Yeah, probably, although I think anyone with a vague idea of an overarching plot would have made me happier.
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TLJ was actually the most misogynistic of all of the Star Wars movies.
Curious to know why you feel that way. I've heard chuds complain that it was too feminist, but I've never heard anyone claim it was misogynistic.
Yeah after the big bad is killed, they fight some unnamed guards.
Yeah, I didn't care. Snoke was a boring Palpatine knock-off (I mean, they literally retconned him to be his clone), and killing him off unceremoniously was the only interesting choice Johnson made that wasn't undone by the end of the movie. And the guard fight is incredible. Aside from Darth Maul fight (which, admittedly, may be the best in the franchise), the fight scenes in the prequels have so many backflips and somersaults, overlaid with gratuitous CGI and green screen, that they felt like special effects instead of fight choreography. Fighting those 5 gaurds had more weight and higher stakes than Obi-Wan battling a CGI Grievous or jumping over green screen lava with anakin.
I mean, there is a lot of good stuff in there, and I genuinely love Rian Johnson. I think the Knives Out movies are the best thing to happen to the mystery genre in decades, and Poker Face is the second best. And honestly, most of my problems with TLJ are because of Johnson made interesting choices, which is better than Abrahams making a shot-for-shot remake of A New Hope or whatever the hell he was trying to do with Rise of Skywalker.
Seriously? There was a whole movement to reshoot the movie because the, "SJWs," had ruined Star Wars. They claimed they, "destroyed," Luke's character because that wanted to, "empower," Rey. They were furious that Poe was getting reprimanded by women, and that Hodo wore a dress. They even bullied the lady who played Rose Tico off of Instagram for being a woman of color in Star Wars.
I didn't even like talking my problems with the movie because I didn't want to be lumped in with the Groypers and incels. I kept seeing reviews and comments talking about how this completely turned Star Wars on it's head and I kept thinking, "no it fucking didn't, they chickened out and reestablished the status quo at the last second," but I kept my mouth shut for years.
Edit: This smug little weirdo makes for a good case study of the right-wing grievance culture around the movie. Just be sure to watch with an ad blocker so you don't give him any revenue.
The fuck are you talking about? I'm not complaining about Rey being too powerful or Luke being too grumpy, I'm not bitching about Rose existing, and I'm actually defending Hodo instead of throwing a fit that a woman in a dress was in a position of authority. I've also got 2 paragraphs about structural issues and thematic failures that I've never heard anyone mention. Maybe some right-winger brought up one of the same plot holes, but anyone with half a brain would ask why they didn't pull that light-speed maneuver against the Death Star.
The Last Jedi sucks, but not for the reasons right-wing chuds complained about. The premise of the entire chase rests on a bunch of Macguffin's (they can suddenly track ships through hyperspace, fuel is an issue for the first time ever, no one can escape except when they can), the Canto Bight sequence is pointless and contrived, the light-speed kamikaze blows a plot hole in basically every other movie, and Poe should have been executed for mutiny.
Structurally, I get what Johnson was doing; everyone complained that The Force Awakens was a beat for beat retelling of A New Hope, so he basically inverted the plot structure of The Empire Strikes Back. It's a fun idea, but his desire to end on a Hoth sequence ruined what could have been a perfect ending. I was having problems with that movie, but after Snoke gets murdered, Rey and Ben have one of the best lightsaber fights in Star Wars history, and Ben asks her to join him, I was expecting the credits to roll, and I was ready to leave on one of the greatest cliffhangers in movie history. But then there's another 30 minutes of movie, and while the Luke stuff is cool, it mostly just drags on.
It's also clear that Johnson wasn't just inverting plot structure, but Star Wars norms. Everything that is established is questioned and turned on it's head. The problem is, by the end of the film, it's all thrown out and the status quo is hastily reestablished with little justification. What's the lesson from Canto Bight and DJ? "Rebellion? Empire? Two sides of the same coin for the weapons dealers. The real battle is between the haves and have-nots." How does the movie end? "Get on the princess' space ship, we're not done fighting the Empire!" The entire Rey/Luke/Ben aspect of the film? "Light? Dark? Jedi? Sith? They're just artificial constructs. Let them die. Burn the temple." How does the movie end? "Don't worry, Rey didn't join the Dark Side and she's got all the magic Jedi books!"
Anyway, there's also a lot of stuff I like (the Rey/Luke scenes are excellent), and it's bad in an interesting way, which makes it better than the rest of the trilogy by default. I guess this is more of a small essay than a hot take, but TL;DR: chuds think The Last Jedi sucks because of wokeness, but it actually suckes for lot of structural, thematic, and plot weaknesses.
Sounds like you're killing it on the litter boxes. So, does this open floor plan allow for a cat to traverse the space without touching the ground? Having vertical pathways where your cats can make an exit without getting blocked on the ground is important for side-stepping conflict. I have a very patient cat and a surprisingly gentle toddler, and they get along very well, but he's often too excitable and loud for her. When he's in the dining room, blocking her path and getting rambunctious, she can avoid him by jumping on the dining room table, then to an island bar counter, then down to the kitchen counter and from there exit into one of the bedrooms. Similarly, in the living room, she makes use of the back of our L shaped couch to reach the two exits if she doesn't feel like engaging with the toddler playing on the floor. Some cat shelving, or even just some strategically placed furniture, can give them an exit route (doorways are tough, but maybe a small end table they can jump up on or something? Difficult to say without walking through your house).
It sounds like you've got a lot of enrichment for the younger guy. The only thing I could possibly suggest would be adding more structure. You could try playing until he gets exhausted in the morning, then do his morning feeding, which would probably get him to burn some energy and do a big morning nap. Then do the same thing at night to get him to calm down for bed. For all I know you're already doing this, but it's all I can think to suggest. It definitely sounds like the younger guy is instigating out of boredom and the older guy is just is not having it.
So, first, drop the squirt bottle. It'll break up the fights in the moment, but negative reinforcement won't change the cats behavior long term; it will just make him see you as a threat.
Second, how many litter boxes do you have? Litter boxes are an important part of staking out their territory, and having to share one litter box can make them think they're encroaching on each other's territory. Experts recommend one more litter box than cats in the house, but one litter box for each, in different parts of house, should be the minimum.
Next, how much are you playing with the younger cat? If he's stalking and instigating most the fights, he might just have play aggression that he's trying to get out on the older cat, who might not have the patience for it. Try playing with the younger guy until he gets tired, at least once a day.
Finally, look around your house and try to eliminate the areas where the older guy might get trapped. Give him escape routes, make sure he has a shelf or a piece of furniture he can not only jump to, but make an escape from. If there isn't enough vertical space, the younger guy is just going to run him down until he gets him cornered.
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better than half our interns
Beyond that, this, "wildlife cam," photo looks like it was taken from a phone held at face level.
That's one perspective. I would argue that, given the ways in which the two parties have created election laws to protect their duopoly, third-party and independent candidates will rarely be viable. Instead of spending finite resources attempting to compete with the massive Democratic party machine in the general election, where a splitting of the liberal/leftist coalition could very possible (if not probably) result in a win for thr far-right, seizing the levers of power of said machine through primaries is not only safer, but more likely to succeed.
I think he's just being pragmatic. He endorses progressive challengers in the primaries, and then he urges his supporters to support Democrats in the general instead of splitting the liberal/leftist vote and handing the Republicans a win. He often gets blamed for losses anyway (Hillary supporters are still mad) and he's made some bad picks (Fetterman and Platner come to mind), but the growing success of progressive and DSA candidates this year might be vindicating this as long-term strategy.
Anecdotally, I'm seeing a lot of normie liberals get radicalized by watching Democrats approve Trump's nominees, pass his legislation, and cave on their own government shutdowns. Turns out, if you pitch yourselves as the only opposition to fascism, people expect you to actually oppose fascism.
Yeah, Jonathan Frakes had an old hip injury that caused him pain when he sat down normally, and he's, like, seven feet tall, so stepping over the chair was just easier for him.
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Real world so boring...
The Captain Planet super villains are actually pretty accurate. Looten Plunder still looks like the average Fortune 500 CEO (minus the 80s fashion sense), and Hoggish Greedly is basically just the President.
The Politico reporting is extremely damning, and these accusations really can't be described as anything other than rape. He's gotta go.
I'm sorry, but it really wasn't:
The term originates from the 1984 movie C.H.U.D. In the film, the acronym refers to a group of humanoid, flesh-eating monsters that were once humans, but mutated due to radioactive waste. While the word may have started pejorative use in 2003 to describe any repulsive person, its usage shifted as it became popular in the 2020s on sites such as Twitter and Reddit, after the podcast Chapo Trap House frequently used it to describe those who are ignorant or far-right. Source
I mean, if it's Telegram, then it's probably a bunch of chuds trying to shift the meaning of, "chud," because they're tired of being called chuds.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean it was used regularly as slang, or that it carried the same connotations. "Lowkey," has been around for ages, but it wasn't slang until the late 90s, and it isn't even used the same way. ("Keep it lowkey," vs., "that was lowkey brilliant.")
Oh, I haven't heard it used that was. I still see it used pretty much exclusively to mean, "right-wing dumb-ass," but sometimes more broadly as, "online dumb-ass."
memes @lemmy.world I mean...violence is bad.
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world Not to get too topical, but...
No, that's Fred Durst. Limp Bizkt is the name of the doctor that created him.