Prehistoric bananas were also vicious predators.

Easy. They are orange cats.

They don’t think, so they don’t believe they are. That is up to their worshippers.

I am embarrassed on behalf of the performers to much to watch them shame themselves in a series hashed to death with an underlying source material that is tainted with controversy and not all that deep to begin with.

Jon Lithgow played one of the first openly trans characters in cinema in The World According to Garp but now feels he can do this because actors aren’t their parts.

And he is right, but I can still be disappointed by actors making choices.

I’ll put it this way.

There is so much bot content that there is little worth engaging with.

You are clearly not that, but I am an older and married man, so what would I say without being a creep?

I suppose thanks for not being a bot.

Bright had me questioning everything about the setting to the point that I didn’t care about the answers and really disliked the movie in the end.

BUT… I had those questions, and not everyone disliked it, so you have a decent point.

(So, we have elves and orcs, the elves run Hollywood and the orcs have gangs… but we still had WWII and slavery, so even other species actually existing we were still wildly racist on skin color? That deserved a lot more attention, but felt so lazy to me that I decided the justifications weren’t likely to be interesting.)

The City of Lost Children.

It drops you into a world with no explanation and trusts you to keep up.

The story is fascinating enough, but at the end you never really get many answers about the setting and why things are the way they are.

The whole story is just a thing that happens in that world.

It’s kind of like a sci-fi fairytale.

You’re a real mean drunk, Superman.

This is oil taxes, the target is overall budget. The surge in oil taxes is bringing them to their target earlier.

But yes, the headline is shit. No argument there.

No, he plays the masks.

Obviously the, ahem, climax is an orgy of Weird Als.

And so do I!

I did say stealth sequel, so be wary.

Same author, great story, very different book. I’m sure you will still enjoy the read though.

It is a wonderful stealth sequel to Snow Crash as well. Good callout!

I had only heard of it being released early.

I have been to five movies in the theater in the last six years. Superman, two Marvel movies, two Dune movies.

It takes a lot to get me to both leave my house and pay extra money.

A vanishingly small portion of the paying audience would have been aware of the kerfuffle.

People just didn’t want to pay theater prices.

I have two dogs and four cats.

When I refill the pet fountain, my golden retriever loves to drink from the water as I pour it in.

It’s pretty cute, but I realize all the other animals have to drink her watered down spit.

I am lucky enough to live in Minnesota, where we already prioritize green spaces, and all those leftist values are generally centrist. And yes, the rest of the comment is directed at those in the thread who call us racist Nazis for being Americans who dare resist.

Sock shoe, sock shoe, because I have a golden retriever and don’t want her fur on my socks.

My protest was to leave and never return. I have been on Lemmy since that week.

The drug war has destroyed way too many families.

The left eats itself, but only faster than the right does. I thought the left might unite under the threat of fascism, but this thread shows that the far left and the far right just want most of the world dead. They want revenge, not solutions.

I increasingly feel that the only way to pull out of this is a new centrism. The opposite of neoliberalism, focusing on human rights, living wages, and liveable spaces. Environmentalism too, if that is even possible anymore. Basically things that are hard for anyone to deny the value of.