theragu40 @ theragu40 @lemmy.world

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This might be controversial, but for me it was Watchmen.

I was really into the graphic novel when the movie was announced. They dropped this trailer with Smashing Pumpkins "The beginning is the End is the Beginning" playing over it and it was so good. Perfectly captured what I felt the tone of the graphic novel was. Gritty, forlorn, dark, contemplative.

https://youtu.be/wdiHDzT6YbQ?si=K6WoxVts0ZGzSb28

I must have watched that trailer 100 times before the movie came out. Then I saw the movie and it was weirdly campy and totally the opposite of the feel the trailer gave in a lot of places. Which in turn was very different from the feel I got from the graphic novel. I was so disappointed. I've never gone back to rewatch it, and I probably should because I think the consensus was that it's a pretty good movie and being more than a decade removed from reading the book might help me appreciate the movie on its own merit a bit more.

I agree, despite Psychonauts 1 being one of my favorite games ever.

Psychonauts 2 against all odds takes a classic and improves it in almost every way while retaining what made the original great. It's a very rare feat in gaming, or really any media. Psychonauts 2 is an absolute triumph.

That is amazing. I'm super jealous of your daughter.

Yes, it stands alone fairly well. There is a LOT of subtle fan service in the form of tiny references or call backs to things so I think it's a deeper experience having played the original, but it's by no means necessary. I think you could easily get away with watching a story recap of the original.

Oddly it's actually very common (and required in some areas) in the US to study more than one language also. What is extremely uncommon are opportunities to use a second language, so very few people actually ever become fluent. It's a shame really.

I'm someone who used my main (only) shower/bath to learn this stuff on. My wife happened to be 8.5 months pregnant. Don't be me.

I got it done, it works, it doesn't leak, it looks how I want. But it was stressful AS FUCK, and my extremely pregnant wife was showering at the YMCA for almost a week while I was dicking around with this stuff (we re-tiled the whole tub surround, including replacing all the drywall with cement board, reinsulating, vapor barrier, etc). Like...I don't regret doing it because we had tiles falling off and it needed to be done. And I'm glad I learned all the things I learned.

But it was not easy, I ran into tons of shit I was not prepared to handle and had to figure out on the fly, and it was very time sensitive and stressful. I might have chosen to start earlier if given another chance lol.

I will say, one of the first things I did was install shutoffs on both supply lines right below the faucet. That was a very good choice because at least the rest of the house wasn't down.

There's a no for me, dawg.

We don't have to like it but unfortunately profitability is by far the number one driver for...well everything. So little is accomplished by way of altruism. People are greedy. The best way to successfully incentivize climate action is for environmentally friendly actions to become the most profitable and be advertised as such.

So I agree with you that both options should be used. But I disagree that profitability is not the point. Money is always the point and always has been.

I asked how much and he said it's unclear!! For all I know I can be entirely moderate and still have this happen.

Meanwhile I've bought a few and they are all trash.

I can't charge my phone while using them. They cut in and out. I hate them.

Lol yeah it sure is. Not recommended. Also totally recommended.

Super. I'll add that to my list of things I will try not to think about...

Boy, I don't know. 37 in one sitting probably is a lot. I feel like it's not doable for most? I'm a big guy and in college I had a very high alcohol tolerance. We used to do 3 man team case races and even using light beer drinking 13 of them in ~30 minutes was enough to put me involuntarily down. I am certain I could have done 37 in a full day, but I'm not sure if that's considered "at once" or not. If so then I agree with you. Especially about the not fun time lol.

The biggest issue is the volume. 37 beers is 3.5 gallons. Alcohol wise if that is a light beer you're looking at about 10-15 shots depending on the beer. That's a lot but probably doable. But 3.5 gallons is a fuckload of liquid and very hard to take down.

I require additional information. Just how much alcohol and for how long are we talking?

It took me several hours to get into HZD, but once it hit its stride it really hooked me. The opening few hours are quite weak, IMO. It takes that time for the story to start to reveal, and for the more deliberate pace of combat to make itself apparent.

It's not treading new ground from a genre standpoint.

But the combat is a style that isn't really very common in open world games, and the commenter you are replying to specifically was talking about the story, characters, and world building...all three of which set Horizon apart from other games, IMO.

Oh wow. I suppose it's probably what you say - they share a logo and name but are completely separate otherwise.

Here they became synonymous with a worse version of things. Like saying that you bought the "Kmart version" would be a derogatory comment on an item's quality or imply it is a knockoff. That hastened their death spiral.

American here...is Kmart still a thing in Australia? That's kinda crazy to me. It all but died out many years ago here in the US. I'm not sure if there are any left.

This is way more true than people realize.

AWS sounds amazing on paper and their marketing material is great. Once you get into the nitty gritty though things start to feel like everything is held together with string and chewing gum. Documentation is sparse, and often outright wrong. New services are implemented constantly but there is no one to talk to who can support them or knows anything about them. Features they claim are there simply...aren't.

It does indeed work, but it's a frustrating service to use and it's extremely expensive to boot.

Fascinating. I'll add a slight addition of info that prickly pears are actually present in the Midwestern and eastern parts of the US. Saw them growing in the wild at the Indiana Dunes national park last year. Very weird to see cacti that far north, but there they were.

Never knew the Spanish name for them!