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Yeah, even though this is obviously politically motivated, the claim that they're effectively running commercials isn't that off base. It was one thing when they'd say "we receive funding from Company X: Their Slogan", but now they're reading sometimes paragraphs of ad copy, back-to-back.

Justice Department attorney Daniel Schwei argued that the freeze shouldn’t be put on hold because the plaintiffs hadn’t specified anyone who would immediately lose funding if it does go into effect.

I'm imagining the plaintiffs countered by motioning vaguely at the entire country.

Also fuck this guy. "It doesn't count unless you specifically identify all the people we'd be victimizing," is straight up bully logic.

There was that family in NJ that literally named their kid "Adolph Hitler", so I gotta figure there may be some parents that have given their kids even worse names that aren't any sort of Scunthorpe problem.

Do you genuinely think the government doesn't have any trace of whether or not you have changed your gender marker?

Depends on how the state does it. California amends birth certificate in most cases by leaving the previous version of the document as an addendum to the current... except in cases of gender change. If any person or agency queries the document they see a single page that reflect the updated gender, no history.

(They also do this if your name has a slur in it that you want removed, which is nice)

I just remember when the ADL went after David Icke and the guy talking about 12-foot-tall Lizardmen seemed to have the more rational point.

Especially true with deep dish/pan crust pizzas.

My wife rarely eats the crust on her pizza, which is fine by me since I'm happy to turn those pizza bones into free breadsticks.

What about that but as a sausage?

I keep Plex as a backup because some client devices are really tetchy about interacting with Jellyfin. Not every smart device supports the Jellyfin app (nor VLC), and if they do have a built-in media player it's typically one that uses filesize-based progress tracking, i.e. you wind up being unable to fast-forward or rewind the video (or sometimes unable to even pause). Generally every major brand of smart device has a version of the Plex app, for better or worse.

I'll settle for the old Rust approach, where you could still play on (or host your own) servers that didn't have anti-cheat enabled.

Marklar

It's become harder to get clean(ish) audio captures for theater films, but it's not impossible. There are still theaters with hearing impaired seating and headphone hookups, still a few drive-in theaters that broadcast via FM (one of those here in Reno, actually).

If anything, I think it's because digital rips/DLs seem to come out more quickly. By the time a group has tracked down a clean audio stream and takes the time to sync it with footage, someone's probably snagged a digital copy and released it.

Now Telecines, those are basically unseen these days. Almost no theaters still use actual film, and the few that do are way more careful about their inventory management. Gone are the days when a whole film can just get "misplaced" for a few days while someone with a Telecine setup copies it, to say nothing of how few people have the setup for Telecine anymore in the first place.

An Xbox 360 with a VGA adapter and Dead Rising. My TV at the time was one of those gigantic old 90s video editing CRTs, the kind that take all sorts of analog inputs like RCA and S-Video and even did HD if you could convert something to BNC, but pointedly would not do Component or HDMI. A few days prior I'd learned that VGA can be repinned directly to BNC, and then when I was wandering through Best Buy I saw they'd gotten some 360 VGA adapters in. I stopped, flipped a coin, called heads, it landed heads, I bought it.

I'd figured I'd get some minor fun out of it, basically just bought it because I really wanted to play Dead Rising. Instead I wound up using the ever loving hell out of my 360. Still have it, still works, no RROD or anything.

Elon: Let the free market decide.

Free Market: decides

Elon: Wait, no, not like that

I mean... Werner Herzog telling a man to eat his own fingers was pretty great. But otherwise yeah.

As a Stallone movie it's entertaining in a "brain off eat popcorn" way, same sorta feel as Demolition Man (which was fun). It's only once you understand the material that it's supposed to be adapting that you feel like you were cheated.

If you like it you should check out Guy Ritchie's previous film, 2005's Revolver. It's a little more "experimental" I'd say, but some of the film's choices are really cool, especially how it depicts how some characters remember and interpret events differently than others.

Aye, the 2012 movie staring Karl Urban, not the 1995 dumpster fire starring Stallone.

Dredd. Karl Urban absolutely nailed that role, and all without ever showing the top half of his face.

I was so ready to see Buckaroo Banzai take on the World Crime League.

Gotta justify that printer ink budget.