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Rob T Firefly

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  • Nebraska Spiderman [Skeleton Claw]

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  • It looks a lot like the style of Sergio Aragones, who was one of MAD's "usual gang of idiots" (known for the "A Mad Look At..." feature and the "Drawn-Out Dramas" cartoons in the page margins throughout each issue) as well as a prolific comics guy in his own right ("Groo the Wanderer," etc.)

    Some web searches reveal a few Wonder Woman releases with Sergio's name on, but I haven't yet been able to pin this particular image to any of them.

  • Which accounts on the Fediverse have the most followers?

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  • George Takei's staff is on the Fediverse.

  • You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

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  • After the commercial break, fade in on Geordi pacing the corridor, grumbling to himself about how he can't believe how quickly they both kicked him out of the holodeck and sealed the doors, and what could they possibly be doing in there without him?

  • He looks great

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  • Might have been useful on a number of occasions

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  • If we're counting Kelvinverse stuff, the plot twist in Star Trek Into Darkness in which magic villain blood turns out to be the universal cure for Actual Death also qualifies.

  • Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs

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    Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak got cheers, not boos, after telling students they 'all have AI — actual intelligence'

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    Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak got cheers, not boos, after telling students they 'all have AI — actual intelligence'

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  • It's worth it! That show did so many clever things. And they're all short and so wildly different from one another that if one isn't doing it for you, you can always skip to the next one.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • Perhaps I may have to put it back on my stack and give it another honest try.

    Thanks for the motivation!

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • My first instinct was to quietly downvote this because you didn't read the question, but I'm not having a downvote on a mention of how evil Jimmy Savile was on my permanent record.

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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    FCC Official Warns Against Giving Starlink Too Much Control Over Rural Broadband

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  • This would be a different story if Musk and Trump were still enthusiastically smooching each other's bottoms.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • For some of us outside his fandom, that was the most interesting thing he ever did.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • If that cast and production crew had made an original show about a dark funky future and bounty hunters and whatever, clearly inspired by Bebop but not trying to be it, they could have knocked it out of the park so hard.

    They would, of course, have had to get some decent writers instead of just feeding the original anime scripts to crack-smoking monkeys and then smearing their poops onto script paper.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • Phantom Menace was great for lore expansion of Star Wars, but it was weird to see it get more infantile than the previous trilogy, seeing as original fans were actually getting older.

    I find this a fascinating thing to think about.

    I'm the same age as the original Star Wars film and grew up on the Original Trilogy. Those three were some of the best stuff ever to my kiddie brain. The older I get, the more I feel like the OT was pretty much just as childish as the prequels when it comes down to it, just without access to 1990s cartoony CGI. I'm not saying this as a bad thing, I still enjoy the OT, but it's clear to me now as an old fart that the prequels felt more kiddie than the OT when I watched them in the theaters because I was watching the prequels for the first time with a grownup's brain.

    I still enjoy the OT, they poke those childhood brain cells that have been hooked on them all this time. I can enjoy the prequels a bit, but it's mostly in the form of memes and cracked-out fan remixes. The sequel movies, though, always struck me as a goddamned mess and I still haven't figured out who they were meant to be for.

  • What piece of media thoroughly disappointed you?

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  • I'm a lifelong Stephen King fan and have read just about everything else he ever released, but I could never motivate myself to get started on the Dark Tower stuff. There's just SO MUCH and I kind of dread committing to it.

    (And yet somehow I reread a bunch of his stuff including the extended The Stand every couple years. I claim no rationality about it.)

  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going live on Twitch in new streaming series 'Talk with the People'

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  • OnlyZohrans.

  • Valve removes free horror game from Steam after players discover it contains malware that steals your data

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  • This appears to have originally been published as a totally different non-malware game. Either the original dev got their account taken over or turned heel, because the entire game was replaced with the malware game as an update to an existing game rather than a new published game.

    I'm only speculating as I don't know much about the Steam publishing process, but I wonder if that helped the malware sneak past more rigorous checks which would happen on a totally-new upload.

  • why are there no active casual conversation communities?

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  • Folks interested in casual conversation rather than the mostly topic-focused discussions of something like Lemmy might like to try IRC.

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    Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI according to Ramp data

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  • This is as interesting as learning that in 1885, Dr. Scammington's Patented Snake Oil Remedy was more popular than its closest competitor Professor Placebo's Distilled Tincture of Snake.