jedibob5

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[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

"Subtract 4 wishes"

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like how RealD looks well enough, but the glasses tended to give me a mild headache after a while. I've been able to wear VR headsets without much issue in the handful of times I've been able to try them, so maybe that would work better, but I don't think I've actually worn one for multiple hours at a time, so who knows.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The thing that I think a lot of people forget about the first Avatar is that it was pretty much the first big blockbuster to be available with those RealD 3D glasses. I distinctly remember wanting to go see it so I could check out RealD and find out if it lived up to the hype.

Of course, it had the James Cameron name recognition, so it was probably going to be pretty successful regardless, but I don't know if it would have been quite so record-shattering if it weren’t for the novelty of RealD, combined with the higher ticket price of 3D showings.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago

The longer dems can keep the Epstein issue in the public consciousness, the better. If it slips from the news cycle for too long, the average voter will forget about it, and at that point the whole thing will be moot. It doesn't matter if they actually succeed, the longer they can draw this out, the more damage it will deal.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They didn't seem to fill quite the same role as modern generals, as we usually saw them leading troops into battle directly rather than overseeing large strategic battle groups or delegating orders to subordinates, but even in the films, the Jedi were directly referred to as generals during the Clone Wars.

"General Kenobi!"

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Ohh, that's probably what it actually is

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It looks like "Cream Blindness" to me, not that it makes any more sense...

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Went into the article assuming they meant "Python class" in the sense of "an educational course on Python," and was quite confused by the assertion that some of their readers may want to consider not learning about Python...

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every now and then I see something from the Babylon Bee when they're not being expressly political, and it makes me think they could be maybe a halfway okayish humor site if they weren't so grossly hateful and bigoted most of the time...

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

See the thing about the Epstein thing is that we actually have evidence for it. "Trump staged the shooting" is baseless speculation.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

If Trump doesn't know about it, how do they do the blood on the ear? Not even elite marksmen can reliably hit someone's ear at that distance without risking actually hitting their head. If it were fake blood, Trump would have to be in on it.

And again, the shooter being right-wing almost entirely negated the propaganda advantage the GOP could gain from it, it doesn't make sense for it to have been staged.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Let's leave the conspiracy theories to the far-right lunatics, please. The attempt killed an innocent bystander and the shooter was a right-winger. Even if they were cynical enough to stage the first part on purpose (and honestly, I wouldn't put it past them), the shooter being one of their own completely undermines the entire point of staging something like that to begin with.

Besides, this administration is way too incompetent to keep a secret. With the way Trump has been blundering his way through the Epstein accusations, do you really think he could keep his mouth shut about staging an assassination attempt?

 
 

Don't know if I've ever seen music from mods here before, but I've recently got back into the Anbennar mod for Europa Universalis IV. There is so much content for it at this point, it's kind of insane. The main theme also tends to get burned into my brain very easily...

Utopia's YouTube channel

Airborne Scoria's SoundCloud

 

I've only got a couple of Sbubbies left from my Reddit backups, but I haven't had the time to make any new ones...

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