3 years is also how long it's been since Vern Troyer (RIP), Peter Mayhew (RIP), and Val Kilmer stopped posting, too. I miss all the casual celebrity redditors that would appear in different subs.
I'll have to check that out. I've always been a fan of his, but then I read a bunch of stuff about how he was allegedly a total shit during shooting of Island of Dr. Moreau, and lost some respect for him. But I have a feeling it may have been hearsay or exaggeration, and I'd like to give the guy another chance.
Thanks for the recommendation, it did increase my appreciation of him. I had no idea he was in such bad shape. It's remarkable how many great and memorable roles he had in a relatively short period. His Jim Morrison is one of the best embodiments of a real person that I've ever seen. I'm a bit annoyed about how dismissive he is of Top Secret, which is brilliant, and one of my favorites since childhood.
I have to wonder what amazing roles we are missing out on with him not having a career the breadth of a DeNiro or Pacino. That said, when I look over his IMDB page it's clear that he had a long stretch of not-so-great films, perhaps because of his reputation for being difficult? But he's so damn good I can't imagine he wouldn't have made a comeback and killed some old man roles. Maybe he still can.
The movie also made me re-evaluate my cynicism about today's "everbody films and photographs their whole lives" culture. Kilmer did it decades ago and look how meaningful it is to him and his family (and now to his fans). Maybe one day we'll all be grateful for all the seemingly meaningless life moments we film and post.
If anything, celebs were a lot more active during the Rampart era because Victoria was so good at setting up and hosting AMAs. When reddit fired her, the site lost a lot of credibility and accessibility for celebrities, since she used to set up everything and do all the work for them.
He used to be really active on the movies sub. He showed up for an AMA one day, and liked it so much that he just stuck around answering random questions people had about his movies and career.
Oh yeah man. Can’t vouch for how “old” Val acted but I ended up having a pretty good chat with “new” Val and the dude is ace.
Made some comment about how it was a travesty he didn’t get an Oscar nom from Tombstone. Out of the blue he commented on it like a few hours later and it ended up a discussion on how the movie was made. How he literally slept on Kurt’s couch every night to storyboard the next days scenes as the recently hired director didn’t have the chops on how to handle this kind of production with all these stars. He came across as seriously passionate, intelligent, and charismatic. Even through text on the screen. Have a lot of respect for him now.
They, Reddit, started becoming a no longer fringe free speech platform, but a control tool. CCP bought a stake about after a year after the snoop exodus through tencent, and this site is a free speech free zone ever since. This place used to be cool.
It's not so much the fact that casual racism(/sexism/homophobia/transphobia/endorsements of terrorism/etc) exists on reddit that bothers me. I mean, it does in a way, but I realize that it exists in the world and therefore it's going to exist on reddit as well; while I don't like it, it doesn't disturb me. It's that it gets so many upvotes! Being able to anonymously push posts up like that really brings out the asshole in people. Those comments wouldn't get near the amount of upvotes they do if which users upvoted it were publicly viewable.
Well, yeah when I say on this platform, I mean on the front page
It annoys me when somebody posts some random piece of nazi paraphernalia, and says something like my grandfather brought this back from the war etc. etc.
Like I dont care, I dont want to see a human lampshade either, there's more interesting content in the world than a nazi belt buckle or whatever
The thing I’ve always liked about Reddit is that across all 9 years I’ve been on here, it’s always been possible to find a good space somewhere. The default subs have been contentious and questionable for as long as I can remember but if you look hard enough, somewhere on here is a subreddit that will be what you need it to be
I keep thinking about leaving reddit and then I connect to something incredible that I never would found otherwise. Like I come on with a question about car maintenance and meet a retired mechanic with a lot of time on his hands who knows more about my specific model than anyone else on Earth and wants to walk me through diagnosis step-by-step and give me maintenance advice.
Absolutely. I’m not saying this place is paradise, it definitely has its problems, but the reason I keep coming back is because I find little slices of internet awesomeness in between all the bullshit
In many ways, the default subs have gotten better over the 10~ years I've been on reddit. For all the talk about how much racism, sexism, transphobia, etc gets spread here - and it does, don't get me wrong - it used to be so much worse. And you were afraid to call it out, because that would paint a target on your back and then you'd get downvoted/bullied for it, so it usually went almost entirely unchallenged. That culture has significantly lessened, to the point where I'm comfortable confronting those kinds of posts because the odds of facing significant retaliation are fairly low anymore.
There was a thing a while back where Snoop had some sort of beef with some SoundCloud rapper or whatever, and all the GenZ kids were like "how is the guy who bakes cookies gonna front" and all us Millenials realized that GenZ kids were too young to remember the time that Snoop straight up killed a guy.
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u/dankedanko 26d ago
I had to shorten his torso too