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I’ll agree that there are more sequels now because studios are even more adverse to new ideas than before, but let’s not pretend shit like the slasher franchises of the 80s aren’t examples of needless sequels becoming the trend. Studios have been on the search for money since Hollywood became a cultural force. Hell, look up some of the beach party franchises of the 60s, do you think any of those sequels were necessary?

No, because they’ve been doing them since before I was born. Are you over 60 years old? because if not, they’ve been doing them since before you were born too.

perspective is hard

The sad truth is that we use animals for studies that specifically would not be ethical for humans. Like you said, it’s still important science than needs to be done, even if it can be unseemly.

The coping mechanism I was told was that most of these animals were bred for this exact purpose, and will be disposed of at the end of the study. I don’t know if that really makes our actions any better, but it does help me accept things.

I’ve been trying to help fix it for like 15+ years at this point, I just genuinely don’t see a path forward. This country was broken long before Trump, and people just didn’t seem to care. Now that it’s starting to personally hurt them, I’ve seen more people start to turn up, but many of them have the attitude of “I can’t wait for this to be over.” I expect as soon as Trump is out and replaced with a Democrat ghoul, a lot of the attendance at the meetings I go to will drop again.

When Balkanization starts getting put on the table as a serious solution that would meaningfully make things better, you know a situation is incredibly fucked.

it really doesn’t. It would start the process of fixing the problems, but you then still need to take money out of politics, curb the right-wing misinformation machine, introduce and pass widespread economic, education, and equality reform, all the while billionaires will continue to do everything in their power to bribe the multitude of parties to halt progress.

If they’re both the same level of difficulty, I’d rather fix all the problems at once, rather than take step one of a hundred.

I mean, I think it’s fine as a gimmick for wealthy gamers, and it’s been at that level for awhile.

As the future of gaming though? yeah, never gonna happen. M+KB is the best controlling scheme for tons of the genres I play, and controllers are great for a bunch of others. There’s actually not that many genres that are improved by full body motion tracking, they’re pretty much all first-person games, and they often turn a relaxing gaming session into a workout. It’s not that the technology isn’t there, it’s that the concept it’s fundamentally flawed.

This is the part that always gets me laughing. At the level of effort that would be necessary to actually get voting reform, we might as well just overthrow the government. That is how difficult it would be, it would require a nationwide coordinated mass movement hitherto unseen in the United States, and it would only really solve one of our problems.

I think the only parts I’d really categorize as a disaster kinda need a third movie to explain. I really don’t like how Denis changed Paul and Chani’s relationship, but maybe it’ll get paid off in a satisfying way in part three.

Or it’ll just continue being extremely out of character teen angst for contrived plot reasons, idk

no, that was The Predator.

Prey was a Predator turning up in colonial America and getting taken down by a Comanche hunter.

do you happen to have lemmy.world blocked? Most of the centrist shitlibs I’ve interacted with were from that instance, and before I blocked them I would say Lemmy was closer to a 50/50 split between leftists and blue MAGA.

I do it very slowly, often over the course of weeks. If it’s something like a cooking project for example, I’ll spend one week gathering ingredients, typically one weekend experimenting, and another weekend on making a finished project. If it’s a craft project like the gas mask I’m working on, it might take me several months working a few hours a weekend at a time. I find the easiest way to avoid getting overwhelmed is to move at my own pace. I also allow myself to have different types of projects ongoing at once, but crucially only one of each type. In other words, I can have a computer project, a cooking project, and a craft project, but not three different cooking projects.

of the home in Whitestown

you can’t make this shit up

Easily; they aren’t getting Joe Dante back and he was the only one that was able to have success with the franchise. Not sure if it’s gonna be a “legacy sequel” where they try to reboot the franchise, but seems likely.

You’re getting a lil confused, Joe Dante was the director for Gremlins and Gremlins 2. Spielberg wasn’t involved in Gremlins at all before this. There’s no way this film is going to be good without Dante’s involvement, and I think there’s no chance he will actually come back.

This is exactly it. They think they’ll look better if their essay shows off two or three different things they’ve done, when the truth is that the best essays I’ve read are from students who pick one singular thing and fully explore it. Classic style over substance.

That’s at the college level though. Unfortunately, I work with high schoolers, and I have not seen the same levels of respect given to the humanities as I see STEM in US high schools. Hell, in some states they seem to straight up allow students to take more STEM courses in lieu of humanities.

If I’m able to speak cat, does that mean my cats will actually listen to me? or will they just stare blankly at me and stick their tongue out when I ask them to get out of my bedroom?

I’ve got great news, but you’ll need to start making transfem friends

nah this is a lame take. People as a whole suck. trade your misandry for misanthropy