A knockoff iPhone charger from China. I plugged it into my computer and it literally caught fire.

Oh hi me!

While at one point GTA was my favorite series and I was absolutely hyped for GTA V, I’m not for this one. I kind of feel like I’m getting a little old for GTA.

Maybe I’ll change my mind after it releases and there’s a good chance I’ll play it anyway, but right now… meh.

Really only Once Upon a Time in Hollywood comes to mind, but it’s not Scarface level popular.

Expert consensus has a different role than the OP. It’s a statement made by people who are intimately familiar with a body of evidence and are consolidating the many narratives of that evidence into clear statements.

Yes, it’s not true merely because they say it’s true. It’s most likely true because these experts have analyzed the thousand tiny individual pieces of evidence out there and have determined they are all pointing to the same key conclusions. That’s not an argumentum ad populum, that’s analysis and interpretation. Ignoring that because you saw some TikTok video is the actual fallacy (argument from authority.)

Saw X. A lot of people say it’s their favorite after the original, but I’m not sure I agree. The opening trap that made the poster being a dream sequence felt off, and the final act (where Saw films are usually strongest) felt underwhelming. Also, Amanda was quite visibly older despite this being a prequel to a 20 year old movie, which I found distracting.

It’s still a good 7/10 for having some of the more brutal and memorable traps in the series.

Shit, I can’t get Windows to print on my network printer. Have to uninstall it, reinstall it, manually set the IP, restart Windows, and then it’ll work for like one session and then not work again. Windows won’t even throw an error, it’ll just tell me it printed while my printer sits silent.

On linux it works every time. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even try to print in Windows anymore, I just forward all documents to my laptop and print in linux.

As a married man, it do be that good.

All of Nolan’s Batman movies were heavily pro-cop. Watch TDK again: the day is saved by illegal surveillance, and Batman faces no consequences for using it.

Thank you so much for responding. I sincerely hope you find what you are searching for.

Secure fax is encrypted: it’s sent via https.

How do you reconcile that with your discomfort about much of your connection to religion being circumstantial? Isn’t that very different than what you just told me?

After all, the post you just gave me is the practiced rhetoric of a firm believer. You were able to fall back into it quite easily, but does it accurately reflect how you really feel? Do you still feel this tie to Christ and that you are being held to this divine mandate given that you were saying you (your faith?) was at a low point a couple posts earlier?

Funny that not too long ago it was you who were overreaching.

Why is it good that it makes you uncomfortable? And I’ll go a step further and ask whether all discomfort regarding religion is good. For example, was your chaplain saying you should be uncomfortable because you’re not sure if it’s rooted in truth, or were they saying you should be going out of your comfort zone and challenging yourself to do more and/or expressing your faith in new ways? If so, are the two equivalent?

I’m asking in genuine curiosity: I grew up Catholic, and never felt much of a community motivation for my religion. Once I got to college, I mostly stopped going to church, with occasional bursts where I’d decide to go for a month or so. So going to church dried up before my faith did for me, and I don’t really understand going in the absence of faith.

I hung on as an agnostic theist for years, though lately I think I’ve been more of an agnostic atheist. I agree with your sentiment on God existence not being predicated on belief, but have also reached the conclusion that if I need belief to accept something as true, it probably isn’t.

Does it bother you that only one of those criteria is actually tied to faith in a god’s existence?

Assassins Creed

For the uninitiated, this is based on a game series with the premise of people in the modern day using a simulation to relive the memories of their ancestors. And in every day, the modern day is the frame story that sucks and the real, cool story is the simulation.

So of course they made the crappy frame story like 90% of the movie and it sucked. Obviously it’s hard to capture the entire feel of a game on film, but what they could have done is had the entire movie in the past and actually focused on telling a good story, and then revealed it was a simulation right before the credits. Heck, they could have just stolen the ending from Assassins Creed 2 and then cut to modern day Callum with a setup for a sequel.

Instead we got an entirely forgettable film.

TL;DR: If you don’t like a show by episode 6, you’re probably not going to like it. If a show you like has had 6 or more bad episodes in a row, it’s probably past its prime and safe to quit.

Should they go back to adapting books, plays, short stories, poems, tv shows, board games, tabletop games, songs, toy lines, children’s games, other movies, or an older version of the same movie instead?

This zero-cost licensing model translates to significant savings

You don’t say?

Why respond to a question if you’re just going to go off on a tangent without answering it?