Gonna need you to take about 20% off the top there Dashie.

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I (and many other trans folks) didn’t benefit from supportive parents, sisters and friends to provide initial advice, ongoing feedback and moral support. We didn’t have them when we were growing up, and we may not have them now. As an adult, one is expected to have already been through that experience. And, paradoxically, finding new friends and people you can trust often relies on not looking like a total mess to begin with (not to mention the expectations of employers, or the experience of people not yet out to themselves and just want to experiment).

It sucks to have to learn this stuff in a vacuum, but that’s the situation some people are in. “Have you tried not?” is not helpful advice.

DMs containing the identities of spies and assets.

He also managed to wriggle away from multiple rape charges in Sweden by waiting out the statute of limitations.

Heroes and villains alike have complex legacies.

Whoops – fixed!

So it has an MPAA rating, but no published cast list or director yet? WTF?

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Simply sitting in this chair causes your makeup to become fantastic.

A white people taco night no less…

The last season of Picard managed to turn things around. Yeah it was fan service, but it felt like tasteful fan service (mostly).

I think if he were to get top notch creature effects artists to do practical effects work on the alien world and save the CG stuff for wide shots and space stuff, I think people would respect that.

I started paying attention to this stuff back when Dolby Pro Logic was new, which was a pretty clever way to get surround effects using only left and right audio channels. Left and right channels went directly to the front left and right speakers, but it also compared wave forms coming from the left and right channels. Any wave forms that matched got sent to the center channel (like most on-screen dialog) and any that mismatched got sent to the rear surround speakers (noise, ambience, etc). It wasn’t perfect by any measure, but it was a pretty clever hack.

It was a kids cartoon created to sell toys. The mistake was aging the concept up to appeal to adults in the first place.

I’m actually really excited to see this as a return to form.

The fact that this news follows layoffs may not be a coincidence.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-lay-off-hundreds-azure-cloud-unit-business-insider-reports-2024-06-03/

There’s nothing shameful about enjoying a good genre picture. :D

The best queer film I saw last year was Kokomo City, a documentary about black trans sex workers. It was legit.

This trailer is trash compared to the original one used for film’s initial release in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nW6LLojcUw

As a fellow person with partial Irish ancestry and a nickel allergy, do I have… magic powers?

Contextual note: I’m posting this today because Netflix just released an English dub trailer for the film’s release on their platform AND IT’S SO SHITTY compared to this one.

Agreed. Washington state is at rank 30 here, 5 below Tennessee. This ranking methodology is suspect.

Thin steel frame, no air bags, no crumple zones.

Check out the crash tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roLcNwRi1Sk&t=40s