The Modern Hermit: Roasts and Sense Checks
RM, author and modern hermit
A quiet corner of the web for film roasts, streaming nonsense, tech hype, and reality checks on modern life.
Latest Roasts
- Lee Cronin’s The Mummy: IMAX Gauze, Small Scares, No Soul
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is roasted as IMAX-sized possession horror: gross, loud, overlong, and barely a mummy beneath all that expensive gauze and dust. - AI Got Smarter While Politics Found Ancient Stupidity Again
AI has reached the public square, but politics still sells anoesis in loud packaging: old Greek wisdom meets new machine intelligence and civic theatre. - AI Finally Learnt Design, And Humans Look Truly NervousAI image tools are finally becoming useful design partners, not magic gods. The promise is real, but so is the slop parade pretending to be art today.
- When Peace Talks Become a Pillow for Strongmen in EuropeEurope needs diplomacy, not surrender with table manners. Peace with Russia cannot mean asking Ukraine to smile while empire checks the old map again.
- Can You Read? Workplace Racism In The Manager’s Sunday SuitA sharp sense check on workplace racism, management silence and the company handbook that smiles while dignity gets kicked under the office desk today.
- Britain: Old Empire, New Chaos and Integrity on Life SupportBritain keeps the crown polished while politics drops integrity in the gutter: a roast of Starmer, Mandelson, empire nostalgia and Westminster fogginess.
- The Feed Is Filling Up With People Who Were Never There
AI impersonation accounts are flooding feeds faster than rules can catch up, leaving real creators to compete with synthetic charm and industrial-scale fakery. - AI Is Not the Villain. The Profit Model Behind It Is BrokenPeople do not hate AI for existing. They hate a profit model that automates work, hoards the gains, and leaves workers holding the economic grenade alone.
- Super Mario Galaxy and Cinema’s Premium-Format Fossil ClubA roast of Super Mario Galaxy that really targets cinemas still fencing IMAX off as a luxury while thin spectacle cashes in on premium screens today.
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