That could be, but in a quick look I couldn’t see the scene the way I remember it. It is definitely the same style. Thanks for trying to find it though!

No, it wasn’t starship troopers, I love that movie. It was a kinda realistic monster-horror movie, in other words based in current time planet earth. The only unrealistic thing was the size of the spiders as far as I know.

I don’t know the name and it was only one scene I saw passing by, something about giant spiders, and one dude was getting into the car to escape and a spider was inside waiting. It probably was in the second half of the 90s and it was on TV, so probably released in late 80s or early 90s. And I don’t think it’s arachnophobia, at least I haven’t seen any scene that reminds me of my memory.

I’ve had phobia to spiders ever since.

If we consider watching the full movie, it did haunt me for so long and I still remember it with dread, critters. Fucking hate those puppets they used.

Well sure, since you ask… Spotify might be crap, and the CEO is… Well, the usual shit person CEOs tend to be. That doesn’t make physical media any better, digital media is by far much much better in many ways. Specially if you go sailing with your wooden leg and hook hand and parrot on the shoulder. You don’t want to carry all the extra weight of physical media while sailing… And if artists sell directly their music even better, I always support artists selling on their own without intermediaries.

If you are a paying customer, it still doesn’t mean you are not being sold as a product to someone else. This saying is too commonly spread and it’s just a fallacy.

Also, there’s very simple and straightforward examples of how even if you aren’t a paying customer, you are not the product.

What do you like most, being kicked in the balls or being hit in the balls with some object?

I once worked as paid practice at a company that required all employees to wear a business suit and tie or whatever the female version of that is. Every day, to go sit in front of the computer and meet literally always the same people, tie and a suit.

My practice ended, and they were very happy with me and asked me to stay longer. I said Lol no and left to never look back.

From my very basic cis position and trying to learn as much as possible of the right ways to name each, this graphic is actually quite nice, but it confuses me that things like hobbies, roles, jobs, personality traits are treated as part of gender identity… Is it just me and my autistic ass that considers those as completely independent from the gender identity? My gender identity is really clear to me, but I don’t let that define what hobbies I may have or like what movies I should watch or something like that.

Well, both main parties, center right, PP (the one referenced in the news) and center left (the opposite and current government) are a nest of rats taking all they can, nepotism, fraud, thieves… I’d say they both are center slightly leaning to each side just enough to divide the voters.

This kinda makes me think of the episodes of the Simpsons of who shot Mr Burns… Now just waiting for someone to shoot the cheetoh

Now? X)

I was studying abroad in a place where this kinda trust exists, while on my original country is not that kind of place you would leave a tablet or a phone visible (or anything alone at all). I decided to join the university gym during my studies. After the shower I go into the changing room and there were a couple of guys talking in my mother language, but you know, people get naked and it is not the kind of place to be making friends or start random conversations, so I mind my own business and I hear one of them say “hey man I got my laptop with me, where can I put it to keep it safe?” And the other answered “nah don’t worry man, just leave it there no one will touch it or know it is there”.

They proceded to go into the shower, I was left alone, of course no cameras, I could have taken a free laptop and leave. But I just thought how interesting that we are willing to trust others being abroad and in our own place we would never do that. Those guys never knew I understood all they said. But I rather not get the free laptop and feel like I can live in such a country where I can trust others to do the right thing.

You are not wrong on that account, but it was still funny to me that they complained that the fine is unlawful… Like would that really fool anyone?

“The law that has been made to keep our greed in check is unlawful! So unfair!!”

Did they use some LLM for this? How can a law be unlawful?

This would be great if implemented as a base rule. You want to appeal? Hope you are sure of it, the fine will increase on a given percentage for wasting time and resources for everyone else.

That may be what you want but that’s not what stop killing games is about. You can’t ask for the life plan of some software because companies will simply say that they plan to keep it up forever and then later say “we can’t keep it up anymore! Too expensive! We go bankrupt uwu”

You can’t demand either from them that they upkeep a game fo as long as players exist.

The initiative is about making companies guarantee that if (when?) the games EOL arrives, then they release whatever resources are needed for players to continue using what they have paid for.

Yes, called chromium, I’ve had to use chrome sometimes for work (fucking teams) so instead I use chromium.

Enjoying a movie, having fun watching it, is not an indication of its quality. It is acceptable to enjoy bad movies, nothing wrong with that, I’ve watched plenty of movies I consider as bad but still had fun and a nice time watching them.

Defining the quality of a movie by the enjoyment you had is like defining the quality of a painting by how realistic it is. A painting might be good even if it is surreal, unrealistic or abstract, and a realistic painting might be crap, so the quality of the painting is not tied to simply how realistic it is. The same way there are movies that are fun and enjoyable but not “good”, and there are movies that bore most people and are a master piece.

While with a painting defining the quality is simpler (simpler yes, but not simple) as it is the creation of one person normally, for movies it gets incredibly complex as there’s so much to measure and its the work of so many people; the script, the acting, the photography, the score, the directing, the stunts, makeup and dressing, FX, … There’s a lot that can be good and a lot that can be bad in the same movie.

At least that has always been my perspective, I have no issues admitting to not liking something despite how good it was, and loving something that I knew was not good. Some examples that come to mind: I love the matrix movies, love watching them, yes, in plural, that doesn’t mean the second and third are good. It feels like there were too many issues in them to make them good, but I still had a good time watching them. On the other hand, I feel like a movie like 2001 is of unquestionable quality, yet I always feel somewhat bored watching it and would rather do something else.

Nah, it’s greed that will do that. Apathy is just a symptom for people that feel like they can’t do anything against the greediest bastards. And it’s also pushed as a control system to be able to get even more by those.

When being from the lgbtq community means that you are persecuted, punished and your life is threatened, doesn’t it mean it is political? why do you say it is not political? Or is that about fighting for survival? Is fighting for survival political? Does it even matter? You don’t specify it in your comment, are you supporting the other comments that because it is political companies should stay away from it?

When laws and states and governments try to push too far to limit things such as gender identities the lives of many become political as they are threatened by the laws, states, and governments. And yet, the rights and survival of people in peace is not truly political. That’s just the excuse used to try and censor the discussion of such topics.