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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Box Office Rebound? Captain America, Black Bag, Mickey 17 Struggle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol well that makes me happy. Count this as one strangers active contribution and keep up the good fight :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will Box Office Rebound? Captain America, Black Bag, Mickey 17 Struggle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all income inequality. Start talking about taxing the rich. You don’t even have to do anything super active, just passively agree with and educate yourself on taxing the rich. We can fix society and go back to (or forward depending on who we’re talking about) better economic realities for the vast majority of people simply by taxing the rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Studio Ghibli's "Princess Mononoke" is being remastered in 4K and re-released in IMAX on March 26th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d buy a UHD disk in a heartbeat. I’m in the market for all great to good films to come to the UHD format.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Mickey 17' Sinks at Box Office to $18.5 Million Opening Weekend⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that’s a poor or reductive reading of what I wrote at best.

  Spoilers

  • I don’t like that the ship is shown to have tons of fanatical applicants and be a religious/corporate vessel under the donation and control of a crazed politician and yet the rebellion comes out of no where and is successful.
  • I don’t like that Mickey has a personality matrix and yet he explicitly gets cloned with two very different matrixes when they go multiple. I thought this was a hint that Mickey 18 didn’t have a soul but the serial killer they showed us seemed to have identical personalities across all three of them.
  • I didn’t like that the love interest bad ass cop whose main traits are badass, loyal, horny, druggie, and on a fanatical religious ship gives a speech at the end about colonialism. It didn’t feel foreshadowed, it didn’t feel in character, it wasn’t stylized or clever to justify the over-the-topness like the politician or his wife. It felt like a stand in for the director or audience. In fact the whole last act felt like cheap therapeutic “bad guys losing” porn you were supposed to live vicariously through because everything up to that point justified why they would lose.
  • I didn’t like that the head of the rebellion’s only other scene was when he caught the piece of shit friend dealing drugs and seemed shady. Again, the rebellion came out of no where for me.
  • I didn’t like that there was little corporate political commentary by the end of it all. It was mostly a silly over the top scenario but it didn’t feel like it said anything. Comparing this to Moon, as an example, feels horrible.
  • I didn’t like some of the retroactive explanations like the vaccine was actually now a nerve toxin. I didn’t like the translator coming out of no where for no reason.
  • I didn’t like that they kept any bi-sexual/lesbian hints entirely encapsulated and removable presumably for the Asian market. Like either commit or don’t you cowards.

  Generally, again, the story felt like its premise won me over in the first half. Out of sheer excitement for what could happen I enjoyed the first bit. The stellar acting from the main character and the political couple and the shitty friend was really nice. I also enjoy sci-fi films in general. But by the end none of the possibilities came to fruition and none of the threads felt connected or meaningful. Even in memory the sci-fi aesthetic is fading for me next to movies like Romulus or shows like Secret Level that had more enjoyable eye candy in set design and technology.

  5 or 6 / 10

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Mickey 17' Sinks at Box Office to $18.5 Million Opening Weekend⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t love the film. I enjoyed the story up until the main romantic interest gave a long shouting speech at the politician that didn’t feel fully earned or signposted. The entire last 20 mins or so was the director doing his seemingly common practice of failing to stick the landing and instead going with a disney-esque ending.

  In retrospect, as we discussed the movie for the rest of the night, the themes felt disjointed and the plot less interesting than it could have been. There was a lot of value given to the movie because it seemed like it could be interesting but when the end credits rolled and none of it came to fruition that loan came due and the movie couldn’t pay it back.

  Definitely praise worthy for Robert Patterson’s acting. I wish the film had been more focused with its themes or the world building been committed to.

  Spoilers

  Wouldn’t it have been more interesting if the religious colonization ship was actually full of fanatical red hats instead of what felt like a decent diverse group of level headed albeit corporate people? Wouldn’t it have been more interesting for the bad guys to win, and for the bugs to be killed, and for the colony to either be left in a sorry state or fast forwarded to their early demise? It could have been a message about how “if you vote for idiots and give them complete control and treat them like saviors you’re going to get idiots in power making idiot decisions.” Which I think would have been more timely and poignant.

  I think there were a lot of ways the film could have gone that would have been more cohesive and interesting but instead it felt like it had a lot of great ideas it wanted to explore and failed to explore most of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Censors #Democrat when searched for⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I confirmed. I live in Germany and hashtags like democrat or berniesanders are blocked and hashtags like Republican and donaldjtrump are not blocked.

  I was only on Instagram for my friends to exchange reels and post life updates like once a year but this crosses another line. Migrating from all these monopolies is such a tax on my time but this is a small way to hurt these big giants.

  I recommend everyone do the same when they have the time. I’d like to learn about RSS feeds and go back to a bunch of individual blogs for friends and family. Decentralized power is I guess the most important characteristic to look for these days. Fuck, this correction period is going to suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has "Self-Driving" devolved?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate these comments saying the tech hasn’t degraded and it’s been standstill, or that it was never great in the first place, all of which is true but I would like to interject my own Model 3 experience. When we first bought the Tesla in 2019 the self driving functionality on the highway felt safe and functional in nominal conditions. When we sold the Tesla 2 years ago (2022) the self driving felt noticably more finicky. It struggled to switch lanes, recognize when lanes started and ended, and had noticably more issues with maintaining proper speed and distance with other cars.

  It probably wasn’t significantly more dangerous, but it felt like it was. What was a feature we used for the first year or two without much complaint turned into something we never used and our driving time when down in that third year not up so it wasn’t exposure time I don’t think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Isolation sequel in early development, with original director returning⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never finished it because the alien would teleport too much. I need to install the larger leash mod and give it another go. It’s also sooo long for such a tense game. I loved everything about it and I’m upset I haven’t finished it lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read it, I read the discussion around it, idk man. One guy’s thoughts on a company and it’s founder isn’t enough to move me off of something without better proof, better alternatives, and worse crimes than maybe having a bad long term vision.

  Hopefully every company outgrows it’s founder and becomes a system. We’ll have to see, right now I’m satisfied and that gets me off Google and signals to others I’m willing to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend Kagi, I’ve been using it for about six months now and results - especially small web results like blogs - are so much better. I also have a pretty good time image searching compared to when I was on Google.

  Yes it’s paid, but that to me is the price of resisting enshittification. Find a company that isn’t a publicly traded for-profit world-burner and pay them for their service. Is the idea of paying for email and search an alien concept to me? Yes. But I’m either paying Google whatever €120 a year in eyeballs on ads and an increasingly worse experience, or I’m paying €80 a year and getting a markedly better experience.

  Now it’s up to Kagi and Proton to not turn into shitty companies while other competitors catch up and we have a thriving ecosystem again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path Of Exile 2 Begins Early Access Later This Year And Is Coming To PS5⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m stoked, the ARPG genre feels stale. Hopefully they keep up what seems to be engaging combat. No rest for the wicked is still in early access and D4/LE/POE1 have very unrewarding combat IMHO.

  This can’t come soon enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem ceases development, will shut down multiplayer in September⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it on launch with friends. It was an arpg with better combat than most and pretty great graphics. Those are ALL of the positive things I have to say about it. It was so buggy it was hard to play without crashing. We lost progression multiple times. The servers were atrocious, the first 6 hours of playtime were trying to log in and not crashing. We ended up refunding it obviously.

  Unfortunately the ARPG genre is super stale right now and we were looking to support any project we could. No rest for the wicked is the best thing to come out in ages and it’s still got a ways to go in EA before I give it a proper play through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the fuck reads the entire steam page? My friend says buy the game, the reviews say it’s great with friends, you go and buy the game not scan the steam page for predatory data hoarding policies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨**THE CREATOR Discussion Megapost** 2023-09-29 👶🔫⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing this tomorrow. Watched a YouTube review or two that got me kinda hyped but you guys brought me back down to ground level. Bummer if it really turns out to be that generic.