Gonna try to pick up where merc left off, thanks for the work. Never used this much Markdown before, so cross your fingers.
3:10 AM EST 255/266 polls reporting (96%)
| Name | Party | Votes | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Fanjoy | Liberal | 40,381 | 50.2 |
| Pierre Poilievre | Conservative | 37,319 | 46.4 |
Poilievre trails by 3062 votes.
And boom goes the dynamite.
Jeffrey Toobin was pretty good at it.
I'm here from All, unfamiliar with the game. What is the scam, exactly? The existence of this community probably indicates that there is a real Pixel Dungeon and this one is a fake/cloned version?
I remember enjoying it as far as spectacle. It was a great showcase for Blu-Ray as we transitioned away from DVD. Great-looking movie. It's also got a chimp literally throwing shit at somebody, so you know, swings and roundabouts.
If I can be off-topic for a second, this community does seem like it needs a bit of help. The only mod has been inactive on Lemmy for 8 months. Somebody probably needs to request ownership or whatever before the lack of moderation actually has results. (Not it.) There is !doctorwho@startrek.website which is active and moderated, but I know there are those who don't like that instance.
Back on topic, I really liked this one. I've been pretty cool on season 1/14, but 2/15 has been more up my alley so far and this one was the strongest yet. I watched the behind-the-scenes Unleashed episode and it was nice to see how much impact Rose Ayling-Ellis was able to have on the episode. The original concept didn't involve being deaf at all, but once Ayling-Ellis came on in the quasi-monster of the week role, it really changed the direction. Somebody hiding behind you has got an additional layer of sinister for a deaf character and they were able to play with what it means for her when others turn their backs.
I don't think being a sequel to "Midnight" really helped or hindered it much; it functions just fine as a standalone episode. Some apparently felt like the "Midnight" stuff was shoehorned in (which in a sense is accurate, the Unleashed episode talks about how this was not originally a sequel), but it seems harmless. Either you don't care and it doesn't affect your enjoyment of the episode, or you get the reference and can DiCaprio point at it.
Overall solid story, guest cast were great, Chuti Gatwa got some good stuff. Another neat thing from Unleashed was that he actually learned a bunch of BSL from the instructor they had on-set rather than just being guided for the specific dialogue he needed to convey. There's behind the scenes footage of him talking to Rose Ayling-Ellis where he is continuing to sign to her, which was nice to see.
The one weakness for me was that Varada Sethu didn't really get a whole lot to do. I really like her as Belinda but the voice of reason isn't the most dynamic role you can have in a Who story. It was just a shame she didn't get to be more involved.
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There's the obvious suggestions like DuckDuckGo, but if you're used to the (actual) results you get from Google, it's worth checking out Mullvad Leta. This is a search engine that proxies the results of either Brave or Google, so you get their results without them tracking or advertising to you. This is the only way I use Google when doing text searches these days. Sometimes I still have to break it out to do image searches and stuff, as Leta only handles standard text, but it's been handy as a way to divest from Google without giving up the benefits.
Got dinner. Cut finger. No longer cooking.
Something that bothers me about a lot of people's sense of empathy is that they're only able to employ it by directly relating events to themselves. It's like a stereotypical "How would you feel if this happened to your daughter?" thing, where people can only extend empathy as far as a situation that it's possible for them to get into.
I also hear this a lot around disasters, whether they be natural, terrorist attacks, etc. If you're around somebody who has been anywhere near the location of the event, get ready for the "Gosh, that's so awful. I was only there six years ago, it could have been me." Can't you just fucking care about the wellbeing of things that aren't you? Feel bad because a bad thing happened, not by making it about yourself.
I really liked this one, too. I was pretty cool on series 1/14 outside of Gatwa being excellent, but so far series 2/15 has been more enjoyable. The signing was very cool to see; I don't know any BSL so I have no idea how Gatwa did but it looked natural.
The subtitle tech does raise some interesting questions around what has led to it becoming so ubiquitous. I suppose it could also serve as a live translation tool, so it may not be exclusively to support deaf people and instead sort of a low-tech version of the translation matrix. That said, signing being mandated for all medical staff does seem to indicate that accommodations for deafness are strongly favored in Lombardic society.
The final ending scene was a bit cliched though, the episode would have been better to just end with the Tardis dematerialising.
Yeah, how I feel about that part will probably depend on whether it actually gets revisited sometime soon. If it's just for the sake of a sting ending with no concrete intention to do anything with it, then it's just doing the thing because it's a horror story and that's what they do.
EDIT: One thing the ending did leave me wondering was whether the monster simply jumped off Shaya to Mo, or if there are more than one of them. If Shaya's sacrifice meant nothing at all, that's pretty disappointing to me. But if she took it from two escapees to one, that at least gives her death some meaning.
3:20 AM EST 256/266 polls reporting (96%)
Poilievre trails by 3076 votes.