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They should've renamed the movie to "Speedo Pedo".

Yep, Adobe software still phones home even when it's cracked. But there's supposedly a list of hosts you can block to stop this behaviour: https://a.dove.isdumb.one/list.txt

Summertime hours reduction (from 35 to 32 hours).

lol these are my regular hours (webdev in Germany with a 4-day work week)

Sehr gut.

Similar experience: One guy was seeding all of the old uncensored episodes of The Three Investigators and I'm so grateful for that. It's pretty popular here in Germany, but despite that, no one seems to share it. There are episodes on Spotify, but they are censored and some of the music has been replaced with a modern rendition.

I wasn't lying when I said that I go to the cinema almost every week! :D Tomorrow I'll watch the new Deadpool movie.

These ones I really enjoyed in the last few years:

• The Whale (whole room was crying at the end)
• The Quiet Girl (surprise Irish movie that made my emotions come out)
• Spy x Family - The Movie (great humour)
• Civil War (shocking images, the mood change was brutal)
• The Boy and the Heron (my first Miyazaki experience, what a wild ride)
• Wonka (I'm not into musicals, but this was awesome as fuck)
• Inside Out 2 (great orchestral soundtrack, well-written and relatable)
• No Hard Feelings (worst trailer of all time, but the movie was very wholesome and funny)
• Furiosa (I've watched that in IMAX with Dolby Atmos. FUCKING awesome.)
• Robot Dreams (Cute animation + Twin Towers, nice combo)
• Encanto (Disney + great plot + emotions)
• To Catch a Killer / Catch the Killer (great crime movie!)
• Barbie (they criticize Mattel and it's really empowering for women, I liked it)
• The Batman (dark, gritty, brutal - that's how it's supposed to be)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (I can't even describe how awesome this is)
• Dungeons & Dragons (I never played DnD, but this was well-written, creative and entertaining)
• The Super Mario Bros. movie (great humour and Jack Black does an awesome singing performance)

These movies are solid. Not great, but still very enjoyable:

• The Fall Guy (cool stunts!)
• Challengers (a bit weird, but I liked the message at the end)
• Fly Me to the Moon (solid acting, interesting premise, not every joke works)
• The Bikeriders (a movie about a biker gang. Cool.)
• Dune Part I + II (great SciFi flicks, but veeery long)
• The Teachers Lounge (we produce one good movie per year here in Germany. This is one.)
• The Holdovers (good acting, but the plot was stolen from someone else, sooo...)
• Migration (very well written for a childrens movie)
• Next Goal Wins (funny soccer movie)
• The Creator (omg, those visuals!)
• A Haunting in Venice (good mystery crime movie, but don't expect to be able to solve the riddle by yourself)
• M3GAN (another murder puppy movie, but pretty modern)

And these movies are pretty bad or just disappointing:

• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Family Drama: The Movie)
• Problemista (I wanted to like it, but it's just weird, unfunny and incoherent)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (the disappointing fourth entry of a great trilogy)
• Miller's Girl (this movie is just an excuse to put Jenna Ortega in tight outfits)
• Demon Slayer: Hashira Training movie (half of the movie is just a rerun of the last episodes, fuck you)
• Madame Web (bad writing, bad CGI, bad everything)
• The Beekeeper (Jason Statham kills everyone, but it was just boring)
• Wish (all bad things about past Disney movies combined into a soulless new one)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (way too long, laziest fucking ending I've ever seen)
• The Equalizer 3 (Walking around and nothing happens - The Movie)
• Falling for Figaro (an opera movie with the most cliche romance plot ever, total garbage)
• The Little Mermaid (all underwater scenes are dark as fuck, what is this?)
• 65 (Jurassic Park with no budget and Adam Driver)

...and then there's also "The Zone of Interest". I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, but it's definitely an experience. You could've heard a hairpin drop at the cinema and it was packed with people. No one bought popcorn. I wish every fascist here in Germany would be forced to watch that one and think about their stupid beliefs.

I believe the Despicable Me series peaked with the second one. Everything after that feels like soulless cashgrabs to sell Minions merch.

The only good thing about the fourth movie is the opening music.

I like movies and I like the atmosphere at my local cinema. I'm going there almost every week. Most of the time I bring my own snacks. I think they just ignore me because I'm like...their best customer, lol. :D

I do order a drink every time. But eating popcorn or nachos every week sounds like a nightmare, and that's all they have there.

Some of them did it partly in software, though - and they were less compatible. The European FAT models all worked like that.

Sadly, the fully-backwards compatible models are all ticking timebombs, unless you get the RSX chip replaced with a later model. It's a problem with the underfill on the chip which resulted in the YLOD, which is basically Sony's variant of the red ring of death.

I have an early FAT model and it still runs stable, but I'm afraid to use it because I know it will fail eventually if I do. It does look sexy asf though!

444438969 was a great handle. RIP.