You’d be surprised.

I have a RL friend who’s on Reddit all the time, and he didn’t even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I’ve been trying to sell it to him…

Re: The “We’re elite” becomes “We’re bored talking among the same old people” or “We’re burned out”, leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.

I’ve been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.

I watched this Saturday.

There was so much good stuff artistically in this movie!

The changes to the story worked really well, IMO, towards updating it for modern cynical sensibilities:

I loved Zendaya’s portrayal of Chani and her girl friend calling out Paul and Jessica’s colonialist bullshit.

Jessica’s “strange” behavior as a pregnant woman. I agree with others that having Jessica speak for Alia worked better than having a child actor like Lynch’s version.

Stilgar’s parody of religious fanaticism was hilarious!

Visually, making the worm riding look like some kind of extreme sport worked well

The Giedi Prime black and white/infrared sequences were brilliant, although seeing the Baron and Feyd in regular flesh tones afterwards felt strange.

The Atreides nuke missiles flying across the sky felt apocalyptic

The Sardukar ranks were notably not as rigidly disciplined as we saw in the first film.

Unlike others, I thought that Christopher Walken’s emperor was good. Age decrepit on the verge of doddering, but with dark intelligent thoughts behind his sullen face. The only problem with casting Walken was that he’s too recognizable.

The one part I didn’t like was the climactic dagger fight. I would have liked to see the action better choreographed and coordinated with camera angles to make the sequence of thrusts and parries clearer. I also would have liked to see contrasting fighting styles between whatever Feyd does, and Paul’s classical Atreides training mixed with Fremen savagery. I’m still not sure how Paul’s knife wound up in Feyd at the end.

I also noticed unlike other adaptations, they didn’t do the weirding modules, the Atreides-developed sonic weapons that give the Fremen some kind of combat advantage. But I didn’t miss them.

Overall I was very happy with the movie.

US: “No ceasefire”

Also US (Trumpublicans): “No arms for Ukraine either”

Ukraine: “Hey, we’re dying over here, we need ammunition”

Republicans allegedly want to give those funds to the Border Patrol and to build the Great Wall, not to feed your theoretical homeless woman.

Actually they don’t really care about that either, which is why an additional $14 billion for border security isn’t enough for them.

And, the aid packages promptly failed in both the House and Senate…

Harley is a British de-mining volunteer in Ukraine, organizing, training and equipping others to find, disarm and remove mines and other UXO (unexploded ordinance)

And jeez, there are so many mines to clear.

Ukraine will need about 757 years to be de-mined using conventional techniques.

The dude has XL-sized balls of Ukrainium.

I’m glad he made it to safety alive.

And cryptocurrency mining. That drove a lot of GPU prices through the roof before the pandemic.

Also, most young kids play games on phones and tablets, because parents don’t need to buy an expensive console or PC.

Check this out this short by a game developer if you want to feel old…

https://youtube.com/shorts/h8ElOpITBjQ

It would be a shame if a few dozen explosive drones were to suddenly show up and blow it to pieces…

I find the boss battles in Pixel Dingeon too difficult when I am forced into them before my character is ready.

Pathos Nethack is a better mobile dungeon crawler with no time pressure for the fixed encounters.

According to a quick Google, the only thing that detonates the plastic explosive in TM-62s is a shockwave, which is how the primer detonates the mine.

So something that generates shockwaves violent enough to get through their casing over a wide area might work on all the exposed mines.

It might not be as effective on mines that are buried.

How can I make some?

“'Tis but a scratch!”

Hopefully not a fly-by-night company so that they can actually get their money back.

It would be nice to see some photos of what exactly was damaged, but if you correlate the locations of the blackened blotches on the fuzzy satellite closeup with a before photo of the ship like the one in this article, it should have hit the wheelhouse with the radar on top.

Good! Lots of expensive electronics.

In this case, I hope they can lobby the new House Speaker to pass continued large packages of aid to Ukraine.

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Now is a good time to invade Russia to reclaim “disputed territories” or to kick out Russian troops that are occupying territory like in Georgia, Moldova.

What a great guy! I can’t imagine life and work today without GPS.

And in a sense, all thanks to American pilots dropping chocolates and candy. A little goodwill to children goes a long way.

It was lonely and wanted to join the Moskva