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My "home theater" could not even close to doing this movie justice but if I ever run across someone with a nice wall projector I may just settle on that.

I tried listening to Weird Al's "Jerry Springer" song in tribute but wow has that song not aged well.

I was reasonably skeptical of this movie from the get go because it's Illumination but have been pleasantly surprised by how bring and colorful the animation is. Nintendo's creative involvement is certainly felt. This movie looks exactly how a Mario movie should look. I wanna see it in theaters but will wait till the kiddie audience wans. As for the movie itself, "perfectly fine" and "just okay" are on the high end of what I expect from an Illumination joint. If it's just an okay movie with gorgeous visuals and plenty of fun easter eggs then I consider it a best case scenario for Illumination's Mario movie.

Nate was never my favorite character but was fine with him "going bad" if it meant him finding confidence in himself and finally evolving as a person. Sure it's cheesy as hell but so is this whole damn show so might as well have some fun with it. Hell, even give him an eyepatch. I was all on board for evil Nate. But the producers are more interested in keeping him the same stupid character as before but in different situations. Are you telling me that he's the coach of a major soccer team and he still bumbles himself through every single interaction? I normally don't get secondhand embarrassment because I'm too cool to let that shit affect me but Nate introduces a new, untold level of cringe. During his scene I can't even barely look at the screen it is so hard to watch. The best episode by default was the Amsterdam ep because he was in it for like half a second.

This will likely be the last MCU movie that I see in theaters. Quantumania really soured me on Marvel as a whole but I wanna see the Guardians through for what is sure to be the last movie for many of these characters. Maybe the low projection is a sign that the enthusiasm and good faith for every new Marvel thing is starting to wan. I thought this being a James Gunn Guardians movie would bring more interest but it seems like the brand has really been tarnished by Phase IV and Quantumania.

Everyone is writing about the new abilities and areas to explore, but what about the new outfits?! Nobody is going in-depth on the most important aspect!

Not regularly, but sometimes. I played the fuck out of the first game back in the day - there was truly nothing else like it. These days I feel like I get most of my "life sim" fix from games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley.

It's one of the few classics I've never got around to watching because it has the reputation of being a movie you have to see on the big screen. I'm sure it still works at home but the scale wouldn't have the same impact.

You can tell a lot about a person based on how flippant they react to someone's rights being taken away.

Not to mention I work at a low income school on what is know as the most dangerous road in Jacksonville. I can’t even get pizza delivered for my students yet I commute there every damn day.

Yeah as a queer leftist in the south I have no faith in the government to protect me at this point. I’m not even a gun person, they make me uncomfortable, but circumstances have forced me to accept them as a necessary evil.

The genocide is already happening. Genocide is a multi step process with the goal of erasing a group of people or a culture. It is not an event. The steps don’t have to happen in order, but typically it’s all builds upon each other until it leads to extermination in the worse of cases. Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | The ten stages of genocide WWW.HMD.ORG.UK Genocide never just happens. There is always a set of circumstances which occur or which are created to build the climate in which genocide can... If you can see the parallels we are already multiple steps in. But don’t just take my word for it. Even international organizations that dedicated themselves to studying and preventing genocide have warned about what is happening to trans people in America. Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement’s Ideology and Practice WWW.LEMKININSTITUTE.COM November 29, 2022 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention voices its concern over the growing number of laws introduced in the United States that target...

DeSantis' tough words may come back to haunt him in Disney lawsuit, experts say WWW.REUTERS.COM Now that the year-long war of words between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Walt Disney Co has landed in the courts, the Republican leader might find his... Here’s an article basically saying what I already posted, but giving examples of DeSantis attacking Disney and citing legal experts. I’m certainly not qualified to speak but the more I read about this the more clear cut it seems, and it seemed pretty goddamned clear cut before. DeSantis really didn’t think this through.

I was away from this board for nearly a year. I apologize for assuming what you meant, I’m just unfortunately used to arguing with those who don’t understand it. Water under the bridge tho. Like others have said this is just a distraction, and legislation that has passed will just be more intrusive to the cis women in sports they claim to protect by subjecting them to weird inspections of their body and genetics.

I can’t argue for everyone who Is against the death penalty, but I know for me it’s more about the imperfections of our justice system and whether the state should have the right to take a right. That’s why support for this way is a good way to discern between actual libertarians and conservatives dressing in libertarian drag. As for whether which form of punishment is more humane, do you think supporters of capital punishment do so because they believe it to be more humane to kill someone than to sentence them to death? C’mon, man. And as an aside we should consider how popular the death is amongst “pro-life” evangelicals. They truly believe that killing someone they believe is guilty will send them to hell quicker for all of eternity, a fate they consider to be much worse than a life sentence. They believe they are fated for he’ll eventually - they just want to use the state to speed up the process. But keep in mind these evangelicals supposedly follow the teachings of a man who preached a message of salvation and redemption.

I’m glad you do but nothing in your post indicated that you did. Plenty of people don’t seem to realize that so it wasn’t out of bounds to assume you didn’t considering you were focusing on the affects of testosterone without once mentioning the affects of HRT.

I would never bet against Disney when it comes to legal matters. They are notoriously litigious and have some of the best lawyers around. There is a reason why this was announced on the same day that DeSantis’s board reversed a decision made by the board of Disney. This lawsuit was locked and loaded in the chamber for months and months - they were just biding their time and waiting for the DeSantis appointed board to make a decision that would negatively affect their business. You can’t sue for damages until damages have occurred. And because Disney has patiently been waiting for this day to come, they only have more material than ever before to build their case. Ronda Santis hasn’t been able to shut up about Disney, even declaring that he will use his control over Disney’s land to control the content that they produce. Yet had nothing negative to say about them prior to them speaking out against Don’t Say Gay. If Disney is announcing the lawsuit now it’s because they know they have a case they can win.

HRT does weaken strength in trans women considerably after 36 months of use, but still may be above levels of the average cis woman. But based on how even many well-meaning people discuss this issue you would think that trans women have the same strength advantages as cis men and that is simply not true. But to repeat what others said this is simply a distraction meant to persuade more moderates to side with the transphobes pushing for discrimination against the community as a whole, and not just trans athletes.

Okay shit like this is why I took a break from this board in the first place. It looks like it’s time to take another lengthy break to focus on my mental health again. Have a good life D1P. I may or may not return. Gonna find a community that doesn’t call me a bully for calling out transphobia. Life it too short to deal with communities where it’s acceptable to openly be a TERF and call a marginalized person a bully for expressing dissatisfaction about said user.

Walk a mile in our high heels and you may have a bit more understanding and empathy for how we handle a hostile world where many want to see us dead. Some things to reflect on: We are four more times more likely to be murdered than cis people. The two leading causes of death for trans women are suicide and homicide. Being born into a body that never feels like your own is traumatizing. Growing up in a community that refuses to take your experiences at your own and even judges you for them is also traumatizing. Every trans person is dealing with their own form of PTSD which can be triggered sometimes in ways that don’t make sense or feel rational to cis people who don’t share that same trauma. While I agree with the rest of your post I do take issue with you taking time to put some of the blame on a demographic that is constantly being demonized and dehumanized. We have conservatives literally calling for our “eradication”. It’s hard to always act rational when the world is constantly triggering you into flight-or-fight.

Yeah Twilight is still fondly regarded by certain groups from a certain generation. It’s just hasn’t seemed to pull in newer generations in the way Harry Potter had. Again, I’ve been in education for over six year and I’m always hearing about Pokémon. It’s actually surprising how much stuff from my childhood is popular with middle schoolers now. 90’s nostalgia is very much in. My kids love Rugrats and Dragonball.

I had fun with Godzilla vs Kong, so I'm sure I'll see this one in theaters just like I have with the other recent Godzilla and Kong movies. A major difference between this new "monsterverse" compared to the MCU is that once you've introduced the big team-up movie you can't really go back. Now that fans are used to having these two iconic characters together anything lesser will seem less exciting to them. This was a concern some movie critics had after the bonafide success of the the first Avengers film but solo films have still done well since then. Legendary seems to have the same concerns and don't seem to want to take their chances in going back to solo films, at least not for now.

That is how fascism works. It starts with smaller bills and keeps increasing them in severity to appease their base. So with trans laws it began with bathroom bans, and today we are debating child separation and bans on public displays of LGBT flags. It generally start with bills aimed at protecting children, because that is an easier pill for the public to swallow because most people want to protect children, but once they can convince the public that a group of people are a threat to children then it's easier to convince them that they are a threat to the public at large so the bills only increase. It's very much a boiling pot scenario. If republicans were 8 years ago were talking about removing trans kids from parents it would cause a much larger outcry than it is today. Because now this is becoming the new normal. And given historical context, they will not stop with trans people. Trans people are an easy target because because they make up a smaller part of the population and it's still a newer concept for older generations to wrap their minds around. But eventually they will expand their list of scapegoats to include other vulnerable groups because fascism has always be expanding. It's already happening. 8 years ago it was mainly trans people and now bills are limiting the rights of gays and bisexuals. This expansion of scapegoating is expressed well in the "First they came for the Jews" poem and we're watching the very same thing happen before our very eyes in this country.

This series has had diminishing returns after Paul Walker's death. In retrospect he really was the glue holding together this weird "family" unit and in his absence it has never felt the same. I enjoyed 8 well enough but I kinda hated 9, and on paper I should have nothing but loved it because they went to fucking space. I listen to Devin Faraci's podcast (remember him?), and he revealed a scoop that The Rock will be in the post-credits stinger for X and is slated to return for 11. According to his scoop he asked to return because his past few movies haven't done that well, especially Black Adam, and he's looking for another big movie. Regardless of your thoughts on Devin Faraci as a person, he still is in touch with several reliable sources his scoops generally pan out. He was the first to break the rumor that Superman was in the post-credit stinger for Black Adam, as a recent example.

I love blowing conservatives minds when I tell them that only 0.5% percent of the population are trans. I think I read a poll where conservatives believe it's something like 20% because of how much it's being discussed in the media. Right wing media and politicians are freaking out over such a small part of of the population - I doubt many of these conservatives even know a trans person.