I introduced a friend to it and she called it a “palliative care joint” because it should be reserved for people actively dying

You jest but a local dispensary will take a joint, roll it in THC oil, then roll it again in THC crystals for a very intense joint:

I watched 225 movies last year and 2 new releases really stuck out to me

Predator: Killer of Killers - it’s 3 short animated segments about different humans fighting Predators and it looks great. It’s low on dialog so you can just enjoy the action

Eternity - these are some of the most dynamic characters that I’ve seen in a movie. Despite being dead they all go on emotional journies and by the end you’re really satisfied

Batman/Superman: Apocalypse

It’s a movie primarily about Supergirl, that largely takes place on earth and does not threaten the end of the world. It does briefly go to Apokolips, but that’s a different word than the title

There was an Emperor’s New Groove show and Kuzco is an adult

So obviously it won’t be a different cut but there’s a movie dubbing app for theaters and they did a promo where you can see PHM with director’s commentary when it’s back:

https://www.theaterears.com/

returns to IMAX screens

They specified the format that it was returning to because it rotated out for Mario

I take the Supreme Court’s line on shitposts. They’re hard to define, but I know it when I see it

I’m not sure it’s exactly what you’re going for but the Wii Shopping channel music kicked ass. Additionally the 1988 Crystal Light Aerobics Championship has this jam

Yeah, it’s a little spoilery to say but the game tries to force you to learn that lesson. Trying to be a good cop and being straight edge is pretty frustrating. Then once you take a morally gray choice and it advances the plot, you use some drugs to meet a check and there aren’t really consequences. Then by the end of the game you’re high on 4 different drugs punching children and you understand the point they were making

That does suck, I got the kobo libra color. I will say that the color and improved response times make it an overall improvement however the buttons are way less tactile and it feels much less bright. So it’s not a full upgrade if it makes you feel a little better

Eh, compare Spec Ops to its contemporaries and it’s definitely an outlier for treating you like a bad guy. Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Medal of Honor were definitely treating you like a hero. Still Spec Ops is much better than those games so if the discussion gets people to play it then I’m on board

Tommy 1/5 - It’s not at all clear how much of this is metaphor and literal. It’s wild that Tina Turner plays a literal sexual iron maiden but none of the huge swings seem to be in the same direction

The Bride 3/5 - Eh, I don’t know what caused all the Frankenstein stuff to be in the zeitgeist but this is pretty middling

Ready or Not 4/5 - Good horror with a competent female lead. Great ending too

Palm Springs 4.5/5 - Something about Groundhog Daying is just so compelling and this is one of the best versions of it. Interesting characters, a little philosophy, some good hyjinks, I’d highly recommend this

The Napa Boys 4/5 - This is an indie from a group of LA comedians and honestly it’s a little unapproachable. It’s parodying so many things simultaneously it gets hard to know who and what are the butts of the jokes. Still, I was laughing the whole time with 3 other people in my tiny theater and I mostly got the jokes

How to Make a Killing 2.5/5 - Hahahaha, fuck the rich… except the shittiest one who wins the whole thing? I don’t really understand what the message of this was supposed to be and frankly it didn’t make a ton of sense. I can’t decide if I like Glenn or not

Project Hail Mary 4.5/5 - Excellent, go see it on a huge screen. Andy Weir writes books to be made into movies and it works here. The movie is more emotional and less sciencey than both the novel and The Martian but it works

The Sting 4.5/5 - Pretty cleanly establishes the template for the grift. Robert Redford and Paul Newman’s beautiful eyes are the stars of this and it’s hard not to fall in love with those sleazeballs

Disco Elysium’s protagonist is a walking disaster and there are a lot of ways you can play him. Honestly playing him as a totally morally upright professional is one of the harder ways to play. You definitely don’t feel like a hero while you’re playing

The first 2 you are absolutely unequivocally the bad guy, those were going to be my suggestions. I think the second 2 it’s a little spoilery to tell people you’re the bad guy

Equations of Life by Simon Morden - it’s ok post apocalyptic sci-fi. It’s got a lot of Russian swearing mixed in which is fun, if slightly incomprehensible

Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Yahtzee Croshaw - just finished this because the third book is finally available for E-readers. If you have any experience with Yahtzee from the internet I would encourage you to give his books a try. He is a very talented writer and I frequently laughed out loud at this book. He had that very British knack for humorous asides that can be a whole page or just a single aside

Dragon Ball - My new e-reader has a color screen so I’ve been trying manga on it. This volume covers the Goku/Tien fight and it was easily the best one in the series up to this point

It’s good we’re starting this in spring, so when we resolve the case in 9 months plenty of people will have been killed by their cruel negligence

I saw around 70 movies in theaters last year alone, I’m sure my lifetime number is in the hundreds. Here’s a list I put together earlier this year:

https://lemmy.world/post/41059248

Deport them where? You’re just going to dump them on someone else’s shores for them to become undocumented immigrants to be shipped back to America? I know we’ve set up camps in other countries but there’s several orders of magnitude of difference there. The logistics alone of moving a third of the US is insane and that’s if they wanted to participate. Of course they don’t have any long term plans

For I am a sinner in the hands of an angry god