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The Eternals - Could have been amazing if they weren’t trying to tell like six origin stories AND THEN a team-up story in the same film

Honorably mentions:

The Marvels - The first act was some of the best post-Endgame stuff in the MCU, the bickering between the three leads really reminded me of how the Avengers fought in the first Avengers film. It really was a shame that they just said “sorry” in a cornfield and released all the tension right at the end of the first act.

The Substance - Had the potential to be a timeless classic but it forgoed poignancy for 40 extra minutes of absurdist, overindulgent and redundant body horror

The New Mutants - They should have never hired the director of The Fault In Our Stars for a movie like that

LEGO: The Adventures Of Clutch Powers - Too much setup without payoff

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair - HORRIBLE pacing really hurts this movie even though the story, atmosphere and worldbuilding were incredible

Ohhhh that’s right cuz she uses #Peertube and #P2P chatrooms. Makes sense, although I think Fediverse Chick is, at least, working alone if not a scammer.

What’s up with the Fediverse Chick thing? Seems like a scam with no catch. Pretty weird.

Even AI costs money.

A Different World is known by many as “black Friends” or “Friends before Friends”, so maybe Netflix wanted a whiff of the hype that Warner Bros. got when they upscaled Friends to 4K

Oh. Yeah I looked it up and there’s actually a fan 4K restoration of Song Of The South on Archive.org.

Well for what it’s worth Gone With The Wind is one of my favorite classic movies so maybe I’m in that same boat. Just got the Blu-Ray before the Mexico tariffs hit.

That sounds pretty cool actually

We should have contracts that mandate minimum number of seasons for all of this.

Yeah if I ever ran a streaming service that made original content I’d put in a stipulation that if a cancellation order is made, the producers still get to make a proper end to the series in the form of a final season or a special or movie. How Netflix especially treats their original projects feels like if Barnes & Noble sold books in halves and flipped a coin in a back room to determine whether or not to sell the second half in 18 months.

When’s Google gonna put Gemini on the Google Home/Nest devices? I’d switch to 'em if they end up getting Gemini on them, the amount of times I ask my Echo Dot a simple question that it can’t answer but Gemini can is ridiculous.

They’re doing the remaster? I had no idea.

What should people do with thermite?

Haha

Fact check: true

Primary characteristics of a Ponzi scheme are that they are a system in which people place their money, and as more people place their money into the system, the value of that investment is supposed to provide a reasonable return. So long as more people are entering the system than leaving by cashing out, all is well, but once you have fewer people enrolling into the system, it will start to collapse (like Social Security seems to be in danger of doing). The major difference between Social Security and most Ponzi schemes is that I don’t think it promises massive returns on investment like most Ponzi schemes do, but it otherwise functions pretty similarly.

Sure buddy

This is what I get for trying to talk about politics on Lemmy comment sections (again!), I really need to stop feeding the trolls man

I hate it when the government keeps fidgeting and fiddling with stats like this and unemployment rates to make their economies look better than they actually are

“doing things to make it harder to get SS” is not the same as trying to kick the elderly off of the plan, which is something the GOP has repeatedly opposed

yeahhhhhhhh that’s the type of response I expected

Why were they at the office?

What do you think a Ponzi scheme is? I’m super curious now.

Where are the calls to kick elderly people off of Social Security then? Can you think of any off the top of your head?