prunerye

Ultra-libertarian Jingoist? I'm as confused by that combination of words as I am the flags on the truck.

To be fair, 35 is middle aged in my economic class. Just not hers.

The problem on Lemmy is that this gets combined with overgeneralized binary thinking, and all loosely "conservative" people get strawmanned as the intolerant outgroup, which, when this happens, actually does make you the guilty party.

Minecraft. It desperately needs some QoL improvements for it to be anything but tedious.

I haven't updated my Arch install for almost 2 months. Things are going to be... seemless, probably. I do this all the time. It never breaks.

Give me an archive link and I'll click it every time. Otherwise, almost never.

I was wrong; Walter left Gretchen! I don't remember any flashbacks explicitly about his departure; I think this scene is the best we get and we have to extrapolate from there. Maybe I'll have to binge the series again just to be sure.

I'll add one more piece of evidence: "All the things I did, you need to understand.... I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And... I was alive". I don't know if Walter is thinking as far back as episode 1 when he says this, but I'm willing to bet Skyler would understand it that way.

I should also admit my bias; having dealt with in-laws with severe cluster B personality disorders, I'm going to have a hard time feeling any pity for a narcissist. Even the ones that seek psychological help have statistically bad outcomes. Mind you, regarding Walter White and narcissism, I'm talking about actual NPD, which typically reveals itself at the onset of adulthood, not later in life. Lousy circumstances can certainly embitter a narcissist, and narcissists do often get worse with age, but I don't know of any real-world pathway for a normal person in Walter's position to become a narcissist. As for why this necessarily makes him indecent, I'd recommend lurking on r/RaisedbyNarcissists.

I think "he held himself accountable for his choices" might actually be our point of contention, but I have to admit I don't really know what that means to you. I never use the phrase. Walter was always accountable to himself; that was kinda the problem. Maybe having multiple jobs is evidence that he was accountable to his family, but we're also talking about a man motivated by the admiration of others, so the benefit to his family could've just been a byproduct.

Look at the way the light reflects on the far right between the sink and the mirror. I think that's tile.

Edit: Or the top of the lights, the underside of the top square.

I can't tell if the mirror is flush with the tile or if it was just outlined in grout, but either way, this contractor cares about the details. I would've just slapped the mirror on top.

Edit: Someone help me out. Is that sink really small, or are the tiles on the top sides of the sink extra long as part of the illusion? Are the white tiles on the left wall square?

I hate that there's no showerhead though.

Huh, I didn't get that at all when I last watched the show. I see him as a static character. Even back as early as Gray Matter, I thought the writers strongly implied that Walter's memories of getting screwed were highly unreliable, twisted by his own pride and his feelings of rejection by Gretchen. Now he's owed something. I see the root evil as Walter's narcissism, not the drugs, and I have an easier time forgiving him for the drugs and murder than I do his willful ignorance. The former were only in service to the latter. Loving father and husband? I can't agree. I think he became a drug kingpin only because opportunity and circumstance changed around him.

Wait, most people agree that Walter starts off as a decent man?