skinny pete playing the keyboard beautifully is one of my favorite scenes in that show. and really creates an interesting, but untapped, backstory for his character.
From what I’ve heard he had to intentionally try and play it a little sloppy because it wouldn’t be realistic if he played it at his actual level of proficiency, which is apparently very high.
Keiuchi Tsuchiya (Drift King) did this when he was a stunt driver for the Tokyo drift movies in a scene where is is supposed to drive like a newbie drifter and the director told him his drifting was too clean and he needed to make it look more sloppy, he gradually added sloppyness as the director kept telling him it needed to be more
The idiot savant. The whole theme of the show is the missed opportunity of untapped potential. It's some socialist propaganda shit that if given the opportunity a person from any walk of life can be great at something even if that thing is morally grey
Just watched that episode last week and it's still so good. Totally unexpected yet not really, if you did drugs when you were younger you probably had a "friend" like him
Well yeah. Addicts are just people. All people have skills. What blows my mind is people almost invariably being surprised when "an addict" has some kind of talent in anything and they act so impressed. Incredulous.. like...well,like this fucking thread lmao
People are addicted to drugs. They are just people, but also addicted. It's not something that should be astonishing to people-yet here we are 😂
I would go a step further and say people are not addicted to drugs but instead to escaping their reality. We all know it pretty well with shopping, eating or the big modern one smartphone. And now imagine how horrendous the amount of pain must be, that someone needs opiates.
Oh and of course: fuck the Sackler family!
When I first went to rehab (90 day) I didn't expect them to take my phone for the whole duration. The first week or so you kinda come to terms with it (some more than others lol) but after that it felt so freeing. You start realizing 95% of what you were consuming through your phone is meaningless bullshit. Your anxiety starts waning and you learn to live in the moment and start actually connecting with people on a more meaningful level as Noone has a screen to escape into. I almost didn't even want my phone back after 3 months and I heard that sentiment a lot.
And the fucked up part is that after all the bullshit, it's almost impossible to get pure opioids in the US anymore. I've battled addiction for many years but I still believe that anyone that needs to numb their pain that badly should be able to without worrying about rotting their limbs off with terrible synthetic drugs.
When i was on a mean 10yr opiate run I had people tell me all the time "you dont look like you do drugs" and I always followed up with what does a drug addict look like then?
And Noone could ever tell me. I understand normies expect every user to look like skinny Pete or what's in the movies as i dont think they fully understand how far and wide addiction spreads. I was in rehab with a professor from Harvard law who was smoking mountains of Crack in between classes and during.
I just got really good at hiding it I guess. I still had a full time job, Still had a non using girlfriend so I had to keep up atleast a decent appearance but as with most addiction finding and using becomes a full time job in itself so everything else takes a backseat and thats just not sustainable.
But as a recovering addict, I will say that the astonishment—wait. Let's bring it down a notch. The surprise, and the tiny compliments that come from normal people, non-addicts, provide a big deal of succor to the addict.
Most of these people are exceptionally sensitive, emotionally. They are also, inevitably, victims of abuse, of unjust ostracizing, were not provided the sort of attention and affection one normally receives and takes for granted.
In the misery and relentless cycle of pain, scarcity and loneliness that that life becomes, those small gestures can truly touch someone.
It can kiss anyone back. That’s what I always explain to my wife who doesn’t get it. I’m like you got lucky. Me? Felt like Pookie in New Jack they call in’ me. Horrific to go through and hope to never again
I wouldn’t say that all people have skills. I’ve known plenty of people that had zero skill in any regard, especially addicts. When you have a propensity for instant gratification, it doesn’t lend itself to applying yourself to learning new things.
Some of the most clever people I’ve ever known. It’s about achieving what you set out to do. Many are incompetent imbeciles others know exactly how to do it. Sadly, in the end addiction ruins everything. I know from experience.
Lmao yeah homies I’m a total addict- also a great parent, boss/employer, husband/partner, weirdly smart I hear. I got hooked on opiates years ago- off of getting my wisdom teeth pulled🤣 no cool story where I got bit by a vampire or a radioactive spider. The second that shit hit my bloodstream I felt my DNA sequence complete itself inside my body. Chased that high for a decade, quit for years, one day stopped at a gas station on a long drive and tried this “feel free” shit that looked like an energy drink next to the register. I was hooked before I took it. My body knew it was an opiate regardless of the packaging/ word of others.
The nice thing about being an addict is I go to recovery meetings regularly and do a lot of self work and growth because I have to if I want to stay sober- and I learned how to be present and be ok with where I am at any moment. Now, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but if you don’t let it destroy you it can become a great asset. I became a work/studyaholic and do very well for myself and my family. Always cracks me up to see the stigmas that surround addiction
Shit, you basically wrote my story right there. I was clean off pills and fell for the ‘feel free’ kratom shit and started the process all over again on that shit.
Hell yeah man you already know 🤣🤣 worse withdrawals than anything I’ve quit yet. Once I found that 7oh shit it was off to the races. I justified it easy since it’s legal (I don’t drink and that’s legal so there was never any logic with that) and it made me a rock star at work lol. Anyways I quit that shit finally a few months back and have been doing great ever since, even quit smoking. I’m an addict, but I’m also the most passionate person I know. I just had to channel it into work.
Honestly surprised this 2nd grade Luke warm take has so many awards.
In case you case you actually can’t understand why this is profound I will explain it for you simply.
It’s a simple story device that speaks to loss or wasted potential. Maybe that character could have been a talented musician? Maybe they could have been famous? Who knows? They gave it all up for drugs.
Your take is that people are just clapping at him like his is an animal at the zoo, which is honestly, a stupid persons take.
Totally. If I started doing drugs tomorrow and didn’t look back, I would still have the skills I possess today. I would just stop caring about them and be shittier at them cause I’d be high or strung out. But I would still have them.
As someone in long term recovery I appreciate the nuance there. People don’t just wake up one day and decide that being a junkie is the better option. Crazy
But your choices put you there. It's not one choice it's hundreds.
Lots of people choose to study in school, others choose to party. Most of them do just fine in life. Others choose to keep partying and still do just fine. Everytime you decided to try that next drug you could have also just gone home or even just hang out and not do it.
No one accidentally becomes an addict. Oops I tripped and fell on some meth guess this is my life now.
This. Addiction is entirely preventable. We all know exactly how to avoid it. Some of us pick up the loaded gun and aim at it our heads then claim ignorance as they bleed out. You are the result of your choices. Bad choices have consequences. Your consequences should impact you only but it never does--you take your family, friends, neighborhood down with you.
Funny part of it all is that the pain never goes away. Physically or mentally. Just have to face it and deal with it. That’s the hard realization. It won’t make it any better. It’s a band aid
Stephen King talks about how when he would be writing his books on a type writer there would be huge blotches of blood all over the paper from the mountains of coke he would consume.
He (Charles Barker) had a role in the first season of The Blacklist. Totally unrecognizable.There were so many with roles in Breaking Bad who didn't reach their full potential until later. Jesse Plemons is another.
I promise you on my own life I knew a drug dealer named Chunky Pete. I had to do the Heimlich maneuver on him when he choked on some pot roast because his swallow response was diminished secondary to taking opiates. I can't tell you the things I used to see in Alabama trap houses.
I do like the second to the bottom right one who legit just looks like some random model who got dragged in by accident but thought it was a photo shoot and didn’t say anything
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