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I’m going to guess that James Gunn isn’t going to take career advice from…checks notes…Dean fucking Cain.

Criminally underrated performance in a critically underrated film.

Only on my good days. On my bad days I’m actually quite the asshole, to be honest.

Arguably more famous as the host of the Crystal Maze than as a voice in Phineas and Ferb. But okay.

He was also Mr. Hand in Dark City.

It’s almost as though actors play multiple roles in their lifetime.

I feel bad for the guy, and I in no means mean to make light of his situation.

But am I the only one who sees a dollar-store Tom Hiddleston?

The answer I usually come up with is “probably both”.

I’d throw the “porque no los dos” meme up here, but it was deported last week.

Has anybody ever been on an all-inclusive, agency organized group trip that wasn’t mid at best?

I used to be a store manager for a telecommunications dealer. This was the old days, the cowboy days before smartphones were even a thing (early 2000s). We were still a pretty small company with 12 locations only in two cities, and we were really just the “testing ground” for the parent company who were developing P.O.S. software FOR telecom dealers. So we were kind of their guinea pigs, but were super successful as well.

Anyway, the owners were early thirties brothers with money to burn, so our “manager’s conference” was a seven day all-inclusive as a group. We would have one morning of meetings to make it a “tax writeoff” and then be drunk for the rest.

First year I managed for them was the Dominican Republic. Our resort was a six-star flanked on each side by a four star. Our 6-star wrist band got us access to the other two as well. I remember little of most nights except our group inventing a drink that ended up becoming popular with complete strangers, and wanting to go to the other resorts after the golf cart service shut down, so just…borrowing…one.

The next year was Cancun. Not as much fun. Not as memorable. But still pretty fun with it’s share of stories.

So i guess in answer to your question. Yes. Absolutely. The two years that I managed for them were the best time I’ve ever had. No company has ever truly recaptured that for me.

The mistake is attributing modern social norms onto people from thousands of years ago.

We are all products of the conventions of our times.

less than 100 years ago, certain people were grossed out by sharing a diner counter with an African American. 300 years before that, some people thought that bathing was the cause of disease since it unclogged your pores and made you susceptible.

Just because you (and I…let’s be clear) think it’s gross today, doesn’t mean we would have back then.

Source?

I don’t mean that in an “I don’t believe you” way.

I literally mean that in an “I majored in Archaeology and would be interested in reading that since it’s been more than 20 years since my knowledge was up to date.”

Dragon Age just never had the same replayability for me that Mass Effect had.

Except for the first one, which (let’s be honest) is very dated, I replayed 2 and 3 probably three or four times. And heck, I even went through Andromeda twice.

I don’t remember making it through a full replay of any Dragon Age games.

It’s not that I didn’t enjoy my single playthrough of any of the DA games, but the storyline didn’t make me want to go revisit it like a good novel or movie does.

Why finish a game when you’ve already got the in game purchases working for you?

A finished game means legal liability for bugs and performance issues. a perpetual alpha is legalese for we don’t have to do shit and people still buy expensive ships in the game."

Ah yes. Nothing like a little gross oversimplification to generate headlines.

If the shuttle didn’t exist, there are still a thousand things that would have had to go in a different direction to get a viable Mars program in the 80s and 90s. Not the least of which being that without the shuttle, and before the ISS, we would have no CLUE how to actually live in space for long periods of time.

So if we take it that we can’t go to Mars without learning how to live in space for extended durations. And we take it that in order to learn how to live in space we need to have a long duration presence there, like the ISS.

What exactly do people think was necessary to build the ISS…

You’re right boys and girls…it was the SPACE SHUTTLE.

That almost seems mountable.

Exactly why I bought it. I originally had a screw mount attached to the back of it, which could attach it to the side of my camera cage lined up with the sensor. Basically a laser scope for my mirrorless Lumix.

And this was a few years ago. It still uses the old micro-usb even. So there’s probably going to be a newer version.

9 meters max. But as far as focal distance goes, if you have to measure anything more than about 5 meters away, you’re just throwing your focal ring to unlimited anyway on most lenses.

I eventually did invest in a bigger boy to carry in my filming kit that can store two measurements at once. It’s super handy when you’ve got two subjects and you need to rack focus between them.

I lied…in my brain it feels smaller than it is because ive gotten used to it. But now that I actively look at it again, “keychain” sized is a bit of a stretch.

Although I do use it on my keychain, so maybe ive just gotten accustomed to it.

Once I manage to stop hitting the snooze button and crawl my lazy ass out of bed I’ll take a photo of it. I bought mine at Canadian Tire. Should be similar in any hardware stores.

I have a small keychain laser measurer that I originally bought to use when calculating focal distance with manual camera lenses.

But I find I’m often whipping it out to randomly check how far away I am from random things.

It’s oddly very fun.

They already tried it. It’s called Threads. It exists. People use it. And other instances have the choice to simply not federate with them.

To me (as unpopular as this sounds) that’s the beautiful thing about FOSS and about Federation in particular. No one is stopping anyone from creating their own instance. Even Corporations.

It’s the ultimate expression of “Anyone can do what they want, say what they want, believe what they want…but no one else is in any way obligated to listen to them/federate with them”

I know of companies that host small mastodon instances for their staff to communicate back and forth. I know of similar setups with lemmy instances. Anyone can use the technology for anything they wish to.

Thanks for this. I need to create a mental health list to stop my habit of doomscrolling.