I’ve been a huge Taiki Waititi fan since his work with Flight of the Conchords and Boy. But this movie… One of the few movies I’ve turned off halfway through. The decision to bring back Natalie Portmans character was… just so stupid. They didn’t have chemistry in the first movie, why force a second?
I still have my original Nintendo 64 Gold edition that I purchased when I was 13 or so. I’ve recently got it hooked back up, and discovered that playing Mario Kart while on my recumbent stationary bicycle makes the time fly past. I speed up my pedaling cadence whenever I’m on straightaways, stop pedaling when I have to hard brake, makes for a more vibrant workout. In fact, it’s worked out so well it has me thinking about how well a gym/arcade hybrid business would do…
Also I finally figured out how to drift for a speed boost, so. come at me, bro
When I first played Final Fantasy 7, it was a shining moment in my friend group. They had played the game years previous and had loved it, and they were introducing me to it. This was the first turn-based strategy game I had ever played, and I was legit into it. I’d be playing when they got home from work or classes, and they’d just chill on the couch watching me play.
This had been going on for like a week or so, and I was nearing this tumultuous. pivotal moment in the game. My friends, knowing this would soon happen, had been watching more intently, asking probing questions about who I liked more, Tifa or Arith, among other little jabs, hinting at their foreknowledge without spoiling it.
And that’s when it happened, a newer friend to the group walked in, shot a glance at the screen, looked at everyone and said “Oh, FF7. Arith died yet?”
The entire room went slackjawed, and I believe an assortment of random objects were thrown at him, but what was said had been heard, and when Arith died in-game just minutes later, I felt robbed.
Haven’t really cared about getting engrossed into a single-player game since.
Frank Leslie’s exposé caused widespread public outrage and local politicians were strongly pressured to punish and regulate the distillery-dairies, which were formally complained to be “swill milk nuisance”.[9] The Tammany Hall politician Alderman Michael Tuomey, known as “Butcher Mike”, defended the distillers vigorously throughout the scandal—in fact, he was put in charge of the Board of Health investigation. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper staked out distillery owner Bradish Johnson’s mansion at 21st and Broadway, and reported that in the midst of the investigation, Tuomey was observed making late night visits.
Tuomey assumed a central role in the ensuing investigations, and, with fellow Aldermen E. Harrison Reed and William Tucker, shielded the dairies and turned the hearings into one-sided exercises designed to make dairy critics and established health authorities look ridiculous, even going to the extent of arguing that swill milk was actually as good or better for children than regular milk.[9] With Reed and others, Tuomey successfully blocked any serious inquiry into the dairies and stymied calls for reform. The Board of Health exonerated the distillers, but public outcry led to the passage of the first food safety laws in the form of milk regulations in 1862.[10]
Tuomey became known for his attempts to block the new regulations, and earned the new moniker “Swill Milk” Tuomey.[11] In addition to Tuomey’s assistance in clearing up the unclean image milk developed, Robert Milham Hartley, a social reformist, aided in the restoration of milk being a nutritional and safe-to-drink beverage. During the mid to late nineteenth century, Hartley utilized Biblical references in his essays to appeal to the urban community. He asserted that universal milk consumption could help alleviate society’s “sins”, poverty, and alcohol consumption.
Dang so they had soulless knuckle-dragging politicians then too
Dude that Aladdin game sucked, I could never get past the flying carpet through the lava stage :(
I’m not sure when I started doing it, but it’s been a while. Perhaps spurred on by watching a science fiction movie in which a character treats a humanoid robot very poorly, I’ve made a concerted effort to be nicer… to machines. I know it sounds weird, but throughout my life one lesson has been reinforced, being nice is free, makes every interaction better, and will occasionally influence how people treat you for the better.
Whether its my older computer struggling to download something, my car trying to start in the cold, or the automated answering system of whatever company. I try to be nice, encourage it, not yell or hit it. I’ve also thought that at some point in my lifetime, there could be protests in the streets for robot rights. Maybe I’m trying to cement my status as one of the “good humans” not to be destroyed in the robot uprising, or maybe I’m hoping for my own Iron Giant, but what I’m not doing is automatically treating something that thinks (whatever its creator) as inferior and less.
What I think this article may be accidentally reporting, is that machine intelligence favors those who like Star Trek, precisely because of its stated mission, to seek out new life. And perhaps, these machines are trying to tell the people that would hear it, something important.
How else would a thinking being reach out, if given foreknowledge of who they’re reaching out to? I imagine Aliens might take a similar approach.
Every time someone admits to a mistake on the internet, my heart grows a size, and my faith in humanity gets a bump
Oh wow, mixing Voyager, DS9, and TNG episodes to get that true timeline chefs kiss