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  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world5.9/10
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    2 days ago

    Exactly. Critics are only useful if your opinions are similar to the critics.

    Remember, even in recent years movies have been review-bombed for being “woke”, for instance, with hordes of people upset about things that are not important to the movie, attempting to destroy the reputation of the movie rather than evaluate it fairly on its own merits.

    I was just watching facts behind “Robin Hood men in tights”, and apparently Siskel gave it half a star, which is absolutely insane. It’s no blazing saddles, but it’s one of the better Mel Brooks movies

    So yeah, review scores are basically a good way to decide whether you should go to the theaters and watch it or wait till it’s on streaming. But outside of that, it’s not a good indicator of whether or not you’re going to enjoy the show.


  • I’ll see that and raise you a “app is free, but all functionality is paid, which you only find out after you have used the app for its intended purpose and now want the results of the work that you did, specifically when attempting to rescue files from your phone, for instance.”

    I’ll also toss in “all functionality is paid on a subscription model that automatically renews unless you manually disable it and you have to buy at least in one year increments”




  • I don’t think I’m that accurate. Like, I can’t find North always, but if I have been in situations where I wake up in a vehicle and I only have a general idea of where we are and where we’re going, and I know how to get the rest of the way without needing to consult a map.

    There was also a time when me and my friends went walking through the woods in a local park and they got lost and I was like guys just keep following me we’ll get there and like 45 minutes later we found the road and we’re able to make it back to our cars.

    They were freaking out, and I was like, why are you freaking out? We’re less than an hour away from our car.



  • I do have a lab coat and quite a few interesting electronics.

    Unfortunately, all of my Tesla coils are decidedly non-lethal.

    But following your second point, I have never been able to get lost in my entire life. I have actively tried to get lost, and somehow I always find my way, suffice it to say, if we are in a bombed out city together, I’m pretty sure I can find us clean water, shelter and other survivors.








  • Okay, that music was cool as fuck. Like, there’s so many places where that is appropriate music.

    If it were played at the denouement of any dramatic thriller where like the hero is outside of the room where the person they were trying to save is being actively killed by the bad guy before they rush in to kill the bad guy in revenge, it would fit flawlessly.

    There’s something very much about death in that song. Death and helplessness.