Pronell
@Pronell@lemmy.world
- Comment on What are you watching and, what do you recommend this week? 1 week ago:
Duster came out on HBO and I loved the pilot. Stars are Josh Holloway, Keith David, Sydney Elizabeth, and the 1970s.
My wife and I are now determined to bring ‘Far Out’ back.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 2 weeks ago:
I’d give it a shot, but I honestly leave my home only once a week, which makes these types of games less appealing to me.
I almost never travel either.
I’d still play a game that let me use/invest in local resources generously, and unlock more areas with travel.
I’d never be competitive in such a game, but I’m comfortable with that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What works for you, works for you.
It may be possible to slowly wean yourself off of these behaviors that are worrying you. If it’s down to once a month, there isn’t as much of a jump to zero times a month, but maybe sometime. And then once it’s been a year, congratulate yourself for that and keep going.
Habits are hard to break and much easier to fall into. But if you are more conscious of these decisions, it all becomes a little bit easier with time.
That kind of mindfulness is a skill that is hard to develop, but your post leads me to think you’re already on your way.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a tactic I’ve seen widely used, especially by the assholes we are talking about.
Words have meaning to us, and fascists love that because they are not beholden to any truth at all.
- Comment on (i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, then I guess I don’t know how to interpret that.
- Comment on (i feel really stupid asking, but what the hell!) could i be of french descent? 2 weeks ago:
Maps cannot answer that question.
Genealogy could, but has its downsides.
- Comment on What are some examples of series that only have a good first season, and should be dropped after that? 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. I like the following seasons okay but the first season is nearly perfect on its own.
- Comment on Charlie Cox Calls Fan-Favorite Marvel Crossover His Least Favorite ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Episode: ‘I Wasn’t Into It’ 3 weeks ago:
Bank robberies are a cliche, but it’s always neat to see the new approaches to a cliche.
Justified’s bank robbery episode comes to mind (s2e6, Blaze of Glory) where it all shakes out that only two old men are left for the final showdown.
- Comment on After ‘Suits’ and ‘Royal Pains,’ It’s ‘Psych’s Turn for a Potential Revival 4 weeks ago:
I’d love to see more, but since the cast never got along, I doubt we will ever get more Fringe.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 5 weeks ago:
Hour by hour, my job evolved from taking calls from clients who owed us money, to then answering questions from agents who weren’t as skilled at it as I was.
In the process of being promoted, I was asked to join a daily meeting of over 100 people talking about the issues affecting our department.
Once in a great while, something came up in that meeting that gave me the heads up to prevent chaos in our department and stress to members.
There’s a whole shitload of cogs turning in modern corporations. There’s also a huge danger of people leaving and nobody understanding why the cogs are there.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
My Dad is a Buddhist, so I have some knowledge and respect for that philosophy/faith.
But yes, he was a hippy too.
And I think he would agree that this question is poorly formed at least. But then I’ve never heard my Dad talk about chakras either.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There is a !Buddhism@lemmy.world community.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 1 month ago:
I remember Knight Moves too! Christopher Lambert was never a great actor but I enjoyed watching him work nonetheless.
- Comment on Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back 1 month ago:
It was Heinlein taking the “only veterans should be able to vote” to a logical end. A society that’s always at war because the ruling class are all military.
The opening pages tell you the reality - land on planets and nuke the bugs, even if there’s intelligent life there. And use all those nukes, we don’t want to bring those back to the ship. It’s heavy and inefficient.
After that, we step into the eyes of a high school student being indoctrinated.
Heinlein wrote the book extremely well, but many fail to see the whole picture. He didn’t approve nor disapprove. He just took a stance his father had always held and crafted a world where that was the reality.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 1 month ago:
“Bunny! Ball ball!!”
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 1 month ago:
Hudson Hawk.
Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello are cat burglars who synchronize their movements by singing, which does not seem at all subtle or stealthy.
It’s batshit insane. But it’s also very fun. I saw it in the theater.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 1 month ago:
Games have been around the $50-$70 mark my entire life.
It’s a sad reality, but I expect prices of major mainstream games to go up, regardless of tariffs.
- Comment on ‘A female Donald Trump’: how Gina Rinehart is pushing the Maga message in Australia 1 month ago:
And just like Trump, freaks out over a portrait.
- Comment on Rachel Reeves just doesn’t get it. None of us should pay tax on savings 1 month ago:
They will never tax the rich without taxing passive income.
But of course they’re also going after the little guy first.
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 1 month ago:
Unfortunately his behavior continued on set. Creepy dude.
But his character wasn’t meant to be, and I need to remember that from time to time.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 months ago:
Just don’t watch the movie that followed the series. It’s not worth it.
- Comment on This watchdog is tracking how AI firms are quietly backing off their safety pledges 2 months ago:
Pledge?
It’s a cleaner. You spray it on and then wipe it off.
deep sigh
- Comment on The experiment requires that you continue 2 months ago:
I remember, Sammy Jankis!
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
Yeah, 2nd edition d&d was far, far more brutal than 5e.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I should’ve given the full context - when I was a kid watching the news with my parents it was likely late in the Carter administration, or early in Reagan’s. So yeah, fully agreed.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And this is why the Left can’t win.
It’s too obsessed with purity and infighting to focus on the true enemy.
The fascists, on the other hand, focus on the true enemy, then focus on purity and infighting!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The gish gallop has gone mainstream.
What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.
I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.
Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with “And who is currently profiting?” is and always has been beyond me.
…I’m not sure that’s a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.
My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, “This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating.”
For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.
Sorry, this probably isn’t coherent but I’m tired and tipsy, and I’ve chosen to hit save.
- Comment on pain plant 2 months ago:
There’s a book called The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, which is about this. Looking from the plants eye view of things, they have manipulated us into growing them in a huge variety of environments. The book focuses on tulips, cannabis, apples, and potatoes, iirc. Fascinating book.
Two quick examples from the book:
Pot gets us high, now we grow it in closets, warehouses, yards, basements, attics, etc.
Apples don’t reproduce true from seed, so Johnny Appleseed brought readily available cider to the Americas. (You need a cutting of an apple tree to grow that type of apple.)
- Comment on 'Starship Troopers' Remake Set From 'District 9' Director Neill Blomkamp 2 months ago:
I’d love to see a movie that actually adapts the book. Heinlein has written that the book carried through to a logical end what happens when only veterans can vote: They find a way to always be at war with something.
Hence the war with the bugs, which are everywhere, different, and just scary enough.
An actual adaptation of the book will not detract from the prior movie, which nailed the propaganda but little else.
- Comment on What is your single favourite movie soundtrack? 2 months ago:
Fight Club.
That Dust Brothers soundtrack stands well enough on its own.
