random thoughts 2021

By diehard Go To Post3 hours to reconnect your wifi devices bruh

By domino Go To PostMan I forgot how the refs do warriors playoff games. Shits end up rough as fuck

By Fenderputty Go To PostI bought a nighthawk c7800 modem/router combo so I can ditch the cable companies modem and future proof bandwidth expansion.

Man does reconnecting every device suck. I thought it would, but the sheer number of things connected to WIFI was pretty crazy and I didn’t realize that. Took three fucking hours lol

By LunaticNotFounder Go To PostPretty sure just renaming the router the same name and password allows previous devices to connect.

By Fenderputty Go To PostMy oven connects to the WiFi lol 😂 fuckers

By Fenderputty Go To PostMy oven connects to the WiFi lol 😂 fuckers

By post-sy Go To PostWouldn't have survived if it was a silverback

By Daz Go To PostBengal tiger would not have been merciful.

By aka Espi Go To PostWhy are car rentals so expensive in Orlando?

Just rented a Mercedes for $600 for a week in LA but a VW Jetta is $1000 for a week in Orlando…

By FortuneFaded Go To PostCan someone explain to me how this question was worth $250,000 back in 1999?

https://streamable.com/iley0b

By LunaticNotFounder Go To PostPretty sure just renaming the router the same name and password allows previous devices to connect.

By Pedja Go To Postfender pls

By FortuneFaded Go To PostCan someone explain to me how this question was worth $250,000 back in 1999?

https://streamable.com/iley0b

By DY_nasty Go To Post

https://youtu.be/pvK7zUk2RmQ

felt this in my chest

Just to give more of a rundown for people to lazy to listen:

- Dude is a crazy Christian religious nut who also believes in all the crazy Q shit. He's compared himself in the past to Jesus and Pope John Paul II.
- Him along with Mel Gibson believed they'd be persecuted for filming Passion and he believes he still is, literally described himself as one of the "Top 5 actors in Hollywood" before filming Passion. Okay…
- On the set of Person of Interest, everyone considered him to be the dumbest man alive, which is also why he was so dangerous on the set above everything else.
- Cavizel pretty much doesn't understand the difference between acting and real life. He basically acted like a sociopath where actors were the same as props, there for him to play with. If there's a scene where he has to choke a bad guy, he's legit going to choke the actor because "that's what the character would do."
- In one scene filmed in Manhattan, he's supposed to be driving to chase someone. He's just supposed to pull out and stop the car for the camera, instead he goes full blast, runs a red light, and nearly hits 4 pedestrians. When asked why he would do such a thing, he says its "because that's what the character would do." After this, he was quickly banned from any scenes involving him driving and a stunt double would do that.
- Jim was obsessed with the military and Navy Seals and would frequently talk about training with the SEALs and being friends with SEALs and have stickers all over his car about supporting the military and SEALs. Dude felt like he served because his character is an Ex-Special Forces soldier, plus he played a soldier in The Thin Red Line.
- His ban of vehicles quickly extended to everything else because putting any object or weapon in his hand was a recipe for disaster. Again, dude thought he was some soldier and everyone else props. If you give him an object to hit a character or a gun, he's going to hit them or try shooting them. Those scenes were replaced with stunt doubles wearing balaclavas which was common in the series if you watched.
- He did not understand his character, at all. He would frequently suggest his character violently murder or torture people. This is despite that being the last thing the character would ever do. He would constantly suggest this despite being shut down hundreds of times, he had no filter between thought and utterance out of his mouth and would say every time, "you're gonna love this."
- The show utilized a dog in later seasons, but Jim kept yanking its chain despite being told repeatedly not to. Eventually the dog bit him and they had to find a new dog and paint its chest white. Again, his contact was limited with the animal and a stunt double used whenever possible.
- He's also a racist, a homophobe, and a misogonyst.
- He didn't want to shoot a scene where his character rescues a gay couple because it was against his religion. Eventually he agreed after someone told him about 9/11 firefighters rescuing everyone, not caring about what they believed or who they were with. He then agreed but went the whole day repeating that as if he believed what he was doing was as noble as 9/11 firefighters.
- He would do racist and anti-Semitic shit all the fucking time. He would frequently try to guess a person's ethnicity (which was often wrong) and then drop into a fake accent or language based on their perceived ethnicity. For example, he would speak fake chinese to an asian person. The insane catch being that he legitimaetly believed his fake language was their real language. As in, he believed the gibberish he spoke was actual Mandarin Chinese despite being told by actual speakers that he just said a bunch of nonsense and not Chinese.
- In one incident an asian studio executive was visiting the set and he did a bow to him and uttered some fake chinese or japanese.
- In another incident he dropped into fake German when he noticed a new white writer in the writer's room. This ties to his Hitler shit.
- Jim also hated the idea of an interracial romance between his character and another black actor, he would go on tirades with the writers about how interracial relationships shouldn't be allowed in real life. This most likely is why the character was killed off since they had planned for their romance to be a whole thing and with that not happening had to change gears.
- Dude LOVED to speak about Hitler and impersonate Hitler. He'd frequently just mention how Hitler "had the right idea" but just went too far or how Hitler was really smart before adding "but evil." He'd praise how organized and regimented Hitler was (Hitler was neither of those things, he was famously disorganized), again always trying to add the caveat "but evil." He would also impersonate Hitler believing it to be the funniest thing in the world. This was constant.
- When filming in DC, he learned about a Quran burning event that would be happening and wanted to join in. The actual event was pitiful with tons of counter-protestors showing up to prevent any burning from happening. Eventually Jim just strolled up, declared everyone was wrong and that Islam was evil and Sharia Law just wanted to control women. He then spoke to someone in "Farsi," before leaving. And by "Farsi" I mean his fake made up Farsi. This was documented in an article for a newspaper in DC (the DCist), and backed by witnesses. But there is no video as far as they know, Cavizel's attorney denied everything stating Jim was never at such an event.
- Showrunners, including Jonathan Nolan, obviously couldn't stand the guy but he was the lead actor and so they had to tolerate his behavior. Once the show was over, CBS was looking to cast him in the lead for a Navy SEALs show (so you know, his wet dream). People who worked on the show frantically called CBS executives and boss to get them to understand why that would be such a terrible idea. Again, imagine this dude near weapons.
- Les Moonves was sent dailies of shit he did on POI and decided to shut the pilot show down.

EDIT:

I forgot to add the small part about him sucking as an actor.

- On top of being dangerous, dude just sucked as an actor because he could never remember his lines. He couldn't even come close to what the lines were. There was one scene where his character is supposed to look into the sky and say, "look, a drone!" He kept saying "look, a clone" which made no sense. This continued for like 15 takes despite being consistently told to say "drone," no one can understand how he could possibly think "clone" fit in that context.
- Frequently they'd have cards with his lines printed on them for him to read while being filed, sometimes you can notice this in the show with his character looking off to the side.
- In one scene, his character gives a big speech and he actually nailed it which was odd until the person noticed he had taped a card with his lines to the actor's forehead.
- His character's speaking time and screentime was diminished as the series went on to just keep this idiot from screwing things up.

By post-sy Go To PostTldr?

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By aka Espi Go To PostSo was he actually nailed to a cross since that’s what would have happened to his character?