You might even say... "Let one hundred and ninety-six flowers bloom!"
Sergio
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Yeah agreed it's an interesting problem bc it has so many components... unfortunately when we try to get one part of it implemented, people say: it's not going to solve the whole problem so why bother. I'm still learning about it and so are most people. But I think even the most truck-loving person has an older relative who can't drive any more, or maybe they themselves can't drive bc of a DUI or something, so there's always an opening for learning more.
we weren’t so car centric, things would be more compact and I wouldn’t have this nasty commute.
Hi, a different commenter here. I love public transportation (time to sit and read! meet interesting people!) and dislike cars, but realistically we often have other considerations that city design alone wouldn't solve.
- My most recent commute was 65 miles through a rural area -- I had to live in town A to support a family member and my job was in town B.
- Before that I was in an urban area, but had to live near the hospital area for my BFF's sake, and my job was out in the suburbs 18 miles away. No bike lanes, and public transportation took 2-3 hours one way. (and this was in a city with relatively good public transportation.)
Now I WFH so that's cool. But the experience made me realize how complex is the problem of transportation and urban design. I mean, I agree with the fact that bikes are awesome and we need better public transportation in the US, though.
There's a great extended excerpt from MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" below that too.
They will have to freeze it to transport it to us. THAT's what all those scientists oughta be doing instead of whatever lab stuff they do, they oughta be freezing chili and delivering it to us! Let's all be Freeze Chili Patriots!
So if I'm right about this....
- !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone - this is the original one, which was frozen and brought back to life after everyone left. people still post here tho dunno why maybe they're lost?
- !196@lemmy.world - this is where the mods went. it has a lot of subscribers but most of those are dead accounts
- !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone - this is where all the posters went. the most active one.
- !19684@lemmy.blahaj.zone - bc "[kittenzrulz123] thought it was funny and ... its more left wing"
- !196@pawb.social - the furry version
- !195@lemmy.world - this is locked and just points to one of the 196es.
Fascinating question. I have a couple (uninformed) guesses:
- maybe "prophet" is a mis-transcription of "profit" and it refers to a "profit squeeze" meaning costs increase but results diminish. this is a way of handling the "game unbalance" problem: the technology is there but the cost is so high it doesn't unbalance things. So "profit-squeeze monster" means you just take that to the extreme.
- instead, maybe the last two words go together to make "squeeze monster". You know like those rubber stress toys that you squeeze and part of the monster is an eye or something that bulges out. I seem to remember those being around in the 90s when this article is about. So "prophet / squeeze-monster" refers to two ways of limiting the game unbalance problem: the technology is either used as a "prophet" to just estimate your enemy or something, or its a "squeeze monster" where... uh... I dunno... you disfigure but don't kill the enemy?
- instead, maybe "squeeze monster" is like you pull a trigger but can't control it.... you're a "squeeze monster"?
If I were editing that article/review, I'd change the word "trope" to something like "technique" or "approach", bc "trope" sounds like it should be widespread. I'd guess it's probably a technique that game designers used and talked about to one another and had this term as a shorthand probably bc of some anecdote or cartoon or funny t-shirt that someone had once.
Jesus is helping one side kill more people.
No my child, Jesus is helping BOTH sides kill more people. Without Jesus, they would just threaten one another and maybe perform semi-ritualistic battles involving maneuvers, challenges shouted in verse, and single combat with blunt instruments. Occasionally someone would die falling off their horse. But thanks to Jesus, the deaths are measured in millions and we all continue dying until one side gives up. Amen.
But there are three figures at the bottom. The other two are Trekkies and Furries maybe?
Context: https://feddit.nl/post/29167255
Anyone who thinks Van Helsing was bad clearly hasn't seen GOTHIC VAMPIRES FROM HELL... just from the title you can tell that they were going for a B movie feel, and managed to hit several levels below that
- fake-looking fangs, fake-looking blood effects
- randomly inserted computer-generated animations
- bad acting, bad writing
- club scenes of people dancing with cheap video distortion effects overlayed
- occasional BDSM scenes interweaved ... to create a mood I guess?
- It all looks like it was filmed in a goth club somewhere with their friends as actors.
Surprisingly, it has a solid soundtrack made up of second-generation gothic industrial / deathrock music. I think Cleopatra Records had something to do with this movie. Anyway, this is a great movie to play in the background if you like dark vampiric stuff happening in the periphery and you're into "dark" music.
I caught it on Tubi (uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox seems to work here):
Frogs (1972) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something...
How to watch the movie:
- someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- youtube (uBlock Origin adblocker works): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltc-DUACMfs
- archive: https://archive.org/details/frogs.-1972.1080p.-blu-ray.-h-264.-aac-rarbg
- they say it's on "pluto" as well which I think is some kind of corporate streaming site? Never tried it before, dunno if adblocking works there
- if you want to pay or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/frogs
Frogs ... falls into the "eco-horror" category, telling the story of a wildlife photographer who meets an upper-class U.S. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species, including snakes, birds, leeches, lizards, and butterflies.
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A reviewer from HorrorNews.net found it odd for a horror film to be titled Frogs when all the killings in the film are done by animals other than frogs and discussed the acting: "Sam Elliott is good as always. He manages to feel like the outsider while also feeling like part of the group. It makes his role work in ways that it might not work in someone else's control. Ray Milland is also fairly good as the patriarch of the Crockett family. He personifies that bullheaded 'you listen to me because I'm always right' attitude in such a believable manner that you think he is that guy. The rest of the cast isn't as great as these two, but their lack of good performance only helps to make their deaths more fun to watch. They overact or underact in the perfect ways to make the movie priceless."[7]
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More fundamentally, (1) the writer/director had no experience directing a big-budget film, and (2) the studio, which had just produced LOTR, wanted another LOTR-sized franchise and kept interfering -- and in order to finance the movie they had sold the overseas rights, so when the movie made most its money overseas they didn't benefit from it.