rudyharrelson

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's so neat; I'd never noticed that before. And the walls closing in on the stage adaptation is really clever

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"12 Angry Men" (1957) is a personal favorite that I recommend to pretty much everyone. Great messages about questioning assumptions, challenging biases, understanding the limitations of evidence, acknowledging imperfections in the justice system, and the consequences thereof.

The movie is also cinematically interesting to me because it feels "small". The entire movie just about takes place in one room, and the events of the film transpire over the course of one afternoon.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

You may be entitled to compensation! (although the deadline to submit claims passed in 2018)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/if-you-used-to-run-linux-on-your-ps3-you-could-get-55-from-sony/

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

If you hadn't specified "and other footware", I would've found myself in "Eric and The Dread Gazebo" territory.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

I loved the storms in BOTW. The rainy atmosphere and the mechanical effects were really well done.

In a similar vein, Majora's Mask has a fantastic thunderstorm on day 2 of the cycle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I found almond milk to be a great substitute a couple of years ago when I was dieting. Particularly the 'unsweetened, vanilla' variety from Almond Breeze.

As an added bonus, it also has a much longer shelf life than regular milk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

In terms of design, I find Lemmy to be basically a 1:1 replacement for Reddit. It's a link aggregator with communities, comments, and voting.

I like it a lot, even though the communities are smaller and there's less content. It's just a nicer communal experience for me compared to Reddit. I feel more pressure to actually comment since the communities are smaller and every little bit helps, lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

As others have pointed out, there's a lot to hate about ads since the industry is routinely dishonest, insulting, obnoxious, deceptive, intrusive, and all manner of unpleasant. I've been adblocking religiously for most of my life for these reasons.

So I think a more interesting question might be the other way around: "What do you like about commercials?"

The only commercials I've ever liked are the ones for local small businesses. The ones with a nonexistent production budget that aren't beating the viewer over the head with blatant lies or dishonest sales tactics.

Adult Swim used to have faux-ad bumpers for the fictional business "Strickland Propane" from King of the Hill, featuring the honest-to-a-fault character Hank Hill as the spokesman, which I felt captured that vibe well.

Rhett and Link also made a funny homage to these kinds of commercials in this classic skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnOyMSEWNTs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Overall I think this is well written. I agree with @[email protected] that the section on picking an instance could be improved, since which instance one picks can be rather important, since federation/defederation is dictated by individual instances.

And a minor typo I noticed:

leaving Mastodon out to try

I assume that should be "out to dry".

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