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    “How I spend my leisure time is superior to how you spend your leisure time.”

    As though trash books and thought-provoking television don’t exist.

    Edit: oh wait… I see the actual joke. Thought-provoking television indeed.

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        My original point is that either can engage the imagination, but that point is overshadowed by the jar.

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        Both kinda do though because at first i couldn’t imagine what the boy is watching, but after i saw that video for myself not a day goes by without imagining it.

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          Well that’s definitely a whole other level to the image. Kinda gross, kinda inspiring. I think I hate-love it now.

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    Tv can lead to imagination and books can leave no lasting impression.

    However in recent years I’ve taken more to books because video programmes seem to be getting dumber.

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      I’ve just stopped watching anything coming out of sloppywood. I’d rather support small content creators.

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    I can do both.

    As an artist, a good movie or videogame can get my mind racing with cool ideas to draw or model.

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      Ah, a relic of the late stage of this meme format where hardly anyone remembered what the “POV” stands for.

      Good thing it effectively died soon after

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    I’m 14 and this is so deep fr

    E: I agree though that when a book clicks it paints a picture far more vivid than a screen ever could.

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      I used to get so mad when I’d see a book get made into a movie or picture book and it was always a very realistic interpretations of the world and in my head it was far more extreme and colorful. I remember seeing the drawings for ‘a far away tree’ and thinking wtf it’s not just a regular tree it’s supposed to be magical.

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    Science fiction is one genre that just doesn’t translate well to the screen. The ideas are too big for a budget and too alien to be adequately depicted. I’m grateful that one man is capable of making twenty hours worth of content in less than a year; it’s more sustainable than millions of dollars being spent on two hours of entertainment.

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      Looking at TWO of the longest running franchises… both of them are sci-fi.

      What a ridiculous conclusion.

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      Science fiction is one genre that just doesn’t translate well to the screen.

      60 years Star Trek of puts the lie to this statement.

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        Star Trek is on the softer side of science fiction. It’s just a sitcom in space. When you watch most series based on books (i.e The expanse), major changes need to be made because it doesn’t translate well to the screen.

        Using the expanse as an example, the spacers were supposed to be deformed by our standards. They eliminated all the hard sci-fi elements of their appearance. If a book involves a realistic alien civilization, an adaptation is rarely made

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      I completely agree with you with the caveat that on rare occasions it can. I am personally very excited to see what directer Denis Villeneuve will do with Rendevous With Rama. That book is almost begging for a faithful screen adaptation since so much of it is describing the scale and layout of the inside of the O’Neill cylinder. I say this as someone who is known in my friendgroup for always hating adaptations and reboots, etc.

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    What is the TV’s shadow? It seems like a pair of legs standing on a box and a small floating rectangle.

    The book, meanwhile, looks like a convoluted mess. Crashing spaceship, T-Rex/Godzilla, and what might be Dracula’s castle. If there’s a coherent story in this, I have got to read it. Book title? :P

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      I can’t believe no one in the comments has told you yet. I want to tell you because I just learned about it last week! It’s horrible! A man in Russia, only legs & feet in the camera frame, squatted over an empty glass jelly jar with the lid on it, tons of lubrication, and he kept going until the entire jar was fully inserted in his rectum.

      Then you can hear an explosion sound. But it was an implosion sound. It was the sound of the jar being crushed & glass shattered inside of him. The man didn’t make a sound. Complete stoic silence which lends more creepiness to the video.

      Then we see tons of blood dripping out of him, down his legs, all over the floor. The man starts manually digging glass chunks out of his asshole. That’s all I remember. I never actually watched the video myself but that’s the description.

      Follow up: he never went to the doctor for this injury because he says he didn’t want to deal with the embarrassment. He had some scarring. He says he healed within a couple weeks. He says he has no regrets. He makes tons of fringe kink videos, this was apparently nothing unusual for him. But he waited until the event was far enough in the past before he posted the video online, over a year after it happened. It happened in August a few years ago. He posted it in December a year and a half later.

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        Dear god, who would make such a video and why would people want to watch that? And where would they be able to watch that, do you happen to have a link in case I find someone дебил enough for wanting to see it?

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        This wasn’t “a few years ago”. It was probably closer to 15 or 20 years ago. I remember watching it in college.

        That being said, the description you gave is accurate. I’ve only seen it once, and that is exactly what is burned into my memory. Also the taste of Disaronno because that was the only bottle I’d snuck in, and I needed something to drink.

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          Ah thank you, I wish I could direct you to the original source I got that from, THEY were epic master storyteller because what I gave was my own version from memory of what they wrote. I think it was an article on vice dot com or some similar publication.

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        After reading this and the replies, I am legitimately not sure if this is a joke or not. I’m not going to go try to find out, but if this is a joke, this is an absolute master class. Bravo.

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        I love how, in a roundabout way, you ended up demonstrating the point of the original image by providing us with “the jar guy incident” in a much more “engaging” literary form

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        IIRC, didn’t he sort of shift his weight and the corner of the jar hit the ground and that’s what made it break?

        I’m not going to find it and watch it again, but that’s what I recall from never unseeing that more than a decade ago.

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          Ah you actually saw the video. Thank you. The jar breaking from contact with the floor sounds a lot better than it breaking completely inside of him 😬

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            Yeah, it was like a tragic accident. The theory was solid. A circle is the strongest shape for holding force like that. And IIRC he just sort of lost his balance and the corner touched the ground and that was it. Trooper of a guy to pull most of it out before going to the hospital.

            How do I even find this video anymore? Do the kids today even use limewire? It occurs to me, I’ve seen worse now.

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            I haven’t seen the video but I read the interview (equally gross), and it’s kinda like that. I don’t remember it hitting the floor but he admitted that it got a little crooked when it was going in, which was one of the main contributing factors.

            Apparently he had done it before (and continues to do so) with no issue because he filled them with water first, so the density counteracted the tension.

            Also he was like 50ish when it happened.

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      The TV’s shadow has been edited to a still from an old shock-gore vid, “1 man 1 jar”. I don’t recommend looking it up.

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        If there was enough light coming from the screen, it wouldn’t look like this. Therefore, we can conclude the guy is looking at a powered off TV.

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      Book title?

      I happen to be reading the Sun Chronicles, a space opera with dinosaurs. No vampires though, but there are weird religious sects, genetically modified humans and space magic 🤷🏼 The best kind of convoluted mess.

      Author’s still working on the 3rd volume though.

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      I think its supposed to be someone about to take a shit into a cup, but I’m really not certain

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    Dunno man. TV just seems like plays in the magic frame.

    Also things you watch spark the imagination if it’s a good piece of art