Yeah, I’d expect it on opening night (I go later). But the drop-off for many movies these days is huge.

That’s “look under the couch cushions” money for Apple

Granted, I saw a weekday matinee, but there were only 3 other people in my IMAX theater. This has been the case with every movie I’ve seen in recent memory. I can’t remember the last time I had someone sitting next to me in a full theater. Barbie was half-full. Maybe 2021 when theaters reopened?

It deserves to be seen

I saw a non-horror movie yesterday, and 3 out of the 4 previews were for horror movies, including one entire scene from one.

Studios are creatively bankrupt.

D&D Beyond was always in bad shape. An app like that needs a really solid foundation to build on, and they… don’t have that.

But yes, it’s gotten worse.

Yeah, I had the same thoughts about where her character was going, and that either her character arc was cut for time or got lost in a rewrite.

But the really weird thing was how Bong portrayed her as a little unhinged when she was shooting the baby bug: no restraint and no expression. They made sure to show her face at the end of that scene after the baby had been turned into hamburger, and it seemed a little intentionally unsettling based on the context.

When they depicted Nasha as a little unhinged as well, I was wondering if they were saying something about future soldiers. No, I guess, based on the ending. Nasha just gets homicidal about Mickey, and who knows what’s up with Kai because her character failed the Bechdel Test and then disappeared.

No. “Objectively bad,” lol. At least make an attempt to distinguish your opinion from objective reality about a subjective medium.

I think it was pretty OK, not bad, a few odd pacing choices. The biggest flaw was how underdeveloped Kai was. She was set up in act 1, had a lot of screen time in act 2, then completely disappeared from existence for the entire last act except for one brief “oh yeah, here’s Kai” shot at the end.

Some of the on-screen violence against the baby bugs was repugnant, but it was supposed to be, so I’ll forgive it.

Otherwise I thought Pattinson did a great job realizing his characters and the overall plot worked pretty well as a movie, without being too simple or too complex.

I remember reading about this guy years ago and at the time the reaction from Netflix seemed to amount to, “You got me! Good one.”

His real problem is that he didn’t steal $11 billion—then you’re apparently untouchable.

I don’t mean to be flippant, but did they finally discover that an LLM doesn’t actually make a compelling GM?

Or that most groups don’t want to log into cyberspace on their computer to play their campaign? Or that many people run potato hardware, if they even have computers at all?

Did they miss that TTRPGs are social activities first and games second?

It was a flawed concept from the outset. It’s too bad that these folks were laid off, but I don’t think it would have been successful unless the project made a major pivot.

Apparently the 43 people who bought Atari’s VCS console that they released and then abandoned are all in that comment section.

We Were Soldiers? That feels like it came out of nowhere. I watched it once and thought it was a good movie I didn’t ever need to see again. The flame thrower victims left an indelible mark on my mind, even 23 years later.

What an incoherent non-sequitur of a quote by that website. The first 90% doesn’t even have anything to do with the poll except being an excuse to once again bring up a tired and dramatically overblown topic.

Anyway, I’ve become partial to BFI for affordable, high-quality 4K releases. Radiance has also been putting out some nice sets. But in terms of who I buy from most, it’s the usual suspects: Kino Lorber, Arrow, etc.

Revoking a degree is really underhanded.

The only thing you need to remember is that political parties, by law, cannot restrict candidates from running under that party banner. Superdelegates are how the Democratic Party leadership attempts to skirt this and put its thumb on the scale, but after the Clinton-Sanders debacle, their power was diminished.

An ideological takeover of the party is possible. It just requires progressive candidates to get elected.

You ain’t gonna get arrested protesting in DC unless you start fighting with police or join a riot or something.

Good job taking action instead of just posting about it. Protests aren’t just about free speech, they’re also about building the muscle to take action, and building your network.

The actual URL is america2.news (whatever that is).

In this case it’s because OP got the link wrong and added a ” (smart quote) to the end, and Lemmy encoded it in the same way that international domain names are encoded (like if it includes Chinese).

Looks like they fixed it

This guy is a toxic, rage-baiting piece of shit

He also confirmed what Ted is going to up to in season 4, saying: “Ted’s coaching a women’s team, so there, that’s it.”

When pressed on whether Ted is going to return to the US, Sudeikis brushed it off and said, “That’s too many questions,” but did joke and say that he can’t answer that question because he doesn’t yet know himself.

Out of morbid curiosity I looked at the Reddit for Severance a few times earlier this season. It consists mostly of

1. very stupid people making extremely obvious observations, or making the simplest possible deductions from the material presented, followed by other people commenting to say their observation is brilliant and they hadn’t noticed that (“omg, did anyone else notice that Milkshake got upset from those paintings?”);
2. character quotes from the episode as the entire message;
3. asinine theories that are completely ungrounded and seem to be based on what the commenter thinks a shocking revelation would look like, regardless of what came before (“I bet Ricken is secretly running Lumon!!”); and
4. people who, like this article alludes to, complain if the episode requires absolutely anything from them, including their attention.

It’s like staring into the abyss.