds, the video cards, etc… So while it’s now hit that bottleneck of “can’t upgrade anymore because it’s at the limit of what the motherboard itself can handle”, I don’t consider it outdated because it can still comfortably do what I want it to do.

A close second would by my Lumix G7 mirrorless camera. Old, yes. But still works perfectly fine. Records in 4K and still produces a better result than smartphone cameras because it uses actual proper lenses rather than digital software trickery. With mirrorless and DSLRs, the lenses are far more important than the frame (to a certain extent), so I don’t see a need to upgrade that anytime soon.

I think (my own personal opinion) is that Big Trouble in Little China did something so crazy and wacky that no one actually recognised it at the time.

If you look at the film from a certain perspective, Jack Burton was the sidekick, and Wang was the main character. And they just filmed it from the perspective of the sidekick who thinks he’s the main character, which is a conceit I’ve always adored.

Josie and the Pussycats.

Rated 5.7 by people who had no clue what it was saying at the time. I feel like if it was released in today’s pop culture environment it would fare far far better.

It’s far more satirical, clever and funny than an Archie adjacent bubblegum pop movie has any right to be.

Writing: Specifically fiction writing in terms of structure, POV, plotting, etc…

History: Especially early societies and how much everything really stays the same, despite the advance of technology. No matter where or when you go, humans are gonna human.

Not really. I find that most “pop culture” still gets talked about, it just doesn’t get pushed into everyone’s face by an algorithm.

If I drift away from my subscribed feed and look at the all feed, it doesn’t take long for something or another about pop culture to pop up. And then if I’m interested, I go to the particular community that’s talking about it and subscribe. The more I do that, the more interests start to show up in my subscribed feed.

For the most part, these communities all exist, there’s just no algorithm saying “hey…you’ll probably like this”. And so you have to find them yourself.

Stop all this Prime Directive nonsense.

There’s no such thing as a culture’s “natural progress” because there’s no such thing as “fate”. We live or die or change or stagnate based on random events and there’s no saying that one specific course of events is the correct one.

I can’t even remember what my phone was like before Niagara, to be honest. It’s simply become the correct way to use a phone (to me).

Enter a homeless shelter each morning. Do my thing. Walk out a richer man than I was when I walked in.

Not all gain is monetary