moakley @ moakley @lemmy.world

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I felt mostly the same way watching it, but I also think the ending of the movie is important to understand the soul of it. I wasn't crazy about the humor or the whole look-how-random-LOL vibe it had, but I do think there was something more beneath that. The performances were also very good.

Over the years I've learned to trust my cat. If he's on the counter, I tell him to get off, and he gets off.

If he doesn't get off, I know him well enough to know that there's a good reason. Like he's looking at me with that same cat expression he always has, but I know he's thinking, "Trust me, I'm allowed to be here right now."

Ok, let's do this.

We silently coordinate our efforts. I start moving appliances off the counter until the intruder is exposed. It's a cockroach, a big one. It scurries. Bucky swats, stunning it. He gets it in his mouth for a second, but it's gross so he spits it out. Once it's disabled, I finish it with a shoe.

Mountain of treats. Glorious victory.

Alternate ending: it escapes under the fridge and Bucky stands guard for three days waiting for it to return. He knows his job.

... which is also the origin of the word "grok".

Full circle!

Nostalgia usually doesn't work on me, but bringing back 1990s Jim Carrey to be in the Sonic movies is laser targeted at 10-year-old me and totally works.

Orpheus is the one who looks back. He should be looking back at Eurydice, and the girl on the right is Hades looking all smug.

They only get to about half an inch. And they're sort of round, not as gross as a lot of other bugs. But yeah, they just slam themselves into doors and windows. It's noisy and weird.

June bugs are so annoying. Every April they start slamming their little bodies against the damn back door, and I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?! You're two months early, you assholes!

It's fine when they do it in June, but I have to put up with two months of that early bullshit.

Red. Circle.

Red circle.

You're digging the knife into the pit to get a grip on it without damaging the avocado flesh around it.

To do so, place the knife as shown in the picture, then hit the back of it with your hand to drive it in. I usually just take a swing at it with the knife itself, but it's probably a little more consistent to do it this way.

Avocado pits are slippery. You can't usually just grab them with your fingers.

So just do what the picture shows, and then do what the instructions say, in that order.

I'm trying to downvote fewer posts on Lemmy, so thank you for this test.

Personally, I like a treadmill.

For years I planned to get one, and all the runners in my family would talk about how awful they are, how no one ever uses it once they have it, and getting outside is so much better.

I finally got the treadmill a couple months ago, and I use it several times per week. Some weeks I use it every day. It's convenient, I can control the temperature in the room, I can watch something on my phone while I run, and I like being able to set a consistent pace.

You're thinking about it the right amount. It's a fill word.

I learned the game as a kid and it was one of those things everyone just knows to say, like "olly olly oxen free" or "eeny meeny miny mo." It's just what you say.

"Woke" has had a consistent meaning since its introduction into the English language almost a hundred years ago. It means "Aware of systemic racism."

When blues legend Lead Belly ended a show in 1938 by saying, "Stay woke," he meant: "Stay aware of systemic racism."

When some chud on YouTube in 2025 says "'Woke' is ruining gaming," he means that awareness of systemic racism is ruining gaming. For him.

And when an American politician calls himself "anti-woke", he's saying that he opposes the awareness of systemic racism. Not that he denies the existence of it, but that he'd prefer no one talk about it, so that it can continue.

That's just instead of saying, "Rock, Paper, Scissors, SHOOT!". "Shoot" is when both players put out their hands, just like RPS.

And yes, the players have to agree on which one of them is Odds and which one is Evens beforehand.

When I used to play a game where we had to randomize who went first, my best friend and I decided in advance that I'd always be Evens and he'd always be Odds.

There's no difference, but if you absolutely can't agree on who's what you could always flip a coin for it.

Every time Rock Paper Scissors comes up, I like to point out the superiority of Odds and Evens for resolving disputes.

Rules:

One player picks Odds, the other player picks Evens.

Someone says, "Odds, Evens, says, SHOOT", and both players put out either one finger or two fingers.

Count the fingers. If it's odd, Odds wins. If it's even, Evens wins.

Exactly 50% chance, no ties. RPS has always been obsolete.

Cutting ribbons for grand openings.

I had great, loving parents who tried their best to get me interested in my education. It didn't matter. ADHD meant I was never going to be a good student.

Craig has actually said that the serious tone was a reaction to Austin Powers existing. It was too on the nose.

Any time someone can't tell the difference between centrists and fascists, I just have to assume that their stance is more about arguing than it is about a sincerely held ideology.