Aye. Bookmarking this thread to remind people when I see complaints Lemmy isn’t taking off enough except for super technical topics.

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A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious high-rise in New York City, not realizing she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may be under the grip of a Satanic cult.

In addition to Zazie Beetz on the poster, the cast includes Patricia Arquette and Tom Felton.

I use an app that doesn’t show profile pictures by default.

I apply a user tag to anyone I want to recognize.

And I’m also atheist, but raised Catholic and had a few schoolmates who became priests or nuns, and even more who explored it but left before making a permanent commitment.

I’ve got enough anecdotal evidence to cast a very skeptical eye on your claim that homeless broke dudes are the ones that go into the priesthood. So in an effort to get something a little better than my anecdotes, I websearched the phrase “demographics of men who become priests”

And got this page, https://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/over-400-men-in-u-s-to-be-ordained-in-2025-most-felt-called-to-priesthood-by-age-16/100087, which says:

On average, ordinands first started to consider becoming a priest at 16 years old, but 35% said they began to think about entering the priesthood in elementary school between the ages of 6 and 13.

Not lining up with your theory unless you think there’s a lot of homeless 16 year olds becoming priests.

And I guess caveat that I’m in US currently, most familiar with Western countries approach to Catholic religious life.

Who hasn’t experienced some personal calamity? Seems like something that can be retroactively applied to anyone.

Dude went into the seminary to become a priest after his girlfriend dumped him? Personal calamity! He’s hiding from future dumpings by becoming a priest!

I had some great aunts, now deceased, who became nuns and didn’t really own anything themselves personally.

Wicked, in prep for Wicked 2.

Prince of Darkness (1987). I learned it’s part of John Carpenter’s “Apocalypse Trilogy” along with The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness. The latter being my favorite JC movie.

I had a college sports team reunion and several teammates asked for a copy of a championship game. I still had the digital file, so posted it in a Dropbox thinking that would be easy enough for people whose hobbies don’t involve computers.

Nope, I was spending too much time on tech support so offered flash drives with video files.

Nope, still too much for two teammates so after a phone call to understand what tech they had at home and were comfortable with, I burned them each DVDs.

It didn’t get that far, but I was prepared to use my library’s digital-to-VHS-to-digital workstation to copy them an old-timey VHS tape if the DVDs didn’t work. The library even has a stash of never-unwrapped VHS tapes they’ll sell you.

Can’t read the article without giving them my email address so they can send me spam.

Maybe no one knows what movies are coming out because the high-quality information is behind paywalls and the low-quality information is either blocked or ignored due to volume.

If they want me to know about their movies, they’ll run informative, on-topic ads without tucking them behind a paywall and without drowning them out in a sea of other less-relevent ads.

Avatar 3. Graphics were not improved enough over 2 to warrant watching it for that reason. Narratively, a repeat of 2 and about an hour too long in runtime.

Silent Night, Deadly Night 1 & 2 in prep for the remake. I had forgotten the origin of “Garbage Day!” and was delighted to rediscover it.

This is me, I went along when invited by friends to see the graphics.

This one wasn’t worth it, there’s been no advancement since 2. And since most of the filming has been done for 4 and 5 already, I’m not expecting them to show any technology growth either.

I saw it in a Dolby theater rather than IMAX. I don’t think IMAX would have made enough difference to change my mind.

I plan on telling her parents and surprising her by having them sign her up for the trip.

If she wants to go to Germany, she can talk to her own parents. I can’t imagine any good reason for you to get involved and talk to her parents without her knowing. Maybe I’m missing some context, but seems like a lot of not-your-business.

Engineering

When the pros no longer outweigh the cons.

I work in a field that offers full tuition reimbursement commonly, so money isn’t a barrier. No con there.

I don’t have kids, so that greatly alleviates time capacity. So some con there but not as much as a parent of young kid(s) would face.

I have progressed far enough in my career and am on a path where another degree won’t really help me reach my career goals, so no significant pro there.

Personal curiosity and ego do motivate me slightly. Even if I never use it at work, I would be keen to have work pay for another degree that I have personal interest in. I also like having advanced degrees solely for the accomplishment. So minor pros there.

In summary, not too late for me but easy to see that’s not the case for everyone else.

Those MAGA nuts can’t touch my chill. I exist on an instance that has downvotes disabled.

Meh, I have no faith Disney will responsibly handle the screamingly obvious gay subtext to Gaston and LeFou. At best, some coy hints at it while staying minimal enough they don’t have to cross the MAGA nuts

Free Fire (2016). Not my jam. It felt like a fan boy attempt at a Guy Ritchie story. And the shots of the main location, which takes place in a big warehouse, don’t contain enough reference points so know where all the characters are at in any given moment. It was disorienting and made the fight scenes that much more difficult to follow.

Big World (2024) Chinese drama about a young man with cerebral palsy. This one is a tearjerker.

Shrek (2001) to celebrate its 25th anniversary a little early. Still such an impressive movie, I think a small, B-run studio would still be happy to put out that CGI work today.

Anyone I’ve ever heard talking about the non-aggression principle spat red flags faster than a machine gun.

At best, they’re truly so dense and unsympathetic they don’t recognize actions that aren’t directly or intentionally causing harm do still cause harm (example, the free state project people leaving food out for black bears “because they can” without thought for their neighbors who then have to deal with more bears). At worst, it’s rape apologia (crap like statutory rape doesn’t exist because that minor “totally asked for it” and the rape didn’t cause physical damage).

What a fun read, ty. I went to the Talk page hoping for some back and forth about ensuring the description of the project was unbiased. Nope, nada, surpised there aren’t any free state project fans within the ranks of Wikipedia editing volunteers who would have something to say.

White Zombie. It was fun seeing the low-budget combined with filming, acting, and dialogue that still hailed back to the silent film era. And for how racist it could have been in 1932, it really wasn’t. Misogynist? Yes.