Iunnrais

@Iunnrais@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe just a touch of cgi, like for the rippling wall when they cross dimensions, or morphing species when hit with the de-evolution ray. But that barely counts. The practical effects and set design were wonderful, and despite the weirdness of the mushroom king, definitely still hold up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Faculty, any day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Mario Bros. No, not the new CGI one, the old live action one. I know I’m not alone in loving this movie, but man is it divisive— those that don’t like like HATE it, and I think that’s the majority opinion.

  I unironically love this movie. It’s not just nostalgia either, though I did watch it as a kid. I also watched the old Zelda cartoon as a kid when it first came out, and I loved it then but I can’t stand it now. No, I’ve watched this movie recently and it still rocks. It’s perfect for what it is, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but you were replying to someone who gave a single specific response that was not bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But the AI said that was not a good resting heart rate, and only many for during exercise if you’re young, which is not wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the digestive tract count as a pneumatic propulsion system?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, your farts are not what propel your poop. Squeezing and relaxing of the tube propels the poop, which is not a pneumatic process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the United States; is it illegal to use a single serve wrapped slice of Kraft cheese as a postcard?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. The “it’s not really good” came from labeling requirements that to be labeled cheese, it needs a certain percentage of its ingredients to be cheese. Once upon a time, American cheese slices were made from the offcuts of cheddar, but the popularity of American cheese means that there literally aren’t enough offcuts to be economical… you’d have to make cheddar just to turn it into American cheese.

  But guess what cheddar is made from? Milk. Turns out, when making American cheese, it’s possible to skip the aging and culturing process and simply go straight from milk into the cheese slice we know, with less than the mandated amount of aged cheddar added. That means they had to write something like cheese product instead of calling it cheese directly.

  But it is still food! In fact, it’s still American cheese… skipping a step in the recipe to get a very similar if not identical result doesn’t change what it is! It uses the same raw ingredients, for crying out loud! It’s still the same stuff!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think your premise is correct. From memory, and scanning a couple episodes illegally uploaded to YouTube, it doesn’t look like Captain Planet flies away at the end. Usually, the scene just transitions to later after he’s gone, but the few times we see it, he dissolves into light, presumably returning the rings powers to the planeteers and disincorporating. He doesn’t go anywhere, he bodily ceases to be.

  Where does his mind go? I think he’s a spirit. Where does team spirit go after the football game is over and everyone goes to bed? It still exists, but it’s not… here. It has to be activated to be tangible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did anyone here ever actually play the Mousetrap board game or use the cards in Operation?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and yes. I followed the rules as a kid. I played the games with the full rules multiple times even, in defiance of everyone saying that everyone only does so once.

  Looking at YouTube playthroughs for nostalgia, it looks like the game rules today have the trap set up to start? When I played, the rules were that you had to build it up slowly over the course of the game, one piece at a time, and only once it was built could it be activated. Yes, I played that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we defederate from rdq2.net?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a statement I hear only from people who think “nazi” means “evil”, and don’t notice that their personal ideology is drifting closer to literal fascism, but since it’s their ideology, what they believe is right, that means it’s not evil. But nazi means evil, so nazi can’t possibly mean their new beliefs.

  But I assure you, it can. And it’s not scope-creep, it’s you-drift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people look at sunsets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The sun high up in the sky produces light that has to go through a thin layer of air to reach you, and is really powerful. It’s so much light that it can burn your retinas. The sun near the horizon produces light that goes through hundreds of miles of atmosphere, scattering a lot of the light, and the remaining light is safe to view.