Semjaza
@Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 3 days ago:
Only in one city in the world?
Please don’t let it be in the US, please don’t let it be the US…
London?! Hot pukka pies, that’s totally hench!
- Comment on nature is music 3 days ago:
Yeah, I - like you - put a quote from Tolkien and a quote from the Quran on the same level in that situation.
A related quote from either is as on topic.
I went back to look at it, and it wasn’t an explicitly linked as I recalled. I’ve been on a couple of Islam related rabbit holes recently, with Sufiism and Alevis, and there’s a strong belief in singing is a praise to Allah/Haq. So I think I just kinda filled some blanks in in my mind.
I very much get being annoyed by seeing your clearly on topic lit post getting eaten, while not apparently linked religious text gets to say.
Silly mods. All the best to you.
- Comment on nature is music 3 days ago:
It’s a shame that a relevant quote from literature was removed.
Poor show on the part of the mods.Where I disagree is that someone having a quote from a religious thing is invalid, when it’s not actively pushing to convert. Just kinda existing showing religion is there. But I guess we just have different perceptions of what passes for “down-your-throatism”.
Anyhow, all the best and have a good night (or whatever time of day it is when you (or anyone else) read this).
- Comment on nature is music 4 days ago:
OK, because the way you replied with that off-topic Quran verse to a Quran verse related to the topic of the post made my think that your point was railing on Islam.
Not that “slavery is bad”, which I also didn’t think needed to be replied somewhat arcanely to posts.
Do we need to write a “slavery is bad” reply to any time vikings or Christianity come up in the comments?
- Comment on nature is music 4 days ago:
Alternate reading: stop running about and breaking the hearts of the unmarried freewomen, if you’re shagging her, do it properly and above board.
Medieval era was, alas, pretty poor on women’s rights and slavery was taken for granted. I don’t think you’ll find any slavery where rape was in practice forbidden.
- Comment on The Simpsons: Hank Azaria on Retiring Apu, How Name Became a Slur 5 days ago:
The fact that there were dozens of Indian Subcontinent heritage American comedians saying they’d love the role, but they didn’t even get to audition for it really drives home how much of this was for PR over doing right for the character and the Indian subcontinent heritage American community.
- Comment on ‘Power Rangers’ Writer Says ‘It Was a Mistake’ to Cast Black and Asian Actors as Black Ranger and Yellow Ranger: ‘None of Us’ Were ‘Thinking Stereotypes’ 1 week ago:
Was unironically a joke to shout that out in my primary school playground in the UK. =(
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 weeks ago:
The American one, or the BBC one with Stephen Mangan?
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 weeks ago:
We Are Lady Parts - a more recent one. Dramady following an all-girl Muslim punk band in London.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 weeks ago:
I see you, and raise you:
- Snuffbox
- Flowers
- Comment on White Lotus Composer Quits Over Creative Differences, Talks Tension With Mike White And Fan Outrage Over New Theme 2 weeks ago:
Chelsea (Amiee Lou Wood) and Victoria (Posey Parker) have been hilarious the whole time.
And Saxon (Schwartzneggar) is also clearly in comedy mode.
The situations too. What aren’t you finding funny about it?
- Comment on 'You're a very long arm. You steal things. It's a comedy game,' explains developer of comedy game where you steal things with a very long arm 3 weeks ago:
What other “mistakes” did they make?
A U in “colour”? An S in “realise”?
…
If you’re trolling: well done, wanker.
- Comment on Paradox delay Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 yet again because technical quality is "more important" than sticking to a date 3 weeks ago:
It’s Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
If it’s not barely stable and without at least one game breaking path that’s not even that rare they’re not living up to the name.
- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 3 weeks ago:
The cracks were there in the second.
The goal to string things out with more series just makes things worse. And characters archetypes don’t mesh well with the development as the writers want it all to be archetypal.
Groff-Eric was the best thing about second series. It made main guy even harder to stand.
But then I always root for the second girl, so how else could I feel?
- Comment on the duality of beetle 3 weeks ago:
What does this even mean? I’ve been stumped for the whole day… You’ve brained wormed me with this indescipherable string of words.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t he only treat one of each set of twins, and used a faulty method that has been supplanted?
In addition to all the lying and manipulating the parents to get them to agree and not ask many questions.
- Comment on history rhymes, or something 4 weeks ago:
For the record Hitler wasn’t vegetarian, he just consumed less mammal flesh than contemporaries of his station.
He loved devilled pigeon hearts, for instance.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb. 5 weeks ago:
While Steam isn’t publically traded it’s better than Epic, Microsoft, or whichever other distributor you go through as it isn’t beholden to line goes up.
- Comment on Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board" 5 weeks ago:
I’ll respect the pokémon card game for demolishing reprint equity and making sure the meta cards are easily and cheaply available to players.
The card game gameplay, and high level competitive battling, while not M:tG good, are still both solid though. Closer to Magic than they are Yu-Gi-Oh.
- Comment on Pokemon Legends Z-A's visuals aren't "great" say former Nintendo marketing leads, but hope Switch 2 could allow Game Freak to "go back to the drawing board" 5 weeks ago:
Been clean since Sun/Moon.
I was disappointed with X/Y and gave them one last chance to change course.
The disappointing dungeons of X/Y had been replaced by nothing by straight lines with occasional fancy camera angles. The utter disgrace that was Z Cave as a super (only) dungeon was more than anything Sun/Moon offered.
For a game series meant to be about exploring and discovering monsters to collect, they’ve really let the exploration/discovery side down. Holding my console upside down is cool and all that, but gimmicks to sell strategy guides are no subsidy for actual explorable environments to lead to dynamic, emergent gameplay experiences.
Really want to make my take on a monster capture world explorer. I think there’s a lot of space for a spiritual successor to Pokémon.
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 5 weeks ago:
Neither her best film with Ghost in the title, nor the best version of Ghost in the Shell.
Not that I disagree with your point. She has acting chops wasted in MCU.
- Comment on 5 Reasons Why Mickey 17 Flopped At The Box Office - SlashFilm 5 weeks ago:
Especially since it’s not original, but adapted from a book.
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 5 weeks ago:
Why not start with classic films in your wife’s first or second languages?
Almost every language has a few films that stand out, and she’d be more engaged this way too.
And works very well as a good springboard for exploring the world’s cinematic greats.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 1 month ago:
That’s not generative, since it’s just copying player input. Feasible without AI, just storing strings for later recall.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
On the one hand… First World War would’ve ended very differently.
On the other… Maybe eugenics would already be discredited by the 20s with how it went in Dixie.
- Comment on Kevin sounds nice! 1 month ago:
Call me a poser, but I prefer him in The Skin I Live in.
- Comment on pew pew 1 month ago:
- Comment on pew pew 1 month ago:
Why now?
The US military already has satellites than can drop artificial asteroids onto Earth, causing large localised, hard to detect and prevent damage.
Space has sadly already been weaponised.
- Comment on Erasure 1 month ago:
It does mean that not much more than 28% of the adult population support him though.
So he’s enacting all these democracy eroding changes for techno-authoitirians/fuedalists off of less than 1/3rd of the US’s population’s support.
Elections don’t care, nor does policy. But it is closer to 1/4 than 1/2 of people who can even begin to be said as his supporters. Despite what the media cycle might imply.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 2 months ago:
The Death of Stalin seeing Iannuci’s name attached in the opening credits told me everything that I was in for, really.
Not sure quite how historically accurate it is, but nothing overly glaring on a casual watch.
Dark fun, although perhaps a little too glib in one or two places. Be interested to know how it meshes with the lived experiences of people under Stalin.