Ahhh, so they “mischaracterized” it. That makes it okay, then.

It might vary from app to app, but there are usually options to toggle between Local and Everywhere for “All” content, if you want to see just what is on your own instance versus all other instances yours is federated with.

Some instances are defederated from them, which would prevent them from being seen elsewhere.

After Succession, I’m so looking forward to watching Jeremy Strong play another sleazy businessman.

Nah, they’re the current generation making all the important decisions for the rest of society.

From what I read in another thread, this isn’t really a Peter Jackson product. He was apparently signed on as an executive producer after production had nearly wrapped, his name is just attached for the advertising.

Ultimately this is a LotR fanfic. If it’s good, it’s good. If not, oh well, it’s not like it ruins the canon, which already ended over 50 years ago with Tolkien’s death.

Hey, it shows up in people’s “All” feeds as well. I’m not subscribed here and I saw this post (but I do also already use Firefox).

I loved Chris Hemsworth in this movie.

Spoilers below:

!It’s a bit on-the-nose, but I liked his changing color theme that accompanied changes to his behavior. He was able to really carry just about every scene he was in, a villain that I really enjoyed seeing on screen. But even then, I also did not feel bad about seeing the scenario(s) depicting his fate. Dementus wasn’t a “love to hate” or “hate to love” villain, he was just a force of nature who wasn’t there to be understood or judged by others.!<

The Prometheus sequel was Alien: Covenant. Also not a great film.

Alien vs Predator is non-canon (if you can even give this series a “canon” anymore), so I guess the number is either 5, 7, or 9 movies depending on which things you see as part of “the series”.

It’s not so much the banning I’m worried about as the brigading. If someone develops some mod tool that starts tracking downvotes in your community user by user, they could then essentially assign some sort of social credit score to people and harass them out in the wild.

People can be creeps online, too. I’ve seen more than one situation on Reddit before where people end up getting stalked by other users who harass them anywhere they see them. You say the right thing in front of the wrong person on the wrong day and they can just snap, becoming way too obsessive.

If some troglodyte spams hate speech that ends up in my All feed and I downvote them because that stuff deserves to be buried, I don’t want to have to worry about being potentially stalked and singled out by a weirdo who can connect their downvotes to me because they posted everything in their self-moderated community. Votes suck and internet points are dumb, but the system serves its purpose of providing an anonymous way to direct content and conversations in productive directions. Good stuff is elevated, bad stuff is buried.

Oh yikes, before I clicked the link I thought you were about to tell me that they were working on user data encryption. Not sure I am keen on enabling even more surveillance to be accessed by who knows who. Will definitely have to start worrying more about which communities I even let on my feed, in case I downvote some bigoted shit from someone’s personal community that shows up in All and they start witch-hunting users who took the bait.

With #3, someone correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t believe your run-of-the-mill moderator can see upvotes and downvotes. But instance admins can, just by nature of having access to the server data. Federation wouldn’t work if instances couldn’t communicate upvotes and downvotes across the platform to other instances, so short of finding some way to encrypt all the data, it’s an unavoidable consequence of the standard.

I don’t think that’s the problem, though. It was just made by people who clearly don’t give a shit and were just trying to cash in on the fact that there are actually some not terrible movie and TV show adaptations of games being made lately.

The Last of Us came out 11 years ago and became a critically-acclaimed TV show. And Sonic and Mario are ancient by video game standards yet made some good movies. Those IPs are still getting new installments which keep them relevant, but so is Borderlands, with Borderlands 3 only turning 5 next month.

But I think the other part of it too, is that Borderlands basically stopped being relevant years ago. It’s built on some “you had to be there” Millennial humor that people don’t really find funny or original anymore. It’s a series that peaked in high school and thought it was too cool to care about long-term goals. When it turns into a movie and tries to stand on story alone, without the unique art style or passable gunplay that serve as the games’ few remaining charms, what substance is there?

Trading Places is possibly my favorite Christmas movie.

If you want another good Christmas story with Jamie Lee Curtis, might I recommend season 2 episode 6 of The Bear.

Wait that recent movie somehow did well enough to warrant a sequel?

No justice in a world where this gets made while Mad Max: The Wasteland gets shelved.

CloudStrife

I think it starts with the “Oh shit, get excited for what you’re about to watch” opening. I know what I’m about to watch, I chose that.

For that part, blame Google. They use the trailers as ads on other videos on YouTube, but given the length it can only be the “skip after 5 seconds” kind. So they include as much as they can in the first 5 unskippable seconds and then put the rest of the trailer after. Otherwise, people just skip the ad during the MPAA notice and production credits and don’t have to see what it’s even an ad for.

Just be aware that the JR pass is meant to be a form of soft power expression, with the goal being to make it easy for tourists to get places to spend money and then make them want to share stories about how great the rail system is in Japan when they leave.

They don’t allow such good deals for their own residents, only tourists, since JR pass requires you to be a non-resident. For everyone else, it is far more expensive to travel moderate distances by rail than it even is to fly in most circumstances in Japan.

Unless they count the shoulders as their own lanes, I don’t see 26 either.

I generally like Yorgos Lanthimos films, but I hope this one can avoid some of the uncomfortable implications of Poor Things.