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[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Built my first web page with FrontPage back in the mid '90s... but soon stopped using it after I realized the absolutely spaghetti it produced

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Boy, this all sounds like a lot of work to me. I just invest in domestic index funds and check it every six months or so.

I have at least started being much more careful about waiting a year for capital gains, though. My last tax bill was terrifying.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I watched this on Disney+ tonight but didn't really care for it. There were a couple good laughs, but the multiverse stuff really ruins just about anything it touches. The movie also just seemed too mean spirited toward the classic characters, which I guess it signaled clearly from the very first scene. Let them be.

Edit: I guess I hurt an MCU fan's feelings by not loving a movie.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Tom Cruise is a bit like Harrison Ford. They're both good actors, but most of the time they're playing themselves. Or maybe they both have such a force of personality that you only see the actor. Harrison Ford has also had films where he does a good job disappearing into the role, like Mosquito Coast and Regarding Henry.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But those were like 1.0.1, 1.0.2... where the Special Editions would be 2.0. I don't know that anyone really cares about the "mini" version changes. When they talk about the original, they mean 1.0.x.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

This is it. Democrats will continue to talk about how they failed at execution so they don't have to talk about the real problem: their platform. At least with Trump some folks think there's a chance he shakes apart the whole system.

I voted for Harris, but I knew it was a lost cause from the moment she became the de facto nominee. She was a status quo candidate in a change election.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's the most evenly divided district in Oregon in partisan terms and she ran on a "bipartisan" theme. She'd be pretty hard-pressed to make her case.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

The Republicans were absolutely inundating the district with the most vile stuff, like how she "voted in favor of rapists." They dramatically outspent her campaign.

I'm really happy she won.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you me? Honestly, just finish it. You'll forget all about the collectibles a week later. And if you don't, you can always go back (you won't).

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's a great price; I bought my copy for nearly double that. Remember that Bing also has another Christmas movie in 4K, Holiday Inn, although if you only have a handful of movies your collection would suddenly be very Bing Crosby and Christmas heavy, haha.

I'm really ready for the holidays with both of those plus It's a Wonderful Life and Scrooged.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Gonna try to finish my first-time play through of The Last of Us (PS5) today or tomorrow so I can start on Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Xbox). Excited to jump in after the decade since Inquisition.

[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's the difference between "this story needs to be told" versus "there's money to be made." Ironic that one of the most incisive and fiercely anti-capitalist series in recent memory went back to the well purely to make more money.

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