my weekly work lunch is a soda and a sandwich with a bag of chips. It’s $20. 5 years ago it was $12.

I don’t. But I’m a rich american who can afford to be picky and eat different stuff for every meal and eat 1-2 meals a day from restaurants regularly.

a lot of people eat the same food several days in a row, or several meals in a row.

you only feel that way because you see food as pleasure to be enjoyed. not as a necessity for living. lots of people eat to live.

They do. They taste like shit.

they also make shakes that do this. also taste like shit.

Surprised no one in this thread has yet mentioned how this movie very much parallels Alien: Isolation and the huge success that game had by being so consistent with the premise of the first movie.

a fresh coat of paint on an old house is a good thing.

trying to remodel the damn thing to fit whatever is trendy here and now, ruins the whole house.

Agreed. The star wars stuff that is great is the stuff that isn’t tied down to the original trilogy characters and plot. it’s stuff that expands upon it with new characters and stories in the existing universe’s rules.

This is why the star wars prequels/sequels were so poorly received, they were totally inconsistent with the universe for the sake of ham-fisting in the original characters and re hashing the original plotline of the first trilogy. There was no respect for the rules that were established in the OG trilogy that people came to know and love.

yeah that take is completely absurd.

Because it was bad movie. Bad characters, nonsensical plot, and did nothing creative or interesting with the mythos. Sure, it was shiny and had need effects, but it was forgettable and empty otherwise. Just another big budget Hollywood movie.

People were looking for something memorable and epic and that expanded the mythos… Promethus was none of those.

I understand it. They think respect and consent is weak and pathetic. They want ‘strong’ people who violate others boundaries.

I often wonder how much slut shaming has to do with women who expect/want this sort of behavior from men. Does it make them feel like they aren’t “responsible” for the sexual encounter if the guy is pushy, therefore they aren’t a slut?

this is 99% of it. It’s about plausible deniability if things don’t go well. it’s all about pushing all the responsibility onto the man.

When have you ever met a woman admit to being bad at sex?

these women don’t care about that. they are operating on a toddler level of wanting what they want and throwing a tantrum if they don’t get it.

communication is not something they have developed yet.

Teenagers will spend a lot of time wooing the person they want. Middle-aged people have no time and will simply move on to the next person who’s not playing games.

Bingo. Adults have no time for stupid games. Kids do.

nobody is going to make a top end phone without a good camera. that’s not how product design works.

there are tons of $50 smart phones out there these days.

expensive coffee. i spend like $60/mo on coffee beans.

a lot of software dev people are incredibly naive when it comes to how human beings interact and behave.

their biggest mistake is often they assume other people are chill nerds like they are…

i already have had multiple weirdos harass me on lemmy for not being leftist enough. i’ve blocked dozens now, and really kills the experience to have some crazy people go around and brigading your comments because you disagree with their political viewpoint slightly.

way too many people take the internet comments/points WAY too seriously…

you can’t build a successful relationship without dating and getting to know if you’re a good fit.

yeah, been there too. i could never understand someone who refuses treatment/therapy/medication and then blames someone else for their struggles.