beef_curds [she/her]

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • beef_curds [she/her]tochatHoly feck Facebook got really bad
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    5 months ago

    I moved towns a while back, and it feels like everyone in this town is still on facebook, and organizing stuff via facebook. It's odd to return to a platform I hadn't been on in like a decade.

    Am I imagining this? Is social media use real regional within the US, where one town is on insta, another is on facebook, and another is on twitter?




  • I only learned a little bit ago that this, along with a couple other albums, are meant to be rock opera/stage productions. I wish there were versions of the stage productions (in english), that were easily available. Black Rider has a german production floating around on yt.

    Blood Money is a musical production of Woyzeck. Herzog also made a movie of Woyzeck, but I'd love to see a Waits stage production.






  • I'm not super into anime, and we have some of the same tastes. One I was surprised to like was Ranking of Kings (season 1). It's about a cute little guy. It was a real surprise for me because the setup is simple, but it's just paced nicely, has charming characters, and the message is sweet.

    Just don't bother with anything past s1. It's mostly filler they made after s1 was successful.







  • I kinda wouldn't recommend distros downstream of the big guys for new users because if they go down that road, they're going to get into terrain they don't know how to read. They won't be able to tell a shady or poorly supported project from something more serious.

    Also, small downstream distros are harder to troubleshoot for newbies when there're issues, because there're fewer people answering questions.



  • beef_curds [she/her]tomoviesAnyone see Monkey Man?
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    6 months ago

    One thing that occurred to me is that the trans representation is not something you normally get to see in film/tv. Normally/recently all you really see is young, very fem, and rich enough to get any work done.

    It was kind of refreshing to see a community with a bunch of people who look a little more mixed. And that community has joy, is engaged, and supports eachother. Seemed more real.

    I haven't looked into who the actors are, so I'm afraid to find out if it was cis playing trans. But I really liked it at first glance.

    ...

    I had heard there was studio tampering with the film. They hue shifted the orange flags to red. But if that's true, it's funny because the message is still obviously, "the leaders of the BJP must be violently dealt with by those they oppress."

    Also, if it's true, there's also malicious compliance because only foreground flags are shifted. The orange clothes and background flags remain orange.

    ...

    Edit: I realized that I didn't comment on anything but the politics. But the structure is really satisfying too.

    It ends like John Wick or something, but the first third you're dropped into a situation that you have to slowly put together. Meanwhile the protag has been setting up to strike the whole time.

    It's just a really good way to set up an action flick, imo. It makes the middle really pop. And the Hanuman framing is like icing that holds it all together in a cool way.