I had no idea. I mean plenty of subscription models (including credit cards) still rank platinum higher than gold. Apparently, the value of platinum was higher than gold only for a short amount of time, relatively speaking, from the 1980s to 2010s. Platinum has big industrial applications, but the consistency of gold’s value for alternate currency/holdings outweighed platinum’s volatility
One time I found the most circular rock I’d ever seen. About 2.5" wide, 1/2" thick, smoothly worn by the ocean. It was a pale gray rock with dark speckled pits. It was like a cartoon moon. I took it from the beach, intending to keep it as a souvenir of the trip. It never made it. It was accidentally thrown out in the chaos of leaving a hotel.
I stole that rock from it’s ocean view home and sent it to a landfill. It was just a rock and it tears me up unnecessarily.
Overqualified = they’re going to pay you less than your worth and you’re going to continue job hunting
I’d happily take your input, but it sounds like you’re just disengaging
The older I get, the more I associate with the man who shit the fuck up and just let out a couple tears upon seeing the curvature of the Earth from a U2
Their spinoff shows haven’t been the same, either. It’s less about the cars and more about playing up their personalities. Or I’m just getting older and am tired of Clarkson being a condescending, belligerent prick about everything. To a lesser degree, I’m a bit bored of Hammond as well. Somehow, May is who I enjoy the most. Geek out, dgaf
This is new info to me, so not sure who else, but Paganism isn’t a single system. It’s anything the Christians were trying to erase in Europe. The wildly varying descriptions occur because it was just the negative terms applied to any other group. Going to church is a ritual. Consuming eucharist is a ritual. Priests are channels to their god. Hyms are chants. Prayers are incantations. All just negative terms applied to the out groups.
That’s a possibility. I finally figured out a method, albeit slow, to bring myself to read. It’s become my main passtime on flights. Took 11 months to read Revelation Space, the first book I’ve actually read since like 10th grade. I’m planning to continue the trilogy.
My gripe with Avatar is that it feels shallow in plot, like it’s a sales pitch for the next-gen CGI as it develops new elements. I also got stuck watching 2/Water in 3D, which I hate due to the uncanny forced focus. I get there’s a continued narrative of exploitation of indigenous people’s resources and ecological exploitation in general, but it’s not seeming too deep to me. 1 was blue Pocahontas, 2 was a CGI whaling/Pacific conquering documentary. But I welcome your input, if you’d like to expand my view
I saw half of Dune (1984) after Dune 1 (2021) and wow, I’m glad to see the Villeneuve take continue. I didn’t see it in it’s era, but Star Wars 4 wasn’t nearly as hokey, right?
That’s why I specified “on this platform”, where the demographic leans towards having been 10-20 years old at the time of the movie release and going into IT/coding after that. But I mean, I was being a little facetious with it. It’s a cult classic with some awful interprations of hacking
skateboards into server room
Dune was confusing, cut some details, skipped some time, threw a ton fo universe building at me and god damn did I enjoy it in theaters. Excellent sound, excellent visuals. Dune 2 felt like a political slog, somewhat like Star Wars 2/3, with less action and more exposition. But you know I’ll line up for 3 on the expectation it should be a theater experience.
Can’t say the same for avatar after the water one, so it’s still possible I’ll drop dune if I still can’t figure it out in time
Appreciation of a home and a healthy retirement fund can easily be over a million, so I opted to bump it to billionaire because decamillionaire isn’t as clean. But I guess $1 million is still out of reach for the majority of the US population so it could still be temporarily-embarrassed millionaire all the same. Yet again, it’s the billionaire class convincing the decathousandaires the tax cuts for the ultra rich will make them more money
I go a few times a year. If it’s not opening weekend for a blockbuster sequel (like any main Marvel), the theater is half full at best. I wouldn’t call it a “crowd” experience because you’re all just sitting in assigned seats. It makes the movie the one thing you’re experiencing, and is being shown on a large, high quality screen with a good sound system. I went for Star Wars 1-6 reruns over time because the score is over the top for them. For me, something like Dune, Ad Astra, or Mad Max is way better in a theater for environmental immersion and some excellent audio engineering.
If you watched Interstellar on a laptop and thought it was good, then maybe theaters won’t matter to you. If you didn’t think it deserved the praise for the experience, it was the playback device.
The internet isn’t new. We’ve had home video for a long time. Pretty sure I can still find my laser discs, which played better than my VHS tapes. If you don’t have a home theater, then the commercial theater was where you go for better immersion
Completely disagree on the movies. 95% of movie advertisements are for the big budget, low writing quality blockbusters. More than half of my theater’s current showings are typically original IP (or first-time adaptations) and the majority of award winners are original/first timers. If you’re not seeing the original titles, I don’t believe you’re looking for them
Who’s that US republican congressman that got big mad at trump for using some derogatory mental disability term? And he had the gall to say he’s been a supporter of disability aid ever since his daughter was diagnosed? “I fought against it until I was personally affected because I have the empathetic capacity of a shoe” is his platform, I beleive
You mean the propaganda to convince the middle class they’re just temporarily embarrassed billionaires that will rise to the top with upper class tax cuts?
Can we go back to using the dirty money in donations to build libraries and improving educational systems instead of each billionaire hyping the next hyper surveillance platform and hallucinating aggregators?
I get that for people who had his live Shaggy role their entire lives. Scooby was primarily a cartoon for me. But I was surprised and understanding of him potentially being most famous for Shaggy, as he has like 20 credits to his name. Presumably for a lot of voice work
I dunno, he was in Scream 6 and will be in 7 since apparently they want to keep going with this series. I still see Ghostface masks every year at Halloween. But, sure, I can agree his presence in the movie isn’t as culturally significant.
On the flipside, Shaggy is an existing character to me that happened to be played by Lillard in later adaptations. He’s not the face of Shaggy to me because Shaggy was a cartoon first.
But that’s my take.
I’ve always had a fake one as a kid and continue with them on my own. My spouse always had real ones, but the care and cleanup of a real tree is obnoxious. Gotta keep it watered, gotta keep the needles contained, gotta wrap it in the thinnest fucking bag at the end, gotta vacuum the needles you missed, gotta vacuum the needles that spilled form the bag rips, gotta put it on the curb a certain day. So we do fake. Started with a curb find with dead lights where we just threw more lights on top
I didn’t connect my free Roku TV to the new wifi, and suddenly the remote works like shit. Turns out, it’s a wifi remote that would rather not use infrared and the infrared receiver has been slightly blocked this whole time.
The way to set it up without connecting it to wifi is very hidden. I had to look it up after because I couldn’t figure it out. I fucking hate smart tvs.