I’m not a vape user, but the model is the kind of thing that just makes me so angry.

In a world that makes sense:

• small, mostly metal vape chassis
• rechargeable, replaceable battery
• built-in glass reservoir with charging valve
• vape juice sold in medium to large recyclable cans with standard interface to the charging valve

In a world where Profit is God (the real world):

• disposable chassis
• disposable battery
• if it’s refillable at all, it’s via non-recyclable, mixed material, mostly plastic, proprietary cartridges and you can save 5% if you subscribe online for refills, 10% if you pay yearly, $5 credit if you refer a friend on social media using hashtag #smoovape
• probably gives you turbo cancer because the juice is made in a repurposed Freon plant that was inadequately converted and they just don’t answer the phone when the FDA or EPA call

I long for the halcyon days of old, back when we had candidates that were perfect in every way. 🙄

Yes, but Republicans do what they want with no consequences, so check and mate.

Fun fact: Zero Hour is so unintentionally funny they lifted a lot of it verbatim and Airplane! is technically a remake. They had to buy the rights.

Interesting suggestions. They’re not what I typically consider in this particular style of parody movies because they’re a lot less slapstick and absurd but instead are very targeted mockeries of a single concept or style. Worth watching for sure, but I know they wouldn’t scratch the same itch for me.

Couldn’t remember it well enough but I’d let it slide on the list based on what I do recall.

Omitted because I haven’t seen it, not explicitly as a snub.

I actually haven’t seen it. Didn’t care much for the Wayans brothers’ humor, so I sat that out until Zucker took over.

Blatant, direct hypocrisy and whitewashing of his own history isn’t a legitimate reason to hate someone who’s running a massive disinformation campaign to get a fascist elected? Your standards are weird.

That’s the point. It’s why the election is being attacked exactly the way it is. You can’t un-burn a ballot, you can’t un-certify an election. No matter how egregious and illegal the action, if it gets them across the finish line, it sticks.

Still a thing? Not really. But as mentioned, there was definitely a lot worth seeing after Airplane!

Great:

• Police Squad! (TV)
• Naked Gun x3
• Hot Shots! x2
• Spaceballs!
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights
• Young Frankenstein
• Top Secret!
• Scary Movie 3/4
• Airplane!
• Kentucky Fried Movie

Worth watching:

• Jane Austen’s Mafia!
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It
• Angie Tribeca (TV)
• High School High
• Not Another Teen Movie
• Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in The Hood
• Scary Movie 1
• Wrongfully Accused
• Repossessed
• Spy Hard (edit)

Garbage Tier:

• Anything ending with “Movie” that hasn’t been listed yet
• Anything with Leslie Nielsen that hasn’t been listed yet

I loved 3, liked 4, and was really disappointed by 1. Skipped 2 and anything after 4.

Turns out, after 2, the Wayans brothers stepped away and David Zucker directed with Pat Proft co-writing, which gave it a lot of DNA from the glory days of Naked Gun and Hot Shots!

Instead of watching whatever the hell this ends up being, just read this ancient and hilarious screenshot Let’s Play. I guarantee it’s more entertaining, especially if you remember early 2000’s internet, before it turned into <gestures at everything>.

https://lparchive.org/Oregon-Trail-(by-Chewbot)/

And then they stopped lying, about one specific thing, for about a minute, before resuming the full throttle bullshit bus.

Once we look into it, we’ll collect evidence, make a case, charge them, it’ll attempt go to trial, they’ll settle, and they’ll pay $20,000 in fines in 2034 if we still have a functioning justice system at that time.

Bias is unavoidable.

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/washington-post-jeff-bezos.php/

https://nypost.com/2024/10/28/media/washington-post-owner-jeff-bezos-wants-conservative-writers/

https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/washington-post-bezos-amazon.php

https://front-sci.com/journal/article?doi=10.32629/memf.v1i3.198

It’s not just about negative articles though - it’s also what isn’t published. Just because they’re not publishing two puff pieces for every critical one doesn’t mean they’re not showing bias.

I’m not trying to start a fight about it though. Bezos is a piece of shit regardless of WaPo, and now he definitely is one because of it too.

I guess there’s been some loosening, but a few years back I remember it feeling pretty skewed. I can’t read that first article and that second one is from just a couple months ago.

You’re right that it’s not a blanket ban on criticism, but even if there’s not a strict interference, there’s an implicit bias against biting the hand that feeds you unless there’s a very structured support system to prevent it.

How many WaPo articles can you find that are critical of Amazon, Bezos, or rampant capitalism in general?

It’s like Max Payne 1, only better in every conceivable way. It’s the perfect sequel.

Edit: I envy you getting to experience it for the first time!