MindTraveller

joined 6 months ago
[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. Look at the time Justin Roiland was accused of false imprisonment, and they replaced Rick and Morty. It went great, the new Rick and Morty sound perfect. Now look at how Marvel dragged their feet on replacing Jonathan Majors and eventually decided to just ignore all their Kang foreshadowing and replace him with Dr Doom. It sucks, they should have just recast him.

Recasting allows newer and less well known actors to break into an entertainment industry dominated by sequels, adaptations, and franchises. They reduce the capital held by big time actors who are already far too rich. Recasting is good.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Try having a hot chocolate instead. Jot can amplify the taste of milk.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's an individual tracking code that tells Google who generated the youtube link you click on. That way, they can see who you're talking with on other websites.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You left your SI in the link

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

Because technology 🅱️roke

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 months ago

You're really good at writing compelling fiction.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If it's cheaper to live in the middle of nowhere, with water and electricity and internet needing to be piped all that way out there, and the gas bills, and the road wear, then the government has failed. High and medium density housing costs the government less in maintenance, stimulates the economy, and is cheaper to build. Any functioning economy would price those homes cheaper. If you're saving 300,000 by costing the government all that extra money and polluting the environment, someone fucked up on a colossal scale.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Okay I'm sorry that was mean

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

Yeah but I don't have to carry an actual ton of weight on my bike.

Except when I'm taking yo mama home after date night

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

People shouldn't live that far away from their workplaces. They didn't used to, before we invented shitboxes.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Why would any man go through chemical castration to punch a woman in the face when he can just become a conservative politician?

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Liberal (lemmy.ca)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by MindTraveller@lemmy.ca to c/leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

(Seizing the state and then slowly reforming it is still slowly reforming it)

 

Alright, just started watching Steven Universe. I'm 4 episodes in. That poor boy. All he wants is to be part of a family, and all three of the crystal gems are horrible mentors. Pearl likes to think of herself as responsible, but she cannot relate to Steven and is utterly failing to provide a system of structure that he can understand. Amethyst gets along with him, but she acts like she's the same age as him and can't provide him any of the guidance a kid needs. And Garnet is barely even trying. Greg is the best mentor figure Steven has in his life, and he's homeless with no future. At least he's actually taught Steven to have a positive outlook, but he's still not parent material.

That poor boy is getting wrapped up in big ideas of how he's going to save the day and have the perfect family, because the reality of his life is unbearable. I saw this show on the TV a few times when I was a kid and it bummed me out, but now that I'm a grownup I can see how traumatised that boy is and how badly he needs a responsible parental figure who can relate to him. All of the adults in his life suck! Watching this show is miserable, because I'm watching a kid who desperately needs a family be failed by the family he has.

I like traditionally grimdark settings like Warhammer 40k, but watching Steven Universe gives me the same feeling I imagine non-grimdark-fans must feel seeing a setting like 40k. Overbearing, unrelenting misery. It all sucks and it isn't getting better. On occasion 40k describes the life of civilians in that setting, how oppressed and abused they are by the fascist governments they live under. The fun of seeing evil soldiers who chose a life of violence killing each other fades away. Suddenly, we're seeing the perspective of the innocent. Their suffering. It's depressing and heartbreaking in the same way SU is.

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