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Sorry, didn't see this until now. Are you looking for touristy things to do, good places to eat and drink and/or do you know where you will be staying? I do a little work remotely and am trying to figure out what to do next since my divorce. Send me a private message and I can recommend a plethora of things.

Women led films outside of Korean, kid and/or mega blockbuster films aren't seen as appealing here. Same goes for films with black leads, with the exception obviously being Black Panther. Widows is both of those things.

I've been psyched for Widows since I saw the trailer a month or so back, I really hope it comes to Thailand, but due to the cast and the director there is a good chance it won't (I don't think we even got Ocean's 8 over here).

My favourite was the section with Zoe Kazan. I wonder if we have anyone that can comment on the representation of Native Americans and the scalping stuff - I was under the impression that this practice was more of a white person thing?

So, coming back to this after 2 years feels appropriate. I've been working on a piece called 'Dance of the Loot Goblin' which is about a video games tournament and also 'In my head I was degrading' which I won't say too much but I need to do a bunch of work around understanding Buddhism's perspective on the afterlife and how scholars might feel about the aftelife and afterdeath. I know this thread died but I was really enjoying it.

I now feel bad, because I had completely forgotten about the son.

I guess I am one of the few people that actually liked Season 2. Colin Farrel is great in it, I actually think he is great in most things he does but he had that Leonardo Di Caprio period where he was too much of a heart throb for people's tastes. Sure, it isn't the tour de force of Season 1 but I found the interplay between the four main characters really compelling, even if Taylor Kitsch remains flat as always, it actually works for him. I know the idle thumbs crew did not like that shoot out, but the brutality of it left me breathless as this wild explosion in the middle of a very slow build up. Even Vince Vaughn in the desert was really cool. Also, I am a huge Masherhala Ali fan, it has been a delight watching the slight awkward stereotype in Predators blossom through shows like 3800 and House of Cards.

I wanted to find a Bruce Willis in Looper gif as a response, but Cleinhun was much nicer about it.

I recently finished My Memories of Us. It is an interesting story around the Warsaw Uprising - the story beats are the best parts and I help that the collectibles encourage people to research it more. Most people see Poland as the country that housed the concentration camps and not really much else. I got a review of it on Gamecritics https://gamecritics.com/aj-small/my-memory-of-us-review/

I've been here for 14 years also, and stuck with it even when it went quiet last time. Like an old man, sitting on his porch, watching a Tornado, I will remain until the (hopefully not) bitter end. Again, these have been informative forums for me, I can see a different person having gone to Neo Gaf or somewhere else and ended up a more terrible person than I am now. I value that my effusive post about Dan Ryckert turned into a long thread about why Dan Ryckert is terrible as it helped me re-evaluate a lot of thoughts and grow quite a bit (hopefully at a more accelerated level than Dan). I remember the first time I drunk posted on here and used a whole string of expletives and someone calmly posted 'Dude, no, don't do that', and I don't think I ever did again. And I remember being surprised when I decided to load up the second episode of the Idle Thumbs podcast a week after it had been released and found myself laughing out loud.

Yeah, I've been here for a couple of years - but there are some old timers who have been here for two of the coups that reinstated the monarch as the lead figure head of the country.

In a related note, this just got posted a few days ago: You can go to jail for 15 years for this kind of stuff in Thailand

My interest had been waning on The Good Place Season 3, it didn't seem to have the same punch as the first two seasons (it was a 7/10 versus the first two seasons being 9/10) but that last episode has got me back on board and retroactively made the setup of the first 4 episodes more interesting. I am impressed over and over again by the writing and vision of this show.

I've been waiting for this game to come to a platform I could play it on for ten years... I tried it and did not like it at all. I was very saddened by that.

I don't even like animals all that much (very allergic) but those are good cat pictures

I keep trying to arrange Co-Op to play through Sniper Elite 4 as, for me, that is the way I love to play them.

If you didn't like Majin, you aren't going to like their games. Majin probably has the most polish. Knights Contract is good but punishing. The first boss in particular is pretty rough.

Yeah, thanks, I would say it was a shame that we broke up but the last 2 years have buried anything good that was in the relationship into the dirt.

Yeah, definitely, they have similar energetic pacing.

Yeah, there was no self-reflection after her dark periods. It was just like I was supposed to muster on and leave it in the past even though she would often say extremely hurtful things. By contrast if I said anything that upset her, she would wait months and then bring it up as a justification for her anger. For real, when we were in Japan at Christmas, after she had yelled at me in the middle of an airport because I asked a baggage handler to confirm something, and I was like 'hey, I was trying to help could you not shout at me?', she turned around and told me that on the 12th of May (7 months previously) while she was having an anxiety attack, I had told her over facebook that I didn't give a shit about her anxiety and she should stop talking to me about it. I was floored that I would say something so shitty, like she convinced me while I was drunk that I wrote that. So I started to apologise, I was just kind destroyed that I was that horrible to her. The next day when I sobered up I went and checked facebook and I found the conversation: she was in the middle of getting angry about her boss for the third time that month, to which I always suggested she go talk to him and set up some boundaries and she always hand waved it away. But this time I didn't, I wrote 'This isn't about your boss, this happens all the time, it is you, I don't have anymore advice to give, maybe you should talk to a friend about this, or someone you respect the opinion of?' It was a bad response borne of frustration of having the same conversation for 7 years about different bosses, at different jobs. But the extrapolation on her part felt out of proportion with what was said and she just didn't even mention how upset she was until 7 months later. And then there was this time she came home super drunk, incoherent to the point she kept talking to me like I was an employee for the company that she worked at, I was laughing at first because it was genuinely funny, then she got aggressive and started screaming at me that she loved me, but also fucking hated me, as she got more angry and started saying things like 'You come into my house and disrespect me' (we shared an apartment with another person at the time) I decided to just go for a walk. When I came back she had dead bolted the door and was shouting at our bewildered landlady/housemate (who had been hiding in her room since the shouting started) and wouldn't let me back in. So, I had to walk to a Hostel at midnight and rent a dorm bed until she sobered up. The reason for her anger? A week before hand she had told me about this excellent customer service she gave where she had waived the delivery costs for them, and I said that it sounded like credit card fraud. She got angry with me for suggesting that. The day she got drunk was when she had found out that it had, in fact, been credit card fraud. So, it was my fault...? These sorts of things should be warning signs, giant klaxon alerts, but this didn't happen over night and crept up very slowly, at first it was just silent treatment for days on end, punctuated by verbal fights when I got sick of being put in the penalty box, or I would say/do something and she would give me a look, and I'd know I was in trouble, we'd hash it out, and then she would do something very deliberate that felt like I was being punished, and then it just sort of became the new normal... Weird relationship.

Hey, yeah, sorry for this big old brain dump, it was midnight and I had had it rolling around in my head for a few days. Thanks for the kind words Jenn, I am moving out in a month, we'll arrange a divorce and then she is more or less written out of my life at that point. Bangkok is a big city so we aren't likely to bump into each other very often. I've got friends here too so I am not any more isolated than I was previously. And yeah Roderick - that is what I was saying. I am not sure that our relationship was like this all the time but the last 2 years have been really rough.

So, I mentioned a friend with a real drink and drug problem a while back and how I was trying to talk to him and kind of reach him. Well, after he finally admitted what he was doing there was this moment of calm. Then after that, it got really interesting in a bad way. It became clearer that there was this vulnerability he now felt around me, and he kind of resented me for it. He started lashing out in really unnecessary ways and find a means to shout at me over minor things. Each time he would apologise about it and then, without any kind of introspection, do it again not long after. I confronted him about it and he acted like I was crazy and that the pattern of abuse, apology and then acting like nothing had happened was nonsensical. After the this happened a number of times I just ended it. He then started harrassing me, and some of our other friends, cussing me out and generally being pretty awful, until I caved and gave him what he wanted which was to talk to him. He immediately changed tact and was conciliatory, saying that he had missed me (even though he had been messaging me to tell me I was a cunt about 30 minutes previously) and all that. So, I just told him to not try and contact me anymore - he became threatening and then when I cut through that and told him I wasn't scared of him, he went back to sort of grovelling. He kept repeating that he didn't understand why I thought this was a big deal, and I kept explaining why (that he was becoming abusive and I wasn't going to put up with it) and he dimissed it. So, he was out of my life. The problem is that I started to recognise the same patterns in my partner, she would lash out, scream and hurl abuse, and then act like nothing had happened the next day, only to get extremely aggressive if I brought it up and tried to explain my perspective. Also, when I expressed unhappiness in our relationship, she took offense to it, mainly about her anxiety and PTSD, she would throw it back at me as if it was my fault. Her explanations were that I needed to not trigger her anxiety (that resulted in her screaming at me), while also not taking any responsibility for them. She went to a therapist for 3 sessions and then quit - she told me her therapist said that the fault of everything was our relationship, despite her having suffered from anxiety for as long as I have known her. I looked up stuff online about dealing with anxiety but it didn't seem to, according to her, apply to her. I asked that she link me relevant stuff, she sent me one webcomic and then nothing else. We were going to go to couple's therapy but I came to a realisation that this just wasn't working, her anxiety just seemed to be smokescreen to leave me constantly backpeddling and never knowing exactly where I stood. By no means was I saint, I would also have moments where I would get frustrated and lash out, or instigate arguments over stuff, sometimes petty stuff but I always felt like I was fairly quick to admit my fault. With her sometimes she would go two weeks without saying anything to me. Anyway, it is over, after almost 9 years of a relationship and 4 years of marriage and there is a sense of liberation, and relief, with very little remorse. I went on a Tinder date and had a laugh with someone - things are better. Hopefully they stay that way.

You should try out their other game Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom and even Knights Contract

I finally made an attempt at the General Tao Tofu and I think for a first attempt it was a reasonable success. I didn't have Hoisin so I used a sweet, syrupy Teriyaki instead, and I replaced the Maple Syrup with Honey. Oh yeah, and I dumped some pepper in there instead of Broccoli because broccoli is pricey in Thailand right now. I omitted the chillis because my partner can't handle them at all. I think the main problem is that I over did it with the water and the sauce at the end failed to get thicker. This was remedied the next day when it had been sat in a tupperware. Will try it again as it was still a pretty big success.

I actually don't like Duck Soup at all. Animal Crackers is a better earlier version of the Marx Brothers stuff, and honestly when they sold out and became a musical type thing Night at the Opera and Day at the Races are pretty great (from what I remember I haven't watched them in 20 years). As for the appeal, it is hard not to appreciate Groucho Marx's one-liners at that time - there was something barbed but also disorientating about them. I still paraphrase Cheeko's line from NatO 'I'd give you my seat but I'm sitting in it' and some of the comedy sketches they did have been infinitely immitated. Not sure how I would feel about them now, much like some of Peter Sellers's output but I feel they have a place in the pantheon of comedy because of what came after them. For me, Duck Soup is not the best of the lot and I guess that is where I differ from most people. I don't think I've sat all the way through it.