Looks like Exo-squad.

So what? How does that matter? It’s not as if that’s how generations work.

It’s kind of funny to see all the hate for a company built on rebooting old stories for a modern audience getting flack for continuing to reboot old stories for a new generation. Are y’all just angry that it’s “your” childhood nostalgia that’s no longer profitable or popular with the literal kids these days?

Disney’s not even the only one to do it, people tend to love that shit and examples abound of your favorite nostalgia IP not being the original telling of a story. No denying that Disney’s choices here are entirely profit driven. But pretending like this is a new thing Disney is only doing to your generation’s nostalgia is disingenuous at best. Maybe just judge the reboots the way we judge cover songs or genre “standards”. Whose going to fault Johnny Cash for covering NIN? Or Nina Simone performing a song also sung by Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, and countless others? Do they add something? Do they re-work it into their own style? Reevaluate elements? Re-frame perspectives? Adapt problematic historical culture pastiches and norms for a modern moral perspective? Maybe they just fix the pacing of a story for a new audience or a new medium. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was by no means original, not even the first movie to be made made on the story, but nobody faults it for that. Same with Dune. Same with literally and stage production before the invention of motion pictures.

DISCLAIMER: This statement is in no way meant to be, nor should it be interpreted as, an endorsement of any of Disney’s business practices past, present, or future. This new movie might be shit, but it won’t be because it’s a story that’s been told before.

Anybody know what those tubular things the soldiers are carrying across their shoulders are? (Not the rifles, obviously.)

Which one, 1944 (staring Cary Grant) or 1969 (with Bob Crane in the same role)?

1944 or 1969?

The real hack is (almost) always social.

I was just saying that your own description of events made you sound like a troll. I don’t know the truth of the matter and frankly it’s irrelevant. If they are working closely with Apple, those kinds of comments on what I assume was their own public forum are an unhelpful distraction at best and potentially detrimental to their corporate relationship with Apple. You could be %100 correct about Apple and the devs could %100 agree with your sentiment, but that doesn’t mean that the social media forum they host is an appropriate place for that kind of discussion. It’s not helpful for them and only has the potential to make their situation worse. They blocked you and moved on so they could focus on the project instead of the noise. Even if your intentions were good (and I do actually believe you meant well) I understand why they did what they did.

This sounds like you were harassing a volunteer dev that had an actual direct interaction with a corporation based on hearsay and they rightfully blocked a troll that wasn’t contributing anything meaningful or constructive to the project.

Maybe that’s an E, but the rest isn’t text, it’s sheet music. It’s a shame it’s cropped because, although I’ve seen a bunch of example of illuminated texts, I’ve not often seen such embellishments on sheet music.

A bee headbutting you is not necessarily an agressive act, could be just investigatory on the part of the bee. I’ve walked into the heart of a flowering shrub covered in hungry bees, during which they either ignored me or headbutted me. As long as “defending the hive” isn’t part of the bee interaction, they are usually very chill but remain very curious. I’m still careful when the headbutts happen because accidents happen and a confused bee tangled in hair may still sting. But I have also gently untangled a bee or two without anyone getting hurt.

Even when defending the hive, bees seem to prefer as little direct agression as possible. I’ve stepped into a clearing and suddenly found myself way too close to a wild bee hive and got stung exactly once by a bee that got tangled in my hair as I fled the approaching swarm.

I’ve also gotten a solitary wasp tangled in my hair, near no hive or any flowers, and gotten stung 3 times on one knuckle as thanks for setting them free. The bees have taught me to treat them with compassion and respect. The wasps have taught me to react with murder and extreme violence before they are even aware of me.

Both are pollinators though. So despite the animosity, I don’t go out of my way to wage war against wasps the way I do mosquitoes.

Interesting take about TNG “standing on its own”. Sure that’s valid. But the first few seasons on TNG aired concurrently with the TOS movies. It’s never occurred to me that TNG is anything but a continuation of TOS, it’s Even in the name, not a spin-off, not a reboot, not an alternate timeline (until many movies later), a continuation of a story about imperialism struggling internally with morality and existential philosophy (vs. evil empire fighting rebels). New shows are welcome to be spin-offs, reboots, and alternate timelines, but (for me) not TNG.

Cite the deep magic to me witch. I 'member.

Sorry, hard to tell sometimes. I was afraid that I was too intentionally vague at first.

That’s literally the answer though. They used electricity to process aluminum in a new way and much much much more cheaply than was possible before.

Electricity.

It wasn’t supposed to “go” anywhere. It’s a Tarantino film, so it’s really more a meta movie about movies than most. The plot doesn’t really matter. It’s a movie about a particular time in Hollywood shot in the style of movie and TV Westerns that were very big in Hollywood, until they weren’t, just like the protagonist and his stunt double. The whole film is shot like a Western. The title is a play on the title of another popular western. Like most Westerns, and indeed most of the west (the desolate desert cliche), on it’s surface it’s a “whole lot of nothing”. The heart of most Westerns aren’t really about the plot; it’s the grit, the anti-heros, the everyday villains, the scenery, etc.

This new movie sounds interesting, but only because I liked the character of Cliff. This doesn’t seem like a movie suited to a sequel without being boring. Cliff in a C3PO costume, a Spy movie, or some other idom feels like it would just cheapen the whole thing.

Slugs are related to snails so I’m just going to leave this here: The Snails and the Bees

The issue isn’t about what it can and can’t do, it’s that it is CONSTANTLY attempting to step in and “fix” my spreadsheet in bizarrely inane ways. Why won’t it give me the “shut up and stay the fuck out of my way” option? There is no option to remove or silence copilot. That damn thing follows my cursor like a ring wraith after Frodo. It has already fucked up more than one of my spreadsheets without asking or being asked. If I hadn’t been paying attention, I might not have caught the absolutely bat shit insane edits it was making to simple and correct functions I’d already entered. No, copilot you don’t know what I’m doing. Clippy was less intrusive.

I’ve been there. It’s hard. Please continue to be idealistic about the potential of people. Balancing hope against grounded expectations is a worthy goal though.

If you (not you specifically) already believe that you are a good person, will you continue to work to be a good person? I know that for me, I feel better believing that I am not actually good, but that I’m trying to be. I feel that holding on to that idea will serve me best. And it doesn’t hurt to remember that other people are also often just trying to be that better person in their own way (or at least I hope most are, some obviously don’t consider it at all). Of course people will disagree about what that looks like for themselves and others. Empathy isn’t an end or a given, it’s constant work.