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  • Jokes aside, I prefer Burger King to McDonalds, and I think it's because McDonalds came under a lot more scrutiny in my country and had been forced to tone down their menu and marketing. Maccy D's were the ones who rapidly expanded in the UK and also made bank from Happy Meals and the child market, so of course they'd have all eyes upon them.

    McDonalds are trying to make their menus and advertising appear healthier, whereas BK are like "look at this sexy dripping quarter pound whopper, you know you want it you fat fuck!"

    And that's why I can order a Bacon Double Cheeseburger XL from my local BK and feel like I'm actually eating a burger, whereas the equivalent in a McDonalds costs 30% less but is half the size, doesn't taste flame grilled and looks like it was rapidly cobbled from preprocessed shit that's less than 32% meat.

  • I still remember when XPS was the premiere gaming brand Dell released to compete with the likes of Alienware, only for them to buy Alienware and relegate XPS to a higher budget multimedia catalog.

    The names outstayed their welcome, but I cannot applaud them copying Apple's homework.

  • Wouldn't say really enjoyed, but Cats didn't deserve the hate it got. I saw it with my (then) girlfriend about five years ago when Frozen 2 was sold out and we had the choice of seeing this, Star Wars Episode IX, or Jumanji: The Next Level instead. We chose Cats.

    I'm gonna ignore the elephant in the room that's the atrocious CGI, and say that Tom Hooper didn't do a terrible job besides that. Most of the movie adaptations of each song were at least on-par with the musical. 'Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats', 'Bustopher Jones' and 'Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat' were the three that stood out as the movie's best songs.

    Only three songs were far worse than the musical, and they were big ones...

    The Old Gumbie Cat was awful. Rebel Wilson absolutely butchered Jennyanydots by portraying her as a fat lazy glutton, complete with awful voice, awful ad-lib jokes thrown around the song and a part where she literally starts munching on CGI humanoid cockroaches marching around the dinner table. I mean... as much as I hate James Corden, he at least played the role of Bustopher Jones (a literal aristocratic fat-cat) really well, and unlike Wilson, his ad-libs were actually funny. I'd keep him in the cast, 100%.

    The Rum Tum Tugger is another bad one. Jason Derulo's vocal performance was really weak, but I don't have much else to say about it.

    Magical Mr Mistoffelees was the worst though. Hooper legitimately took the most iconic song from Cats and massacred it by portraying the titular musician who ultimately saves Old Deuteronomy as a nervous wreck. This is one that the Rum Tum Tugger should have sang, like in the original West End/Broadway musical. I got what he was trying to do with this decision but it just didn't work.

    If I were in Tom Hooper's shoes, there are four things I'd change:

    1. Redo the CGI
    2. Replace Rebel Wilson with Lea Michele. She is probably one of the best actresses who could play Jennyanydots.
    3. Replace Jason Derulo with Brendon Urie. Imagine Panic! At The Disco's frontman singing the Rum Tum Tugger and Magical Mr Mistoffelees. 'Nuff said...
    4. Redo the three bad songs listed above to make them more like the musical.
  • Difference between Reddit and Lemmy is that you can legit say "I'll start my own Lemmy, with blackjack and hookers" and expect it to make an impact.

    Whereas with Reddit, whatever Spez says is law, even if it's as consistent as bird shit on a car windscreen.

  • Moon Man isn't really a vaporwave thing. It's a meme that originated from YTMND in the late 2000's which rebranded Mac Tonight as a white supremacist rapper, often accompanied with slur-filled text-to-speech parodies of various rap songs.

    It's not the reason McDonalds ditched the mascot (that was due to an entirely unrelated trademark infringement lawsuit filed by Bobby Darin's son in 1989), but it is a big reason why they started actively pulling down Mac Tonight animatronics in their restaurants which were otherwise being left disused.

    The most infamous Moon Man thing to exist is a controversial DOOM mod which replaces all the enemies with incredibly xenophobic depictions of minorities, and adds a roster of several playable characters including him, Hitler and Ben Garrison.

  • AOC isn't exactly wrong. We've had this occur in my country just a few months ago.

    There was a mass stabbing in England where three children were killed. False claims that the attacker was a Muslim asylum seeker spread online and led to white supremacist riots across the country. The suspect (later named because the court lifted an anonymity order) was later revealed to actually be a British born teenager with Rwandan parents. He wasn't even a Muslim.

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