I had ZERO faith or expectations going in, but holy shit is Aquaman King of Atlantis on HBOMax worth a watch. It's almost painfully funny, and I'm looking forward to the next episodes a lot.

Speaking of painfully funny animated shows, the kiddo and I are really enjoying Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart as well. It's another one I didn't initially expect to like, but it's really clever and the art is cute as heck.

@silverfox said in RL Sads:

A kitten we fostered died today.

I'm so sorry. Do you want to talk about it, or is it still too soon?

@rinel

omg ty

@jennkryst said in Movie / TV / Streaming Peeves or Whatever:

@derp I am still in the middle of it, but what I have seen so far is bad, and further justifies my 'Netflix is trash' stance on things.

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According to their president, Netflix can't be trash because they paid for Hannah Gadsby's last comedy special. Therefore your argument is invalid! Netflix has a gay friend!

@ganymede @Ominous

Thing about being marginalized as they say, is that there's this deal where your word doesn't count much. Like many autistic people, I'm grossly underemployed for my education/skill levels, because I can't pass interviews. The state Autism Society people advise that one never disclose until hired, because they'll think up some other reason not to hire you, and there's just nothing one can do except improve your ability to pass for NT. It's illegal to deny people housing for being LGBTQ in my state, but when my landlady figured it out she just started accusing me of doing weird shit, and there wasn't anything I could prove besides 'this happened after she learned...'. Hah, another incident my lawyer informed me that I had had the misfortune to draw the homophobic judge, and that while he had been fair in some situations in the past, in this case I was obviously and by far the bigger queer, and must make every effort to avoid it coming before him. My ex's lawyer told him the same, but with the we-win glees.

Edited to add the no-touch virtual high-five to Gany's kid, who looks to have won the parent lotto in getting great support for this kinda crap.

@ominous said in Dabbling, Mastery, Dunning–Kruger etc:

@jinshei said in Dabbling, Mastery, Dunning–Kruger etc:

As well as that, a lot of recent effort in the UK has gone into devaluing experts and education that provides people with basic critical thinking skills. Liberal arts etc, for example (as @ominous says). Even in my field, the push from the external forces is towards task-based skills rather than critical thinking (which might be a good thing in nurses, yanno?).

We can't have the meat-based assembly line robots thinking for themselves. They might realize they're just a stopgap until the plastic and metal robots are able to take their place.

I mean, I don't disagree on any given point here but I would argue we are cheaper (increasingly so) than robots and thus less valuable.

Then again, my two best friends are professors of anatomy and their students, who are almost all trying to get into nursing, are for the most part complete idiots. If we set the bar for nursing students to "able to think critically," our nursing shortage is going to get a lot fucking worse than it already is real fucking quick.

I'm setting the graduation bar at critical thinking - we don't receive them like that!

I also teach prescribing and there my level is "I am giving this person a licence to kill; do I trust that they won't actually do so from lack of thinking or knowledge?". The ones that don't pass are those that treat the knowledge and critical thinking element of the course as a tickbox they are entitled to pass; They are classic D-K, because they believe they know it all already and are already experts. The ones that do pass demonstrate their understanding of how little we know and how important further knowledge or clinical studies are.

@silverfox said in RL Anger:

We are losing a key person in our building because they won't take the vaccine and my district has a mandate.

If they can't because of medical reasons, I understand.

If they won't because they are selfish, I understand that too.

On a similar note, the Nets effectively just kicked Kyrie Irving off their team for the same reason.

@derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@horrorhound

Are the bridges made of ... bricks?

(I'm sorry. I'll see myself out.)

Well duh, wood can't support trolls.

@cobalt At least Derp doesn't let their dog fight what I assume is a pixel graphics enemy in the living room.

These days my youtube is mostly sciencetuber content.

Stand-up Maths is great at making weird mathematics interesting.

Veritasium is great at investigating all sorts of concepts.

Corridor Crew analyze and sometimes reproduce CGI and stunts in movies, often with special guests.

Viva La Dirt League just really great gaming themed comedy skits

SmarterEveryDay lots of good educational videos

Stuff Made Here what happens if you leave an engineer alone with an entire workshop

Technology Connections learn more about technology in your house you never thought about

ElectroBoom Everything you shouldn't do with electronics

Steve Mould Assorted science videos, usually with practical demonstrations

@greenflashlight Spoiler warning. Big one.

@macha the picture made me realize I have them set up wrong. The plague doctor and plague nurse are made so it looks like they are holding hands.

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Its been maked into sauces. This a batch from tomatoes picked a few weeks earler. Did tomato soup too, but didn't take a picture of it. I might turn into a tomato though........

Finally had the chance to watch them myself:

The Duel: Some good animation moments, but pretty limp storytelling overall. I've already forgotten it completely.
Tatooine Rhapsody: Super-deformed artstyle doesn't work too well for Star Wars. Too quirky for its own good.
Akakiri: Didn't set anything up or pay anything off, really. Fell flat.
The Village Bride: Suffered from just being too short. Some fun ideas, good animation, but no room to breathe. Wish there'd been more to work with.
The Elder: Huh - yeah, way too much time spent chattering while saying absolutely nothing, and the swordplay doesn't make up for it.
T0-B1: Ugh. Yes. We get it. I can only handle so many astro-boy homages in one lifetime.
The Ninth Jedi: Wow, okay. This one I liked. So far, the most Star Wars of the ones I've seen. Saber battles were on point, speeder action was great, and hey, space stuff. In space. Some weak side characters (looking at you, here, Ethan), but otherwise, lovely.
Lop & Ocho: Not a huge fan of the shoehorned Yakuza allegory, but Lop's character design absolutely sells this for me. Expressive, dynamically animated, and outside of the normal cast of ugly aliens we often get in Star Wars. Fun. Also Ocho, honey, that's not good long-term eyeshadow, I promise.
The Twins: While it's clear that Trigger had a lot of fun making this, and it's got some absolutely killer cuts of animated camerawork, it was a bit on the nonsensical side. Fun, but nonsensical.

Impressions: A very, very mixed bag - I wish that Disney was serving up proper subtitles instead of lazy dubtitles, but whatcha gonna do. Only real standouts for me so far are 'Lop and Ocho' and 'The Ninth Jedi'.

I'm like... the target demographic for this, as someone who loves Star Wars and loves Anime, and the fact that they weren't able to capture me - and in fact most of the entries left me feeling like I'd wasted the time I'd spent on them - doesn't really bode well as this being anything more than an ambitious and ultimately squandered opportunity.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

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@silverfox

Too cute

@saosmash

We have those.

@tinuviel This makes me sad. Sure, he was fun to watch in SATC when my sisters made me watch it, but I LOVED him as Mozzie in Blue Collar. That character was amazing.

Look at how fucking toxic we are.

That looks awesome. Can’t wait to hear about the cool things you and your son will do with it.

Here’s a kitty.

Happy cat

@derp said in Bad TV:

Look.

LOOK,

No matter what you think of Zombies, The Last of Us is some of the best storytelling this century and I can watch it over and over again even knowing that it's gonna go right for the feels.

I take great pleasure in watching videos of people on youtube playing it for the first time and breaking down in the first 17 minutes. 17 minutes and grown ass men are CRYING. And I'm there going YES, feel my pain as I did the same damn thing! That is storytelling!