Sadness is a deep coldness on the inside, and he doesn’t know yet that it will last for ever.

Let the kids in on the secret early

Yep, I do the same. Zero reason to show up on time to chain theaters.

Who is “the movies”? Creators largely have. The money men won’t unless they lose money on it. Guess which outcome wins.

Producer Stephen Curry

According to activists from the village of Umm al-Khair in the West Bank, where the shooting took place, the killing happened after a settler in a bulldozer drove through their land, destroying trees and property.

When a resident approached to ask the driver of the bulldozer to stop, the driver knocked him down with the blade of the bulldozer. Residents began to throw stones, and Levi allegedly emerged from the settlement and began firing. Hathaleen, who was standing a distance away from the confrontation, was then struck by a bullet.

Here are a couple of things the article doesn’t mention:

Hathaleen (the victim) was recently deported from the US back to the West Bank while preparing to embark on an interfaith speaking tour. He was a nonviolent peace activist.

Levi (the perpetrator) is a terrorist who has repeatedly attacked Palestinians on their own land, set fire to their fields, destroyed their property, and threatened them. He’s a menace who attempts to provoke confrontations. He was sanctioned by the US and EU, but Trump ended his sanctions earlier in the year. Genocidal forces within the Israeli government back Levi, along with many other so-called “settlers.”

Since October 2023, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli terrorists like him, and 7,000 more have been injured. Israel has demolished the homes of over 6,000 Palestinians in the West Bank. But it’s not like it started then; this has been ongoing for years.

Many of the “settlers” are Zionist Jews from the United States, particularly NYC. A disproportionate number of US immigrants to Israel move to the West Bank, which leads to situations like extremists from Brooklyn invading Palestinian homes. Even setting aside the genocide in Gaza, no ethical person aware of the facts can look at this situation and conclude Israel has the moral high ground. (No, this doesn’t mean a terrorist group like Hamas does either, but when faced with a government actively committing genocide, Palestinians have been remarkably restrained.)

Edit: Oops, I got fired up before seeing that this was posted in a movie community.

We’ve destroyed enormous shareholder value and gotten even more filthy rich in the process. Capitalism!

“Viewpoint diversity”

The approval by the FCC, led by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr, comes after Skydance made commitments to the agency in three areas: ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs at Skydance and Paramount have been shut down; appointing an ombudsman to review “complaints of bias or other concerns” involving CBS as part of ensuring “viewpoint diversity”; and investing in local news and working with its affiliated broadcast stations to serving local communities.

Thank you. I read both of the links and I don’t really understand what the OP is trying to achieve with this post, which no one from that group will read, just as no one from that group has ever played a video game. They just seem like publicity-seeking busybodies with time to kill between complaints about their neighbors to their HOAs.

In particular I still don’t understand why any of this is relevant to retro games. Modern games, sure. But it doesn’t look like they’re trying to get Crash Bandicoot banned from Steam.

I don’t know what this group is and I have no idea what you’re talking about. Most of all I don’t understand why this is posted in a retro gaming community

You know, I never quite understood why a woman named Katana fought with fans

Under the Skin. I love the movie. It is so evocative, and some of the imagery is incredibly disturbing without depicting traditional screen violence. The book isn’t bad, but it’s much more straightforward and simple by comparison. I think Jonathan Glazer really elevated the material, as he does with every movie he makes.

They’ll be blond. It’s just an actor reveal, not a full costume, hair, and makeup shoot

If this were called Yaiba: Zombie Slayer 2099, no one would be talking about it now. The only thing that makes this game not immediately consigned to the ash heap of history is the name.

How many chip collectors exist on the entire planet, I wonder?

He’s wearing a blue-gray shirt with a brown-green cloak

They obviously dressed both in colors to evoke the characters they’ll play. He has a cloak.

Jump Bug (late 1981) is the earliest. It has an entirely underwater level, and the car moves more slowly in it. It was also one of the earliest platformers, beaten only by Donkey Kong (mid 1981) and a couple others.

Super Mario Bros. (1985) introduced a significantly different mechanic for its water levels from the rest of the game, specifically swimming, and it was about a bajillion times more popular than Jump Bug. But it wasn’t the first.

Yeah, it’s set to release at the end of next year. I’m pretty excited to see the arc wrap up, but I hope they stop there and don’t try to do the rest of the series.

What motivated you to join this community then?

They already did The Stand as a miniseries on Paramount Plus like 4-5 years ago…