Okay, y’know how vanilla is very mid? Go buy a pint of vanilla yogurt, a bowl and a spoon and have it for breakfast or brunch. Or as a late night snack. My wife had a pregnancy craving for vanilla yogurt one evening and we’ve just kept a pint in the fridge ever since

I enjoyed Andor but I think that has more to do with it seemed to focus far more on telling a good story than relying heavily on all of the tropes that make Star Wars content Star Wars

My suspicion with Forrest Gump is more that it appeals to the people who saw live the news clips it parodies and lived through some of the times and experiences it depicts, since it depicts past events in a nostalgic tone, without ever trying to change how one might feel about any specific political policy that influenced the events, and it never tries to change anyone’s mind about anything. It’s just a story that never really challenges you

You can also see this when watching films from the 50s and 60s as they were really designed to cover a variety of genres at once. Has a little romance sub-plot for mom, action sequences for little Tommy and some cool cars/gadgets for dad. Y’know because everything had to be stereotyped to hell and back. But it is jarring seeing how much of variety films old movies really were

I’m currently reading the LOTR books because I’ve never actually consumed any LOTR content and holy crap it’s very long-winded. Entire conversations that could be just a couple of sentences go on for pages. I appreciate the incredible scope, the sense of scale and the creativity that goes into it but reading these books I can only think how perfect they are for adaptation into film or any other format really. Or if authors “covering” another’s works like musicians do ever becomes a thing LOTR would be a fantastic candidate, because Tolkien’s writing style is such a slog to read through

It feels like it should’ve been 2 films. The last quarter or so of the film just felt a bit rushed and overly-convenient. I absolutely loved the world building and general lore to the movie though

My wife addores early Adam Sandler films, and I’ve really never seen any of them. She had me sit down and watch one Adam Sandler film one evening and while I could not stand his character in Billy Madison and turned it off within a few minutes, Happy Gilmore was quite enjoyable and a fun subversion of golf tropes.

I enjoyed Don’t Look Up for the comedic pacing mostly. Where every time you seem to get a feel for the mood and direction it has something subversive to throw you off. Definitely could’ve been less on the nose with the allegory but some people just need some things shouted into their face for a chance at getting it

I enjoyed Interstellar, but I also went into it expecting so-so sci-fi and instead got an interesting story with really cool world building. I guess my expectations for anything space in media are low enough to not be disappointed by most films

Makes me wonder about a guy I knew about a decade ago who would dab like its a nervous tick. Learned from a friend who went on a date with him that he did so even more often after a few drinks

The cursed Will Smith eating spaghetti wasn’t the best video AI model available at the time, just what was available for consumers to run on their own hardware at the time. So while the rate of improvement in AI image/video generation is incredible, it’s not quite as incredible as that viral video would suggest

I can read! Honest!

Appears to be tree meat cooked well-done

I can only imagine the horrendous noises from that thing’s tires

I shall post what I posted the last time this meme came up here…

Realistically the design goals of a gaming OS vs a general desktop OS aren’t that different. You want to balance performance, batterlife/power consumption, and making sure it withstands insane abuse by users and software doing anything you could never imagine that nobody should have ever tried to do. About the only design goal that separates SteamOS from Windows is fleet manageability features

I think you underestimate how hostile the infrastructure can be to anything other than individually owned cars for much of the country. Some folks are lucky enough to have the option of standing next to a sign that’s desperately trying to blow away in the wind on a small patch of pavement next to a drainage ditch for the 50MPH speedlimit 100+ foot (30 meters or more) wide road to wait for a bus which comes once an hour give or take 30 minutes

Imagine taking anything other than a car here. And for context, here’s a better view of what the surrounding area looks like. Notice the school on the east side of the railroad tracks and how anyone on the west side must use that road (which at least has a sidewalk) to cross the tracks if they’re trying to get to the school. And anyone who lives on the east side must cross the same bridge if they want to get to the grocery store

Is Rockford a fair example to pick from? Maybe. Its the 5th largest city in Illinois, with 300k people living in the metro area, but also every person I know who grew up there moved away as soon as they could and generally agrees the place is a shithole, but also I live about 2 hours drive away from Rockford so its a pretty biased pool of people to poll

so you live next to a highway ramp and your work is also next to a highway ramp?

This is actually an extremely common design. Businesses will consider where most of their employees live, and try to consider the commute when moving, so placing themselves just off a highway or major road theoretically makes it easy for their employees to get there. Nevermind the fact that said major road/highway chokes up from every employee commuting to their convenient exit to get to/from work 5 days a week

I’m guessing the trains are in kind of a hub/spoke design and they live and work on different spokes which the transit system isn’t designed to accommodate

It’s really wild how research is continuing to find strong implications that we are not individual microorganisms but multiorganisms that act as one