I didn’t realize this was being directed by the guy that directed Trollhunter until a few days ago, makes me a little more excited about this movie. The trailers look corny as hell but Trollhunter knew how to balance the corniness with the seriousness perfectly.
I think it would be better if we waited for these discussion posts to hit just as the movie releases. By the time it comes out this post will be over a week old.
Maybe if it’s something really big we could have prerelease discussion and then the released discussion.
Right then, how about posting 24 hours before the movie premiere? How’s that? Some people get really geeked about certain movies (or sewer-dwelling talking turtles and sensei rats, for that matter). Or do more than five people want it the day of the premiere? Let me know! We’re still in trial phase here with the pinned Discussion Megapost thang.
I think for all movies the main discussion threads should open morning of release or maybe the day before.
For the super hot movies it would be good to do prerelease thread (1 week ahead), regular discussion (day of), and a post release thread (1-2 week after release).
Also, wanted to be sure I wasn’t being shitty with my comment. This is a great format and I’m loving that we’re getting good discussions like this going.
I think another cool idea would be to do a throw back Thursday thing where a thread is opened on old movies. They could be left open forever to recreate the old IMDb forum days.
I went to watch this movie last weekend. I like movies but I’m not an expert or anything, and I don’t have the best taste so take my opinion with a grain of salt. We went because my wife wanted to watch it.
I liked it. I have to confess that I expected less, but it was funny, it was entertaining, I think there was a jump scare that got me but overall, while it doesn’t feel like a proper horror movie, the “scary” scenes don’t feel silly.
I liked the characters dynamic and LaKeith Stanfield is definitely a great actor, even here where the material doesn’t require too much acting, he definitely elevates the film. He’s the straight man and even then, he stands out among the rest of the quirky characters.
The only moment I felt like something was missing or wasn’t very well done was the scene where
spoilerLaKeith’s character is trying to convince the child to not go to “his father”. I felt like we got a couple of scenes of them together where convincing him is believable, but nothing that was said seemed to me enough to actually convince him. We know that it’s not his father but the child doesn’t and LaKeith never says that, we know that if the kid goes there he’ll die and the bad guy will take his soul but the child doesn’t know that and LaKeith doesn’t say it, we know LaKeith cares a lot for the child and his mom (that’s why we have those previous scenes) but, again, he doesn’t say that. He just convinces the kid by being persistent on saying “you have to come with me”.
I don’t know if it’s actually a big problem but I remember thinking about that scene while I was actually watching the movie. Just a small and maybe ridiculous complaint I wanted to get off my chest.
After the cinema my wife was really excited explaining to me the lore and the references, so I think it’s a better experience if you’re familiar with the ride and the previous movies, but it’s still a fun movie to watch.
He wrote a book called Hocus Pocus. I saw it in the grocery store of all places (they used to put books in the end shelves at the checkout lines), and the name seemed cool, so I begged my mom to get it. I had gotten Guards! Guards! the same way lol.
It was my introduction to Vonnegut.
But the main character was named Eugene Debs Hartke. So I discovered both Vonnegut and socialism at the same time.
But it was one quote that stood out to me and still guides a lot of my thinking, "While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
That shit is real. That, to me, is the essence of what humans should keep in mind at all times. That we are no stronger than the least of us, and if we do not lift each other up, we all fall.
I’ve said a version of the idea in other ways since reading the quote in hocus pocus because I have this burning rage against bigotry. It’s this way of thinking I can’t shake, that as long as bigoted slurs exist, then I am of that group that is slurred. There’s a specific slur that got thrown around back when I was a bouncer and worked for a drag club, I’m sure you can guess what slur that is. That’s the one I first used the paraphrased quote with.
Anyway, Mr Debs, to me, exhibited everything that socialism is supposed to be, but very rarely lives up to. I’d be proud to share a cell with him.
You might like the book “American Midnight” by historian Adam Hothschild. Came out last year and all about the shit that went down in the US between 1917-1921.
Debs is talked about quite a bit and he is well regarded. It was how I learned about him and I just finished the book this week. It’s absolutely fantastic and also yes, absolutely fucking terrifying.
It’s nuts that we just kinda gloss over that time period in history. It also shows that some of the worst mindsets of today regarding things like immigration, unions, censorship/freedom of speech (the real kind, done by the government. Not the whiny cancel culture shit), prisons, etc, the list goes on, have not changed a bit in 100 years. And we’re still fighting the same battles and blaming all the bad things on all the wrong people.
Anyway, book was fantastic, cannot recommend it enough, and now as a result I’m reading “The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover” by Lerone A. Martin because I realized how little I knew about that asshole other than he was an asshole and FBI stuff.
That would be incredible. Most times I discuss with leftists there is always this extreme need they have to put everyone down in whichever way they can, be it financial, moral or intellectual. This speaks to me as virtue signaling and seems like an “special case” ideological stand point (in which no fault exists, with no self criticism whatsoever nor accountability) which basically puts me and others off of the hope of there existing any common ground with leftists
While I’d like voting rights to be more universal, there are 2 states+DC that allow voting from prison and 20 states where you immediately regain the right once you’re out of prison. A further 17 restore those rights when probation/parole is complete. The remaining 11 have a mixed bag of laws regarding the right.
I love me some Debs. Dude was righteous as hell, and would have certainly received my vote had I been alive. Check out some of his quotes: en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs
ReFS still is not supported for use as a boot (C:) drive, but it’s used extensively in enterprise environments for VHD storage and as a backup target.
Snapshotting and merging is much faster because of “Fast Cloning.” It also has something called “integrity streams” which can be used to tell if data has been corrupted.
I don’t understand this all at a deep level, but it seems promising.
I heard, this commercial distribution “Windows” still uses it. But this thing just recently got a (very limited) package manger. So they seem to be very late with adapting to current technology.
It forces you to update and then works at “something something” for 5 minutes to 5 hours and then reboots and does the same thing again but after logging in, none of your applications are updated and also none of the system seems to be changed with the updates. You don’t even get proper status information during updates.
Of course it doesn’t destroy itself when it doesn’t change anything …
Oof this is only thing if you have the os on an HDD. I’ve had similar behavior on *buntu running off of an HDD.
On an sdd or nvme you’ll never have stuff like this happen.
There is an argument to be made for it being better ux to not have programs update without telling you. Winget isn’t perfect, but it can auto update your stuff if need be.
I really enjoyed it, the random pop culture references didn’t really feel natural to me, but you could say it makes sense in the context of the characters. Definitely excited to see where the sequel goes.
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