All of this is true, but I think what I was replying to was more concerned with censorship and rewriting things to fit a more Puritan or at least prudish outlook on the world.
Safe to assume that if the rapture was real, most people thinking they were righteous enough to get raptured are most certainly missing their religion’s arbitrary mark, so us decent, upstanding heathens would end up stuck with most of them here anyway.
I’d have loved Bernie to be in the general… ever, but it just isn’t what happened and pretending it was some conspiracy just isn’t healthy. The candidate you’re in love with doesn’t always resonate with everyone else, and that’s okay.
Over time I see less and less of the need to be like “lol I don’t like who I’m voting for, but I feel like I have to.” I see absolutely no regret in 1) voting against obviously they worst thing ever and 2) voting for someone who seems to a least try to do things that aren’t horrible and are generally pretty good? They only time you’re going to agree with everything a candidate says or does you’d be on the ballot yourself. Even then it’s probably healthy to disagree with yourself a bit.
“It’s just an amazing, amazing movie, and has really great fight scenes and has a really great ending sequence with the main character being thrown into the sky by all the other characters,” she explained.
…I love FFVII. It is one of my very favorite things. But this is not a good sign. Cloud being nonsensically hurled into the air is one of the weakest sequences in that movie. It’s cute just for how bad it is. Certainly not what you want your real movie to be like.
I thought the pacing of things was fine and didn’t really feel like too many scenes overstayed their welcome. The 2001 opener I thought was pretty great. A few things did stick out a bit for me, though.
The fantastical version of reality. A spelled-out theme of the movie is how hard it is being a woman, which Mom-lady really lays out for the Barbies. It makes some sense because the Barbies clearly don’t know what real is like. The trouble is they say it instead of showing it. We don’t see Mom-lady having any particular problems specific to her being a woman in the movie’s world. The audience is supposed to nod along approvingly because she’s saying things that many real women feel, but she’s also from some surreal version of Earth where people in gaudy cowboy outfits can wander into a school and talk to the kids and steal library books and they don’t get tackled by security. We really needed some scenes with some biting misogyny to give that speech some impact.
Pitting the Kens against each other seemed convoluted. Ultimately the solution to the crisis is… voter suppression? Really?
The old film montage near the end seemed really gratuitous.
This feels a lot like Dr. Katz. Have some comedians record their bit and inject some random bits to try and force the show’s premise to work.
The animation is… quaint. I wonder if they considered just recording a bunch of these as a series, or if that was too much like a podcast and the wounds from whoever runs Shatner’s Xitter account are still too raw.
The age bit here isn't a big deal. This just catches national law up to the already lower end of prefectural laws (all 16 to 18 I think). The bigger change is that the victim no longer needs to prove they physically fought back for it to be considered non-consentual.
Nintendo reveals that the new Mario game will have a trans character (www.lgbtqnation.com)
A matter of perspective... (lemmy.world)
Trump posts bizarre solar eclipse ad – with his head plunging US into darkness (www.independent.co.uk)
Economic performance is stronger when Democrats hold the White House (www.epi.org)
Rule, I’m in Kyoto, Rule (lemmy.world)
Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane possibly detected by sonar 16,000 feet underwater, exploration team claims (www.cbsnews.com)
Joe Biden wins New Hampshire primary despite not being on ballot (www.independent.co.uk)
A majority of voters in New Hampshire wrote-in Biden’s name on ballots where he did not appear officially...
Oklahoma proposal would make watching porn a felony, ban sexting outside marriage (nypost.com)
this country is so fucking cool
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was once seen as the biggest threat to Trump's 2024 White House bid, is suspending his presidential campaign (www.businessinsider.com)
Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. (startrek.website)
Cheese in the tree (lemmy.world)
He’s a bit too big to reach such great heights these days.
Plumber left some time ago. Cheese has not yet recovered. (lemmy.world)
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[FFVII] The Marvels Director Used Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children as a Reference When Pitching (www.ign.com)
I just watched Barbie, What did you guys think of the movie?
Barbie is Lazy....
Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people (www.washingtonpost.com)
8BitDo Unveils New "Micro" Switch Controller, Available In Blue & Green (www.nintendolife.com)
Yeah if he is so powerful why can't he just write the book himself (lemmy.world)
Free therapy (lemmy.ml)
Red Letter Media Animated: Speed 4 (youtu.be)
Japan raises age of consent for sex from 13 to 16, redefines rape in milestone law change (www.straitstimes.com)