It is like a home movie in that it is an attempt to humanize the victim. There is no evidence in a home movie, no relevant facts, just an idea of the person that’s gone. You’re right that one is a memory of something that happened while the other is a fabrication of something that might have happened, but they are both equally (ir)relevant and emotionally manipulative. Many jurisdictions do prohibit victim statements beyond a written or verbal testimony. Some countries and states require you to use a form and won’t admit statements that do not adhere to the form.

Also remember that this is for the judge, not a jury.

Victim statements to the court are always emotionally manipulative. It’s akin to playing a video of home movies of the deceased, and obviously the judge understands that it is a fictitious creation.

Daredevil Reborn, Andor Season 2, Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman, Tales of the Underworld, Doctor Who, Disney has been doing well delivering good content from seemingly exhausted IPs.

Until you confirm that you have a working backup, your backup is theoretical.

Jollof rice is a West African dish, but I don’t know if the rest is West African.

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That just seems like the EU sold a bunch of data to China for $600 million.

It’s because 3d chess is a sci-fi trope. There are a few versions, but it probably became most famous from the Star Trek version. 3d chess is ostensibly more complex, although the precise rules are usually not described in fiction, and the people who are very good at 3d chess are demonstrated to be extremely smart and tactical. Having a sci-fi character win at 3d chess is itself a trope to demonstrate that the character is a genius. In those examples, often the opponent will be overconfident and derisive of the character’s strategy, only to be humbled by the loss moments later. It’s a way to showing the character is cool headed, gracious in victory, and leagues ahead of his opponents.

The 4d chess meme was an escalation of a sarcastic exaggerations of the trope, like a way of saying a moron is just doing something obviously stupid is really enacting a super-strategy that you just don’t understand.

It’s an economics thing. Like what would you say is a fair price for something that would take a contractor an hour? $200 plus materials? Does that seem high maybe? If you’re a contractor, that probably seems low. $500? Maybe that gets you out of bed.

If they take a big job that will require a week of work, they might charge $2,000. Now, you think, 5 days, 40 hours, that’s $50 an hour and you were willing to pay ten times that. The difference is that $2,000 job is more likely to result in more work, more hours, with higher budgets. The $500 handyman project is an entire day, between travel and planning and tool maintenance and procuring materials. It’s a day you’re not prospecting. It’s a day where you can’t pay any employees.

And that’s before you consider that most customers didn’t even want to pay the $200. They’re going to grumble and complain that you’re robbing them, that they don’t make that much an hour at their desk job. They are going to demand a level of perfection that isn’t in the budget, and changes and scope creep because they want to get their money’s worth. They will bad-mouth you to their friends and family and internet and anyone that will listen.

It’s the 80/20 rule. 80% of anything comes from 20% of sources, whether you’re talking about profits or headaches. So you put effort into finding the good 20 and avoiding the bad 20, which means focusing on large projects and avoiding small projects.

Any contractor with a few years of experience has had nightmare projects. There’s also some psychological gymnastics on that side of the coin, because contractors who have bad experiences on a larger project are likely to justify or forget the annoyances because the experience was “worth it,” while the small job that caused any trouble at all is going to be extra frustrating because of the perceived lack of value.

You see this a lot in project management. People go to school to learn to manage projects, and they think that all projects are pretty much the same. You define the deliverables, set the schedule, track the progress, and everything should work out fine. When the project is a success, they pat themselves on the back for getting everyone to the finish line, and when the project fails they examine where in the process unexpected things happened.

Video games are an art form. Creativity can’t be iterated into existence, and the spark of fun is more than the component parts of a good time. Capitalists believe that they can invest in the creative process and buy the value of the talent of extraordinary people. They have commoditized creation, dissecting each step and then squeezing it into a format that fits into a procedure.

Here’s a Kanban board of game features, pick one and move it to the next phase. Develop, test, evaluate, repeat. What are your blockers? Is this in scope? Do we need to push the deadline?

That can help you make something, but it won’t be art.

apt is for like when you want to, and apt get is the other way to get the apt. And then if it doesn’t, sudo apt will, or then sudo apt get. Like if you’re just doing an apt, and then you also need to apt get, you can.

Have you checked to make sure that the universe is not a hyper realistic simulation and you are every person in it?

Much more accurate than guessing is not a strong endorsement.

They are, for better or worse. Kids learn to be people from the people around them. The only situation where your parents aren’t role models is when they aren’t around you, and that’s a sort of role model in its own way.

Kids also learn from their peers, their mentors, their heroes, etc, so it’s not like kids of shitty people are completely fucked.

Watching the Brak Show feels like smoking weed to me, but I’m completely sober. Except for when I’m high.

While you are correct, the only people using “woke” anymore are using it as an insult, meaning “not a bigot like me.”

If the admins won’t address bigotry, then yeah I get that. It was also a transparent process with a clear cause and effect. I don’t know why I was banned from some circlejerk community, but I can only assume it’s some arbitrary nonsense from a tripping moderator.

I just realized I was banned from a federated instance I had never heard of, so it’s not just reddit.

It didn’t work for me. Why not?

What a miserable person.

I used to not care at all about Rowling, so it didn’t bother me that everyone loved her books.

But since she’s revealed that she’s also a horrible person, I feel like it’s worth pointing out that she’s also a horrible writer. Everything good that she put into her books is lifted from something else. The stories are meandering wish fulfillment, barely coherent and hardly ever internally consistent. Her twists are either telegraphed and obvious or non-sequitur. Her characters are one-dimensional caricatures, and the only reason they are so beloved is because they were crafted into films.

Go back and really read her stories. Read the dialogue, read the imagery, and really ask yourself, “is this good writing?” No it isn’t. Is it examining interesting moral questions? No, not once. Is it clever and original? It’s only clever when it’s plagiarism.

You can enjoy bad writing. I enjoyed reading the later books. I enjiyed the movies. Just as you can enjoy a McDonald’s cheeseburger and fries, Rowling’s world of Harry Potter scratches the right itches to engage the reader and make you feel good. But that doesn’t make her a good writer, anymore than the fast food burger flipper is a good chef.

JK Rowling sucks as a person, and as a writer.