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There is a fair bit of quality that can go into making a GOOD purely fun thing, and even when it's pure schlock there's no shame in that. Some times you want a steak, sometimes you want a burger. Both can be good or bad in their own ways, and neither is better than the other.

That's a whole other set of problems, I know I've read articles about that too but a 15 second google didn't find it.

If I remember right, the main issue isn't the building shape like with skyscrapers, it has to do with power and plumbing. They're only set up for a certain amount of usage of both, and residential is massively higher so you'd basically need to ripe it all out and do it from scratch. And considering malls are predomenantly just in the middle of empty land anyway, at that point you might as well just get the next bit over of empty land and do it from the get go with the appropriate infrastructure.

Not saying I feel one way or the other, but complaining someone doesn't dislike one group enough because they dislike another group more is sort of a weird argument. "I bet you'd feel differently if we were talking about something else entirely, you hypocrit." doesn't really hold up.

There's nothing formal and you'd need to check anything you really care directly, I don't really check reddit any more but when I did a quick pass I saw several had the new destinations in the sidebar.

I swear I saw another one recently and grabbed some instances here on lemmy I didn't already have but I can't seem to find that one again, though this unofficial list seems pretty good. I know it's missing at least so I'd seen on the other list, but it seems pretty comprehensive.

I think this is the standard recommendation, but you actually need to make sure it's designed and installed right. You need a proper air exchange, and to make sure it's sized properly to the intake you need and so on. A lot of the hoods you see are so poorly installed that you might as well wave your hands at the stove for all the good it does.

The fact this is still a thing in some places is such a weird archaic throwback. After this it'll just be New Jersey left, so at least it's slowly getting more normal.

I swear, Sony wants to make me rue the day I said there's no idea so bad you can't make a good movie with it if you honestly try and put creative quality into it. I feel like they're taking entirely the wrong idea away from the fact Spider-man has a great rogues gallery.

The OP link seems to be down, but here's a link to the red band trailer

Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz kind of play with that by inverting their approaches. SotD is a very mellow comedic take on a normally action packed American zombie movie, while HF is a over the top action take on a very British retire to the country/murder mystery genre.

I think the point was more that Brave was the first move the original brain trust hadn't been involved in developing the concept for. There's still continuity, so it still had that Pixar "feel" (though even that is kind of fading as we get more removed from that group) but the lightning in a bottle spark of their early stuff wasn't there any more.

It's nice to see some follow up just to confirm how bad it was and that just like everyone thought nothing did or was ever going to change. All big international events like the World Cup and the Olympics are cripplingly expensive boondoggles if you don't already have the right infrastructure in place (and even then it makes 0 sense as anything other than a "prestige" thing), and Qatar is just an especially agreggiosu example of that.

If you're enjoying this, I might recommend The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. Guns, Germs, and Steel was one of the first books in that genre of "where do we come from" style books I (and a ton of people) read and loved, but it gets a fair bit of flack for skipping over stuff to support their theory.

Dawn of Everything is sort of the next step from that, it doesn't explicitly refute GGS outside of a time or two they were directly wrong so much as just be much more comprehensive and point out how insanely varied our history is and that there isn't really a one size fits all story. It's weirdly conversational, I've described it as sitting in on a lecture from a really ecentric professor, and I think it's a great fit for anyone who loved how GGS opened their eyes to common threads in our history and what that might say about the world now.