The good old days

[reptile12]

I get this 100%, but it makes me think.

Honestly, it's a good thing to narrow interests as long as you're enjoying what you're watching and only widen if you feel stagnation or boredom. It's literally impossible to even come close to watching everything out there, after all.

I hear a lot of younger people only watch "recap" channels where they explain shows or movies from start to finish so they don't have to watch them, that's the kind of stuff that blows that mind...like how short can our attention spans eventually get?

Maybe one day we can go into a trance-like state and upload and enjoy an entire movie, directly into our brains, while only 1 minute passes in the real world.

Honestly I don't think I could ever do that. I think the only way I can enjoy something is by going through the process of spending a lot of time thinking about whatever I'm watching or after I've watched it. Like the longer time I spend thinking, the more enjoyable it is, so time is an essential part of the enjoyment. That's the weird thing about this "the matrix" style idea of uploading information to the brain in an instant - can you get the same enjoyment if you don't spend a lot of time on it that feels like a long time?!

But tbh, it's getting harder to do that, as the brain does get bored of things or things feel stale, so I have had a down period for a couple months or so now where I have been way more passive but that's for another topic I guess. The brain is really like a bitch sometimes.

[marvingray]

I know what you mean about "thinking" I don't do it as much anymore but when I was younger I'd watch a movie and go to read reviews to see if I could find any further insights, things I missed, or shared thoughts on films. That's the best art, though, right? The stuff that keeps you thinking even days after you watched it.

[reptile12]

Yep totally.

[Triela]

Oh? Just cos it wasn't talked about, it doesn't mean transgenders weren't unhappy.
Didn't you have both tomboys and girly-boys

Strangely enough one of the tomboys at our school is now married with kids and very much a girly girl, for some, back then, it was just a phase they went through and didn't demand any special treatment, they had no problem being called she/her and didn't demand non gender specific pronouns to be used for them.

Ah. You say "for some", so I guess you don't think your ONE example definitively proves that all or even most transgenders are simply going "through a phase"?

It's a little ironic, you being English and all, that especially in England there were many well known LBGTers (Turing, George Sands, Wilde) who at that time simply gave in to social pressure, and didn't "demand" anything but 'got on with it'? #Selfpreservation
I'm nót saying at all that there are more LBGTers in England, I'm pretty sure it is the same ratio everywhere, but England being England has documented them the best of all.

We also had a boy in my class who went full blown nazi, and we also assumed it was just a phase, but last we heard he works for a trumpy organisation, making millions.

but, you identified as a boy or girl depending on what you were born with downstairs.

Luckily it never would have occurred to me to go to school, let alone asking for equality with the girls.
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Don't think I've ever agreed so much with Sully as with this.
I'm thinking this picture might very well be ... English. Imagine that.

Some wore mirrors in their shoes.

Good times. Compared to revenge porn, quite innocuous.

[Triela]

This is kind of off topic but going on the topic title... I can't get over how much better everything is nowadays. The 90s and 00s sucked, compared.

I agree, some of the stuff one finds on this "series of tubes" is at times .... simply breathtaking.

My FLM folder is 2.81 TB Would be very hard to do even in 2010.

out of curiosity, what percentage of that 2.81 TB have you actually watched?

even with all the personal crap I had recently.

Unless you meant personal crap which was CAUSED by the interwebs, I'm thinking that is an age-thing and not an era-thing?
Demented parents doesn't happen to a whole lot of 20-somethings

Maybe without quoting I could have chosen "Rants by cranky old people", maybe?

Yasssss! 2nd that.

I have information overload, without time or mental energy to watch even a fraction of what I download. So I give up the effort and rewatch TV shows I have seen over and over already.

Dang, mofo! I do that too! Let's file that under "Great minds think alike", shall we?

Everything you think is important now is actually utterly meaningless.

do NOT diss long-division, I still use that... do it in my head. This seems to help against dementia.

[reptile12]

My FLM folder is 2.81 TB Would be very hard to do even in 2010.

out of curiosity, what percentage of that 2.81 TB have you actually watched?

even with all the personal crap I had recently.

Unless you meant personal crap which was CAUSED by the interwebs, I am think that that is an age-thing and not an era-thing?
Demented parents doesn't happen to a whole lot of 20-somethings

I thought about making a topic about this because I haven't watched that many. Most is because the girl is cute. But the ones I do watch and like are movies like System Crasher and Begynnelsen pa en historie and so on which are actually interesting characters/stories. Would make a topic about the movies with the best stories/movies to actually watch all through.

#2 I had a health issue and the past 3 years have just been pure mayhem for a variety of reasons I'm only now coming to some sort of grapping with it, not worth getting into

[Triela]

System Crasher is a good example of the new era of, #MeToo inspired, OT movies which might seem OT but hardly are OT

[reptile12]

I dunno much about #MeToo but how is it inspired by it?

To me it was very sad story of a girl who was looking to be loved/understood and just couldn't fit in and so on.

[Triela]

I dunno much about #MeToo but how is it inspired by it?

To me it was very sad story of a girl who was looking to be loved/understood and just couldn't fit in and so on.

Oh! I was referring to the amount of skin shown, which is minimal compared to 80s and 90s movies with bath & shower scenes. Consider the thread of which this thread was spawned off, "Kundskæbens træ (1981)" for eksempel and the short "Badhuset (1989)" ...or the two nineties movies which, curiously enough perhaps, had the mothers of the young actresses also working with them on the movie: "Sanning eller Konsekvens (1997)" and "Det skaldede spøgelse (1992)"

[marvingray]

System Crasher is a good example of the new era of, #MeToo inspired, OT movies which might seem OT but hardly are OT

Oh, I saw this girl in a trailer for that other movie Dark Blue Girl Original title: Die Tochter, She's very uniquely pretty. Now I also see she was a movie with Tom Hanks. Talk about a sky rocketing career. I might have to check these out, sound interesting.