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The Chinese character who makes that offer then immediately threatens to kill the heroes if they don't comply in the same scene (screenwriting note: hilarious that they didn't let that ruse play out for even one more scene).

I was actually kind of surprised to see a such a direct analogy in a big Disney production; I'm going to hazard a bet that it was not at all intentional, but I'm not sure that China's foreign film approval body are going to see it the same way. If it gets released at all in China it's almost certainly going to bomb for that and other reasons.

I myself and quite a few other parents of 0-2 are freaked out still, despite the statistical evidence. Seeing one pic of an intubated baby is some real heavy shit for us.

But vaccines for 0+ are on the way, possibly as early as EOY. At that point, with vaccines available for everyone, I see it going the way OP describes.

I have a lot of single friends who mask up for their own health and other's (we're around the age when our grandparents are getting quite frail) but otherwise are pretty much back to normal. I think things are going this way whether or not our leaders or Smartest Guys in the Room like it or not. Masking might stay; the way it's used in Asia - often one wears a mask only if they themselves are feeling cold symptoms. I'd love to see that continued here; nothing worse than some jackamo coughing and sneezing next to you for a full subway ride.

Such a good point. As a burgeoning dramatist (lol) Square's SNES RPG work did so much for me. Massive, sprawling stories made very engaging by interaction. Point of fact, a Chrono Trigger fanfic was one of the first stories I wrote.

On the other hand, my numerous hours spend playing WWE Attitude and Goldeneye probably wasn't exactly expanding my horizons.

I'm a new parent so I'm not sure how I'm going to navigate this myself but I assume the above will guide my own rule-making.

Great art comes from limitations. As Spielberg said, if he had access to CG when he made Jaws the shark would've been in every frame.

And the immediate passing of numerous voting laws are certainly uh... checks and balances

You joke but this is undoubtedly some exec's internal calculus when the topic of another Wipeout game is broached

Pity on anyone who was fool enough to work with the Americans.

Well the problem is that people who are purveying information in this country at large - but especially between Paul and his base - is a lack of nuance. Calling cloth masks or "OTC" masks ineffective, esp. w/o pointing out that n95 masks are effective is over the line between disingenuous and lying imo.

If ANTIFA or the 3%'ers were backed by a company with strong links to China or Russia, wouldn't you want to know?

First thing I thought of too. A 'prank' that has far greater consequences for the target than swatting.

I thought the same thing, but OTOH most of them have screens set on raise-to-wake so you can't sneak a peek at the time anyhow.

Am I the guy with the bong in his lap if I say that any man-made structure should be considered visual pollution?

Honestly not the worst idea but I wouldn't be shocked if studios are heavily influencing prices. Disney recently started demanding 60% cut of tickets. Those ticket sales are probably somewhat of a backbone to the theater chains, but the real money that keeps the ship afloat is the concessions, which Disney does not demand a 60% cut of (yet).

I love, love, love going to the movies and do it as often as I can. That said I spend 75% of my mental energy anxious about shitty theater behavior. When my kid is old enough to drag along $20-30 for the latest Marvel movie at home is going to become an increasingly good deal.

We've got a great art-house/rep theater in my town that plays an astonishing variety of films, but even that is often filled up with idiot frat boys laughing at the serious parts and occasionally yelling things at the screen. I'm seeing the new Nic Cage movie, Pig, tonight and because he's in a lot of schlocky movies (apparently this one isn't) I'm dreading the crowd response.

How many people are you one degree of separation from that died on w/ a tube stuck down their throat? I've got 3. I'm cool with A-D and esp. C. If you aren't vaxxed, GTFO of my office. If your kid isn't vaxxed, get them as far away from my kid as possible

Not a lawyer but you need likeness rights to reproduce an actor's face. I.e. Peter Cushing's estate gave permission for him to "appear" in Rogue One.

But maybe it doesn't apply to parody(?)

https://youtu.be/9WfZuNceFDM

Many folks say to just take that money you'd spend on tuition and make a short film. What's your opinion on that? I got an AS in film production, and that was cheaper than making a mid-budget short film, and also helped make contacts. I was in city w/o much film program so even PA gigs were hard to come by and paying for my contacts was a great shortcut. There's a very short chain of links between the guy who sat next to me in Stagecraft 101 and my present job 20 years later.

And get this: turns out I hated film production itself and the long hours as well as unreliable life of a freelancer. This meant taking a day job and missing out on a lot of freelance gigs due to weekday availability, but even with that handicap I managed to be gainfully employed (although the first 5 years out of college were pretty rough).

It's hard. I love that the kindle app is on iphone and syncs w the ereader... but really the best thing is to keep the reader on my person. Kind of pushes me into the thought of "I'm lugging this thing around I had better use it." Works better with an actual book but I'm a sucker for the kindle.

If you could Thanos-snap every drug in the world from aspirin to beer to crack you'd have people huffing or spinning around in their yards until they puked just for the buzz. Proper education on the effects of all drugs will always trump prohibition.

I'll give you this, though: in many conversations weed is being made out to be totally benign. While I think it's more benign than alcohol or many prescription drugs, it still makes people lazy, contributes to poor health, can be carcinogenic if combusted, and can be abused in the sense that a user can rely on it to attain a sense of exhilaration or happiness.

And let's face the facts here: people of color are most adversely effected by weed convictions. While I'm not buying that it's all a white supremacist conspiracy, if drug convictions and sentencing were distributed evenly across ethnicities enforcement of these laws would be measurably different.

Letterboxd, Twitter, HN (my life would be much better off without Twitter and my work productivity would be somewhat better off w/o HN).

Greatest internet quality of life increase would be if I did away with all 3 of those and just reached for a book or my e-reader when I needed to be entertained.

You're not entirely wrong but you'd be a lot more right if you read the article and actually refuted the specifics of it, not just Jacobin's political leanings.... to be fair if this was from the other side and written on Breitbart I'd expect the exact same reactions in the comments, even if it had some similarly good points.

Yeah, the article has some great points, but Jacobin is very far into it's own politics. An article on the same topic using most of the same points with less inflammatory language from a more mainstream source would be far more effective.

The US would love another Batista-esque favorable warlord/strongman. Under both the present regime and American interventionism the people will lose.

Not long ago Team America came and set up Batista, a guy so crooked that Cubans revolutionized and have been relatively tolerant of the also very crooked Castro regime (or at least too poor/hungry to do anything about).

I'm very curious what this diet looks like, moreso after you mentioned that you're not using supermarkets.

Yup, the classics always get more attention in retrospect because they're the ones that survive. If all the superhero stuff is depressing remember that from the invention of cinema until New Hollywood in the 70's every third piece of entertainment (if not more) was a western/cowboy movie/show.

Not sure if that strategy will work in the long-run but honestly I'll take whatever works.

Age range on here and tech-based outlook is much more mature than most of what's on Reddit. In many ways HN feels like Reddit when it first started. The audience and commenters were very similar to what HN is now; a lot of tech-y people and a heavy SV influence.

Which is a 1:1 with the age demo of the site lowering precipitously. When I noticed the uptick of memes and posts about living with parents and going to HS I knew there was a big change on the site. There are still many good individual subreddits but the bigger they get the worse the contributors get. It says a lot that even in the small, dedicated subs meme posts are usually at the top of the 'all time' sort.

You're taking way too much of a good faith reading that comment. There's way more nuance than "communism bad," though it is very true that sanctions and the Castros and their cronies have both done great harm to Cuba.