folaht @ folaht @lemmy.ml

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I saw the Siskel and Ebert review and I agree with their point that there was a lack of awe in the movie that E.T. and close encounters of the third kind had.

This movie had dinosaurs being dangerous at almost all times. Only a moment after they awed a stampede was heading for them. The danger felt convoluted. Tacked in. And it would have been a good time to question the old man about park safety.

The old man never get punished for his reckless behavior. I don't get why my downvoters would disagree with me. Would you downvoters really have acted so calmly against the old man when the park goes haywire?

It didn't. I managed to stay until one of the autobots had to take a leak. I was too insulted at that point. Megan Fox came across as an absolute bore, but of course the guy has to stammer and stumble and try to impress the dead weight.

I had no idea I was hosting Vibecon, but I registered regardless.

Jurassic park

First movie I saw in theaters that disappointed me. Too much dinosaurs running around trying to kill everyone without standing still and asking why this is happening.
A quick jab towards the old man that the park is not considered ready for opening yet is not enough, or that he's packaging stuff?
The Goldblum character's logic failed to intrigue me. He would have been much better to ask the old man questions about park safety and genetic engineering safety that could be scrutinized instead of full on attacking him about commercialization.
It made the kids more interesting than the adults.
I forgot what the relationships between the two main characters and the children were, but I believe they were divorced and the kids were theirs?
At the very least they should have had some character development. Have them both end up with new partners or something and show what makes the new pairs better than the old one.

Disagree. The first two sequels kept making a defeated bad empire stronger and stronger without any explanation. The rebels then suddenly became just 400 to 20 people. A different type of journey would have been welcomed with open arms if clever enough.
And I think embracing the jedi, but killing the wars aspect, rather than trying to destroy the jedi but keeping the wars it would have been a much better answer to the franchise.

The live action transformers movies.
Although I almost never think about it.
And I only saw the first thirty minutes of the first movie.

If there's no term for it, I'm gonna call it Blairspeak, named after Eric Blair.

Well can Eastern Ukraine?

Because as a "sovereign" nation, Ukraine is an amalgation nation of two bordering existing countries of which the partner organisation NATO's sole existence in question is to be enemies with one of the two bordering countries and thus used deadly violence to suppress any dissent from its Eastern half.

This is in stark contrast to the US full-scale invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, and further invasions of Libya, Syria and Palestine which WERE sovereign nations, where no such dilemma took place.
Bush' full scale invasion of Iraq was based on lies.
Bush' full scale Afghanistan invasion was based on searching a fugitive.
The full scale bombardment of Lybia was because the US did not like Lybia's leader.
Same with Syria.
For Palestine, it's Israel that wants to genocide the country.

It's quite interesting how American's have always been about their government's "checks and balances"

Hahaha, that's a good one.
The US has always been about slave owners on stolen land to be in power with all its perks but without any of its responsibilities by putting as much wool over everyone's eyes as much as they can.
Every supposed check and balance the US has is to keep these oligarchs in power.
And they're all laughably theatrical like putting in enormous importance into term limits, like it's some kind of pinnacle of democracy.
As if dictators will stop dictating because there's a clock involved.
All it does is stop the public from choosing the one leader that isn't corrupted by monied interests over and over again.
It does not stop a leader from speedrunning into doing whatever he wants.

I have no idea why you are getting so many downvotes. You're giving such an accurate description of what's happening in Europe, that I thought you were European. The behavior of our politicians anger me half as much as they disgust and embarrass me. They keep going on as if they are the arbiters of the world and moral guardians, while being neither and are not even addressing the pressing issues of their lost power except for playing Calvin ball where the 3 basic rules are "1. I dictate the rules", "2. All my rules are shall always be considered as free and democratic" and "3. Anyone who disagrees with me is a dictator or in league with one." while the adults in the room have to play along.

My highest IQ I scored was 135, the lowest 115.
Do I get to part of it?
The IQ tests themselves are not great tools of measuring intelligence but it's the best we've got. And I'm glad people here realize that.

Well...I currently feel like I'm the dumbest one among friends. I've got ADD, so I lose concentration a lot and my friends don't seem to have that, while they have high IQ as well.

It's also good to see that you know that IQ is speed of measuring thoughts, because I don't think the current physicists have got it correct at all and fail even on a basic level of natural philosophy/science, but they certainly can whip up complex equations faster than either of us can.

I never finished college, likely due to ADD.
Check for mental issues if you suspect anything remotely of that sort.
I only discovered the severity of it in my early forties.

I have a typematrix keyboard.

This looks more like a joke.

I used to get stuck forever without Stackoverflow, avoided pointers altogether, got stuck in vim for hours figuring out how to exit the program and did not use it again for another five years.
Assembly is painfully slow to write anything in.

In the past I'd be forever stuck without Stackoverflow to help me.
I couldn't get out of vim without a miracle.
Pointers were so confusing, I'd go without them.

I don't think Trump is waiting.

Quartering winds toppled the F/A-18 Super Hornet to which it was not designed for, and disappearrd into the ocean.

The goal is to show that nonsense espoused as common sense usually comes in pairs.

That way, the liar can hoodwink you into any direction he/she wants you to.

Cyberbullies defaced person A's website.
Cyberbullies defaced my website.
Knowing who they were I went to person A and tried to encourage him to make a stand together against cyberbullying.
Person A told me that if you ignore the bullies, they will go away.
Taken aback by that comment, I decided to cyberbully person A and pretend it was the cyberbullies.
Person A confronted the cyberbullies at the lunch table which I was present at, made a big cry about it, confusing the cyberbullies completely, while I held in my laughter.
After that, the cyberbullying stopped.

Well... 'There is nothing you can do or say' about that, baybay.