It's a streaming service focused on documentaries. Only $5 a month but I'm not really interested in wasting money on it if it's woke or garbage some other way. Figured I'd ask here as you guys are pretty spot on when it comes to media of all sorts.

It was either their uncle or a former classmate, where they said that mental health issues were very much a part of this, or something to that effect. I can't find it now for the life of me.

It's a tough, often thankless, job, but it's perhaps the most rewarding job on the planet. So, keep up the good work and enjoy your day, dads! As for me, I'm gonna watch some action movies with my sons and enjoy some of my wife's famous alfredo chicken lasagna.

To be clear, it doesn't bother me if the authors themselves are liberals, as long as the book/story doesn't have woke nonsense. In that sense, I guess older novels would be the best bet.

EDIT - Holy moly, thanks for all of the suggestions. I have my work cut out for me, looking into all these authors this summer.

It's apparently a news congregate site that shows bias in news articles and rates sources based on left or right leaning, factuality, etc. Seems like it could easily be abused to discredit certain sources, but also might be good for determining which outlets are very biased one way or the other. It's got stupid fucking subscription tiers but a free option as well so there's that. Not going to link it but it's the first result when searching "Ground News" so it's simple to find. Just wondering if anyone here has any experience, as I've seen a few YouTube channels sponsored by it, including non-political channels, and my curiosity is piqued.

I'm in the mood for fantasy but I'm really not wanting to waste my time on woke or leftist nonsense, figured this was the best place to ask.

Is it as woke as I fear? It's based on a real person, so that makes me hope it's more evenhanded, but then again, we've had some truly rotten stinkers as of late. I might check out an episode or two and report back if no one here has seen it.

I remember a few years ago, religious conservatives and social (i.e. not religious) conservatives seemed to be in agreement on countless issues. Hell, I remember having numerous religious conservatives approve of me saying that I may be a non-believer, but I would defend their right to worship how they chose, because we agreed on the important things. They shared the same views, they would just come at them from a different starting point (religious conservatives would come at it from the starting point of their faith, societal conservatives would come at it from a starting point of their own sense of right and wrong). But in the past few months I've noticed that religious conservatives have taken to attacking anyone--conservative, republican, or otherwise--who doesn't share their belief system and/or religion. I don't really understand this, as the only thing it's doing is driving people away from the conservative/republican side, and pushing them into either just abstaining from voting, or refusing to participate in any political discourse, which won't exactly solve problems, as we need every person that we can get to defend our society against the degenerates that are trying to destroy it.

Did Trump "losing" in 2020 really fracture the right that badly? I'm not sure that's the case, because this is something that I've only really seen come to the forefront in the past year or so.

I don't know what to make of it. It's honestly beginning to seem like some people on the right are laser focused on becoming the weird puritans of the 90s who were mocked to no end and did more harm to conservative values than they did to further them.

And before anyone accuses me of saying that religious people should embrace atheism or give up their own faith, that's not what I'm getting at at all. I'm merely saying that if we want conservative values and common sense to come back to society, we need to fight for that and not fight each other. If there needs to be any bickering between different "factions" on the right, I think we'd all be better off if we did that after the psychotic leftists are removed from the picture.

There seems to be this crazy purity spiral that's forming on the right, and I'm afraid that what's going to happen is that we're going to all become so focused on our own particular brand of conservatism that we're going to lose sight of the big picture, and we're going to end up losing our society to radical leftists.

I'm still dead set on fighting against the degenerate leftists in society. I don't foresee myself leaving this fight anytime soon, mainly because I don't need anyone's approval to stand up for the things that I believe in. But not everyone is like me, and if we drive those people away, we're never going to win another election, after all a vote is a vote. And then it doesn't matter if you were a religious conservative or societal conservative, your values are going to vanish from our society just like every other conservative/Republican's values.

I've seen it gaining traction all over the place, particularly--and perhaps most shockingly--within conservative circles, as the likes of Brett Cooper, Candace Owens, and even Michael Knowles have been guests. Do any of you have any thoughts or insights regarding it? Is it as vapid and pointless as it seems, or is there something there that makes it actually worth your time?

So, I just finished watching the new Hellraiser movie and it was okay at best. The best thing about it, by far, is the design of the Cenobites. The story is passable but really nothing to praise. There's a lot of time spent on character development, which bogs down the first half of the movie. Also, for all the fuss that was made about having a brand new Pinhead, the character really wasn't that prevalent, which might rub a few fans the wrong way. Indeed, another Cenobite (The Gasp) spends at least as much, if not more, time in the limelight than Pinhead. There are also a few odd character choices towards the end of the movie that really seemed to be choices of the script writer rather than the characters. By that I mean that the writer wanted certain events to happen, and so the characters overlook easy answers to their problems, thus we end up with the characters making rather silly choices or overlooking obvious things that they could do. I can't go in to much further details without spoilers, but it is extremely noticeable that there is an ending that could have happened and was completely ignored because the writer wanted certain outcomes for certain characters. Also, the motivation of one of the characters is extremely flimsy given the circumstances of what's going on in the movie. Another letdown is the fact that there really isn't much horror in the movie despite it being a reboot of an iconic horror franchise. A lot of stuff happens off screen and, while we obviously can't see everything, a reboot of a gory horror franchise, that almost refuses to show you several death scenes, is a little weird to say the least. As a matter of fact, I would hesitate to label this as a horror movie. It's almost a drama with some supernatural/spooky stuff going on. With that being said, it is much better than several of the Hellraiser sequels that were more than a little disappointing in the past. I'm not sure I'll watch it again, but I can say that if you're a fan of the franchise it does deserve a watch. Just make sure you temper your expectations, because the movie leaves a bit to be desired in several ways.

As far as wokeness goes, it's not terrible, although there are a few moments in the beginning where they have to shove it in your face that the main character's brother is gay. That being said, you can really tell that this is a change made to the original script most likely because, despite his boyfriend being a prominent character, it's never really brought up again or mentioned. I feel like he was a character that was in the script who was a friend of the protagonist and was just kind of rewritten to be her brother's boyfriend. Otherwise I really didn't notice any wokeness in the movie, surprisingly enough. I'd say if you're a fan of the franchise or if you're vaguely curious about how this one is, go ahead and give it a watch. It's not worth subscribing to Hulu for, but if you already have it it's okay if you are looking for a way to waste 2 hours during the spooky month. Also, surprisingly enough, the main character, despite being a female, is shown to be an extremely flawed person who makes a lot of mistakes and is pretty far from being a Mary Sue.

Final Grade: C+