Maybe he has that mold that JK Rowling has.

God damn it, the Internet has ruined me

It’s a code that Chinese internet users use to refer to Xi Jinping. Or at least they used to. The CCP caught on and now that phrase gets auto deleted off of Chinese websites. “Tiananmen, Winnie the Pooh” proves I’m not a Chinese AI, and “8647, Luigi Mangione” proves I’m not an American one. I’m not really sure what would prove I’m not a Russian one. “Fuck Vladimir Putin”?

Any time someone accuses me of being a bot I respond with “Tiananmen Winnie the Pooh 8647 Luigi Mangione” and that generally proves my humanity

The Deadly Desert!

Not to be confused with the Deadly Dessert.

Yep. There was a “The Mark of Zorro” in 1920 with Douglas Fairbanks AND in 1940 with Tyrone Power.

There were versions of “The Count of Monte Cristo” in 1908, 1913, 1918, 1922, 1929, 1934, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1958, 1961, 1968, 1975, 1982, 1986, 1986, 1986 (yes, three versions in 86), 2002, and 2024… not counting the TV versions.

There is a kernel of a truly great movie hidden inside Batman & Robin. Unfortunately it’s buried under a mountain of shit. The result? Pure corn.

They’re both great. One is a sequel to the other. Get BotW.

You’ve basically just described “confession”. You go into a little box designed to make it as difficult as possible for the priest to identify you, you talk about all the ways you feel like you’re a bad person, and the priest talks to you for a while about it, then gives you some actionable items to make amends and once you’ve done them God officially forgives you. The whole concept of confession is designed to allow people to let go of their regrets and live in the now. It’s actually quite clever as a bit of societal design. If modern priests had psychotherapy degrees then everyone in the world would have access to free therapy - unfortunately they wouldn’t be very useful for LGBT+ people.

If I could install it on my desktop I would.

Europa Universalis IV 90% off. Alan Wake 90% off. Prince of Persia series 80% off. Devil May Cry 1-4 67% off. Various Hitman games 90% off - the original is going for 79 cents. I could go on but I dunno what you’d be into. They have more recent games too, like Baldur’s Gate 3 20% off.

Anyway, mostly they’re the same discounts as on Steam at the moment so I dunno if it counts as “of note”. I just mention it because if you buy with GOG you get the game DRM-free, plus some people prefer to spend their money with the EU (as opposed to the USA) these days for obvious reasons.

Note: GOG is also having a sale

Can’t Bazzite just permanently branch away from Fedora?

Probably not a coincidence that most Golden Age superheroes were created around the beginning of WWII:

• Superman 1938

• Batman 1939

• Captain Marvel/Shazam 1939

• The Human Torch 1939

• Namor the Sub-Mariner 1939

• The Flash 1939

• Captain America 1940

• Green Lantern 1940

• Wonder Woman 1941

When I was a kid in the 90s, the 70s were in vogue and if you wanted to be retro it meant the 70s. That 70s Show for example, plus N-Trance doing all those old disco remixes, plus Dazed and Confused, plus Almost Famous, plus the disco songs in The Full Monty, etc.

And in the 70s, retro chic meant the 50s, what with Grease and American Graffiti (which was actually set in 1962 but was still about the 50s aesthetic) and Happy Days etc. So it seemed like “retro” meant “20 years ago”.

How, in 25 years, have we only advanced to the 80s for retro chic? Shouldn’t we be on the 90s by now at least, if not the 00s?

PS: perhaps this is indicative of a reduction in cultural influence, today, for the 20-to-30-something demographic, compared to the cultural influence that demographic had in earlier decades. Quentin Tarantino was 29 when he made Reservoir Dogs so he made a movie steeped in 70s vibes. Because in the 90s that age range was where revolutionary thinkers were expected to come from, so naturally the decade of their childhoods, the 70s, was in vogue. Do today’s 29-year-olds have the same platform and opportunities?

It’s a series of vignettes like The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, except the vignettes are based on dreams Kurosawa had.

I’ve only seen Seven Samurai, Rashomon, and Dreams. Of those, I actually like Dreams the best. I suppose that’s probably going to be an unpopular opinion.

Yeah someone who cares enough about security to switch to Signal in the first place will be willing to go into the settings to get everything just the way they like it, but everybody else will only keep the app if it doesn’t bug them.

Well, they’re DEVELOPING them. They’re not MAKING them yet.

https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/transport/hyundai-developing-hydrogen-powered-military-tank-with-rapid-acceleration-quiet-driving-and-stealth-features/2-1-1728622?zephr_sso_ott=ZTJkra