HipPriest @ HipPriest @kbin.social

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I think someone unearthed a clip of him on a podcast talking about sex with kids which at the time was probably seen as edgy humour but... Yeah. Something to do with wishing he could go back to the past because then it ok to sleep with teens? Can't remember. Don't care enough to Google it. But it's beyond doubt the man should probably be on a watch list

I'd read this article which came out when he was originally kicked off the show:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/justin-roiland-animation-empire-implosion-rick-and-morty-1235319366/

It doesn't sound like he'll be missed

This is pretty much true in terms of using Google play services all it may do is change what ads or recommendations you get on the play store.

The devious stuff comes from almost entirely Chrome and Google search. I'm not some kind of Google defender by any means but using a normal Android OS isn't generally going to be making Google any money. They're just hoping you'll use the apps that come pre installed with it.

I like day mode in sunlight and dark mode in low light or if I'm reading in bed with the lights off. Definitely depends on the type of screen you have. The Samsung Tab S8 isn't even OLED but it's bright even with the settings turned right down so reading black on a blinding white screen is uncomfortable in the dark

I've heard about that kind of stuff before. I mean it's obviously not healthy to be that obscenely rich and people like Musk would be my exhibit A.

Didn't watch the whole video but heard a radio interview years ago whose specialty was dealing with rich people either being guilty about having a lot of money or acting like massive twats and wondering why they were so lonely.

Too much is obviously better than having not enough but money is a bad influence on people's heads

No, it's not like I checked it obsessively but whenever I did check in I definitely did not see anything that upset anyone, or that would be likely to upset anyone. I'd agree it's a pretty pro-Europe sub.

However my previous point stands that any bad stuff had probably been modded out because you would need a pretty dedicated mod team for a sub like this.

I don't really know how to link to communities but I found this one for watches: watches@lemmy.ml

This one has just been created for Burning Man https://kbin.social/m/BurningMan

Underground deep house I've got nothing.

I find it a lot easier to find communities on Kbin because you can search and then see how active they are

Whatever makes you happy. But I can't imagine Twitter being happy right now.

I joined Mastodon recently, seems fun, haven't been on Twitter for about 8 years so don't know how it compares. I'm guessing it's a lot more chilled.

It's up to you at the end of the day though...

@DJDarren @Profilename1

https://tinyurl.com/mufhdze3

Full Trojan Ska Revival box set. Mainly live versions which are often better than the originals, especially The Selecter who are just absolutely blistering live.

EDIT Just found an old Spotify playlist I made as well

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4XA9MCTCLmsYtkrqXvxmES?si=TDfy-kw8QV-cuQlBmCiQg

You can't really go wrong with any of them, they've pretty much got everything covered. There's some of their catalogue on streaming and YouTube etc but I'm sure I remember having more on CD.

The one I'm thinking of is Ska revival but all I can find is someone's put Disc 3 on YouTube. I'm pretty sure it's one of the one I backed up when I had to clear out my physical media though it was that good

Trojan Box Sets are great compilations that give an all over taste. Some you may have to search for but I had an excellent one which I might be able to get the Google drive link for later

Trojan Box Sets are great compilations that give an all over taste. Some you may have to search for but I had an excellent one which I might be able to get the Google drive link for later

Really I wonder why we need 'karma' scores, or visible ones anyway. I understand why upvoting and downvoting posts is useful but having a user karma score just leads to all the karma farming, playing to the gallery to 'earn points' that could be harmful to normal conversation on Reddit.

When you start gamifying a system people start treating it like a game and that makes things weird on what should just be a normal discussion forum. In my opinion anyway

It's a great sub on the old place, very funny - it's joking, banter, only really racist in so far as making fun of national stereotypes (I am a Brit so would expect to get mocked about inability to cook, what a good move Brexit was, our tourists being the most drunk and sunburnt etc)

I don't see why anyone would object to it being made but it would definitely need good moderation because there are going to be people who take it too far especially with Nazi/neo Nazi/other political shit (basically it does have the potential to be racist if idiots who don't get the joke join)

I used to volunteer in Oxfam Books and it's honestly one of the best things you can do unless you do know people who want the books obviously.

Everything is inspected and if for whatever it's not fit to be resold (big coffee stains, or missing pages etc) it's recycled. And then any profits go to help people in need. And we came across some genuinely rare things a few times. An edition of Shakespeare which was worth £400 or so from the 1700s was probably the most impressive - this like that get sold online.

Obviously if there's a different charity which means something more to you even better - I honestly think it's the best thing to do with old books these days

The characters of Pippin, Merry and Gimli, for example, are mostly comic relief throughout the movies

Fair

No, I'm saying that it takes itself incredibly seriously which to me - this is my own personal opinion - comes over as a bit pretentious.

Tolkien was attempting to build his own equivalent of an Anglo-Saxon epic from scratch and I get that . I even admire it. But I empathize with his friend C S Lewis (perhaps apocryphal) response when show the first draft "for Christ sake John, not more fucking elves..."

Like I say, I don't expect Gandalf to be slipping on a banana peel while Frodo and Sam do a 'Who's on first?' routine.

But for me there's no change in pace, mood or objective to sustain my interest for the length of the whole work, which is probably why I generally more or less get on with the first book and enjoy the first film; but get less interested and eventually numbed to the rest of the story because it feels like endless servings of more of the same. To me it just comes over like, this happens, this happens, this happens then good triumphs like you knew it would.

Gollum is the only character that truly seems to go beyond a basic 'i am here to do this in the narrative ' and is mercurial and interesting to watch/read

I had a friend at school who loved the book. I tried a few times to get into it and thought it was dull as anything so just passed on it after 200 pages or so.

Fast forward to the films and I actually enjoyed a lot of the first film but the 2nd and 3rd films I found pretty endless. Then later at university people wanted to watch the extended DVDs or whatever and I found better things to be doing those nights after the first time.

Everyone has different reasons for liking or disliking things, but for me my main dislike is the lack of genuine humour in the stories. It is relentlessly serious. I don't mean I expect jokes everywhere but it's particularly po-faced, the book especially. I tried reading it again a few years ago to see if I'd been too harsh on it but still couldn't make it to the end.

Fair enough, but my Dad sends normal texts because he thinks WhatsApp is too complicated to use, or just because he forgets he has it, not for any security concerns... So you're not quite the same!

It is the default mode of text communication here. My dad insists on using normal texts and that's a bit weird...