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What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?

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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 87 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Modern magic. We tricked crystals into thinking by drugging them and zapping them with electricity. Then we used those crystals to trick matricies into hallucinating by forcing them to guess the answer to math questions and smacking them when they get it wrong and kept doing that until they get it right. Ethics and hype aside, it's pretty fucking wild.

[–] AAA@feddit.org 19 points 3 days ago

At first I thought you would talk about Magic the Gathering. My confusion increased with every sentence.

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[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 60 points 3 days ago (5 children)
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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I was an early adopter of No Man's Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.

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[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 53 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Steven Universe. The online fandom was insane. The actual show was incredible.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I tried so hard but it just didn’t click with me.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 16 points 3 days ago

That's OK. No piece of art or media is gonna be everyone's Thing.

Yeah, the fandom is… Not great. It’s basically just an American anime, but the online fans are rabid.

It honestly reminds me of the fandom for Undertale. If you only ever play the game, you’ll have a wonderful time. But if you ever do some online searches to try to dig into it further or find people to discuss it with, you’ll quickly discover that the online fandom is extremely toxic.

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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Charlie Kirk getting fucking holed

[–] trslim@pawb.social 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If he's so pro life, why is he dead?

[–] remon@ani.social 16 points 2 days ago

If he was anti-vax why did get a shot?

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[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 days ago (10 children)

The ends of a loaf of bread are the best slices

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Especially toasted. So much crunch.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)
[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 23 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Tenet

I don’t care if it has plot holes. It’s still an awesome movie.

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[–] woodsie@ani.social 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Speed Racer (2008)

Uniquely colorful, silly, wholesome, every single one of its frames oozes style and creativity. It's exactly what an animated adaptation should aim to be and will forever stand out against the blue and orange, brown and bloom palettes that plagued that era of media.

It's simply so visually exciting and fun.

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[–] AAA@feddit.org 31 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Alien, zombie, monster, catastrophe, etc movies and shows. Obviously not all of them, but the genre in general.

Many people complain these shows only work because the characters act stupid, and it's true.

BUT: a) what's the alternative? Not having these shows at all? b) People are stupid even without a catastrophe. What makes you think we suddenly all develop a brain when there's an alien invasion, or zombie outbreak? If Covid showed us anything, than that there's a very large part of the population who'd go out of their way to act against everyone's best interest.

[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I worked in science, pre-clinical pharma, for 11 years before switching careers. I can fucking assure you that scientists and people really are THAT stupid about shit. Complacency from routines or experience is real as fuck.

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[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

https://feddit.org/post/18578350

I also like Never Gonna Give You Up, even though that's generally not my style of music at all.

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[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

~~The Force Awakens~~ The Last Jedi was the freshest and most creative star wars movie since Empire and Rian Johnson is a hero for trying to take the franchise in a new direction

[–] MrGabr@ttrpg.network 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

My main gripe with TLJ is that the editing is a total mess. Multiple scenes lose continuity between shots. The most egregious example is the milk scene, which in addition to being gross and unnecessary, was clearly jammed in between two shots meant to be continuous. Rey and Luke start walking down a skinny peninsula, no space cow in sight, then hard cut to space cow and Luke milking it, then hard cut back to the end of the peninsula and Luke setting down his stuff.

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[–] Runaway@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ooh that is one I vehemently disagree with lol. It was a ok movie if it was its own thing, but it wasn't a good star wars movie, it was worse for being in the sequel trilogy as opposed to a stand alone star wars movie, and it was even worse for being the middle of that trilogy. The more context you add the worse it is imo

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[–] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I like scenes, many scenes in the movie; the whole movie? Nah, it's not as horrendous as people make it out to be, but still…

I love the whole scene in the throne room. Nice supversion of expectation, great execution.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

This right here is the way. Yeah they had some singular scenes that were very nice. They also had a Casino heist in the middle of a Chase sequence. It was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's that movie in a nutshell some really cool scenes right next to some of the stupidest shit you've ever seen.

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[–] master_of_unlocking@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you mean The Last Jedi? Force awakens was the first of the new trilogy and was directed by JJ Abrams. If so, agreed.

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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 18 points 3 days ago (5 children)

A little ketamine just as the lsd or shrooms kick in.

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[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I like listening to some of the shittiest songs ever made mixed in with some of the best songs ever made, on shuffle. About 6400 songs now, extremely different genres. Digbar was my 3rd biggest artist last year lol

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[–] python@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Saving money. I take pride in doing my research and getting the best deal instead of just stumbling into the first store I come across and paying for whatever the sales person talks me into. The latter wouldn't even hurt me financially, it's just a thing of principle.

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[–] MU5T4N6@feddit.org 15 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Nickelback. I don't know why they get so much hate, their music is actually decent

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[–] Xed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Vlogging is not vanity. It’s a special way to capture memories to share with others currently. And to view yourself and others in a time capsule, a stasis where you can view the old world

I want to view my vlogs as an elder and appreciate my memories, even more than I thought I did when I filmed them

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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

While there were some truly awful moments in the last season of game of thrones, danaerys' arc was not one of them. Her going nuts was hinted at from the beginning and I wouldn't have had it any other way.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

The problem isn’t the heel turn, the problem was that it happened on like 4 episodes. Rushed and lacked the time to show motive.

Of course a Targaryen would go insane in their lust for power. The game of thrones consumes everyone.

It just sucks that the show runners were like “and then she goes nuts and loses it all ok? The end. We’re gonna fuck off and make Stsr Wars now.” and it was so bad they even lost from Star Wars lol

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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cats. I used to be a dog person until I rescued this little red oxytocin potato.

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[–] Pondis@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Working out. Used to think it was too hard and I didn't have time. Pushed myself, started exercising at home and it's snowballed to protein loading, supplement taking, and lifting to failure. It's good to feel like jelly.

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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Rings of Power

While it is not perfect, a lot of criticism of the show is insane or plain dishonest. It became a playing ground for shit stirring and easy rage bait.

Death Stranding

The worst game I ever loved. Yes, the story and dialogue gets weird towards the end. Yes, Kojima keeps over explaining everything almost pathologically. Yes, I only played the Directors Cut, which I have been told reworked most of the game into a better state. And yes, I got PTSD from getting called after every single mission. But if you keep driving vehicles into terrain that obviously isn’t suited to be driven on, or otherwise try to bend the gameplay to your liking instead of accepting how it is supposed to be played, maybe you should play something else.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I love how some people criticize Kojima for beating you over the head with unsubtle themes, but then the other half of people are like "this game made no sense so I deliver packages and then people talk about ropes a lot and why are there hands everywhere"

Edit: just adding this on, of course Kojima is trying to reach as many people as possible with his art, even those with poor media literacy. But it only just occurred to me how that in itself is so reminiscent of Sam pushing to connect people, even the ones who are remote or obstinate.

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