I suppose I’m just looking for fast and dirty ways to say, cut out faces/images and put them into classic memes or traditional pictures etc. Ideally that can be done during a poop.
Thanks for the photopea link! I’m probably looking for something that works on a phone so I can do it at work, in transit etc. But for more interesting 'shops photopea seems great!
The lottery is paid for by those who all have an equal chance of winning that prize. Also, the profits from lotteries are usually spent on social funds etc.
I feel more conflicted about thr fact that it preys on addiction and those who buy the most lottery tickets are often those who can least afford them. I find that much more grotesque than a random person getting very lucky, but to each their own.
So a view I see a lot nowadays is that attention spans are getting shorter, especially when it comes to younger generations. And the growing success of short form content on Tiktok, Youtube and Twitter for example seems to support this claim. I have a friend in their early 20s who regularly checks their phone (sometimes...
There’s a great book that covers this called The Shallows. Basically, they argue yes. Internet is designed in such a way to keep you clicking and scrolling. As people have used internet devices while their brains are forming we are likely shaping those brains to a more distractible form.
I live in a rainy but not snowy place, so take this with a grain of (non road) salt, but I just use a rain shell (pants, gloves, jacket) and then a fleece under that. Sometimes a second fleece if it’s going to be bitching cold.
I am kind of tempted to reread the Zahn books but am worried that either A) jaded old man Lauchs won’t read them with the same suspension of disbelief, sense of awe and childish imagination or B) be really annoyed we didn’t get those as the new movies.
You were also at least 23 years younger, presumably less jaded etc.
For as long as there’s been art, people have pined for the art of their youth that was just “better.” Boomers do it all the time with music still and joke about how their parents called their music noise.
There are amazing movies being made nowadays, from sociological fun Like Barbie to fresh horrors like Barbarian, X or Talk to Me, from intellectual commentaries like Tar to action brilliance like the Northman, social commentaries like Triangle of Sadness to wild action like RRR, beautiful anime like Suzume to soul searchers like Banshees of Inishiren, all of which are from the last 2 years. I’d say few of those would have been made in the 90s as we’ve just come farther, been able to make more daring and more interesting films.
Which 90s movies are you thinking of that stand unparalleled in modern times?
Respiratory viruses like the Wuhan Virus are even harder to make a vaccine for because as you said, they mutate so fast that R&D could never catch up. You can’t vaccinate for something that changes and mutates that quickly.
A viral TikTok account is doxing ordinary and otherwise anonymous people on the internet using off-the-shelf facial recognition technology, creating content and growing a following by taking advantage of a fundamental new truth: privacy is now essentially dead in public spaces....
Tough to say, crisis sometimes brings out the best in people. But my gut says this is going to go very badly. Farming is based on steady, long term patterns many of which are being disrupted by climate change while traditional sources of water are becoming more scarce.
America went from the richest country in the world to slightly less rich but still the richest, freaked out and elected donald trump. How will poor, occasionally heavily armed, nations react to famine?
After the sad dearth of Grier that was Fortress 2, I went back to the peak of the exploitation era and watched The Arena (1974), which is indeed ‘Female Spartacus’. So much so that Spartacus is explicitly referenced in the dialogue....
I guess, and this is going to go down as well as most things I’ve said in this thread, it just seems childish. “I want my childhood stuff to grow up with me and become adult just like me!”
Beyond that, Star Wars is a goofy universe and doesn’t super hold up when you try to take it seriously. (They have robots who are inexplicably terrible shots? They can move things at faster than light but only just realized that means you can fly a ship, or even just a cement block with jets, through another? Robots exist and are cheap but human manual labour seems preferable for no discernible reason?) And if you strip away the goofy fun, you’re just left with Star Wars minus the Star Wars elements.
There are MANY good sci fi universes where complex plots, moral dilemmas and good dialogue exist. Those universes have been crafted to make it all work.
I mean, on the same level of seriousness as most Disney films. Think 101 Dalmatians which is a bunch of puppies trying not to be skinned alive. Or Shrek which has torture, family separation/imprisonment (one of whom is later skinned and turned into a rug), floating eyeballs, a tyrannical monarchy etc.
And just like Star Wars, it would feel a little odd to put a gritty/serious movie in either of those universes without a dramatic retooling a la Cruella, which even then wasn’t wildly serious. In my opinion at least.
(Also, I don’t think we see any genocide in New Hope. Are you thinking the Jawas? Because that struck me as standard killing, not a “kill all Jawas.”)
set up Andor as the P2 character and just kept killing him for twenty minutes.
Ahahaha
As for Andor, it’s not even bad. I don’t mean that it’s not bad, it’s that I can’t give an opinion on the show that doesn’t also apply to watching paint dry, because that is also defined by the three fundemental remarks slow, boring, and not Star Wars.
Brutal! But, based on the handful of episodes I watched, on point. Just such a weird choice. “You know that universe, famous for laser sword fights, exciting space battles and dialogue that winks at the camera? Let’s strip out all that joy and make a not particularly well written serious drama there!”
I basically agree with you on Boba Fett but I have to admit, getting super baked and (spoilers) watching him destroy stuff while riding a goddamn rancor was like watching my childhood sandbox dreams come to life.
Ahhhhh. I’d never figured they were their own race but I getchya. We don’t really have a good word for “murder a whole planet.” At least, not until GRR Martin starts writing sci fi.
but I haven’t let her watch empire or rotj yet because I’m pretty sure they’ll scare her.
And this makes it a serious children’s movie? Even George Lucas has explained these are movies for 12 year olds.
"I wasn’t supposed to say this then, or now, but it’s a film for 12-year-olds,” he says. “In the real world … critics … certain fans. They’re not very nice.”
Trying to pay rent these days... (lemmy.world)
Suggestions on making memes/gifs easily?
Memers, teach us to fish! There have to be better options than meme generator. And chatgpt makes all sorts of terrible suggestions....
Is it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?
It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.
This is a personal attack (startrek.website)
Godzilla in a 1930s screwball comedy starring Bette Davis (lemmy.world)
It was called Kaiju Always Hurt the One You Love and had a musical appearance by Cab Calloway singing a duet with Mothra.
It's social contractin' time (lemmy.world)
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose (acoustic) (youtube.com)
the thirst. (feddit.de)
Are attention spans actually shortening?
So a view I see a lot nowadays is that attention spans are getting shorter, especially when it comes to younger generations. And the growing success of short form content on Tiktok, Youtube and Twitter for example seems to support this claim. I have a friend in their early 20s who regularly checks their phone (sometimes...
British Columbia expects ‘enhanced masking’ in health-care settings, Dix says (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Don't be a stormpooper, always wear your hard hat! (lemmy.world)
Semi obligatory follow up to the ewok self own.
The forest moon of Endor is a hard hat zone! (lemmy.world)
Cyclists: what's your cold weather gear?
Not sure how many cyclists are around. Anyways, what functional but weirdo looking gear do you use once it starts getting colder?
[HSW] Always gotta be safe (dmv.social)
Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ (www.latimes.com)
Martin Scorsese is urging filmmakers to save cinema, by doubling down on his call to fight comic book movie culture....
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I'm not sure what to do with all the wealth if I joined this company (lemmy.ml)
The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech (www.404media.co)
A viral TikTok account is doxing ordinary and otherwise anonymous people on the internet using off-the-shelf facial recognition technology, creating content and growing a following by taking advantage of a fundamental new truth: privacy is now essentially dead in public spaces....
How might climate change affect global politics and relations between nations in the coming decades?
Will it lead to more conflict or cooperation? If so, how will it develop and culminate?
Maybe it'll happen one day (startrek.website)
My Review of The Arena (1974) (letterboxd.com)
After the sad dearth of Grier that was Fortress 2, I went back to the peak of the exploitation era and watched The Arena (1974), which is indeed ‘Female Spartacus’. So much so that Spartacus is explicitly referenced in the dialogue....
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Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee (deadline.com)
Tried Andor after taking a break from Star Wars and realized that the galaxy where politics is determined by magic laser sword people now wants to be serious. (lemmy.world)