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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
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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...
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Comment on Movie fatigue in ~movies
myrrh Link Parent...i think the film really thrives on ambiguity across the board; like donnie darko*, once you define truth it loses its magic... * another strong recommendation, by the way...i think the film really thrives on ambiguity across the board; like donnie darko*, once you define truth it loses its magic...
* another strong recommendation, by the way
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Comment on Movie fatigue in ~movies
myrrh Link Parent...the iron giant is woefully underappreciated in popular culture; an absolute titan of creative work......the iron giant is woefully underappreciated in popular culture; an absolute titan of creative work...
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Comment on Movie fatigue in ~movies
myrrh (edited )Link...here's a random-access list, no particular theme but they're each great films in their own way, some forgotten gems, some iconic cultural touchstones, some cult films... Rebecca (1940) Niagara......here's a random-access list, no particular theme but they're each great films in their own way, some forgotten gems, some iconic cultural touchstones, some cult films...
Rebecca (1940)
Niagara (1953)
The Forbidden Planet (1956)
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Seconds (1966)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Fantastic Planet (1973)
The Right Stuff (1983)
Say Anything (1989)
Point Break (1991)
From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
The Vast of Night (2019)(tried to name two per decade but since the fourties came up short, i threw in the vast of night as an outlier: it's proper-good and absolutely worth watching if you haven't seen it)
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Comment on What are your personal crackpot conspiracy theories about the world right now? in ~talk
myrrh (edited )Link...it's not at all current but i also don't think it's particularly crackpot to infer that on september 11th 2001, either united flight 93 was shot down or the USAF were grossly incompetent, and......it's not at all current but i also don't think it's particularly crackpot to infer that on september 11th 2001, either united flight 93 was shot down or the USAF were grossly incompetent, and whichever is true won't become public knowledge until well after everyone who was alive at the time are dead and gone from public influence...
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Comment on Who else is as excited as I am for the Backrooms movie tomorrow? in ~movies
myrrh Link Parent...it's been about twenty-five years since i watched it, but i don't remember the original cube falling into that narrative trap; i remember it ending as a tidy little low-budget take on man vs.......it's been about twenty-five years since i watched it, but i don't remember the original cube falling into that narrative trap; i remember it ending as a tidy little low-budget take on man vs. environment insitutional / existential horror...
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Comment on Starpath | Official announcement trailer in ~games
myrrh Link...yeah, we had profoundly better optics a century ago; perhaps they're going for an early-eighties-cheap-genre-film look rather than you-are-there immersion?.....yeah, we had profoundly better optics a century ago; perhaps they're going for an early-eighties-cheap-genre-film look rather than you-are-there immersion?..
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Comment on Almost a third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey her husband in ~life.men
myrrh Link Parent...i am, and i wholly agree with sparksbet...obedience strikes me as antithetical to consensus; it's objectifying and inherently offensive to personal sovereignty......i am, and i wholly agree with sparksbet...obedience strikes me as antithetical to consensus; it's objectifying and inherently offensive to personal sovereignty...
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Comment on Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026 in ~tv
myrrh (edited )Link...i previously posted on another platform but i'll reiterate: this is an absolutely brilliant send-off, not only for his own program but for the broadcast-television late-night-talk-show legacy......i previously posted on another platform but i'll reiterate: this is an absolutely brilliant send-off, not only for his own program but for the broadcast-television late-night-talk-show legacy as a whole...
...it brings together both adult-swim metatextual bite and early-letterman energy in inspired metaphor which burgeons over the course of an hour through its very final frame; chef's kiss...
...i haven't laughed that hard nor sincerely in a very long while; call it catharsis?..
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Comment on Why airlines are always going bankrupt in ~transport
myrrh Link Parent...i flew often from the seventies through the turn of the millenium but since september 2001, i've quit flying unless absolutely unavoidable, as i loathe the twenty-first-century american air......i flew often from the seventies through the turn of the millenium but since september 2001, i've quit flying unless absolutely unavoidable, as i loathe the twenty-first-century american air travel experience...
...last time i flew to east asia, though, i was struck by how remarkably similar their airlines felt to peak-era western air travel; it was an unexpectedly refreshing turn of experience only spoiled when transferring to an american carrier on the return leg home...i expect a deeper analysis of economic and cultural cause-and-effect may present interesting correlations and hypothetical models for how airlines might operate more or less successfully as a private or public good...
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Comment on Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’ in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...may well be good folks out there; i've only worked with outsourced HR services who come to the table with bad-faith policy + regulatory interpretations in the company's favor, cringey......may well be good folks out there; i've only worked with outsourced HR services who come to the table with bad-faith policy + regulatory interpretations in the company's favor, cringey mister-burns stuff, so my experiences are probably limited to the sketchier side of the industry...
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Comment on Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’ in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...well some of us in senior management push back when we think the company's being unfair; we don't always win, but we're in a position to contest the owners and we often do win, whether or not......well some of us in senior management push back when we think the company's being unfair; we don't always win, but we're in a position to contest the owners and we often do win, whether or not they know it...
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Comment on Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’ in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...i've ever only dealt with HR from the management side of the table, but yeah, they're totally there to serve the company, not its employees......i've ever only dealt with HR from the management side of the table, but yeah, they're totally there to serve the company, not its employees...
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Comment on ‘The Mandalorian and Grogu’ reviews mixed: “Boring and lifeless” vs. “best Star Wars in years” in ~movies
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...we had a coworker return from china in december 2019 with a horrific respiratory infection which took out more than half our studio for about a month; it was particularly frustrating because......we had a coworker return from china in december 2019 with a horrific respiratory infection which took out more than half our studio for about a month; it was particularly frustrating because none of us had accrued sufficient PTO to cover a four-week leave so we all ended up taking salary deductions over the holiday, to boot...
...we all tested negative for influenza so our doctors' best guess was some severe strain of the common cold; stories of CoViD didn't break until about a month later, which sure sounded like what had just wiped us out but we'll never know for certain...
...i'll note that when i eventually 'officially' caught CoViD after our return-to-office mandate in the fall of 2020, it felt exactly the same except recovery was about a week quicker...
...is it a blockbuster game?..like, are we talking goldeneye critical acclaim?..