[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 4 hours ago

I'm seeing this post for the first time, sitting at -30. I'm seeing it and yet it's pretty heavily down voted. I'm not browsing by controversial or something like that.

Anyway, downvotes don't really work the same way to hide unpopular posts the way you're used to reddit doing. People aren't enjoying it and are in fact still seeing it, so maybe just check yourself before getting hostile.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 3 days ago

Why do you think this is about drinking coffee that tastes bad? I hate flavored coffee. I love coffee that has its own strong flavors (and I love a variety of those flavors from beans grown in different places and in different preparations). I also hate bitter poorly prepared coffees. Coffee should taste good, but it can also rock my mornings like only Grace Jones in a leather loincloth can.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago

Performative declarations that things people enjoy are cringe is also cringe.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 3 days ago

What's going on with their hair? Looks like everyone is whereing the "hide those Vulcan ears" headband from Star Trek IV (the one with the whales).

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 4 days ago

Random other worms aside, I'm actually surprised at how accurate the Dune poster is, relative to the other Ghanaian movie posters I've seen. I mean, some of those characters may be from a different version of the movie, but at least they are actual characters in the story. And there's very little gratuitous blood and random gunplay as well. On the whole, pretty accurate for a movie poster from Ghana.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 10 points 4 days ago

This is pretty close to the premise of Good Omens if I'm remembering correctly.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago

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

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 6 points 4 days ago

Wow, if the demo was too much for the developers to maintain that doesn't inspire confidence in my patience to maintain it on my machine.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

No denying that I often interpret things in a comically literal way. No offense taken. Farts are funny.

[-] Wolf314159@startrek.website 25 points 6 days ago

Wanna listen to a Midwestern nerd talk at length about how awful these kinds of devices are with respect to efficiency? I got you...

Technology Connections - Thermoelectric cooling: it's not great.

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