Did you watch the Assembly Cut of 3? It’s a more consistent and well-rounded experience, although the film still goes downhill considerably from the moment of

I don’t think your opinions are that unusual. The first 4 Alien films are all unique in their own way, and if you watch the Assembly Cut then even 3 is a fairly consistent and satisfying experience. It’s really from Prometheus onwards that the major issues started, although I will say that at least Prometheus was still trying to bring something different in its themes and setting (which were unfortunately poorly developed and hampered by the terrible writing). Covenant was just a complete mess suffering from a clear identity crisis and Romulus was soulless nostalgia-bait, as most reboots are.

Perhaps I should redefine what I mean by “relevant” then, because it’s obviously the case that Australians have far less control over the situation in Gaza than they do over the rights of people suffering under their own democratically elected government. Whilst pushing our politicians to recognise Palestinian statehood or end the shipment of military equipment to Israel is not a complete waste of time and is certainly a good thing to do, the reality is that it will not even go close to solving that problem or ending the pain for Palestinian people. Australia can only offer moderate influence here, it cannot actively change anything by itself. Domestically, we have all the power and can absolutely make meaningful change so what’s the excuse? We don’t stand up for these other things, that’s the point, so to frame this as a hypocritical position misses the point entirely.

Its a shame that i feel that Australians aren’t willing to accept costs like those for what i still believe are broadly held convictions about how we want to live in the world.

Well I guess that depends a bit on the context, because in this case certainly it seems like most Australians are now quite united in their opinion and its really the politicians who have been dragging their feet. But more broadly I agree, it has been somewhat frustrating to see how willing Australians are to educate themselves on the situation in Gaza and advocate on behalf of Palestinians whilst issues that are actually relevant to the Australian context, like the rights of Indigenous people or asylum seekers, remain areas of widespread ignorance and disinterest. I suppose one of the key differences is that pro-Palestinian advocacy really costs Australians nothing, so for most the opportunity to take a selfish position doesn’t exist. It’s free moral high ground with zero trade-offs.

Good points, it is easy forget that a lot of the big IR issues are associated with the US and can have significant knock-on effects as a result. I do find realpolitik quite sickening when applied to human rights issues, though.

There is rarely piano but when there is then it is electric piano which has a very different sound you may not recognize(?)

Yes, that’s probably true. I guess from the genres I am coming from I mentally associate the word “piano” with a specific sound emulating that of a non-electric/traditional piano with some added reverb and sometimes delay.

Someone did something similar for Naruto, and it made Shippuden a lot more bearable. Although it was still so bad that I eventually gave up and skipped to the end lol

This really was a case where “too long” was a perfect description. They did the “you’d expect the name to be this…but it isn’t!” thing like 3 times before they finally revealed it way down the bottom.

I have never heard of this genre (Amapiano) before, what would you say are its distinct features that feed into that formula? The Wikipedia article was not particularly helpful, for example it mentioned piano melodies bur they were very rare in the mixes I listened to. The log drums were the main aspect that seemed consistent throughout most tracks.

I am deeply sorry to whichever moderator i offended so much that they needed to delete my comment. Thanks to your guidance I have now learned to hate Proton like a good lemming and will boycott them for the rest of my life as penance for making you cry.

Most of these “top 10 Hollywood blockbuster” films are dogshit regardless of how long or short they are, so it’s quite an irrelevant point to me. But I guess that’s probably a minority opinion.

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Park Chan-wook…that’s a name you don’t hear much these days, now that everyone is obsessed with Bong Joon Ho.

I consider that quite a minor feature as a Forerunner owner who bought mine specifcally for running and other activity tracking, but Garmin does have a wide range of models so I’m sure there are people who would require the app for other things like you say.

Ironically, lowbrow bullying is not only the favourite style of comedy for right wingers but also the one they are most triggered by. “You have a small penis” absolutely rocks their world view to the core, they can barely get a coherent sentence out in reply through their sobbing tears.

Garmin sends all your health data to the cloud and the app won’t work without an Internet connection.

However, unless something has changed with newer models, you do not need to use the application or connect to Garmin’s servers to use the watch.

This was good for like the first two episodes and then it just became extremely formulaic and never went anywhere interesting again. There’s no real character development outside of the very predictable routes you can see coming a mile away and most of the good action sequences are frontloaded.

Video playlists? You can export those outside of YouTube. I use Grayjay so exported all my subscriptions and playlists a long time ago (hence why I no longer watch through an account).

Battlefield 6’s open beta launches this weekend, so I’ll hopefully be putting some hours into that. I have heard quite good things about it from those who already have time in the game, but I suspect a lot of the current goodwill is just vibes-based because this game is better than the abysmal 2042 and mediocre V, and because it appears to be a bit of a spiritual sequel to 3 and 4. Although I have played the last four Battlefield games, I wouldn’t consider myself a Battlefield fan so I’m hoping I can be a little more critical while playing and get an idea of whether it’s worth my time and money. It was pretty clear to me from playing the 2042 open beta that the game would be absolutely terrible for years after launch, so I saved myself a lot of pain and some money by picking it up much later for a heavy discount.

I agree and I am concerned too, given that the Australian Government has a track record of encroaching on civil liberties under very vague “security” and “safety” justifications. I do think regulation in this area is very important, though, and that perhaps the only realistic way in which occurs is via some encroachment on our individual freedoms as netizens. I find a lot of people who claim to only be opposed to this specific implementation are actually just outright opposed to literally anything that even minutely affects them once you coax their ideology out a bit more, and I’m definitely not in that group. There is an important balancing act to make here between complete individual freedom and combating a widespread societal brain drain and mental health decline in young people, and my feeling is that many of the loudest opponents are only interested in the former, purely for selfish reasons.