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Comment on Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends in ~tech
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
Perryapsis Link ParentI guess I need a spoiler tag then, whoops It must be a completely different movie if you don't know what it's about ahead of time. That makes me think about the Hitchcock quote about a hidden bomb...I guess I need a spoiler tag then, whoops
It must be a completely different movie if you don't know what it's about ahead of time. That makes me think about the Hitchcock quote about a hidden bomb underneath a table. If you don't show the bomb to the audience, then they are more surprised when it blows up, but the rest of the scene is boring. If you show the audience the bomb at the start, then the characters can do absolutely anything and there will automatically be tension and a looming sense of dread for the entire scene. So if you didn't know the story of flight 93, I'd imagine that a significant portion of the first half would be boring.
Did you understand the ending right away? The movie just cuts straight to black when the plane crashes, and the final shot before it is just the ground getting slowly closer, slowly, wait, it's speeding up, uh oh, aaaaaah! There's no stereotypical hollywood fireball or excessive visual flair; it's very matter-of-fact about it. If you didn't go into the movie knowing that the plane crashed (and didn't reach its target), I could see that possibly being confusing because it's so sudden.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
Perryapsis LinkI had a relatively slow month in September and only watched 10 movies, half of which were rewatches of things I had seen before ¯\(ツ)/¯. Buy anyway, the highlights were: United 93 (2006) - I like...I had a relatively slow month in September and only watched 10 movies, half of which were rewatches of things I had seen before ¯\(ツ)/¯. Buy anyway, the highlights were:
United 93 (2006) - I like the fly-on-the-wall style storytelling when you already know what's going to happen.
Coyote vs. ACME (2026) - Maybe I'm too juvenile, but most of the humor worked here. The plot is silly, but you don't watch a Looney Tunes movie for the plot.
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (2023) - This is my second-to-last Marvel catch-up movie. It brings the Guardians trilogy to a satisfying conclusion, even if it runs a little long and the villain is a bit over the top at times. It makes me wonder why James Gunn's more recent work has been less well-received.
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Comment on Comerica Park will be renamed to Fifth Third Park starting in 2027 in ~sports.baseball
Perryapsis Link ParentI wish that more teams would name their venues after team legends, like how the Cincinnati Bengals played in Paul Brown Stadium for the longest time, the P*ckers play at Lambeau Field, etc. I...[Team Name] Stadium is horribly unimaginative.
I wish that more teams would name their venues after team legends, like how the Cincinnati Bengals played in Paul Brown Stadium for the longest time, the P*ckers play at Lambeau Field, etc. I don't know my baseball nearly as well as football, but the Tigers have several hall-of-famers they could have chosen from. Ty Cobb is definitely the most famous of the bunch, but probably not the guy you want to name your stadium after nowadays.
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Comment on What are the genuinely worst films of all time? in ~movies
Perryapsis Link ParentYeah, there is a second cut of the movie. I'm not sure which one I watched, so I can't comment on the differences. There are a handful of good jokes (the kids trapped in the fax machine is another...Yeah, there is a second cut of the movie. I'm not sure which one I watched, so I can't comment on the differences. There are a handful of good jokes (the kids trapped in the fax machine is another one), but they wear out their welcome over the course of an entire movie.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
Perryapsis LinkI finally got out to see Spider Man: Brand New Day (2026). It was all well and good, but I don't particularly see why it is rated consistently a bit higher than Homecoming, Far From Home, and No...I finally got out to see Spider Man: Brand New Day (2026). It was all well and good, but I don't particularly see why it is rated consistently a bit higher than Homecoming, Far From Home, and No Way Home. It has also had more box office success than its predecessors, but it felt about the same as the other movies in the series to me. I don't have any strong feelings about the film, but there is one joke (with a spoiler) that I have the urge to make:
**Spoiler Warning!**
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Comment on What are the genuinely worst films of all time? in ~movies
Perryapsis Link ParentI can speak to this one. I found the blu-ray cheap and decided to get it out of curiosity about its reputation. The entire movie is a series of comedy sketches tied together with a framing story...I can speak to this one. I found the blu-ray cheap and decided to get it out of curiosity about its reputation.
The entire movie is a series of comedy sketches tied together with a framing story of a man pitching them to a film executive. The comedy ranges from bad to meh (although I'm sure some will say that "skit XYZ was actually funny") and spans everything from slapstick to cringe/taboo. All the sequences were written and directed by different people, so there is no coherent throughline and no returning characters except in the framing story, which the movie itself kneecaps halfway through. It really feels like a bunch of 10-minute YouTube videos stitched together.
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Comment on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in ~tech
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Comment on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in ~tech
Perryapsis Link/noise This article summarizes a long YouTube video./noise
This article summarizes a long YouTube video.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
Perryapsis Link ParentI've really been striking out on full-on comedies, so Planes et al. was kinda just the next in that line. Arsenic and Old Lace is the only one to really buck the trend. How do you distinguish...I've really been striking out on full-on comedies, so Planes et al. was kinda just the next in that line. Arsenic and Old Lace is the only one to really buck the trend.
How do you distinguish "Oscar bait"? Midsommar was also more of an artsy, less crowd-pleasing type of movie, but you didn't include it as Oscar bait.
Having played The Last of Us, it was really interesting to see all the parallels/influence from Children of Men.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
Perryapsis LinkMy August in summary: Exceeded expectations: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Following (1998) Disappointing (not necessarily bad, can also be "meh" to...My August in summary:
Exceeded expectations:
- Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
- Following (1998)
Disappointing (not necessarily bad, can also be "meh" to highly-reviewed films):
- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Midsommar (2019)
- Inside Out 2 (2024)
Other notables watched:
- Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
- Castle in the Sky (1986)
- Children of Men (2006)
- Atonement (2007)
- Your Name. (2016)
- Avengers Endgame (2019)
Want to watch soon:
- Spiderman Brand New Day
- Guardians of the Galaxy 3 (and more MCU catch-up)
- Passion of the Christ, Endgame, and Princess Mononoke theatrical re-releases
- Coyote vs. ACME (maybe?)
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Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games
Perryapsis Link ParentI mean, they were if you go back far enough.On consoles, games were physical objects. On PC, they never really were.
I mean, they were if you go back far enough.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
Perryapsis Link ParentSpoilers Infinity War was pretty good. It was surprising to see the villain actually win, since Marvel doesn't do that. It manages to handle the huge number of characters well. Endgame was still...Spoilers
Infinity War was pretty good. It was surprising to see the villain actually win, since Marvel doesn't do that. It manages to handle the huge number of characters well. Endgame was still good, but a step down from Infinity War. I'll probably take the chance to watch it again in theaters in September. But it doesn't manage the large number of characters as well; by splitting the party three ways, it runs a bit too long. I also hadn't seen the Thor movie that they went back to, so I bad to pick up that backstory as they went along, whoops. My biggest issue is that if we're going to use time travel to change the outcome of a past movie, then how can any of the movies going forward have any real stakes?
I thought that all the Marvel Spiderman movies have been just okay. Not bad by any means, but generic super hero fare. I don't have significant attachment to Spiderman as an IP (although I have seen the Raimi movies), so maybe that's part of it. But I've also seen that Brand New Day is reviewing better than all of them, so that's encouraging. Far From Home is unmemorable besides the cliffhanger. No Way Home is a little too fanservicey with the three Spider Men. It's cool to see them initially meet each other and fight together, but all the "ooh, you fought the guy with three arms? I fought a guy made of dust" in-between really dragged on for a while. It's also kinda like Endgame in the sense that, if we're going to use
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
Perryapsis LinkI just watched Spider Man - No Way Home (2021) as a part of my Marvel catch-up. Do I need to watch any of the other Marvel movies of the past five years in order to understand Brand New Day? I've...I just watched Spider Man - No Way Home (2021) as a part of my Marvel catch-up. Do I need to watch any of the other Marvel movies of the past five years in order to understand Brand New Day? I've been doing my catch-up in release order, but I would break that rule to catch Brand New Day since it's still in theaters. However, I also want to avoid "oh yeah, character X died in the interim" or something like that to leave me confused or spoil another one of the movies in-between.
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Comment on What are your current pain points with Linux? in ~tech
Perryapsis LinkAs a noob (I switched to Mint in the spring of 2024), my only current concern is a lack of experience migrating to a new computer. My current one is "it was slightly above mid-range at Best Buy in...As a noob (I switched to Mint in the spring of 2024), my only current concern is a lack of experience migrating to a new computer. My current one is "it was slightly above mid-range at Best Buy in 2019"-grade and really showing its age. I'd like to replace it, but I'm not sure what hardware would (a) even be an upgrade over what I have now at a cost I can afford, and (b) be easy to set up for someone who specifically looked for the best drop-in replacement for Windows when I initially switched.
I had issues when I first installed Mint and echo chocobean's point:
The guides make it painfully easy --- except when it doesn't work like the guide says. Then it's sheer panic and I feel so stupid and I don't have any of the background to even begin to problem solve.
I don't want to buy a new PC, get halfway through installing Mint (since it will always come with Windows straight from the store), screw it up, not be able to fix it, not be able to return it to the store either at that point because I opened/modified it, and end up with a $1500 paper weight. I've avoided dealing with it for a while just due to the cost of a computer these days, but I installed Mint on a separate partition on a detachable spinning-rust HDD that isn't getting any younger, so it's going to come to a head at some point.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
Perryapsis Link ParentI wanted to see it, but my local theater wasn't showing it :/ When you say that they used real car sounds, do you mean that they didn't foley in the sound in post-production, or do you just mean...I wanted to see it, but my local theater wasn't showing it :/
When you say that they used real car sounds, do you mean that they didn't foley in the sound in post-production, or do you just mean that they didn't replace the noise with "generic_car_sound_effect_37.mp3"?
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Comment on 2026 preseason AP college football rankings in ~sports.american_football
Perryapsis Link ParentPeople on /r/CFB joke about Cignetti getting a statue at Indiana. If he can repeat again this year, it will stop being a joke. I'm really curious to see how well he does with all the roster...People on /r/CFB joke about Cignetti getting a statue at Indiana. If he can repeat again this year, it will stop being a joke. I'm really curious to see how well he does with all the roster turnover.
The blue bloods will probably bounce back relatively well. I'm probably more bearish than most on Mississippi sans Kiffin and expect them to drop this year. BYU, I have no idea.
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Comment on 2026 preseason AP college football rankings in ~sports.american_football
Perryapsis Link ParentA 4-8 team getting votes is definitely surprising. Did you guys have an amazing recruiting class? Or it could just be a homer doing homer things because it's just the preseason poll.A 4-8 team getting votes is definitely surprising. Did you guys have an amazing recruiting class? Or it could just be a homer doing homer things because it's just the preseason poll.
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Comment on KPop Demon Hunters Criterion Collection release in ~movies
Perryapsis Link ParentCriterion traditionally runs a half-off sale at Barnes and Noble during the month of November. This must be their headliner release for the sale.November 3rd
Criterion traditionally runs a half-off sale at Barnes and Noble during the month of November. This must be their headliner release for the sale.
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Comment on 2026 preseason AP college football rankings in ~sports.american_football
Perryapsis LinkEarlier today, the Associated Press released their first college football rankings of the 2026 season. Are there any other sportsball fans on Tildes who would like to talk about them?...Earlier today, the Associated Press released their first college football rankings of the 2026 season. Are there any other sportsball fans on Tildes who would like to talk about them?
AP-affiliated sportswriters are selected from around the country in order to create an unbiased group of voters. A certain number of writers are chosen from each state with a top-level football team, and states with more teams get more voters (but it isn't one-to-one). This year, there are a total of 69 voters. Each voter ranks their top 25 teams each week, and the overall rankings are created using a Borda count.
Rankings inside a spoilerbox because they take a lot of vertical space
Rank Team Points 1 Ohio State 1672 (40) 2 Oregon 1597 (14) 3 Georgia 1513 4 Notre Dame 1510 (6) 5 Texas 1483 6 Indiana 1440 (8) 7 Miami (FL) 1379 (1) 8 Texas A&M 1131 9 Mississippi 1102 10 Oklahoma 1047 11 Louisiana State 988 12 Texas Tech 983 13 Alabama 904 T-14 Brigham Young 839 T-14 Southern California 839 16 Michigan 718 17 Washington 501 18 Penn State 482 19 Southern Methodist 434 20 Tennessee 394 21 Utah 304 22 Iowa 260 23 Houston 252 24 Louisville 198 25 Missouri 117 Also ran: Clemson 112, Florida 51, Boise State 43, Arizona 32, Texas Christian 11, Navy 10, South Carolina 10, Illinois 9, Oklahoma State 8, Vanderbilt 8, Pittsburgh 7, Virginia Tech 6, Minnesota 5, Nevada-Las Vegas 4, New Mexico 4, Georgia Tech 4, James Madison 3, Auburn 3, Memphis 2, California 2, Liberty 1, Western Michigan 1, Tulane 1, Virginia 1
I typically only go to Amazon when I can't find an item anywhere else, and it's interesting to see how that gives them a distorted view of who I am. Only one line item really surprised me, and about half of them were incredibly mundane like "owns a car" and "lives in [town where I have things delivered]," etc.