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Arthur (1981). I really like the theme song when it comes up so I thought I'd give it a go, especially considering it won an Oscar. The titular character sucks, which I'm aware is the point but it's just aged so poorly. I have no sympathy for this effective billionaire, I don't care that nobody loves him for his personality, I don't care that he's drowning himself in booze, and frankly, he annoys me. I'm sure he gives up the money and booze for love at the end but that still doesn't redeem him being so fucking annoying. I'm predisposed to dislike him and nothing he does in the first 45 minutes changes that

Personally I find 90% of the spam is AI slop anyway. I just hide every AI community I see and my all feed is like 8% porn. Easy enough to hide with my subscribed/local feeds

It also depends on strict you are about the rule. A divine soul sorcerer/celestial warlock comes with minor healing. I'd also want the team to have familiars and summons to try to eat some damage until you get the really good crowd control effects

I think your average murder hobos would get themselves killed pretty quickly in this game. However if you had a group that was willing to meta-game a little to spread out the caster types you could make it work. You'd likely need to plan each encounter to make sure people knew their role in the fight. Making it to level 5 would probably be the hardest part of the game

Founder's Day. That movie fucking sucks. To quote Community "if you conspire with everyone then there's no conspiracy, you're just helping people." Everyone seems to be betraying everyone for no discernable gain, none of the actors seem to be aware that they're in the same genre as their costars, and it's never clear whose side your on. Finally the mastermind of this scheme has what I call "the Palpatine problem." If you're capable of manipulating every side of a conflict in such a way that they all die and you're left in power... aren't you already effectively in control of everything? And isn't it smarter to rule behind the scenes where you don't have a target on your back AND you aren't responsible for a bunch of serious crimes AND is it really important to you to explain your grand plans to a teenager? What do you gain from setting these events in motion? It's a stupid ass movie, and I watch a lot of movies

Calling electric cars part of a hype cycle feels a little disingenuous to me. Either we get rid of cars, society ends, or all cars go electric. Considering that option 1 causes option 2 unless there's a revolutionary tech breakthrough, I think it's safe to assume electric cars are the future. Also I don't forsee a peak in hype for them, there's generally a lot of resistance to electric cars

Aside from the random dig at electric cars, I largely agree with this article. I don't think the chicken coop machine learning example is quite clear to non-technical people, but I think it's probably appropriate for the lemmy userbase

I have zero experience with pottery or Finland so this is just a guess: possibly a necklace display piece? It has a shape like you'd display a necklace on and the black ovals could be good contrast for jewelry?

This is what 100k in cash looks like:

It's not that tricky to fit all that in an ATM. ATMs are built to be difficult to remove and get open but with the right tools anything that can be closed can also be opened. The trick is to do that without damaging the bills inside, which I imagine the news wouldn't report on

Hey, I was the guy who recommended Kaiju Preservation Society to you a few months ago! I'm glad you liked it. I personally liked Starter Villain over Old Man's War but you do you

I'm currently reading Artifact Space by Miles Cameron. I'm 70% in and I like that every time it has a chance to go grim and edgelord the characters all go "ew, why would we do that? We're civilized." It does feel poorly edited, with a few misspellings, some odd continuity, and it's a little hard to follow between certain paragraphs. Overall it's a good space opera type with a character who learns to let down walls instead of having to put them up

Just finished: We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen. Man, this book sucked. The main character is unlikable, the story is nonsensical, and it quite clearly is just cobbling together ideas from better Sci-fi series. They had to spend a few pages towards the end of the book explaining the plot to the main character which is always a sign you didn't tell a good story. Final takeaway being lost and confused is not the same thing as being scared of the unknown

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Eh, give us another round. I bet we can top it

It's kind of cheating but Invincible. Since the intro is like 5 seconds long

I mean this as politely as possible but you thought a man name Goku, who won martial arts tournaments through deceptive techniques, had a monkey tail, transformed into an ape, used a magic cloud as transportation, and had an extending pole as a weapon was unrelated to Journey to the West?