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[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

Hmm, going to need to review the bidding documents, but I'm sure we can find an opportunity to make him regret being so specific.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Walters in June ordered public schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades five through 12. The bidding documents also specify that the Bibles include both the Old Testament and New Testament, the Pledge of Allegiance and the Bill of Rights.

Seems like it's time to publish an annotated Bible that meets the criteria and costs much less than Trump's bible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

I feel like that's who he was playing as Aquaman. I never got a King of Atlantis vibe, even a reluctant one, from his portrayal. But a renegade badass who does whatever the fuck he wants and represents an almost parody of gritty anti-heroes? Maybe it's not a perfect Lobo, but it sure isn't Aquaman.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago

"Indigenous" seems to be acceptable most people. When you know them personally, use their nation or tribal affiliation. Like if your friend was Korean, and you only referred to them as "Asian," it might feel like you don't care about the difference.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Best scene in the show:

Virgil: But you're an Indian, Jackie Lynn.
Jacqueline: God, Dad, saying "Indian" is offensive now.
Virgil: Then what do you call sitting on the floor with your legs crossed?
Jacqueline: Crisscross applesauce.
Virgil: Oh, that's insane.
Fern: We invented sitting like that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but also Pym is dumbing down his explanations for Scott, because he thinks Scott is a moron. The exact functioning of Pym particles isn't at all clear.

It would be like if Superman could tear his S emblem off his chest and throw it at bad guys like a giant cellophane net. Or if Superman could fly fast enough to spin the Earth backwards and reverse time.

Or like if Hulk could be stopped by some crazy loud directional speakers.

Super powers and weaknesses are, and always have been, entirely plot dependent. Vision can phase because he can phase. The explanation that Vision can control his own density makes zero sense. That could make him float, but it wouldn't make him fly sideways, and it certainly wouldn't allow him to pass through solid matter. Air is not very dense, but it doesn't pass through solid stone. The physics of Starlord and Gamora in space make no sense. Groot makes no sense. Yondu's arrow makes no sense.

Ant-Man can shrink and punch a dude because he can shrink and punch a dude. The only problem is they tried to explain it like it's science.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (8 children)

The physics never make sense. Iron Man should be a pink smoothie in a can. Hulk generates mass from nothing and sheds it back to nothing when he changes. Spiderman should be pulling drywall off the studs. Vibranium makes zero sense, either as a shield or as a suit or really any other time. 90% of the fighting Hawkeye and Black Widow do is absurd and would leave their bones shattered.

Thor is all magic, so that gets a pass, but you can't throw a hammer and the get dragged behind it, and then change directions midair. Thor is flying because magic, let's just leave it at that.

And it's not just the MCU. Superman can't catch a plane by the nose. Batman can't launch a grapple hook while he's falling and prevent his death.

Aragorn can't toss Gimli that far. Luke's X-Wing doesn't bank through air in space. The USS Enterprise wouldn't always be oriented to be upright with everything. James Bond can't just recover from all those concussions and venereal diseases without brain damage. Indy can't ride out a nuclear explosion in a fridge.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I didn't mind the Marvels. I thought it had problems, and parts were cringy if you're not into it. But the biggest flaw was the writing. It's like they had these ideas for set pieces, and then tried to bring it all together as an afterthought. It wasn't as bad as certain people wanted it to be.

Quantumania was unfinished. It was like they ran out of money and time and just submitted the minimally viable movie. Paul Rudd is always charming, and the actress playing Cassie/Stature is going to be a net plus to the Young Avengers. I think Michelle Pfeiffer was poorly utilized, and of course Kang became a PR problem. But the writing had some high points. The story was engaging, the stakes were real, and the characters all had arcs. The CG was shit, and the Giant Goof schtick is overplayed. Letting go of the physics is a prerequisite for any Superhero movie.

They did poorly because Disney was rushing. They wanted to generate energy and enthusiasm by deliberately releasing each new movie before the last one was available on streaming. But instead of creating fomo, they fostered indifference because the product wasn't good enough. Nothing post-endgame felt like must-watch content. The tie-ins were half-assed, because the studio clearly did not have faith that they would ever get to wrap up each dangling plot thread.

The Marvels was better than Eternals. Quantumania was better than Wakanda Forever. None of them are great movies, but none are as bad as anti-woke or anti-superhero critics suggest.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Like drink the beer, and then flip the horse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That was the first thing he did. You might have trust issues.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Except then I don't share anything with my friends and slowly lose them anyway because I'm boring.

 

“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

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That man shook my hand, looked me straight in the eye, and said with a smile, "It's really nice to meet you." I am, in fact, incredibly unpleasant. WHAT ELSE IS HE LYING ABOUT?!

 

I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.

 

Basically title. I'm curious how others are watch the game. I cut cable a long time ago, and have Hulu live for this season, but it's just awful. Their app sucks, the unskippable ads are all over the place, and tonight it started recording at 4:30.

So what is everyone else using?

 

Has this ever happened to you? There's a fly in the house, buzzing around you, so you go to the cabinet to get the swatter. But as soon as you start wielding it, the little bastard disappears. You set it down, and now he's back, taunting you.

Ok so obviously flies don't taunt, but do they have the capacity to recognize, even instinctually, that I'm holding a deadly weapon?

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