I tend to call that section of history the Contextless Era.

A lot of folks got their music from P2P software, and a lot of stuff got mislabeled. There’s a lot of people who to this day think Metallica recorded a heavy metal version of Carol of the Bell (Metallica has nothing to do with the Trans Siberian Orchestra), or that The End Of The World was made by Group X. ANY prank phone call recording was attributed to the Jerky Boys, ANY male stand-up comedian but especially Bill Engval was atribbuted to Jeff Foxworthy, and ANY comedy music especially parodies were attributed to Weird Al.

Except for a recording of the Hyrule Overture with invented lyrics. That got attributed to System of a Down, entirely because of a resemblance to the lead singer’s voice.

And that’s just what Limewire did to us. It’s been said that the modern internet is just 5 websites full of screenshots of the other 4. Yeah, Newgrounds, Ebaumsworld, YTMND, to an extent the Something Awful Forums and a few others constantly outright stole each other’s content. Just…re-uploaded the flash animations.

Should be the Oracle games done up like LInk’s Awakening.

Okay so my brain is trash and I live on the internet: disposing of gasoline by randomly dumping it into someone’s car linked in my brain to the Strong Bad Email “New Hands” where he replaces one of his hands with a bucket. The first thing he thinks of to use his bucket hand for is “dumping oatmeal on stuff” and as he says this a turtle appears at his feet for him to dump oatmeal on.

They give Hannibal Lecter vibes. “This is what we make him wear so he can’t eat anyone.”

That may be the one specific film where that part of the trope comes from, kind of like how Return of the Living Dead is the one and only origin of zombies eating brains.

Point is, the general public has a fully formed, detailed idea of what a movie zombie is, and not a single movie depicts zombies in exactly that way.

Oh I’ll fully believe it originated in the sport of hockey, it’s just, the media I’ve been exposed to during my one brief human existence has caused me to associate it more with chainsaw maniacs than the sport of hockey. Even if that isn’t actually a thing either.

Hollywood has tried to make supermodels into movie stars before. Pam Anderson is the one that jumps to mind, Have you ever seen Barb Wire?

The stereotypical movie zombie holds his arms out in front of them in the sleepwalk pose, shuffles slowly forward, and mindlessly mutters “Braaaaaains.”

If there is a movie featuring zombies exactly like that, it’s going to be surprisingly recent. The outstretched arms comes from Boris Karloff’s The Mummy, though a lot of 40’s and 50’s era monster movies would depict whatever monster–Frankenstein, Dracula, whatever, reaching forward to grasp their victim.

The modern American pop-culture zombie basically begins with George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in which the zombies do move slowly, they don’t say anything, and they aren’t particularly associated with brains.

The brains thing comes from Return of the Living Dead whose zombies are hungry for brains, but these zombies are fully sentient, they’re capable of solving problems, Tarman rigs up a winch to pull open a door, they can speak and understand English, one uses a radio, and depending on their state of decomposition they’re able to move like normal humans.

28 Days Later features zombies that are fast and aggressive rather than slow and shambling. The Walkers from The Walking Dead don’t speak at all and aren’t specifically brain hungry. Other than very intentional parodies, I can’t find a single film that depicts the stereotypical movie zombie.

You know…that kind of mask, the plastic shell that sits close to the face you called a hockey mask…I’ve never seen a hockey player wear one of those, a hockey mask looks like this:

And, possibly because of a brief scene in Christmas Vacation where Clark Griswold wears a hockey mask in order to chainsaw the root ball off the tree, I grew up thinking it was simply chainsaw PPE.

It ain’t just you. The director of Wonder Woman is on record saying she “worked around [Gadot’s] acting limitations.”

I was going to make that point. Especially in the horror or boner comedy genres where being outrageous is the point, movies are often edited for an R rating for theatrical release and then will proudly boast being unrated on the DVD packaging.

The MPAA is not a government agency, it’s an industry self-rating board. Same shit, different decade as the ESRB. You can make, distribute and exhibit films without an MPAA rating in the United States. But, most theaters especially the large chains will refuse to show your film, it won’t be broadcast on television, and most if not all cable channels will refuse to show it, either by contract or simply as a business decision.

Can you create a movie similar to the “Serbian Film” while overseas but will it be approved by the MPAA for theater screenings?

Yes. A Serbian Film (2010, directed by Srđan Spasojević) was rated NC-17 by the MPAA and its first ever screening was in Austin, Texas.

Fortunately Lemmy is an open source project with accessible documentation: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/administration.html

That technology 100% exists and I’m in favor of installing it.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Something I would approve right now is a solar panel that plugs into the wall, and then a device plugs into the panel. So functionally the panel is an extension cord that generates a little bit of power. It would only power things down stream, wouldn’t put anything back onto the grid, but if you have a load that’s continuously heavier than what the panel puts out, like say a refrigerator, who cares? It powers the device from solar and makes up the difference from the wall.

I have a device that does exactly that with the addition of a big honkin’ battery. It can power devices entirely independent of the grid, function as a UPS, and it even has time of use functionality. If you’ve got variable rate power, this unit can be set to run on battery when power is expensive and recharge when power is cheap, while blending in solar as much as possible. It won’t put power back on the grid so it’s already UL listed and as far as I’m aware it’s already legal everywhere in North America (I have the US model with NEMA 5-15 sockets) as we speak.

Then make themed instances. Everyone wants to make general purpose instances probably with our particular brand of politics on it so we get soc dem c/linux and dem soc c/linux and communist c/linux and we have no values of our own other than hatred of America c/linux.

Make an instance where only communities about music are allowed. Or about sports, or TV/movies. Let that be where that content lives, on a website that refuses to host religious content like c/fuckcars at the domain level.

Phrased another way, trying to make !charlottehornets@sh.itjust.works is trying to start a niche community in a niche community in a niche community. Founding !charlottehornets@sportslemmy.net is one fewer shell of nichedom.

Well here’s what I’ve seen tried:

Make a WHOLE BUNCH of communities on a general purpose instance, one for each team in a league, and then add a bot to each one that posts game results or scores or whatever the fuck they’re called, so that anyone sorting by New sees nothing but redundant sports statistics until they go through the process of blocking everything you’ve done to make the rest of the platform usable again.

If a few individuals did it, no. Plugging in a 200 watt source would be equivalent to unplugging a 200 watt load. That’s the equivalent of turning off 4 incandescent light bulbs. I think I might have seen the power grid handle that kind of “disruption.”

On the other hand, imagine if 100 million people go out and buy 100 watt solar panel kits. The load on the power grid is going to vary by a gigawatt every sunrise and sunset. A city in which a million people have 100 watt panels will have to handle a variance of 100 megawatts every time a cloud rolls over town.

At the individual level, what concerns me about the “panel you plug into a normal outlet” form factor is that it breaks a bunch of fundamental principles of the power grid, like “sources of power should be sockets not plugs, so that it’s at least nominally difficult to touch live wires.” Having a source of power on the load side of a circuit breaker further rustles my jimmies. I think the only thing that’s going to stop them from causing problems like overheating wires in walls is the practical limit on panel size.

If you’re going to plug solar panels into the grid this way, they’re going to have to be well engineered or they’re going to hurt someone. You don’t want to own one of these if Big Clive has a lot to say about them, and since most of them are going to be manufactured in China…just expect an increase in residential fires as more jurisdictions approve them for use.

I have a kind of strange property. Me and my parents live next door to each other (this corner of this city block has been in my family for nearly a century) and we’ve got a bunch of relatively small areas of grass. It would be nice to automate at least some of it, but robotic mowers either require burying a wire around the perimeter of the area they’re allowed in and have very dumb algorithms that make them somewhat inefficient, or they’re smarter but require satellite uplinks and proprietary services.

So I do still do it by hand.