Man, it’s such a great story. The book is next level, and the whoopi movie is one of the best movies ever made, and that’s with the deviations. The cast was just so damn perfect that when I heard about the new movie (before I heard it was a musical) I thought it would be impossible to match the quality of casting. Obviously, it being a musical changes that.
I’m hyped to see it.
Hopes? None. Warner Bros. has no fucking clue how to use DC characters and ideas in theaters. They may get lucky with specific movies being decent, but the best movies are not even as good as the worst of the animated movies and series. They keep throwing money and names at live action, instead of focusing on telling good stories that stay true to the essence of the characters.
I don’t see Gunn doing any better tbh. For one, he’s going to be hamstrung by whatever Warner decides is the goal. For another, he’s going to end up limited by whatever flawed view executives have of the servers characters. And then he still may not have a grasp of what either comics fans or non comic fans need from a movie featuring DC characters.
Well, in fairness, I haven’t heard many younger metal heads call ACDC metal either. It has been, in my experience, something that got phased out toward the end of the 90s. Now, I do hear non metal heads call ACDC metal, but that’s a tangent, and it still isn’t common. However, I think maybe that tangent where metal heads aren’t always the ones deciding what is and isn’t metal is a contributing factor to the blurred lines.
I grew up with a damn wide range of music played by my parents, and even more across the family. My grandmother never drew a distinction between country, country-western, and bluegrass. But they’re pretty distinctive, and most of my generation in the family refers to them all as separate genres (or sub genres). So that generational thing may be a factor as well.
I’m with you on the instrumental bands avoiding the usual structures of metal. A lot of them are more fast jazz with a bit of distortion, or updated classical pieces.
Yeah, someone else banging mentioned the timing too, and it really does play a big role in what people think of as metal vs other genres. There’s a ton of examples like that, and you mentioned some of the biggest.
Tbh, that’s why I end up lumping a lot of quasi-metal stuff in my playlists. Stuff like Deep Purple, as an example, that are more proto metal than “actual” metal. Zeppelin is like that for me too. They aren’t really metal bands, even when some of their songs are metal as fuck. But they end up fitting the “vibe” when listened to alongside more definitively metal bands.
I kinda grew up with some of those heavily influential, but not quite metal bands playing a lot. And, as I started becoming a metal head later on, there was this kind of flow to it. Growing up listening to Sabbath, Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, Deep Purple, Steppenwolf, that kind of thing, I never really thought of as metal until after I was listening to thrash in the 80s and noticed similarities.
And a lot of the kids my age back then were a lot less rigid in defining metal for that same reason. They grew up with some pretty heavy bands being played by their parents, so the evolution of harder, heavier music didn’t exclude very much. You’d find plenty of guys back then lumping Queen in with all the rest of it, or Pink Floyd and Rush, and all three of those bands barely flirted with the kind of music bands like Exodus, Metallica, and what have you that were coming to popularity among metal heads back then.
For my own uses, I follow what you ended with; if the “feel” works, be it by band, album, or song, I embrace it as metal enough.
Holy shit. That’s a pretty brilliant rule of thumb.
Lmao! That’s actually a legit way to go about it.
Yeah, I think that’s why “hair metal” is such a weird thing. Pretty much every other genre of metal is defined by the music itself, or at least partially defined that way. But HAIR was so much about anyone with a lot of actual hair dressing up in a gaudy way and being as much a visual show as anything about the music itself.
Lmmfao! That’s brilliant.
There’s an early demo version out there that’s actually better than the album version. It’s more raw and emotional, which works very well for the song
Jfc, my wife hates that song now.
I’ll sneak up behind her, do my best growl, and throw those lyrics at her like throwing a poser into a mosh pit.
“Jesus fucking Christ, south, I’m going to kick you in the fucking nuts if you do that again”
Somehow, my nuts remain unkicked. Perhaps it’s my charm?
This guy.
He’s known for a different meme, but he’s used in this one and manages to look like he’s posing at gunpoint after being told “look casual and not afraid. Now, smile.”
Yeah, it’s pretty normal for someone that has empathy to feel bad when they can’t do much/anything to help someone else that they would help if they could.
The problem is that you can’t help everyone, so you’d have to pick and choose which individuals you do help, which is going to make you feel just as bad as not giving them any money at all.
The real answer to resolving the feeling is to provide help in a more general fashion. Volunteering with any of the local homeless support programs/charities is a good way to help individuals and homeless people in general
If you can’t do that, or do other support that’s similarly broad, that’s okay. Just do what you can, when you can.
If you only use your own feed of followed users and hashtags, you won’t likely see any of it. But it can still be a problem for new users, and it’s antithetical to the idea of the fediverse being run by people for people. There’s a certain degree of leeway in what can be considered a person for this idea, but once a company that’s publicly traded dives into things, it starts fraying at the edges.
Basically, those companies start treating their ability to “toot” as free ad space. That isn’t cool. We should all be able to use an “all” feed without the bullshit.
And that’s ignoring the possibility of a company making accounts on instances to artificially “retweet” their bullshit, which just isn’t cool. It’s bad manners.
Man, there’s a dedicated instance for yiff.
Compared to that, star trek is a million times more popular lol.
But, like other people have said, it’s a huge thing. Star Trek is one of, if not the most successful TV universe. It crossed into movies, comics, books, toys, everything. The “brand” spans most of a human lifetime so far, and has done so with a surprisingly minor degree of fuckery that insults the fan base.
So you end up with generations of fans, across all kinds of demographics.
It’s science fiction. And there’s not many hives of scum and villainy places online that are more sci-fi friendly than lemmy; even mastodon isn’t quite as sci-fi loving.
But you may be missing that star wars has a ton of related C/s as well. There’s dedicated sci-fi C/s scattered around. Compare that to genres like fantasy or westerns, and you start to see the trend leaning that way.
But, you’re right that it is a disproportionate thing. The only “brand” that seems to be as universal as trek on lemmy is LOTR, and that’s a foundation of fantasy as a whole.
“If you’re a publisher, creator or brand on Flipboard, you’ll start to see new visitors and engagement as people discover and share your content across the growing Fediverse.”
And there’s the rub. Once something starts talking about brands, the whole thing just means someone is trying to make money off of someone else’s work.
Now, that’s not an inherently bad thing! That’s part of how an open system works. It just means that whatever is joining the fediverse has to be watched carefully and pruned as soon as it starts turning into spam.
I never understood the whole stupidity of gatekeeping someone else’s fucking food anyway.
But, it’s only been three years since the little cafe here in Podunk started offering it. Five bucks, two pieces of rye bread, avocado with garlic and onion, a poached egg. Super simple, very cheap, and fucking delicious. That’s actually less than you can get per dish if you buy your own supplies because avocados are expensive here (3 bucks each is average).
Mind you, you can dial in your own for taste, so it’s still better homemade.
Which is a long way of saying that I think it was something that started in a few cities somewhere. When I was seeing people bitch about avocado toast, it was hipsters that were being bitched about, not millennials. That’s going back maybe ten years or so? Not sure when the bitching started for sure, or where, but i was seeing it online back around when I got married, and we hit ten years this year.
Tbh, I never saw any pattern of a given generation doing all the whining either, it was from people of multiple generations. I mean, yeah, most of the hipster douches spamming pics of the stuff on instagram were millennials, but that’s a consequence of hipsters being of that generation, so the douchey ones were too.
The only place I noticed older generations doing the bitching was on facebook when my mom would spam shit to my email that she thought was hilarious. But again, facebook was shifting to an older user base at that point.
How the fuck did I miss that? I must have had some bukakke in my eye or something ;)
What’s cool is that it’s a reasonable word for what she used it for. Just a bunch of stuff flying and landing wherever, with little concern for the stuff itself, or how much clean-up is required.
Kinda like how bullshit drops at random and stinks up the place it drops, with no concern by the entity that dropped it.
It’s utter bukake that this woman got dissed by someone that couldn’t stop and consider things before the load of bukake they dropped on the internet about it.
I strongly recommend that lemmy turn the use of bukake as synonym for bullshit into a thing.
Instructions unclear, have time warped to bomb germany in 1940.
Amen. Though, tbh, I did shed a few tears during love and thunder, so it wasn’t a total failboat.
I like Gunn’s style, but any time you just hand the reins to a single director, the risk of them cackling like a mad scientist and creating an abomination is high.