The whole Multiverse saga has been bungled.

This scene was great at setting the stakes, the most powerful thing from the last saga are now paperweights. That was a great scene. Loki knew how powerful these stones were, he used one of them,m but now they are nothing. If I recall correctly this was after he tried to use his own magic. So it was confirmation that whatever this realm was, it didn’t just work on him, it worked on the most powerful thing he could have imagined.

And then of course you look at the rest of that show. It set up a great villain. The only person who was actually in control of this crazy world Loki found himself in. He acts and behaves exactly as someone who knows everything would. He taunts, he has fun, and he ultimately gives Loki a reasonable choice. Chaos, which could unravel all of time, or order, which means some must sacrifice.

And a choice is made. By… Loki? Other Loki. Different Loki. The same Loki?

That was a hell of a setup.

And then Ant-Man kills Kang.

(And the Kang actor is arrested [and eventually convicted] for assault.)

The Multiverse saga was already having a tough time, but to lose your villain… That’s rough from a story perspective.

The other thing, going back to the Infinity Stones themselves is that you needed to nerf them somehow. We do get a Multiverse Infinity Stones story in What If…? with Ultron. So that story is also told.

No one is going to complain when the Infinity Stones don’t show up in Doomsday or Secret Wars. But if they do we can point to Loki to point out how they don’t always work in whatever magical thing we end up seeing, or point to how they already told the Multiverse stone story.

Yes, but the Infinity stones called dibs and the multiverse respects dibs.

Actually we saw in Loki season 1 the Infinity stones exist in each universe and as the multiverse is infinite, so are the Infinity stones.

They’re mostly used as paperweights.

So Cohn did mention comprehensive privacy laws and the ability to leave platforms. These are absolutely things that need to happen.

However as an individual there are still things you can do. Cohn mentions Bluesky because it has no algorithm (except the “Discovery” feed). Cohn also mentions (in the video) Mastodon. And the truth is you don’t need to switch fully, just don’t only slurp down the concentrated hate machine(s).

Look at Lemmy. Reddit decided to be pricks and a bunch of individuals jumped over here to create what I think is a pretty good community. That doesn’t mean the problem is solved. That doesn’t mean Reddit isn’t still a problem. That doesn’t mean Lemmy is perfect. But that is a win and something individuals can do.

Additionally, those are things you can do now. You don’t need to wait for some law to be passed to fix things. You can make the move now. (While still advocating for laws to fix things.)

charged CO2 tank

I can still hear the sounds of the CO2 firing.

Feel free to ask me any thing, installing and maintaining soda equipment is my life.

What was the worst thing you ever saw? I’m guessing if you maintained them you occasionally were called I to fix things when something went wrong. So what went wrong?

I guess shout-out to [email protected]

And since TV/film discussion is like 75% of the reason I use any of these sites shout-out to,

• [email protected] for the animated Invincible series.
• [email protected] for anything MCU/Marvel.*
• [email protected] for anything DCU/DC.*
• [email protected] for anything Star Trek
• [email protected] for The Simpsons.*
• [email protected] for Pluribus.
• [email protected] for anything Star Wars.

*(I mod these, so Liz Lemon high five.)

Lemmy feels about the same, but Reddit seems much worse.

Now to be fair I don’t know if Reddit is actually worse, because when I browse Reddit now it’s while I’m logged out and via a browser (force old.reddit.com and OldLander extensions). So the site is A) harder to navigate than it used to be and B) my experience is less curated and I see more crap and C) because my experience is less curated I’ve lost access to many of the niche communities.

As an example if I want to read some discussion about the recent Game of Thrones prequel series “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” I can find a small community here on Lemmy. Nice people, but too few of us.

So I go to Reddit. If I search I find r/AKOTSKTV which is fine, and I find r/GameOfThrones which is fine. But I have to know, as a previous Reddit user, that maybe r/ASOIAF is also a great choice. Or if I want some real shit r/freefolk is where the glory lives.

So for that universe I know where to go. But for a new series? For a new niche? For a new community? I don’t know shit. I’ve found some of the more niche communities by luck. That’s what I would have been subscribed to in the past. I would have been in the community and in the comments and discovery was natural.

But nowadays I just get the front page of Reddit, and the front page kinda sucks.

But Lemmy? Yeah it sucks sometimes too, but at least there is a community.

The free “bartender accidentally poured a mistake” beer.

He’s pretty playful in “Attack of the Clones” when Kenobi is looking for Kamino. “Master Kenobi has lost a planet, how embarrassing” or something along those lines.

He’s also teaching Younglings in this scene, so being more playful is fitting.

Most of the time we see Yoda he is at the council or doing war things, so you can’t really be a silly goblin in those cases.

You can install Debian on your Chromebook like you would any app, which I feel makes it a bit less controlling since you have access to a complete Debian install and all the benefits that provides.

Windows also has WSL, which gives you Ubuntu, although that process isn’t quite as user friendly.

Hamilton B. Urglar

And there’s a million buns I haven’t stole, but just you wait, just you waaaaait.

It’s the reason I buy so many candles. I can cheat the system.

Matt Berry as Big the Cat?

If I remember correctly they can’t officially give access to things like custom campaigns. The game itself has official mod support.

However there is a checkbox that’s like “Do whatever you want” and modding that checkbox is trivial, but they can’t offer that as an official mod.

Voting ended about two weeks ago, and Chalemet’s recent comments that caused negative press were about a week ago. So no, I don’t think they caused him issues.

The film itself is just fine. It is well acted, so maybe best actor, but Michael B Jordan and Leo both have him beat.

Both were excellent films, but I think One Battle After Another ultimately pulled it all together better, which is why Paul Thomas Anderson also won best director.

I would have been happy with either winning, but One Battle for best picture and Michael B Jordan for Actor is the best split you could ask for.

FWIW, he won’t be on any ballots this November.

Exactly. It also gives students the ability to improve and not just give up.

Let’s assume 10 assignments determine your grade in a class. You completely skip the first 4 assignments and get 0%. If you completely turn around and score 100% on the next 6 assignments, your overall grade is 60% and you fail the class.

But! If you were the student who skipped the first 4 assignments, what incentive do you have to even try and improve?

The 50% score is to give students without hope a chance. If it’s college level, sure maybe failing is the best option. But high school? Middle school? Even younger? Give kids a chance to improve.

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Mats Steen, a Norwegian man born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, becomes increasingly unable to participate in everyday activities. As a result, he spends most of his time playing video games, particularly World of Warcraft. His parents worry that he will miss out on life, unaware of what he does in the game.

It’s a tearjerker and ultimately beautiful story of the Internet and friendship.