GiantRobotTRex

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GiantRobotTRex,

No, the studios probably don’t think it’s a good idea.

Vin Diesel really loves Riddick. It’s his passion project. Universal was willing to let the franchise die after two films but he wasn’t, so he did a cameo in Tokyo Drift in exchange for the rights to the franchise. Then he independently raised funds for the third film and fronted a bunch of his own money, going so far as to mortgage his house to keep the production afloat.

I’m sure it’s the same with this fourth film. The series was never all that profitable so the studios wouldn’t push to make another one. It’s gotta be Vin Diesel pushing to have it made because he personally deeply cares about the franchise.

GiantRobotTRex,

He got the rights to the franchise in exchange for a cameo in Tokyo Drift.

screenrant.com/fast-furious-vin-diesel-tokyo-drif…

GiantRobotTRex,

No worries. You had the spirit of the story basically right even if you had the details wrong.

GiantRobotTRex,

Because I haven’t added that to my controller config yet.

GiantRobotTRex,

Do you have a source for that? As far as I can tell he supported decriminalization and allowing individual states to legalize but I don’t see any sources where he supported full legalization.

What are the most mindblowingly creative, inventive, or otherwise otherworldly albums you know of?

One of my favorite things to do while stoned is listen to albums that are really unique, artful, and/or jam packed with soul and energy, as in that head space music just hits completely differently and it just lends to me finding a deep love and appreciation for the art of music. What’re some of your favorites?

GiantRobotTRex,

I am not familiar with Sunn O))) but given your other tastes I want to check them out

GiantRobotTRex,

I’ve only heard good things about Dolly Parton

GiantRobotTRex,

You’re probably thinking of the Pentagram from Virginia.

Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet (www.404media.co)

An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay...

GiantRobotTRex, (edited )

Any commercial entity that knowingly shares or distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website and such material appears on 25% or more of the webpages viewed on such website in any calendar month

(emphasis mine)

They can host as many non-porn videos as they want but it doesn’t matter if people aren’t watching those videos. For every webpage with porn, they’d have to force the user to visit three webpages without porn first.

GiantRobotTRex,

I can’t actually tell if this is an incredible reference to the documentary Finders Keepers or just a fortuitous coincidence.

GiantRobotTRex,

I used to play this game quite a bit on my phone and had a ton of fun with it. One of the roguelikes that I’ve played the most (I haven’t played a ton of them but this one stuck with me more than most).

Yesterday I randomly decided to start another run and it seems to have changed significantly since I’d last played it. I started a new Classic run and started getting some of the randomly generated heroes like the Random runs used to have? I’m not sure I like that.

GiantRobotTRex,

It turns out that I had to beat level 4 to unlock the red and blue heroes. Which didn’t take long at all but seems a little strange to me.

Anyway, I finally did an actual run and it seems like there was a bunch of new content from the last update.

GiantRobotTRex,

Who defined that term? The radio stations. Artists and labels typically do not use that label, it’s primarily the radio stations.

When classic rock stations started to appear in the '80s, they played popular hits from the '60s–'80s. So it included newly released hits. But when grunge came into the scene in the '90s, it had a different audience than the classic rock stations so they stopped including new hits. For about two decades there, it was fairly unambiguous that classic rock meant popular rock from the '60s–'80s.

After enough time though, grunge was no longer alienating to the classic rock stations listeners. The opposite became true and the stations could increase their audience by including hits from the '90s.

This raises the question: Did those '90s songs become classic rock or is the term fixed and anything not considered classic rock now never going to be considered classic rock? Who gets to define it? The radio stations who originally defined it or the public perception that developed during the period of time when classic rock stopped evolving?

Personally, I prefer to think of classic rock as a radio format rather than a genre, because it doesn’t really behave like a normal genre. If I start a band that sounds like metal then my band is metal, but if I start a band that sounds like classic rock it’s still not classic rock? Why? That feels out of the spirit of music genres to me. There are music movements that are tied to a specific time period—my band could never be part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal—but it could be in the same genre as those bands.

In terms of music style, how are AC/DC and Billy Joel considered the same genre? They’re wildly different. The Who and The Doors? Very different.

The reason those bands are considered classic rock is not because they sound similar, it’s because they target similar audiences. As a radio format, it makes way more sense why some bands are considered classic rock and some aren’t.

GiantRobotTRex,

For millions of years, human teenagers were actually unable to decline any invitations from strangers. It wasn’t until the 1980s that Nancy Reagan made the most shocking discovery in the entire history of human psychology. Teenagers could, in fact, just say “no”.

GiantRobotTRex,
  • Easy to carry
  • Easy to conceal
  • When slashed around, creates a very dangerous bubble around the user that can keep multiple enemies at bay
  • Can be several meters long, giving it more reach than most polearms
  • Effective against shields since the end can wrap around the shield to hit the enemy
  • Look badass

It’s not meant to be a mass produced weapon that gets distributed to everyone in the militia. Spears are far and away a better choice for that. It takes years and years of training before a fighter should even consider learning how to use one. But in the hands of an elite warrior they can be incredibly deadly.

GiantRobotTRex,

I’ve had Tabasco flavored ice cream before. I was not a fan.

GiantRobotTRex,

That article also says:

The new sandwiches became available Tuesday, though customers can still make substitutions or create their own sandwiches.

If you walked into a store and ordered the classic black forest ham, by default it basically comes plain and you’re expected to pick out your own preferred toppings. But if you go in and order the new grand slam ham instead, it by default comes with a reasonable set of default toppings. You’re still allowed to customize but now a lot of people won’t need to.

And all this is moot for online ordering since the website does include default toppings for the classic sandwiches.

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