ursakhiin
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- Comment on Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’ 1 day ago:
I for one look forward to the day that a trans person wins best actor and actress both before and after transition.
- Comment on Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ 4 days ago:
I mean. I’m not siding with Renner, here. I initially pointed out an observation I didn’t see anybody making.
I replied to you specifically because it seemed to me you were discounting Renners contribution to the success of the first season. I do think it’s fine for him to be publicly pissed about this, if what he’s saying is true. I don’t know either way but if he left those meetings feeling that way, there may be a reason and there’s no reason to assume he’s just a rich guy being a rich asshole.
- Comment on Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ 4 days ago:
So in your estimation, you don’t think he should be upset that Disney, one of the biggest organizations in the world, is refusing to pay him what he believes is value to be?
- Comment on Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ 5 days ago:
Many people are ignoring another part of the formula. Actors draw views. Renner is the main interest I have in Hawkeye. Kate Bishop is a fine character, but personally Renner is why I watched season 1. Charlie Cox and Vincent D’nofrio are the reason I watched the new Daredevil series.
Renner might be blowing it out of proportion, but the reality is without his involvement I’m probably going to skip it.
I’ll give each character a chance to stand on their own but I’m not personally interested in Kate Bishop as a story driver.
- Comment on womp womp 2 months ago:
Real talk, what is the real barrier to somebody creating a competing publishing firm for these things.
I’m not a scientist, but I always hear about how expensive it is to either publish or get access to scientific papers without contacting the author directly. Why does that reputation exist? Why does it seem like the scientific community is so dependent on stuff like this?
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On Steam 3 months ago:
It’s interesting because I didn’t have any game breaking bugs and I had a 5950x and that’s the only difference to what you’re describing.
That launch was a serious YMMV situation.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On Steam 3 months ago:
The bugs were not experienced by everybody. On my PC I ran into no critical bugs and very few minor bugs on launch week. I was definitely lucky, though.
It’s possible many review sites were running rigs similar to mine. I personally had a blast with it even at launch and played it 3 times in the first 3 months. Though, it’s definitely much better now, it wasn’t a bad game on its own before, if not for the stability issues must people had.
- Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal 4 months ago:
I think that argument gets made by people who don’t really know what producers do. It could be anything from managing the people on set to putting their name on it for cred. I’m this car, Baldwin was partially responsible for the story.
- Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal 4 months ago:
I think a lot of the confusion is that they were between takes.
He was drawing the weapon and rehearsing what he was going to do as they were discussing the next take and she was watching him through the camera. But the shot they were going for was most definitely him pointing the gun at the camera. The AD, I believe, was the one that handed him the gun without verifying it was cleared.
Baldwin is guilty of putting trust in the people around him doing their jobs correctly.
- Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal 4 months ago:
He was following the directions of the director and everybody involved, including the woman who died, agreed to do the scene. She wasn’t just some random person on set, she was behind the camera because she was the director of photography.
If she didn’t feel the scene was safe to film, she had the right to say no to using a realistic prop. This is an obviously sad incident. But Manny people were found or pleaded guilty to the events. Baldwin just isn’t I’ve of them. Actors can’t be expected to be experts and have to defer to experts on set all the time.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering health insurance CEO 4 months ago:
Plus, I think many people agree that the charges the prosecution brought are not charges he is guilty of. They pushed for terrorism so they could get first degree murder charges instead of a lesser charge.
He may have plead guilty if they had brought more appropriate charges.
- Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal 4 months ago:
Personally, I just don’t think Baldwin is the one who deserves the charge. There were people on set responsible for ensuring his gun wasn’t loaded. Those people failed in their job.
- Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal 4 months ago:
Ah. Ok. I mean, I’m of the opinion that he has every reason to believe he wasn’t going to shoot her when he pulled the trigger.
But I just wasn’t sure if you were misunderstanding the headline or if you were in the camp of punish everybody all the time.
- Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal 4 months ago:
Why do you feel like this is a shame?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of December 15th 4 months ago:
I love this game. It’s my current Steam Deck title I’m working through on trips. Absolutely gorgeous!
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 4 months ago:
Sure. But that’s enough.
Demanding more than that isn’t conducive to anytime but trying to make people feel inadequate for wanting to enjoy their time.
It’s completely fine if you feel like you need to see the end of a story to determine if it was good, but not everybody is like that.
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 4 months ago:
Incomplete doesn’t mean invalid, though. I can say I didn’t enjoy the first half so much that I didn’t give the second half a chance. I will have enough information to explain why I didn’t enjoy the first half and my opinion of the movie is completely valid.
I don’t have to continue to subject myself to something I don’t enjoy. I can explain what I don’t enjoy. People don’t need more than that to have a valid opinion of something. The only people I’d expect to have done more is somebody professionally critiquing movies.
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 4 months ago:
Besides, if you haven’t finished a movie, you can’t claim to have a valid opinion of it.
I’m sure you didn’t mean it to sound this way, but this kind of gate keeping sounds very elitist. I can have a valid opinion of a movie I didn’t finish.
Usually, me not finishing it means that through the portion I watched I was disliking it so much I decided finishing it was a waste of my time. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. I don’t need to see the ending to know i didn’t enjoy the journey. The onus is on the creators of the movie to ensure I enjoy or am at least engaged throughout and I don’t, not does anybody else, owe it to them to see though the time I’ve set aside to watch it. Especially if they could be bothered to hold up their side of the bargain.
- Comment on Discussion - what is the last movie you couldn't finish? 4 months ago:
This is the last one for me as well. Though, my partner and I didn’t even finish the first episode of Dune: Prophecy if you want to count that.
Dakota Johnson isn’t what ruined Madame Web for me, though. The writing was truly awful from the plot to the dialogue. The costumes were really bad as well and the action was just terrible. It looked like poorly done wire tricks on CGI.
- Comment on Why Simon Pegg thinks Star Trek is forever tainted 5 months ago:
A TL;DR could be “time traveling ribbons”
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 months ago:
Nothing to worry about. Just body snatcher pods
- Comment on Come to the Deep Sea!! 5 months ago:
I believe Dennis is actually a Slipper Crab, though
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 6 months ago:
As much as I would love for Robin Williams to be back and brightening the world again it would be incredibly selfish of us to forget that he was incredibly unhappy in life and killed himself in a very unpleasant way because of it.
So definitely the centipede.
- Comment on Oxygen 7 months ago:
You are all mad! The sun is definitely getting oxygen! The giant space bellows hide just out of sight on the precisely opposite side of the sun from earth, so we’ve never been able to observe them.
Gringolth the oxidation wizard had been pumping them for millions of years. The biggest risk is that he dies before being replaced by an offspring!
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 7 months ago:
Postal might be the only one he did well. But I think by the point he made that one he had learned something about his own abilities and even ripped himself a new one in one scene of the movie.
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 7 months ago:
IMHO, the list in the OP are actually fairly decent, with the exception of Warcraft, Need for Speed and Assassin’s Creed. (Not because they are bad but because I never saw them.
- Comment on the secret recipe 7 months ago:
Is it generic? It seems pretty rich in Elden Ring when compared to most games.
- Comment on the secret recipe 7 months ago:
Because he’d say no. Better to ask for forgiveness.
- Comment on Burning Up 7 months ago:
Imagine weighing people as big rocks, though.
Until the UK changes that, us Americans and Canadians can rest assured that nothing we are doing is quite that ridiculous.
- Comment on Sony officially teases PlayStation 5 Pro - VideoCardz.com 7 months ago:
The PS5, while bigger than last entries, is hardly the size of a small fridge.
More like a floor air conditioner.