I don't care what he thinks about video games, Roger Ebert had the ultimate redpill on nerd culture as a whole.
This basically describes every fandom on earth, and once you see it, you can never un-see it.
What’s so frustrating about the decline in sartorial standards in America is that if you go on a road trip w/ bro, the number of places you can actually wear sport coats without being Deliveranced is vanishingly small
Lots of incredible things here but it’s so cool that he doesn’t say the words “Hershey bar” til 1:14 in and it’s at the most lurid and depressing part of the story. Probably the best thing ever written for tv.
All self-improvement advice can be summed up simply:
Stop letting life just happen to you.
"I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me."
-Frank Cosello, "The Departed
everyone should go out an watch Project Hail Mary - not only is it a good movie.
but the lesson that it subtly imparts is immensely powerful
Despite all odds, it is good to have hope and optimism. Despite fear you can still be brave.
God rewards the fools who wont quit. everybody wants ten ideas, twenty books, a framework, a system, a community, a mentor. but nobody wants to sit with one dumb little thought for ten years until it becomes bone. that is the whole test of a man. not brilliance, stamina
life is “short” because we forget most of what we do
if you have only a few good memories, time will seem to fly from age 20 to 60
if every day is an adventure, your life will not only feel more full, but the stories you create will outlive you for decades.
just smile.
smile when everything's going down the drain.
smile when God gifts you success.
smile when people go.
smile at strangers.
smile at the sun.
smile in arguments.
having a default grin just makes everything better.