Where’s your head at? by Basement Jaxx

No, it’s Darkseid from the same franchise as the post

People forget vitally important details every day . You’d think that medicine you need in order to live, mandatory government hearings, gigantic family events would be impossible to forget but people do it all the time

I’d like to see the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy done well. The cast was pretty good for the movie but the script was a mess. Plus getting to the later books you can get a little weird with it

Honestly the monkey’s paw wouldn’t have to do anything. Back when we had dinosaurs the earth had significantly more oxygen in the atmosphere which helped them be as large as they were. Most dinosaurs would probably slowly suffocate to death today from oxygen deprivation

I’m going to be honest, I didn’t even read it. I just clicked the first link that confirmed what I already knew

Lana Del Rey married some random gator boat tour guide

Correct, it is one of the few

Very few cheese sauces incorporate egg for a good reason. That assumes you give the poster the benefit of the doubt that they’re using real ingredients. Based off the pictures it’s more likely bagged pre-shredded cheese and jarred mayo which probably congreals into an emulsified hunk. Plus the amount of oil here will make you shit your pants

I’ve had this same problem discussing it. I was really surprised by how much I liked this movie and I think it’s because I didn’t know anything going into it. I also know everyone hates getting recommend anything described as “go in totally blind”. I re-watched it within a month and it’s really good the second time around too because:

Out of curiosity how did you watch Megalopolis? I imagine that impacts the experience

That movie is so crazy and I’m glad it exists. My criticism is that it seems to be arguing that utopia is a solarpunk libertarian commune, which are certainly contridictary words to describe something. It’s like it believes in the “free market of ideas” while ignoring that ideas inevitably become actions. Like there was a way to connect Driver’s desire to achieve perfection with the fall of the Roman American empire around him but instead goes for a goofy handwave ending. I think there’s something here but you’d need to do a lot of work to drag it out

Superman/Batman Apocalypse 2/5: despite all the words in the title, this is a super girl movie. I’m not opposed to having a supergirl movie but it’s goofy to get Darkseid involved in the story but make the stakes basically a magical brainwashing. That’s like getting in a property dispute with Thanos

Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl 3.5/5: I got to see this with a live orchestra playing the score. The first one really holds up, and the theme is so good that having a live version is cool. I don’t think this is a must see performance but it’s worth $45

7 Days in Hell 4/5: Basically an ESPN mockumentary. I love getting a mix of real athletes and sports presenters with the actors because sports people can be surprisingly funny in context. It’s a great pregame while everyone gets ready

Roofman 4.5/5: This is a local story so I was pretty excited for it. Channing Tatum is funny and charming while Kirsten Dunst really pulls off a tired southern mom who is just trying as hard as she can. It leans in a little on the whole “reality is stranger than fiction” thing by tying together a few things that didn’t actually happen but nothing that substantially changes the plot. Bonus half star for actually filming on location for a lot of it

Avatar: the Way of Water 3.5/5: There is just so much to talk about with these movies. James Cameron loves the ocean more than I will ever love anything in my life, and you go through a whole journey with him. From “yeah the ocean is cool” to “Jesus Jim, you are corny as hell” to “Alright, I guess I’ll go sign up for snorkeling lessons”. Truly, nothing else looks like this movie, he put so much money and work into building a truly alien world and it’s breathtaking at times, especially in imax

Although, I’m knocking half a point off for the variable framerate. I noticed it a lot during the movie and had to go online to confirm my suspicions but apparently the movie alternates between 48 and 24 FPS in action scenes and dialog scenes. Except it kinda does what the LotR extended cuts do and mixes those styles within a scene. So you can have a shot in 48 fps, cut to someone shouting in 24 fps for half a second and then back to 48. If that sounds jarring that’s because it is

Lots of things theoretically exist: a reasonable terms and conditions, a functioning DMV, a unified charging standard, etc. I’m going to focus my energy on things that are real and not hope someone decides to be morally upstanding. If you’re arguing that the bullshit machine that spreads lies that actively harm people could become so ubiquitous that it fits in any electronic device if we just keep giving it money, then I’d say you’re making my argument for me

Would it? I run a science fiction book club and there’re a lot of arguments that if something achieved human level intelligence that it would immediately try to kill us, not become our perfect servants

Ah, but you see, I never claimed AI isn’t useful. In fact, you can check my comment history. I’ve agreed AI is a very useful tool, I still think it shouldn’t be used for ethical, social, and personal reasons

A problem with nuance is that people want to discuss the specifics and nuances of what they care about but for the most part won’t do that on subjects for other people. So you need to tailor your responses to your audience. FWIW on Lemmy I see a lot more instances of people with specificly opposed takes where both sides have similar vote counts. So while it’s not perfect it’s better than most

AI is untrustworthy and shouldn’t be used

I have management talking about copilot usage rates and I hear people casually refer to “what ChatGPT told them” in conversation

Kick-Ass 3.5/5: We wanted to watch some superhero shit and my friend had missed this. It’s the right mix of grounded and cartoony. Could use less of late 2000s “gotta get the nerd laid” energy but it’s hardly the worst offender

Lawrence of Arabia 5/5: Incredible. 3 hours and 48 minutes and the only thing I’d cut is 5 minute orchestral opening. Absolutely worth seeing in a theater if you can. What unbelievably compelling man, I understand following him across the desert. It’s shocking that Alec Guinness gets away with his role but fuck does he nail it

E.T. 3/5: Hit shuffle on plex and this is what I got. Spielberg is really good at nailing heart in his movies. Which is impressive because that’s a sort of nebulous thing that’s hard to define. The movie lays the groundwork to justify a child’s love saving E.T.'s life but it’s still an overdone narrative

I’m not trying to start a fight with you on this but by what metric do you measure that? To my knowledge institutional trading outpaces retail in terms of total dollars invested, number of trades, and total valuation (as in the total market value of the retail traders is more than the net worth of retail investors)

Every boomer in my life was shouting “you gotta watch this” like it was some revolutionary satire. Then I turn it on and it’s the same jokes and things my generation has been saying for years. There wasn’t anything new about it at all. I felt similarly about Eddington although that was a little better