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  1. Comment on Dubmood - Fighting Words (Razor1911) (2026) in ~music

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    That end credit scroll was wonderful, I love the callout to "all the lame crews" that they have forgotten about.

    That end credit scroll was wonderful, I love the callout to "all the lame crews" that they have forgotten about.

  2. Comment on Today I shipped twenty apps and a screensaver in ~tech

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    Dude, this is impressive. Always been a dream to just pump out a few dozen utilities in quick succession - but twenty at once? Incredible. I don't use the apple ecosystem, but I know this must...

    Dude, this is impressive. Always been a dream to just pump out a few dozen utilities in quick succession - but twenty at once? Incredible. I don't use the apple ecosystem, but I know this must have been an incredible sprint.

    5 votes

  4. Comment on Squarepusher - Kammerkonzert | Full album (2026) in ~music

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    This is incredibly different album than normal Squarepusher, and yet it is so classically squarepusher. This leans more into Jazz than IDM, but it has fair amount of IDM at its core. I added the...

    This is incredibly different album than normal Squarepusher, and yet it is so classically squarepusher. This leans more into Jazz than IDM, but it has fair amount of IDM at its core.

    I added the tag #similar.tom and jerry, because this album would be perfect for a classic tom and jerry scene and I hope it stays, but I know our esteemed tag wrangler @mycketforvirrad will likely remove it )-: lol
    2 votes

  6. Comment on Any male victims from female abuse? in ~life.men

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    Far more prevalent than thought, absolutely. If you take a quick read on the Wikipedia of Domestic violence against men, it both incredibly under reported (roughly a fifth or more compared to...

    Far more prevalent than thought, absolutely.

    If you take a quick read on the Wikipedia of Domestic violence against men, it both incredibly under reported (roughly a fifth or more compared to women who report), and much more prevalent than thought with about a 1/10th to a full fifth of all men being on the receiving end of domestic violence in their life.

    Police are less likely to believe men being abused, doctors as well, and the societal conformity demeans them even more so if they talk openly about it as they continue to receive societal effects of the physical abuse ensuring that less and less people willingly talk about it.

    28 votes

  7. Comment on Street Fighter | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Stylistically, cinematography wise, this looks incredible. If the entire movie is this sort of style, then even if the story is rancid, it will be fun and great to watch. Even if the story is god...

    Stylistically, cinematography wise, this looks incredible. If the entire movie is this sort of style, then even if the story is rancid, it will be fun and great to watch. Even if the story is god awful, I am sort of in hopes that it is, just to be good.

    4 votes

  8. Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech

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    It's not an official Fedora project, it's a derivative of Universal Blue for gaming, which in itself is a derivative of Fedora Atomic, which is an official derivative of Fedora, but the original...

    It's not an official Fedora project, it's a derivative of Universal Blue for gaming, which in itself is a derivative of Fedora Atomic, which is an official derivative of Fedora, but the original Universal Blue images were a derivative of Fedora Silverblue (which was Fedora CoreOS for servers with a Gnome desktop environment added), which created Fedora Kinoite as a derivative replacing Gnome with KDE.

    It's all just a big ball of wibbly wobbly turtles all the way down.

    6 votes

  10. Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech

  11. Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech

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    Are you running them together, or are you running two different systems? I have been tempted to switch from NixOS, because even after five years, the configuration language, the home manager vs...

    Are you running them together, or are you running two different systems? I have been tempted to switch from NixOS, because even after five years, the configuration language, the home manager vs none vs flakes is driving me up a wall. I don't think anyone can deny that the Nix language is abysmal, and the Guix scheme config looks so clean and well documented.

    How is setting up packages that do not exist in the registry? With Nix it's such a pain.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Hungary’s new leader reveals Viktor Orbán diverted Hungarian taxpayer funds toward bankrolling CPAC in ~society

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    This is incredilble. I am at a loss of words. Shocked that a Russian ally was bankrolling the largest conference of american conservatism.

    This is incredilble. I am at a loss of words. Shocked that a Russian ally was bankrolling the largest conference of american conservatism.

    16 votes

  14. Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies

  15. Comment on 'Bloodborne' video game getting R-rated animated movie adaptation in ~movies

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    This could work, only if they really go all in on the gritty steampunk victorian aesthetic and vibe, I imagine something like a dark and evil Van Helsing (or a more mature/focused Abraham Lincoln...

    This could work, only if they really go all in on the gritty steampunk victorian aesthetic and vibe, I imagine something like a dark and evil Van Helsing (or a more mature/focused Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter?) sort of story. Would absolutely need to be more atmospheric than story-filled.

    Hell, it could work if they just rework Vampire Hunter D, which Bloodborne is practically just a love letter to.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on 'Avatar Aang' movie footage seems to have leaked months ahead of Paramount+ premiere in ~movies

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    From the updates on that thread (haven't confirmed myself, nor will), the entire movie has leaked, so certainly not a marketing attempt (unless its just a really good one).

    From the updates on that thread (haven't confirmed myself, nor will), the entire movie has leaked, so certainly not a marketing attempt (unless its just a really good one).

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others in ~science

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    We know what we don't know?

    We know what we don't know?

  18. Comment on Students develop faux but sexy robotic sage grouse to strut their stuff in an effort to move a Grand Teton National Park breeding-ground lek away from jets in ~science

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    Using the (modified) tagline, because that is far more interesting and understandable than that abysmal headline.

    Using the (modified) tagline, because that is far more interesting and understandable than that abysmal headline.

    To reduce strikes and preserve the dwindling colony of greater sage grouse in the valley, a consortium of biologists, ecologists, students and others is trying to establish a new breeding ground south of the Jackson Hole Airport. To draw birds there, a team of high school students manufactured several alluring mechanical avian Chippendales and put them in the field last week.

    “It’s kind of a Frankenbird,” said Gary Duquette, former engineering teacher at the Jackson Hole High School, who now mentors robotics students through the nonprofit Wonder Institute. Powered by car batteries and programmed to gyrate to a sultry sage-grouse soundtrack, the robo-grouse “kind of do a turn, turn, turn, then do their wing, wing, wing,” Duquette said.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on 'Avatar Aang' movie footage seems to have leaked months ahead of Paramount+ premiere in ~movies

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    Link to leaks, this actually looks pretty good, the art style is an evolved version of the OG x Korra, and after the first minute, it just felt right. Even the humor in that first one tracks...

    Link to leaks, this actually looks pretty good, the art style is an evolved version of the OG x Korra, and after the first minute, it just felt right. Even the humor in that first one tracks really well with ATLA, looking forard to this.

    6 votes