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The Fall Guy to Megalopolis: is 2024 the year of the box-office megaflop?
  • My girlfriend and I saw Fall Guys and it's a great movie!

    We originally stumbled upon the Parmount Plus series "Action" about the modern history of Hollywood stunts and loved it. It follows the company that made the John Wick movies, same people made Fall Guy.

    The show actually had behind the scenes for Fall Guy stunts pre-release and it was wicked cool. I think part of the flop is from bad marketing. I'd wager nobody knows that show exists and their trailers DO NOT make it clear that all the stunts are practical.

    The whole movie is meant to be an homage to classic stunts and they actually broke the record for a car roll. I think if they'd found a clever way to showcase all that intention with the marketing a lot more people would have seen it.

  • Beef is dumb
  • It's 100% cool to not care about "rap beef".

    The reason this stuff is in the news is because Kendrick is a very influential artist calling out patterns of child abuse and sexual assault in the industry.

    Yes, it all came to light through "diss tracks", but a lot of the accused behavior has been publicly visible for years and simply ignored.

    It's getting media attention because the world has seen people abuse their fame so many times and we still let it happen. Now a modern artist is emphasizing that the most famous "rapper" is an offender and that the industry has these problems everywhere.

  • You have 24 hours to do anything with absolutely no consequences. What do you do?
  • I would NEVER condone violence. But hypothetically, as a united States citizen, the most significant thing a person could do is eliminate two Supreme Court Justices.

    It's the only part of our government with ZERO balance of power, and it is currently using its power to change settled interpretations of the law.

  • People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them
  • OK but why is my state mandated minimum insurance nearly $90 a month for a Toyota Prius that I only drive like 30 miles per week?

    My liability only plan was $55 in 2018.

    I'm over 30 years old with no tickets or accidents on my record.

    Maybe the whole data farming thing is being used as an excuse also, but this is bullshit all up and down.

  • How likely do you think it is that there might have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?
  • 100% Has happened many times. Often those things are later re-discovered. But who knows?

    How many reporters around the world have had a car spontaneously explode, or suffered sudden-onset jumpeez near a window?

    How many scientists and researchers have had significant breakthroughs or discoveries about hazards of waste or energy efficiency, only for their work to suddenly be labeled falsified and personal reputations dragged through the mud?

  • Tears Of The Kingdom Was Pirated 1 Million Times, Nintendo Claims In Lawsuit
  • I love it when companies think the (often invented) number of pirated copies has any meaningful correlation to lost revenue.

    My girlfriend and I have one Nintendo Switch. We share it. But the only modern Nintendo games I play are the Legend of Zelda series. Since Breath of the Wild, when a new one came out, we'd buy it right away, and then I'd end up placing a copy on my PC to play so we could play together.

    If Nintendo thinks I'm gonna buy a game twice just to play at the same time as my partner, when we only have the one console, think again. If Nintendo thinks someone who only likes one game is gonna buy a whole second console, they're out of their minds.

    What I do own is a Steam Deck, because Steam is a platform first and I can play my games on my fancy PC at home and on multiple devices. My Steam Deck can even play non-steam games great too!

    The second Nintendo makes a PC store that let's me play their games on my other hardware, I'll start buying that second copy of all our games solely for the convenience of it. Until then they can suck an egg.

  • Why Do or Do You Not Capitalize Your Post Title?
  • Depends on length. Fun fact: in most Spanish-speaking countries, only the first letter of the first word is capitalized for things like movie titles and posters. Learning that really made me think twice about how trigger-happy I get with capitalization.

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    Do you think Depression is a disease or a symptom?
  • Robin Williams had a degenerative neurological disorder and didn't want to live through the decline. Common misconception as media speculation was "funny man sad" long before the family shared any details.

  • What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger?
  • I'd have to agree that anger isn't usually it's own emotion, it's a specific expression of fear or sadness. There are always exceptions I think, but usually there's more to it.

    My favorite thing is to express those things through humor. It's not for everybody. If you're not funny enough you can just sound like an idiot or an asshole, as I can. Other times it enables you to attack the root of the problem in a digestible way that doesn't make a person feel attacked.

  • GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright
  • I keep thinking how great it would be if the federal government made a central server system to access digital content for free via taxes.

    All public domain and publicly funded research and content, all in one place. Could also host owned content for people/entities and pay out royalties automatically based on consumption.

    There are ways to make this fairly affordable to everyone via taxes, but maybe the big opportunity is it could also allow companies to train AI on all the data for a fat, but fair subscription. The value of that could easily pay for enough to shrink any tax costs for the public.

  • A huge amount of America is Baptist Christian and believes Israel needs to be at war for Jesus to come back etc. How impactful is this to real life?
  • In my experience, most Christian Baptists don't know know much of anything about Israel, and these days I'd expect the bulk of that community to be blindly making the same mix of misinformed facebook posts as everyone else.

    I don't think any sincere Baptist community would cheer on any kind of death, Westboro style groups excluded.

  • Do we break up over a lack of trust?
  • To be clear, people absolutely can and do get past real cheating in relationships.

    There are a number of reasons a person might cheat, and most of them have nothing to do with the person being cheated on, or the person being cheated with.

    To work forward from something like this, the offender has to to communicate several things very clearly and honestly. Why did you do it? Why did you think it was OK? At what point did you decide it wasnt OK and why? How do you feel about it now and why did it not get discussed sooner?

    Ultimately, you've described a scenario where your partner is not able to give you the trust needed for a healthy relationship. It sounds like there's probably not a lot left to be said about the situation between you and if that's the case then the healthy and respectful thing would be to end the relationship.

    If you can't trust each other its game over. You can keep manually pumping that heart all you want, but eventually you'll tire out and have to call Time Of Death.

  • What the hell does Ted Lasso have to do with fascism
  • If you've actually watched the series, which had a definitive ending written before production, then you know the major theme of the show is mental health.

    You'd also know that the main character's endlessly chipper attitude is revealed to be a coping mechanism passed on by his mom after his dad committed suicide.

    Some people out here be reading into shit they haven't seen like they're my 8th grade English teacher pretending they understand the alcoholic mind of a famous author that's been dead for 50 years.

  • What are your opinions about 'handicap' features in games
  • I think accessibility options in games are fantastic and as long as they're optional you can do no wrong.

    I think the best thing, that's still not as common yet, is the ability to custom map game controls within its settings. Steam's own software can do this pretty well, but there should be support for that in every game up front.

    Not only does it make it easier for people missing limbs or dexterity to play games, but it makes it easier for any person to tweak the controls for their play style.

    I really hope we see more support for features like this because they can be so useful to everybody.

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