At 9 years old I excelled in English. My teacher gave me the extension task of finding 10 words to add to a spelling list every week. Part of it was using the word in a sentence.
I misremembered the word ‘substitute’ one week, and my sentence for the word I chose instead became “Contact lenses are used as a prostitute for glasses.”
Somehow I was still allowed to continue the extension tasks after that.
I am interested, but some of the 3D models look a bit wonky and make it look like a cheap knockoff (Foghorn Leghorn is the obvious example in the trailer).
That being said, it took up until that point for me to realise that it was definitely 3D character animation, so the rest of the work is amazing.
Still going to support this almost lost media
This sort of marketing feels tongue in cheek, until you are a member of the ‘tolerated’ group, and the ‘joke’ has been said to you so many times it feels passive aggressive.
I went out with my wife and some friends for drinks last week, and the beer garden had signage that boiled down to “if you’re not drinking alcohol, why are you here?”. One bartender made a big show of getting offended when my wife asked for a soda water, or when I ordered a LLB. We had to wait for our friends to depart before we called the bartender out on his shit. He has no idea why we ordered what we wanted. I could be a recovering alcoholic. My wife could be pregnant. One of us could be the designated driver. We did not feel welcome at that place because of their ‘jokes’.
I could see a person with limited mobility, weight, or health issues in a similar boat here. If I sincerely wanted to exercise, but couldn’t, and then a company or group started making snide comments about how I wasn’t actually welcome in their group because my mobility didn’t fit their idea of exercise, I’d feel like absolute shit.
It’s just as easy to welcome people into your group than it is to disparage them for advertising.
Share it with others who also have to pay exorbitant amounts that end up lining the pockets of the studios.
They don’t care about the experience of the film. If it weren’t making money, it would be on streaming in a week.
So because you think she can’t remember being raped as a child, you’re dismissing the whole thing? What age are you accepting rape-memories from? Because the rape allegedly continued well into her teens. I think she’s allowed to remember that.
I’ve seen people claim this CEO is speaking for the consumer, and I find that depressing and hilarious.
All of these suggestions benefit studios, kneecap theatres, and would likely lead to higher costs for the consumer as theatres struggle to stay afloat.
“Simmons was not a paid actor” according to Simmons, the White House, and Doordash: the three parties who could suffer most if she did turn out to be a paid actor. Snopes is ‘debunking’ theories using press releases from the guilty parties. The language used feels very biased against the allegations.
Are Doordash implying that they shipped this woman from her home state to the White House, asking her to take part in a publicity stunt with the president, and NO-ONE paid her for her time? She was clearly hand picked for her opinions on the NTOT thing.
I get the sentiment that online arguments and identity politics are being pushed by powerful, hateful people as a distraction.
But there are legitimate threats happening in the real world that are putting the rights of trans people at risk. The UK govt is actively working to exclude trans people from society. Hundreds of anti-trans bills have been introduced across US states in the last few years. You can call it a ‘culture war’, but people are legitimately scared for their future. We need to stand up for them.
Does this seem out of character with the actions currently being taken by the US though? Kidnapping world leaders, bombing schools, blockading the strait of Hormuz and threatening to attack anyone who uses it?
Killing negotiators doesn’t feel like a joke or “too far” for these ghouls.
Hmm, I wonder if that kid wearing their tinted ray-bans inside is cheating on their physics final.
Students are already restricted on what pens, bottles, and stationary they can use. I assume jewellery and glasses will become more strictly policed to combat this.
For me, I just don’t see it as the step towards a bright future that it cone was.
So we reinvigorate the world’s interest in space missions, then what? Every iota of evidence from our own planet tells us that businesses are going to own the moon, mars, and beyond. Wayland-Yutani is more likely than The Federation.
I just can’t get excited about another frontier for Musk and Bezos to rub their stanky dicks all over.
This looks like a Netflix-tier rom-com. The male lead is even famous for the Netflix show he starred in. Why do they think that people would pay $25+ to go see it in a theatre, when there are a plethora of alternatives they are already paying for? Not to mention that this one will hit streaming in a few weeks anyway.
People scalp thrift stores to resell on depop or other sites. Some thrift stores have even caught on and now have a ‘gold label’ section that prices higher quality goods at a premium.
I have mixed feelings on this, as more money to the charity that runs to shop is good, but it also means that if you are shopping at a thrift store because of dire financial needs, you are priced out of owning quality products, and are left to sift through the piles of poor-quality fast fashion pieces that are clogging the stores to find something worthwhile. It also means that the scalpers only have to check one rack for the quality items when they walk in.
This restricts my freedoms to kill native wildlife in the way I see fit! Bunnings should be ashamed of caving to the woke ‘what if we didn’t indiscriminately kill wildlife’ mob!
First they came for our guns! Well, they came for someone’s guns (I don’t own a gun), and now they’ve come for my rat poison (which I have never used as I have never seen a wild rat in my life)! What next?
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All of these things are achievable without paying YouTube.
I disagree.
Interacting with the new show, even through piracy, leads to more voices talking about it and making Rowling’s cash-cow culturally relevant. It also normalises the shit takes she pushes through her stories at children.
I don’t like Ben Shapiro, and wouldn’t pay a dime for his streaming service. But pirating Chip Chilla to show to my kids still gives him a say in how me and my family view the world.
Why does Rowling get a pass? Because I happened to read her racist, classist tripe when I was a kid?
While I agree that corporate lobbyists are a negative overall, the oil, meat, tobacco, alcohol, and gambling world (just to name a few) have been destroying our world by lobbying politicians for decades. This is an issue that is not going away.
If a company wants to lobby for lgbt rights, HIV research, and access to IVF, they are my least hated lobbying group at the moment.
It has been a long time since “fans” of a franchise: Marvel, Star Wars, Star Trek, have actually been fans of the media they complain about constantly.
Negative reactions get a bigger share of views online, and there is an industry of people who make money off claiming that the latest popular thing marks the end of one media franchise or another. Couple this with the increasingly open misogyny and homophobia in a lot of critical reactions, and I start to wonder why these media companies even care what the online reaction is anymore.
Clearly the general audience didn’t buy into the “She-Hulk hates men and is just a rip-off of the wholly original male Hulk” shtick. It was a fun show. It had some moments that didn’t work for me, but then the show wasn’t made explicitly for me.
I get it: teens suck, kids these days have it too easy, snowflake PC blah blah blah.
But if a child has felt it important enough to report to their parents that a teacher is calling them names, then that child is not learning in a safe environment. The child has been told directly by their teacher that they are not viewed as intelligent or capable. That is not conducive to positive learning outcomes, or mental health.
I agree that Bozo is a very light term, and if the relationship between the teacher and student were close, it could be seen as a joke between people with a mutual respect, but we don’t know the state of the relationship here. The teacher could be a complete asshole, and this is the fifth time they have singled out the student in this way.
People here are saying “toughen up!” “The real world won’t be so kind!”, but I would argue that that is a failing of adults in the real world. Why are we teaching kids that the world is terrible and the only way to survive is to become just as bad? I’d rather teach students to value each other’s strengths, and to not accept the hatred and sadness of other people.
VCU? Do they even hear themselves?
They started with a parody of superheroes and the MCU, and now they are actually planning to extend the show beyond the end of the main series? It sounds like a joke the show would make about Vought.
In my opinion the series really fell off after the first season. The characters have not developed greatly beyond S1, and the shock value of violence and rape-jokes has gotten old for me. I will eventually watch S5, just to see how they end the series, but I don’t think a ‘VCU’ is the way to go.