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Blubber28

@ Blubber28 @lemmy.world

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  • I'm sick of AI

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  • Seconding Max Miller. For history I would also like to recommend Timeghost. I suspect that most people interested in the world wars already know, but for those who don't; they've done both WWI and WWII week by week, with deep dives into big events (including a 24-hour D-Day documentary) and a big focus on the human cost of war. I cannot recommend them enough to anyone interested in recent history!

  • How I feel when I know the World Cup is over

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  • Same. I'm grateful our national team got knocked out pretty quickly. I was not looking forward to all the partying and noise in the streets if they'd won. Now I can just get on with my day without all the hassle :)

  • Tulsi Gabbard’s brother jailed for ‘trying to lure children’ to hotel room: report

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  • Very old-fashioned and now quite offensive umbrella term for transgender individuals and crossdressers. Because conservatives are too dumb to tell the difference between those groups they tend to use this term for both.

  • Plane passenger invoked Sharia law to avoid sitting next to a woman, then attacked flight attendant

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  • I hate the "those extremists are not REAL members of my religion" rhetoric. We shouldn't forget that christianity also tells us to stone gay men to death, that slavery is good if the victims are from other nations, and that women should subject themselves to their husbands. The European slavers of the past were some of the most horrible people in history, and they were very christian too as they followed these rules to a tee. They did break the laws about respecting your fellow man, sure, but the inverse can be said of the christians who are decent people. They adhere the love thy neighbour rules, but break the rules that say that they should stone gay men. This means that the decent christians are much better people, but not necessarily more or less christian than the slavers of the past.

    So if you are a christian and you feel bad by this association, I suggest that, instead of defending your relegion, you re-evaluate it.

  • my own personal Chatgpt

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  • Eh fair enough. That is also a possibility.

  • my own personal Chatgpt

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  • It makes sense that a regular chatGPT user is unfamilliar with the concept of "thinking"

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • It's on the list!

  • What TV shows are absolutely worth watching?

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  • Altered Carbon season 1. The worldbuilding and story is very good. Premise: People have managed to create chips on which you can put someone's consciousness. In this world, everyone has one. Once a body dies, your life is not necessarily over, but the standards differ vastly for the poor and the rich. One such rich man has had an attempt on his life: someone shot him in his chip, and then tried to hack his backup to truly kill him, but failed. He awakens an old rebel to solve who murdered him (this is all episode 1 exposition, so not really a spoiler).

    It's one of those sci-fi series where, if you accept that one specific thing is possible, everything fits perfectly. Good story, great worldbuilding, good cast, and good music. Highly recommended!

    I'm not sure if there's any more of it being made now, but I remember season 2 being just a run of the mill boring-ass action series. Turned it off halfway episode 3. But season 1 is very good, and absolutelt worthy of the praise that it got!

  • What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

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  • Great example of; just because it was a technical masterpiece, that doesn't make a movie good. The special effects were outstanding for the time, and still hold up very well. That is something I will always praise it for, but it is the only thing worth praising about it. It really is a very polished turd, in that sense.

  • Electronic Arts Announces Plans to Cram Far More Advertising Into Its Games / EA Advertising will serve up real-time dynamic ads inside EA Sports titles

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  • It is so incredibly kind, all the marketing that companies like EA are doing for indie titles completely free of charge!

  • President Trump Claims New Drug Can Bring People Back From the Dead

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  • I doubt that Trump is brave enough to demonstrate it though

  • How do you deal with the obligatory hoody and sunglasses in this warm weather?

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  • Good call. I'll flash arch to a USB stick while I'm at it

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    Blubber28 @lemmy.world

    How do you deal with the obligatory hoody and sunglasses in this warm weather?

  • Kid Rock humiliated as he's snubbed from Donald Trump's MAGA festival line-up

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  • Don't you know his name consists of the two things he loves most in life? Rock and kids.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • That would make some sense, yeah. Still, if you are sober and watching something that is considered a classic, it falls short. Either way, it is some nice historical context, so thank you for sharing!

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • 2001; A Space Odyssey

    I generally like older, slower paced movies. The Bridge over the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and The Guns of Navarone are all great movies, despite them being very dated in some regards. With that in mind, I decided to give the movie a try, it being a very famous classic and all. Despite that, my expectations weren't unrealistically high, but the movie still fell very short.

    So, it consists of four chapters/acts, basically. The first one (with the monkeys) was very "meh" and could have been shorter, but I didn't mind it too much because, again, old movie. The second act on the moon was better, but honestly was "OK" in my books. The third act, now that was really good in my opinion. I though; "looks like the story is really taking off now!" And then came act 4...

    I thought that, while the beginning wasn't great, it was still perfectly salvagable if the ending was decent. Here is where it fell really short, in my opinion. It is, in essence, just a light show with music. Now sure, I bet that for the time that was all very advanced, so I want to give them credit. But it didn't need to last for 15 fucking minutes! Even for that time, that is extremely long. I found myself starting to skip ahead to see if anything else was going to happen. And it did, I guess. Wasn't exactly blown away though.

    Now what I think they were trying to achieve was what we now typically describe as eldritch horror, to see something we simply cannot fathom. And I think they did that very well with the tools that they had. But it was just way too long, and that thoroughly put the nail in the coffin for me.

  • Wayland Comes To Minecraft

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  • Stop forcing Wayland into everything! Wayland just isn't ready for this yet. My workflow requires five hopperclocks with different timings hooked up to an RS-snorlatch and inverse T-flip-flop. Wayland just doesn't support that, and there are no signs that it ever will. I'll stick with vanilla redstone, thank you very much.

  • YouTube really showing top quality in recent update

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  • Certainly a slop quality update

  • What is your favorite media villain?

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  • An old one, but the Emperor from Gladiator. His death is among the most satisfying in movie history. Absolutely amazing performance by Joaquin Phoenix.

  • American food

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  • Oh good, I was getting worried about what the wording implied. Many thanks :)