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Comment on Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ reportedly a “mess” in the edit after shooting without a finished script and packing in over sixty roles in ~movies
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Comment on Marvel’s ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ reportedly a “mess” in the edit after shooting without a finished script and packing in over sixty roles in ~movies
myrrh Link Parent...i wonder if their hands were tied contractually against recasting kang?..they've certainly held no such hesitation toward recasting in previous films, not always for the best......i wonder if their hands were tied contractually against recasting kang?..they've certainly held no such hesitation toward recasting in previous films, not always for the best...
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Comment on An oil boom, a supermarket opportunity and decades of adaptation transformed the taco from a Tex-Mex import into one of Norway's most beloved traditions in ~food
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...furthermore, mexican cuisine is vast and varied, so even the idea of 'authentic' mexican food is kind of farcical in the face of distinct regional culinary traditions across mexico (including......furthermore, mexican cuisine is vast and varied, so even the idea of 'authentic' mexican food is kind of farcical in the face of distinct regional culinary traditions across mexico (including texas)...
...most americans think of tex-mex or southern california as mexican food, and that's perfectly legitimate to distinguish each as its own recognisable cuisine, ambiguous regional nomenclature notwithstanding...
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Comment on There is no reason to buy another PlayStation or Xbox in ~games
myrrh Link Parent...where do you live?..stateside average, housing starts around $1600 per month and an inexpensive meal runs about $15, which is quadruple what i paid in the nineties when my take-home pay was......where do you live?..stateside average, housing starts around $1600 per month and an inexpensive meal runs about $15, which is quadruple what i paid in the nineties when my take-home pay was $800 per month and new AAA games first retailed for $60-70...
...were games a self-indulgent luxury then?..absolutely, but the entertainment value per dollar still beat pretty much everything other than public libraries, and since retail pricing of videogames hasn't significantly changed in three decades, games are cheaper than they've ever been relative to inflation, and stupid-cheap on sales...
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Comment on There is no reason to buy another PlayStation or Xbox in ~games
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...when it's well below 5% of average rent for a single bedroom, then yeah, that's within the range of discretionary income for most households...perhaps you're fortunate not to have been caught......when it's well below 5% of average rent for a single bedroom, then yeah, that's within the range of discretionary income for most households...perhaps you're fortunate not to have been caught up in recent cost-of-living inflation, but money isn't worth nearly what it was even ten years ago, let alone three decades ago when the modern retail price of videogames first crystalised...
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Comment on Memory is too expensive so I made my own (DIY Core Memory) in ~comp
myrrh Link Parent...about 64 cubic feet at peak core memory density, so a four-foot cube might work?..that's WOPR-size, substantially smaller than i anticipated......about 64 cubic feet at peak core memory density, so a four-foot cube might work?..that's WOPR-size, substantially smaller than i anticipated...
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Comment on Stellantis to sell small Fiat Topolino electric vehicle for $13,995 in US in ~transport
myrrh Link Parent...the MX-5 is actually our large car; the elise can clear trailer undercarriages and some road barricades even though it appears the same size at casual glance... ...but yeah, either one will get......the MX-5 is actually our large car; the elise can clear trailer undercarriages and some road barricades even though it appears the same size at casual glance...
...but yeah, either one will get casually mown over if you keep pace with traffic, or backed-into on surface streets; defensive driving and quick reflexes are a must...
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Comment on Stellantis to sell small Fiat Topolino electric vehicle for $13,995 in US in ~transport
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...i commute tiny roadsters in a sea of oversized trucks and you absolutely need to drive like a motorcycle for personal safety: assume that nobody can see you and pull through traffic above the......i commute tiny roadsters in a sea of oversized trucks and you absolutely need to drive like a motorcycle for personal safety: assume that nobody can see you and pull through traffic above the 85% flow rate so you control the relative motion of vehicles around you, rather than wait for them to plow through oblivious to your presence...
...that doesn't necessarily take much power, but if you can't accelerate to sixty in ten seconds or reach 85 miles per hour, you're going to struggle to keep up with basic highway safety in a tiny car...
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Comment on Stellantis to sell small Fiat Topolino electric vehicle for $13,995 in US in ~transport
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...NEVs have been a thing since the turn of the millennium but, like e-bikes, at a certain point the resemblance to proper road cars will attract greater regulatory scrutiny... ...they're......NEVs have been a thing since the turn of the millennium but, like e-bikes, at a certain point the resemblance to proper road cars will attract greater regulatory scrutiny...
...they're surprisingly ubiquitous in semi-rural texas suburbs as supplemental family transportation; i usually see them at households which already have one or two large pickup trucks and maybe a boat or off-road motorbikes as a more practical alternative for a secondary neighborhood runabout...i could see something like this getting a lot more primary utility in urban centers, but parking and charging infrastructure are a challenge in those dense environments...
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Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts
myrrh Link Parent...those are western cultural associations with a lot of natural, biological, philosophical, and mathematical baggage behind them......those are western cultural associations with a lot of natural, biological, philosophical, and mathematical baggage behind them...
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Comment on Modern, abstract art makes me angry in ~arts
myrrh (edited )Link...your reactions aren't entirely unfounded; lazy art has festered in the margins for as long as patronage has been a thing, just as in any industry where commerce offers quick opportunity for......your reactions aren't entirely unfounded; lazy art has festered in the margins for as long as patronage has been a thing, just as in any industry where commerce offers quick opportunity for easy money, but it's not at all exclusive nor even endemic to modern styles...that said, older art tends to survive on merit whereas newer art hasn't yet been subjected to the same historical and contextual filters of appreciation, so the signal-to-noise of modern art may take a bit more work to appreciate...
...today, historical filters are fairly easy to grok, but what about contextual filters?..they're really two ways of looking at the same phenomenon, although context comes more freely after history has done most of the heavy lifting for us...so much of understanding art is dependent upon context but, in our modern age of mass-media saturation which frames our perception of the world around us in layers upon layers of unspoken and even unconscious assumptions, the tyranny of invisible cultural paradigms profoundly colors our perception of reality, and at its heart, modern art is about breaking through those paradigms to show naked truths which lay hidden on the other side...
...robert hughes' the shock of the new was a landmark documentary series worth watching entirely on its own merit but, as an exploration of modernism and the paradigm shifts which fueled the movement, it may help transform your appreciation of modern art (and that is in fact its mission)...
...it's fair to call the shock of the new the modern-art counterpart to cosmos; they were both productions of the same era, aired with landmark companion books, and critically-lauded as triumphant surveys of their respective fields by celebrated educators...
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Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles in ~games
myrrh Link Parent...with sony?..i don't know about games but this was literally last week's headline......with sony?..i don't know about games but this was literally last week's headline...
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Comment on Jamie Hyneman on MythBusters fame and why he and Adam Savage never socialized in ~tv
myrrh Link Parent...i think videos are a particular case where tags don't cut it unless the video is accompanied by a textual narrative at the other end of the link......i think videos are a particular case where tags don't cut it unless the video is accompanied by a textual narrative at the other end of the link...
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Comment on The BBC went behind the scenes as the score for the blockbuster James Bond video game was recorded in ~music
myrrh Link...is it a blockbuster game?..like, are we talking goldeneye critical acclaim?.....is it a blockbuster game?..like, are we talking goldeneye critical acclaim?..
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Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...it transforms into an entirely different experience with crispy bread, melty cheese, and warm meat - cold ingredients are added separately, after toasting - but each are great in their own......it transforms into an entirely different experience with crispy bread, melty cheese, and warm meat - cold ingredients are added separately, after toasting - but each are great in their own way...
(mind, i quit eating meat fourty years ago, so it's been a long while since i've eaten a traditional muffaletta rather than a vegetarian variant, but they're all delicious)
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Comment on What do you think is the best sandwich? in ~food
myrrh (edited )Link...a well-made muffaletta, especially toasted, is really tough to beat......a well-made muffaletta, especially toasted, is really tough to beat...
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Comment on Are there any games that had their development abandoned that you followed where you wish that continued/completed development? in ~games
myrrh (edited )Link...full throttle absolutely needed no sequel, but i would have liked to play another game with father torque.........full throttle absolutely needed no sequel, but i would have liked to play another game with father torque...
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Comment on How Finland's forest fruits became a criminal industry – Nordic berries are big business but human trafficking and market rigging have revealed the unpalatable truth behind the superfood boom in ~food
myrrh Link...superfoods are such a marketing-curated concept; i've read similar stories of big-capital-exploitation ravaging small regional markets over and over this century as marketing trends evolve to......superfoods are such a marketing-curated concept; i've read similar stories of big-capital-exploitation ravaging small regional markets over and over this century as marketing trends evolve to the next under-exploited capital opportunity, and i expect if one looks closer it goes back as deep as the history of mass markets served by merchant traders...
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Comment on Alternatives to a straw hat in ~life.style
myrrh Link...have you considered a nón lá?..they're fantastically practical: lightweight, breezy, and cool with copious shade......have you considered a nón lá?..they're fantastically practical: lightweight, breezy, and cool with copious shade...
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Comment on The user is visibly frustrated in ~tech
myrrh Link...i am abundantly kind, patient, and forgiving of people + creatures with geniune agency (arguably to a fault as family, peers, and managers have counselled throughout my life) but i become an......i am abundantly kind, patient, and forgiving of people + creatures with geniune agency (arguably to a fault as family, peers, and managers have counselled throughout my life) but i become an ABSOLUTE MONSTER of abusive intolerance when dealing with machines which supersede user agency and second-guess my intent, like flipping a switch: my wife says i'm racist against robots...
...i truly have no idea what i'll do when my 12 mini reaches end-of-life, but the 13 mini seems too similar in specification + support to warrant an upgrade...
...i used my iphone 6 for six years but it sure felt like longer when i replaced its battery toward end-of-life; could just be that hardware technologies have since matured sufficiently for software to be the primary differentiating factor now...