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There's a pretty big difference between criticizing and harassing.

My introduction to Tim Curry was when he played Rooster in Annie waaay back in 1982.

It's always been wonderful to see him pop up in movies and shows (and video games) over the years, even if he's just doing voice acting. I know it took him a while after his stroke to regain the ability to talk again, but I'm surprised he hasn't done more voice work since 2012.

There wasn't an original visual design to compare to, since the original character was in a book, but in the novel Ready Player One, Art3mis is described as having a hideous birthmark on her face, which she's ashamed of and keeps obscured with her hair.

In the movie, it's a slightly red tint to her skin around one eye. Barely noticeable in most shots.

I've never used Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok. I'm trying to get away from Facebook currently. I've successfully dumped Twitter, which I hardly used anyway. I only use YouTube because I can still block all ads, but if they ever force ads into my videos, I'll drop it in an instant.

I've never cared for social media except as a way to stay in touch with friends and family, and maybe a way to meet new friends. But modern social media is just garbage content pumped into your feed constantly for clicks and reacts.

The only reason I haven't let go of Facebook is because almost everyone I know is still there. If I dump it, I lose contact with 90% of my social group. I don't really use Facebook anymore though, except to contact people.

EDIT: On a related note, I don't believe children should have electronic devices. Maybe around 10 years old, they should be allowed to carry a locked down phone or something, so their parents can reach them, but they can't browse the Internet or send photos to people, etc.

It was around 2010 or so when I first saw a friend hand their iPad to their 1-yr old to keep them distracted. That was a $600 device! Which was a lot of money for a personal electronic device back then.

As an IT professional who had to fix electronic devices all the time, I mentioned to my friend that a child probably shouldn't have unsupervised access to an iPad, and they told me that's why it has a thick padded case; a lesson they learned when their first iPad got cracked by the child. So the baby broke a $600 iPad and they bought another and handed it back to the kid?! Sheesh...

I don't know why this Fifth Element comparison is always shared when this specific picture of Musk looks more like Roger from the show Doug.

I always attempt to play a game the way the developers intended the first time through. If I decide to give it another playthrough and I don't want to put up with the extra grindy parts of the game, I'll look for legitimate cheats to help me fast-forward through the rough parts.

I mean "legitimate" as in, cheats the developers put in the game, not outside hacks or mods that alter the game itself. I'm not big on mods in general, and I don't usually use cheats, but I will in rare situations.

Back in the day, Warcraft III had cheats that let you power through each level with stuff like infinite resources, invulnerability, or just letting you automatically complete a level. I used those on recurring playthroughs because each level could easily take 30 mins to an hour to beat, and it was very grindy.

In Satisfactory, there's a cheat where you can add a single stack of a resource into the back of a factory cart, then deconstruct the cart. You'll get all the resources of the factory cart in your inventory, plus double the resource you put into the cart.

Do this dozens of times and you can exponentially grow resources without having to wait on factories to make them. I'm pretty sure the developers are aware of this "glitch" because it's never been patched out, even after a bunch of people started pointing it out on official Satisfactory forums.

I played hundreds of hours of the game and made some pretty massive continent-stretching factories. Upon building a new world, I started to implement this "strategy" to hurry up and acquire rare resources so I could get factories off the ground. Saved me from hundreds of hours of gameplay, waiting on production lines to make basic resources into more advanced resources so I could get to the next step.

A buddy of mine asked to be part of my Steam Family so he could have access to my 4,000+ game library. He regularly streams games online and figured it'd save him tons of money buying games to play.

But he's also completed all achievements on almost every game he's played on console and uses some website to automatically complete all the achievements for his Steam games, so he doesn't need to redo them on PC.

The thing about Steam Family is... if someone's caught cheating and earns a vac ban, the owner of the family account receives the ban, not the individual player. I told him I was worried that cheating of any kind might affect my immaculate record and/or library of games and he decided to just buy his own games instead of risking my account. Good friend; he didn't even argue. I was still willing to let him have access as long as he was careful, but he chose another route.

[...] we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant.

Yeah, this has been my fear lately. As a kid in the '80s/'90s, I had high hopes for humanity. I loved space travel stories; read so many science fiction books, watched Star Trek/Star Wars, loved space films of all genres...

But lately, I'll be happy if we ever make it to Mars. The one person who had a dedicated mission to get a man on Mars turned out to be a self-destructing billionaire sociopath who seems to have abandoned that dream for political meddling aspirations instead.

If we can get capitalism out of the way, humanity might have a chance at bouncing back. But as long as a few powerful elites maintain control over society, our hopes and dreams will forever be redirected toward financial gains until the collapse of society.

On the plus side, even Rome, the most stable and advanced civilization outside of our own, eventually collapsed. Humanity survived and eventually went on to thrive once again, doing even better this time. By the historical timeline of the birth and death of civilizations, America is long overdue for a collapse. Maybe we're about to see a global change that will reset our predicament and give us another chance to succeed. If we can learn from our past.

I can't vouch for all East Asian countries, but in Japan, it's a matter of formality. When you meet someone, you always refer to them by their family name and an honorific. (Like we would say, "Mr. Smith.")

Once you start to get more friendly and familiar with an individual, you'll move on to more intimate honorifics, until you're allowed to call them by their direct first name, no honorifics. That's a sign that you're very close with someone.

It allows people to refer to you without being too direct and familiar until you've gotten to know them well. And you can tell what relationship two people have by what names they use to call each other. Heck, really close friends will probably make up nicknames for each other too.

When I was in the US military, it was kind of the same mentality. Everyone was referred to by rank and last name only. As you got to know someone of the same rank or lower than yours, you could refer to them by last name alone, no rank required. But only the closest of friends would refer to each other by first name.

I just wish I could see how life goes on without me. How our world changes in the future beyond my limited time on this planet.

I think about people who lived hundreds of years ago. How they couldn't even imagine the scientific and technological advancements that we have. And then I think about hundreds of years into the future. What changes will be so extreme and advanced that I can't even imagine it today?

I wish there was some way for me to glimpse into that future and see where society is heading. Will we expand out to the stars? Will we be extinct long before we leave this planet? What's the ultimate future for humanity? These are questions I want to know, but will never get a chance to find out, unless everyone but me dies out in the next 30-40 years. And I highly doubt that's gonna happen.

Dude, if you look at Zootopia objectively, remove all the personal connections and relationships to the characters... (spoilers ahead)

Judy was hired through a DEI-type program (assistant mayor Bellweather mentioned something about a "mammal inclusion initiative" that got her hired), which is normally a good thing, but they kind of play it like that's the only reason she got a shot at being a cop. Bunnies aren't cops in this world. The police academy was specifically designed for larger, more powerful mammals. Judy had to circumvent traditional training protocol and use her cadets' power and size to assist her in order to graduate.

She goes off-book on her first day. Chases a supposed criminal, causing all sorts of mayhem and damage across town. Insubordination against her boss. But she doesn't get fired, thanks to her political connections.

When she's given a high-profile case to work (again, thanks to connections with the assistant mayor), with no resources to access, she partners with a known shifty scam artist off the street. Blackmails him with tax fraud to cooperate (instead of turning him in). Coerces him to climb a fence so she'd have "probable cause" to investigate the area without a warrant. Basically finding loopholes to circumvent official processes.

She also manages to become part of the family in the local mafia. After a single visit to the mafia, she becomes the godmother of the mob boss' granddaughter. She even uses them later to intimidate a witness to make him talk. Literally threatens to murder the suspect if he doesn't talk!

Then there's the fact that she single-handedly caused the fall of two separate regimes! First, she takes down the mayor for kidnapping predators, then she takes out the next mayor for causing predators to "go savage."

Then she gets the shifty scam artist hired into the police force as her new partner!

From an outside perspective, she's an extremely crooked cop that abuses her position, uses political connections to get her way, makes exceptions for criminals to gain access to police resources, and violates the rights of citizens. ACAB definitely applies to Judy.

I'm not. I browse by "All" and this was at the top of my feed when I commented. I follow a lot of games news, so I poked my head in to check it out. And at the time, there were no other comments here, so I left my 2 cents.

Had I noticed this was a dedicated Factorio community, I probably would've kept my experience to myself. I should've known a community dedicated to this game would gang up on me for not heaping praise on it. My apologies.

I keep a wishlist of things I want/need with their regular prices marked. On Black Friday, I check that list to see if anything got discounted. More than likely, nothing is, because discounted products are usually cheaper variants, or already-expensive items marked up in advance, then dropped to regular price for Black Friday.

Nothing on my list was discounted this year. So I bought some games through the Steam Black Friday sale and called it a day.

I'm still pissed that they won't discount their game. They're very adamant that they set an appropriate price and they refuse to take part in game sales. Personally, I've played their game and I didn't feel it's worth the price tag.

Joke's on them, though. I got a Steam key in a game bundle through a reseller site. Spent like $10 for a dozen games and Factorio was one of them.

Depends on how much milk you add to it. Personally, I see it as more of a breakfast stew; more solid food in the bowl than liquid.

I used to exclusively browse Reddit via apps. I retired relatively young, and as such, no longer sit in front of a computer all day. Being able to browse Reddit from my phone or tablet was essential.

Then the whole API thing happened a couple years ago. Reddit started charging app developers for every use of their data, which would cost the larger apps millions of dollars for something that was previously free. It was Reddit's attempt to squash all mobile apps, so they could push their ad-riddled garbage app. Or make tons of money off any third-party apps that were too stubborn to quit hosting Reddit content. Win/win for Reddit.

I'm extremely anti-advertisement and am not going to be forced to use an app that shoves ads in my face every few posts or comments. I immediately started looking for alternatives, and Lemmy was the most common suggestion for an alternative to Reddit.

I made an account here and spent some time poking around. It was like Reddit, but not as many people, so the content seemed more focused. I could actually comment here and not be drowned out by thousands of other comments. Even if I was late to a thread, I'd still get noticed and be able to share in a conversation, not just shout into the void.

People were generally nicer here too. On Reddit, there were always haters in every thread. Always contrarians who had to argue with everyone. I rarely see people being assholes here. Not to say they don't exist, but they're more rare.

I started subscribing to communities here (the Lemmy version of subreddits), but eventually decided to just keep browsing by "All," since there wasn't as much regular content. That means I still have a full news feed, but I also don't get stuck doomscrolling forever.

It seems jumping to Lemmy was a good choice because soon after I left, subreddits started losing their mods if they spoke out against the CEO or fought against site-wide changes. They were replaced by Reddit admins or bots, who did a terrible job moderating. Lots of communities started crumbling, especially the popular subreddits whose mods were replaced by bots.

I've fully abandoned Reddit now. I wouldn't be surprised if my account got auto banned from a bunch of subreddits at some point for some innocuous comment I made years ago. I still get emails every now and then stating that someone found an old comment and replied, but besides people asking for help or advice, I just ignore it. Reddit is dead to me.

I mean, Veronica only moved to town because Archie invited the rich socialite to his small-town prom, even though he was already going to prom with his girlfriend, Betty. He had to juggle two girls all night.

The fact that Archie continued to date both girls for over 80 years now (as well as a few other randoms over the years) without wholly committing to any one person says a lot about his character.

I mean, I agree with you. Veronica is a spoiled rich brat. I'd choose the sweet girl-next-door Betty over her, any day. But Archie isn't exactly a saint either.

Meh, it's a deal to get more subscribers. I'm not mad at them for not extending it to all users. It is a little shady that they didn't make it clear it's for new subscribers, though. If that's their target audience, they should make it a little more apparent.

I don't feel like there's any sort of symbolism for me. It's just a day for families to gather and enjoy their company. Depending on the family, that may be a fun way to catch up, or a torturous affair.

When I was a kid, our tradition was to go visit one of our close family friends for the day. They had four kids (one biological child, three adopted siblings from South Korea) so it was a larger family to hang out with.

Both of my parents moved to a different state from where they were born, met each other, and married, so we don't have any extended family within 200 miles of us. The father of our family friends was my dad's college roommate, who also moved far from home and settled in the same town as my dad, so they also didn't have nearby family to visit with.

We'd spend all day hanging out at their house while the adults cooked food, then have a great feast in the afternoon. Then spend the rest of the evening sitting in the living room with full bellies and conversing. It was a nice time, but I was a kid with undiagnosed ADHD, so sitting still was extremely stressful for me and I usually got a pass to go play, after spending at least a little time visiting with people.

As soon as I turned 18, I joined the US military and moved out. For the next 20 years, I was stationed all over the globe, never anywhere near family, so Thanksgiving was just another day to me.

When I married, my wife suggested starting our own tradition. We'd buy two Cornish hens and cook them for ourselves, with a few sides. Cornish hens look just like chickens, but very tiny, so we could each have one to ourselves. Plenty of food for a couple with no kids.

When I retired from the military, I moved back home to take care of my dad, who was suffering from Parkinson's Disease. Now that I'm closer to my family, they insist on dragging me out to Thanksgiving every year.

When my dad was still alive, he was invited to tag along with my sister while her family had Thanksgiving with her local in-laws. Since I was also living at home, I was also given an invite.

But since my dad passed away almost 2 years ago, I'm no longer invited to Thanksgiving. Instead, my sister has a "Thanksgiving leftover party" for my wife and I, the day after Thanksgiving. We go over to her house and eat whatever leftovers they took home from their in-laws.

My sister's in-laws are extremely conservative, religious types. The patriarch of their family was a pastor, so my sister literally married a pastor's son.

I am an atheist. I don't go around discussing religion with anyone who doesn't specifically ask for a conversation about it, and I've never attacked anyone about their religious beliefs or tried to convince them of anything. Heck, I understand that most people need something to believe in, so if religion is what they need in their life, then by all means, accept Jesus into your life.

But my sister only heard the word "atheist" and freaked out, so the first time I met her in-laws, I got a lecture beforehand about not discussing religion with anyone. And I believe she "warned" her in-laws about me too, because I got the cold shoulder all night.

Ever since then, her in-laws hardly even glance in my direction. I'm lucky if I get a simple "hello" when I run into them. So it's not a surprise that when my dad passed away, I stopped getting invited to Thanksgiving with my sister's family.

Which is fine with me. Again, the holiday holds no special symbolism or meaning to me. It's just a day to spend time with family and I get to do that on the day after Thanksgiving with my sister, the only family I have left in my local area.

So yeah, long story short, Thanksgiving is just an excuse to hang out with family to me, and as long as I get to do that at some point, I don't really care about the specific holiday.

I have a Google phone, which has YouTube embedded on it. I can't remove it. I had to disable it, then tell my phone to redirect all YouTube links to my browser. Now I can block ads again!

It's not as hard as it seams [...]

I see what you did there.