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makeshiftreaper

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  • What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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  • I remember it being a rat unless we're discussing different parts but that's just the reality of what you were able to get away with in 2000s media. The movie would have been NC-17 if all of the violence from the book made it in

  • What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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  • I mean, no? It would defeat the point of the story. The monoculture of white men destroying everything around them was what Brett Easton Ellis was talking about and making clowns would have made that a different story

  • Is the whole DC "cleanup" pointless?

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  • It's not pointless, it has a very clear point: centralize the police in the single territory free from the federal/state devide, where the entirety of the government that controls the country functions, and place it under the direct control of an autocratic ruler who has previously used control of this territory to avoid consequences for his crimes

    The primary difference is he's doing it in year 1 in preparation for what he's about to do instead of retroactively in the last 20 days to try to save his ass. If that doesn't scare the shit of of you then it should

  • What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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  • If anything he made Chani less of rug to be walked all over and gave her a personality outside of "wife to the messiah". If you were going to bitch about anyone in the Dune movies I'd think it'd be The Lady Jessica because she is an entirely different character in the movies. I don't think that's a criticism because she serves the plot well, but that one is a more grounded argument

  • What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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  • I'm a little surprised at that response because American Psycho is one of the most true to the source material movies I've ever seen. Whole passages were lifted and turned directly into dialog. Sure all of those white men were supposed to be corporate clones in the books but in a movie characters have to be visually distinct that's just the nature of the mediums

  • anyone got sausage (or other protein) ideas for a cavatappi ala vodka

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  • It'd be more helpful if OP was responding but I'd have to imagine if they object to the quality of US sausages then they'd similarly object to US ground pork for the same reason

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    Who needs a seatbelt anyway...

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  • I think the US infrastructure leads to a confirmation bias. There probably aren't that many people who are actually "bad" drivers out there. The majority of people aren't getting tickets, damaging their car, or hurting people most of the time when they drive. Our culture being so car centric however means that the actually bad drivers don't have a choice but to be on the road. Bad driving also calls a lot of attention to itself because it's dangerous. So when you drive you frequently see bad driving when realistically most people are just fine drivers, leading to you thinking more people are bad, and thus you must be better

    That and American exceptionalism probably

  • anyone got sausage (or other protein) ideas for a cavatappi ala vodka

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  • I'm at a little bit of a loss if you want something easy, but also high quality. You can always go to the butcher counter or butcher shop and get their italian sausage, it usually has less fillers and preservatives than the mass market tube stuff. You can go vegetarian and fry up some tofu cubes in olive oil, oregono, parsley, thyme, garlic and maybe a little panko for a crunch. You could also do some large mushroom like a portebella and score it. Then more olive oil and salt. You might be able to find decent quality frozen meatballs in the freezer section or at a local farmers market. I suppose seafood wise shrimp or clams could work too here

  • Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

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  • I blame Don Quixote personally

  • TIL Germany has trees you can dance in.

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  • In America we have trees you can drive through:

  • Cinema fall is comming

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  • Spider-Mans. Spider-Man is a proper noun so you generally don't change it and just as pluralization to the end

  • 2025-08-16

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  • AAA Delivery is accurate in this case!

  • Roadkill cuisine

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  • I have some hick cousins in their fuck-off huge trucks with special "deer catcher" guards that swerve into deer because it doesn't count towards their total limit for the year, doesn't really hurt their car (which is insane for other reasons), and if you take it immediately it's really not that different than hunting. Still, it's not exactly an appetizing concept

  • Putin flight to Alaska according to flat Earth map

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  • The problem would be that they've heard all of the common arguments against and probably be prepared for them. I would point out that this map has a pretty severe northern "hemisphere" bias that would make the age of exploration confusing. But I wouldn't be surprised to hear them say history is made up too

  • Putin flight to Alaska according to flat Earth map

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    1. Flat earthers are already way out there conspiracy theorists and if you're telling them that two of the most powerful men in the world chose their meeting location in an inconvenient place and way to reinforce round earth propaganda they will absolutely believe it
    2. This is a modern "flat earth map" which shows the travel would be pretty similar to round earth:

  • The $10,000 job search: why people are paying a small fortune to find work

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  • As someone working corporate when I'm on the job hunt I do spend a little money. LinkedIn Premium definitely gets more recruiters to message me, presumably because it pushes my profile in front of them. I have an AI tool that I load my resume into and it fills out applications for me. According to its stats I've saved over an hour of time using it which is a believable number to me and the sanity it saves is huge too. I haven't used the AI bulk application services because I want to consciously know what jobs I'm applying for. So in total job hunting costs me about $50/month and I often use the time to pick up a new certification. So in total I probably spend $750 between jobs

    Luckily the vast majority of my interviews are virtual so I don't have to drive all over the city paying for gas or that would add to it

  • TIL about the Concorde aircraft that flew at twice the speed of sound, and thad passenger flights from NY to London in three hours (versus 7 hours)

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  • If you're paying that much to fly you're not waiting in regular security

  • How would you react if someone said they had a dream of you in it?

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  • In her defense if you'd rather be porking that ball of anxiety who causes every man in her orbit to experience full on ego collapse than your wife, she has every right to divorce you. And Jeph can pay her legal fees, god knows he has the patreon money for it

  • AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!!

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  • I never said useless. Mustard Gas is really useful, State Sponsored propaganda is useful. Usefulness does not equate to goodness as much as capitalist will try to convince you otherwise