In the case of demons they usually have a “roll to disobey” clause. If someone wants to summon a room full of demons go for it, everyone will probably end up dead.
Plus if someone really abused it you can have some demon lord hunt them down and cause even more problems.
Ok but what if you’re American and the meme still applies?
In “A New Hope” after R5 explodes he tells Luke they should purchase R2D2. Luke and Uncle Owen could have picked any replacement droid, but C3PO advises them to pick R2D2.
“Nobody stops to fuel their vehicle taking gasoline, gets out, rushes as fast as possible, puts as much fuel in the car as possible, and gets back in the car and drives away,”
Emphasis mine. I think the “gets out” is the big difference between a daily trip which I think includes the “splash n dash” and the road trip.
Because I think you’re right, it’s extremely common to pull into a gas station, fill up in 5 minutes, and then drive away. But I would bet the majority of those stops come immediately after leaving or on your way home (or work). So in an EV world we could eliminate those stops completely.
I think for trips where you’re traveling beyond one tank of gas or beyond one full charge, then I think the quote is closer to being correct. At that point most people probably take a break and a 15-20 minute charge is fine.
Unsurprisingly it’s a heavy film, but also lots of funny moments. I think it’s good but probably tried to tell too many stories.
The best story, is looking at “To Catch A Predator” as entertainment versus justice. The film leans heavily into the “for entertainment” view and leaves it largely up to the audience to figure out the perverse incentives, the character of Del being the only real moral compass.
The film has a lot of focus on Chris Hansen as a person and it acts as a bit of a biography. I think it works in part, but we also have subplots about things like his affair which while perhaps true don’t really add much to the film.
Overall 7/10, maybe bump up to 8/10 for superb acting across the board, but probably just 7/10.
Yes, and then Avatar did a rerelease and took it back. Someday it’ll probably happen again.
Finding communities can be confusing: There can be multiple communities about the same topic on different servers: For example: Linux@lemmy.ml and Linux@lemmy.world
I agree that finding communities can be confusing, but I don’t think the problem is the naming.
For example on Reddit if you wanted to talk about video games you’d look at /r/gaming. However over time, since that was a “default sub”, it became a bit of a mess and instead /r/Games was the community to have real discussion about video games. But of course over time that too became a bit of a mess and /r/TrueGaming was the best place to talk about video games. In fact for a long time /r/True<topic> was a common way to find the better community.
Of course the name of a community might be confusing to an outsider. On Reddit if I’m a fan of Game of Thrones there is /r/GameOfThrones, but what if I’m looking for something a bit more meme worthy, well that’s /r/freefolk.
And that’s true even on Lemmy. What if I want Star Trek memes? Well that’s !tenforward@lemmy.world
I think discoverability is something that can be improved. Of course at the moment so many communities are so small, so looking at all of them isn’t really much of a problem. You can usually find what you’re looking for.
Exactly! I’d be curious to see the reverse poll, asking Lemmy users “Why does nobody use Mastodon?” (and include Bluesky and Twitter in the poll.)
I use Lemmy (and in the past Reddit) because topic based conversation is what makes sense to me. Anytime I try to use Mastodon or Bluesky I lurk for a bit and then just come back here.
The West Wing is a fantasy show about how you wish politics worked. Then we got Veep, which is how we thought politics really worked. Now we realize Veep was also a fantasy.
Unless they slapped a “U” on the end, then no one will line up.
Because when Reddit fucks up those users will look for alternatives, like Lemmy.
In this case it’s important to highlight that Lemmy has many different front ends and apps available. Lemmy can look however you’d like it to look.
Technically $foo also delimits at both ends, the second character is just a newline or whitespace character. However with foo% it is unambiguous where the variable begins and ends.
Also I said newline or whitespace, what about special characters?
Look at $foo+$bar am I adding two variables together? Is the first variable $foo or $foo+?
This is probably the best way to tell the story. It’s mostly an action heavy story because Team Aegon has dragons and everyone else doesn’t. There is some politics, but those who don’t get dragons. Plus you get some really interesting parts of the story like Dorne.
Also since this is the start of the Targaryen story you can do the Doom of Valyria and establish Aegon’s Dream aka The Song of Ice and Fire.
The article mentions they have a screenplay, but no mention of George R R Martin. I do hope he gets the opportunity to expand on things with the screenwriter over the next year.
I just don’t even understand how these texts would have proven anything,
J.P. Cooney: Hey man. Is 109 Row 1 reserved for Jack?
J.P. Cooney: Damn. Thank you for saving – but we are good. Ask Harbach.
Gavin Wallach: He is already down here. Thanks.
Does seat 109 in row 1 only exist in the Atlanta Hawk court?
These texts could represent any basketball game (as it clearly did), or any other sport, or theater show, or so many things.
I counted, 49 bars in the picture. Hopefully that saves someone else the trouble.
Unless I’m lying…
Can’t pick a game, but here are the series (and then I try to pick a game),
So mostly Nintendo games.
I will not be taking questions on the plothole of why new in box toys are alive
They were all made in sweatshops by children, no plot hole. ☹️
The same level as Marvel is such a tricky question.
While Marvel comics have been around and popular for way more than 50 years, they’ve only been popular as comics.
Look at Marvel as a popular IP when Pokemon released, their most successful product is probably the 70s Incredible Hulk TV series. In fact the company was doing so poorly is went through bankruptcy.
Selling the rights of their major properties to Fox and Sony, the late 90s and early 2000s give us Blade, X-Men and our first Spider-Man film. That’s when Marvel really starts to pick up.
But of course those really ultimately fizzled out. Sure the Fox X-Men were huge. The Sony Spider-Man was huge (more the Sam Raimi films). But those are similar comparisons to the Jurassic Park and Hunger Games franchises.
But the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Kicked off in 2008 as an idea, but really given the push once Disney aquired Marvel. Push heavily on that for the last 20ish years. Now that’s THE Marvel powerhouse we’re talking about.
So sure, Marvel has been around for 50+ years, but the level of Marvel that makes it what it is, that’s just the last 20 years.
Which is surprising when you look at Europe. Europe made text messaging too costly early on and everyone switched to WhatsApp. You’d think Europe would try to win people back with RCS but instead… Nothing?