sgtlion

Well I don't know who the director is, nor would I have. I do realise gothic horror in general is often about sexual repression, but a lot of the film's use of it just felt unnecessary.

Maybe the intended audience are more au fait with the director, then? I'unno

I'm unsure what your experience is, but mine is in complete contradiction to this. I've taken direct trains from one end of Europe to the other. I don't know what your second map represents, but it's not direct train lines.

I've personally taken direct trains from London to Germany (some of those trains go on past Germany) and London to Italy. How they handle the electrification etc I don't know, but I've never noticed an issue or had to transfer between internationals.

Most of my train rides have been cheaper or similar price to flying once you factor in local train travel too, and exceedingly nicer and easier. You very rarely even notice crossing the borders, which is a fun aspect.

I could simply be a philistine when it comes to gothic horror, but I just really did not like the movie. It was pretty faithful to the original, but with tons of extra bloody and sexual violence/ grossness added on for no reason I could see, other than to be like "oh no how shocking".

I know it's meant to be disgusting, but it felt very mindlessly so. No symbolism or metaphor, and I certainly didn't notice any plot relevance to any of it. Like a complete story was already written, then they went "let's stick on some more gore and gross stuff for kicks" (which I guess is sort of literally what happened).

It was very cinematic. Technically impressive for sure. The bit I did really enjoy was the first arrival at Nosferatu's digs and all the shadowy movement and atmosphere. It made him seem very demonic and inhuman, almost Hellsing Alucard-like.

Again, it may very likely just not be my kind of movie

I am asking for just one "hexbear bad!!!" thread that wasn't written by a user who was caught spouting fascist apologia

The UK has guns, weed is practically decriminalised and there are still swathes of unpopulated land. So that's not much of a difference.

I very much disagree still. Yes, proles can be sufficiently bribed to support bourgeois rule, and it makes them arses, and it makes them reactionary, but it doesn't change their material interest, which is basically the main point of class analysis.

I find this labour aristocracy point to typically be pushed by people who think it's a modern phenomenon, when it really isn't. Marx saw colonialism and the countries' worth of bribed, reactionary proles it made, but that really isn't important to the point he was making with the class model.

Even wealthy proles would substantially and materially benefit from the overhaul capitalism. Thus, class consciousness would and should reasonably lead them to support socialism. That is the point.

I think this true, but only for a smaller subset of players. My Stellaris empires have ranged the full spectrum of communist utopian to slavery and genocidal exterminators. Similarly for my many Vicky playthroughs.

I have no sympathy for people who own more homes than they need.

You clearly 100% did not understand my point, as I entirely agree with your points here. Sorry if that's my bad.

Just a bit of shelling innocent civilians in the DPR and LPR? As a treat?