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Kind of crazy to think Starship Troopers was released almost 30 years ago, when Muldoon was 29.

For more niche content, it’s sometimes one of the few viable sources for reviews.

Middle East Eye is comically inconsistent and downright hypocritical in their perspective/messaging on issues outside of Palestine/Israel.

I’m not going to argue that Highlander is a cinematic masterpiece. The critical response was mixed to harsh, and the film wasn’t a box office success either, grossing just $13 million against its $19 million production budget.

I never knew it was box office failure when it was released.

When the author listed the adjacent media, she forgot to include Highlander: The Search for Vengeance; the 2007 anime based on the Highlander.

While I have pretty solid exposure to anime, I actually don’t like the vast majority of anime. This is one of those anime experience that I would argue has crossover appeal. The art style isn’t annoying, the characters and writing are relatively well done. It’s actually a solid entry in the Highlander franchise.

I always get really happy nostalgia vibes when I watch Small Soldiers.

It’s not particularly good, but it gives me the feelz.

Supernova could have a been a lot better, wasted opportunity IMO.

I tend to be perhaps less anti-AI than most here (albeit I am probably even more distrustful of the large companies in this space), but just from watching the trailers, I found the AI generated scenes to be extremely distracting.

The first association for me is some shitty YT video slop or scheme.

I haven’t watched it though and I am not going to watch it.

I didn’t like the series, mostly because it was very vanilla. I would have much preferred if it was based on A Boy and his Dog, many of the 80s Italian Mad Max clones (2019, After the Fall of New York), Neon City and even something like Turbo Kid.

An arguement can be made that to make social commentary effective you need a bit more subtly.

I read that as Oscar Wilde for a second.

but if you assume motivations of those who supported them are the same for all of them then you’re only going to antagonise those that were misled

From my experience living in the US, that seems true.

I traveled extensively (~15 states minimum) and I believe I had a broad exposure to local culture (from provincial “hoods” with difference ethnicities, very rich and “conservative” suburbs to more cosmopolitan experiences in NYC, Chicago, LA, SF).

That being said, there is a limit to everything. At some point intent stops mattering and the outcome is what counts.

My personal opinion (I may be wrong), is that US is a dead end. There won’t be any any positive changes in the next 20-30 years minimum. The far right is committed to corruption, criminality and posturing around “freedoms” and “I support the law” and the centre-right voting public is too well off to rock the boat until it’s too late.

I am waiting for Dexter: Mysterious Murder in the Senior Citizens’ Home

I would argue it’s not reductive to treat the current approach used to manage immigration in the US as almost comically stupid (not to mention being founded on mostly posturing and self-aggrandization “I support the law”).

Managing immigration is one thing, but allowing your country to become like russia with security forces beating and killing people under the alleged pretense of managing immigration is definitely a sign of maliciousness.

Children of Men had much stronger dystopian sci-fi motifs. It reminded me of Brazil for some reason. One Battle, After Another was more of a mass market feature. That being said, I watched it in the cinema and I enjoyed it. It was a good movie.

I do think Children of Men (not to mention Brazil which is arguably a classic of cinematography by this point) is better.

The miracle cease fire scene really caught my attention when I first saw the movie in the late 2000s.

Wow, it’s fascinating that they can still achieve double digit growth.

I thought it was pretty good. Watched it in the cinema, I didn’t regret it.

I don’t think it was the best movie of 2025, but it was entertaining and relatively well made and somewhat original.

Oh, I’ve been updating the SBCs. Although my current Pi 4 has been running for over 5 years, don’t see a need to update to Pi 5.

It works great, I’ve been using a Pi SBC for torrenting for nearly 10 years now (in addition to NAS, a media server, Pi-Hole and more).

I would strongly recommend going with DietPi. It has a great set of custom CLI management tools, very active developers and a relatively large community (150K+ installatios active last quarter). It’s based on Debian for ARM so it has a solid foundation.

Sounds like a bad fit, even though I only want to share (it’s some relatively rare content that took me some effort to procure in the highest quality that I believe is available).

Something like Qbittorrent-Nox or rTorrent/ruTorrent for Gnutella would be great.

The use of Limewire in this context seems to be more of an interesting news novelty.

That being said, in any democratic leaning country that truly values freedom (in the real sense, not the polemical American sense), the distribution of such media would not be an issue and you wouldn’t have to resort to Limewire, a torrent would suffice or even another broadcast TV network would air with violation of copyright.

What are you referring to?