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Putting on my devil's advocate hat here: How many adult British male dwarf actors exist these days? I can't imagine it would be many. Letting a non-dwarf play a dwarf would probably be decried as ableism. But I am a bit disappointed that Davis would agree to this, considering JK's stances.
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Expedition 33, Blue Prince, Split Fiction, The Alters. At least of those I've played. I have high hopes for Cronos: The New Dawn and Hell Is Us as well, but I haven't played them as they're not out yet.
Anecdotes prove nothing. Besides, you have an entire generation in their 30s now who grew up on video games, and crime is down across the world. Whether there's a correlation I cannot say, but it does strike me as curious.
Wearing couch leather bondage.
Now you get to play that video game... in real life! 😂
Have you tried the game Unpacking?
What's going on with the 4th September in the #gaming world? Silksong, Hell Is Us and the Indiana Jones DLC all release, Helldivers 2 and Space Marine 2 get MAJOR content updates and Void Crew starts a free weekend ON THAT DAY.
I'm looking forward to this movie. Now that cast and crew have been announced and filming has begun, it looks like this is one of the untold number of announced Star Wars projects that will actually see the light of day. It's been a long time since the last time we had a Star Wars movie in theaters.
495 kcal is roughly 25% of the recommended daily intake for an average person. 4 servings of this and you shouldn't eat anything else, or you'll go into calorie surplus.
I would love for them to explore the "painters vs writers" conflict alluded to in the grand narrative of Expedition 33. It seems like a conflict that is ripe with ideas. Maybe they could take inspiration from the setting of The Book Walker: Thief of Tales.
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We need a competitor to YouTube, but no other company has the same amount of resources and technical prowess to pull it off, except maybe Aylo... (IYKYK)
KPOP Demon Hunters is a great movie and the songs are absolute bangers. No one should ever let anyone tell them otherwise.
Or maybe they'd show she's full of baloney and that's why they're not releasing them? 🤔
Wouldn't it be great if they released the files so that people could verify Maxwell's statements?
I don't want to get my hopes up... but it would be so nice not having to look at his stupid face and listen to his awful voice ever again.
Got my hands on this beauty today. I loved #starwarsoutlaws, so now it's time to dig into the goodness that is the artbook.
My movie/show/video game/books backlog is astronomically large. It's like a Mount Everest that keeps getting taller as time goes on. When I crawl up 100 meters, it grows 50 extra meters. It never ends!
What are the parameters for this study? Did you play it on console with controller, or console with kb&m? Pc with controller? Did you smoke them or get smoked? Do you have a control group? Double blind test? A dataset to extrapolate from? We need the data, Philip!
Now hold on, time out! Is he actually, seriously, eating a pizza slice from the crust side? I didn't think I could think any less of him, but he keeps finding new ways to be a failure of a human being.
Yeah, IGN is a gaming news outlet, why are they now writing news about health crises in America? Is it because the CDC is fucked beyond repair under RFK Jr., and thus they feel like they have an obligation to enlighten the people on their behalf?
The far right grifters keep claiming that "going woke" results in "going broke", but how often has that actually been the case? I don't think I can even count on one hand how many times I've seen something flop because it decided to expressly be "woke", whatever that even entails these days.
Yeah, there wasn't a whole lot in terms of bombastic new releases outside of the Resident Evil and Silent Hill stuff, so if you're not a fan of horror, it would've been a total snooze fest.
This is a bubble I am going to love to see burst. LLM style AI is such an omnipresent annoyance at this point, I wish only the worst for the whole industry. Bring back predictive algorithm style AI a la AlphaFold, that's where the real use cases are.
Any #deadspace fans here looking forward to the upcoming CRONOS: The New Dawn? From the previews I'm getting some very heavy Dead Space vibes. #cronosthenewdawn
I have literally never heard of this project. Where is the project documentation? Where's the website? The funding paper trail? The people in charge?
I will say it's a refreshingly grounded super hero movie. Just a bunch of antiheroes vs a corrupt CIA director, while talking about processing trauma and overcoming failure.
Just an FYI the game is called Hardspace Shipbreaker, not Hardship Shipbreaker...
"Hey Abraham, you should kill your son, lol" And thus followed nearly 3000 years of strife based on my imaginary friend being better than your imaginary friend.
Making fun of people for enjoying their hobbies? What year is this, 2002?
Ethanol is not turmeric. They have nothing to do with each other. It's the ethanol in alcoholic beverages that is bad for you. I can't speak for turmeric, but if it is present in the beer of your country, then good for you, but it's like putting the penicillin pill in a glass of e-coli.
Please cite your sources.
15. Increase funding for public education 16. Increase funding for mental health 17. Increase funding for the IRS to pursue billionaire tax fraud 18. Increase funding for NASA 19. Decrease funding for the military 20. Enact police reform to increase education, and hold bad apples responsible.
10. Establish ethics clauses for the Supreme Court 11. Introduce anti-bribery laws for the Supreme Court 12. Introduce term limits for the Supreme Court 13. Revert all legislation that came as a result of Project 2025
She was born in '51 so she's 74 years old. Your assessment of her being a 80 year old plastic puppet is not far off.
Is this like a mix between Power Washing Simulator and Super Mario Sunshine?
"He's just like me fr fr" - his entire audience. Smelly, unkempt, sad losers who hate the world and blames everyone for their own predicament.
Everything about Peter Thiel and his company Palantir just screams "I am a sociopathic super villain! This is my evil mega corporation! Our product is crimes against humanity!" Palantir's basically the real world version of this meme, but with 1984:
Nope, wait.. there's a section on the side of the box that displays the dimensions of the model, So it's more like a disc than a sphere. Oh well... I might still buy it.
Ooooooooo snap, If that thing can be closed up to reveal the full sphere, that's an instant purchase. I just need to figure out where in my place I can display it.
But his method was just flawed. Like, snapping 50% of all life wouldn't have solved the problem in the long term, as populations would just grow back to pre-snap numbers, and then what? Another snap? No, sustainable numbers is the real solution, unchecked growth is the problem.
Well, the villains with "good intentions" think ahead, I suppose. Like, Sauron and Emperor Palpatine are just hella evil and love being evil for the sake of it. And Capt. America does point out in Endgame that "the whales are back" hinting at the fact that Thanos might've had a point.
And when the entire rest of humanity is super pissed at you, good luck keeping that support system alive.
For Elysium (the space station) to become viable it needs a massive support system on Earth and a frequent delivery of resources, as it's simply too small to be self-sustainable. Tools, spare parts, food, perishables, etc. would be impossible to procure without a Star-Trek style replicator.
Anyone remember Elysium, that sci-fi movie with Matt Damon where the ultra-wealthy live in space, while the rest of us poors live in squalor on a scorched Earth? Probably the most realistic outcome of the current direction, except the rich will live in fortified bunkers and not in space.
You're an idiot. Man made climate change is real, and all the data corroborate this fact. Oil companies did this. Coal companies did this. They suppressed the data they were already aware of IN THE 60s!!!, and keep pushing goal posts to this day.
Good choice. Whenever I see other people announce a pregnancy or show up with little kids, deeply on the inside I feel nothing but pity for those kids, because they will inherit a world that will become SO much worse than what we have today. We're talking Children of Men, Mad Max, The Road.
It does feel like the political violence in the US is starting to escalate at an alarming rate. Is it because the right wing feels emboldened enough by the current administration that they think they can get away with it? Or is there some other underlying issue at fault?
I have no data to back it up, but I think there are only two kinds of people on Steam: 1) People who only have 5 or so games and plays Counter-Strike all the time 2) People who have more than 500 games and have played about half of them. I'm number 2 by the way.
But Ballerina is a great movie! What the hell???!?
What a petty asshole. Seriously, he's using the DOJ as his personal bully squad, to go after everyone who launched investigations and filed suits against him. Nothing's gonna come of it because those lawsuits were warranted, but it's nevertheless a complete waste of taxpayer dollars.
Besides, If those 38 million users were a country, they'd be the 43rd biggest country on the planet. It is a not-insignificant number, either.
Infinite growth is unsustainable. Infinite *exponential* growth even more so. Bluesky is still getting more users every day, and that's good enough. Not every product needs to do bigger numbers all the time. 1 million good users vs 5 million trash users is a net positive if you ask me.
How bad is "really bad"? You're already facing a massive recession bordering on The Great Depression 2.0, you're deporting/scaring away so many immigrants your food supply is rotting on the fields, your housing market is already trash, and your rights are laughable compared to the rest of the west.
I'm over here on the other side of the Atlantic just counting the days until the people of the USA has truly had enough and goes [REDACTED] on the current administration. Will it be the recession? The food shortages? The concentration camps? The runaway inflation/tariffs? Only time will tell.
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It was a rumor back during the casting news for The Rise of Skywalker, but it never amounted to anything.
I saw a lot of noise about the new animated movie called KPOP Demon Hunters so I took a look at it... I might have a new favourite animated movie for 2025.
We already have a Taron Egerton take on James Bond, no need for a second one, the first one is already perfect.
Is that why Melania is still alive?
I'm on the other side of the Atlantic, there's not really much I can do from over here other than point and cry.
I watched it in theaters last week, and I enjoyed it. I've asked other people if they've seen it and they're hesitant simply because it's American. I'd argue it actually is a bit critical of America and I appreciated that aspect.
This is the main reason I hate the term "AI" today, because it's being used to describe every single kind of machine learning technology, even though they're all wildly different. ChatGPT and AlphaFold are NOT the same, so if people would kindly stop grouping them together, that'd be swell.
hit* the mod menu... why can't you edit skeets, Bluesky?
As a long-time Warframe player I only have this to say: FINALLY!!! The modding system of Warframe is arguably one of its best features, but it's also one of its most obtuse and difficult to understand systems for a beginner. Most newbies hid the mod menu and go "NOPE!" and never touch it again.
Aren't American sodas full of corn syrup instead of real sugar? Simply because it's cheaper?
Hopefully the entire movement will cannibalise itself and implode as a result. I am SO tired of anything and everything related to MAGA absolutely overwhelming all of the news all the time. Even over here. So tired. So ready for it to be over.
Tsk tsk tsk captain Kirk, please always remember ATGATT! I need to ask Mr. Spock to give you a stern talking to.
Paramount is cancelling Stephen Colbert? What an absolute travesty. Absolutely unhinged decision. And just DAYS after they settled a lawsuit with the orange dirtbag? Smells incredibly fishy to say the least.
Ah.
If Maul: Shadow Lord becomes a success and gives Lucasfilm incentive to make stuff focusing on bad guys, what other villains would you like them to focus on for future shows, or movies, or maybe even games?
The answer is always "no". It is never the time to stop snubbing right wing family members. They are inherently unreasonable people. And using the Vader/Luke picture for a headline like this is just incredibly ironic (or maybe that's the point?)
That makes sense. The visual limitations of 2D sprites would probably lend itself better to loaders. Shapez 1 only made it work because it has a very simple visual design.
So quick question, there are usually two design philosophies in automation games regarding input/output from machines, and that is 1) dedicated slots in the building, and 2) "loaders" that can insert and pull out from any angle. Did you go with the "loader" option for a specific reason?
Listen, I agree that JK Rowling is an absolute c*** and everything she's doing against the trans community is an utter travesty, but I was just commenting on the acting of Robbie Coltrane and his pretty good portrayal of Hagrid. Remember that those movies also came out before she turned into a hag.
Robbie Coltrane was a fantastic Hagrid. Frost has some pretty big shoes to fill.
I think at most the EU would give exemption on the £ purely on the grounds of its historical and cultural significance, but everything else would have to be upheld.
... Detective Diaz, I am your SUPERIOR OFFICER!!!
Kat seems like a really fun gal, and from the videos I've seen that she's made, she sounds like she has her priorities straight as well. If I were American, and lived in Illinois (that's what IL is, right?), I'd definitely give her a serious consideration.
Quick reminder that this woman is only 32 years old.
The "gaming" chair I had prior to that one started falling apart after 6 months. The fake leather was disintegrating, the arm rests came loose, and it started wobbling. Never again.
A regular, bog-standard office chair is still superior to these cheap-ass gaming chairs, and I say that sitting on an office chair I bought in a local retail chain for office paraphernalia that still works 7 years and 6 months later without showing any signs of wear.
Firefox all the way. It's one of the last holdouts remaining that ISN'T built on Chromium, which is a Google product. This also allows it to have proper ad blocking. 🔥🦊
And this is the reason you see them increasing prices on games and stuffing them with loot boxes, skin packs, subscription services, deluxe editions, and more. And then when the game is wildly successful, then you fire the entire development team so you don't have to pay them any wages.
There are only so many people in the world, and each person can only play so many games. The market for live service is already saturated, so releasing another one into this market is like hoping to win the lottery: the most economic move is simply not to play. STOP. MAKING. LIVE. SERVICE. GAMES!
It's all about the short term profit over long term gains. These companies are beholden to the shareholders who expect constant growth from their investments. If the profit is steady, it's not good enough, it HAS to grow. Minimum effort for maximum profit is the modus operandi for them now.
I definitely will. At some point. My backlog is so big though.
Played Shapez 2 for a 20 or so hours when it released into early access last year. Can absolutely recommend, it's a great automation game. None of the resource management, all the focus is on efficiency and problem solving.
Last night I finally rolled credits on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and oh boy does the game live up to its reputation. This is without a doubt one of the best games this year, maybe even this decade. You *have* to experience this masterpiece.
Lex Luthor: Tech billionaire, owns many companies, LexCorp, etc. etc. Kingpin: Gangster, politically involved, HQ in New York, etc. etc.
Trump is the absolute antithesis of everything Superman stands for. A more apt comparison is Elon as Lex Luthor and Trump as Kingpin (I know, DC ≠ Marvel, don't @ me).
Thunderbolts is probably the most refreshingly down-to-earth and fun super hero movie we've had in a long time. I would 100% argue that it's among the better super hero movies in the post-pandemic era. Definitely top 15.
We're not done. Due to the nature of the petition and its international focus, there's a high chance that a lot of the signatures are invalid, and they will be pruned when the petition ends. If the number of signatures after the pruning doesn't reach 1 mil, then it won't pass. So keep at it.
I would argue they can still make super hero movies. But only if they're actually good. Not bad, not mediocre, *good*. If you're just making them to retain rights, a la Madame Web, then don't bother. Make 'em good like Thunderbolts at minimum.
The orange clown has repeatedly shown gross amounts of disrespect to US military personnel, veterans and active duty alike, so I have no idea how *any* of them would think fondly of him.
Good luck with that now that the billionaires have effectively re-instated feudalism in the States.