(Reuters) -Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday after search teams located the wreckage. “President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash … unfortunately, all...
The Hindenburg was just a high-visibility hint that airships were not working out. Lighter-than-air craft, like jetpacks and flying cars, fall under the category of technically feasible inventions that are terrible for a wide variety of reasons we’d desperately like to ignore.
There’s cases where I will play devil’s advocate for such asshats. Some comic-book events feature a black Superman, and that raises questions about whether Kryptonians coincidentally match every ethnic group on Earth, or if they’ve got some skin colors that aren’t an option for humans, or if there’s some imprinting transformation wiggle-room when they show up as babies on rocketships. Remember that Supes works with a dude from Mars - cosmically our next-door neighbors - and his ass is green.
And for the constant murmur of Idris Elba maybe playing James Bond, I have to point out the sliding window of ambiguous canon. From Dr. No until Die Another Day, the previous film was definitely the same guy, probably, and beyond that ehhh don’t worry about it. It was completely unreasonable that Pierce Brosnan during the handover of Hong Kong could be the same man as Sean Connery during the Cuban missile crisis - but there was no hard cutoff. You could suspend disbelief, movie by movie, and never really think about it. Did a character change? Did some details shift? Retcons happen, why worry. Don’t ask what movie Bruce Wayne and his parents were seeing. For forty years, 007 was played by 6’1" commonwealth blokes with light skin and dark hair, and the unspoken through-line is that audiences can be convinced all white actors look alike. Casting anyone else would require acknowledging that the codename can be transferred - or starting a new continuity. (Admittedly less of an issue since the Daniel Craig films pretty solidly cover a new continuity with yet another 6’1" commonwealth bloke with light skin and blond hair.)
But… Doctor fucking Who? They’re shapeshifters. Every single Gallifreyan gets a dozen chances (or a dozen ish, evidently) to completely scrobble their appearance while maintaining a continuous personality. Even their fucking accents can change. Any losers sincerely whining about this are being bigots about an aggressively queer and accepting production. Even the original run started with an educational bent and tried to be progressive for the betterment of its audience.
The people this article mocks might as well kvetch about Star Trek being kind of preachy.
It looks nice enough, overall, but the process ate some details. Didn’t the remaster itself already bodge that on some assets? Like naive upscaling and smoothing mangled the text on a label.
It is a crying shame they couldn’t find the original Lightwave files, because modern computers could knock them out in 8K in like five minutes.
Poster’s note: Though last week was the first official Sunday strip, this to me is the real first Sunday strip. Last week’s was actually a previously published comic that BB just colorized. This one was all brand new and is really starting to show the whit we love from Bloom County....
Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site (apnews.com)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, known for brutal crackdowns against political opposition, dies at 63 (www.nbcnews.com)
Iranian President Raisi feared dead as helicopter wreckage found (www.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) -Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday after search teams located the wreckage. “President Raisi’s helicopter was completely burned in the crash … unfortunately, all...
Anon wants to ride a zeppelin (sh.itjust.works)
Fictional alien time travellers can’t be black, insist morons (newsthump.com)
‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify (www.theguardian.com)
Got 7 or 8 / 14 rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Zelda Movie Is Being Made In Close Collaboration With Miyamoto (www.thegamer.com)
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Authoritarian is just a made-up word (lemmy.world)
Tacos. (lemmy.world)
Dickite (mander.xyz)
Dead Florida dolphin was infected with highly pathogenic bird flu (www.wfla.com)
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)
Not a Number (jemmy.jeena.net)
Good price.
Describe an episode in the worst possible way
I’ll start: a naked guy complaining to his host that there’s less light than advertised.
17 May 1981 (sh.itjust.works)
Poster’s note: Though last week was the first official Sunday strip, this to me is the real first Sunday strip. Last week’s was actually a previously published comic that BB just colorized. This one was all brand new and is really starting to show the whit we love from Bloom County....
"I think Gangle should try to kill Jax. It'd be good for her." [UncannyVilla] (sh.itjust.works)
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