EponymousBosh

joined 2 months ago
[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

OK, here's the thing. Overall, Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy is extremely good. I think it's the best Tolkien adaptation we're likely to ever get.

HOWEVER.

The random "Arwen is dying!" subplot was incredibly fucking stupid and while it didn't ruin the movies for me, it did dampen my enjoyment of them. There had to be a better way to get more screentime for Liv Tyler, surely.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly? Gotta disagree. It's been a long time since I've read the book but I remember being disappointed by it after seeing the movie. Maybe I'll give it a reread and see if my opinion's changed. ETA: fuck all the movie sequels though, no one needed that shit.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I love the Dark Tower series and hadn't seen the movie yet. They dropped Susannah out ENTIRELY? Seriously???

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Well, at least next year you'll meet a dental hygenist with a spatula tattooed on her arm

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Director's cut of Goncharov

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Being able to make notes about users like you can on Mastodon.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Check Caitlin Doughty's "Ask A Mortician" videos, in addition to some of the other suggestions.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wow, the 200m freestyle, the 500m freestyle, and the 1650m freestyle, huh? Did she ever compete in anything else, or were those numbers perhaps cherry-picked to make the situation look more dramatic than it actually is? Because if you look at her results holistically, she's a very good swimmer, but she's clearly not dominating 100% of the time the way she's been portrayed.

At the NCAA competition where Thomas won one (1) race that conservatives cried and shit their pants over, a cis woman named Kate Douglass set 18 new records. Lia Thomas set zero new records. And crunching the rest of the numbers bears this out: she was a good swimmer before and after transition, but she's not some unbeatable powerhouse that cis women have no chance at winning against.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Eight, but this account is only a couple weeks old.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Game no one's mentioned yet: Look Outside

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

I didn't but I knew a guy who did.

[–] EponymousBosh@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Also: you might like Caitlin Doughty/Ask A Mortician's videos and/or books. A lot of discussion about different cultures' approaches to death and how people's attitudes have evolved over time.

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