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- Comment on Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 3 days ago:
since when is “there is a dog” something that you put triumphant music over
Since today, LOL.
The general vibe here is that this Suprman is good and kind, and the trailer is directly tying that notion to triumph. We’ll see if the movie bears that out (and if it’s just generally any good). Watching the trailer, I assume there’s going to be a part either at the beginning or in the middle where a set-piece in the more muted Snyder-y action-y suit is going to go very wrong and provoke a period of reflection, but I assume he’ll accept his inherent cheesy goodness by the last act.
- Comment on Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 3 days ago:
They say that escapism media tends to be a response to the particular anxieties of an era. Probably pretty telling that this looks like it’s going to be a multi-lateral, consensus-building, hope-inspiring take on Superman.
Truth, Justice, and [what we were sold as children should be] the American Way.
Also, KRYPTO! Dyno-Mutt and Blue Falcon movie when???
- Comment on Superman | Official Teaser Trailer 3 days ago:
I haven’t watched any Superman stuff other than the 80s movies. Did the other reboots use the John Williams theme?
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 5 days ago:
IIRC for Single vs Double the difference they will enforce the “form of a question” part. In either round, they will let you mangle the pronunciation as long as you don’t insert or omit phonemes beyond what could reasonably be the result of only having read the word.
So “Alexander Dumb-ass” would be fine, though you’d likely get some gentle chiding, or maybe even have to refilm the question (“portions of the show not affecting the outside have been edited”) afterwards, but if you were expanding NASA and left the ‘s’ off the end of “Aeronautics,” it would be wrong.
- Comment on I have read through this job ad multiple times and I still have no idea who they are looking for. 6 days ago:
Sounds like a middle management role at a property management company, managing teams that will do some combination of developing new software, procuring outside software, configuring software, doing shit with integrations including rolling in whatever clusterfuck of legacy systems and data any corporate acquisitions would bring in, and providing tech support under Service Level Agreements. My first impression is that the packages in questions would probably be about some combination of rent pricing, market analysis, maintenance ticketing, and contract lifecycle management.
Frankly, it sounds awful. 🤣 The word soup could also be partly that they’ve already identified internal candidates but have a corporate requirement to post publicly.
- Comment on The Evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in dollars and Rotten Tomatoes scores 1 week ago:
Quite the reminder that traditional RT score presents “consensus that a movie was at least okay.”
Not that it isn’t impressive Marvel had such a long run of universally decent popcorn fare, but I always thought it was funny that there are two approaches to make a movie that will get a very high score.
- Comment on Or Polio. Guess we should invest in iron lungs. 1 week ago:
I’ve been to Galveston. This tracks.
- Comment on Or Polio. Guess we should invest in iron lungs. 1 week ago:
That’s a pole. Polio is porridge-like dish made from maize. Not grits, the other one.
- Comment on The 80's were weird 1 week ago:
A horse is a horse, of course, of course…
- Comment on Kraven the Hunter review – Russell Crowe busts up laborious superhero yarn 1 week ago:
I think the Pitch Meeting may be enough for me. Left to their own devices, Sony’s Spider-IP movies seem to be mostly pretty dreadful.
- Comment on "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Reboot In Works 1 week ago:
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised anymore but the film is over fifty years old. A new modern version could capture a whole new audience.
Yeah, this particular type of remake has been done for almost a hundred years. Nothing to get too worked up about, though even as a kid I wasn’t interested in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Even for the rest of it, I’m at a point where I will just take these things on their own merits. Sometimes the creative hijackers who do their own story under cover of an existing property sometimes make something watchable (e.g. Foundation), and for most of the rest they were working with a property unlikely to inspire anything brilliant in the first place (e.g. Halo, which as a non-player still isn’t that bad… just “meh” with too big a budget).
People want to tell stories. I’ll watch as many of the good stories as I can make time for.
- Comment on Alfredo Linguini 1 week ago:
I’m gonna level with y’all. I have a certain number of areas where my palate is reasonably sophisticated and bougie (a nice dry cider… perfection), but in many ways I have the palate of a latchkey kid in 1993. I love a dozen kinds of fast food, sugary breakfast cereals, and yeah, I prefer other recipes over it, but I’m write films of regular Kraft Mac and Cheese/Kraft Dinner.
All of which is to tell you that I’m not sneering down from some Michelin-starred ivory tower when I say that Microwave bowls of Mac & Cheese are FUCKING DISGUSTING. Whatever combination of powdered milk and thickeners and Satan-snot they have to put into the bowls to make the process work at all is just nasty. It’s an abomination before the Lord.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 week ago:
They knew.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 week ago:
Head to your local gen aviation airfield. It’s like Whole Foods for gasoline aficionados!
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 week ago:
One, flashbacks to being about four or five and deciding to try that teacup full of something my dad was using to clean a carburetor or something.
Two, in junior high I did a science project to see what would kill seedlings quickest: bleach, windex, or gasoline. Water was the control.
massive, unpredictable spoiler
It was the gasoline. I was a weird kid.
- Comment on Hey Libtards, if you want my guns you'll have to take it from my cold dead hands 2 weeks ago:
A Boxing Day Story: Revenge of the Bumpas Hounds.
(Yes, I know about It Runs in the Family. It’s not bad, but it’s not the same.)
- Comment on Mom wasn't always right 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but the 400 had it on a spillproof membrane like you’d see on a fast-food cash register. The later models improved the layout but most had much worse switches than the 800.
- Comment on Mom wasn't always right 2 weeks ago:
- You can tell because the keyboard doesn’t actively make you want to kill and/or die.
- Comment on My knee gave out at work today and all I could think of was this 2 weeks ago:
My kid just got me to try Beat Saber on her VR headset.
Nobody told me there would be crouching.
- Comment on Glen Powell spotted on the set of The Running Man - and yes, he was running 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know why, but Glen Powell always makes me think of a wish.com Ed Norton who’s being treated like a wish.com Brad Pitt.
So I guess yeah, he’s a wish.com Tyler Durden.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 4 weeks ago:
Gotta trust the experts on something like this.
- Comment on Jesus Christ 4 weeks ago:
or Josh. 🤣
- Comment on I swear to god 4 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, but I was very much regretting my decision to search for giraffe centaurs at all, and Ms. Curly was a safe enough option with the proportions I was trying to communicate.
- Comment on Jesus Christ 4 weeks ago:
You’re closer to right than you know. This is “The Olive Press” by (in)famous white-Jesus Mormon painter Del Parson. The man paints Jesus through a very, very thick lens of the American Mountain West.
For the record, I had to look up the specific painting, but I grew up LDS, and red-robe white-guy mullet Jesus is a Parson trademark.
- Comment on Before buying this printer, I made a quick search to confirm that it has wifi connectivity... (the algorithm lied to me) 4 weeks ago:
If it does work, though, it’ll be pretty sweet.
- Comment on From moms pov 4 weeks ago:
The fact that it’s all rehearsed and refined and outlined and stage-managed only makes it slightly less bonkers. This is the face these people are CHOOSING to present to the world.
Gets repetitive after a while, though.
- Comment on Ah, the old family favourite 5 weeks ago:
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Skittles Mini Gingerbread House Kit
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The Skittles one is literally visible one box over.
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- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 5 weeks ago:
The only thing I’ll say there is that with burgers you can sometimes get out over your skis and take a tumble. A lot of sit-down places think some giant watery meatball is a good burger. While photogenic, it is not necessarily good, and a short-order smashed patty or (smashed patties) generally taste a lot better and are easier to eat.
The best burgers are almost certainly not fast food burgers, but the worst burgers aren’t either.
- Comment on I swear to god 5 weeks ago:
But in a centaur, the human torso is placed where the horse neck would be.
Yes, with a perfectly normal human torso. Put a human torso in the same spot and…
BOOOORRRING!! 🤣
- Comment on Is there a 'ama' sub? 5 weeks ago:
I had to look it up too, but it was Victoria. She was great as a celebrity wrangler to make sure they understood the vibe and would roll with the weirdness. I’m not entirely sure we need a Victoria just yet either, LOL.
