I wouldn’t necessarily say ‘stupid’. But lacking in sufficient empathy? Fearful of different people (to the point of being irrationally hostile to them)? Feel entitled? Are smug and sanctimonious about their beliefs? Get to caught up on what other people do with their lives and want you control them?..

Then yes. Definitely.

Yes, this would be an excellent feature. Only problem is people exploiting it to hide or ridicule legitimate responses they don’t agree with. But that’s a problem for later. With the cussing userbase and growth rate this feature works be great for quite a while.

I’m impressed. That’s a very solid pilot. I hope they get to continue the story on future episodes.

My subconscious autocorrected that the first time I read it. It was only after reading your comment and going back to look again that I realized they had not written “There are”.

We named one of my kids after my deceased brother (who died many years before my son was born). They have a lot of the same personality traits and they also look a lot alike.

I don’t think it’s reincarnation or anything, but their many similarities are kind of uncanny sometimes. And it makes the fact that one was named after the other even more poignant.

I remember reading a sometime a while ago about a situation like this (humans suddenly disappearing). Some experts predicted that within about 20 generations the offspring of today’s domesticated dogs would have reverted back into something very similar to wolves.

I did this with Plex. And it’s really not that difficult. I found setting up the server pretty quick. The biggest disadvantages I found are/were:

• The Plex music cataloguer can be a pain to with with because it doesn’t find matches to your media more often than you’d think. So that required quite a lot of time of manual intervention.

• I sometimes run into excessive buffering, even though my media server (which is just a little i5 PC) is just in the next room. I think that’s more an issue with Wi-Fi in my house. But I’ve found myself falling back to using my mp3s on my phone out of impatience.

Overall I’ve been happy with this setup though.

It’s pretty good. Not incredibly compelling IMO, but enjoyable enough. I haven’t read the books so I can speak to how it compares to those.

Good (very small) cast, with Lena Headey and the other main actor do a good job. Dialogue fluctuates between okay and weak. It feels more of a psychological thriller than outright sci-fi (despite the setting), but that’s fine.

The most recent episode (which provides some historical context to the story) was very contributed plot-wise and had very weak, throwaway characters. It was definitely the worst episode yet.

Or older entertainment traditionalists firmly stuck in the era of variety hours and then importance of “big music numbers to give the audience the ol’ razzle-dazzle!” Hell, some of them probably never got out of a nostalgia for vaudeville.

Or both that decrepit mindset plus cocaine.

Yeah, they were. The neighbor on the cube to the side didn’t play and wasn’t thrilled when a random paper ball would fall on her. But she was cool about it, and we introduced extra rules to penalize extra hardly if it went in her cube.

And my old boss was a micromanager and difficult to deal with in some ways, but in other ways he was awesome. He appreciated that everyone needs to unwind at work sometimes. And as long as we weren’t making a mess and we were getting our work done he was totally fine with our occasional shenanigans.

Some of my colleagues brought in Nerf guns a few times and we had some epic battles in our suite. We tried to clean up every stay Nerf dart. But we usually missed one or two. And he would find them and smile and just move on. I’m pretty sure he knew all the hijinx we got up to.

Years ago a colleague and I invented (or more likely reinvented since I’m sure we weren’t the first) a game we called ‘office ball’.

Our cube walls were pretty high, and one day we started batting a scrunched-up ball of paper over the dividing wall between our cubes.

It pretty quickly evolved some esoteric and convoluted rules that made it even more fun and fair. And then when one of our cube neighbors wanted to join the fun we adapted them rules to allow for a three-player battle royale variant (in addition to the 1v1 original).

We didn’t play it often. Only when our boss wasn’t there (we were in a small, private suite) and we had a lull in work to do. But it was fun.

As I recall the point of the game was to not let the paper ball hit the floor or desk in your cube. You could only hit it twice maximum, with the second hit needing to send it over to a cube neighbor. If it ended up in a cube neighbor who wasn’t playing they opponent gained a point. If the ball hit your desk or floor the opponent earned a point. The first to 21 points was the winner. There were a whole bunch of other rules, but they were specific to our desk arrangement, and I forget them now.

I’m going to post this for anyone else here who was like me and didn’t know what Bluesky was. It’s Jack Dorsey’s new Twitter.

Do you have some examples of recent documentaries that you consider good? I’m always on the lookout for good, unconventional documentaries.

My 10 year old can be quite volatile and prone to meltdowns. So I’ve taken to rick-rolling him whenever possible in these situations. Weirdly, it’s a pretty good way of defusing a charged situation.

The line “you know the rules, and so do it” is especially good because I can build it into a counterpoint about his behavior that led to the argument. It took him a while for him to realize what I was doing, but now he knows and it’s become kind of an inside joke.

So not only does it usually help calm things down, but I get to troll him.

Moon - really good psychological element and great acting.

Pandorum - fun (and a bit hammy) action horror romp.

Twelve Monkeys - really tight and suspenseful plot with great acting.

Being John Malcovich - not sure if this fits in, but a great mind-bender of a sci-fi movie.

It would definitely require some very active moderation and clearly-defined community rules. But it sounds like a great idea for a Lemmy community, if you have the time.