People always make this complaint, but I really can’t blame the movie studios. Moviegoers have shown time and time again, that as much as they complain about the lack of original IPs, they don’t go see them when they come out. Movie studios want to make money. If the public has shown again and again that they’ll fork out $20 for a remake or some generic superhero crap, while completely ignoring original films… well, which do you think the studios are going to embrace?

Even the few original films that do come out have to be marketed in the same way a remake if they want any attention. “From the Producers of Nostalgically Popular Movie”, “From the Director of Big Series Everyone Knows”, “Starring That Actor Who Was in All Those Other Films You Used to Love”. Original movies can’t stand on their own anymore. The few that do are the rare exception, not the rule.

I am 100% not a vegan. I eat meat and cheese and eggs and pretty much all animal products. So hear me when I say I regularly grab oat milk when I’m at the store.

It’s not just the best milk substitute, it is better than regular milk.

What’s wrong babe? You’ve barely touched your abstract shapes.

Considering how many people didn’t vote for Kamala because they weren’t 100% happy with her stance on Palestine; yes, you dense motherfucker.

Both.

Fucking.

Sides.

Except the hyperbole in this case is comparing someone who has played “one single video game” as the same as kicking trans people down the stairs.

You get that right? The insufferability comes not from saying “please show support by not playing this game” but from saying “if you play this game, you are a bad person”.

I always like sharing this apocryphal story about Michael Dell. So Michael Dell went to the same high school I did, and the rumor goes that when he was there, a bitchy English teacher once told him he would never amount to anything.

Well years pass and he creates the computer company we know today. He returns to the school district and offers to donate computers to all their schools, from elementary thru high school. He only had one condition, fire the bitchy teacher who insulted him all those years ago.

The school district never confirmed it, but one year that teacher didn’t return, and sure enough, every school in the district suddenly got brand new Dell computers.

Unless that movie is Snatch.

That’s ok, insanity comes in many forms.

I keep telling myself that I’m doing ok and everything is fine, but at least once a day I suddenly collapse and start quietly sobbing. It usually happens in the shower, but it can happen anytime I have a brief moment alone. Only lasts for about 1 to 5 minutes and then I’m back up doing whatever it was I was doing, but its happening more and more frequently, and it’s getting harder to pretend I’m not overwhelmed by everything.

There is so much chaos and uncertainty. When I look at the state of the world, it feels like giving up and screaming incoherently into the void is somehow the most rational response; and that trying to keep going is the real insanity.

Quick! Write a shitty news article about it!

Then why hasn’t everyone who started out with a couple hundred million grown it to over 300 billion? I mean, if it just happens naturally, even to incompetent buffoons, then why don’t we see more people with 12 figure net worth’s? There’s thousands of people that start off in life with access to millions, but less than 2 dozen people have a net worth of over 100 billion.

Gee, I guess there’s more to it than just simply being rich.

…You know what I hate? I hate how fucking idiotic people become when they talk about someone they don’t like. It’s like they don’t even stop to think if the insult they’re using makes any good damn sense. Musk is a deadbeat, drug addicted, Nazi piece of shit; but it’s a such a fucking brain dead take to try to claim he hasn’t accomplished anything in business.

Like, Michael Jordan is by all accounts a terrible person. There’s lots of things you could say about him, but saying Musk just lucked or coasted his way to the top is like saying Michael Jordan wasn’t good at basketball.

Do you not realize that dumbass statements like that actually make things worse? All the boot-licking tech bros who support Musk use opinions like yours as evidence that anyone who criticizes him is a smooth-brained idiot and then they dismiss the actual, legitimate criticisms.

I fucking hate this world. I’m getting to a point where I just wish everything would burn to the ground because everyone on both side of everything is just so fucking stupid. Idiot fascists are taking over everything and those on the other side just sound like whiny children because they’re too fucking stupid to realize that just because someone is bad, doesn’t mean literally ever bad quality can be attributed to them.

Part of the problem is there is no hard line between what is conscious and what isn’t.

Oh sure, there are things you can definitely call conscious or non-conscious. A dog is conscious, a rock is non-conscious. But what about the things that fall somewhere in the murky middle?

Are jellyfish conscious? They have no brain, and seem to react only to the most basic of stimuli. On the other hand, they do exhibit behaviour like courtship and mating, show aversion to things that harm them, and have been shown to have at least a rudimentary form of learning where they will associate certain stimuli with specific outcomes to help with things like avoiding predators or obstacles.

How about plants? Are they conscious? They certainly react to some stimuli. They communicate with nearby plants to warn them of dangers and to share nutrients in times of stress. More studies are needed, but evidence has been coming out that not only do plants respond to music, but different plants have different tastes.

It’s one of the hard questions in philosophy, and one I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to fully answer.

Brave has their own built-in ad blocker that still works

Children.

Parents with children.

Keep in mind, they don’t need to actually like the film, as long as they are paying to see it.

What if… gasp, what if you’re not the target audience?!

Everyone complaining about the poor quality of Disney’s live action remakes is overlooking the main reason why Disney is making them. They’re profitable.

With the relatively low cost compared to a traditional animated movie, the ability to lean on existing IP’s, and the fact that the main audience (children) don’t typically give a shit about quality, Disney has been raking in the money with these remakes. I don’t believe they’ve had a true “flop” (where they lost money) since they started.

The Disney that made original films and stories is long dead. And why wouldn’t it be? For all the complaints about the lack of originality in Hollywood, when a studio actually risks making one, it tends to be a bust. Going to a theater is an event, and people don’t want to risk their money on an unknown story. Money talks, and unfortunately it says that remakes and bland superhero movies are what the people want.

Is the Valve Index really that unpopular? Or is it not included in the list for some reason?

For those who liked Roger Rabbit, I’d highly recommend the new Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers movie. It was kind of slept on when it was released and deserves so much more attention. I think people just assumed it was a remake of the show, but the movie is entirely its own thing. The only thing you even have to know about the show is that it existed. The movie itself is pretty much just like Roger Rabbit, with multiple IP’s mixing together in the real world and some surprisingly dark themes.

I’d still probably say Roger Rabbit is overall a better movie, but Chip 'n Dale is very close.

In your lifetime, rising sea levels won’t be an issue. In your kids lifetime is a different story, but we still got another 50+ years before sea levels will rise to a significant degree.

These are all on the same domain. I guarantee you they have extensive spam filters in place. “Flooding their inbox” will do nothing as the messages won’t even go to their inbox.

People hate whenever Brave is mentioned… But when it comes to privacy, I have not regretted my decision to use it