Criminally underrated performance in a critically underrated film.

Only on my good days. On my bad days I’m actually quite the asshole, to be honest.

Arguably more famous as the host of the Crystal Maze than as a voice in Phineas and Ferb. But okay.

He was also Mr. Hand in Dark City.

It’s almost as though actors play multiple roles in their lifetime.

I believe OnlyOffice may be problematic from an ethical perspective if I remember correctly because of Russia or something. But it’s FOSS, has a linux desktop version, and its compatibility with Excel has been absolutely rock solid for me.

Advertising isn’t the problem. And before I get my balls cut off, I’ll back away slowly while explaining myself…

We’ve always paid for ads. Back in the old days you paid for a cable subscription and got to watch ads every 15 minutes. That’s not a new phenomenon. Hell, television was designed around the advertising break. The entire one hour series 5 part script model was created with the “cut to ad break” in mind. You think about your CSI:Miami “sunglasses of justice” stinger, or your fourth ad-break plot-twist as the Romulan war bird uncloaks and the music dun-dun-duns into a commercial for cheese-its…

That’s not a problem in and of itself. In fact I kind of miss it when shows were written that way. Heck, Tubi and Pluto TV do it and no one complains about that. And if Netflix wants to add those back into their free tier, more power to 'em.

But advertising is not about getting served a few commercials every fifteen minutes anymore. It’s literally in front of the content, within the content, etc… It’s not about “hey look, it’s an ad break, let’s go refill our 7-up and take a piss”, it’s inlaid with the content, as well as taking up as much, if not MORE time than the actual content itself. and THAT’S part one of the problem.

Part two is the fact that if you’re going to make more money by making me pay for your service AND watch advertisements, you better damn well be giving at least some of that new money to other creatives that are MAKING those advertisements. Make a commercial with actors and actresses; pay them. Hire a writer to create ad-copy, just like we used to do. But if you’re going to charge me AND make me watch lazy shit you made with A.I. slop, than THAT is where I’ll happily take my ship and head onto the high seas.

I’d be perfectly happy to sit through two or three traditional advertisements every fifteen minutes just like we did in the old days. But what I WON’T stand for is watching five minutes of lazy A.I. ads after every five minutes of actual content and be expected to PAY for the service on top of that.

I use Cromite. It’s a more hardened fork of Bromite. Which itself is a hardened fork of Chromium.

The only thing I’ve found so far is that it likes to block the discussion threads on some websites. But other than that I’ve had no issues whatsoever.

It’s not designed to be an anonymous service, just a private one.

I think this needs to be said a lot more often and a lot louder. Anonymous and private are NOT necessarily the same thing, nor should the expectation be that they are. Both have a purpose.

The mistake is attributing modern social norms onto people from thousands of years ago.

We are all products of the conventions of our times.

less than 100 years ago, certain people were grossed out by sharing a diner counter with an African American. 300 years before that, some people thought that bathing was the cause of disease since it unclogged your pores and made you susceptible.

Just because you (and I…let’s be clear) think it’s gross today, doesn’t mean we would have back then.

Source?

I don’t mean that in an “I don’t believe you” way.

I literally mean that in an “I majored in Archaeology and would be interested in reading that since it’s been more than 20 years since my knowledge was up to date.”

Haven’t checked today since I woke up and went to work. But the post is 14 hours old, which means when it was posted I was happily watching some Red Letter Media on Freetube last night. So working fine for me (then at least). Will check when I’m home.

Even books read for pleasure shouldn’t have to dumb down their grammar and writing style. There are plenty of comic books/graphic novels with better writing than the Twilight Saga (for example). By “learning something” I don’t mean you have to read non-fiction books to learn about history and what not. But books like Twilight, which are written with no sense of story structure, word usage, or proper grammar in some places, are beyond harmful.

She’s a shit writer whose style appeals to people who people who can’t tell the difference because they barely paid attention in English class and don’t care to.

If you want an example of the other direction, Harry Potter is a series that appeals to young people, but are well written and actually inspire kids to read because it challenges them to get better at handling good writing.

I’m not “gate keeping” anything. I’m saying the writer has an obligation to enrich people, regardless of whether it’s reading for fun or reading for learning.

Ah yes. Nothing like a little gross oversimplification to generate headlines.

If the shuttle didn’t exist, there are still a thousand things that would have had to go in a different direction to get a viable Mars program in the 80s and 90s. Not the least of which being that without the shuttle, and before the ISS, we would have no CLUE how to actually live in space for long periods of time.

So if we take it that we can’t go to Mars without learning how to live in space for extended durations. And we take it that in order to learn how to live in space we need to have a long duration presence there, like the ISS.

What exactly do people think was necessary to build the ISS…

You’re right boys and girls…it was the SPACE SHUTTLE.

Fucking hell, I hate having to upvote this…so much…

Twilight is everything that is wrong with modern literature. It’s dumbing down your art in order to cater to a population whose reading levels have declined to the low grade school level over the years.

Good books increase your literacy. You learn new things from reading them; new words, new phrases, etc… an author is supposed to add to the collective intelligence of the world, not debase themselves to write at a fourth grade level so that their books are more popular to incurious illiterates.

Will Bluesky eventually enshittify? Probably.

Should people come to Mastodon instead? Of course.

Are there far bigger concerns at the moment? Absolutely.

Whatever Bluesky may or may not turn out to be, the important thing right now is to get people off of X, which we already know is a nazi controlled space. We don’t sabotage that goal by being high and mighty and telling people they’re not leaving to the right place.

One battle at a time.

If you think your Apple phone isn’t listening to you, I have some seaside real estate I’d like to sell you in Montana.

I still think the “What is best in life…” bit should replace the pledge of allegience in U.S. grade schools.

Conan doesn’t get the respect it deserves on multiple levels. From Basil Polidouris’s score, to the cinematography, and YES…even the screenplay. Conan was never “just a Arnold action movie”.

I’ve always equated it to more like an opera. Dialogue is honestly sparse. Much like the character of Conan himself, dialogue only exists when it has the most impact, with the rest of the story being told visually. It’s one of the only films I’ve seen where you can put it on mute and still mostly know the broad strokes of what’s going on.

I’ll never not defend this movie. So yes…I sort of agree with the O.P. But then again…Total Recall exists.

It’s already been mentioned, but I’ll throw in for Jitsi. I believe it can also be self-hosted.

I love my Canyon. But it hasn’t helped me with the ladies…

catawampus

I was going to confirm that yes, 5’1" is a typical shortbox. But I first have to say wow…I haven’t heard that word in a very long time. I love it.