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  1. Comment on Paramount is sitting on a $100 million reparations musical. Why? in ~movies

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    Matt and Trey hate Trump and would have no reason to hide influence by Ellison in this situation.

    “We take full responsibility for the schedule delay of this movie,” Stone and Parker said in a statement to The Ankler. “We apologize to our partners at pgLang and Paramount and we appreciate their patience. South Park and life’s circumstances have gotten in the way but we still believe in the project.”

    Matt and Trey hate Trump and would have no reason to hide influence by Ellison in this situation.

    7 votes

  2. Comment on Carrie | Official trailer in ~tv

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    Very excited for Samantha Sloyan as Margaret White, she did wonderfully in a somewhat similar role in Midnight Mass. Cautiously looking forward to this, my only concern is I don't know how you...

    Very excited for Samantha Sloyan as Margaret White, she did wonderfully in a somewhat similar role in Midnight Mass. Cautiously looking forward to this, my only concern is I don't know how you stretch Carrie out to 8 episodes, but Flanagan rarely disappoints!

    1 vote

  3. Comment on X corp is taking down Nitter instances and demands takedown of project repository in ~tech

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    Update as of September 7th (it's still the 6th my time but I'll go with theirs): Glad to hear this! I will never make a Twitter account, but I do use nitter to see announcements for some podcasts...

    Update as of September 7th (it's still the 6th my time but I'll go with theirs):

    On 24 August 2026 cease and desist letters were sent by X Corp. demanding a permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's repository.

    Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. This instance and others will be back up and running shortly. An announcement will be made within a week, once we're able to reveal more information.

    Glad to hear this! I will never make a Twitter account, but I do use nitter to see announcements for some podcasts and occasionally it's useful to view an account directly. Hopefully this legal advice is good and they continue to be able to operate.

    24 votes

  4. Comment on Tildes Book Club - Have you started Dr. No by Ian Fleming? in ~books

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    I have not started, but I'm about to finish a book and have Dr. No on my shelf so I may join in this month! (No need to add me to ping list, I see all of these posts anyway)

    I have not started, but I'm about to finish a book and have Dr. No on my shelf so I may join in this month! (No need to add me to ping list, I see all of these posts anyway)

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Maps of the journeys inside classic novels in ~books

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    Very hard to say these days, but at least when I read the about page on this one I get some impression that the creator cares enough to at least describe the project instead of leaving all the...

    Very hard to say these days, but at least when I read the about page on this one I get some impression that the creator cares enough to at least describe the project instead of leaving all the writing to the AI! Thanks for sharing!

  6. Comment on Maps of the journeys inside classic novels in ~books

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    Cool idea, would love to see it implemented by a human though!

    Cool idea, would love to see it implemented by a human though!

    6 votes

  7. Comment on GOG added OpenMW and Tamriel Rebuilt into their store for free as mods for TES3 Morrowind in ~games

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    This comment is how I learned Poison Song was out! Now I'm annoyed I'm working this weekend

    This comment is how I learned Poison Song was out! Now I'm annoyed I'm working this weekend

  8. Comment on What theme do you use with Tildes? in ~tildes

  9. Comment on Minecraft Dungeons II | Official gameplay trailer in ~games

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    While not as popular as they once were, I think Diablo-like ARPGs have a pretty broad appeal, and I think many kids and people who like Minecraft as a brand but who may not have been exposed to...

    While not as popular as they once were, I think Diablo-like ARPGs have a pretty broad appeal, and I think many kids and people who like Minecraft as a brand but who may not have been exposed to ARPGs will get hooked by it when they try it out. I didn't stick with the first one very long but it seemed enjoyable enough, and would maybe have been more so if I hadn't played so many other ARPGs before it.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I finished Vineland a week or two ago. I did enjoy it, but like Against the Day, not quite as much as Pynchon's other works I've read. I expect my various rankings will change with rereads, but...

    I finished Vineland a week or two ago. I did enjoy it, but like Against the Day, not quite as much as Pynchon's other works I've read. I expect my various rankings will change with rereads, but that's my impression right now. At this point all I have left to read of Pynchon are his two most recent books and his collection of short stories, all of which don't have quite as high a reputation as most of his work. I will say that I don't think seeing One Battle After Another first impacted my read of Vineland much at all, aside from picturing Zoyd as Leo. They both manage to stand alone as their own works.

    After that, for my book club, I read Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, my first Discworld book. While I find the humor very much to my taste, the book still wasn't grabbing me too much until the point where

    spoiler the dragon becomes king.

    From that point on I was hooked! I do appreciate that this (and to my understanding the rest of the Discworld books) is pretty standalone, so I don't feel like I have to keep going right away.

    Now I have started Antkind by Charlie Kaufman. I love his movies, I don't mind how up his own ass he can get, and so far this is working for me! So far it's had me laugh out loud even more than the Pratchett. I hear it gets to be a bit of a slog later on, but I'm still early on so remains to be seen.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Hadn't heard anything about this, but looked it up and I have to admit, I find the appearance of the shitty looking cow compelling

    Hadn't heard anything about this, but looked it up and I have to admit, I find the appearance of the shitty looking cow compelling

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 10 in ~society

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    That's CCN, not CNN. Not sure what CCN stands for. Edit: it's the crypto citizens network. Not too surprised to see shoddy journalism from a group like that.

    That's CCN, not CNN. Not sure what CCN stands for.

    Edit: it's the crypto citizens network. Not too surprised to see shoddy journalism from a group like that.

    8 votes

  13. Comment on The tantalizing possibility of locating consciousness in the brain in ~science

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    I have to agree with u/plutonic that your idea of consciousness would better be described as free will. My actions and experience may very well be, and I believe are, just the result of a series...

    I have to agree with u/plutonic that your idea of consciousness would better be described as free will. My actions and experience may very well be, and I believe are, just the result of a series of physical phenomena. However, these all cause a subjective experience to arise. I experience this illusion, so what would you call that other than consciousness? Even if you have the idea that "all items in the known universe" are having this illusory experience rather than a separate individual, that would still be consciousness.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on The tantalizing possibility of locating consciousness in the brain in ~science

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    What do you mean when you say perceived? What perceives these patterns?

    What do you mean when you say perceived? What perceives these patterns?

  15. Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books

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    I just checked my trade paperback and it has normal paragraph lengths and just uses quotation marks for dialogue.

    I just checked my trade paperback and it has normal paragraph lengths and just uses quotation marks for dialogue.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on A thread about the history of streetcars in the US in ~transport

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    Here's a fun story from my hometown about streetcars. The city council gave the rights to one street to a company that still used mules, but many citizens preferred electric. So the company with...

    Here's a fun story from my hometown about streetcars. The city council gave the rights to one street to a company that still used mules, but many citizens preferred electric. So the company with electric tracks began placing them without permission, with the help of many citizens. It ended up causing a fight between the leaders of the two companies

    3 votes

  17. Comment on GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux in ~games

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    For me, a response that did not indicate that they knew about the issue in advance and still sent it out. It also seems to frame this as having happened entirely through a series of errors, which...

    For me, a response that did not indicate that they knew about the issue in advance and still sent it out. It also seems to frame this as having happened entirely through a series of errors, which is totally implausible. If the case had been that they had a nazi staffer who was fired immediately, maybe that would be a good response. Pretending that this series of nazi runes could have been assembled by accident destroys their credibility.

    15 votes

  18. Comment on Emily Wilson’s critique of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” in ~movies

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    I disagree with this. Although I very much enjoyed the film, when I read a review I am interested in someone's distinct perspective. Why do we need Emily Wilson to tell us that general audiences...

    You'd hope in that situation someone would recognize "this just isn't the type of media for me" and try to find some merits as opposed to sucking all the joy out of the room.

    I disagree with this. Although I very much enjoyed the film, when I read a review I am interested in someone's distinct perspective. Why do we need Emily Wilson to tell us that general audiences will love this when we already have IMDB and the Tomatometer? I think her focus in this, with a lot of emphasis on the original poem, is exactly what I would expect from someone of her expertise.

    9 votes

  19. Comment on There is no ‘hard problem of consciousness’ in ~humanities

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    As always when people post this type of thing, I strongly disagree. I do agree that consciousness is likely a result of purely physical processes! But that doesn't make the hard problem of...
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    As always when people post this type of thing, I strongly disagree. I do agree that consciousness is likely a result of purely physical processes! But that doesn't make the hard problem of consciousness any less of a problem. The fundamental issue is that we cannot observe consciousness externally, which makes it very difficult to find out under what conditions it arises. I know, or can assume by analogy, that other humans are conscious. Because of their similarities to us I feel comfortable assuming the same of animals. But how can we ever truly discover what specific physical processes give rise to consciousness when we cannot directly observe it?

    29 votes

  20. Comment on Resident Evil | Official trailer in ~movies

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    Would mildly disagree about Barbarian, strongly disagree about Weapons! Both are similarly structured into segments focusing on different characters, I think it's fair to consider the last segment...

    Would mildly disagree about Barbarian, strongly disagree about Weapons! Both are similarly structured into segments focusing on different characters, I think it's fair to consider the last segment of Barbarian the weakest in the film but I think it's still pretty enjoyable, but the final segment of Weapons makes the movie! An incredibly satisfying finish to an already great movie.

    4 votes