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I haven’t played DF in more years than I care to admit. Can anyone explain what adventure mode is?

Their definition of poor is likely not ours. We might see someone rich beyond words while they see themselves as ruined. A great example of this is the ending of Succession.

But no. They will never reach our definition of poor.

Hell seems to be where all the interesting people go to, so there.

I am a chronic insomniac. At my worst I can average less than 90 minutes of sleep in a 24 hour period, which is actually very dangerous. Before bed I eat some bland protein (plain super firm tofu and a handful of almonds), never carbs, and I microdose either Indica or if that is not available, Indica based Delta 8. Microdose is the key word here. I take two deep puffs and that’s it. Enough for a little head buzz but not enough to get high. Bundle up, close my eyes, and most of the time fall asleep for a solid 4-6 hours.

It’s Hasbro. This is part of their Blueprint 2.0 strategy to monetize everything.

https://corp.hasbro.com/annual-report-2022

The greatest spectator sport is curling 🥌. I’m not even joking.

I think you are missing the context of the film I used as an example. All the friction and the “comedy” in the film comes from the racism. From the start, it is the point. The taxi driver picks them up from the airport and asks the main character if he is from India. When he replies yes and asks if the driver if he’s ever been there, his reply is no but he stopped in Turkey once. The when they arrive the soon to be mother-in-law assumes that the Indian boyfriend is the Taxi driver and the driver is the boyfriend. We are five minutes into the film at this point and it goes downhill from there.

That is just one easy to digest example using media. Our real life daily interactions with the staff from our European clients is a never ending source for more.

You misunderstand. I don’t mean that it was a remake, just that it was the same concept. I think the term is “trope”.

The fact that the Norwegian film is based on a true story just makes it all so much worse.

European racism is out of control to the point of cringe. The new world cannot hold a candle to you.

Here is a quick example. Netflix released a Norwegian movie called “Christmas as Usual” (translated). It essentially takes the concept of the American 1967 film “Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner”, moves it to Norway and gives it a holiday twist. According to Netflix, this 2023 film was in the Top 10 in thirty countries. How? How is a movie concept from America’s peak civil rights battles era working for you in 2023?

My wife is European and my largest clients are European with European staff and the abundance of casual racism is hard for myself and my staff to handle. Don’t get me started on my family in-law.

EDIT: Europeans were definitely not ready to hear this one. LOL

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For me: The JJ Abrams Star Trek movies, by far the best ST stuff ever made, I couldn’t take seriously the original universe with the dated effects and stiff acting, same goes for NG… These movies did ST actually great looking and much more believable, not just the effects.

Just kidding… but not really.

I think less than five people know my real phone number. I have been using the same “Google Voice” number to forward to my phone since the service was called Grand Central (pre-Google buy out). It filters out calls and texts from disposable VOIP numbers by default. They go straight to SPAM. You can port your main number to Google Voice and forward it back to your current phone. You can also text and call from your new phone through Google Voice so the people on the other line still see your original number and only you know it has been ported.

I run Windows. Yeah, mm hmm,. Big Windows user over here and I have no idea what to do with this Linux thing or how to install it. When can you come over and install it for me? I’ll get the wine. I hear wine and Linux leads to a lot of fun game play. Malbec ok?

For The King II

See the turtle of enormous girth,
On his shell he holds the earth.
His thought is slow but always kind
He holds us all within his mind.
On his back all vows are made
He sees the truth but may not said.
He loves the land and loves the sea,
And even loves a child like me.

Oh, it is definitely not exclusive to tech or men.

I live in a place that is full of billionaires and multimillionaires. It isn’t rare to find someone happily running a coffee shop or bakery or micro-brewery, artisan art gallery, etc because it was always their dream. A dream they could only pursue after they felt rich enough to know that they could do so without risking their well being. In its own way, it is very very sad. You have to buy the privilege to follow your dreams.

I saw that comment and find it suspect. If they didn’t like the book, it seems masochistic to watch the movie. If they didn’t like the movie, why read the book? It has always been popular to hate on the book because it is definitely a Gen-X nostalgia circle jerk, regardless of what else it brings to the table.

My point was that if you hated the movie, you likely would have hated it triple if you liked the book.

For me, Inglorious plays like a short film anthology and its praise comes from how good some of those shorts are. The opening (farm) scene and the bar scene are masterful examples of suspense. I never praise the film as a whole, but I will always praise those two scenes.