I ended up watching “A Rainy Day In New York” and not a day has gone by that I haven’t spent some time thinking about how absolutely awful a movie it was.
I’ve seen plenty of bad and dumb movies as well as movies people with good taste love that do nothing for me. This movie is in a category of its own. Hauntingly bad.
It’s like a primitive AI machine was asked to make an un-self-aware parody of a Woody Allen film.
And there’s poker in it, but not even in the straight flush over full house over nut flush way. The college-age main character makes like 20 grand in a poker game, effortlessly, but can’t enjoy it because he’s too busy being world-weary over only ever wanting to hang out in quiet NYC jazz bars.
I don’t think Apple considers me a person since I don’t have iTunes or Apple Music. A while back I had to update the information on an expired card to pay for a year of Apple TV+. This was ridiculously difficult to do without ITunes, like more than 90 minutes on the phone getting transferred from person to person who all opened with, “OK, so first open iTunes,” followed by an increasingly frustrated me explaining how I don’t have it and don’t want it, just let me tell you the new fucking expiration date on my card.
Now I get a notice that the cost for a year of Apple TV+ is going from $69.99 to $99.99, and to learn more about my subscription it gives me a link. If I try to open it on my phone it tells me I need to install Apple Music and provides a link to do that. If I try to open it on my laptop it tells me I have to have iTunes and gives a link to download that. This is just to review my Apple TV+ subscription, what the fuck does Apple Music or iTunes have to do with that? Why do I have to download unrelated software to view my Apple TV+ subscription details? Not like I’d do anything about it, but this doesn’t strike me as legal. I blame Severance, the only thing really keeping me around.
I just realized Chase started charging me a monthly fee on checking a year ago. Meanwhile here I am clipping coupons for strawberries and shit. I want to kick something.
Whenever I use YT, 95% of the time it’s exclusively videos of channels I’m already subbed to. This past week someone sends me a link with girls in bikinis, I watch some of it, and for the past 2 weeks my recommended videos when I go to the homepage have been almost all thirst trap videos. I haven’t clicked on a single one for 2 weeks and am still getting them. I’m actually missing a couple vids from my subs b/c they’re now buried under this garbage.
I’d imagine this is how it is with red pill and far right stuff. I guess those just drive engagement way more than anything else, but man these algorithms are really F’d up.
I guess it somehow showed up in my feed or something but I could not keep away from “Ben Shapiro Debates Joe Rogan on Gay Marriage” years ago.
(and it didn’t disappoint. At risk of sounding homophobic nobody who isn’t desperate to believe they made the correct choice to marry a woman makes Ben’s arguments.)
I remember every recommendation I was getting for weeks was random bottom of the barrel YouTube losers explaining the most recent alt-right topic of the day. I did watch a few but had to be nowhere near the rate at which I watch recommended videos that actually interest me.
Yah, I try to limit my YT time to about 30 min. a day. Get in, watch what I want, get out. Don’t get sucked down the endless rabbit hole of clicking thru stuff, esp. YT shorts (also possible with IG and other social media apps).
I guess the people that consume the alt-right and red pill vids are more likely to spend hours and hours each day consuming that content. The algo makes the decision to sacrifice the current stuff you’ve shown interest in for the small possibility you’ll get hooked on the other crap.
Yeah, I was scrolling through golf YT shorts and one of them ended up being Grace Charis who is the answer to the question “What would a sentient pair of breasts look like if they knew how to golf” and now the algorithm is like “oh, you like good looking women who can also golf? Check out this compilation of who can make birdy on a par 5 in the shortest skirt”
The shitty thing is a lot of these women are really good at the game. I don’t need to also stare at their ass while they nail down a 25 foot putt to save par to be entertained.
To me, Facebook is the weirdest (and yeah, I have similar experiences on YouTube). Most of my feed is non-friend posts, the “suggested for you” shit. I must have clicked one engagement bait post about a celebrity once and now all I get are posts from random pages showing what celebs looked like “then and now” or when it’s some celebrity’s birthday. Lots of them are AI or extremely photoshopped to make the celebs’ look fake or draw. Lots are creeper shots of women, some are straight-up fake.
Lately, my Twitter “for you” feed has been full of engagement bait accounts. Not long ago, it was mostly pretty solid, like stuff that people I follow liked. Now most posts have 4 million views and are of the “I think of this video at least once a week” variety.
Lol, I have never heard of this person but after looking her up kudos to her for establish a brand as “sexy golf girl”. That’s some smart algo hacking, “boobs” + “golf” will get to like 98% of straight men. Now I’m worried that maybe I’m not straight enough.
