i have now seen star wars episodes one and two, and i watched them the way lucas intended: as a pan & scan crop on a low res TFT display accompanied by the dulcet tones of a quiet yet ruthlessly persistent buzzing noise while severely jet lagged and moderately sleep deprived.
i only fell asleep four times.
i thought attack of the clones was alright. doesn't compare to the original trilogy imo. i was distinctly less appreciative of the phantom menace. i was too tired to watch the third one, so i never found out what happened to that wacky anakin character. i sure hope he doesn't turn to the dark side, or that qui gon guy is gonna look like a complete tool.
my wife told me before watching that episode 1 has a single funny joke involving jar-jar. i think she over counted by one. we both agree on the number of funny jar-jar jokes in episode 2 (that being zero).
not giving them review scores because it's not really fair to do that if i kept falling asleep due to jet lag.
for the longest time, i'd seen people dunking on the "coarse and rough and irritating" line. you'd see it in The Seven Lamest Lines in Movie History on cracked dot com and the like.
but having watched the scene... it makes sense. anakin is an awkward teenager desperately trying to impress the (literal) girl of his dreams. he puts his foot in his mouth constantly.
most people cut off the quote after the sand bit, but there's more: "not like here. everything here is smooth. especially you." he's trying to casually make an analogy about how attractive padme is. he's a lovesick teen! of course he talks like that!
the quote accomplishes what it's setting out to do: it shows that anakin has butterflies for this girl. it's a good line! it's not delivered poorly, it's delivered exactly how it should be!
This week's comic is about how easily conventional wisdom gets turned on its head by bad faith actors, especially in a media environment lacking responsible editors.
Trouble is, if you substitute fluoride for lead, you have the mirror image of this cartoon. The real problem is a population that has been systematically fed both-sideism for so long they can't tell the difference.
sadly the lead was found in pea protein, which has a niche market among vegans. The kinds of people you'd expect to ignore science will definitely be embracing this report. The deadshit meatheads will be Trollface lolling on their podcasts and saying THIS JUST PROVES YOU NEED MEAT. Confirmation bias and all that.
I'm for the cause, but not too proud to admit I'm going off half-cocked on the switch. I don't mind a little jank, but when games hard-crash at random times, well...
oh I miss 3 versions of microsoft teams and system UI implemented in there different levels of framework abstraction latest of which includes javascript
this is totally true, but I believe users are going for Windows games less than they were a couple of years ago. Linux support for gaming has been improving over the years and I hope it continues improving, so the few that move to Windows don't need to do it anymore.
Sadly, the problem is not Linux or their community at all, so their work doesn't really matter... The real problem are the companies who develop those games, support Linux!!
I only play MCOC on my device ๐ so can't comment over Linux or window ๐. But what I learnt after reading about Linux from books.. I found Linux is good for programmers and developers... For normal user(me ๐คฃ) it's still tough to use
I was considering doing this just to play Skate specifically, as its anti-cheat detects and refuses to work under Wine and VMs, but now that Sonic Rumble has been released and uses an anti-cheat system that officially supports Wine, I've decided to keep my computer 100% Linux, as it has been for the last 5 years.
The Plex transition was practically impossible. I followed the main guide and a more deeper guide on transferring registry to XML.
Sadly most of the metadata was lost and playlists (largely Plex's fault) didn't transition.
So I put my Windows build on a travel pc I had that has the N-Series of processors by intel. I don't think it will ever be more than a media server going forward.
But I did nuke my entire steam library and moved that towards linux, mainly to my steam deck.
Today we celebrate the birthday of not one, but two amazing women in science! ๐ค๐Marie Skลodowska-Curie (1867), who discovered #radium & #polonium & pioneered #radioactivity, & Lise Meitner (1878), whose brilliance uncovered the physics behind #nuclearfission. Happy birthday! #OTD #WomenInStem #WomeninScience
Despite the virtue-signalling of the palm oil certification body the RSPO, Mondelezโs so-called โsustainableโ palm oil is linked to 37.000ha of palm oil deforestation since 2016 (โฆ
Threats to conservation from artificial-intelligence-generated wildlife images and videos
"Three distinctive characteristics of contemporary society can exacerbate this issue: the pervasive use of social media, anthropomorphizing of animal behavior, and disconnection from nature."
Which is different from #AI as #ML. In our nature park we try to reconnect children with nature via technics: on excursions in the forest etc. they may use their ID-Apps (which work with AI!) ... and many know more about species than their parents.
#Indiaโs fifty year long Project #Tiger has been a successful conservation project. A new research study finds that protecting tigers and their rainforest home has additional benefits to #carโฆ
Yes, but... the mental age of Americans writ large seems to be < 35 y.o. Sadly. That aside (in a bell curve, 50% ARE "of average intelligence) the average voter today is saturated in propaganda, both blatant and subliminal. Scary time.
This week in Linux, I'm back! Well kind of. I'm still recovering but I wanted to try. I dont know when TWIL will come back on a weekly basis but I wanted to at least start the process ... especially since Linux news has been INSANE since I've been gone!
For a while now Valve have been tweaking Steam store pages, including making them a fair bit wider which is now actually live everywhere for all users.
Good! I'm so tired of the awful web design trend that is skinny narrow maximum width pages. Mastodon is guilty of this trend. I have almost four thousand pixels and so many sites are using maybe a quarter of them tops. It's comical how little screen space modern sites use. Like sure, design a mobile layout that fits on phones, but also make a desktop layout that actually utilizes the majority of the screen.
Mientras el gobernador de Chiapas, Eduardo Ramรญrez Aguilar, presume que es el โsegundo estado mรกs seguro del paรญsโ, las agresiones contra defensores, periodistas y activistas aumentaron 29% en lo que va del aรฑo 2025, revela un informe elaborado por el Observatorio de Personas Defensoras de Derechos Humanos en Chiapas (El Obse).
Morrowind just got even better with the new OpenMW 0.50.0 release, the free and open source game engine reimplementation has some big fancy new features.
Perched on delicate leaves above rushing mountain streams, Centrolene savagei is a rare frog of wonder. The Savageโs Glass Frog, also known as the Savageโs Cochran Frog has translucent โฆ
I'm in the middle of throwing a log on the bonfire crowdfunding campaign. This is one of the most important, creative, and principled projects in open social media. I can't wait to see it flourish! Join me. From: @bonfire indieweb.social/@bonfire/11550โฆ
Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, communityโfirst social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and itโs only the beginning.
It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decisionโmaking. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consentโbased governance, and portability by design.
Bonfire Social 1.0 is live! A federated, communityโfirst social network built on the modular Bonfire toolkit, and itโs only the beginning.
It's time to go beyond microblogging and build apps for community organising, open science, mutual aid, and collective decisionโmaking. Let's take back the internet with open protocols, consentโbased governance, and portability by design.
With the Prime Gaming branding being retired, you now claim your monthly Amazon Prime games via Amazon Luna - here's what you can expect for November 2025.
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in reply to Lynnesbian • • •for the longest time, i'd seen people dunking on the "coarse and rough and irritating" line. you'd see it in The Seven Lamest Lines in Movie History on cracked dot com and the like.
but having watched the scene... it makes sense. anakin is an awkward teenager desperately trying to impress the (literal) girl of his dreams. he puts his foot in his mouth constantly.
most people cut off the quote after the sand bit, but there's more: "not like here. everything here is smooth. especially you." he's trying to casually make an analogy about how attractive padme is. he's a lovesick teen! of course he talks like that!
the quote accomplishes what it's setting out to do: it shows that anakin has butterflies for this girl. it's a good line! it's not delivered poorly, it's delivered exactly how it should be!