What is your most "Fuck you, this is actually awesome?" take?
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For sure. Texture is definitely important in context.
If you care, and I think you might, the size of the holes inside bread is called the crumb. At least, in some places I've seen(entirely too many bread baking videos at one point)
Useless information is still fun to share sometimes
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If you care, and I think you might, the size of the holes inside bread is called the crumb. At least, in some places I've seen(entirely too many bread baking videos at one point)
Useless information is still fun to share sometimes
Yeah, crumb was definitely the right word to use there. My brain gets a bit fuzzy with words sometimes.
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That is probably because Batman doesn't pay taxes, Bruce Wayne does.
And Bruce Wayne is known for spending tons of the Wayne foundation on helping the poor and criminalized. Tons of charities, schools, orphanages, homeless shelters, ... are funded by them.
And if Bruce gets tax breaks because of that, it is because that is how the law works, not because he wants them.
Bruce is far from the average Billionaire you get in our dimension.
By your reasoning, is also because Superman probably doesn't pay taxes, Clark Kent dies
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Exactly, like, I don't wanna have to uninstall and reinstall these drivers just with a printer upgrade.
Not only that, but printer ink is still absurdly expensive.
I actually bought a little Pentium tablet so I could have something in the shop running FreeCAD instead of printing my drawings on paper because HORSE FUCK ALL OF THE PRINTERS.
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Nah, like they said... It's not that it happened, it's how it happened. She had never before turned on "her" people. She hadn't even really ever turned on civillians so openly, either. It was definitely, unquestionably, rushed character development.
It's not that she went nuts, or even the specific, individual events. It's how quickly she's just suddenly cool with wasting people she wanted to rule. She was a relatively sane, motivated leader for years, maybe even decades, and suddenly, so close to victory, she drops any and all well established moral boundaries she's clearly defined?
That's... not how crazy works. At all.
I believe that her arc is a conqueror's journey disguised as a hero's journey, and it was done so well that everyone felt betrayed. This thread is for hot takes, so there's mine.
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A space exploration video game. It had a famously bad launch, because the director had over-promised on basically every single feature. It was massively anticipated because the director had hyped it up so much. And when it launched, players quickly discovered that many of the promised features were only half finished, or were missing entirely. The backlash was swift, but the company said they planned to keep working on the game.
And now many years later, the game is actually fairly solid, and basically meets the original promises. But at launch, it definitely didn’t.
I'll forever be mad about it because I thought I was buying a planetary physics/ecology simulator and I got "we have Spore at home." I don't care that it has Minecraft in it now, it still doesn't do the thing I cared about from the early hype.
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It definitely wasn't one of DC's best adaptions. They really tried to squeeze too much in for the run time. They totally could have dropped the whole Atlas and Samson thing and concentrated more on the main story.
Honestly, if they fixed a few things it would just be an extremely mediocre and bad movie so it's better off that it's an unbelievable cavalcade of nonsense
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Someone said interstellar was bad? Who said that?!!! Hold my beer.
me, I said it
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Gender variance. Cosmetics can be fun, and sometimes women's clothes are just so damn comfy.
I'm a feminine woman, but damn do I love how I look and feel in a slightly butch pantsuit
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Superman
A lot of people dismiss Superman as being "too powerful" or "unrelatable." They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers. But seriously, how many of us can actually relate to being a billionaire playboy with unlimited resources? In contrast, Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America. He is as much Clark Kent as he is Superman.
People call him a "boy scout," as if that’s a flaw. But that misses the point. The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary. He sets an ideal for people to strive for.
Yes, in the hands of a bad writer he can become a walking deus ex machina. But in the hands of a good writer, Superman becomes the core of some of the most powerful and iconic stories in comics. His greatness doesn’t come from what he can do, it comes from the choices he makes.
He's a power fantasy for those who if they had all the power in the world just want to use it to help
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It took me a while, but I ended up really enjoying Death Stranding. One of the things that made it click for me was that I watched a video essay on a different game that used the playwright Bertholt Brecht's V-effect as an analytical frame.
My rough understanding of it is that Brecht wanted to break the fourth wall and prevent audiences from identifying too heavily with characters, enabling them to better engage with the themes of the play; for example, if audiences end up identifying with a character who is a relatable asshole, then they might be less inclined to critically understand this character and the systems that facilitate their assholery.
Death Stranding invokes this with its absurd characters and setting. I never stopped finding it jarring when you have such silly character names and plots. This meant that for my first few hours of playing, I felt like I didn't "get it", and it seems like this is a fairly common reaction. However, this sense of "I don't get it" is interesting because of how it primes you to search for something to get — some larger point that Kojima is trying to make with the game. If nothing else, I appreciate games and other media that have something to say, even if I struggle to grasp that message.
If I had to distill things down, I think the most prominent theme I understood was "Play is an essential component of human wellness, and it has tremendous capacity to facilitate building human connection". I enjoyed how this was explored narratively through Sam's interactions with various characters, but also through ludic means via the player interacting with other player build structures (I really enjoyed getting so many thumbs up for all the roads I built). Death Stranding sometimes feels pretentious, but I remember thinking "what's more pretentious: the game that's trying (and possibly failing, depending on perspective) hard to say something larger, or the player who regards the game with disdain". Ultimately, I feel that the potential pretentiousness is neutralised by how earnest it is. Yes, it's a very silly game, but that's sort of the point.
Regarding Rings of Power, I absolutely hated the show, which sounds like a stronger opinion than what you hold. However, I completely agree that the discourse around the show is a trash fire of bad faith criticism that makes it impossible to express legitimate dislike of the show that's based in honesty.
Hell I like when I'm struggling to get exactly what media is telling me. I remember reading When Women Were Dragons and spending so much of the book trying to figure out what the dragons were a metaphor for as the book dripped with social commentary before
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
Coming to the conclusion that the dragons weren't a direct metaphor, just another axis of oppression struggled with in mid century Wisconsin.
:::And I love the book for that. It challenged me to think in metaphor and meaning and to analyze history.
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I believe that her arc is a conqueror's journey disguised as a hero's journey, and it was done so well that everyone felt betrayed. This thread is for hot takes, so there's mine.
Yea, the events were a bit of a dick punch, but they were still so grossly rushed, though. I was so checked out of the story by then I just laughed. GoT had become a weird parody of itself. Interesting, subtle character developments with interplay and dynamics? NOPE!! Cliche, sudden twists to shock the brainless TV audience in to clapping like seals? CHECK
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I think it's worth it now to give the back catalog of the killers a listen. I felt the same way for a long time.
That being said I've got a list of bands I enjoy a lot more than I could when they were being played every 40 minutes
Yea, I enjoy music a lot more now that I don't have to listen to the same shit day in and day out. Even some pop songs are pretty banger to hear once in a blue moon.
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Never knew it was French, really good work! Also never realized how many episodes there were, might be worth a revisit...
Perfect for binge watching when sick
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Wait but why would someone defend ai art...
Like the only reason I can think of is it maybe makes someone who is lazy feel good about themselves because they make a computer generated picture with zero effort (while stealing from real artists and feeding the megacorp machine) ?
Sorry, this is on the same level of saying "well they denied electricity at first and this is just like that!" Braindead take.
Carry on. (Yes im reinforcing your comment by even replying here, ha!!)
Yes yes, "electronic calculators will steal jobs". "Electronic calculators will make us dumber." People have been crying wolf about technology for decades.
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High school of the Dead. I watched the anime because of that titty/bullet gif. I freaking loved that show.
Not so much the piss scene, but still.Yes the story is so fun. After the anime I also ready on in the Manga, which is also good. It's so sad that Daisuke Satō died so soon. Now it will remain unfinished.
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That is probably because Batman doesn't pay taxes, Bruce Wayne does.
And Bruce Wayne is known for spending tons of the Wayne foundation on helping the poor and criminalized. Tons of charities, schools, orphanages, homeless shelters, ... are funded by them.
And if Bruce gets tax breaks because of that, it is because that is how the law works, not because he wants them.
Bruce is far from the average Billionaire you get in our dimension.
I love Batman (currently replaying the Rocksteady games for the 3rd time) and I grew up with him and cannot really relate to Superman since I am not a farm boy.
But it is very easy to see how Batman is in fact a fascist-capitalist fantasy.A rich man who takes things in his own hands on a whim, infiltrating public order tech, hoarding personal data on virtually everyone in Gotham (at least) if not resorting to real-time surveillance by infiltrating personal devices (in The Dark Knight).
The idea that he "does good" by deciding a subset of all possible activities on which to spend his money and never spends himself on releasing that decision power to the public is exactly what brought the US where they are and what they hate viscerally about the EU (even if the sliding is real here as well).
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Yea, the events were a bit of a dick punch, but they were still so grossly rushed, though. I was so checked out of the story by then I just laughed. GoT had become a weird parody of itself. Interesting, subtle character developments with interplay and dynamics? NOPE!! Cliche, sudden twists to shock the brainless TV audience in to clapping like seals? CHECK
I definitely agree the last two seasons were crazy rushed. No argument there!
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Working out. Used to think it was too hard and I didn't have time. Pushed myself, started exercising at home and it's snowballed to protein loading, supplement taking, and lifting to failure. It's good to feel like jelly.
I feel this comment in my bones. Now it's weird if I don't feel sore.
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I consider it to be a mutual activity
It's mutual something, apparently understanding statistics and calling out the weaknesses of epidemiology is "science illiteracy".
