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I am not a scientologist. I hate scientology. I hate cults of all kind. I have no motive other than explaining why you are wrong about your misunderstanding of how this process works. Why you are wrong about these letters being supportive. You misunderstood the process and refuse to learn.
I also want to know where Shelley is. So stop acting like I'm defending this rapist idiot. I'm simply explaining a legal process which isn't about defending him. No, their words did not suggest leniency through other words either. They simply provided context for the judge to decide relevancy.
Because it's a spinoff? Why is that a question?
I already answered your questions. I'm answering honestly. You seem not to be familiar with this fairly standard legal process. Not my fault. I strongly condemn Danny Masterston and anybody like him. I just think it's better that people don't misunderstand this process, which wasn't defending him.
Yes I read them. It's not asking for leniency. They're bringing up things they think could be relevant for the judge to consider when sentencing, but not making a recommendation on that. They're leaving it to the judge to decide what is or is not relevant and for what reason.
My answer to that question would depend on the circumstances. It's not about defending anybody, but about providing context to achieve a correct sentencing. Whether I would provide the requested letter or not would spend on whether I have any relevant context. The letter did not ask for leniency.
I don't agree that it's a letter of support, or even that it necessarily asks for leniency. Just that it asks for their experiences to be taken into account, whatever the judge decides is relevant about those experiences. I don't have the ability to answer your question in relevance to myself.
It's not a letter of support. They didn't support him. They believed and supported the victims. It was requested to provide context of the kind of person they knew in the past. The judge factors context like that in how sentencing is decided.
To me defending him would mean suggesting he didn't do what he was accused of, which isn't the case. They supported and believed the victims. Their letter had nothing to do with that. Testimony to character history can be a factor in how a judge decides sentencing, but is not defending his actions.
She was only describing her experience with the person she knew at the time she knew him, which was long before any allegations came out. She wasn't describing what she thought of him in the present time after the conviction. It's a common practice, and doesn't speak to the charges at all.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
She didn't defend him, she was requested by the family to provide a statement about his character from her perspective (not speaking about the case at all), and did so, but then yes, she did absolutely apologize for it.
Full set of PSIs? For every movie and TV show possible? That seems like it would be a huge file.
Rewatching one of the best adaptations of Spider-man. The only better adaptation imo is the Insomniac game series. But Spectacular also focuses on a younger Pete in a way those games can't, and is so good at that.
Elections are run by states, not the federal government
The vast majority of AI usage involves no payment at all. There are of course companies who do sell a product with AI, but much of what it's being used for doesn't generate money at all.
They'll just pay the CEOs more lol Profits divided by number of employees would probably be a good scaling factor for a progressive tax rate though. Business does really need progressive rates. The mostly flat rates we have now are much harder on smaller businesses.
This is an increase to business taxes. It doesn't reduce taxes anywhere. The concept is good, because it means people will still be able to live happy lives even as automation takes away jobs. The problem is there's no great way to implement it objectively.
I think you'd need a general progressive tax rate for businesses that grows the larger the business is. Right now you don't really have that and the current rates are much harder on small businesses. Larger businesses are more likely to make use of robots/AI, and are more able to pay, so focus there
I've always said this, but it's not as simple as it seems. It's not like you have one robot per person, it's not like all robots do the same work, etc. How you measure how much to tax them is basically impossible to figure out in an objective way.
There's basically zero chance this will happen, at least for very long. Fox News and the sports makes YouTube way too much money to lose them. They're playing a bluff as a negotiation tactic.
Two years for 4 half hour episodes is insane
These laws are getting out of hand and do so much more harm than good. It angers me that the supreme court allowed laws like these because that means it's going to be so much harder to get them changed.
Recap Retcon 😂 #Peacemaker
55. Ironheart 56. Ms. Marvel 57. Agent Carter 58. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 59. Inhumans 60. I Am Groot 61. Eyes of Wakanda 62. Werewolf By Night 63. Echo 64. Secret Invasion 65. Cloak & Dagger
44. Moon Knight 45. Captain America: Brave New World 46. What If 47. Agatha All Along 48. Black Widow 49. Thor: Love and Thunder 50. Runaways 51. The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special 52. The Defenders 53. Iron man 2 54. She-Hulk: Attorney At Law
33. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 34. Iron Fist 35. Jessica Jones 36. Eternals 37. Thor: The Dark World 38. Ant-Man and the Wasp 39. Hawkeye 40. Luke Cage 41. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 42. Iron Man 3 43. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
22. The Punisher 23. Ant-Man 24. Captain America: The First Avenger 25. The Marvels 26. Deadpool & Wolverine 27. Spider-man Homecoming 28. WandaVision 29. Thor 30. Loki 31. Daredevil: Born Again 32. Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
11. Captain Marvel 12. Daredevil 13. Spider-man: No Way Home 14. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 15. Black Panther 16. Avengers: Age of Ultron 17. Agents of SHIELD 18. Fantastic 4: First Steps 19. Thor: Ragnarök 20. Spider-man: Far From Home 21. Thunderbolts
This is my new full ranking of the #MCU 1. Avengers: Infinity War 2. The Avengers 3. Avengers: Endgame 4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 6. Doctor Strange 7. Iron Man 8. Guardians of the Galaxy 9. The Incredible Hulk 10. Captain America: Civil War (thread)
I look forward to your enthusiastic discussion of Switch 2 games going forward!
I mean, the states operate the elections. Executive orders aren't laws and don't affect state run elections. Any state that didn't already get rid of mail on ballots can and will ignore what Trump wants when it comes to how their elections are run.
The way this reads to me is that he knew the guy in a non political setting and was disappointed to see him join Trump.
You must have a big database of filming locations
Comedy though lol
It's less the people and more the algorithms that cause it. Engagement based algorithms will always push posts that try to get people to argue. It's the worst part of the recent internet. We need to go back to enjoyment based algorithms, boosting based on likes rather than comments.
I preordered the 4K Blu-ray
I'm glad that Disney is finally pushing streaming to AFTER the physical release. Now do the same for digital, and watch other studios follow suit. Physical should be treated as the premium format.
The pandemic didn't inherently change how people interact with the world overall. People just expect they don't need to wait long to stream because of how that changed during the pandemic. Get rid of that expectation, and you bring basically the entire theatrical audience back.
Ticket prices are currently less than they were pre covid, when you adjust for inflation. Theaters shut down for a bit, obviously, but the only reason they were less successful after they opened was because studios gave people the expectation that they wouldn't need to wait long to see it digitally.
Most theaters have a lot of screens. They don't need to be on IMAX for the whole run.
No, the longer the wait is, the less people you will have that are willing to be patient. Nothing has changed about the theater/home experience aside from the wait.
No, all of that existed before the pandemic. That didn't change anything. Everybody knew they could wait 4 months to watch at home and avoid theaters if they didn't like that experience, and a much smaller number of people did it, because that's a long wait.
Again, all of that has existed for a very long time now. It's not new. The reduction in box office only happened when the wait between theaters and home became significantly shorter.
All of that has always existed. The main difference now is that people think they can wait a month for digital. For a month or slightly more, they can be patient. That's just a few weeks. If they realize they're not going to see digital any time soon, that's when they'll deal with the theater.
I think we are in that era. The only reason people wait for digital is because they know it's coming shortly after the theatrical release. If you only have to wait a month, people are going to be willing to wait. If they think they have to wait half a year, they won't be as patient.
That only happened because audiences got used to movies coming to streaming quickly. You take that away, theaters come back. They won't wait 6 months.
You're misunderstanding. It's not about week to week, it's about *overall* box office. When people get into the expectation that they won't need to wait long for digital, a lot less people go to theaters in the first place. If people had to wait 6 months, you'd have bigger opening weekends for ex.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying the less time people think they need to wait to see something at home, the less people will go to the theaters in the first place. We need to get people used to waiting longer again, which will increase the number of people going to theaters.
That is strongly false. The expectation that people won't need to wait long to see something at home has dramatically reduced people's willingness to go to theaters.
I hope you can push the studio to keep DCU movies exclusive to the theaters for longer next time. These short theatrical windows have too much of a negative impact on box office.
I'm talking more than very progressive. I'm saying more than 90% of the votes regularly go to the Democrat there.
Even in DC, one of the most Democrat heavy cities in the country?
He doesn't have the authority to take over the police in a city. The police can and should resist any attempts to do so.
Clearly this is not about making DC, or any of us, safer.
After nearly 6.5 years of (intentionally) very slow weight loss, I have finally reached my goal. Now it's time to maintain it.
They nailed the casting holy crap. I will say it took a little while for me to get into it, but once Ellen and Brian met, I was hooked.
I turned the "Legacy of the First Blade" DLC from AC Odyssey into a movie. It's coming out in a week. Here's a trailer for it: youtu.be/JwIaut4AsJY?... #AssassinsCreed
Just freaking tax the rich. It's not that hard.
Using Sam Raimi and Matt Reeves as a comparison has me worried. While those get some aspects of the character right, some of what those movies do is noticeably wrong as well. I enjoy them but they're not the greatest standard to look up to when it comes to those characters.
So just to be clear - the “protect the kids” party is now shutting the government down to protect sexual predators? Do we have this right?
Those subtle lift offs, where flying is just as easy to Superman as walking, were something the Christopher Reeve movies did well, as well as Superman Returns. I love how instinctive it makes flight look for the character. Obviously for moments where speed matters the blast off makes sense.
I really liked this but I do hope there are more moments going forward where Superman doesn't just blast off at a million miles per hour every time he flies. There was one moment at the end with Lois where he just subtly lifts up and I love moments like that with Superman. I wish there were more.
They're exiting the late night business it seems.
And it's a bribe that won't even work. John Oliver covered this a month ago: youtu.be/07JQr5W3970?... Someone in the comments said it well: It's like they are saying "I bet if I give the bully my lunch money today, he'll leave me alone tomorrow"
Fans of The Last of Us TV show probably played the game, and then went to look up what else Ashley Johnson had been in.
Man this has been in development for several years. I wonder what happened with the anime they were developing for even longer.
And thus completes the trilogy!
Loved this scene so much
Bitcoin didn't exactly go away...
Thanks
Someone's trying to bring him down? Google didn't show anything. What are you talking about?
To be fair, "vote blue no matter who" is about the general election. Primaries are the time when argument within the party is a good thing. It helps the party realize what the people do and don't want going forward.
I think Nolan gets Batman right. Maybe missing some of the visual language of the world and character, but I think he understands the core of who Bruce Wayne and Batman are. Also, even if they aren't the best movies, I do think Shazam and Black Adam do get the characters mostly right.
Is this just going to be Season 9 again?
While executives are paid too much in an unfair way compared to the rest of the workers, it really has no major impact on any business's finances as a whole. Even if you cut them out entirely from the business.
I left the platform years ago
I truly cannot wrap my head around why anyone is still on that platform. The only explanation that makes sense to me (and it’s not a good one) is that folks with large follower counts don’t want to give them up. If the Nazi salute wasn’t the final straw, what, exactly, will it take?
I have a feeling there will be a disclaimer if you try to play that mode before completing the main game, or perhaps it may not even unlock unless you've beaten the game normally.
Yep it was always clear to me that they fudge the numbers so that GamePass on its own is technically profitable. The problem is that the revenue the games are getting is considerably lower than they would be getting if they weren't on GamePass, and for first party, likely not covering the budgets.
Batman Begins :)
Has more to do with shareholders demanding impossible to sustain profits.
Honestly Dreamcast has one of the best games lineup of any console. I think if they had given it more of a chance it could have been successful. They dropped it two years in. It didn't have to beat PS2, but it might have held its own against the GameCube at least, given the opportunity.
The #AssassinsCreedOdyssey animators did a great job with this scene. Facial expressions tend not to be great in this game, but this scene they did a great job showing Kassandra in pure rage mode.
Sometimes temporal AA (especially if not done great) leaves after images you might not notice in real time but can be super creepy while editing.
The stock market was a mistake
It's always the slavery to shareholders and their need for unsustainable profits that causes this.
That's about 2.5 miles
I just got a zipline in the first game but I haven't used it because I like using my truck
SMG said she wanted to bring dead characters back, so it seems like she'd be all for it too.
After 7 years I would think the game would be out already. If it still just had a code name and no official announcement, then I would have to imagine that development restarted at least once if not more, and it probably wasn't in a great state.
I tried the first episode and I just couldn't get into it. The first few scenes were good but as soon as the team assembled I was bored. The writing seemed super cheesy and made decent actors seem weak.
America can and must be bigger than their punitive politics.
Interpreting | Thunderbolts* (2025) Thunderbolts breathes new life into the MCU, uniting overlooked characters in a surprisingly deep, emotionally resonant story. With sharp editing, powerful metaphors about depression, and standout action sequences, this misfit team-up proves its worth. It starts…
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I don't remember too much about the second season
What's this?