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Why did you dislike it?

If you studied it, you certainly have something to say, don’t you?

Sadface.jpg ☹️

Excerpt from @southsamurai@sh.itjust.works’s mentioned essay:

Hughes had this really distinct visual style. Bright, vibrant, and kinda larger than life. He used it to take a look at slices of life that were, in the breakfast club, angsty as fuck. Most scenes are vivid, and the drama plays out in that almost candy coated world.

Since the cast was perfect for their roles, something else Hughes was great at imo, they managed to each fulfill their stereotype in a way that pops out of the screen. The very artificialiality of the cinematography and the almost cheesy costuming allows you to skip past a lot of immersion barriers and just enjoy the characters and dialogue.

Hughes was really good at that balance. The Breakfast Club is the best example of his vision. And, because it influenced so many other filmmakers and the industry, it’s an important one to watch from that perspective, even if it isn’t really going to resonate as well with someone born much later. Not that it can’t, or won’t at all, just that the entirety of teen living shifted post internet, and much of the gen Y range falls into that era.

Thanks again. Hope it’s OK I reposted this, thought it needs to be preserved 😅

characters like Ally Sheedy’s role turned out to be the best people on the planet

Why? Sorry, still haven’t watched it, but sounds philosophical. How do we grow people like this?

EDIT: ooooh, just found out that’s where the quote comes from: “When you grow up, your heart dies.”

Sounds like Allison would be right up my alley. Looks like this is going onto my watch list.

Good point! The people at the top are usually boomers and the GenXers only enable them, without actually being in power. Thank you for reminding me.

That said, there’s more than one parliament in the world. You seem to be an US-American.

Ooooh, it has goth girls. Sounds like I have to watch it after all. Does she have big tiddies and dominates people or is she a goth girl in looks only?

Thank you! Seems like it’s more of a time capsule thing to see how people lived in the past than a movie to identify with, nowadays? Are the issues still relevant?

Maybe I can understand why GenX people act like they do. In my experience they’re more about conformity and uniformity than rebellion nowadays, but that may come with age, not some generational discriminator.

Sad 🙂 thought if you’d love that movie, you’d at least have a reason to watch it.

Hahaha, nice description. Haven’t seen either. Can’t really say I’m interested in troubles of teenagers from 1985 as the current teenagers have more interesting issues, like their world being destroyed by GenX ex-teens, who now make the rules.

GenY here. Never saw it. Why should I watch it?

Oddly specific 😆

What do you use as reverse proxy? I have been trying to get a safe reverse proxy going via traefik in --user mode but it’s been rough 😄

Edit: checked your community, Caddy… Never got warm with that one…

I had depression since I was 14 and started to take an upper in the mornings and a downer in the evenings by age 17. I also developed chronic neck pain due to scoliosis and took Tetrazepam as muscle relaxant. Later I switched to Diazepam because the French banned Tetrazepam, and that’s where the addiction started. Got up to around 20mg of Diazepam in addition to two beers or a glass of wine in the evenings, at least 2-3 times a week.

The diabolical nature of Benzos is that they have this cumulative effect due to very high plasma half-life of about 50 hours. So if you take 20mg on Monday, you’ll still have 10mg in your blood on Wednesday. If you add another 20mg, you’ll have 15mg in your blood on Friday. Take another 20 and you are up to 17.5mg on Sunday. This can continue until you’re dead half a year later by slowly overdosing. Couple it with other GABA-ergic substances like alcohol and you have a serious multi-drug addiction within a few weeks.

The withdrawals were hell. I stopped when I started studying in 2015 and noticed a pattern of me becoming more aggressive and harsh against my wife due to my on/off relationship with addiction. One time I could juuuust stop myself from hitting her in an argument, which lead to me breaking down crying my heart out and putting a gun to my head. I had become everything I always despised, and I realised I just started because I wanted to be productive in capitalism. The cold steel against my temple made me snap out of my constant cycle of self-hatred and self-harm.

This was the same time when I became a radical leftist accelerationist. If things are bad, they have to become worse to the point the system breaks down. I confessed my addiction to my wife and she helped me overcome it, with healthy hobbies like hiking and swimming.

I started to pull myself together, switched my field of study and finally got a Bachelor’s in 2021. Now I’m completely drug-free most of the time. Had a few relapses and still have Benzos at home as they’re the only pills which help me sleep when the nerve damage and neck pain gets to me. I only take them in emergencies now and only ever keep 4 tablets at home, the others are in a bank drawer.

Nowadays I’m pretty successful job-wise, I’m 35 and in the top 10% earners in my country. I made lots of friends since 2015 and have no fear of dying alone. I work with kids and teach them programming and project management sometimes. Since 2022 I even go on a long vacation every year.

Life is good now. I feel like I have already been at my lowest point and I’ll never ever go back there again.

Please tell!

Drug addiction. Got me neuropathies. Fuck drugs. I tell all kids I mentor.

An engineer.

I became an electrical engineer 🫣

Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?

but without the command

Yeah, but that’s an easy one to parse, if you really need it.

I’m pretty sure if you use OnCalendar it will still be there after a reboot. Let me check.

EDIT: oh damn!! It doesn’t persist on reboots. Sorry for this oversight.